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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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[What the- but, before she came here, Nanami was- still there?!]

You... no, I haven't! I don't waste money on those- those mind-rotting eye-hurting games- [Saionji's never been so rude about games before.] You're the person who dragged me here, weren't you?! Using some... weird devil magic! I don't play Pokémon, get me out! I always knew you were the most dangerous!

[She's quick to place the blame, even if it's the only person she recognizes.]

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Ah, that's not it at all, though...I was also taken here, but that was two weeks ago...

[ She doesn't seem overly bothered by the insults, here. ]

Saionji-san, I'm in Goldenrod right now. That's...several cities away, and there's a storm right now, but after that I can try to meet you somewhere? This place isn't bad like that one at all...So, it'll be okay.

H-how do I know to trust you? That can't be true! You were there two weeks ago! You were there investiga-

[Nonononono SHE'S LYING DON'T LISTEN] ...Sniff... any place is better then here, even back... there! [She doesn't want to listen to Nanami but- what choice does she have?]

[ Oh, riiiiiiight. That. ]

...People come here from different times, it seems. I...might have come here after that point two weeks ago...

[ She's not sure how far Saionji remembers, really, although she remembers her, which is a start. ]

But, Saionji-san...in this place, no one is asking us to play that thing that can't be called a game. And also...people who passed away can also come here. So we may see some of our friends we thought we couldn't.

That's too far-fetched to make sense! I mean-

[-people who passed away can also come here-]

...What... this place is so weird. [Saionji just deadpans like that, her fingers touching her neck.] Does this place bring people back to life?

[ ...Ah-hah. That gives Nanami enough to go off of for a guess as to when, but she won't bring it up. ]

...More so, I'd say it brings people from after that point in their existence, sometimes. I can't say I understand it myself, but...it's not a bad thing, is it?

[ To see people again, she means. ]

I suppose it is a little far-fetched...oh, right. I should probably tell the others you're here.

Point in their existence...? This is some parallel-split universe, then? [It seems Saionji is grasping for something to call this place. There's no way she's leaving it at 'some place we don't really understand how this works ahahaha'.] I... I guess so.

[A pause.]

...Big Sis Nanami. [Her face falls flat, almost emotionless and straightforward, something very odd for Saionji.] Is Big Sis Koizumi here?

[ She'd like to be able to say yes, but... ]

From our class, it's just you and me...but there are students from another Hope's Peak class here. You might have heard from some of them already...those are the people I'm staying with right now.

[ Also they probably know more about Nanami than Saionji does at this point but how does one approach any of that, so she will...not. ]

But, Kirigiri-senpai said that it might be that we'll soon have a lot of our classmates here. People tend to come in groups, she and many other people have said that...

So Koizumi-san might come here to join us, too.

...Oh.

[Her face falls visibly, before Nanami says that last paragraph- and she perks up much more.] Well, at least the weird stupid force bringing people here won't dump her in this place in the middle of a blizzard. [It's... very odd to hear Saionji genuinely happy that someone won't suffer.]

Wait- can you ask this Kirigiri person why there's a red-nosed deer singing Christmas carols outside my door and offering rides to people? [Yeah. That would be nice to know.]

About that...I don't think anyone knows. If you catch one...something good will happen, though.

[ ...She won't spoil the item surprise. ]

Probably...and if someone comes to pick you up...then I'll see you really soon, right? I'm afraid...I don't have the badges required to do that myself. Sorry, Saionji-san.

Ehhh? Something good will happen? Sounds cool, I guess.

You don't have the... badges? But I thought you've already been here for, like, ages! [Apparently, 2 weeks is 'ages'.] And you're SHSL Gamer, and this is... kinda based off a game, right?

But I guess you'd probably be too busy sleeping and drooling to get anything done. [Slipping back into her rudeness. There's the Saionji we know. She picks the Pokéball with the Stantler in it, and-]

Eh...? Is this... [She gasps and drops the Pokéball as it opens.

It's a stack of photographs.]

Mhmm, it's based off a game. I've been leveling my team...but more importantly, there's supposed to be a Christmas party here in Goldenrod with everyone, and an early January birthday. So, before taking on Violet, I absolutely wanted to go here.

[ Because well you know how their party attempts went, and she'd like to try a normal one?

Leaning forward, Nanami's eyebrows raise. Those photos... ]

...I might be wrong, but those are...?

[ ...Right? ]

[She kind of- doubles back. Party at Christmas... party on the photograph. These are the ones they used to convict Hanamura- and sorting through, there's more. From the second trial- she tosses them away, and under them-]

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-why do I only know now?!

[She kind of drops all the photos, and her Mawile seems concerned at the water suddenly streaming down her face yet another time of multiple this day, and her mouth is agape like she wants to scream but only gasps and stares at the scattered photos in disbelief.

Good gift her ass. She'd appreciate them a few days later. But not now.]

Oowada-senpai said something...?

[ Well, it's not like she can't understand how the photos have bad memories...but they also have good ones, too, right?

Nanami's own present was one of the keychain charms of Usami, which they'd all thrown away. ]

...Saionji-san, I'm sorry, but from here...I can't do something like hug you or that sort of thing...and to start with, I'm not sure I'm good at that.

[She stares at the screen, and growls]

Just- shut up and go away!

[Well then. There's one photo in her hand, one of them in Hope's Peak uniforms- Saionji, Koizumi, Ibuki and Tsumiki, but it's not the one from the murder trial. It's a happy one, posed what is the school yard, but she doesn't know.

By extended logic, Nanami should've been a classmate too, but Saionji bears no good feeling towards her.]

...If that's what you want. Oowada-senpai and Ishimaru-senpai...they'll bring you back here, right?

[ ......... ]

...In that case, I'll see you when you get here.

❀ 1st Konpeito ❀ [Video]

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hinted spoilers for chap 3

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spoiler-free post? ahahahaha no implied spoilers for chap 2

spoilers yes

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video reply; she's in Cherrygrove now

video reply; :D nanami probably didn't notice a time lapse if there was one. GAMES...

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