Hey there. No, I just came to visit this time. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm not slacking. I seriously have free time. Oh, no, I don't need advice, not that you ever ask for my opinion, but you can tell me anything you think I should know.

That's what teachers do, right?

Heh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. I've been behaving, honest, I have too! Actually, I haven't ogled any girls since the last time I came, see, I can be good. Mmm. You know me too well.

Oh, it's going pretty well right now, casualties are low, and the innocence to mission ratio's at an all time high. Right. It shouldn't last long but it's nice while it does… they're all doing okay too, especially Allen.

I read that series finally, the one about the early Eastern Empires, yeah, the heavy ones. Actually, you mis-recorded a footnote about the general battles, I referenced it with the ones in the Eastern overview and Japan intensive history volumes before I corrected it. Hmm? Oh, you wrote that footnote on the way to China? Excuses, excuses! Oh please! Sure, well good thing I caught it for you because as you always saywe have no excuse for fallibility.

Hmm?

Me?

Yeah… I guess I've been doing lots of bookwork lately, no recording yet but I've been re-reading and condensing… I know, I know. I started but it wasn't going so well so… I'll try again soon, promise. Heh, as if I'll forget any details! Not with the training you've put my poor brain through.

Hee! Of course I do, who forgets their first record-keeping job? You still remember yours I'm sure, in fact I remember yours, we both made the same mistake; we wrote too much. Ah… not much time for nostalgia these days.

Hmm?…

I don't know. It's still hard to take after all my apprenticeship. That's the trouble when it's your job to think I suppose, you have to think about… the things…

Sorry.

No. I still suck at the whole emotions thing. I have to stay connected to you, in the very least, well, no, I suppose I don't have to be sentimentally attached to you, but it's kind of hard not to be… especially now… now that you can't keep me in…

Me?

How am I doing?

I already told you I started-… Oh. I'm doing all right. Not so well, actually since…

………

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Oh, yeah, probably. I guess it's about that time. Well, ah, yup. See you next time, same place. Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah, I'll start my records soon, all right, fine, I'll start next week- jeez, okay! I'll start tomorrow, happy? You're a pain, panda, you know that? Well, nice to see you again, it's been a while. Sure, yes, yes, I already said I'd come back, you know I can't pinpoint a date, bookmen have no such thing as a stable agenda. When I can, yes. I'm gonna be late getting back if you keep this up. Okay, goodbye for good this time………

Hmm?

What was that?

Oh… I miss you too, jiji. And…

I wish you could hear me.