capeandcowl | 001 && [ACCIDENTAL VOICE POST; JAPANESE, TRANSLATED SOMEHOW (SUBTITLED?)]

001 && [ACCIDENTAL VOICE POST; JAPANESE, TRANSLATED SOMEHOW (SUBTITLED?)]

[sudden staticky exhalation]

Wait a minute, what do you mean "hero"? You can't just go around dragging people away from where they're supposed to be and making them police your city!

[a reply, male, too muffled to make out specific words]

This just… it shouldn't be allowed! Send me back, send me back right now! And don't you look down at me like that! …yes, I know you're six feet tall and I'm not--

Huh? This thing? It's on? What's it even do, anyway? Hey! Owch! Stupid thing!

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[Oh lovely Saitou remembers that tone of voice too well] No.

[Still mischievous.] That sounds like a "You are not allowed to do that" no, not like an "I don't know where one is" no.

I'll find one even if you don't tell me~~ Telling me just means I won't do anything too stupid to anybody else while I'm looking.

I highly doubt that.

What, you don't think I'll find one, or you don't think I'll make mistakes while looking for one if you tell me where one is?

Hmph. Maybe you don't know! Well, I'll find one, and then I'll watch that stupid Iron Man suit get stuck.

I wouldn't suggest going through with that course of action.

...don't tell me mocking the Iron Man is illegal?

I mean to say that it is better to ignore him than have him as an enemy.

[quavery voice] ...that strong, huh...?

[Spoken seriously] This City is dangerous; many who have been ported here are of Shishio's nature. There have been murders and executions publicized on the network; it is not safe to venture outside alone.

[Silent for a beat] Being that your stoic Okashira seems to remain absent, I suppose making sure you're still alive falls into my hands. I believe Kiryu sent you coordinates to our place of residence.

Edited 2009-05-26 15:52 (UTC)

Shishio's nature? You mean his strength or his, uhm, temperament? [sinking feeling time is gooooo] ...Or both?

[pause]

Saitou... [longer pause as she tries to figure out what to say. There's a slap as she covers the communicator with her hand and mumbles a bunch of possible replies (none of them gracious), before settling on:] Yeah. He did. Anything I can do to make myself useful?

Both.

[Can't help but sound a bit amused at the muffled ranting] Just stay out of trouble for now, Weasel. Kiryu should be able to explain to you what's changed over 130 years. You'll find not many speak our language here, however.

This place just gets better and better.

Hmph! I don't usually go looking for trouble, Saitou. [mumbled: And I'm still going to make myself useful argh men are so annoying]

...Great. Honestly, did that Iron Man thing stay up nights thinking up ways to complicate our lives? [pause] If not Japanese, what do they all speak? Chinese? Korean?

[Being that the Porter gave Saitou exceptional hearing, he is smirking at the muttered phrase]

English. You've been ported to 2009, United States.

The United States. Like, the place that gave us Commodore Perry?

...This is all so insane.

You would be right.

Great. Lovely. Brilliant. I hate this place. Where can I learn English? If so many people have been taken, then there has to be a place that teaches it, right?