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001st Oversoul ♨ Action / Voice

W-Wha? Hey, why is suddenly so dark?

[Yoh blinks as he stares into the darkness for a moment. Just a minute ago he had been talking with Ren and then... Then he finds himself there, in a small space, his body twisting and mostly uncomfortable due the position. Definitively he didn't get himself there on his own. He shifts, trying to get more comfortable, specially his back which is aching like crazy. In the process he kicks the walls of the tight space where he is and brushes against something that seems to feel like clothes.]

What is this, a wardrobe? Oi, Amidamaru?! Can you hear me?!

[He tries calling for his friend, his companion, and there's almost an immediate response. But something is off.]

Huh? Amidamaru? I can't...

[Maybe someone would like to check who is locked in their wardrobe some time soon?]

[Hours later and after getting a crash Luceti course, Yoh decides to play with the journal and get the hang of it. The feed turns on to his carefree laugher, even if he has many reasons to worry and be down, he's not going to let it be shown easily.]

Hehehe, look at this! This is quite handy, it reminds me of the Oracle Bell. I wonder if the bells have this feature too? I should ask Silva when I have the chance- Ah, it's on!

Hey! My name's Yoh Asakura, I arrived here today, nice to meet you! I have been told that there's a smithy in the village and that it's were weapons tend to show up. Does anyone know if there has been a new couple of swords there lately? They are very important to me so I would like to get them back as soon as possible.

And... No, nothing else, never mind that. Just wanted to ask about the swords. Thanks!

[He wanted to ask if there was anyone who recognized him but if his friends are here they will notice him just with what he had said so far anyway. And despite the way Luceti seems to be he's not going to just go and start talking about shamans without knowing a bit more and getting a better feeling of the village. Specially not when he himself isn't sure if he's a shaman anymore, what with how he can't even see or hear Amidamaru. At least he knows his friend is there, he can feel it in his heart and sense his emotions but... That's all. Yes, definitively not going to just go and talk about spirits until he has a better hold of his ground.]

[Anyway even if he has asked through the journals, Yoh's not up to just sit and wait so he will go and check the smithy himself. After all he asked about swords that had recently appeared but who knows, maybe they have been around longer than him with how crazy this place seems to be. And so Yoh will be off to explore the village, if he's going to be stuck here for God knows how long he may as well get used to it and know where everything is.

He will make stops at the clothing store and the item store besides the smithy. Eventually finding his way to spend two hours just staring at the landscape while standing on a bridge. He isn't someone to call attention on himself, just a normal dude, specially after he gets proper clothes. But he will be sure to pay attention all around him, others may have no reason to come and say hi, but he may decide he has reasons to do that to them.]

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Huh? The.. 'Oracle Bell'? [ it sounds a little interesting.. ] What would that be?

... Um, wait! I mean.. of course it's very nice to meet you as well! Welcome to Luceti, and I hope you're doing okay so far. [ he sounds happy enough to her, at least. ]

It's just something I used to have, it received messages and displayed some info on its screen but I'm not sure if it served to communicate like this book does. I never need to use it at least.

[He's pretty sure that the Patch could do it though, but shamans themselves? Maybe the Patch didn't think it was necessary or something.]

Ahaha, thank you for the welcome! And I'm okay, yes, the pain at my back is receding and I'm alive so I definitively could be worse.

[He laughs again.]

What's your name?

I'm Madoka..! Madoka Kaname. [ at least the fact this person sounds.. well, pretty carefree and happy makes it easier and she stops tensing up a little. ]

So it's maybe sort of like a cellphone, that 'Oracle Bell'?

Hm, sort of, but not the same. It had a pretty specific use after all, and as I said I don't know if it served to talk with others. Mostly, having it was proof that you qualified for something, that's all.

[Well, from what he has been taking in regarding Luceti maybe talking about the tournament wouldn't be dangerous. Still he won't say a word about spirits for now.]

It's nice to meet you, Madoka. How long have you been here?

[ Proof you were qualified.. She thinks it over for a moment or two until his question shakes her out of those thoughts, just making her answer instead. ]

Me? Um.. I think it's almost been a year by now.. yes, that's right. I came here back in May of last year, and it's March now, so it's pretty close.

That's quite sometime.

[He won't say a lot because he knows others have been here for longer, it's still a considerable amount of time. Honestly, though, he was thinking he should assume he would be here at least for that long. It made things easier as it didn't give him too many hopes yet didn't make him hopeless.]

Must have been hard on you. Are you alone here?

It's quite some time. But.. i-it's usually not too bad. And I've been able to meet some really nice people here too, so I'm glad to get that opportunity. [ eternally optimistic. ]

And there were other people from my home here before too, but they're.. all gone now. It's just me.

I see, that's no good. But I'm sure they are all just waiting for you at home, so it's not as if you will never see them again.

[She's not the only optimistic one.]

In the meantime you can make new friends here you would have never met otherwise, right? So no need to feel lonely.

[Ha-ha-ha, sure. But from experience he knows humans like to think that they aren't alone just because they have many people around them that talk to them, very few realize that it can still be lonely that way. Manta himself didn't realize that his so called friends weren't really friends and that he was alone until Ryu beat him, and Manta was so intelligent... So Yoh assumes it will be the same with everyone else.]

... Ahaha, yes, that's right. [ There's something slightly awkward about it though, since.. nope, her friends won't be waiting for her. They're dead. But she's not going to say that, it'll just ruin the mood.. ] I just have to wait until I see them again.

In that case.. do you think the two of us could get to know each other better and become friends too? I wouldn't want you to be all alone here, after all..

[It would highlight one of the problems with humans as well, how they assume that death is the end of everything and there isn't anything beyond. But humans only believe what they see and even if they could be open minded chances are they would just want to use spirits for their own gain rather than even consider them as the people they still are.

Yoh smiles. He's not alone, even if he can't see Amidamaru or talk to him properly, he's not alone and he has his friends as well, even if they are a whole world apart. But... This girl probably wouldn't understand that, she has been nice enough to suggest becoming friends just like that too.]

Really? I would like that, even if the village is full of people it can get to be very lonely without at least a friend around. Even if it's a new friend, a friend is a friend.

Exactly, I think so too. Even though it does matter in a way how long you've known a person, everyone has to start out somewhere, right..? And any friend is important to me, no matter how old or new they might be.

And.. I'm sure you'll find this place is actually not bad to be in at all as long as you have friends by your side.

As I said, a friend is a friend. New or old are terms you can apply to things, not to living beings, specially when they are your friends. And it's even worse to treat them based on that, I don't think that's a very good way to be a friend.

[But he knows many people act that way, but it's just another bad detail in a long list of bad habits.]

I already think that this place isn't that bad. I don't like the idea of being experimented on or having robots kidnap me, but that and not being able to go back home are like the only problems here. [They aren't, at least not for him.] There are worse things back home and I still like it there so I don't have any reason to not like it here as well! Besides, everything will work out at the end, so there's no need to worry either.

... Ah, I'm glad.. [ she lets out a sigh of relief, seemingly pretty happy. ]

I was worried you might feel sad over arriving here, but it seems that's not the case at all for you..! Some other people are, so then I always feel bad for them, but it's probably better to be happy. Like you said.. everything will always work out. I believe in that. I don't think it's wrong to hope at all.

Aah, I was told many new people don't react well to this place. The change and lack of control over it just triggers them. But I'm really fine, getting sad, worried or scared wouldn't change my situation anyway, it would only make it worse. Since things are already bad enough as they are, I may as well just fixate on the good things and be happy while living my life. After all, life is really just as terrible as you want it to be.

[He smiles, remembering the smiling face of that spirit at the train station that taught him something so great and yet so simple. If it hadn't been for her, if it hadn't been for Shimane Joe... He would have remained being a sad and lonely person just like Hao, he wouldn't have met the people he did, he wouldn't have made the friends he has made, he wouldn't have been able to save Anna or Manta or Ryu or Ren, all of them would have been lost and swallowed by the world, by hate, by indifference. Even if he can't see Amidamaru, even if he can't hear him and no one else is here, he won't let it drag him down. Not any more.]

People who don't hope have no interest in the future. People without interest in the future won't work for it in the present. People who won't work in the present will never have a past to look back at that's worth of it. Which is basically the same as saying that people who don't hope, are at even a worse state that those who are dead, because someone who died at least had a life at some point before, but those guys don't even have one life. So they have nothing left, that's pretty sad if you ask me.

[ So deep and wordy, Yoh.. but Madoka listens patiently all the same, nodding a little to herself. ]

That's right. Without hope, things are just way too sad, so that's why I want to keep on hoping no matter what. If someone tells me it's wrong to hope, I'll tell them they're wrong as many times as I have to. Teaching everyone in this place how to still hope and enjoy life.. Wouldn't that be nice?

[Except that in this place there's no apparent future to work for and whatever life can be had here is just a dead-ended life. But he won't say that, she probably wouldn't understand it either way, so he does what he always does. He ignores the parts he doesn't like and focuses in what he likes. The girl has hope and refuses to give up on that, even if she misuses it, she's still a couple steps ahead of many. That's a lot to say in her favor.]

Is that what you're trying to do here? To teach everyone how to still have hope?

Well.. maybe it's not the main thing I do, but I think it'd be nice if I could give some people hope. [ a giggle. ]

Even helping people out or cheering them up.. that much would be fine with me.

I'm sure there are many around here who need that sort of thing. Not only those who just arrived, you must be really busy.

[He laughs, he's not entirely serious but really, knowing how humans can be he's sure that many people need that kind of thing here. Even more than those who just arrived.]

Even if I would be busy, that wouldn't be much of a problem, really..! I'm not really special in any way, and I don't really have any kinds of talents, so if I can help out people like this.. that's more than fine, no matter how much I have to do for it.

[Ugh. He's not sure what he should feel more upset with, her attitude or that it's the human society which makes some people have that kind of attitude. Probably the later, it's not her fault if she thinks she's not special when her whole life she's had hammered in her that unless she can do something big and shinny and loud she's little more than an ant.

As if being an ant was a bad thing. Humans are just so... Many of them think themselves superior than even other humans, always striving to be above, to shine and leave their names in history. How stupid. Specially because at the end they just still end herding themselves, just in a "VIP" stable. That's why he liked Bob, he was different, his music was different, his lyrics, his persona, he was just himself and didn't go along with the other sheep.]

You're wrong. You're very special and have a big talent that not many people have.

[His voice is calm, relaxed and happy, just like always. His inner turmoils always remaining as inner turmoils, rarely reaching the surface. Still, something in his tone is firm and determined. It's the kind of tone that despite being somewhat soft and simple, it's hard to deny or shake.]

It's good that you don't drown yourself in ambitions too big, though. Even if what you want can be quite big, it sounds more like something that will grow step by step.

[ Yup, Madoka notices nothing of his inner thoughts. Maybe she notices part of that about his tone, but even then it's something that's a little subtle enough to not reveal too much about his thoughts. ]

... I.. have a big talent..? [ she sounds a little surprised. ]

That's right. I don't know many people who have it, it's quite unique in that regard.

[He pauses for a moment.]

Actually, I don't think I've ever seen someone with it as big as you. I suppose it would be said that you not only have a big talent but have mastered it as well. Or are just a natural at it, either way that's pretty special.

[ oh no, now you're just flustering her a little, Yoh.. hence why she gets a little bit more awkward-giggly, but it's in a good sense, really! ]

E-ehehe, thank you very much.. I never knew I had a talent that special, though, and nobody ever said it either, so I'm a little surprised..

Yeah... There aren't many people who are capable of acknowledging others' talents, specially if they are really special and important. They find it easier to just point out the faults or make those up so the other doesn't realize their own power.

I.. I don't think that's true..! Um.. after all, some people do recognize other people's talents, right? That's how idols are made!

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