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Umnnnnnhhh....

...What kinds of names do you give birds?

I have....a small one, that's a sparrow...and.... [There is a brief pause.] ...Now I have a really big one, that they called a 'Scarlet Eagle'.

The sparrow likes to sit in my hair, but the eagle can't sit on me, unless I'm laying down. She's too heavy.

People keep asking me what their names are though, and I've never named something before....

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[hippocarnival]

[Yuya is going to shake Reiji down for answers next time he sees him.]

I wasn't paying that much attention to your clothes. [Honestly they spent a month wearing the same shit while they crossed dimensions, and Yuya probably has five copies of the same shirt, so he definitely didn't think hard about it.] You came while we were in the Summerlands, so... I don't think it's even been three months yet.

[A pause.] Everything happens so quickly, so I guess it feels a lot longer.

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Mnh....maybe....

I just know I wasn't there very long. I'm learning more things here too though, so...I guess that makes things different too.

[hippocarnival]

[Shake him down.

But if she herself doesn't even know how long she was with the Akabas, it's not like Yuya can find out right now. And Reira was actually asking about something before Yuya derailed it with a lecture (he's still not sure about this eagle).]

You know, mom named our pets in pairs since that's usually how she found them. Like 'En' and 'Core' for encore. You could do that too.

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Pairs..?

...would that work now though? ....I got them at different times....and from really different people...

[hippocarnival]

Why not? You're naming them at the same time, aren't you? [Or close enough to it.]

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I'm going to try..!

...Why did she use the word Encore, though?

[hippocarnival]

Hm? [Oh, she probably doesn't know what the word means.] An encore is an extra performance after the one you paid for is done. When people really like your show, they shout 'encore, encore' because they want more!

... There's also Kilo and Watt. Kilowatts measure electricity. [Basically there's no actual reason, she just picked random words she likes for their names.]

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[But things need REASONS, Yuuya!!] So...she wanted more pets, was why?

...And then had electric pets? [To be fair, Kilo likely weighs a number of Kilos, and Watt looks like they were jammed in an electrical outlet-]

[hippocarnival]

Something like that. [His mom is a compulsive adopter and, suddenly, he doesn't want to know how many more she's picked up since he left. Nobody's there to stop her, they're gonna have a zoo.] They're not electric pets, though... they're just normal dogs.

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....But you said kilowatts were for electric things...

[Hoo boy.]

[hippocarnival]

They are, but... [There's a pause.] You know weird magic animals like in the menagerie don't exist in our world, right?

[Just. Just making sure.] I didn't ask why she picked those names.

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..................Duel monsters are pretty magical though...

[Those aren't the same as animals Reira!! They're more like nature ghosts-]

...I guess that's okay though. ...Mnh....I'll think of something, even if it's not in a pair...