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...Or at all.

[which he's sure is the actual correct situation. at least someone can be apathetic about it, he guesses. nam soon can feign it well, but it bothers him.]

[compossible]

Right? What's up with that.

[A huff, irritated.]

They're making me work for money. [blehhhh]

[unpresidential]

...How else would you get money?

[isn't working for it a given? maybe he shouldn't ask that when everyone is anime as hell.]

[compossible]

Working, I guess. [conning people.]

But I had a perfectly good job, and now they brought me here and gave me less perfectly good jobs to do, which I'm not interested in doing.

[unpresidential]

I don't think you have to stay at the job they give you. [even if nam soon does, because it pays well enough for him.] ...What did you do before?

[compossible]

[Are you ready for this to get Super Anime, Nam Soon.]

I was a time traveler.

[Yeah.]

I don't think anything here is going to quite match up.

[unpresidential]

Ah.

[what does he even say to that? why does he always have to meet people with situations that he could never even fathom as actually existing until coming here? it is a mystery.]

I guess not. I haven't seen anything like that here. [or anywhere, except movies and dramas.]

[compossible]

It's okay, it wasn't really a common thing back home, either. Still, it'd be handy to have right now.

[If only she could time travel her way right out of here...]

My Operator is here, even, but he's as useless as ever.

[unpresidential]

Your... Operator?

[head tilt. clearly, he has no idea how any of this works.]

[compossible]

Yeah, you know--the guy who's supposed to help me while I'm off in another world and time, but mostly the guy who slacks off or makes snarky comments instead of being of any actual use--

[....yeah.]

That's my Operator.

[unpresidential]

Ah.

[was he supposed to know that? he doesn't know how time travel works outside of movies and dramas. and none of those had operators.]

The only operators I know... they're the ones for phones. That's all.

[compossible]

It's okay, he doesn't deserve to be known anyway. [wow, harsh.]

Operators for phones? I don't know anything about that. [A pause, and she smiles.] See? We're even.

[unpresidential]

[it sounds harsh, but he's not judging. he doesn't have the right to.]

Mm... looks like it. You'll run into that a lot around here, probably.

[compossible]

Hey, when I do, can I bring things to you to ask about? You seem like the sort of guy who won't take advantage of a poor, lost, confused young woman.

[you are none of those things, Elcia]