degozaruyo | 001 [action; voice]

[Action (locked to Okita Souji)]

[It's very cold, which is the first tip-off that something has gone quite wrong. Early October in the Eleventh Year of Meiji had seemed like a second summer, but now Kenshin is lying in snow.

On his wedding day.

He jumps to his feet and reaches for a sword that isn't there. Whoever brought him to this snowy wood has relieved him of his sakabatou and his normal clothing, leaving him wearing nothing but a thin pair of Western-style silk trousers.

He hears a rustle and the snap of a twig underfoot; someone is coming. Kenshin takes a defensive stance.]

Hello?

[Voice - the next day (January 17; open to everybody)]

[There is rustling as Kenshin attempts to figure out the way the book works.]

Ah is this how to...? This is so strange, speaking into a book...right, there we go. Yes. Hello! This one is called Himura Kenshin. He arrived in this place--Luceti?--yesterday.

[More rustling. Yep, that's totally Kenshin bowing to a book.]

Pardon the intrusion, but this one must ask: is there a Kamiya Kaoru-dono or a Myoujin Yakiho here as well? If so, this one would dearly like to speak with them.

Thank you for your help!

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I've heard they weren't very well liked at all. [He steps back as Kenshin takes the tea, putting his hands behind his back. With his hands out of sight, he motions to Saizou to stay in the kitchen. The pig pokes its head out, sees the hand motion and slinks back.]

More that they were ruffians and no better than the criminals they went after. Like a loose pack of wolves.

[nope, you do not get away from this, Kenshin.]

[Okita hides his hands, but Kenshin takes a different track; he makes sure that his hands are in view at all times. He never stops smiling politely.]

Oro? Well, it's been more than ten years. Memories do tend to soften with age. Stories of the Shinsengumi are quite popular in Tokyo, where this one is from.

[Ten years. Memories. Tokyo.

Souji counts back from what he knows of Japanese history after he dies and up to when he's learned they change the name from Edo to Tokyo and...

Okay, yup, now he is definitely on alert, Kenshin.]

That would explain why you speak in such an old-fashioned way. It's very unusual. For someone from the future.

The future?

Yes, you're from a time when Edo is called Tokyo, aren't you? But not so far if you say ten years is a long time for memories.

You knew them, didn't you - the Shinsengumi.

001 [action; voice]

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