MIKA

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... 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--

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-- 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...

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You can quiz me, if you want. I'm maybe at a handicap here, but my-- [ local files ]-- memory's pretty robust.

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That's okay. Being from different worlds makes that kind of testing pretty impossible.

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Mm. I guess so. It'd be funny if we had some surprise coincidental overlap that only came out in something like this, huh?

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So far it doesn't seem like I've had much overlap with anyone...

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Tell me a bit more about your world then. Outside of the schools?

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[ she just looks confused by the concept of 'outside of the schools' honestly ]

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It's just the schools? Nothing else?

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Well... There are shared districts between the schools...?

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Where people live...?

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Sure, there are residential neighborhoods in any district.