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[ laughs, I'm looking at the Persona info page and Kido's pretty much reversed Emperor every other day... ]

Yeah, it doesn't exactly fit. I can kind of see yours, but mine's just about the whole gang leader thing. Whoever assigned these were probably just looking at the surface.

yeah it kinda does... just surface-level stuff. people are always more complex than just labels anyway.

kido you were in a gang as a leader?! how many people did you have under your command?? is that why your punches hurt a lot??

[ uh ]

Yes. It was four of us until recently, but recruitment got complicated just before I turned up here. And no, you're just weak.

wow thats so cool!!! what did you do?? at least where im from there are all kinds of gangs... like theres even several charity ones and others that help people not get ambushed by creepers at night! like groups of vigilantes but we call them gangs anyway

:(

Well... It's complicated.

[ ..........that's all she says, yeah. Because it is complicated, and she doesn't really feel like typing all this out. Kano phrases it as "Our activity now is to avoid the police’s eyes and infiltrate dangerous facilities to borrow things." which makes it sound like they just go around stealing things but ???

Anyways, if Kido were a kaomoji person, she would send Terry (ｏ・_・)ノ”(ᴗ_ ᴗ。) but instead she just ignores the sad face ): ]

you can tell me another time when you can then! since if its complicated it must be a lot to type out

oh yeah i almost forgot. can you send a file over to me? it should be in an app that looks like folders...

Edited 2019-08-30 19:39 (UTC)

um. wait never mind i forgot you dont know english well. theres a translating app in the phone, its white and blue. i assume you set the phone to japanese already. itll show some botched translations but it should be workable for the most part... it can override all everything in the phone to japanese

anyway after you do that go to "files" and can you send me the "blackbox.txt" file?

[ Now Kido has access to literally everything in his phone--somewhat. Most of it is google translate-level, but with that white and blue app that doesn't require internet, literally everything in his phone can be in Japanese. But while in that mode, you can't edit/delete files. Future technology sure is amazing. She can even drag and drop the EMERGENCY app and it'll convert everything, even the audio.

Terry only told her about the translator app out of convenience though, since he thought it would be easier to fetch the file that way. He doesn't seem to think ahead for these kinds of things........ ]

[ One day she'll snoop around everything and I'll have to make you write it all out haha

But okay, cool. The translating app is easy enough to use, "files" is easy enough to find, and instead of sending the text file she opens it up to read, because she's a hypocrite who tells Terry to stop pinpointing people but she can be nosy if she wants. ]

[ There's a password on the file. RIP Kido. It's not his old lockscreen passcode either. ]

[ /: fine

She sends the file over, but also ]

What's the password?

thanks!

its mmddyyyy of when i was created

[ File get! It's a pretty easy password to him, but. Well. Kido can go snoop through hospital records to find out, but she probably won't find the accurate year on there due to how time shenanigans work. She could look through his wallet if she ever gets the chance, but it's a fake ID, so his birthday is also listed as an incorrect version too. She'll have to guess... ganba kido ]

[ That's too complicated and she doesn't care enough to put in any more effort than to ask again. ]

That's not helpful. When's your birthday?

some time last week 2009

why do you want to see anyway? it shouldnt be anything important to you

[ I think if Kido thought back a little, she probably could have guessed pretty easily, but it requires a lot of memory digging and so much happens in Hirajiro all the time so I wouldn't blame her for not wanting to LOL ]

[ You're overestimating her— and by which I mean my— memory for dates ]

Your birthday was last week? You should have said something. I would've gotten you something.

As for the file, I'm just curious about why that one in particular important to you. It would be easier if just took your phone back, and everything important would be on it- all your photos and old texts and everything. Those are all important things too, that you should have.

[ :')

Also, yeah, it would be easier, but Terry really doesn't want the phone back. And he doesn't need all that much from it anymore, and there's the sentimentality of old texts, photos, and videos, but now, more than ever, he doesn't want to see those either. It just makes him miss Jace even more and the peaceful life he had back then.

So instead of telling her all that ^, he just replies with: ]

08202009

and its fine. you didnt need to get me anything. im happy with what i have now :D

[ Once Kido unlocks the blackbox.txt file, it shows an incredibly in-depth physical profile of someone named "Terrence Nowell" and there's one thing that really stands out in the midst of all the complicated lingo on there: "Death point: left eye". ]

[ 2009 would mean that Terry was three when Kido died back home and that's just really weird to think about so she stows that information away. A year from now is also too long a time to think about, so she doesn't think she'll get the chance to celebrate a birthday with him, anyways.

Similarly, he's right in that none of this information is important or relevant to her in any way, info about who she can assume is his original because he wouldn't need a text document about himself. It's not like she's ever going to go up to his original and stab him in the eye, as much as she would like to for freaking Terry out so much the last time the guy was brought up and Terry was about to storm the forest looking for him.

... ]

Is everything okay?

[ Just staying with Kido, even when drunk, was enough of a present for him on that day. It's fine.

Everything is fine.

Everything is ▓▓▓▓. ]

yeah i just wanted to brush up on some things in case i do end up seeing him eventually

[ hm ]

Alright. Try not to obsess over it. He wasn't in the forest when we looked, and Souji and Minato are here now. You said they were strong. You don't have to fight him alone.

[ Everything will be fine. ]

Edited 2019-08-30 20:50 (UTC)

yeah... i hope so.
things should work out! theyre really strong after all

right. i keep forgetting to tell you but when i was going around and stuff, there was no ocean... and i found out some weird stuff about the lake. im not the lake expert though but some things are bugging me about it...

You miss the ocean, huh? You talk about it a lot, the ocean and the beach. Is the lake that much different?

[ ...

Huh. That was something he didn't expect to realize. Does he really like the ocean that much? Did he really talk about it that much?

Hm. ]

well yeah?? the lake in town might as well be toxic. but lakes are usually formed with rivers connected to the ocean, arent they? and if theyre connected with rivers, then the rivers should be toxic too, but you can drink from them and even do laundry in them...

There are water fountains in the park! Stop drinking from the rivers! Use the laundromat!

I DIDNT DRINK FROM THE RIVERS I SAW A PERSON FROM TOWN DO IT!!
BOTH OF THOSE THINGS!!!

You better not be. I better never see you do that either. Next time you see somebody do that, tell them to cut it out.

kido.........

but fine. i will. :(

but isnt it weird? because theres no ocean for all the water to come from... i dont think springs are a thing here either

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