[That earns a look of interest. Bakugo had seemed pretty new here, and Hiyori didn't realize he'd already run into someone he knows. So the person from his world doesn't remember as much, either, huh...?]
Then we're in the same boat. Rinne-senpai and Leo-kun don't remember a thing about the qualifiers, the main competition, or anything that was going on before me and Jun-kun got kidnapped. They supposedly arrived here earlier, so I wonder if that had something to do with it. Do you know how long that person from your world has been here?
[He doesn't bother to explain what "the qualifiers" and "the main competition" are, but he's talking about SS: the big year-end competition for idols like himself. He and Jun were snatched before their unit could perform in it. To them, it's a huge deal: a dream they've been working towards, and something various corporations have sunk a ton of money into. Something even the overseas mafia has a hand in, if you can believe it. Idols in his country talk about it like it's a matter of life and death. Even though it isn't, of course. Some people have war in their countries.
Some people like Bakugo.
Hiyori's soldiers sag, his face grown serious. Great—someone else from horrible circumstances.]
I'm sorry to hear that.
[It's the only thing he can think to say at first. His experience with "war" isn't real war. He knows he can't understand how the other boy must be feeling, despite his own desperation to get home.
Yet this doesn't stop him from commenting further, anyway.]
And it's your duty to defend your side, correct?
[Hiyori poses the question, but it's perfunctory. He can guess the answer. Which means Bakugo doesn't just want to get home because he misses his friends or his creature comforts. He wants to get home because he has a sense of duty. In other words, he's noble.
Not that Hiyori didn't already know that. That's what "heroes" are, of course.]
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[That earns a look of interest. Bakugo had seemed pretty new here, and Hiyori didn't realize he'd already run into someone he knows. So the person from his world doesn't remember as much, either, huh...?]
Then we're in the same boat. Rinne-senpai and Leo-kun don't remember a thing about the qualifiers, the main competition, or anything that was going on before me and Jun-kun got kidnapped. They supposedly arrived here earlier, so I wonder if that had something to do with it. Do you know how long that person from your world has been here?
[He doesn't bother to explain what "the qualifiers" and "the main competition" are, but he's talking about SS: the big year-end competition for idols like himself. He and Jun were snatched before their unit could perform in it. To them, it's a huge deal: a dream they've been working towards, and something various corporations have sunk a ton of money into. Something even the overseas mafia has a hand in, if you can believe it. Idols in his country talk about it like it's a matter of life and death.
Even though it isn't, of course. Some people have war in their countries.
Some people like Bakugo.
Hiyori's soldiers sag, his face grown serious. Great—someone else from horrible circumstances.]
I'm sorry to hear that.
[It's the only thing he can think to say at first. His experience with "war" isn't real war. He knows he can't understand how the other boy must be feeling, despite his own desperation to get home.
Yet this doesn't stop him from commenting further, anyway.]
And it's your duty to defend your side, correct?
[Hiyori poses the question, but it's perfunctory. He can guess the answer. Which means Bakugo doesn't just want to get home because he misses his friends or his creature comforts. He wants to get home because he has a sense of duty. In other words, he's noble.
Not that Hiyori didn't already know that. That's what "heroes" are, of course.]