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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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That's right, a fellow countryman! ...well, there's been a bit of relocation since then, but I started out in Owari.

In Owari? That's a while away from me... But I guess it's not nearly as long as being from a totally different type of world, right?

Something like that.

[Not unused to it, so actually...]

Tell me lass, what's the year you're from? You're old fashioned enough, but...

Me? It's the sixth year of Genna! That makes sense to you, right? What about you?

...around then, eh? So not too long after the tanuki kicked the bucket.

[The current year is complicated because that'll thrust them into the topic of servants and ghosts and all that nonsense, which right now isn't what she's looking to talk about.

So...]

Well, I was born about 90 years before the time talking about, give or take, so I'm, ah...a few years your senior, hah.

[Not exact, but close enough.]

The tanuki?

[Ninety years before... She didn't go to school, she only knows as much history as her boss has mentioned to her, so she doesn't know what year that is, but... it's a long time! Like three generations at least!]

I'm really glad to meet more people from Japan, though- Even if it's not exactly my Japan.

The odds of you running into anyone like that is slim, but people from Japan aren't uncommon here at all, you'll find! You won't have an issue fitting in.

[Aside horse, maybe.]

Well, fitting in that way, anyway. It's a relief.

[Definitely isn't finding that she fits in physically, haha...]

Are you acclimating well to all this metal and technology stuff, Miste-

[Wait... Squint...]

Misses... ?

Oda. Nobunaga Oda.

[She won’t correct on the gender cause it’s entirely inconsequential to her...well, mostly.]

Fortunately I’m not entirely unused to modern furnishings, so I’ve some prior experience to fall back on. So if you could use an old timers perspective on any of this, you can come ask me.

Haha, is that a funny joke from Owari? I already met Oda Nobunaga.

[Apparently????

And there certainly couldn’t be more than one. Let alone a cute lady one???]

Oh, Nacchan? I wouldn’t worry too much about him; he’s a bit sensitive over the subject, but like it or not he’s sharing his identity with me while he’s here.

I’m no less the genuine article.

It's not really funny if you keep it going this long...

[......................... cause no way???]

I don’t mind fooling around lass, but if you’re thinking “Nobunaga Oda can’t be a woman” I’d keep it to yourself before I make jinba extinct around here.

[SHE’S THREATENED TO DECAPITATE FOR LESS.]

[... okay so she'd been thinking that but]

But there can't be... two of you...

And what exactly do you think Japan would look like without me around? It’s a constant in every timeline...probably.

I’m pretty much the most important person in the country’s entire history.

[So she says.]

There are likely infinite Nobunagas all across infinite Japans, be they man woman or otherwise. What’s hard to accept about that?

[... okay, it. Kind of makes sense... When she... says it like that...

They were important, she thinks...]

I guess just like... most of it... sort of...