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[hoshikiri]

You have reached Kesi Takame. I am currently not available to speak. Please leave a message and I'll respond when I return.

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[stripartist]

[Yusuke smiles a little, pleased.]

I'm glad you think so. [Excuse him as he grabs the other pastry] Can I ask about your home? I've never even dreamed of a place like Japan but not.

[hoshikiri]

[He seemed more relaxed now, which set Takame at ease as well.]

Of course. [He put a hand to his chin, wondering where to begin.]

I hail from a land called Doma which is stationed within the Yanxia region of the continent of Othard and stands at the edge of the Ruby Sea which separates it from Hingashi. Doma largely sits by the water, be it from the Sea or from the great One River. [A short pause, then he continued.]

I've spent a vast majority of my life within Kugane as well. It is the only city that the nation of Hingashi has opened to foreigners and as such has visitors and consulates from each of the Three Great Continents and beyond.

[stripartist]

[He can't help but think that this "Hingashi" and "Kugane" sounds a lot like Japan a few centuries ago. Interesting.]

Obviously the languages are the same or similar enough...oh, does Doma or Hingashi have sushi?

[hoshikiri]

Yes, both do. Often prepared with fish from one another's region, though it has become popular in the West as well.

[stripartist]

It's just so interesting to me that, frankly, our homes sound very similar if not a century or two removed from each other...and with the addition of Au Ra in your case. I've never thought of Earth as "uninteresting" but in the last few months--the last few hours...

[hoshikiri]

[It was interesting indeed, if not a little concerning how similar their worlds are. But he wasn't going to unpack all of that now.]

I am sure your world has much that mine does not. If it has anything like what Kaisou does the fact that there is such advanced technology and free means to communicate without magic is awe inspiring in its own right, is it not?

[stripartist]

I suppose, put that way. And I will admit, things have gotten extremely interesting since I think my childhood wish to be a fox may be coming true.

[Since, you know. Tails. Also Yusuke what.]

That, or I'm turning into some sort of cat with how flexible I am now.

[Yusuke what.]

[hoshikiri]

Flexibility is not a bad trait to have. [but also what]

You had a childhood wish to be a fox?

[stripartist]

Yes. My favorite stories and toys growing up were usually about foxes and kitsune. Naturally I wanted to be one.

[hoshikiri]

[that is extremely odd

and yet extremely charming]

How quaint. To have such a dream become reality must be quite the experience.

[stripartist]

It's certainly been interesting. They don't make pants for people with tails here, or at least they don't yet, and they keep tripping me up. Still...well.

[He can't help the tiny, tiny smile.]

It's exciting.

[hoshikiri]

[The tiny, tiny smile just charmed Takame that much more. Yusuke called him stunning, but has he looked in a mirror?]

There is a tailor I've been referred to that may help with your clothing. [There's a softness in his tone, moreso than his usual speaking voice.] But it is clear that you're taking this in stride. It's most admirable. All the better if you see it as a positive experience.

[stripartist]

Most experiences are positive, when you consider it as inspiration. You can't do that with everything, but it does help.

[Yusuke is, frankly, charmed.]

But enough about me. I teach art, I think that's well known, but do you do? Are you an actor or a model?

[hoshikiri]

Consider it as inspiration... that is a wonderful way of thinking.

[He wasn't artist minded, but he could still think it was a great thing. That said he is slightly thrown when the conversation is directed back to him.]

No, ah, I... Hmm. [He didn't think of himself as very remarkable. He was certainly no model or actor, he could never pull the latter off.]

... In my home world, I was an adventurer by trade. As for here... well, I've recently begun work with the local book store.

[stripartist]

Adventurer...is that how you met your Four Lords? Or did they come to bless you themselves?

[They're gods, after all. That's how that works right?]

[hoshikiri]

[oh yusuke]

It is, though not for the purposes of blessing... I needed to best them in combat to quell the aramitama within them. [you know, as one does on a tuesday afternoon]

[stripartist]

[A beat.]

You...fought the Four Guardians? And lived?!

[He is in awe.]

[hoshikiri]

Yes. [What, like it's weird?]

[stripartist]

All four?

[hoshikiri]

Separately, but yes.

[stripartist]

And you survived.

[Yusuke has to sit back and take a moment.]

I wish I could have seen it. I bet you were magnificent.

[hoshikiri]

Yes. [it's ok take ur time. cause takame's not making it any better.]

... It was simply necessary to do so that they may continue to protect the land.

[stripartist]

Still, you did that and survived...

[Nope okay he tried to resist. He pulls out his sketchbook and pencil and very, very quickly makes a sketch of something. (It's his idea of what that scene could have looked it. Fight him.)]

Here, the only people who fight gods and win are fairytales. And you are very much not a fairytale.

[hoshikiri]

I did. [There's a tilt of his head, wondering what Yusuke was sketching down but waiting on him to show it.]

Mm. I'm certainly no fairy tale. [Those had fine people as their heroes. Not someone who's led his kind of life.]

[stripartist]

No, you're much better than one.

[And he turns the sketch around so Takame can see. It will be...very grand and obviously reliant on liberties taken but the sketch itself is of Takame and all four lords in battle.]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.