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Congratulations! You survived the first week of Personal Enrichment Class! Or at least, your body did if you feel like astral projecting. It's time to mingle with your fellow students after the Saturday lesson. Maybe get revenge. Or maybe you're going to your room right away. Either way, it's free time! Let loose. Go wild.

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I don't. [ He was just being difficult given the mood of the hour and the kind of guy he is. ]

Why wouldn't it? It's not a streetcar.

Hmmm… lots of places back at home were starting to become no-smoking. There’s a huge environmentalist wave happening.

[ he nods, and continues in that same beat. ]

So how come you’re looking like the delinquient love interest in a romance game?

People should mind their own business. [ This is 1920's Japan, you can smoke almost anywhere! ]

...what? [ He knows what romance is and he knows what games (of the non-digital variety are), but smushing them together sounds foreign. ] Is this another one of your Western things?

People want the best for other people, even if it means doing things that those same people don't like.

[ it's...not exactly agreeing with him, but also not disagreeing.

at the question, though, he smiles and shakes his head. ]

No way, it's a universal thing! Even in romance novels, isn't there always some dark brooding guy that the girl falls for?

Smut isn't really my thing.

[ Kawase we were talking about romance not smut. ]

Isn't that the thing that fanfiction authors write about? Aren't you from 1922?

[ are there any more time travelers that he should know about?

Fanfriction? [ Did he mishear that or get the word wrong on purpose, you decide. ]

I don't know what you're taking about, but you're not saying that people didn't want to fuck in 1922, are you?

I mean clearly enough people wanted to, if the population grew to 6 billion by my time.

[ he shrugs. ]

But nooo. Fanfiction. AKA, fiction made by fans. Like imagine if people wrote their own works based on No Longer Human or Le Comte de Monte Cristo.

So something like talentless copycats. I'm not surprised plagiarism has evolved that far if so many people are actually around.

[ a casual shrug back. ]

Would it really be plagiarism? I mean, it's not like I'm rewriting The Great Gatsby with its names changed but writing about what if Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway were dating or if Jay Gatsby was never shot.