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[deaftly]

--shit's supposed to record my voice? Why the fuck would I want to leave a message on this thing anyway? They should know who the fuck they're calling if they're calling me in the first place, and obviously I'm not gonna pick up if I don't like them so...

What do you mean it's already recording?

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[preybeforemeals]

I have other ways of subsisting that work, at least for a while, but it's not...enough, despite how it definitely should be.

[No, really, what is this every-six-hours bullshit.]

However, from what I've heard, it seems we may have been mistaken about the entire situation from the start.

[deaftly]

Huh? How so?

[preybeforemeals]

[He's quiet for a moment, gaze darting away from the camera a little while he considers; it's not a...bad silence per se, just thinking.]

Eat what they offer you here. It'll sustain you.

[deaftly]

What are you talking about? Are you crazy? I can't eat that shit, it's bad for me!

[Though if he thinks about it for long enough, it doesn't seem quite as repulsive as it did back home...]

[preybeforemeals]

Perhaps, perhaps not.

After all, the only reasons I'd tell you to do it are either "It's not" or "I'm lying to you," right?

[deaftly]

Um.

[Hang on, let him attempt to process this...]

There's no reason to lie to me about this, right? Which just leaves the possibility that you mean it and for some reason we can eat that shit here...

[preybeforemeals]

[Oh, look, simple logic. All hope is not lost yet.]

As I understand it, that's exactly the case, monsieur.

[deaftly]

Have you been eating that shit?

[preybeforemeals]

I hadn't been, which people here seem to think is a problem.

[deaftly]

"People"? Did someone try to get you to eat this stuff? Wait, "hadn't"? So you did eat some of it?

[preybeforemeals]

Calmato - they don't know about us, if that's what worries you.

[Good lord, Naki, sit.]

But yes, I did; the effect wasn't what I expected at all, either.

[deaftly]

[He looks like he's going to say something (probably about the use of calmato) but he finally manages to keep his mouth shut. Tsukiyama is obviously trying to tell him something, but it isn't getting across properly.

...So no different than usual, then.]

What happened? Were you actually able to eat it without issue?

[preybeforemeals]

I won't say that it was good, because that would be a total lie, but I was able to eat it without having any of the usual complications.

[...because able to eat human food or not, he's clearly still going to be picky as hell.]

[deaftly]

No way! That's... That's crazy!

[He doesn't look like he's skeptical of it, however.]

So we can eat human food here... I guess I'll have to do that until I can figure out why I can't use my kagune. I'd rather hunt, but...

[preybeforemeals]

[...and here we go.]

I wouldn't depend on being able to do that again anytime soon, monsieur.

[deaftly]

Why not?

[...That doesn't sound good, um.]

[preybeforemeals]

Are you really this dense...?

[deaftly]

You haven't told me anything! You've been purposefully vague, so how am I supposed to come to any conclusions, huh?

[preybeforemeals]

There's more than enough, but if you want me to spell it out for you then I suppose you leave me no real choice.

[The expression he's wearing is more than a bit dissonant with his words, his voice not leaving the usual flippant tone that he tends to take with just about everything.]

There have been people on the network yelling about bodies that aren't their own. Apparently many people have gone through changes - either physical or on a deeper level, affecting their natural abilities. Everything that isn't considered human normal is gone. Furthermore, we can feed on the same things they do without incident.

Everyone is human here. Everyone. Do you understand?

[deaftly]

...Human...

[Naki stares and it's very obvious that he's trying to process this. Give him a moment.]

Seriously!? We're human!? That... That would explain why we can't use the kagune and why we aren't losing control when we're hungry and...

[He shakes his head, eyes still really wide.]

What do we do!? How can we be human!? How did this happen!?

[preybeforemeals]

[He just laughs a bit at that.]

It's disgusting, isn't it? Repulsivo. And unfortunately, I don't have any more answers than you do.

[deaftly]

So we're human... This is awful! Ugh, I just want to go home.

[Naki sighs heavily.]

Do you... do you think we're gonna be okay?

[preybeforemeals]

Hm...?

[That's...new. What sort of question is that...]

What other option do we have?

[deaftly]

Well... I know, we don't have a choice, so we have to adapt but...

[He frowns, trying to figure out how to word it.]

...I don't know. I just don't know, okay?

[preybeforemeals]

[Tsukiyama glances away from the device again; he's...not entirely sure what to do with any of this, but at least he's smiling again when he refocuses on the camera.]

We've outlasted everything back in Tokyo. Do you really think this place is going to defeat us?

We'll be fine, monsieur, because surviving is what we were created to do. Do you understand?