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[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

As soon as I disembarked, the captain gave me this laptop, surprisingly, with Internet connection. I tried explaining to him that I didn't need it, but he insisted. It was... unusual. Yet I accepted it without hesitation.

Afterward, I started my way to the shrine, or at least to where it was supposed to be. Two hours passed and there were no signs of civilization; nothing but the the pure, virginal forest. Until that moment, I was convinced the island was deserted; I didn't want to draw any conclusion hastily, though.

The shrine should have been located two kilometers from the beach, an equidistant point between the shore and the hills. It shouldn't have taken more than an hour, considering the landscape.

But there was absolutely nothing.

Later I reached a higher area from where I could finally observe the sea. It was the moment when I noticed... there was a spot in the horizon sailing away from this island. Shamefully... I came to the realization that this had been deliberately schemed! And there are not apparent means of transportation capable of returning me to the continent.

How could this happen... to me? I now understand how Leorio feels often...


According to the notification I received, I need to find the "Snowdrift Hut." If I were to obtain a map, I could easily read it depending on the position of the sun.

Comments

[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

No need for honorifics.

Piranhas? The biodiversity of this island never ceases to surprise me.

[orodegozaru.livejournal.com]

No need? Oh it would be so impolite for me to simply call you by your first name. Please, allow a wanderer some quirks.

Yes, so it would seem. Many of the animals are native to tropics if my guesses are correct, but a few are more commonly found much farther from the equator.

[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

I am younger than you, addressing to me as an equal will be enough. If not, 'sir' will just do.

In other words... flora and fauna are useless factors to determine the possible latitude of this island.

[orodegozaru.livejournal.com]

Ahh thank you very much, Mister Kurapika. I am older than you? Yes I do suppose you look rather young in your pictures. Sometimes it is hard to determine.

I would say that is a very accurate analysis.

[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

I would say you are in your early twenties. I hope my remark has not been offensive, though.

[orodegozaru.livejournal.com]

Your deductive skills are amazing, you have been much closer than most people.

[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

As people age their eyes tend to grow smaller and obliqued, it usually happens at the age of thirty. But that is not your case, though your countenance is slightly angular to be considered the one of an adolescent.

[orodegozaru.livejournal.com]

Hmm that is an interesting conclusion. My friend Sanosuke has rather narrow eyes come to think of it athough he is not yet twenty. I suppose most of the other people I know fall into this description though.

[lastkuruta.livejournal.com]

They are general patterns, may be applicable in numerous cases but there are exceptions.

[orodegozaru.livejournal.com]

It must be rather more difficult to apply this to women. Some seem to fall into this pattern but I know quite a few who do not.