5th Illusion ♠ TEXT; ID reads Kaito Kuroba

[tuxedo_magician]

New Years.

The time to leave behind the old and begin anew. If I was home, New Years would have passed by now. We would have done our visit to the shrine and listen to bell and then Aoko would have made food for me and her dad. Nakamori-keibu would have probably said something about how this was the year he was gonna catch that blasted thief or something, knowing him.

Instead, I get to watch a ball drop. Although, I must admit, it's a pretty ball. And very shiny. Although I'm glad to see that I'm not in that crowd. Because man that's a lot of people. I've never actually paid attention to an American New Year before. Is it always that crazy?

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[wasnever]

What do you mean it would've passed by now?

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[tuxedo_magician]

I'm originally from Japan. Our time zone is way ahead of America's.

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[disorder_heaven]

Dude, it's weird to think that back home, New Years woulda passed like. Fourteen hours ago. What's up with that?

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[tuxedo_magician]

Isn't it? By now I would have been getting money from people and getting all those New Years Postcards.

[And spent the day with Aoko and her dad, talk to his mom on the phone...]

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[disorder_heaven]

Nothing interesting on my end one way or another, but the idea of timezones is kind of weird. Like they're in the future or something, even though they're not. I mean, when they're fourteen hours ahead or even an hour ahead and it's already tomorrow, that's one thing. But for it to already be next year? Talk about trippy.

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[tuxedo_magician]

True Calling my mom is already weird when she's in Las Vegas, New Year's only makes it stranger.

Then again, it's my mom, 'weird' is only the tip of the iceberg with her sometimes.

[mightthinkthat]

Americans like a show and to overdo it. [ Not that he's in America at the moment. ]

[tuxedo_magician]

That explains all of mom's pictures from Las Vegas then.

[mightthinkthat]

I hope she enjoyed herself.

[tuxedo_magician]

Oh, she does. If her pictures are to believed.

I honestly didn't know people could contort the way her friends do.

[mightthinkthat]

[ TMI, dude. ] Glad to hear it.

[tuxedo_magician]

[HEY. ACROBATS AND MAGICIANS, MAN.

Not... THAT.

Ewwwwww.]

Yeah. The shows she sees out there seem to be pretty amazing from what she's said and shown me. I want to see them for myself one of these days.

[mightthinkthat]

[ Then don't call them 'friends', dude. Particularly if you're talking about Vegas. ]

Make sure you bring a friend. More the merrier, in a place like Vegas.

[tuxedo_magician]

[Considering his family history (and the fact that his dad was a world famous magician), they might as well be.]

True. I wonder how much like my Vegas this Vegas is.

[mightthinkthat]

Couldn't possibly say. Can't imagine the continuing reign of communism would have changed all that much.

[tuxedo_magician]

Too bad Mom isn't here. It'd be interesting to ask.

Maybe I'll put Vegas on my list of places to go when we do our road trip.

[mightthinkthat]

Perhaps she'll pop up sometime.

Good idea.

[tuxedo_magician]

Eh, I don't know if that's such a good idea.

She can be pretty scary.

[mightthinkthat]

Then she'd be ideal!

[tuxedo_magician]

If she ever shows up, them I'm sending her your way.

[mightthinkthat]

You had better! [ Someone with whom you can make a threat about is someone Francis wants to meet. ]