A man in black [OTA, MTW]

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In the clinic, he lost his mind and found it again.

He was cleaned up and sent on his way once they'd given him painkillers and some care. He was fine by that; he knew how to get home, but despite everything, he needed to be out. He needed to make sure he had dodged death once again. He hit the streets and walked, taking in the city with dark eyes

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It was a little difficult to wrap one's mind around, how everything had suddenly morphed into a different world and how most people seemed to think they have been living in this city since forever. Kanda wasn't sure why it didn't happen to him; maybe being out in the woods at the time the strange rain started had anything to do with it. Still, he's gotten a long black trenchcoat for it, eerily accompanying his long, black ponytail that was getting soaked in rain as he refused to keep the ridiculous hat, and didn't stick out of the general context.

He was a little too busy trying to wrap his brain around the fact that nobody seems to notice such a huge weird thing has happened, so as he passed the newspaper stand he practically wasn't looking where he was going, and conveniently bumped into someone reading a paper.

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"Watch it, boy!" the man snarled, as he fumbled with his paper. "Ah-- damn Chinese. Bet you don't speak a lick of English, either. Get away with you!"

Welcome to the 1920s, Kanda Yu. It's pretty openly racist here in Noirland.

Snape straightens his paper, looking at Kanda like he's a bug, nothing but revulsion on his face. A lesser person touched him! Like he was one of them! Foul! Disgusting!

But--

--there's a strange memory, like--

--what he's saying is somehow wrong.

Don't use that word! in his own voice. Chinese? No. Something-- else.

He can't recall, and it only makes him more angry.

"Get on with you. I don't have time for your betters, let alone Chinese street urchins."

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Unfortunately, thanks to his upbringing, Kanda has no idea what 'racist' really means and simply assumes the man is an asshole. And while he doesn't particularly care, he's usually the one to speak to people he holds lesser than himself like this, so someone else doing it to him is hardly standable.

So he actually stops and turns back, his expression rather emotionless. "I'm not Chinese, idiot," he states, not even a sign of accent, and looks almost a little triumphant. You'd think it's supposed to be obvious that he doesn't really have an ethnicity, while it's true that he does in fact look Asian. But it's not like details like this matter. Right now he just wants to argue with this irritating human a little.

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Frankly, Kanda wouldn't be incorrect in his assumption about Snape. It applies to.

"I don't care what flavor of Oriental you are," the taller man snarls. "Get on with you." He paid for his paper, and made to leave, still trying to figure out why this left him feeling wrong.