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I'm sure everyone's noticed that the gods are playing games again. Thanks to Freyr's post, we don't have to wonder too much about who is responsible. We've still got a lot to learn about what's going on. Discussion: 1) Do you perceive yourself to be drawn more towards certain people or certain types of people than others? 2) How would you categorise the force of the hugs? 3) Has this case changed how you feel about hugs? (If so, please elaborate.) 4) Has this case changed how you feel about the gods? (If so, please elaborate.) 5. Has this case changed how you feel about your fellow Asgard citizens? (If so, please elaborate.) Please respond with any information you'd like to share. If you want to respond anonymously or privately that's fine but your honest feedback would be appreciated. Also let me know if you have a question you'd like added.

[Filtered to the Forensic Unit.]

We can't work like this. I'm giving the department time off until this thing is finished. Enjoy.

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I see... I remember her telling me that she's been working a lot.

What does "neechan" mean, though?

Ah -- it's sort of ... I'd say it's halfway between 'miss' and 'older-sister' -- where I'm from, it's pretty rude to call someone just by their name unless you know them well. So I call her Yifei-neechan!

So you add something to their name? ... I guess I don't really get it, since I'm from a different place.

Right! It seems like it's a hard thing for a lot of people here to understand, but for me, it feels really rude to not do it.

That's not anything too bad, so... Besides, if it makes you comfortable, then yeah. Just stick to it.

But what are the other ones? For reference...

Let's see ... Oniisan's like Oneesan but for boys! And if they're younger or your friends, it's -kun and -chan. Sensei is for teachers, lawyers, doctors and authors, anyone who leads or teachers or who has a lot of knowledge, basically! 'san' is being polite, and 'sama' is being very respectful.

That's a lot... Many more than I thought there would be. So you have to memorize the specific people and the matching term... [Well, that doesn't sound too hard...]

Not exactly! I mean, it's not like you have to memorize the person and the term ... it depends on the situation! Like, if I want a favour, I call Mouri 'Mouri-san!' or 'Mouri-sama!' but when I talk about him to other people I call him 'Mouri-jisan' or 'Mouri-jichan' if I'm talking to his daughter. But when I'm talking with my friends he's just 'Occhan' and if he heard me use that, he'd scold me.

See?

[... Oh wow, there are so many different types.]

Wow... languages sound a lot harder than they should be.

That's just Japanese. There are languages like Latin or French where even nouns have masculine and feminine forms and all sorts of variations.

[Remind him to never take a language course on his own.]

I would probably never go to France to actually use French... Latin is interesting though, but I only know some words rather than the grammar itself.

You should! Paris is pretty beautiful in winter -- or even Spring.

You mean after leaving Asgard, right?

Right! We're definitely not staying here forever.

[Hmm.]

How long have you been here?

... 86 days.

... That is way too long...

I feel like my actual caretaker from back home is going to keel over from stress one day.

Then I guess it's good he doesn't know you're gone.

Wait, what do you mean by that? Of course he would notice...

You hear it from a lot of new arrivals. When they're greeting people from their own worlds who've been here a while. 'You can't have been here that long! I saw you yesterday!' or something like that. Then there's a strange experience that's happened to me and a few other people. I fell asleep in Asgard for about a week. Sherlock-sensei and John-san were monitoring me so I know I was here, but in my head, I was back in Tokyo. I picked up seamlessly from the moment I left, and for about three weeks, I was going to school, seeing my friends, helping Uncle, doing all the things I usually do ... and I know they really happened because the newspapers in the library match my memories.

... So it's like the Continuity except the worlds aren't merged... just the people in a new world. I guess if I think along those lines, it won't be confusing...

[Not confusing, he says. Ha ...]

What's 'the Continuity'?

[He's from a world that talks too much about worlds...]

That's what people call my world. It's... technically merged with another one. That's where ~~Argenta~~ Yifei comes from. It can still be split though and still be together... somehow.

That's really interesting! How does it work?

I'm not really the best person to ask... Maybe you can ask Yifei. She would probably know more than I do.

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