001 - Minato Arisato - Entry

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

Good morning, everyone.

My name is Minato Arisato. I have met some of you already around the campus and I will probably meet the rest during classes. I hope we get along, at least until we get sent back to our original worlds.

Something I have noticed while talking to people, BTW - there is a good chance this Time Compression thing will bring people from your world, but at different point in time. After all, the SeeD Commander was thrown here from this same world of 20 years ago.

BTW, since it looks like most everyone here is in one scholarship or another, if there are any other Ambers reading this, please drop me a line.

PS - the rest of this entry is in Japanese, for the people who are not very good at English, and because I am translating it from there to English. Please let me know how I can improve my writing.

[Sure enough, the rest of the text is the same as the above, only in Japanese and using romaji. It's also written more fluidly.]

Comments

[knell]

That sounds pretty nasty... I definitely haven't heard of anything like it back home. Have they found a way to treat it at all?

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

...not really. It seemed for a while that the illness was affected by the moon's stages, but other than that they don't really know how it happens or how it's treated.

[This is one of those moments where Tsukumo might have figured Minato knows more than he's letting on... if they weren't communicating on a BBS. LOL indeed.]

[knell]

*CURSES, FOILED AGAIN. Maybe he'll get the opportunity to eavesdrop it off you at some later date. For now, though, he's just sitting there on the other end of the network feeling rather horrified and concerned.*

That's pretty unusual. I've never heard of an illness that changes with the stages of the moon before. Or is it normal where you come from?

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

Not really. It's the only illness that seems to be affected by the stages of the moon, that I know of.

[knell]

Very strange.

Well, not that I'm excited about anybody being here, but at least we can hope there's no Apathy Syndrome to worry about in this place.

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

I somehow doubt we'll need to worry about it here. Though I know that's probably wishful thinking.

[Hey, Tsukumo. That? Right there? Should be a big "ask him about this in person later" sign.]

[knell]

Really? Well, hopefully.

*oh, don't worry, he definitely will.*

Anyway, it's been very nice talking to you. I'm not sure if we'll have classes together, but I hope we can meet offline sometime.

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

Likewise. And we probably will. I hope you the English lessons help you with the language barrier.

[knell]

Thanks! I'll have to study hard, LOL. Are you in either of the English classes? We might see each other there.

[zeroth-card.livejournal.com]

I'm taking ENG099 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. So we might, LOL.