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Someone better- better explain this to me! Before I-

[Someone's screaming into the receiver, mouth and face too close to identify them. However, the voice sounds young and feminine, and it's screeching.] I- I don't want to be here! I want to go HOME! WHERE AM I?!

[The video feed suddenly drops on the ground. For the next few minutes, you can hear sobbing in the background. And then the door opening. At one point she starts screaming and suddenly there's the cheery tune of a Christmas song starting, before the door slams roughly. After a while more and a bit of 'Mawile, mawile?', she finally comes back into view.]

...Ugh. If anyone makes fun of me, I'll rip your head off.

[There's a girl on the camera, wrapped up in so much towels, spare trainer sets and so on that she looks more like a ball of tossed clothes than anything else. Her Mawile tries to snuggle in with her, but she visibly pushes it away and pins its head against the floor. The Pokémon's back mouth snaps in shock, but she doesn't pay much mind.

Her eyes have rings of red around them- hell, her entire face is extraordinarily red. It seems that apart from the cold, she's also been crying.] I'm the Saionji Hiyoko. SHSL Classical Japanese Dancer. From the super-famous Saionji clan.

People keep telling me to leave this town and go beat some Gym Leaders or something, but who cares?! It's cold, this is stupid, and all I have for defense against all these monster-things is... another monster-thing. [Ayani the Mawile perks her head up.] It's not stinky or mean, but it's stupid and rock-hard like metal and just makes me colder! Plus, there's a weird red-nosed deer outside the door that wants me to 'ride it into Cherrygrove in the name of Christmas' or something. Isn't that all a Western tradition? Christmas is just a some event that gives you discounts in stores where I come from. Figures, scummy foreigners just love shoving their shit in everyone's face, even someplace like here... what even IS this place?

...Is there a chance... [She suddenly seems reluctant to say the next few words, but her face turns sour again- almost in realization- and in an instant just spurts it out.] Is this place yomi? It's cold and dead, that's all I can tell! All it's missing is the huge dirty river that separates us from the living realm. I want to give that stinky rotten Izanami a piece of my mind for allowing me to suffer like this! Where is she?! And- [Saionji grabs her Mawile, and both mouths start yapping-] What kind of Yomotsu is Ayani?! [If you're not familiar with Shinto lore, the girl on the video feed is currently spouting nonsense. And even if you are familiar with Shinto lore, her yelling and complaining is so jarring that you'd mistake it for nonsense anyway.]

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Slow down! Try to relax, all right? You're not gonna die. It's not possible to die here, for one thing, and for another, it looks like you've bundled up enough that a full-force tackle from the biggest American football player on the planet couldn't kill you, let alone a little crappy weather.

[Yusuke gives the metric fuckton of layers she's wearing a meaningful look. Despite not having the most delicate of personalities, he's trying his best to be as gentle with her as possible, since he had the dubious pleasure of being one of the people to listen in on her completely flipping her shit earlier. That said, he... still can't help but tease her just a little, since she does look kind of silly all covered in stuff like that. OOPS. At least he's not doing it maliciously!]

If you're worried about food, your best bet is to hop on one of those reindeer things and head out towards Cherrygrove. I know riding a reindeer probably sounds like a really stupid idea, but it's better than having to walk all the way there. I had to do that back when it was still spring, and it sucked. I don't even wanna think about what it'd be like right now.

[She'd normally start screaming and flailing, but after listening to everyone for a bit, his advice is starting to seem sound.] Cherrygrove, huh... [The Christmas carol outside her door gets louder. She wipes the nervous sweat off her face.]

...So either I almost-starve-but-not-really here or brave the weather. Uuugh, what idiot decided to put me here now? At least in spring, there could be flowers to kick and trees to climb, or something!

What's your name?

Heh, I hear ya. I kicked a lot of flowers while I was on Route 29. Kicked a couple of those giant purple rats while I was at it, too.

[He also got mauled by an incredibly large, incredibly angry beetle! His first couple of days here in Johto were interesting.]

Yusuke Urameshi. And you're... Saionji, right? Sorry, I didn't catch your first name.

[BECAUSE HE WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION... cough, cough.]

[Yeeeah! Flower kicking- and... giant purple rats? Uh...] My first name's Hiyoko! Better remember that!

And... eh? Giant purple rats? Big Bro Yusuke, do they crush with a squelch sound, orrr are they super-giant? Like, my-size giant? [MAYBE SHE SHOULD'VE ASKED FOR WHAT WAS ON THE ROUTE BEFORE FLYING OFF- she makes the Stantler fly higher, just in case, and shivers as it gets more chilly.]

Uh -

["Big Bro"? Well, okay then. Yusuke briefly contemplates switching to audio when she does, just so it doesn't start feeling weird, but then ends up leaving the video on when he decides he doesn't give a frick if it feels weird or not. Besides, maybe actually seeing another person's face'll help keep her calm.]

I dunno, I'd say they're... maybe house cat-sized? Somewhere around there. They're not really that tough or anything, though. Hell, the ones out here in the city'll usually stay away from you.

[... or at least, they certainly stay away from him, anyway. That might have a lot to do with the fact that he usually stomps at them threateningly when they get too close, though - that, and the fact that he's usually got his big, scary-looking level 100 Mightyena out with him. Fuck giant rodents, man. They can go squeak squeak all the way to hell.]

[Okay house cat size she can deal with, definitely. She takes a niiiiiice, long time to reply to you, a few hours, in fact. Now she's sitting somewhere like a lodge with her Mawile getting drunk on hot chocolate next to her.] Ohhhh! That's good! Can you kick them around and toss them on the wall and- and squish them? Do they make funny noises when they get scared?

[Is this kid serious-] I know Ayani makes funny noises! [You may not want to ask her on how she knows that, but whatever.] Orrr... can you only scare them once your own Pokémon gets strong?

[--whoa, okay, what? Yusuke doesn't mind having to wait a couple hours for a response, but he does kind of mind the sudden turn for the creepy that the conversation suddenly takes when it resumes, and it shows in the vaguely weirded out look he gives her. Look, he wasn't lying when he told her he kicked a couple Pokemon in his time here, but that was only because they were trying to bite him on the ass at the time of the, uh, kickening, not because he gets some kind of weird thrill out of it! The way Saionji seems so, er, invested in his answer to her questions, he's pretty sure she's not asking for reasons related to self-defense.

... that said, he's still feeling reasonably charitable towards her, so he's gonna give her the benefit of the doubt and not jump to any conclusions here. After all, there could be a chance that he's just getting the wrong impression and that she isn't actually a sociopath. Why not?]

You can scare 'em with or without Pokemon. My question is, why the hell d'you want to?

[(UNSURE).......]

[She's gonna teach him that giving her the benefit of the doubt isn't exactly going to be in his favor.]

Why not? Because it's so fun to see them recoil in fear and trample over them! They make the best noises, too!

I mean, it's fun to see them be cute, too. But it's better to see them whimper!

[She's just gonna leave it at that. Have fun.]

[Oh.

Oh. Well then.

Congratulations, Saionji. You have indeed taught Yusuke a lesson. That lesson is: never doubt his instincts ever again. Now have a glare.]

All right, you little freak, that's enough. If you want tips on how to torture your pets, go find somebody else.

[Yusuke's tone of voice is even, but hard - nothing like how it was just a minute ago. It'd be an exaggeration to say that his demeanor has done a complete 180, but the change is definitely... definitely noticeable. Yeah, that's right. NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY. >:(]

[Saionji's used to these kind of turns, and used to 'finding someone else', so it's not at all hard for her to put up a bit of snark and whip up a reply.]

It's not in your place to call me a freak, you gross ugly creep! Oh well, it's your loss!

What, you're sooooo frightened someone who looks like me could be so 'like that'? Better watch out, because everyone I know isn't as straightforward as me, but even more terrible!

[She laughs in his face and turns the camera off. Whoop de doo.]

Whoa, wait a second, who the fuck said anything about being scared, you--

[Beep! Aaaand then he was hung up on. Yusuke briefly contemplates calling her back up just to chew her out, but then, in a surprising show of self-restraint, decides he'd rather not rise to the bait and instead just... sits back and grinds his teeth for the next few minutes. WELP. That sure turned out to be interesting! So much for helping a poor, distraught girl out...]

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