captainash | 25th treasure [voice]

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25th treasure [voice]

Just so we're all on the same page.

[And just so he doesn't have to hit anyone, if the anger in his voice is any indication.]

If you tell a Vanilluxe that ice cream would be the best dessert for her birthday? You deserve to be frozen to the sidewalk. If you loudly declare the virtues of roasted duck prepared with spring onion around a Farfetch'd? You deserve to have that spring onion shoved up your nose. If you make jokes about using fertilized eggs to make an omelet in front of a Blissey? You deserve to spend the next three hours washing yolk out of your hair.

[Geez, it sure doesn't sound like he had to deal with all three situations over the last week.]

And if you do all of that in front of their trainer? You deserve to get forcibly thrown out of the restaurant. No complaining.

[Or else he'll have to do some hitting, and then no one will be pleased.]

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Sounds a lot like my world, actually. So everywhere with humans really is just the same.

Of course they are. Were you really expecting there would be a world out there where human nature is different?

Not me, but other people seem to really like thinking that way. If this world wasn't arranged like a kid's game? People would be in constant war, and blood would be everywhere!

People are acting nice now because it benefits them, and they're too weak to tell the truth. The moment that isn't the case anymore, imagine how many idealistic fools will be shocked speechless when their so-called friends turn the tables on them! Everyone who thinks humans are trustworthy are either idiots, or manipulators themselves, and I'm not taking any chances.

...Just because a large number of people are selfish doesn't mean everyone is. Or that even the selfish can't have people they truly appreciate. Individuals are usually more pleasant and trustworthy than groups, anyway.

Not everyone. But so naively trusting people as easily as most here do?

I've only met two people I could really trust in my 16 years of life.

Only two people in sixteen years? No wonder you find it ridiculous. That's way lower than average.

Well, I guess it's a given. The Saionji clan is a terrible place to grow up in!

Let me guess. It involves a path all thought out for you before you're even born, and very few people who bother asking what you want.

Something like that. Except I was born exceptionally talented, even as Heiress to the clan- so it's always been what I wanted!

At least there's that. Sixteen years would have been more than enough time to get sick of a vocation you didn't want, after all.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the people born alongside me. But it's not like they deserve any sympathy.

[Wait what]

[Yes, what.]

Great appreciation for your family you're showing. Do they return the favor, or have they long stopped caring about your opinion?

The people my age are jealous, talentless pigs who resort to backhanded traps and sabotage while putting on a pretty face! The adults are egoistic even when half of them shame our reputation of quality dancing. [The shadow falling over her face subsides.]

My grandmama treats me really well, though!

...You know, I get the feeling half of them must be saying the same thing about you. But if you're lucky, your grandmother might show up here someday.

If they did, it would be unjustified. I was chosen as the best young talent in Japanese classical dancing across the whole world! I have every right to say that.

[She does pause at that, though.] Maybe.

Even if being the best somehow gave you that right, you now have competition from hundres or thousands of world. You might have lost it.

That's impossible. You see, they send the most elite scouters over the world for the most amazing talent in every field! I'm one of the only in my field, if the only. No one else before and after have ever made the cut.

By default, I'm the top! I don't boast without checking my facts, pig.

[uh well...]

That's funny, I didn't hear anythng about those elite scouts of yours showing up in my world. I guess they got lost on their way there.

Other than people I know or from my world, they don't seem to exist anywhere else.

[Hmph.] So, who are you?

I'm Captain Ash. What about you, Miss Classical Dancing Heiress of the Saionji Clan?

['Cause saying that every time would be a bit long.]

My name is Saionji Hiyoko! Remember that!

[Beep. Wow, did she really think that a great, dramatic time to close her Gear? You can call her again if you'd like.]

[On the one hand, he'd kinda like to.

On the other hand, that lack of love for most of her family is so horrifying it's upsetting.

...This world and its people, honestly.]

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