十八 ❀

[naicha]

phone!

Um, ehehe! Wei, it's Taiwan... If anyone heard anything about me _{um, kissing other people and stuff} a week ago, let's just forget about it, okay? I'll forget about whatever you said, too! You probably forgot about it, though, but just in case you remember... Ah, but if it's a good thing, then you can be sure that I'm definitely remembering it! _{[ You can't see it, but she nods. ]} Mm. Yeah!

_{[ oh gaaaasp ]} I forgot! Um, I was wondering... how can you tell if someone's a vampire? I have to know. It's important!

_{[ wait she's not finished ]} Ohhh, wait! I was thinking about this the other day, you know! Mayfield... doesn't have a Chinese restaurant. _{[ says it like it's the most depressing thing ever ]} So I thought, hey! Maybe I should open one up! But I don't have a place where I can set it up. I could use the basement, but Japan keeps all his weird stuff there. _{[ haha weird ]} Ah, but I'd have to worry about where to get the ingredients, too. _Aiya...

action!

<sub>[ She got her clothes back in the mail today! You don't know how happy this makes her.

A Taiwan usually goes out looking like this. But why is she making the extra effort to look good? Why is she in such a good mood? Why is she on her way to Bunker Street? And why does she look so serious when she finally gets there?

She's on a mission... shhhshshhshh only background music now. ]

[ B But sometimes, she also goes out wearing shirts like this. Not necessarily with long sleeves, mind you. I mean, in this weather? That's stupid.

... Why is she kicking the gumball machine outside the grocery... ]</sub>

Eating coins is bad!

<sub>[ Oh. ]

[ C In the afternoon, Taiwan passes by the building of the Zemekis Corps. Offices. She stands there for a while, hands on her hips. Then, she points at the building and shouts, ]</sub>

I'm on to you!

Comments

idk can you sleeptag...

[naicha]

Haha, I told you, I'm a country! Guns and swords and stuff can't kill us. But it really hurts, you know. _{[ Chews a gumball and makes a bubble. ]}

probably not...

[ryougi]

[She's willing to bet she could kill them COUGH HACK.] What does kill you then?

:( hmm...

[naicha]

_{[ It'd take an extremely long time. (unsure) She pops the bubble. ]} Nations die when no one believes in them anymore... When their people don't exist anymore, you know? I heard that's how it was for Rome. They say teacher knew him back then, too! But until now, teacher's still alive.

(code_okok)

[ryougi]

Can't say I know much about history, but I guess that makes sense. Pretty weird way to die though.

[naicha]

Yeah. Japan says we're supposed to disappear. We don't have to be hurt physically to die... Though I guess those two things usually happen at the same time, hehe.

[ryougi]

Nothing left of you ecept some history books then, right?

[naicha]

Yep. I'm not gonna end up like that, though! Not anytime soon.

[ryougi]

Kinda hard to worry about it in the first place when you're stuck here.

[naicha]

Mm, but you know, in here, even though we have our bodies back, we die the same way as any other human...

[ryougi]

Seriously? What's the point in even getting it back then.

[naicha]

How do I say this? I don't want to live without a soul. Ehehe, but they're not exactly that. It's something that's inseparable from us.

[ryougi]

That makes sense. Feels weird when you don't have something that's part of you.

[naicha]

It's what we are. That's why there's something so wrong with having power that can take that away from us and let us live like this.

Nations aren't just land and people, you know. They're ideas!

[ryougi]

... huh. Ideas?

[naicha]

Institutions. And once they're well-established, it'll be hard to take them apart. It'll be hard to kill them.

[ryougi]

Hmm. [thinking... thinking... okay yeah no] Don't think I really get it, but whatever. This stuff's probably way above my head anyways.