[Minakami shoots an apologetic look at Tamamori, before responding to Van Zieks. He's not the only one who was hoping for some kind of common ground in a world of strangers.]
We'd have just been born in your time, anyway -- we're in no position to say what was really happening on the other side of the world.
[Anyway. Good work everyone involved, you've managed to baffle the guy with a literally-supernatural perfect recall. Minakami stares down at the cover of the top book in his pile, as if it might divine some answer. It does not.]
I... I'm sure that I've seen that version of the name in a publication somewhere... It's certainly possible the ones we read was a localization error? [Ruikou's translations did put their own stamp on the material, after all... Even in his bewilderment, he does pick up on Van Zieks's wording ('for better or worse') and tone.]
Are you personally acquainted with the detective?
[Which is the diplomatic way of saying, you sound like you have opinions.]
i slump down my chair further, giving up entirely on the fourthwall conundrum
We'd have just been born in your time, anyway -- we're in no position to say what was really happening on the other side of the world.
[Anyway. Good work everyone involved, you've managed to baffle the guy with a literally-supernatural perfect recall. Minakami stares down at the cover of the top book in his pile, as if it might divine some answer. It does not.]
I... I'm sure that I've seen that version of the name in a publication somewhere... It's certainly possible the ones we read was a localization error? [Ruikou's translations did put their own stamp on the material, after all... Even in his bewilderment, he does pick up on Van Zieks's wording ('for better or worse') and tone.]
Are you personally acquainted with the detective?
[Which is the diplomatic way of saying, you sound like you have opinions.]