preowned | claude

It seems like an actual place for people to live, doesn't it?

... It does. I wonder if people lived here?

Maybe.

[ he looks around. there's only shadow people. ]

Or it's just made to seem like it.

Always with the shadows.

[ he pokes around the bar ]

Ever been to a place like this?

The architecture is very different from Japan. And none of the places we visited at the camp were quite like this, even though they were all different...

[ he's just going to plop down on a seat. ]

Do you like it?

... I'm not sure.

[ pokes hookah ]

It's kind of eerie.

Hm? Why do you think so?

It just seems very familiar. But very much not so.

So... eerie.

Have you been to a place like this?

Sort of. It's reminiscent of where I was born. I haven't been in several years now though.

Is that so... I guess there are some things that seem the same no matter where you are.

[ there are 495845 different earths. ]

Feeling nostalgic, then?

... I guess so.

[ huh! he sounds surprised.

he glances back at tsuru. ]

You've lived quite a while. Have you been in Japan the entire time?

Yes. Japan was a closed country for the majority of its timespan, so the possibilities of leaving it were very little as a sword. And by the time the age of swords ended, I had been given as a gift to the imperial family... something nice to be displayed.

[ he pats his sword at his sign. ]

And now that we have human form, our mission still keeps us in Japan. I never actually left it until I was brought to these places.