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[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.]

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

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

... Same.

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

When you get your moonblessing, do you turn into a different animal?

[ he should probably not just ask people that, and yet ]

My coat changes color, that’s it.

You're lucky, then.

... What happens to you?

I become part koi.

[ it sucks ]

The first time, I was a dragon. That seems backwards, doesn't it?

That... does seem backwards.

[Does that mean he has to live in the water???]

[ at least she gets it!! everyone knows koi swim up the waterfall to become dragons, we all know this to be true. ]

It's inconvenient, to say in the least.

[ yes he has to live in the water rip ]

[thats how it works!!!]

Do you get... scales and fins?

My legs become a tail. Like a mermaid.

... that sounds really inconvenient, I’m sorry.

No more inconvenient than being half-horse I suppose.

[ aside from the water thing...but hanging out with vietnam and exploring isn't all bad ]

I don’t really think of myself as “half” of anything, but... I guess.

It makes sense that you wouldn't.

[ it's so weird that that's just a thing where she's from but it's also very cool and he's super interested in it. ]

Are there other creatures like you where you're from? Humans that are part animal? Or are the jinba the only ones?

It’s just jinba in my world. Jinba and humans.

You said you were a lumber yard worker [ aka a peasant he knows ] not an archer. Do other jinba still fight? Or have you all been relegated to such work?

[ im gomen that he's just like grilling her here ]

The wars are over now- There’s no need to fight like that anymore.

[He seems... weirdly saner than the other person claiming to be Nobunaga on this post, but...]

But plenty of jinba were captured or bred for fighting before- if that’s what you mean.

[ he is thanks for noticing ]

Hm. [ he considers it for a moment, definitely a hint of distaste. captured or bred definitely didn't sound good. more reason kenshin sucks i guess! lets blame it on him! ] Are they still...bred?

[nope nobunaga no blaming kenshin you basically accelerated this whole jinba slavery economy...]

I only know about my village... my boss says some domains still do it.

[ he doesn't like that!!! his japan wouldn't have been like that, that's for sure ]

Do you feel more free, here?

[... that's an unexpectedly hard question]

... Sort of.

[it's... almost weird not being discriminated against??? being somewhere without the scars of war and her species' mistreatment]

But... I still need to get home.

I understand.

[ responsibilities - be they big (unifying a country) or small (lumberyard work, he assumes) - were like that. both of them were constrained in their own ways back home, but the same thing that bound them could be a big reason to return. and it's honorable that she would answer that way, that she would rather return and take care of her things there than remain here.

at least, that's how he's projecting onto this conversation. it's probably a lot to read into for a five minute conversation with a centaur he's never actually met. ]

[He says he understands, but... what he wants to get back for was... that, right?]

I think the reasons we need to get home are really different probably.

[ nobunaga just laughs at that ]

Well, naturally. But I can still respect your determination.

[ even peasants have redeeming qualities!! ]

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