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I'm Yuuki Shinomiya of POKEGO. I recently got the Libra app and did some backreading and saw you mention a meeting that you didn't want phones at.

I'll be frank: I'm a hacker and coder (I can get you a list of the apps I've coded if you want proof) and I'm guessing that meeting involved something you didn't want to risk people recording or something. I'm extremely interested and I can give you my email, Discord handle, or any other means of communication if you don't want to use something that has Libra on it.

Thanks,

Yuuki Shinomiya. "Azalea"

[ It takes a little while for the response to come back – there's the telltale coming and going of a typing bubble to indicate that she's choosing her words very particularly but the response that comes through is maybe a little unexpected; ]

?

Sorry, I think you might be getting me confused with someone else. I don't really hold meetings or anything, but I've had study groups at the university library once or twice during our lunch hour, but that's the closest thing I can think of.

Sorry I can't be of more help to you.

[ ... or maybe it's exactly what he'd expected to see. ]

[Yeah, he's got it.]

Ah well. I've been visiting the campus on Wednesdays to talk about enrolling, maybe that's what I saw. Sorry to bother you.

[However, he is absolutely on the campus on Wednesday, if Ryoko is there, and he is wearing a POKEGO sweatshirt since that's really the only identification he gave the girl, and he doesn't know what she looks like.]

[ It's a little into lunch hour that a slight, exhausted looking girl falls quite casually into step behind Yuuki as naturally as if she simply happened to be going in the same direction as him without a care in the world. It's not until there's nobody around the two of them that she speaks up. ]

Shinomiya. [ Then, dryly; ] Thank you for announcing the private meeting to everyone who might have been listening in on my communications.

[ ... I'm so sorry in advance ]

[Shrug.]

You didn't leave any other way of contacting you and anyway Zodiac's got too much other shit going on to care about private messages right now. So what was so important you had a no phones rule?

[ Ryoko gives a derisive snort but she concedes. He's probably right – she did all that planning right on the app after all, for lack of any other avenue to use. They probably suspect she's up to something, if they're paying attention at all. ]

Let's just say I have something I'm working on that I don't want Zodiac to hear about, regardless of how busy they might or might not be. They have good reason to believe I stole from them and I don't want any more eyes on me.

That heist I saw mentioned, yeah? What'd you steal?

[ She gives him a particularly sharp look before answering. ]

... I shouldn't have to ask, but you didn't bring your phone, did you?

It's in one of the rental lockers just off campus with my bag.

[He needed his bus pass okay?]

Don't even have my laptop with me.

Good. They already tried to kill me once for taking it, so I don't want to give them a reason to try again.

[ COOL THINGS TO CASUALLY DROP WHILE MAKING A FIRST IMPRESSION WITH A STRANGER ]

It's a file to do with the software of the Libra app – encryption and magic and everything in between. I've been working on decoding it.

[THE FUC--oh okay that makes sense actually.]

Shit. Any luck so far, or do you want some help?

I'm making progress. There's a few roadblocks – the documents are heavily censored so there's a lot of information I'm missing. And half of it seems to build on an understanding of magic I just don't have, so I'm working around that. And the half I do understand – the coding – is built on outdated software architecture compared to what I'm used to. The computers in 2023 are much more primitive compared to my own era.

[ and now she's hitting him with the time travel brick as well.......... ]

[Yeah there's no dodging that brick.]

Primitive? When the hell do you come from?!

[ Without missing a beat or a step, as casually as one would say they were from 'Europe' or 'the States': ]

2064.

[....fair enough.]

Can I see what you've got so far? My personal computers are way better and stronger than what you can find in a library.

[ Firmly: ] You can see an excerpt. I'm not handing over the whole thing.

[ A mix of stubbornness and the She Almost Died of it all. ]

Besides, the more people who are involved in this, the greater chance we could end up with leaks. That isn't going to be a problem with you, is it?

[ ... There's really no other way to take that than a very politely implied threat. ]

[A Look.]

No? Why would I be asking about this if I was a narc?

I'm just going to repeat the part where I almost died. I think a little caution is wise.

[ she's paranoid. that's it. ]

[A shrug.]

I'm POKEGO. They trust me less than they trust you.

[ Ryoko's gaze lingers on him for a little longer, lips pinched into a thin line before she finally gives a little scoff and it turns into a frown. Despite the apparent distaste, though, what comes out of her mouth isn't a denial but: ]

Fine. I'll bring an except of what I have so far and you can examine it and see what you think. It'll be a copy of the original and we'll exchange it at the library on Friday at noon. Does that suit you?

Fine. I might be a little late, though, since I'm not technically a student yet.

Hurry up and enrol, then. I'm not putting my work on hold for you.

[ And with that, she picks up her pace and overtakes him so she can set off for... whatever it is she's doing at the university today. C–conversation over, apparently?? ]

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