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[gochuugoku]

[China's sitting comfortably near his low table with a puzzled look on his face.]

Last night I had a very strange dream. I was dressed in a female Beijing Opera costume and I was singing and dancing. Maybe I drank too much at the Lantern Festival, or something, aru.

[He pauses to drink some of his green tea, which was sitting in a teacup on the low table.]

By the way, what's this I keep hearing about memories? Are you saying the dream I had was actually a memory? [Guess who hasn't had any experiences yet.]

[OOC: Hey man, this is China. Anyone is free to view memories ranging from his (lonely) childhood, to his dynasties, the wars, present day, and the Christmas he spent with Stocking here in Discedo (since that's the first and only real memory he's recalled of Discedo so far).]

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[gochuugoku]

The way you talk makes it sound as though there's more types of Devil Fruit than the one that makes a person diamond.

That doesn't really answer my question, aru...

Well, back home apologizing doesn't do much due to the influence of our people and our own personal grudges that we hold against one another. But like I told Commander Kresnik, it would be less stressful without our governments keeping constant watch here, so I would try making amends with them just as I am currently attempting to do with Japan.

[fierybluebird]

Correct. There are thousands, and they're extremely varied.

You'd have to meet him. [Now he's just trolling.]

Understood. I was thinking along the same lines myself, personally.

[gochuugoku]

Oh? What are some of the powers they grant?

Now you make me want to meet him more.

We may not have many resources here, but perhaps that isn't all bad. There's less distractions here compared to all the ones in my world.

[fierybluebird]

My father had earthquakes, there's a rubber devil fruit, fire, smoke, magma, light. Well, there are 3 different types. Zoans have two species; like reindeer and human or bird and horse, or what have you. Logia are elemental types: smoke, sand, fire, all that. Paramecia are the most varied, earthquakes, rubber, an ability to sprout hands everywhere, that sort of thing.

Hah, I hope you can.

You think so?

[gochuugoku]

Which one did you eat then?

I hope I can meet them all, or at least most of them, and I hope you can meet my whole family too.

Yes, I don't know about your world, but in mine people are usually spending their days indoors, on a computer all day. Or they are always working and have little time for their families, especially with how the economy has been these past years. My country is doing very well during these hard economic times, but I can't say the same for the Westerners, especially America.

[fierybluebird]

Mythic zoan. I'm a phoenix.

Likewise.

Huh... really? What's wrong with him?

[gochuugoku]

A phoenix? [He's impressed and it's clear in his voice and expression.]

Well... He's practically drowning in debt and I'm the one to whom he owes the most money. Then he fought a war he couldn't even afford to fight, so he borrowed most of the money going into his war effort. His economy just keeps going up and down, like Europe's. People say if things keep going as they are now, within less than five years, I will replace America as the world's number one economic power.

I hear Iceland is not faring well either, aru.

[fierybluebird]

Correct. A blue one.

I guess that's good for you, eh? What about your people?

Ah... really? What's wrong with Iceland? Same thing??

[gochuugoku]

Did I ever see you in such a form when I was here last time? [Because a blue phoenix sounds like an amazing sight.]

I still have a number of poor people in my country, but for the most part, they are able to put food on their tables. Then of course the wealthy are thriving. It's because many of America's companies shut down their businesses in his country and moved to mine to start anew, which has given my people more job opportunities, aru.

Well, I heard that all three of his major commercial banks collapsed so you can imagine what a hard blow that was. He's been borrowing money from the United Kingdom, Norway, and even Russia has been offering to help him. [But China's suspicious about his motives...]

[fierybluebird]

You did. I was protecting Japan when he wanted to go see the nuclear bomb site. I can absorb a lot of damage.

Why would they do that?

Ouch... why did they collapse?

[gochuugoku]

Eh? So he went to see where the atomic bomb was dropped? Did he get sick?

[He only knows because Adam told him, but he still doesn't actually remember that happening. He does, however, now know the effects that the radiation can do to a person. Also, time for an appropriate memory, Marco will see a bandaged China, listening to the radio as he smokes a cigarette. The speaker is speaking Mandarin, and he speaks about the destruction upon the two cities. The China in the memory widens his eyes..]

[He shrugs.] I do ponder the same question, but they are putting money into my economy, so I have little complaints.

From what I've heard, they were struggling with paying the debt they owed to the United Kingdom. Plus in the time where I'm from, prices have gone up for certain products, particularly fossil fuel.

[fierybluebird]

Yes. But I made sure to absorb most of it. Radiation isn't foreign to me. [In return, China gets to experience this memory as Marco, fighting off Kizaru and his light devil fruit, complete with the feeling of being a phoenix.]

Guess I wouldn't complain about that either, eh?

Does America have that problem too?

[gochuugoku]

...How beautiful. Is there a devil fruit that can turn one into a dragon? [There's one thing that will never change: his love for the creatures.]

Besides, it's not as though America is dying or anything like that. He is still young, so he still has a lot to learn, aru.

Most definitely. That's why he has been having conflicts in the Middle East, for that region still holds much oil. Scientists all over the world have been searching for other sources of energy, though, such as sunlight.

[fierybluebird]

Yes.

Ah... understood.

Oh. Petroleum is pretty high demand in our world too, but almost only the world government uses it. Everywhere else uses wind, or whatever's handy.

[gochuugoku]

Really? [His eyes light up.]

I think he should also concentrate more on his weight problem.

Ah, we are using wind too. We harvest the energy by using special windmills.

[fierybluebird]

[A shrug. Marco's a little guarded about dragons.]

Oh? He is pretty heavy I suppose.

Yeah, mountains or ocean, there's almost always wind, eh? And not too many people live in the Calm Belts anyway.

[gochuugoku]

Do you know anyone with that sort of power? [He sounds slightly eager.]

Hmph, if you think he is now, you should see him in 2012. He doesn't look it, but I know he is since he came to me for advice on dieting. I'm very sure that if I told him that now he'd just use that foul language on me, aru.

I would hope there's always wind. Many things would be stagnant if there wasn't.

[fierybluebird]

No. There are a lot of devil fruit users, but they're all spread out throughout the whole world. And none of the mythic zoans clump together.

Yeah... he probably would.

I can't imagine there wouldn't be.

[gochuugoku]

Oh, that's understandable then. The only time Nations get all together are conferences, parties... war meetings.

Honestly, he needs to remember who helped him build his railroads in the West, but even back then he was so ungrateful when the construction was completed.

[fierybluebird]

Well that's more like the Reverie when all the nations in the world get together for meetings. In the case of zoans... We don't have any reason to get together. And a lot of reasons not to. It's more like tigers.

Oh?

[gochuugoku]

Nearly two hundred years ago, I traveled to the Western area of America's land along with several of my people, many who were going to make America their new home.

We all worked to help make what is now known as the First Transcontinental Railroad. Without our labor, America would have taken a much longer time to build it.

It was very dangerous work too, especially considering how things were back then, aru.

[fierybluebird]

Eh?! We have something like that too. The Sea train. Currently it connects three islands together, and there's talk of adding more.

That must have been difficult. And yet he still had the err... cold wars with your family members?

[gochuugoku]

The Cold Wars came several years after the railroads were built.

[fierybluebird]

Not exactly grateful though.

[gochuugoku]

[China snorts lightly.]

America is anything but grateful. [Well, that wasn't entirely true. Even someone as thick as America could be grateful at times. China's not going to admit that, though.]