asobouyo | 32nd Teddy Bear [Video]

[Elicia has had a really great New Feather round. For one thing, dad was back. For another, so was Sanji. These reasons alone made her the happiest person in all of Luceti (save for maybe... I dunno, Grune. She's always pretty happy and stuff. Oh, and that dog Dug she hasn't met yet). But otherwise, happiest! And when she pops in on video to address the populace, she's got a big ol' smile. Even if she sounds a little stuffy.]

Hi, new feathers! My name's Elicia! It's getting real cold, so make sure you all got real warm coats, okay?? 'Cause getting a cold is not a good thing; your nose gets real stuffy and you go through... a lot of tissues...

[aah—achoo!

... She might be coming down with something. It happens to the best of us.]

Ummm, I wanna make really tasty hot chocolate and cookies and give them to you... I think I'm gonna ask mama and papa if we can go to the Welcome place so I can... Or maybe I can give the nice people who work there some, so they can give to people...!

[UM UM. IS THERE MORE.]

Oh, yeah! My papa and my big bro are here again, so make sure you say hi! My papa's name is Maes, but lots of people call him Hughes, and my big bro is Sanji—he's a cool chef at the restaurant, so you should definitely try his food! And my papa is a military guy! Is there other people who work in the military? You should meet him!

[... one more thing!]

And Mr. Uncle Jack, I gotta see you again so I can give you back your cool compass, so if you want it...!

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You had them taken off?! ...Is Yotsuba behind with the times yet again? [...] Now I really need to learn how to cycle good like daddy and Fuuka and... Asagi and Tora... and everyone else! Otherwise dinosaaaurs will eat everyone!!

That's okay! I'm six, but when I first got here I was five and I didn't know how to ride a bike without training wheels then! It doesn't take very long if you work hard!

Ohhhh! Someday, Yotsuba will be six too... Before then, I should work really hard to learn to ride a bike with training wheels. Daddy will be really impressed when he finds out!!

He'll be super proud!! You can come over whenever you want and I'll show you how to do it!

Really super proud!! Yotsuba will come over right away, right now! [Seeing as she's used to just wandering over to the neighbours house whenever back home she's quite happy to do the same here. Too bad people live much further apart than next door here.

The journal falls silent for a moment... And then Yotsuba returns!] Where am I going? [Seems she had already walked out the door before realising she has no idea where to go.]

Uuuuh!! Mama and papa call it House 23!! If y'walk down the road there's a bridge, too!!

Twenty three? Ohhh. Okay okay, got'chya. I'm off again! [Whoosh. And away she goes...

...Only to return again shortly.] I'm not supposed to leave the 'partment on my own. You can come with me though! ['You' being 'the journal'. Picking it up now.] I'm allowed to go to the store and stuff on my own, but new places I should visit with Otonashy first.

O-oh, but I can't leave the apartment on my own, neither!!

[;~;]

O-oh!! I know! Do you go to school?? 'Cause I can bring my bike to school and we can ride it around outside when we're allowed!

It's okay, we're going to be together now! [The journal totally counts as parental supervision. Yup. And out the door she goes, off in search of house 23!

...She is going to get all sorts of lost.]

School? Ena goes to school, and Fuuka goes to school... Yotsuba doesn't go to school.

You don't?? Why not?

...Dunno. Is Yotsuba old enough to go to school now? Did the Govverment make it so?!

Of course you're old enough!! I went to school when I was five!

So you should, too!

[...Daddy, why you no put her in school sooner? Gosh.]

I should go to school right now! Then Yotsuba will be able to work very hard... And make business cards!!

Exactly!! You can write all kind of business cards, for whatever you want!!

...

What kinda' business do you wanna do?

A business that has milk. And... Candy. And cicadas. And Daddy.

[--These are a few of her favourite things.]

Ooh, that sounds really great! What're ci-ca-das, though?

Cicadas are great! They're bugs that go 'bweeeee bweeeee' and you can catch them and stuff. It's really, really fun! We should go cicada catching!

Oh. But they might not like the cold.

Oooh...! I'd like to see those! Will you tell me when they come back?

Yeah, I'll tell everyone when they come back! They hafta come back every summer because that's when cicadas are around. They're really cool!

They don't bite, do they?

[This is important to figure out.]

Huh, bite? No, Yotsuba has held a lot of cicadas. None of them bite. They just fly around and make that 'bweeeeee' noise!

[Nope, no biting insects today.]