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Hello there, my name is Mami Tomoe. I'm a third year middle school student, and it looks like tomorrow will be my first day in class here.

I suppose I'll need to go and find some supplies for my first day at school? I never would have guessed I would need to looking for a notebook again after I died. Does anyone have any recommendations?

[ Mami's voice sounds a little cheery, though she's always been so very great at putting on a facade that hid her true feelings. ]

I hope I won't be too far behind the lessons, if I am I might have to ask someone to help tutor me so I can catch up.

Well, thank you for your time.

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[ On her first day Mami will be trying her best to find her classes, but she might need some helping making sure to go to the right room. Or perhaps she just looks lonely, sitting by herself as she eats, unable to convince herself to try and find someone to share lunch with. It might be obvious that there's something bothering her, perhaps the normalness of all she is suddenly hit with, after preparing herself for her own death.

In general though, she seems approachable, as she always has wanted to be, and wouldn't say no to a friendly face. ]

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[ Good luck with that, good luck with that... ]

Well, aren't you a positive one...

I'd not want to learn from some artificial teachers though.

I'm only trying to stay positive, so that I don't make things harder on my friends.

[ Because she's done that enough already. ]

Artificial? What do you mean?

Nobody told you yet?

Most of the teachers and students here are what some call NPCs. They're like dolls. Say the same thing over and over when you talk to them too long, don't remember when you punch them in the face... They're not real people, unlike us.

I had no idea..

[ Homura had told her a few things about the nature of this purgatory, but it's not what she expected at all. When she killed herself, she expected something a lot...different. ]

So..they are like robots? How do you know they aren't really humans?

Robots may be a good word. They're programmed, but my world didn't know anything fancy-ass like computers, so I couldn't explain if I tried.

Yurippe, the chick who probably knows this place best, told me first, but I've also seen them fuck up and malfunction all over the place. They can be controlled by a certain 'programmer'. That's not how people act and are manipulated, they are nothing but dirty fakes.

..You didn't have computers? [ Mami has only met what seems like Japanese teenagers, so she can only imagine that people here are like her. She has no idea about multiple worlds. ] Were computers too expensive for you?

So you're saying, there's someone in charge of these things?

No, they weren't too expensive. If they existed, then certainly nobody know about them at all. This place is a clusterfuck of people from different worlds and mine's apparently damn out-dated in comparison.

Though even if they existed, they would have been too expensive just as well, so whatever.

And yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's kind of insane and inactive though.

[ Count on Kohaku to pay literally no attention to people's standard of information and just mercilessly and messily drop new info on them. ]

[ Messily dropping upsetting news on Mami is NEVER a good idea. Luckily though, this isn't the type of mind breaking news that would really set her off, instead she's just stunned, trying to understand this all. ]

..Different worlds? I never knew..such a thing was even possible.

[ Though with the things she's seen, it isn't that hard to believe. ]

Is there a way to talk to this 'programmer'?

Not really. He's hidden and I haven't got a clue if he's even conscious of who he is. Finding him is kind of the big goal currently.

Heard his voice once, but he's said nothing but bullshit and then vanished again.

[ Kohaku hates the Programmer, he hates the NPCs, he hates the Afterlife and yet refuses to leave - contradictory story of his life. ]

As for the world-shit... You get used to it. Lots of people are from worlds that look like this school anyway, those like me who come from another damned place are more like an exception.

Is it? I wonder if that's the best thing.. [ Mami wants to offer her help, but at the moment she's just a human, no special abilities or powers, and really her self esteem couldn't be any worse. ]

That's not something I would have expected...I thought this was simply the afterlife at first. I died, but I didn't expect anything like this..

I don't think any of us did. Life didn't go easy on us, so what else can we expect than death being just as fucked up?

[ By now he just assumes that everyone coming here has lived a terrible life, because it seems to be kind of the basic premise of the place. ]

[ It's almost a little reassuring that other people had terrible lives for Mami. But she had expected more of the afterlife. She wanted to see the people she had been forced to live on without.. ]

I suppose..it's still better than becoming ghosts, don't you think?

[ He's actually silent for a few seconds, thinking it over. ]

Yeah, probably. Ghosts don't get to interact with anybody, that must be damn boring.

[ And painful. Existing on in a sphere you may know but being unable to interact. ]

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