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[unionjackoff]

Well. It looks as though my employer has gone missing. I suppose that means I'm out of a job.

...A lot of people seem to have disappeared, hm?

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[Video]

[smallspot]

Your employer has been sent home too?

[A sad look fills Diarmuid's eyes.]

So many people to remember when it gets warm enough to do my memorial. Were you close?

[Video]

[unionjackoff]

Close? I don't know about that. But she was quite friendly, and we had several things in common.

[Video]

[smallspot]

What was her name?

[The boy can't help but be curious about if he knew her or not.]

Maybe you should run her shop for her! That way you won't be out of a job and you can keep her work going!

[Diarmuid really doesn't know how this job thing works. He's just a kid, after all...]

[Video]

[unionjackoff]

Her name was Ashe. [ponders] I do not know if I'd be able to take after her line at work. [he was like a secretary! plus, he's a nation, and used to following orders. this whole human job thing is foreign to him]

[Video]

[smallspot]

Ashe? Ashe is Lord September's lady friend! Oh no!

[Diarmuid really needs to stop referring to people like that. It doesn't quite mean what he thinks it does...]

Maybe that is why I haven't seen him lately. I'll have to check on him!

What kind of shop does she have that you can't run it? You're smart! You know lots of things. I'm sure you can do it!

[Video]

[unionjackoff]

[lady friend, huh? England rubs the back of his neck]

She was a healer and herbalist. I know enough about herbs, i suppose, but I've never healed anyone, nor have I practiced the kinds of magic she used.

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[drank_the_milk]

...Sorry. It's hard, I know.

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[unionjackoff]

I suppose it's inevitable. I just wish I knew what the qualifications were for sending someone back home. Or if she was taken somewhere...

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[drank_the_milk]

I'm pretty sure there's no real way to know.

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[unionjackoff]

Have you ever seen anyone get sent back home, miss Akashi?

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[drank_the_milk]

...My girlfriend disappeared a few months ago.

[detective_shirogane]

That is unfortunate news.

[Hrm... she already had Mitsuru and Fuuka under her employ, so she wasn't sure she could afford someone else...]

... Have you possibly thought about running your own business?

[video]

[unionjackoff]

...My own business. I'm not sure what I'd do. [amused]

[video]

[detective_shirogane]

The English have always found a way to make their way in the world, have they not?

[Just don't try to introduce opium to Saeng Seong, Kay? No need of a repeat of China...]

Why not a tea shop, for example? Certainly with your expertise...

[video]

[unionjackoff]

There is already a tea shop I frequent regularly. Otherwise, I would have considered that.

[video]

[detective_shirogane]

Ah, I think I know which one you're talking about...

[That left Naoto to pondering.]

Well, would you rather work for an established business, or something created by guests?

[video]

[imanapexpredator]

Wait, people are just disappearing? Like, without a trace?

[video]

[unionjackoff]

[blinks]

Yes. It happens every so often, but the disappearances have become more frequent lately.

[video]

[imanapexpredator]

That's...kind of creepy. Are they like, being kidnapped or something? [A pause.] ...Again.

[video]

[unionjackoff]

There really is no way to know for sure. Could be that, this, or the other thing. The officials here can be stingy with their information.

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[hotboss]

Any reason for the disappearances that you know of?

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[unionjackoff]

I just know that there is a machine that apparently brings people here and sends them home as it pleases. At least, that is how the scientists explain it. I am still not entirely sure on whether people are returned home, or if they are taken someplace else. Could be either, really, with how little information is given to us.

[hotboss]

And I take it that we don't know exactly who built the machine.

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[unionjackoff]

Scientists. That is all I know, and that's all that was told to me.

[hotboss]

Is that so?

[Why, scientists are some of Giovanni's favorite people, especially when he sways them to his side. So maybe...] Maybe we'll get to meet them ourselves at some point.