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[ahappylie]

[Souji is at home and it's too quiet. He ends up talking to Saizou, his pig, for company a lot lately and this time, Saizou steps on the journal as he's talking, picking up bits and pieces of their one-sided conversation.]

--nder...why...--that some ......--ile others go, Saizou?

[The pig grunts and Souji laughs softly, sounding tired and worn.]

Mm...yes, I suppose we'll never know.....--haps....world returns.....--work still left to complete; and leaves ...... --no longer necessary.

[He's quiet for a moment and then lets out a heavy sigh, dismissing his own thoughts.]

No, that's silly. ....--ing me the jour--....

[The microphone picks up the muffled bumps and thumps as Saizou bites the journal and brings it over for Souji. He presses the on button again, unaware that it was already recording. When he addresses everyone, he's much chipper like he always, no trace of his earlier stress.]



I learned a new game so I have a question for everyone~

Would you rather eat nothing but your favorite food forever or never eat your favorite food again?

Also, it has been quite awhile, but anyone who knew my other self, Hijikata-san or Chizuru-chan; they've all returned to their homes.

Comments

[ahappylie]

It does do wonders at keeping one occupied.

[And keeping his mind off other things.]

Do you enjoy horticulture? How long have you been doing it?

[yourhatred]

I would say I enjoy it, yes. It has taken over much of my free time since my arrival here.

[And he has an awful lot of free time.]

[ahappylie]

Do you run a garden here? Or the farms?

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

...Sounds about right. Pretty used to living in a desert, so seasons are kinda unique for me. At least when they're up close and personal. So there's still a little bit of a ways to go, then.

[yourhatred]

I have a garden, yes. Nothing so grand as a farm.

[ahappylie]

Farms are rather difficult work, aren't they? What sort of things do you grow in your garden?

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

Yes, just a bit longer. It will be nice to see the spring again... Will this be Derek-san's first remembered spring out of the desert?

[heavensmostwanted]

Positive? It's not a fun story.

[ahappylie]

Only if you wish to tell it. Where I am from, fun stories are rather rare anyway.

[yourhatred]

Vegetables, mostly. I know the grocery here provides them, but there's a certain satisfaction that comes with growing your own.

[ahappylie]

Is it very difficult? A friend of mine used to have a vegetable garden here, but he's been gone so long I barely remember what he told me about it.

[yourhatred]

Some require more care than others, but overall it isn't a very difficult task to take care of them. It was a little harder when I had a smaller plot to work with, but I have a bit more room now.

[ahappylie]

Do you plant near your home? I was thinking of starting a garden behind the house, but Saizou and Fish chase each other so often, I'm afraid they might destroy it.

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

In a few decades, anyway, yeah. Been to places that had it, just usually not during spring.

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

I would think if you could go somewhere, you would want to travel during the spring. It has the best weather, doesn't it?

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

It does, but then, I travel for my job, not to go on vacation, so I don't get much of a choice of where or when.

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

...Derek-san sounds like he could use a vacation then. It's no fun to travel for work. You don't get to enjoy anything at all.

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

I guess it depends on whether or not you take the time. Met plenty of people on the way.

[Translation: Would be nice, but his lifestyle really doesn't allow for it.]

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

I take it you weren't able to take the time?

[He thinks for a moment.]

It must be hard to vacation when you're hunting vampires. They don't really rest, do they?

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

Sort of. They sleep during the day, so there's time. Not a lot, but you can get a break in as long as they don't know you're there yet. Once they know, though, yeah, no time.

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

Do they often know you are coming for them?

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

Not if I'm careful and my luck doesn't go to hell. But yeah, sometimes they know someone's coming for them, at any rate. Usually if I can't get them all on the same twenty four hour shift. Then it's hide and seek until the sun comes up again.

[Voice]

[ahappylie]

Does it happen often? The deadly version of hide and seek?

[Voice]

[rather_be_surfing]

If it did, I wouldn't be here. That's a waiting game that will eventually go wrong for the hunter, no matter how good he is.

I tend to get sent on hunts that only involve a couple of vampires at a time. If there's more than a couple, then I'll spend a lot of time observing first. Finding their hunting spots, their nest. And I'll wait and make sure that they're all in there when I go after them, if I can, and keep my head down and out of sight until then. If I can get one on it's own and be reasonably sure the others won't notice, I will. Otherwise...I wait.

[changethepast]

[ She just laughs. ]

Sounds like that would make it pretty hard to adapt to here, then.

[ Says the woman who didn't see the sun until she was 18 because she lived in a gravity-defying sphere-continent. Whatever. ]