It's a touch easier in their case, actually. We're more or less the same, but instead of having a permanent contract like me, they responded to the call of a human Master. I met them when Oryou and I ended up in the same place.
[ ryouma is doing his best to explain without adding layers of complexity and he thinks he's done alright. one thing at a time! it's as much for his own sake as it is for chizuru — higher magical concepts will always be a little over his head no matter how long he keeps at it. ]
The Chaldea organisation has similar goals, so they're putting those skills to good use there. It's nice having Hijikata-san and Okita-san as allies this time around!
[ Thankfully she can kind of understand this. Even if she may not have a great picture of the situation, she can kind of put the little things she can grasp together to have a faint idea of what's going on in Ryouma's world.
Even though it's wild. ]
i am so glad all of you can work together this time
[ Because Chizuru already knew the men of the Shinsengumi were actually kind people deep down - and since Ryouma very much seems to be the same way now she's meeting them here, it's obviously so much better for them to fight together than to fight each other. ]
if you were kind to them back there i would like to thank you i can imagine it perhaps not being easy given everything that happened during your life but i always think it is so much better when everyone can just get along especially among kind people
catching up after that sudden hiatus sorry for the lateness!
Thank me?? Haha, no need for that! Not much point in holding old grudges when the world's a different place anyway. Everybody had dreams and ambitions, they just ended up taking different shapes. In the end, even the shogunate knew the shogunate needed to go.
[ his enemy had always been the system itself, so whatever petty grudges he might've held in life seem even smaller when time has a way of putting things in perspective. ]
You seem like must've been pretty well-acquainted though to know what they're really like beyond what they can do with a sword. Hehe, have you secretly been a member of the Shinsengumi this whole time~?
[ he's joking as usual, but from his perspective it's also not impossible especially when the shinsengumi he knows is a lot less of a boys' club. ]
[ .. well, if Ryouma truly doesn't carry a grudge against the Shinsengumi.. then it'd just be cruel to lie to him, right? Especially since so far it's been more of a lie of omission than any outright or direct lie, but that would change if she didn't tell the truth here.
So.. ]
i have been
[ Sorry to ruin the joke with the truth, Ryouma. ]
please forgive me for not telling you so earlier the timing just never felt right
[ She's being honest about that one. After all, when do you tell someone assassinated by your group that you are part of said group.. ]
so let me make up for it by formally introducing myself now my name is chizuru yukimura i am the page of the vice commander of the shinsengumi toshizou hijikata
[ well. that probably sounds unintentionally rude, so maybe he shouldn't leave it at that. ]
That's pretty impressive! He's a tough one to crack for sure.
[ speaking from experience, ryouma has had to talk the guy down a few times. how much of that is simply because ryouma annoyed him, though, is... debatable. ]
I'd hoped we'd all find a way to work together at some point anyway, you know? So, it's nice it turned out that way after all.
Hehe, I better watch out. I never doubted you since our turbulent times made for plenty of formidable ladies, but not everybody gets to be the page of the Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi!
[ Honestly, Chizuru kind of understands his reaction right away.. It certainly wouldn't be the first time she's been confronted with Hijikata's very.. specific reputation, after all. Sure, she may know him a little bit better beyond that now, but she can certainly see where people would get that idea about him after interacting with him. ]
please i am nothing that impressive
[ She has to mention that though, because she sure doesn't want him to get the wrong idea about her. ]
i more or less stumbled my way into it more than anything i truly cannot match up to hijikatasan in any sort of way so i hope i am not creating too many expectations of myself here
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[ ryouma is doing his best to explain without adding layers of complexity and he thinks he's done alright. one thing at a time! it's as much for his own sake as it is for chizuru — higher magical concepts will always be a little over his head no matter how long he keeps at it. ]
The Chaldea organisation has similar goals, so they're putting those skills to good use there. It's nice having Hijikata-san and Okita-san as allies this time around!
[ so things are much better than expected? ]
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Even though it's wild. ]
i am so glad all of you can work together this time
[ Because Chizuru already knew the men of the Shinsengumi were actually kind people deep down - and since Ryouma very much seems to be the same way now she's meeting them here, it's obviously so much better for them to fight together than to fight each other. ]
if you were kind to them back there i would like to thank you
i can imagine it perhaps not being easy given everything that happened during your life
but i always think it is so much better when everyone can just get along
especially among kind people
catching up after that sudden hiatus sorry for the lateness!
[ his enemy had always been the system itself, so whatever petty grudges he might've held in life seem even smaller when time has a way of putting things in perspective. ]
You seem like must've been pretty well-acquainted though to know what they're really like beyond what they can do with a sword. Hehe, have you secretly been a member of the Shinsengumi this whole time~?
[ he's joking
as usual, but from his perspective it's also not impossible especially when the shinsengumi he knows is a lot less of a boys' club. ]it's okay! c:
So.. ]
i have been
[ Sorry to ruin the joke with the truth, Ryouma. ]
please forgive me for not telling you so earlier
the timing just never felt right
[ She's being honest about that one. After all, when do you tell someone assassinated by your group that you are part of said group.. ]
so let me make up for it by formally introducing myself now
my name is chizuru yukimura
i am the page of the vice commander of the shinsengumi toshizou hijikata
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[ well. that probably sounds unintentionally rude, so maybe he shouldn't leave it at that. ]
That's pretty impressive! He's a tough one to crack for sure.
[ speaking from experience, ryouma has had to talk the guy down a few times. how much of that is simply because ryouma annoyed him, though, is... debatable. ]
I'd hoped we'd all find a way to work together at some point anyway, you know? So, it's nice it turned out that way after all.
Hehe, I better watch out. I never doubted you since our turbulent times made for plenty of formidable ladies, but not everybody gets to be the page of the Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi!
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please i am nothing that impressive
[ She has to mention that though, because she sure doesn't want him to get the wrong idea about her. ]
i more or less stumbled my way into it more than anything
i truly cannot match up to hijikatasan in any sort of way
so i hope i am not creating too many expectations of myself here