Did you expect this to happen? I didn't expect it to happen.

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[putyourheartin]

It's nice to meet you, Ping. I'm Shimazu Yoshino.

Mm, I know some soldiers, too! I was surprised that they were all so young.

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Young people are better suited for fighting!

[putyourheartin]

That's true, but I'm just not used to it. Where I'm from, you have to go to school until you're 18.

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18? That seems...well that seems kind of old to be forced to go someplace.

[putyourheartin]

Not really. Maybe people mature slower where I'm from.

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Maybe. Women are usually married by that age, though.

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Some even have children, right? Seriously, could you imagine someone like me having children? People definitely mature slower now.

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Well I don't really know you...

[putyourheartin]

The standards really must be very different if you can look at me and even possibly imagine me as a mother.

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Well, you get to be married for at least a little bit before you have children, so maybe you would learn from your mother-in-law how to be a good mother.

[putyourheartin]

Ah, no, it's not that I'm worried about it. It's just really far in the future. After all, I think I'm still a child!

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How old are you?

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Seventeen. You?

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I'm sixteen, even younger than you. I guess we do mature differently from your world.

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What year is it where you're from?

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[Insert name of year. NOTE: it is not on the western calendar and therefore completely moot and incomprehensible as a way to measure time.]

...But I don't think the names of our years are on the same measure as yours.