((hello I have decided great ace attorney is actually the worst game because of every time I'm forced to sit here and ask "is historical figures fourthwalling when this specific figure gets freaking mentioned in both of these canons and doesn't contradict real history in his depiction"))
[16 years prior to Van Zieks's time, so... he frowns, deep in thought. Before they'd left home, he'd been asking the Oizumi elders about the universities around Tokyo; one of them was a school of law...] To my knowledge, there were law students sent abroad around then, but -- they were sent to France, not England. I'm sure of that much.
[He does nearly mention another possibility: he's pretty sure the writer Natsume Soseki had gone to England as a student, around the time Van Zieks claimed to be from... but he stays his tongue. He'd been hoping to meet Soseki in person at the Imperial University, only to learn he'd passed on years prior. If they really were acquainted (and that was doubtful, given Van Zieks hadn't mentioned literature), he doesn't want to deliver the news that the man had died young.]
[(...typical that Kawase had been the one to find that mint first edition of Soseki's first book EVEN IF HE DID NOT HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY HE WOULD NOT FORGET TYVM.)]
...It's possible we aren't from the same timeline, after all. Or our experiences simply don't overlap. I'm sorry.
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hello I have decided great ace attorney is actually the worst game because of every time I'm forced to sit here and ask "is historical figures fourthwalling when this specific figure gets freaking mentioned in both of these canons and doesn't contradict real history in his depiction"))[16 years prior to Van Zieks's time, so... he frowns, deep in thought. Before they'd left home, he'd been asking the Oizumi elders about the universities around Tokyo; one of them was a school of law...] To my knowledge, there were law students sent abroad around then, but -- they were sent to France, not England. I'm sure of that much.
[He does nearly mention another possibility: he's pretty sure the writer Natsume Soseki had gone to England as a student, around the time Van Zieks claimed to be from... but he stays his tongue. He'd been hoping to meet Soseki in person at the Imperial University, only to learn he'd passed on years prior. If they really were acquainted (and that was doubtful, given Van Zieks hadn't mentioned literature), he doesn't want to deliver the news that the man had died young.]
[(...typical that Kawase had been the one to find that mint first edition of Soseki's first book EVEN IF HE DID NOT HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY HE WOULD NOT FORGET TYVM.)]
...It's possible we aren't from the same timeline, after all. Or our experiences simply don't overlap. I'm sorry.