30 year old married He/Him, who cannot stand JP, or Honda, or Blanka, or…/ When They Cry/ Vocaloid/ Street Fighter/ Magic The Gathering/ Houseki No Kuni
「生徒の皆さんへお知らせします。けさは雨がしとしとと降り続いており、教室内には大量の『てるてる坊主』が出現する見込みです。もし通路が塞がっている場合は、脚をそっとよけて通行してください。強く引っ張るなどして刺激すると、道連れにされるおそれがありますので、決して行わないよう注意してください。」
“Attention, students: Due to this morning’s steady rain, a large number of hangman may appear in the classrooms. If they block your path, gently move their legs aside.
Do not pull or provoke them, or they may invite you to join their ranks.”
「各位同學請注意,今日早晨陰雨綿綿,預計教室内可能出現大量吊■鬼。若出現被擋道的情況,請同學輕輕撥開他們的腿即可。
切勿大力拉扯刺激他們,否則他們可能會邀請你加入他們的行列。」
A glimpse of the VS BATTLE gameplay from VIRTUA FIGHTER CROSSROADS, coming in 2027
A city you've never seen
A story you've never heard
A totally new Virtua Fighter
In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.
I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.
Nothing fell.
The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.
This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.
If it falls, they told me, you get it free.
I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.
The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.
The flip is not a trick.
It is a vow.
In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.
Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.
He did not lie.
He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.
I tipped him everything in my pocket.
He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.
I told him it was not just a Blizzard.
I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.
So I bowed instead.
He said, "You too, man."
That answered nothing I had said.
It answered everything I had felt.