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[lumberlady]

[Good morning, Lunatia. The video starts with a view of hooves, a too close view of a face... and then finally... a centaur? Who keeps looking off screen while she talks and never seems to actually focus on the lens correctly.]

Hello? Can everyone see me? Connor, am I doing this right? Okay? ... Okay.

[She clears her throat and dips into a bow, the camera bobbing along with her.]

Hello! This is Konoha... some of you maybe think my name is Shizu, but- It's Konoha! I'm from Echigo province, in Japan, if you know it... and I'll be in your care.

If you don't know me, which, I figure is most of you, this city must be even bigger than the capital I'm the... well in my world we say jinba but I'm the "centaur". I haven't seen anyone else like me so I think I can say "the"...

Anyway... what I wanted to ask was... if anyone had an recommendations for... shops? I've never really shopped before, and I haven't seen any locals quite like me, so if you know somewhere that does... I don't know, tailoring? Or a restaurant with really big seats or tall tables? Anything like that!

I'd appreciate it, so... thank you very much!

[Another bow, another bob of the camera... and a blurry flash of android helping her turn the dang thing off. Thanks, Connor.]

Comments

[lumberlady]

[The "concept" of jinba... ?

Konoha cocks her head curiously, blinking unknowingly... at the guy who sort of officialized all the wars that kind of led to her species' slavery...]

You have jinba in yours too? Different ones?

[goban]

[ sorry konoha...sorry japan.... ]

Only as a concept - the idea of a person and a horse as one body. Not in the way you are, but a mounted archer and his horse.

[ "his" because unfortunately, as you know, the sengoku period. ]

They're losing their importance as history progresses, but they used to be important units in battle.

[lumberlady]

Oh...

[A mounted archer in battle... Her boss had told her that jinba bred by humans were often trained as archers, but...

Hold up, if he knew the word-]

Wait- Are you from Japan, too?

[goban]

Yes. I am the Devil King of the Sixth Heaven, Oda Nobunaga. I will unify these lands.

[ citation needed, especially since she said she was from echigo and that's firmly #teamkenshin's territory. ]

1/2

[lumberlady]

[Where... has she heard that name before...

Hold on, she's thinking...]

[lumberlady]

... You're not from Azuchi are you?

[#teamkenshin lands aaaaand peasant educated]

[goban]

Yes. Do they teach you nothing in Echigo?

[ he's not surprised to hear it!!! kenshin sucks!! him and his stupid face]

1/2

[lumberlady]

I mean, I'm just a lumber yard worker, I didn't go to the temple for schooling or anythi-

[lumberlady]

[Wait wait wait]

... Did you make skulls into cups?

[goban]

[ he just straight up laughs ]

It's a clever rumor, isn't it? I'm glad to hear it has made it there.

[lumberlady]

But aren't you-

[......................................... dead???

Wait, what if he didn't know he was dead?

Should she say it?

What should she say???]

[goban]

What? Finish your question.

[ too late, he asked now!! ]

[lumberlady]

[here goes.........]

... dead?

[goban]

Every human dies eventually.

[lumberlady]

Well, yea, but...

How are you... Here...

[And aren't you like... an evil warlord who kills lots of people and drinks from skulls like all the stories????? Should she even be talking to you???]

[goban]

I wasn't dead before I came here. But just as we are from different worlds, so too are there different timelines. People are from all points in the histories of their worlds.

[lumberlady]

Gods, this is so confusing...

[She actually clutches her head a moment, trying to decide if she's crazy... Nope, still hasn't gone crazy...]

Con... gratulations, then?

[On... not being dead??????]

[goban]

[ oh my god ]

For what?

[lumberlady]

On being... alive?

[He can't like... raise an army or kill many people here, right???]

[goban]

[ nobunaga laughs at that ]

Thank you.

[lumberlady]

Have you... been here long... ?

[goban]

A little over a month, now. It's very different from home, but I like hearing about all the places people are from.

[lumberlady]

[She's wracking her brain over here for the stories about the Sixth Realm... Hell King... something something...

He liked foreign things maybe? She can't remember, it was all just biwa ballad stuff...]

That can be interesting, yeah... Some people come from worlds with all sorts of magic and technology...

[goban]

It's like nothing I could have imagined being real, and yet...

[ he's talking to a centaur over a magical video phone ]

[lumberlady]

... Same.

[she's talking to a dead warlord over a magical video phone]