the_brightest_sun | 012th Meatbun ☼ Voice / Action

[The message is sent in the morning after the kid wakes up and he's still lazing around the living room of the apartment.]

Ne, ne, today is April 9th, right? I didn't mess up with the calendar, did I? Everyone was talking we lost a day the last week and I couldn't remember so I went ahead and took off a sheet from the calendar, so today is the 9th, isn't it?

Ah, but if that's not it then it's the 8th? Then today is my birthday! Or it was yesterday, I don't know. But i doesn't matter because now I'm an adult!

[Goku laughs proudly. Yes, he's so much of an adult! Because now he's two years old, see? Now he has yearS, in plural, like all the adults do.]

Niisan said that all adults are irresponsible and don't need to sleep much so now that I'm now I can stay up late playing and drawing!!

[Such a mature mindset. Anyway, let him think if there's anything else he wants to say or ask. Ah, right.]

Ah! Before I forget! There's going to be a festival, right? This Saturday, the Starfish Festival, I think. Anyone knows if I can have an okonomiyaki stand? I could cut the okonomiyaki so it has a star shape! It will be delicious! And tons of fun, I love the festivals here, there aren't boring speeches like in Heavens. And there's no people who badmouths my friends, too...

By the way, anyone knows what's a "pedophile"? One of my friends was called that once, I'm sure it's something bad but I don't really get it.

[He will stop rambling at Luceti's ears for now. But before he leaves he spends a bit more of time making a pretty drawing-advertisment. Okay, the "pretty" part is subjective.

After that he will be at the okonomiyaki restaurant for anyone who wants to eat or pay a visit to him.]

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You're an adult?

Yep! I'm two years old now! See? Yearssssss, in plural, like an adult!

Is that how it works? I thought adults were older than two though.

A lot of adults have many and many years, but there has to be always a first, right? When years start to be plural then it must be when you become an adult! How else would you know when you're one?

Oh, that's true. I don't know how many years you need though. You probably have to be older than a child, right?

But that's what I'm saying. Children have one year only, starting with two you have more years thus you're an adult.

Is that how it works? I wonder if that means I'm an adult then. I'm pretty sure I'm older than one.

I'm sure you are! How else could it work?

There must be a lot of adults in Luceti then! I wonder if there's any children here. Adults have to take care of children, you know.

They have to? Why?

[Well, he knows that Konzen was put in charge of him... And any time he has been left all alone people have asked if he was fine and what else. But he has never really get why.]

Because, um...I don't know. But I'm pretty sure they have to.

[It is a universally acknowledged truth! Somehow.]

Even if they don't want to?

Hmm....I don't know.

Maybe I should ask somebody.

I wonder if niisan will know, he knows a lot about adults.

[Or so has Goku decided.]

Niisan? Who's that?

He's my niisan! My older brother! He knows a tooons of things because he has been an adult for longer!

[Except he's not really an adult either but whatever.]

Oh! He must know a lot then. All the people older than me know a lot, so your niisan should know about this too!

He does, he does! He's very smart and knows a lot! Like he explained me that really the issue with going to bed isn't at which time you go but how long you sleep! So as long as you sleep a lot you can go to bed later if you want!

[Or something like that.]

I didn't know that! Does that mean I could sleep in the morning and play at night if I wanted?

[What a strange concept...!]

Yep, you totally can! The important thing is how much you sleep, not when you go to sleep. Adults just always talk about going to bed early because they do things in the morning, but if you do those things in the afternoon and the night it's fine if you go late to bed!

...Someday I'll trying sleeping really really late then! I like being awake in the daytime better than at night though, so sleeping at night makes sense.

That's true, there are more things to do during the day that at night. But sometimes playing at night is fun too! One day, right before I went to bed, Ten-chan and Ken-niichan came over and took both Konzen and me outside to the gardens. We sat under a cherry tree and drank and ate, it was like a private festival! It was reaaaaally fun because we all were there and together, even Konzen was happy and relaxed even if he didn't show it and no one was angry at me for being up past my bed time. And Ken-niichan and I competed to see who climbed up to the top of the tree the fastest and everything... It was really fun and the cherry trees and gardens looked pretty under the moonlight too! You should try to do that with your friends once as well.

Oh, that does sound really fun! I want to do that someday, then everyone could be happy and we'd have a lot of fun together and we wouldn't have to worry about bedtime at all!

It was really fun! I hope that once they get here we can do it again, this time I have even more friends to come to have fun with!

Ne, what's your name? I'm Goku! Son Goku!

Son Goku! That's a fun name. My name's Florian! Nice to meet you!

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