text; @The Seventh Crown of the Seventh Demon King;

[unrequite]

[ Four lines of text. ]

This is written in Victorian.
Kore wa Laterano-ji Higashi-go de kakareteimasu.
This is written in Higashinese.
This written by in Yanese. (Might be bad. Sorry.)

Please do let me know how many of these sentences you understand.

[ The first is in what would be considered Earth English, the second is what would be known as Japanese written in Romaji, but he's called it "Laterano-ji Higashinese". The third was written in Japanese, the fourth was written in some rather poor Chinese. He's called the languages themselves clearly incorrect names. What's more important, though, is that only the second one should parse as phonetic, and should only be understandable to fellow Japanese speakers. The rest are in whatever language is most understandable to whoever reads it. Funny, huh? This city sure is strange! ]

Comments

[justscribing]

Perhaps they don't want to interfere with what they've set up here, or they don't trust us not to harm them after revealing themselves.

[unrequite]

The former seems more likely to me. The latter... Well, I can't speak for you, but I can't imagine what it would take for someone with the power, patience, and omnipotence to maintain all of this to fear someone like me.

[justscribing]

I'd agree.

[Someone, or someones, pulling this much off as too much power to fear the rats they've trapped. And it all feels very experimental. But he's missing the right pieces to be able to put the hypothesis to the test.]

[unrequite]

Well, even if it's unlikely, I do hope they're just shy, if not afraid. Shyness is a simple problem with a simple solution.

[ Midnight doesn't have much to contribute besides that. He's a vaguely chaotic instigator, not a deep thinker. ]

[justscribing]

[Consider: you can be both.]

Is it? Are you hoping they'll be nice enough you can convince them to just let you go?

[unrequite]

[ Midnight is a proud, cardholding member of the singular brain cell club, thank you! ]

Yes, of course. If they're open to conversation, I'll allow it. Who knows? They might be quite lovely, penchant for kidnapping aside.