first order of business.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, this may seem sudden, but how would you like to take up your sword and forge a new future for Japan?

Comments

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Black ships? I suppose some of them were black, but...

...Why, are you?

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

I come from after the Bakumatsu, in the tenth year of Meiji.

There are other Japanese here, but most of them seem to be from a much later time! It is something of a relief to meet someone from more similar circumstances here, I must say.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

The bakufu fell?

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

Yes, it did.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Well, at least there's some good news to be had here.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

Coming here can be a rather difficult adjustment to make, unfortunately!

But at any rate, it is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Himura Kenshin.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Likewise. I'm Katsura.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

...would you be of any relation to a Katsura Kogoro, by any chance?

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

I can't say I've ever heard of him. I'm Katsura Koutaro.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

I see. It was just that the name Katsura, and your opposition to the bakufu...it reminds me very much of someone I knew when I was younger.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, I'm the only Katsura in opposition to the bakufu.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

The Katsura I speak of was the leader of the Choushuu Ishin Shishi.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

You'll forgive me if I don't write out the name of my faction on this thing. It's public, right?

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

It is public, yes. I have seen little here that would lead me to believe that speaking of the politics back home would be dangerous here, but of course I will not press for details you would prefer not to mention here.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

If I can show up, then so could the Shinsengumi. I can't take any chances.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

An understandable precaution, I must agree!

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

This is so strange... Ah! It's kind of exciting, though.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

There is very little in this world that is not strange, I think.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

All of this history...

I never thought I'd meet one of the Three Great Nobles of the Restoration.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

One of the whos of the what?

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'm sorry, we haven't even been properly introduced and I... I'm talking like this... Perhaps I'm even a little hasty.

I'm from a future Japan. The twentieth year of the Heisei.

It's a pleasure to meet you.

[gloomyterrorist.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I'm just getting adjusted. Everything is very different here. It's a pleasure to meet you.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

You seem more conscious of history and the weight it carries than might be expected of most, Aya-dono.

[ryuume.livejournal.com]

The past is very important to me, Himura-san.

[reversebladed.livejournal.com]

The past is important to everyone, I think, but you are more aware of it than most.