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Is it working now? I still don't get these stupid things- Ah! [Oh awesome, he got the video working. He might have been here for a few weeks now but it was still quite the challenge to work some of the technology here. Enjoy your video of a guy with a white streak in his hair and pointy ears, afterlife.] Hey, uh, I'm Caius. Caius Qualls.

... Do any of you have Leimorne where you're from? Back home I was fighting to help the humans and Leimorne come to trust each other, one of my friends was even gonna start a whole organization about it when the lycanth hunt was over and we stopped the King's plans.

[He's really hoping someone here knows what he's going on about, otherwise he's just going to end up speaking a load of gibberish.]

So I wanted to ask, do any of you have people who aren't human where you're from and do you get along with them? Like there's no difference between how you and them are treated.

[And that's it, there's his message. While waiting for replies, Caius will be fiddling around with the laptop he's using. Adjusting the camera, tapping buttons, just generally messing around to see if he can get a better grasp on these things.]

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[It might be possible to spot smoke billowing out from the trees behind the dojo later in the day. Not like rolling clouds of the stuff, but a thin stream of black smoke that rises up into the sky and could easily be spotted by anyone walking around the school grounds today.

Should anyone investigate the source of the smoke, they'll find Caius in a small clearing with a well lit campfire nearby. There are a few sticks set aside in a pile in case the fire needs tending and it's surrounded by small rocks to keep it under control.

Caius is standing a short distance away from the fire, wielding a long stick he picked up in one of his hands. He swings the stick back and forth a few times before talking out loud to himself.]

Come on, I've done this hundreds of times... Demon Fang! [...] How about this, Sword Rain!

[He's trying to get his artes to work, but he isn't have much success. Luckily, most of his artes are just various sword swings, so he can emulate them pretty well even if they lack the power and speed his artes usually do. Care to interrupt his little camp out-slash-training session?]

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[Shit-- It's that guy again. That.. hairy guy that watched Jean get trampled by NPCs before. Look at him causing a scene, there's smoke everywhere! What the hell was he doing?]

What's a Demon Fang? [He's swinging it like a sword though.. is this guy trained with them?]

[Oh hey, it's the guy that got run over by NPCs... Huh. To him he isn't causing a scene, the fire is well under control and it's making no more smoke than a fire would have back home.]

Uh- It's an arte. [That probably didn't explain much.] It's like a technique you can use in a fight, I guess.

An arte? Sounds more like some made up word kids use when playing with sticks. [What was this guy, twelve? He's like some kinda hero out of a story book.]

Doesn't look like you're pulling it off.

How does it sound anything like that? Plenty of people use artes. [Or they did back in Aurella anyway, artes and precept artes.]

And that's because I'm not... I don't get why though. It's not like this is anything new for me.

Because you sound like a big nerd shouting out names for your moves and stuff, just sayin. [Jean's got this lovely outer layer of personality.]

Hum- well, this one girl said she was a sorcerer and could do magic and stuff but now she can't.

Is it like magic? Bet that's why.

Shut up, I don't have to shout them out like that. I wasn't even expecting anyone to be around in the first place. [He's just calling his attacks to see if the added concentration would do anything. Doesn't matter how much he focuses though, none of his artes are working the way they're meant to.]

They're not like magic, that's a lot more difficult to pull off. [At least for him anyway. Magic and precept artes are hard. And require studying.] But it's not like they're normal sword swings either... Demon Fang is meant to send out a shockwave along the ground, all I'm doing is kicking up dirt though.

Make me, ner- [Whatever- it wasn't working anyway.]

I don't know, guy, magic an't all that easy. So this move of yours is some kinda not-magic magic that your sword uses? Or.. you use? Sounds like magic to me.. not that I've ever seen somebody use magic before or anything, that's just in story books for kids.

Artes depend on the person, so it's what I use. The sword shouldn't matter. [And hey, if he can use his artes with a back scratcher as his joke weapon, then a stick should be fine too. And yet, here we are.] Where I'm from lots of people can use magic and precepts, so I guess it's just something I'm used to seeing.

Where the hell are you from that people use magic all the time?

[Jean's finally coming around to the idea that people have to be from completely different world, times, and universes.. there is just no way something like this guy could exist in his world.]

Areulla. There are probably lots of other things that are done differently where I'm from compared to where you're from... Like the place you're from might have rock bands or whatever.

[Might as well use that as an example, since he got in an argument with some guy over what they are.]

Rock bands? What the hell is that?! No, the last thing my world is people throwin' rocks at one another. [Got enough problems...] We got titans, not rock bands.

If your worlds got magic and shit than I titan wouldn't be too far off, got monsters running around right? They're sorta like that, apparently we even got people that can change into titans but I've never seen em do it.

I think that's just a bunch of shit talking.

I don't know, something about music... [He trails off before waving a hand in the air dismissively. He didn't even know rock bands were a thing until this morning when he made that video and some guy chewed him out for not knowing what they are.]

But yeah, my world has monsters roaming about all over. I don't know about people turning into monsters or titans, but my world has Leimorneans.

[And the Leimorneans sure as heck aren't monsters, even if some people in his world are terrified of them and think they're to do with monster attacks.]

[Rock bands.. oh- maybe like that punk rock thing. That would be Leon, he's a chode. Jean's going to out punk rock that guy some day just wait and see.]

Lei...morneans? Okay, you're going to have to explain..

[Yeah, Leon is... Kind of a jerk. But he's going to at least find out what punk rock and rock bands actually are before he doesn't anything too rash.]

They're people from my world who can transform into beastmen. They're a lot stronger than humans, a lot of people treat them the same way they would treat a monster.

B-beastmen?? You mean like... monsters? [No, Jean, he just said they are nothing like monsters.]

Okay fine, what do they look like if they aren't monsters? You can transform into them? I find that hard to believe.. [He comes from a world with magic though.. that's a little more believable over people turning into titans.]

They're nothing like monsters. [Emphasis on the nothing. Enough people back home thought they were like monsters, he doesn't want that to be a thing in the afterlife as well.]

And they look... A lot like humans, only with fur. And more beast like faces-- [Is that helpful at all? He's trying to think of another way to explain it when he's suddenly caught off guard by the next thing Jean said.] I can transform, yeah, I'm half Leimornean after all.

[Jean's just really confused.]
They look like people? With fur? How tall are they? Just as tall as you are?

And you can do that whacky transforming shit? You know, people back home try and pull this one on me too but I don't believe em, because guess what? I'm not an idiot. [okay Jean]

I don't know, it depends on the person! All Leimorneans are different from each other, like humans are. [So many questions...]

And who cares? I'm not from where you're from, it's not like I'd lie about something like this. [Huff.] If you don't want to believe me then whatever.

[He'll keep his thoughts about Jean being an idiot to himself. He had to deal with Kyon not believing him, so he can deal with another person feeling the same way.]

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