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[effinskull]

[so this has gotta be some sorta palace, right?! there's no goddamn way that he just suddenly ended up in some totally random island or wherever this was! ryuji had listened to the girl on the hologram, he read the pamphlets, he even walked through the town! but all he was getting from all of this is that this was definitely a palace he had wandered into.

but why wasn't he changing clothes? maybe whoever owned this palace didn't think of him as a threat yet? huh.... either way! he now figured it would be best to talk to whoever is here on the weirdo device he was given.]

Uuhh... hellooooo? Testing testing, one two three or whatever the hell. So I really just talk into this and- ah, okay. Alright.

[he cleared his throat!] Ehem! Name's uh... [should he even give his name? this is a palace after all. but at the same time he wasn't in his skull outfit so... maybe it was alright for the time being.]

Name's Ryuji Sakamoto. Just arrived here. Um. I'm in highschool, I love ramen, and going to the arcade... [why is he treating this like a dating app?!]

So yeah! Do we really just.... get jobs and live here? [what a weird palace.]

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[effinskull]

Tell me about them! I wanna hit 'em up after I've done a bit more looking around this place.

[which he won't do for very long really. his attention span...]

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[gamerrep]

Well, you have the arcade in Nova City which is the one I work at. It's a nice place though you would have to excuse the whole matchmaking thing that is apart of it.

You then have Axiom Games. Those are the two I am aware of except maybe smaller places around.

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[effinskull]

Ah, yeah, pretty sure I had some blonde chick tellin' me about that too. Sounds pretty wild if you ask me, matchmaking that is.

[it's just so forward and weird to him.]

I'll try 'em both!

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[gamerrep]

I choose to not pay attention to that area. My area is the arcade after all.

[Plus the whole matchmaking thing and love was still something she knew little about and had regrets over, so it's a not nice reminder.]

But it's nice to know they are trying to bring people together though.

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[effinskull]

You don't like the idea of matchmaking?

[is what he was able to gather from her response.]

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[gamerrep]

It's not that. It's more... Love is a bittersweet thing for me at this moment. I'm slowly doing better at least and will probably accept it sooner or later, but until then my focus just goes on the arcade.