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[After much, much fiddling with the device on his wrist - which at first brougt some interesting flashbacks of a certain other wrist device he was forced to wear one time - Jigen finally manages to get the video feed feature of the thing going, and the first thing that's on the screen is his less than amused face, a cigarette burning between his lips.]

So, this "moonlacing" deal... [He takes a long drag from his cigarette, head shaking for a moment.] Not sure what this place's plan is but they couldn't have picked a worst guy for the job. [The only other person he can think of that would be a worse fit is Goemon.]

Am I really expected to get all lovey dovey with strangers to generate some mystical energy? Yeah, not happening any time soon.

But I should at least introduce myself, since I'm here and all. Name's Jigen Daisuke, and despite these... [He points at the bunny ears that have now replaced his own.] I'm a completely normal human. Well, I guess these have their advantages. I feel like my hearing is more accurate.

I guess I'll be seeing you people soon, hm? [The feed unceremoniously ends without either a good bye or wave of a hand. Yeah... not the friendliest guys around.]

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[If someone legitimately mocked others for their features here, there's a high chance they would be the one ostracized.]

Not in a forceful way. More like... being exposed to different ways of thinking and interacting with one another on a fairly large scale. There's a lot of events that happen here that encourage people to break out of their comfort zones, though of course it's always optional to go to any of them.

[He'll kindly not mention some of the actual forced things that have happened to him and his friends since he got here.]

Well, I suppose that's just the natural way things go when you find yourself in a new place, hm? You adapt to the stuff around you and end up being influenced by the people you meet.

I guess I'll skip the events for now then. This whole thing is still really strange and doesn't make a lot of sense, so I'm not exactly ready to get out of my comfort zone just yet. [Jigen's trying to be as polite as he can, since this guy is taking the time to explain things to him. And it's probably a good idea not to tell him that forced circumstances do happen. He's already nervous enough as it is.]

I just don't understand why a place that more or less 'thrives' on social interactions decided I would be a good fit for it...

That does seem to be the case, yes. I've done a lot of traveling as of late but most of the places I went to didn't have too much in the way of varying culture from what I was used to. Being here has been adjustment, to say the least.

[Ren shrugs, unfortunately not having any new answers to that.]

Who knows why they choose any of us. I wasn't exactly a great fit either.

I've also been to many places, but nothing quite like this, that's for sure. [Specially with how high tech everything is, which is pretty jarring for a man like Jigen who's "present" is the seventies.]

Sounds very conflicting though, to have extroverts and the like in a place like this, hm? Heh... or maybe they summon people like me here to learn to socialize better. [Too bad Jigen isn't super interested in that.]

[Tech is, thankfully, not an issue for Ren.

Everything else...

Well.

He's getting better about it.]

It's entirely possible. Perhaps they in turn get more from them as they're urged to open up.

Hmm... Could be it. Maybe they get bigger surges of "energy" when it's from someone who keeps feelings stored and release them all at once? [Jigen is only speculating too, but it would at least explain such a backwards logic.]

Well... whatever the reason is, now that we are here there isn't much we can do about it, hm?

That's just about what I was thinking, yes.

[It's as good of a guess as anything else here.]

I've more or less resigned myself to being here until they've decided they're done with me.

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