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I've been to Shibuya before, I'm from Tokyo too. :)

Oh, that makes me feel a lot better, knowing someone else from Tokyo is here. :) I'm Shiki, by the way. Nice to meet you!

That's a cute name! I'm Kagura, it's nice to meet you too. Are you new?

Aww, thank you. *^^* And yes, I only just woke up here a little while ago. I'm really worried about my friends back home...

Oh dear. Has anyone told you much, um... about this place? I hate to burst your bubble, but... I don't know how soon any of us are going to get home. T^T I've been trying really hard for the last few days.

No, no one's told me anything...

This place is... really pretty bad. They're nice to us during the day, but you have to be really careful at night. That's when they let everyone out to explore, but it's dangerous! There are monsters and giant bugs and... and all kinds of things you just wouldn't believe!

That sounds scary! Do you at least get to have a partner to explore with? ~~The last time I had to fight monsters, I couldn't do it without a partner, and I'd be lost without one.~~

It is kind of scary... um... there are lots of people you can go with here, it's definitely a good idea to take someone with you. If you want, I'll be your partner? Maybe we can meet in person sometime today. I'll tell you what I know about things here. The boards probably aren't the best place.

I know a thing or two about reapers, love.

...like the Reapers' Game? 7 days' time limit, fail and face erasure, all that?

Um. No. I mean like dead people.

I...see. Well, the Reapers I knew were dead, but...I somehow have the feeling we're talking about different kinds of Reapers.

I've been to Shibuya. No clue about the rest of the stuff though.

That's okay. It makes me feel better that people are at least familiar with where I'm from.

Shibuya is the only one that does any ringing for me. What's the rest of that mean?

Neku's a friend of mine.

The other stuff...well, it's complicated. The short version, which is going to sound...well, it'll make me sound crazy.

The RG stands for 'Realground', which is the Shibuya everyone sees. The 'UG' stands for 'Underground', and that's...it's kind of like an alternate Shibuya. If you're in the UG, you can see everything that happens in the RG, but not the other way around.

And the Reapers' Game...sometimes when you die, you get a second chance to come back. The Reapers' Game decides who gets to come back and who doesn't. Neku was my partner in the Game.

~~I probably sound really crazy, don't I?~~

...

~~You're dead?~~

Um, yeah, I guess that does sound kinda... crazy, although I've already heard enough weird things to last me a lifetime here.

I...I don't think I'm dead ~~anymore~~.

Oh. But that's a good thing, right? Although you did wind up here of all places...

I know Shibuya! It has some of the greatest shopping centers. I was in Shinjuku, Kabukicho, but I liked getting around a lot.

And you don't sound crazy--don't worry about it, if you died before you got here. A lot of people did... like me. It's weird, but--really not the weirdest thing that happens here. ^_^

-Hokuto

Wait, really? That's common here?!
... Sorry to butt in, but I never knew that before.

Shibuya's pretty famous. Anyone in Japan is going to know it.

-R.Aoyagi

They don't call it the trend capital of Japan for nothing! :)

-- Shiki

Um, sure. Listen, you're not in Japan anymore. You're trapped here in Landel's Institute, which I think is in America, somewhere.

If someone hasn't explained this place to you, I can.

-R.Aoyagi

A-America?

Kagura-san explained about the monsters at night, but...not the America part. How did we get to America?

-- Shiki

You're surpri-- Anyway, no one knows how we got to America, but whatever these nurses tell you is a lie. At night everything changes. We're in a hospital during the day and a rat race at night. It'd be smart if you found people to travel with and don't expect the monsters here to act like ones you might know.

-R.Aoyagi

So, find a partner, be careful of the monsters, and don't trust the nurses. ~~It almost feels like the Reapers' Game all over again.~~

...can I ask, when everything changes at night, are there messages? Specifically, ones giving you a mission and a time period in which to finish it?

-- Shiki

Messages? Well, the Head Doctor comes on and taunts us, sometimes the radios give us clues, but mostly it's the universal message of "don't die"? There's no missions, just have to do what you need before daylight starts up. Then no matter where you are, you get bounced back to your beds. No one knows how it happens.

-R.Aoyagi

At least that last part sounds like an experience I've had. No one knew how it happened, either. And at least it was a bed you woke in! It's really freaky waking up under an underpass. D:

-- Shiki

I'm from Shinjuku, which if I remember correctly, is next to Shibuya. If that helps at all.

I don't know about RG and UG, but as far as I know, Reaper's an abbreviation for Flick Reaper, a scythe user in The World. Are you from The World?

BTW, I'm from Sapporo but everyone and their mom has heard of Shibuya.