murder at disneyland!! ok no not really ... well maybe

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I think when we first met you said some stuff that wasn't very nice, so I hope you didn't mean that!

[INTO INNOVATIONS THEY GO. Luckily for Hiro, Yona is instantly distracted by literally everything in here.]

Ooh! Hiro, Hiro, look at it all!

[zerotohiro]

No, I definitely meant it back then. [This is mumbled under his breath though and OFF THEY GO. They're both tugging each other along and he's leading her to the center.]

There's a lot of really cool stuff...where do you want to start? We can go down to the first floor and come back up here later if you want.

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What's on the first floor?

[google is failing me, send help]

[zerotohiro]

The house of the future. [He looks pleased.] It's a good place to start to get you up to speed on what kind of tech is available in our world. It might help explain things better to you, too.

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That sounds perfect!

[time to head for downstairs ... she doesn't let go of Hiro's hand, though, so now she's tugging him along]

[zerotohiro]

Pick a room. [They're still going down the stairs when he asks. The stairs are big.] Kitchen, living room, I think they have a model bedroom...all kinds of stuff.

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[Honestly, big stairs kind of remind her of Hiryuu palace, so ... it's fine. She's marginally more at ease among all this technology than she was two seconds ago.]

The kitchen! ...but I bet they don't make treats as delicious as the ones your Aunt Cass makes here.

[zerotohiro]

You're not wrong. [He's taking the steps two at a time which is a stupid idea, but here we are.] They don't have actual food here, but they have all kinds of cool appliances and stuff. I want to see if I can get some ideas for helping Aunt Cass upgrade Lucky Cat.

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[It's ok, if he falls Yona will (try to) catch him.]

Ooh, if she upgrades it is she going to be able to make more pastries? Or different kinds of them that she couldn't do before?

[zerotohiro]

Yup. [He sounds proud for the moment.] My aunt's really talented even if she doesn't know it. Having stuff like this would make her life a little easier.

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How hard will it be to get stuff like this for her?

[Maybe they can do a fundraiser...]

[zerotohiro]

Depends. If I can get a closer look...I might be able to make some of it. We'll see. [They reach the bottom of the stairs and he takes her hand to pull her along.] This way. It gets really crowded down here sometimes.

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Can I help?

[does she know shit about machinery? no. but there's no one better than Hiro to teach her.]

[zerotohiro]

[A blink.] You want me to teach you about robotics and technology?

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...yes?

[is it really that weird for her to be asking...]

We don't have anything like it in Kouka, so I'm sure there's a lot I'll need to learn... but if you like it that much, I'm sure it's fascinating! And it would be a lot of fun to do things together, don't you think?

[zerotohiro]

...yeah, it would. [He grins because that idea's actually pretty nice.] It's a lot to learn and a lot to explain, and you might not get all of it right away just because of how things are in Kouka...but you're a fast learner. It'd be cool to see what you can do.

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Great!

[She beams at him, then tugs him over to point out a fancy-looking stove with a lot of bells and whistles.]

Let's start now. Tell me how that works!

[zerotohiro]

Okay. So you know how a normal oven works, right? Heat traveling through coils that warm up and are trapped in an enclosed space so that the temperature circulates and cooks things. This one looks like it's bigger, so more energy should be needed. But the design means it's a shorter distance and the energy needed is less.

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So you're able to do more cooking with less energy...

[She... sort of gets it? There may be a lot of nuances that she doesn't understand, but she kind of gets it.]

If you were building it, how would you improve it?

[zerotohiro]

Shorter circuits and faster output. Mostly it'd be a way to get things moving at a quicker speed so less energy's wasted especially in the preheating phase. That seems to be where most time is wasted...but doing that is tricky. Especially if you don't want the oven to blow up.

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Blow up-- do ovens do that often?

[because y i k e s]

[zerotohiro]

Only if they're not built right or you overheat them. [Or if you're Hiro, I guess.]

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[Definitely if you're Hiro.]

Cooking things over a fire seems a lot simpler.

[zerotohiro]

Simpler but also less effective. You can't always tell the temperature of what you're cooking over an open flame, can you?

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I don't know. I don't really cook.

[like... understatement of the century.]