Quickly the book’s taken from their grasp, leaving them surprised—they hadn’t even said anything yet!
But then the stranger keeps talking, and Syn’s face turns into one of pure, stunned astounded-ness. They’ve never been particularly good at vocabulary, alright.
Oh.
Um.
Right.
Their actual stop.
Their video game store—!
Syn only wants to stand wordlessly and bask in their own wrongdoings, but the stranger’s still staring at them expectantly, so sighing, one hand slips inside their bag to pull out their phone, always readily tuned to the notepad app.
[ I’m not very sure. My destination would be Akihabara, but I’m unfamiliar with_ ]
They stop for a moment, trying to figure out how to word it—
[ _train lines. ]
Which is to say they don’t go out a lot unless a family member makes them, and even then they don’t pay attention to where they’re going.
⁅ 死神の歩兵 ⁆
Panic-strickened by the thought that there is a chance of losing the book forever if it weren’t for their help, Ian had temporarily lost his manners as he went straight to the point of inquiring the other while grabbing his book. It’s his ｆａｖｏｒｉｔｅ after all and even if he had 5 copies of them, he isn’t willing to lose any of those copies anytime soon. He rather know who have the copies of the book in which he either loans them though he rather not. Or gave them away, though Ian doubt he will be doing that easily either.
To be honest, Ian is constantly ｃｏｎｎｅｃｔｅｄ to an ｏｎｌｉｎｅ dictionary. Should he face a very complex word, he would refer to that. However, he already have 90% of the vocabulary of common languages used in Japan such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese (and their dialects) as well as English. Built to demonstrate an exhibition in almost every language, Ian puts even the most experience curators to shame. That is if there is such curators that does the same thing Ian does. Hosting a building that shows a life after people in an abandoned island at Nagasaki is really unorthodox after all.
Upon the other’s stunned ｅｘｐｒｅｓｓｉｏｎ, Ian presumed the other understood what he had said, but only slightly, surely they know how to transfer to another line from here? Shinjuku Station is the exchange point between five lines, the Chuuou Rapid Service Line, the Soubu Local Train Line, the Saikyou Line, the Yamanote Circle and the Shounan-Shinjuku Line. A very complex system, but it is easy once one get used to it. Tokyo is a hectic metropolis after all. Your pace in life must be fast, lest you wanted to be left out.
It seem the train has left when Ian read what the other typed. Akihabara? A…ki… right! He have to check up on the status of a few projectors at Akihabara as well! Man, they totally helped Ian twice today. He forgot to put Akihabara in his ａｇｅｎｄａ as someone else is responsible for the projectors, and will let them know if it’s done, but Ian might as well check now if he is at Tokyo. Will the other follow him on a detour before he goes there? Probably, since who wants to remain being lost?
⁅ I’m going to Akihabara after collecting some stuff here. ⁆
Since the other gave an expression that makes Ian doubt that the other knows how to transfer lines, and along with their ｓｔａｔｅｍｅｎｔ of being unfamiliar of train lines, he beckoned them to follow him, since it’s the best method to prevent them from being lost in this huge metropolis known as Tokyo. One may get lost anywhere, but it’s hard to find your way in Tokyo even if you are familiar with it. Unlike the Kansai region, Tokyo is pretty disorganized compared to Osaka and Kyoto. At those cities, you were given directions such as 30 meter northeast instead of going up the street by 30 meters and turn left, which might be very confusing to those who doesn’t live in the Kansai region.
⁅ It’s best if you follow me. I can teach your to transfer lines, but if you transferred into the wrong line, you might end up at Kyoto instead of Tokyo. ⁆
