MIKA

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Week 0 - Monday

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[ the emoji you sent me was a cat on a bench, so they are at the fountain area where there are benches. except mika is up, admiring the fountain! ]

Awww, this reminds me of home.

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[ just two cute girls enjoying fountains and NATURE. ]

Same, kinda. We have a huge fountain in Yoyagi Park, back home. You've got something like this too, then?

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Mmhmm. There's a fountain in the center of Trinity's campus. Some other schools have one too. But I'm sure ours is the prettiest.

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Trinity... is that a school?

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Yes, that's right.

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That makes sense, you're school age after all.

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Must be a fancy school to have a fountain more impressive than this on campus.

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Trinity is one of the better school in Kivotos. We hold ourselves to a much higher standard than certain other schools.

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Ohh, inter-school rivalries?

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... Most schools can put aside their differences, really.

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Most schools.

[ but not hers? ]

[eleisoned]

... There's one particular school that I find detestable. But I don't mind the others. I don't even share Nagi's fear of being overtaken as a leading school.

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I didn’t realise rivalries between schools were that big of a thing…? Do you lose out on funding or opportunities or something if you’re not the top school in the city?

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No, nothing like that. But isn't in normal for people from different cultures to struggle to see eye to eye?

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… Do…


… Do schools count as different cultures? If they’re in the same city, then you’re probably all from the same place…?

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... Each school has a very different culture.

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[ she’s just… ? ]

How… exactly? Like one’s an art school and the other focuses on STEM subjects?

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Something like that. At Trinity we value traditions and elegance. At Millennium they focus on science and invention. Hyakkiyako and Shanhaijing both value commerce and tourism. Valkyrie, of course, prioritizes law enforcement. And so on.

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... That probably would foster very different attitudes, huh? So one's a STEM school, one's business and humanities, one's law and yours is--

[ rich girl paradise ]

-- kinda like one of those fancy finishing schools for nobles?

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[ she laughs. ]

Something like that.

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Something like that.

I don't know many other types of schools that specialise in etiquette and tradition.

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Well, what sort of school did you go to?

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I didn't.

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Oh...

[ okay well on the up side she has talked to enough people now to understand that this doesn't mean tama is by default some kind of sad hobo ]

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[ she just sniggers. ]

Don't worry, I learned everything pretty quickly. Even without the traditional schooling.

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I-I guess if that's enough...