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[nico_puri]

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Nico Nico Ni~! Hello, everyone! It's me, Nico Yazawa, your #1 top idol! It seems someone is playing a prank on your poor, trusting Nico Nico~. I don't know where I am and it's so cold~~. Can anyone help me out? 

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"What kind of isekai crap IS THIS? Is this a dream? A reality TV show?!"

[Immediately after her broadcast, before she has had a chance to check the responses, Nico is strolling the streets of Genessia. She is  shivering, but her frustration helps her block out the mental cold. Making the broadcast in her Nico Persona will hopefully confirm if this really is another world. If it's a bad joke, then she's sure some fan will reach out to her. If no one recognizes her, though...]

"This can't be happening... I have siblings to look after. A-And practice to--"

[Her voice dies down. Because no. She doesn't have idol activities anymore. She has graduated High School and can't be a school idol anymore. Nico's shoulders sink and she groans. Opening her clenched fist, she stares down at the key in her palm.]

"Well. Better find out where this key goes. What could go wrong, right? Better than freezing to death like an idiot."

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[robodorable]

Around Nico's last sentence, she sees a face to one side, who was sitting on a bench going over something, perk up a little.

"... Oh, uh. You're new in town, yes?", the dark-skinned, purple-white-haired figure with pointy ears asked. "Welcome to... Well, a place. A weird place."

[nico_puri]

Ah. This isn't good. Someone saw her acting... like herself. Hopefully that won't be a haunting problem.

"Uh, yes." Nico replies carefully. "Weird, huh? Lovely. Does it get weirder than being kidnapped into a cacoon?"

[robodorable]

"One person has apparently gone crazy and turned into some sort of ice queen. Worlds with different forms of magic and different technology levels are all over. Sometimes, it's literal children getting kidnapped to here. And... well, people helping people is most of what there is."

[nico_puri]

This is the face of a very calm Nico Yazawa. Ice Queen? Gone crazy? And all of this about magic? She is having a hard time maintaining her calm.

"Faaantastic. Well... I'm Nico Yazawa. I'm looking for the place this key is used at?" She holds up her room key, then adding, "And if there are literal children... Maybe I can go wherever the kids get sent? I hope my brother and sisters aren't here..."

[erinoah]

[ Along the way of wherever she was going, she'd catch the eye of a girl with silver hair and purple eyes, eyes that looked somewhat dead. She seemed to have formed her clothes out of some blue, slimy material. Pay no attention to the bunny ears on her head, as there are no human ones to see. ]

Hihihi, let me say this. You are most definitely not on your world anymore. But just paying attention to that hologram should have clued you in.

[ Helpful, in her own vaguely condescending way. ]

[nico_puri]

[What. The. HECK is up with this... this blue person?? Nico stares, dumbfounded, for a long second. Her mind is reeling. She wants this to be a dream, but not even she would dream this up.]

Yeah, kinda catching on to that. You think you can tell me something the hologram didn't? Like, I dunno, what to actually do from here? [Nico holds up her room key.] What kind of place am I looking for?

[erinoah]

Those particular apartments are a little further down from here. They're well furnished but tiny, designed to make you uncomfortable and seek out employment and better lodging. You only get a month there, anyway.

[ Noah had already spent her month, and was now looking for employment.

It has been a while since she'd seen a human from the 'outside world' so to speak. She recognizes the look of people who don't recognize magic. Just to further confound her, the slimy blue girl shifts to a slightly more natural form, though her dress is still blue and slimy. ]

Would you like a coat? You don't look equipped for dealing with the cold.

[nico_puri]

[If she takes a coat from you, will it be slimy? Nico is suspicious and about to put up resistance until she sneezes.]

Uh... ugh. Yeah, I should find a coat. Can't perform if I'm sick.

[Nico resigns herself to the fact that yes, okay, she needs some help here. But one thing about that explanation is bothering Nico especially,]

That sounds like absolutely normal real life, though. Get a job so you can have an apartment... What kind of isekai is this? It's not gonna sell.

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[harasho]

[ This... was quite frankly not what she was expecting when she woke up like this. This world--Genessia, was it? Eli didn't expect to arrive here all of a sudden, but it wouldn't do her any good to get frazzled about this whole thing. She knew she had to stay calm--what if someone she knew was here?

...And well, that question's answered as soon as it was asked. Those pigtails and ribbons were very noticeable to her and she was overjoyed to see Nico here. A smile crossed her lips as she started to run over to catch up to her fellow member of μ's. ]

Nico!

[nico_puri]

Eli?!

[Nico tries to match that smile, but her attempt is quickly overpowered. She's still panicking, especially after all that has happened since she put up that broadcast.]

Oh geez, I'm so glad you're here! Wherever here is. What's going on? This girl just used m-magic on me?!

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[gamerrep]

[Chiaki had decided today to walk to her place of work, music playing in her ears. The music she was sure someone she had met here would like. It was good music and she enjoyed it, but it did cause the young girl to not focus like when she would play a game.

So she hadn't been paying that much attention when she bumped into the other, causing her headphone to pop out of her ears and dangling to the ground.]

Ah, I'm sorry. [She paused her music before moving her headphones so that they were dangling around her neck instead before she glanced at the other.]

I don't think I've seen you around before? Are you new?

[nico_puri]

[Looking up, Nico saw hope... HEADPHONES! Music? u'sic?!

Someone, please just recognize her already!]



"Yes, I just got here. Is that... normal?" [Just in case this stranger is a fan, Nico does try to cute and calm. But COME ON, RECOGNIZE HER. PLEASE. VALIDATE HER.]

[gamerrep]

It is, people arrive here every so often, sometimes daily depending.

[Nope no recognising here, sorry.]

Also the variety of people is also vastly different.

[nico_puri]

[Well, fine then. Nico keeps her smile, but her internal scowl is growing.]

Vastly different? How so? You mean different hobbies and jobs and stuff?

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[youfool]

"Hello, Ms. Yazawa, and welcome to Genessia! Goodness, that's a novel name. Will you tell me what it means?

I'd be happy to help! Though, knowing the world, you may have been seen to already. Well, if I don't overflow the measure, simply tell me where you are, and my "when" will be very soon indeed."

[nico_puri]

[Oh dear. Nico feels that a nail just got jammed into her already tough coffin. But she's going to keep trying. If anything, the Nico Ni Persona lets her pretend not to be in a total panic.]

My name means 'smile!' It's perfect for an energetic idol like me~.

And I don't quite know where I am either~. This is all very strange. You seem pretty calm about it though, nico~. [That 'nico' might have sounded like a muted scream. What is going ooonnn???]

[youfool]

Haha, a name you must be fond of to say it so much. What of the "Yazawa"? That one, I confess, is proving elusive.

[He can't quite see the appeal of tics or...slogans?...like that.]

Oh, well, most people start off in the Bay. With the water and the, you know. Cocoons. So if you haven't run off anywhere, it provides a easy place to meet and greet.

Thank you; it'd be strange if I was in a tizzy now, eh? After a year or two one grows accustomed.

[About that nail...]

[nico_puri]

[HOLD THE PHONE.

the mun is looking up kanji

and Nico just heard A YEAR OR TWO??]

... N-No way. That's not possible. Like... a calendar year? Not a 4 month Harvest Moon year?

[personal_care]

[The weather had been getting worse and worse, especially with the recent events nearby in the next town over.

As such, Baymax was toddling around, passing out blankets when he noticed Nico there. Toddling up, he offed a blanket.]

Hello, I am Baymax, are you in need of assistance? It is very cold out today. Have a blanket.

[nico_puri]

[And there it is... Something "normal!" A mascot character! Surely part of the advertising campaign for some restaurant or toy brand.

Oh thank goodness, she's saved.]

Uh, thank you... Geez, I can't because I took off into the snow like that. [She's gonna take that blanket. No takebacks if it's pink or remotely warm.] Hey, where did you come from?

[personal_care]

[Super pink and super warm actually. Baymax has a plethora of blankets.]

I came from Sanfransokyo. I am a medical robot, programmed to aid those in need.

[Which meant taking blankets from a nearby depot and passing them out. Baymax, we need to teach you a little thing about property.]

[nico_puri]

Sanfran...so...kyo? [She has never heard of that store or brand, but hey. She'll accept it.]

What's your name? Maybe I remember the mascot name better than the store... You have a jingle?

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[deletesmagic]

Our #1 top idol? I don't know what that means.

[nico_puri]

That I'll fill your heart with joy and put a smile on your face, just with one song! I'm a performer, the Lovely Nico~!

[deletesmagic]

How can you singing do that? Are you a Song Mage? [Because he knows someone that is.]