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1 ~ when did I stop believing in Santa Claus? [audio/action]

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[A teenage boy is extricating himself with some difficulty from having been dumped, or appearing, in the middle of the fountain in the center of the village. He's muttering to himself and clambering out. He's dressed in the generic-enough North High uniform, but of more interest may be what he's saying -- which is picked up by the split-open journal next to him.]

...Really, Haruhi? After all of that, I'm in some other time and place again?! Oh, boy. She really just doesn't stop... Where the hell is it this time?

[Once he gets up and brushes himself off, he can be found staring with slightly less bewilderment than you might expect at his surroundings.]

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I'm actively worried that I haven't had her blast out my eardrums already.

Well, that is its mission. I have no doubt that when Haruhi wants to make something lively, she will. The question is more if it can ever become unlively again.

'I wonder whether I'm supposed to know who that is.'

And who's Kamijou-san?

Yeah, that's right. Though you might find a lot of people here from different versions of Earth. It seems to be a pretty popular name for a planet.

'I've always said there was something special about Earthlings. That, or...'

That, or someone's responsible for making a lot of different versions of Earth.

'...I don't want to sound too one-note, but I do know someone who might have done that.'

That sounds weird, though.

Stranger things have happened.

Kamijou-san is Kamijou-san!

'I see I'm speaking to an intelligence beyond my ken.'

Besides that.

Six months aren't that much, it's still closer to four than to just three.

[He eyes Kyon, noticing the funny sound he makes. It's not really hard to imagine what the issue is, at least part of it.]

Don't try to reason time flow here by the rules you know, [There's a cat mewling at one of the windows.]. Think of it like a video-game or a movie. You have your life in your world, with your sister and your family, your school and everything, that would be movie 1, one day you pause it, or rather you're forced to pause it. It's not the same as making it stop, and you switch to play a video-game rather than keep watching the movie. When you're tired of the game, you return to the movie, continuing it and everything goes on as normal on it, as if you never paused it.

Basically, Haruhi was taken from a time that for you is in the past, but that time-line stopped moving on while she's here so no one noticed her absence. When she returns she will return to the very second she left, continuing her life as normal... Until April 16th or 18th, time at which you're brought here and meet her before she's returned.

[He actually even tries to make an explanation drawing.]

I'm sure they have. [But it's strange to think about. Anyway-] Have you been able to get clothes yet? There's also free housing Luceti.

Ah, yeah, I was able to get some clothes. Free housing, too, huh? This place sounds like a racket.

[ ... Oh Keiichi. She's so used to you going off on odd tangents (and she's so put aback by Kyon being here) she doesn't even stop you. there's no point in trying to. Even when he goes to draw on the white board. she does get progressively more :| but. She'll let this distract things for now]

Thanks, professor.

It's not so bad when you look past the experiments, war, and being pulled away from your home.

'Koizumi's spirit lives on.

Naturally, I don't understand any of that. Okay, well, I understood some of it. I guess I got the gist. The point is that this place is totally different, yada yada yada, and nothing I do can affect the old timeline? Is that right?'

[He finds himself getting increasingly :| as it goes on, too.]

I guess I should take notes.

So, Haruhi. When are you from, then?

Haha... That's the person whom you're speaking with. It's like my unique speech quirk, understnad?

Well, if that's all, consider it looked past. Where do I sign up for my grant in perpetuity?

...Why do you have a unique speech quirk?

... [GOOD QUESTION. He doesn't know, so averting the topic.] Aren't there more important things that you should be thinking about right now?

[Keiichi just rolls his eyes at both of you. He was just trying to explain it so it wouldn't be too mind-blowing and because the old simple 'time stops at your world while you're here' may not cut it in this situation. Whatever, he takes seat again.]

Does that mean you don't have an answer?

'Though it's true. On the other hand, I have no idea how to approach those things.'

Haaah... Such misfortune. You're right. I don't really have an answer.

December. After Christmas.

Try the Welcome Center. They might have the sign up sheets there. [Haha, so this guy isn't so bad. She wonders what Haruhi honestly thinks of him.]

'More than a fair number of things have happened since then. Everything involving the Sky Canopy Domain, the time traveler bastard, Tachibana Kyoko, even that issue of the literary magazine, not to mention... But why am I bothering to recount these things, anyway?'

You remember everything up to December, but then you have three and a half extra years of memories? From this place?

'Is it my job to get her out of here? Haven't I earned a moment of rest, at least? This is definitely where I need help from Nagato or Koizumi. Even Asahina-san. She's the time travel expert, after all.'

Has a lot happened?

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