the_brightest_sun | 010th Meatbun ☼ Action / Voice

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010th Meatbun ☼ Action / Voice

[This past week, anyone trying to go to the okonomiyaki restaurant would find it closed, courtesy of the Malnosso kidnapping the owner and cook. However, that has changed today, today the restaurant is wide open, with a menu sheet on the door for everyone to see, it's the same menu as always though a lot of dishes seem to have been stroke out.

Inside there's one little monkey that goes for the name of Goku, doing his best to imitate all the things Ukyo does when she opens the restaurant, like cleaning and tidying up. He'll be more than ready to take food orders and will welcome everyone with a wide smile and a loud 'WELCOME TO UCCHAN'S OKONOMIYAKI RESTAURANT!'. Anyone feels daring enough to try this kid's food? Don't worry it's not poisonous, he can cook, but don't expect anything too complicated.]

[Later, in the afternoon, the journals will be greeted with a curious kid.]

Ne... Is Ucchan back yet?

[Rhetoric question, kind of, if she's back she will answer if not... Well, he won't get an answer, obviously. After a while more will be added to the feed.]

Does anyone know where can I get a home tutor? They are like teachers, right? Teach you things on your own, I don't wanna go to school but I wanna learn more things. Ginia-neesan is always writing but I'm still no good at understanding what she writes, I want to get better! Also I want to learn to write better to write to her too, she has a pretty handwriting! Ange-neesan too. And, and I want to write a letter to my friends. But if I do it now I'm sure Konzen will get angry because it's messy. I want to learn more than that too, so they will be impressed when they come here! So... Where can I get one of those home tutors? Please?

Ah! Also, how do you know if your flowers are thirsty? My Cosmos flowers are still babies inside their seeds so I can't look at them to know if they are thirsty or not.... I don't think I could know just by looking at them anyway, but the dirt in the pot seems dry. But I don't want to drown them! When I'm not thirsty I know I can't drink even another drop of water!

Oh, Ucchan's okonomiyaki restaurant is open again. I can take care of it while Ucchan is gone, I can't cook much but I'll do my best to make you delicious okonomiyaki!!

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Hmmmm... I can't cook all the things in the menu but if people ask simple things I can do it! And I can keep it tidy and clean! And I know I have to get groceries so I have everything I need to cook and clean what I use very well so it stays in good shape. Hmmmm...

[Trying to remember what other things Ukyo did to run the restaurant.]

All I have to do is write? But I don't know how to write many words. Oh, maybe I could just make drawings when I get to words I don't know how to write!

Ah, really? Seems you're already pretty accustomed to this kind of stuff, hm? ... Well, I don't doubt that you can do it, but it still seems like a lot of work for you to just do on your own, right? [ Considering he's just a kid and all too. ]

That could work. A drawing is something anyone understands, right? In fact, there used to be languages that consisted entirely of pictures in the past in my world.

I've been helping Ucchan as much as I could, I just remember what she does so I do it too. Uhm... It's a lot of work but Ucchan isn't here, so I'll have to do it. Business can't stop just because things are a bit difficult now!

[That last part probably is a mentality acquired from Ukyo. The kid is becoming all a business man.]

Uh... How can a language consist of pictures? Did they talk describing the pictures?

So young and already that sort of mentality.. I'm sure all of my uncles and aunts back home would have been proud of you. [ he could totally join the umineko economics talk ranks!! ] Make sure to not overwork yourself though, okay? Get some help if that's the case.

And about that.. you would probably have to get into some technical details, but language is just something you grow up with, right? The kids there just learned what each picture meant when it was drawn.

[That or go play with Maria.]

Okay!! Working all day is no fun anyway, if I get bored and have no customers I will just close and go to play!

[So the opening hours and schedule of the restaurant is bond to be messed up until Ukyo returns.]

But what about when they talked? Did they talk with pictures too?

[ Well, that's not really a good plan either, but.. whatever, he's trying his best. Ange is okay enough with that. ]

You can't really talk with pictures, right? They talked just the way we do, with sounds. It's just that if they wrote those sounds down, they used pictures instead of words.

[At most the place will be open in the morning until lunch and close for the afternoon, or the other way around. He will definitively have it open for lunch or dinner, he's not stupid enough to not realize that's when it's the most important time to have the place open.]

Oooh, I see... I dunno if that's more complicated than normal writing or not.

[Sure he can make a drawing when he wants to say something and forgot how it's written, but that mostly only works with objects, animals and people.]

In the end it's a little like normal writing, I guess, the only difference is that whereas we would use a letter, they would use a picture. It's only useful if writing letters is hard for you.

Then again, I'm fairly sure nobody knows how to read hieroglyphs here. Unless they're kidnapping ancient Egyptians too now.

Nah, I haven't seen many old people around. I think the oldest I've seen is Giles but he doesn't look old enough to be ancient.

[Obviously ancient Egyptians means really old people from Egypt, wherever that is.]

[ jkgkhhkg the idea of Giles being ancient.. ]

Hey, when I say 'ancient' I don't mean really old people, you know. [ It's almost enough to amuse her a little. Almost. ] I mean people from a really, really long time ago.

Aaaaah.... When was that?

[Don't mind that he doesn't even know when now is.]

When, you say..

[ What is this, history class? Either way, Ange can indulge this a little, sure. ]

At least for me back home, it's been about two thousand years since then. That's a pretty long time, right?

It is, just a year felt really long for me! Are there really people that old in your world? I don't think even gods would be that old.

[They would be older, Goku.]

No, they're not that old.. They died a long time ago. They lived just as long as you and I will, you know? [ don't assume things, Ange.. ]

And if it's about gods, they would be older, right? If you go by the theory that they created humans, they have to be older than the older humans.

Oooh, then how do you know about them? Oh, are there books with drawings that belonged to them then?

Gods created humans? I don't know about that, no one there seemed to be able to do that... The things I saw they had created weren't humans at all.

[The last thing is said in a muttered tone, dark, angry and sad. The kid shakes his head and cheers up again.]

If gods created humans, who created gods?

[ So many questions, Goku.. But it's okay, she doesn't really mind answering them. Talking is a way to keep herself occupied, after all. ]

Sort of like that. And they dug up old things that belonged to them as well, and from that people can try to think about how they lived.

Some people believe that gods made humans, but not everyone. I personally don't really care about that sort of belief, but there are plenty of people who do out there.. [ The tone is a bit concerning, but.. maybe she shouldn't pry for now. Maybe if it sometime comes up again, but.. ] And I don't know. It would be pretty complicated, because if you answer that you have to ask who created whatever created gods, right?

[Questions are a normal thing when you're barely one year old.]

I see! ... Wait, then even if I hide something by burying it somewhere someone will come years later and dig it up to think about how I lived? I don't think I like that.

Why do people believe those things?

[He ponders for a second. She's right, if he wonders who created the gods, he can wonder who created those who created the gods... And so on until he loses count.]

Maybe they just came from a stone? They were simply born like that, poof!

They might. But it won't be in a long time.. Say, you'll have to wait a thousand years or so for someone to dig it up again. And then it has to be something that will last in the ground for all that time too, so I don't think you have to worry about anything.

And maybe your theory is true, who knows. It's not like anyone else can make up a better theory. [ devil's proof? ]

As to belief, that part is a little more complicated, mostly since people have lots of different reasons to believe. Some do it out of habit or tradition, and I guess others maybe just like to have something like that to hold on to.

Oh... A thousand years is a very long time, I'll probably have forgotten about it by then, I suppose then it would be okay... I still don't like the idea of people digging up my things, what if I hide a huge big secret no one should ever know?

... Why is it a theory?

[He listens to the explanation regarding belief in silence but... Honestly it doesn't make sense to him.]

I don't really understand it. I believe many things but nothing like that, am I doing it wrong?

If it's a big secret, then you probably shouldn't bury it. People could find it either way, no matter whether it's in a thousand years or a few days.. You should hide it better than that.

Well, it's a theory since nobody can say whether it's actually true or not that they came from rocks, right? So as long as it's still speculation, it's a theory.

[ She imagined as much, but.. hey, it was worth a try. ]

... No, it's okay. You're doing just fine, so don't think about it too much.

What better way there is other than to bury it?

[He has nothing to hide yet but who knows. The next part...]

I came from a rock. I think. Ah, but I'm not a God, so it doesn't count?

If you really don't want it to be found, you could tell someone you trust to destroy it if you'd die or something like that. That's pretty much a sure-fire way.

[ wait, did he really say he.. came from a rock.. ]

You came from a rock? How do you mean that?

Oh... I guess if I die it won't have any meaning to keep it, right? But I don't want to die anytime soon.

[Or think about it. The kid nods.]

I remember it clearly! The largest moon ever, hanging in a dark blue sky with no clouds or stars, the broken rock, in two halves each on my side as I sat there. It was only me and the rock there, up in the mount, there wasn't much space for anything else actually.

Then you can hang on to it for a while more, right?

[ Yes, let's not dwell on the subject of death for too long around a kid, sounds like a plan to Ange. ]

... I don't think that anyone could be born from a rock, no matter what kind of world you come from. All humans are born from other humans.

... Ange-neesan. Why do so many people here call me human?

[At least the way you worded it sounds as if you're calling him that, and that other woman did so too.]

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