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[fairyofwind]

Attendere. Attendere.

What's going on? Is there some virus turning everyone young or something? That's got to be it.

Someone's got to fix this quickly. I've got class tomorrow...and a date with Kouji...and I can't go like this!

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[selfished]

You're not! Unless you're some sorta prodigy genius, but I never heard of that before. Nobody's gonna make it into university at your age.

[fairyofwind]

That's why it has to be a virus. It's made me younger. Or put me in my younger self's body, or something like that!

[selfished]

[ .. Wait, that can't be, right.. After all, that would mean that Izumi normally always is under the influence of a virus-- and Kouji too?! That doesn't even make sense. So Izumi has to be virused now, right? Maybe to think something else..? ]

Did ya bother looking at the date?

[fairyofwind]

Yes! It's all wrong! I just don't get it.

[selfished]

That's what I'm saying. The date's fine. [ She's pretty sure it is, either way.. ] It's you who started to think differently all of a sudden, y'know.

[fairyofwind]

It really isn't. What if I've switched with my younger self?

[selfished]

If that's true, then ya just sit and wait this one out. It always goes back to normal after a few days and then nothing's changed either way.

[fairyofwind]

I guess so. It's still really strange, though...

[selfished]

You're saying that as if strange things don't happen all the time here! It's normal by now.

[fairyofwind]

It doesn't mean you get used to them like it's nothing.

[selfished]

Sure ya do. Ain't that what surviving's all about? It's 'bout adapting no matter what happens.. that's how ya stay on top.

Try living on the street, you'll know what I mean.

[fairyofwind]

Of course you adapt, but that doesn't mean things won't still surprise you.

...wait. Living on the street?

[selfished]

Yeah, living on the street, that's what I said! Are ya deaf?

[ It's so normal to her now that she can't conceive anyone else finding it weird.. ]

[fairyofwind]

Do you mean you've done that?

[selfished]

Not just "done" that, I do it all the time! I've been living like this for ages already now, y'know. [ She's still just.. saying it like it's a normal thing.. ]

[fairyofwind]

[Well hello things Izumi didn't know about.]

What? But what about your family?

[selfished]

What, d'ya really think they kicked me out or whatever? [ She's a little shorter about this since.. well, she doesn't care that she's a hobo, but her family is a sensitive subject. ] They're just dead.

[fairyofwind]

Ah-

Oh...I'm so sorry. I didn't know.

You don't have anywhere to go?

[selfished]

Nah, not really. I mean, sure, I have some places to sleep, but they're mostly run down buildings and stuff, ya know? No one's gonna mind me sleeping there, they won't even know.

But something like a home.. I don't have that. [ Still, she says it fairly casually. ]

[fairyofwind]

Are you...looking for one?

[Because that's something that everyone should have in her mind.]

[selfished]

Not really!

[ Once again, super casually. She's honest, either way. ]

I'm just fine living the way I am now. I've been doing it for super long either way, I'm used to it. It's sorta fun in its own way.

[fairyofwind]

But...isn't it scary? Or difficult?

[selfished]

.. I dunno. [ Even though the casualness was genuine, her tone turning a little more real-like is too. But she still shrugs. ]

I mean, is breathing difficult to you? It's just like that. Living like this is normal to me, I'm used to it.

[fairyofwind]

It's just...it shouldn't be something a person has to get used to.

Even though it was just for a little while, living without a home in the Digital World was really difficult.

[selfished]

I can't say I know much 'bout it, just some stuff Kouji said and all, but.. that world isn't like the normal one, right? There's so many people and things around that it's easy to get by if you know how to.