I have come to report a great, great thing. Remember your post about “I'm alone right now” not actually existing in the Japanese version of game?
Well, apparently, it does, after all! Just stumbled upon this in my new walkthrough.
Looks like it's in the pool of possible greetings. I'm currently only on the 2nd level of his confidant, idk if that could be connected. Something about that んだけど is so inexplicably suggestive to me, I can't even...
Conclusion: Goro has the capacity to be thirsty for Akira in Japanese just like in the English version.
[Here's that original post, btw.]
Amazing. You have done sterling work for the people here. Look at this, lmao.
いま一人で
ima hitori de
I'm by myself...
いま一人で吉祥寺にいるんだけど
ima hitori de kichijouji ni iru n da kedo
I'm by myself in Kichijoji right now...
少し時間が空いちゃってね
sukoshi jikan ga suichatte ne
And I've left myself at something of a loose end, would you believe?
君が良ければなんだけど少し話せないかな?
kimi ga yokereba nandakedo sukoshi hanasenai ka na?
How would you feel about meeting up and talking a little?
I've got to say, I don't know if that ima hitori de is as suggestive as the English "I'm alone right now". But it doesn't matter. Because look at the rest of this, lmao.
Look at how much Akechi is hedging here. That n da kedo on the first line of the message is fairly standard, just leading into an invitation—it suggests the listener should reply. Literally, "The thing is [n da], I'm alone, but [...and so I was wondering...]".
We go on into the second line. "... I've ended up [-chatte] with some time to fill, yes?" And then the third: "Only if you want to, couldn't we perhaps meet up and talk a little?"
Listen to him. Most of his text invites are very straightforward; they're nothing at all like this—maybe because this is a generic invite, not linked to a confidant level; you could get it as easily for conf 2 as conf 5, if not higher. His invite to Joker and Yoshizawa on 7/11 is a little like this, but not this much like it.
He has two softening uses of sukoshi ("a little"). He has that nai ka na ("I wonder/what if") on his actual invitation. He repeats that n da kedo from the first line of the message on his invitation ("only if you wanted to, perhaps...")
Idk, it almost sounds kind of feminine? He's being very conciliatory here; he's leaving Joker a lot of room to say no. I feel like this is the Akechi who tries not to put people off in his homeroom by not standing out too much and being Pleasant.
It is, in short, possible to take it as being at least a little bit flirty. And so we get "I'm alone right now."
This is @sapphira-doll and I's third and last twinning, this time with the best piece we have in common: Mary Magdalene's Claudette OP. We have now exhausted the pieces we have in common, but we sure ended with a bang. We kept the outfits simple and summery for weather reasons.
That day was supposed to be cooler, but still ended up being above 30 and humid. We met with Mia (behind the camera) in Kichijouji, and she wore a similar dress to ours, but since it's not exactly the same, I am keeping our triplet pictures, as well as the restaurant's pictures, for next post.
My outfit:
Dress: second-hand Mary Magdalene
Gloves: vintage
Shoes: second-hand Queen Bee
Stamp patch brooch: second-hand Jane Marple
Basket brooch : Design Festa
Hat: modified Daiso
Det er søndag igjen, og ikke har jeg noe spesielt å gjøre. Rett etter tennis dro jeg rett til Kichijouji for å treffe Arthur. Etter gatevandring bestemte vi oss for å spise Shabushabu (se link om du lurer), som han visstnok spiser en gang i uken. Det kostet omtrent 150 kroner, og vi fikk 90 minutter på oss til å spise så mye vi ville.
Skriver dette dagen etterpå, og er fortsatt ikke noe sulten. 😂 Tror det blir en stund til neste gang jeg drar, men han bestilte for mye kjøtt det kan jeg bekrefte.