…[What????????? He has so many questions though!! But simultaneously he has started to learn Lili is stubborn and will ask if he ignores her, so. He debates an answer.]
The others will be fine. [That much he's sure of. Tamaki and Haruhi have one another, as do Mori-senpai and Hunny-senpai. Kyoya-senpai…well, he can take care of himself just fine, and that still leaves Kaoru a little uneasy.] He needs me though. If I don't return, I don't know what will happen. Boston might get destroyed.
[This is said lightly, but he's also under the impression that if Kaoru just never came back Hikaru would tear apart the city looking for him sooner or later.]
It's in America. We just moved there for school. [Which doesn't mean much, he thinks, but he's also pulling down a book about cars because there's a tractor and maybe that'll be important later.]
He would hate it here. [Still lightly, grinning a little to himself.] He'd complain that it's boring and he'd argue with everyone he spoke with that rubbed him the wrong way. He wouldn't be able to say exactly what he wants to say right away. And that's why he needs me.
I want to know why they only brought one of us. We aren't supposed to be apart. [Not like this anyway.]
[lili is, for some reason, not going to realize that the person that kaoru is describing sounds familiar
anyway]
... mm, it sounds like a lot of people were brought here without their close friends... but if he would hate it here, and you want to see him again so badly, then the only answer is to get you home.
[easier said than done but she sounds just a confident as ever]
[There's a hum of agreement. He doesn't feel like lingering on the subject of Hikaru right now because it's not something he wants to explain to a stranger, but Lili has a point.]
Maybe we're on a survivalist game show. Abandoned somewhere, we have to find our own way home before our resources run out. The gates might be closing us off from the real world.
[He believes none of this, but turning it into a game is easier.]
What if we use the tractor instead? Those know how to dig, don't they? [He hasn't seen this tractor but maybe it has a shovel on it? He's 100% thinking of something else.] Or we can have someone drive it into the gate.
Yes. They're supposed to help people with manual labor, but we don't have them at our house. [Tractors are possibly on the same level as myths.] But if it's heavy enough it could dent the gate.
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A bartering chip, like for trade?
[What if he doesn't address the other thing yet.]
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Well... maybe.
The king would probably want me back since it'll look bad if his palace lost me and wasn't able to recover me, but my father probably won't care.
[what if they don't stay on that subject]
You didn't answer my question.
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The others will be fine. [That much he's sure of. Tamaki and Haruhi have one another, as do Mori-senpai and Hunny-senpai. Kyoya-senpai…well, he can take care of himself just fine, and that still leaves Kaoru a little uneasy.] He needs me though. If I don't return, I don't know what will happen. Boston might get destroyed.
[This is said lightly, but he's also under the impression that if Kaoru just never came back Hikaru would tear apart the city looking for him sooner or later.]
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[she's guessing, but]
You seem very close.
I don't know where Boston is... but it'd be terrible if it were to be destroyed. You have even greater reason to be sent home than the rest of us.
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He would hate it here. [Still lightly, grinning a little to himself.] He'd complain that it's boring and he'd argue with everyone he spoke with that rubbed him the wrong way. He wouldn't be able to say exactly what he wants to say right away. And that's why he needs me.
I want to know why they only brought one of us. We aren't supposed to be apart. [Not like this anyway.]
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anyway]
... mm, it sounds like a lot of people were brought here without their close friends... but if he would hate it here, and you want to see him again so badly, then the only answer is to get you home.
[easier said than done but she sounds just a confident as ever]
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Maybe we're on a survivalist game show. Abandoned somewhere, we have to find our own way home before our resources run out. The gates might be closing us off from the real world.
[He believes none of this, but turning it into a game is easier.]
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[scurries off to
find a book on that]
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[that's her argument]
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[And they're disgusting so he's not into the idea of crawling around in the dirt for something that might not work.]
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[so the tunnel won't collapse. duh.]
We don't need to dig to Boston, only past that gate.
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What if we use the tractor instead? Those know how to dig, don't they? [He hasn't seen this tractor but maybe it has a shovel on it? He's 100% thinking of something else.] Or we can have someone drive it into the gate.
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Kaoru.
What is a tractor?
[KAORU!!! explain!!!!]
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[...he's finding a book on gardening and flipping through it, holding it up on a picture of a tractor.]
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And it's large and heavy?
[she presumes that's the most important part]
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Okay.
Let's go get it.
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Do I have everything I need?
[no]
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[smh!]
But I don't want to have to come back so soon if we're already here.
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[she apparently doesn't plan on making him carry books]
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I'm not sure what else you need to know. It doesn't even look like most of the amenities here are modern in the first place.
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