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[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

[Shinji is sitting in the nurse's office next to someone who resembles the Sakura you might know. Was her hair ever that long? Did she ever dress like that? She stares blankly ahead of her, not acknowledging him.]

So apparently some disgusting creep decided to copy my avatar and name or - something - and now I need to prove that I'm not a horrible person and I'm an only child anyway. Hey. Sakura NPC. Payback for freaking me out earlier when you started glitching.

[He reaches over and flicks her on the shoulder. Immediately he winces in pain and snatches his hand back, while she doesn't react apart from turning her head to look at him.]

Ow ow ow, that stings!

Please do not attack vital NPCs, Matou Shinji, Niisan.

Like hell that was an attack...! Anyway. [He turns back to glare at the camera.] So even if this wasn't an NPC that I just met when I entered the game, even if I was a horrible person, how exactly would I be supposed to abuse her?

Are you guys happy now?

Comments

[glass-secret.livejournal.com]

Okay... That's new.

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Are you satisfied?

[glass-secret.livejournal.com]

Alright, I'll admit. You probably are a different Shinji from the one that was on here before.

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Lousy creep doing who knows what with my face...

[glass-secret.livejournal.com]

Well, he still might be you, only from another universe. This place is weird like that.

[tenminutes]

Wait, you've got actual NPCs, not just something you nicknamed NPCs?

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Actual, programmed NPCs.

[tenminutes]

Hmm. So you're in a game or what?

We've got things like that in my world, people who look like people and talk like people, but can only react in certain ways because they aren't anything besides part of the scenery that we call NPCs, but I'm not in a video game.

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

A virtual reality game called the Holy Grail War. There can only be one champion, etc., etc.

Really? So where are you?

[tenminutes]

So it's just a big fighting tournament?

The afterlife. [ Says it like it ain't even nothin' :'D ]

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Good!

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Accusing someone of that without evidence, tch.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

Usually people who look the same are the same person. Except for dramatic twins or disguises, of course, but this isn't an opera!

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Of course not, it's a game. I could never sit through operas.

[sandinmyboots.livejournal.com]

You haven't seen any good operas, then!

[losethreepounds.livejournal.com]

... Seriously?

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

[losethreepounds.livejournal.com]

What are they saying you did?

[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

Abused a sister that I don't actually have. Which is stupid.

[losethreepounds.livejournal.com]

Probably just gossip.

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[ponytailprince.livejournal.com]

[Raises eyebrow.]

NPC's...? Avatar? ....Don't tell me you're inside a game.

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[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

I'm inside a game.

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[ponytailprince.livejournal.com]

So.... you're digital then, huh? At least we have one thing in common here.

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[giftedateight.livejournal.com]

For the moment. My mind's in here while this tournament's going on, and my body's at home doing a whole not of nothing.

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[ponytailprince.livejournal.com]

I wonder ...if that's what happened to me. No- no, I remember arriving here, body and all.

In any case, I'm Kouji Minamoto.