exsilium | [video]

[The picture starts on a stack of quiet a few thin books. Closer inspection would reveal that they are apparently collections of piano music. Some music lover seems to have lucked out and found these for dirt cheap somewhere since they're next to useless in this place.

Right as people may begin questioning who is doing this, a kitten that's appeared on screen before walks up and starts curiously poking at the books with her nose. A hand reaches in to grab her as the tablet is seemingly placed against the books due to the odd angle it holds for a few moments.]

Hey, be careful with those!

[The voice, if recognizable, is oddly soft and gentle despite the chastising. Like he was hoping no one would hear that. Oops.

Finally the video sharply turns to show a very serious looking Elliot as Arietta squirms from his grasp onto his shoulder.]

Does anyone know who these people are?! Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky... [He probably mispronounced a few of those.] There are dozens of these guys and I've never heard of any of them! Do all of them live in this place?!

[Elliot seems to think that finding out this information is incredibly important from the tone in his voice.]

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LIKE HELL I AM! Weren't you listening?!

[And he collects himself for a second before continuing.]

No, my roommate insisted we call her this. He didn't give me a reason for it.

I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT YOU BY YOUR REACTIONS ALONE!

[Yes. She will continue to yell at him as long he continues to yell at her. Either way, her facial expression will change from slightly annoyed to a more amused one by his reaction over being called cute. If she wasn't so observant, then she wouldn't find him cute at all. Too bad. Now she found him interesting!]

Oh? Which part was I suppose to listen to? The part where you were flustered over being called cute or the final part? [Feigning innocent. Yup. This is her new game.] Sorry to say, but the more you reject the idea of being called cute, the cuter you'll become. I suggest for you to give up before I decide to tell everyone about your level of cute. I bet a lot of girls will agree with me about this.

[Then at the final part, she will nod her head at that.]

Oh, so someone else named her. [That would explain it!] Either way, please give my compliments to your roommate then. He has good taste in names.

[And now for his music question, she will point out.]

I don't know how many people answered your earlier question, but I think the name of those people that you mentioned earlier are musicians. [She has to actually think about it further.] Classical music, if I'm not mistaken.

[Then she wonders:] Are you before their time?

[...Okay, considering he was good at pinning people's flaws at the very least just by observing them initially? He can buy that. So he'll just frown in a very annoyed and awkward manner at that.

But that next part, ahhh why are girls so weird?!] I BET THEY WON'T! Just because you have strange taste doesn't mean that other people do!

[He'll just nod at that request. Now if only the guy had better taste in his hair...]

Yes, a few people have explained that to me. And judging by how many things sound odd to me here which most people consider to be normal, I think I'm from a different place entirely.

Strange tastes?

[Blink. Blink]

WHAT STRANGE TASTE!? YOU'RE THE STRANGE ONE!

[Good comeback, Nanami. She would cross her arms if she wasn't holding the tablet at this point, so she will pout and look angry instead.]

NORMALLY GUYS WOULD LIKE TO BE CALLED CUTE BY OTHER GIRLS! IF ANYONE IS STRANGE AROUND HERE, IT IS YOU! YOU'RE THE STRANGE ONE!

[But then, she will wait a moment as a thought crossed through her mind. C-Could it be that he isn't into other girls? And with that thought in mind, she will slightly calm down, only a tiny bit.]

Unless...

[Now she really wants to know. She will be pointing to herself now.]

I'm not really your type, am I? Do you prefer a boy calling you cute instead?

[Then at his explanation over having been told over the situation and feeling like he was in a new world, a sympathetic smile will appear on her lips. She can't help understand the way he felt over the matter of being in a time further than their own.]

Yeah. I can definitely understand the way you feel. [She really can.] Everything feels new and different for me too. It's really odd to be in a different time period than your own. No matter how far back or forward you go, each timeline has their own set of rules. [Just like her timeline had one set of rules that someone like Mizuki couldn't follow, she had the same difficult time following the ones in Mizuki's timeline. So, yeah, she can understand Elliot's feelings over the subject.]

But don't worry about it, though. A lot of people are still getting used to the whole time difference situation, they don't mean any offense by it.

[Then she had an idea!]

If you like, would you like to ask me any questions over the future? It might be better to have someone you can trust than asking an entire network about it. After all, we do get new transports every so often, so...they might say something insensitive without meaning to. [A nervous smile will appear as she can't help realize that she might have accidentally done that to someone once, but she won't be revealing that tidbit any time soon.]

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video; [2/2] i am so sorry for the reaction tags. ffff.

video; no worries, he gets those a lot for some odd reason...

video; [1/4] i think we should never put these two together in a room alone ever again.... 8|

video; [2/4] or better yet, never put two tsuns alone in a room or this will happen.

video; [3/4] I AM SO SORRY FOR THIS TAG. SCREAMS

video; [4/4] and done!