theairlock | Week 4

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!round 5,
!week 4

Week 4

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

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[Eh, considering the situation, she can't be too judgey if he snaps.]

...Sure, why not. But only if you've got extra.

[Yeah, but he can get his judge on all by himself.]

It's designed to cook multiple batches at once, isn't it? It won't be any more effort. [...] Are you just eating pie for breakfast?

...Yeah? Pie and a milkshake. I'm not doing it every day.

No, but...

[Dot dot dot.]

Wow. I must be getting old. I think I'd get sick if I did that.

[Says the man who JUST ATE ICE CREAM YESTERDAY okay no he probably had other snacks stashed in the kiosk.]

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...Yeah, that sounds like you're getting old.

[Shrugs casually.]

To be fair, I'm pretty sure I'm going to regret it later? But you can say that about pretty much all of McDonald's.

Hashtag yolo. ...As inaccurate as that seems to be around here.

[All right, let's throw some of these hash browns on the... thing in McDonald's that makes the hash browns.]

Oh, it's extremely inaccurate. I, for one, have lived at least four times now.

[Let's try making that milkshake while those bad boys fry up. Thankfully, Jane is not an idiot, so this will not end up in an ice cream mess.]

I... don't even know where or how to begin to count. Maybe technically it's only been once.

[Junpei is an idiot, but frying stuff isn't really too hard.]

Maybe. Technically.

[Zzzzzzzzrm is totally a milkshake machine sound, right? Yeah, sure.]

If it's still the same consciousness the entire time, does it even count?

Oh, god, don't even ask me, do I even count as one consciousness? Hell if I know.

...

[Yeah that's looking milkshake-y enough. That's fine.]

It's striking me now that the both of us are severely unequipped to properly answer our own metaphysical questions.

I tried to read a book about it, but I'm not a cognitive theorist, you know? Or a theoretical physicist. Or... any kind of theorist. Except maybe a conspiracy theorist. Except with me, it's not theory, it's just my life.

I've always tried to be a hard facts kind of girl myself, so when you get into this muddy area of maybe and suppose, it gets really tricky to navigate.

...If you took all the 'maybe' and 'suppose' out of my life, I think I might stop existing.

Well, shucks. That's no good.

[Cause of Death: Adhering to actual concrete laws of existence]

I mean, it's impossible, anyway, but. Yikes. Way to bring home the fact my entire everything hinges on Schrödinger's Box tied with some superstring.

Sorry, Mister Junpei...it's not like I meant it to be that way.

Hey, don't worry about it. Two years, I've had to get used to it at this point.

...You know you don't have to call me 'Mister,' right? I'm only twenty-three.

[She pauses at the last bit, shifting somewhat on her feet.]

You're sure? I...I just want to make sure I'm not, you know, being rude to anyone.

Come on, Jane, I don't use honorifics for any of you.

[Not anymore. Not now that Natsuhi's gone.]

...Honorifics?

[???]

Like mister or miss, or 'Dame' like Arianna. It's, I dunno, more widespread in Japan, I guess, so when someone doesn't show proper respect, it's more obvious? Especially if you're using someone's given name instead of their family name.

[These hash browns are probably done, right? Time to lift the basket out of the oil. I am assuming that is how these are cooked at McDonald's, I've never worked at McDonald's.]

...So am I doing it wrong, or...?

[Child is so very American and out of her depth.]

No, no no. I only brought it up to point out that I speak really casually. I'm pretty close to rude, actually, in Japanese. But I also speak English, so hearing you call me Mister all the time is sort of... well, it's got a different valence, right? That's the sort of thing you call your teachers or your parents' friends. I'm not that old.

...That is true. If you'd rather I drop it, then...alright.

[She wants to argue a little that, despite age, he's still kind of a figure of respect simply by being a detective, but...it's not been an easy now-month for anyone.]

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