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[Video feed drifts lazily about New Bark Town. I'm sure you've seen it all before. An amused, disembodied voice begins speaking.]

All right. Obviously, there isn't enough room in this town for an asylum, so I won't bother trying to check into one.

[The camera lingers briefly on Mom's house. The unspoken implication is 'or trying to get others committed.'. The camera comes to focus on Youji's face. His smile is pleasant and friendly.]

I heard the 'Welcome to the world of Pokemon, they're fantastic,' spiel, so elaboration on what's going on is unnecessary. Far too sober to make sense of it anyway. I'd much rather hear about how you're dealing with this.

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You are absolutely right.

If I think I want an asylum, I must not really need one.

[He smiles, cranking the charm up to Excessive. He's not interested in her because she looks too young, but there's no harm in complimenting a girl and boosting her self-confidence.]

I'm much in your debt for helping me figure that out. You're a very clever girl, aren't you? Doing well in school?

[He's managed to confuse Sawako thoroughly.]

Eh? Oh...Th-thank you very much. But I don't think I've really done anything that deserves praise. I really do appreciate the compliment though! School's going quite well, although I'm afraid I've likely fallen behind since arriving here.

I think you have. You reminded me that knowing you're insane means you can't possibly be.

Something with that manner of cleverness and common sense probably won't have difficulty catching up... although, don't they have schools here? Obviously this town is far too tiny for one, but...

[Sawako still doesn't quite understand, but it seems she was able to help at least.]

I'll be very happy if that's the case, although I'm not so sure. I've missed a couple months of school, and it seems that I'm likely to miss much more. [It occurs to her that's she's complaining far too much, and she stops, embarrassed.] I'm sorry! I really shouldn't be complaining to you like this, should I?

I've not actually seen any schools here, although I imagine they must exist.

Complain to me all you want, especially if no one else lets you. I rather enjoy complaining, myself. It's necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

[...he lies, his lifestyle is anything but.]

Anywhere there's children, there tends to be schools. Doesn't seem fair that kids where I come from are truant when they don't attend, and kids here have never heard of such a thing.

I appreciate it! [What a wonderful person! How kind of him to not mind listening to her complaints.]

Yes, you're probably right. It must be that I've just not looked around enough, and so I haven't seen any. Children have to go somewhere to learn, after all.

It'd be a very strange world if they didn't, seems dangerous to just let them train animals all day.

Although if you want the break, I can't say as I blame you.

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