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[symbolofhappiness]

Ah, excuse me? [The video opens on a dark haired girl, wearing a white dress. She looks pretty ordinary and there's a polite smile on her face.]

I was hoping someone might explain this place to me. I don't really use sites like these, so I'm a little confused why it showed up out of the blue. Is this normal? And is there any way to make it go away?

Oh, I'm Setsuna Higashi, by the way. It's nice to meet you all.

Comments

[symbolofhappiness]

How come I've never heard of this place before? If it really is magic... Wouldn't it be more popular?

[icantbelievethis]

How should I know? It connects all kinds of worlds.

[symbolofhappiness]

Different worlds? [the parallel worlds, connected through a website? now that had to be a lie.] So... Misumi-san, you're from a different world than me?

[icantbelievethis]

Maybe. I don't know, there's actually a bunch of us from my world.

[symbolofhappiness]

Then could you describe your world to me? I'd very much like to hear about it.

[icantbelievethis]

Uh, sure? It's pretty normal, though, it's an Earth with a bunch of cities and stuff... except we've all been the same age for a long time and nobody notices. We're not even sure what year it is. My calendar says 2005, but it's been that way for the past three years and my other friend's says 2008.

[symbolofhappiness]

So time is looping for you? That must be difficult. I'm sorry.

Is there anything else interesting about your world?

[icantbelievethis]

Well, magical girls, I guess.

[symbolofhappiness]

Magical... [There's a pause and Setsuna actually frowns for a moment, before returning to the polite smile.]

Ah, are you talking about the Precure? But those are active in 2009, aren't they?

[icantbelievethis]

Well, probably. I mean, it's 2008 on one person's calendar and a couple other people say 2010, so it's not like Precure would suddenly stop existing in 2009 and then come back.

[symbolofhappiness]

Wait, so, you really do mean the Precure? They're still around in 2010? [unacceptable. the conquest of one puny world can't take that long, can it?]

[icantbelievethis]

Uh, probably? Like I said. Time is nailed up.

[symbolofhappiness]

Ah, right. But if the Precure are around, I guess that makes us from the same world, right? But you're in the past. That's still a little hard to swallow...

[icantbelievethis]

Probably the past. I decided to just stop thinking about it.

[symbolofhappiness]

I guess I should just go with it, then. Is there any way to prove this? I'd hate to find out this was all just some prank.

[icantbelievethis]

Well, you could ask someone to worldhop you places.

[symbolofhappiness]

Worldhop? What's that?

[icantbelievethis]

Go to another world.

[symbolofhappiness]

You mean it's possible to travel to other worlds? That's really amazing. I'll have to see one, then.

[icantbelievethis]

Ask around and someone will probably take you!

[symbolofhappiness]

I'll have to remember to do that, then. Thank you, Misumi-san. You've been very helpful.

[icantbelievethis]

No problem! Welcome and have fun. Just watch out when weird things happen.

[symbolofhappiness]

Weird things? I thought it's been pretty weird already.

[icantbelievethis]

No offence, but you haven't seen anything yet.

[symbolofhappiness]

That doesn't sound very good.