You manage to duck into an alley and pull Vahdahf and the dagger in with the help of Hermes and Vex. You exit out of the other side to not raise suspicions.

You make your way through the crowd and manage to wake Lita up with the sound of your voice. She gets her bearings and is surprised at the sheer size of the Tokyo Medical University. But she remains calm with you around.

Some of the crowd ask "Is she ok? We found her on the ground Unconscious.  We where about to send someone to get help."
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I whisper softly to her for the others not to hear, "I'll explain what I can soon, we have to get out of the crowd first." I whisper this as I lean down to kiss her and give her a hand to her feet.

"She will be ok, thank you for being so kind to stop and help."

I'll start helping Lita walk off, offering her support to lean on if she needs it. I'm trying to put distance between us and the crowd.

Once we're a ways off I'll talk in hushed tones as we walk:

"So, I may not have been as careful as I promised... I saw the opportunity to kill Jormungandr and had to strike. I believe it may have saved that world a great deal of pain and torment however."

I'll weave between streets, looking for a park or something where we can sit down and talk more, and also where I can observe the city to get a feel for it. How people are dressed, how they move, police presence, level of technology or overall abnormalities.

Either way though, I'll continue:

"But it looks like our bond was strong enough that you versed with me." and I smile warmly at her, "This is the life I live, I don't stay dead but rather get shunted into a different universe and I don't age. I should say we, these all apply to both of us now. If you relax your mind, you should also be able to feel a tugging sensation towards me. Versers can feel one another, just as a direction, but it's helpful. That's how I found you so quickly after we arrived." I breathe out slowly, "I know it's a lot to take in, but we have time. We do need to figure out what type of world this is though. I've stored my weapons to not draw extra attention, although our clothing will do some of that by itself."
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Lita accepts your kiss and your explanation calms the crowd.

You head south to the park you wake up in.
Explaining things as you go.
It is called Shinjuku Gyoen National Park.

You note that the city is modern by your standards. People have smart phones. You see an occasional police officer.  The streets are one and two lanes for cars but have wide sidewalks for pedestrians. Many buildings are 3 or 4 stories tall and you see skyscrapers in the distance.

You two stick out a bit because of your size and ethnicity in the predominantly Japanese population.

The younger people and some older people tend to be wearing things like t-shirts and bluejeans while other older people tend to be in a business suits.

When you get to a relatively private part of the park. Lita hugs you and says

"I am annoyed that you where not as careful as you said you would be. But you did what you had to do. And it worked out for us.

Where are we anyway? Everything looks so strange. And I don't feel any magic at all... how do those carriages work without horses?"
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I continue to take things in around me, marveling at how similar this world is to my home world, but also not convinced there won’t be major differences beneath the surface. I’ll continue monitoring just in case.

“I don’t know where we are. It’s a reasonably technologically advanced world similar to where I came from, and devoid of magic, also like my home. The carriages are called cars if they are called the same here, and they function by harnessing the explosive power of a chemical reaction and directing it through a series of gears and mechanisms. But that might be different here, but they do look like cars from my world.

Perhaps we can explore, get to see the city and try and find a place to stay. Is there something you’d like to see? It’s your first verse after all”
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You did smell the exhaust as some of them passed you. The seem to be burning gas like your home world. The prices you see in stores are in yen

Lita Replies
"I doesn't even know where to start. This is all so new to me but walking aroundand exploring would be nice. I did notice that they don't seem to be using gold and silver. Why is that?"
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"A walk would be good. If it's anything like where I came from, population outgrew gold and silver and other hard currencies. In order to represent the overall product of the nation or world nations created currency. The value of it is actually based on the faith in the social contract that everyone assigns it value. Depending on where they're at technology-wise, it likely is even tracked using digital means which are handled through the control of magnetism and electricity.

Let's see if we can find someone who's talkative. Chatty types sometimes will divulge a lot of information without having to give away that we don't know what's going on at all."

So planning to walk around for a while, holding Lita's hand as we go. I'm looking for someone who seems open and chatty, just someone with an overall friendly and outgoing appearance.

I will try to introduce myself, "Hello, would I be able to take a few minutes of your time? We just arrived in town, and we just can't decide what to go see first. What's your favorite part of the city?"

My hope is that I get someone who not only is willing to answer the question but loves to hear themself talk.
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Lita nods at your explanation. You walk for a while and find a young man chating with some of his friends. You ask your question and he replies.

"Oh? Tourists? Your Japanese is very good. If you a fan of Anime and Video games then Akihabara street is the obvious place to visit. There are a lot of good shops there. There are also plenty of historical sites here like the Imperial Palace and various temples. There are also various parks and museums here. Shinjuku Gyoen National Park is nearby. oh! Have you seen where they are going to hold the 2020 Olympics? What sort of things interest you?"

"I think it would be best to visit both of those, it's important to see the historical sites, but I do have a love of video games and anime. We're actually planning to make this an extended stay, we've been considering moving here actually and we were going to see if I could land a temporary job to help offset the vacation costs. Do you know of anywhere that would be hiring? I have a fair amount of coding experience, I've done some bouncer type jobs before, I know structural and mechanical engineering principles, and I'm fluent in English. Honestly I'm willing to do just about any job, just want to get something to offset costs a tad bit."

Internally to my furies Is one of you translating this for me? I have no idea why I'm able to speak japanese or read and hear it for that matter

"Wow. That is quite the amazing skill set you have. I wish I was that skilled. Hmmm... My father works on Consumer Electronics and he always says that he always needs poeple that know English and Coding. Oh. By the way my name is Yagami Toshiro. What are your names? I'll introduce you to my father."

Hermes replies

We are not sure how this is happening.
I don't think any one of us are particularly associated with languages.

"It is a pleasure to meet you Yagami Toshiro, I am Michael Washer." and I give him a respectful bow, "and this is Lita (I'm assuming I would know Lita's last name in character, but as a player I forget). Skills are just a matter of the time that has been allowed to you to train, I have been lucky to have both good teachers and time allocated, should you ever wish to learn I'd be happy to share any knowledge I have and I appreciate you being willing to introduce me."

To my furies:
Odd, I assumed at first it was a technology doing translations in this world, but he seemed impressed by my Japanese. If it was a global technology doing the translation that wouldn't be an impressive feat. I'll have to keep an eye out, but also need to settle in and get situated to observe the world before deciding what to do.

"Thank you for the Offer Washer-san. My Father should be home soon. He will probably give you a test involving coding.

anyway, I Live about 4 blocks away. Would you walk with me Washer-san?"

I assume that you would follow him. If so Lita walks with you.

He takes you to some fairly well off apartments and heads inside. After a few minutes a gruff looking older man come out.

"I assume that you Are the Washer-san that my son told me about. What can you tell me about your coding experience?"

I bow respectfully to the man, and respond, "I am, thank you for taking the time to talk with me Toshiro-san. I've experience larger on back-end programming, having worked with C++, python, and SQL as my primary languages in database development. Largely I've designed systems for internal tracking of project management as well as optimizing employee workflow."

I avoid mentioning too many more languages, because I'm not sure they're called the same in this world, and if they're not I plan to play it off as a language conversion problem.

He looks at you for a moment and strokes his short beard.
"Come with me for a bit. I want to show you something."

He leads you in to a smallish apartment. And goes over to his computer and pulls up a C++ IDE along with a source file.

It is sparsely commented but you don't detect any bugs at a glance
"Ok. Could you explain what this code does in Japanese?"

You Read though it and follow the logic. It seems to take data from a database and convert them to pixels on an image once a minute to represent the change in data over time.

You do so and he looks impressed.

"Hmmm. Yeah. I work at Parasol Incorperated. And we would love to hire you. We have been needing a Programmer that Spoke both English and Japanese. What do you say? I would need to get it approved through Human Resource. And we would also need to discuss Salary and Benefits."

I smile and nod, "Absolutely, thank you for the opportunity. I look forward to talking with Human Resources and working for Parasol Incorporated."

Mostly just going with the flow on this, my hope is he offers us to stay the night and I can go into the office with him the next day then to talk with HR, but don't want to be rude and ask for that.

"hmmmm... It is getting sort of late to find a hotel. If you like, You could spend the night here Then we could go to the office tomorrow. But I only have one guest Futon. Would that be acceptable to you Washer-san and Lita-chan?"

"Thank you Toshiro-san, that would be a great help to us, thank you for your hospitality"

I give him another respectful bow, and otherwise just go with the flow and get situated. If the futon is too small to share I'll sleep on the floor, otherwise I'll cuddle up to Lita once getting ready for bed. I'll say to her quietly as I'm slightly paranoid of people overhearing, "Thank you for your patience with all of this, it'll be good to get established so we don't have to worry about how to get food or shelter, then we can figure out what's going on here."

Otherwise not much that I'm trying to accomplish. When talking with HR my goals are just going to be to get a small signing on bonus that will help with having currency to get by until first paycheck, even if it's a forward payment on my first paycheck. Otherwise just negotiating reasonably to have comfortable wage and perks. I'm assuming they may have to get me registered with a work Visa or something too.

The wife cooks extra and the Family shares a meal with you and Lita. The son Yagami tries talking with you in English. You have to correct his pronunciation and explain some sayings. Then you go to bed cuddling with Lita.

She whispers back.
"I understand. That is why I have been letting you take the lead in all of this."

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The Next day you go with Toshiro-san to Parasol Inc.
You go to HR and They seem to be willing to Get you a Work Visa 100,000 yen sign on bonus. There are also decent wages and benifits for working there.

It is mid-Afternoon by the time you are done. They do need you do find an apartment so that they can put down your residence.

"I appreciate that, thank you for the trust. I hope we can get pretty well set up tomorrow." and I'll kiss her lightly and go to sleep.

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I'll let HR know that I'll go look at apartments first thing and thank them again for the opportunity.

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Once done with HR I'll meet back up with Lita, who I assume either waited in like a company waiting area or outside looking around.

I'll tell her, "Good news, it looks like we're all good here, just need to find an apartment to rent. Let's go look at some of the nearby apartments."

Once outside and walking a bit, "So apartments are housing units run by people in exchange for money. I'd like to find an apartment close to a transportation system in town, pretty close to this building since I'll be working here. Otherwise just overall would like it to be a nice place. Anything, in particular, you want to look at for where we live for now? We should have enough money with the sign on bonus I just got to afford a fair amount of comfort."

I'm largely willing to go with whatever apartments look best to Lita, just trying to stay close to stuff going on. One that would have a grocery store nearby would be nice too.

Also, I'm assuming my motes did not regenerate over night? Are my furies ok? I'm assuming my soulscape is sufficient to sustain them without problem, but wanted to check.

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"So they are like an Inn that you stay at for a long time?"

You find that housing is pretty expensive in Tokyo but you find a decently sized one bedroom apartment that is near a subway that has another station near your workplace at Parasol Inc. There is also a food market near the apartment.
You manage to secure it with a 50000 yen security deposit. They expect a payment every month. And you are going to get paid weekly by Parasol.

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You didn't recover any motes from sleeping. Your Furies seems to be ok. Your soulscape seems to have suffice magic for them to subsidize on.

”Precisely. Normally you pay by the month as opposed to per night you stay there. As such you get more leniency on what you can change around and decorate and all”

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Sounds good about the apartment, meets our needs. Are we going to be able to move in the same day?

Once that’s all settled, I want to find a phone service provider store and get Lita and I two smart phones and data plan, and get groceries for us to be able to cook.

Once that’s done I have what I think I would need in order to at least be able to work for the week to get some more cash flow in, observing the world and trying to look for unexpected twists.

Lita nods in understanding

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You find a phone provider that you can get  decent smartphones and a voice and dataplan for 20000 yen up fron and a 10000 yen bill a month. The next day you go into Parasol's office and update your contact information. They want to to come in to work the next day.

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You spend about 15000 yen on bedding, dishes and enough food for a week.

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 Lita comments when you get home with the phones.
"So what do those magic things do? These 'Smartphones' we bought?"
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Parasol Inc. Appears to be a firm that researchs genetic engineering. They have a few products like corn and rice that have much greater yields and amazing Resistance  to disease.

They have you translating research papers and code. Mainly from English to Japanese. But occasionally from Japanese to English.

After your first day is done. Lita is bored and wants something to do.

"A smartphone is a communication device, it uses network towers that are set up around the world, and satellites that orbit the planet to connect everyone. It'll let us call one another to talk, or text to send written messages. You can also look up information from the internet which is a global network of information. I'm making some assumptions, but they're likely right, this looks to be a mirror universe of where I grew up, about 4 years after I first died."

I'll take her phone and program in my number then and show her how to call me.

"It's not always possible to answer though, based on what's going on. But you can leave a message and call back, or text what you want to say which helps when schedules don't align or the message isn't urgent."

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So after expenses tallied so far, there's 15000 yen left. And currently, monthly commitment is 100000 for the data plans/phones and whatever rent turns out to be

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"Let's walk about town and see about getting you something that you can pass the time with during the day. Would you like to pick up some books to read, or perhaps get a few games to play, or maybe the basics to start a small indoor garden?"

You show Lita how to use the phone. She gets how to make a call and plays on the internet a bit and ends up getting sucked into a wiki walk on wikipedia.

Every once in a while she asks you to explain a term that she doesn't understand.

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That is correct
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"Yes. Something to grow would be nice. The apartment is a bit too small to practice my Martial Arts in. Could we fine somewhere where I could practice them? The books sound interesting. But what kind of games do you play by yourself?"

"Do you want to practice martial arts with others, or just have an area for it? There is likely a Dojo you could join where people train together. It might also be a good way for us to meet more people and learn about the world. Otherwise we can try and find a park with a nice open area.

And for games, there are video games that are meant to be played as one player, effectively a computer in the game runs the game's storyline or plays as a second player. Some of those get pricey though, might be best to hold off until we have a bit of a cushion first.

"hmmmm... Why don't we do both? It would be nice to talk to and train with others. And I would also enjoy doing my katas in a park.


Computers can do that too? They are amazing machines. I would like to see one once we get our feet on the ground."

You look and find a Hibiya Park within 30 minutes walking distance. It also happens to be practically next to the Imperial Palace. It is a open western style park with trees, shrubs, flowers and grass. It has plenty of open area where Lita can practice along with a outdoor fitness gym.

Is there any particular styles you are looking for in a dojo? There is a Mixed Martial Arts gym about a 15 minute walk from your apartment.

Lita wants some seeds, dirt and pots that total about 2000 yen. She got a mix ofa few flowers, some medicinal herbs and small food plants like strawberries.

At the book store Lita seems to be interested in all sorts of books. She was interested is a book on herb she looked at for a while. There is books on martial arts and their history she also liked. There was also a general history of the world.
She also found the manga section and thinks that the art is pretty.