[Karte 2: (VIDEO) Patriotic Display]

[pinokosthewife]

[The screen shows a great deal of food! There's omu-rice, a rice-stuffed omelette rolled up and adorned with ketchup; lots of onigiri, little triangular riceballs; little bowls of rice topped with chicken and egg; plates bearing strips of grilled fish; and several plates of curry rice, chunky brown-orange curry taking up more than half the plate.

Everything is topped with little white flags emblazoned with bright red rising suns.]

Nippon ni BANZAIIII!

[Pinoko hops onto a stool in front of her feast, wearing a white cloth around her head, tied back like a headband, also sporting the rising sun emblem. She waves a flag that also looks hand-crafted, the pole three times her size.]

BANZAIII! BANZAIII! BANZAIIII!

[She is very much into this, isn't she?!]

Long live the glory of Japan! Ten thousand years!

[After shouting until her face turned red, she slumped on her stool, pinning the flag pole into the floor and leaning onto it for support.] Had to get that out of Pinoko's shyshtem...

Comments

[violenthearted]

The "glory of Japan." [Flat as dead soda, that.] Doesn't bother you having come down on the wrong side of history, does it?

[pinokosthewife]

Wrong shide?

[Pinoko is really bad at history. She just looks curiously at the screen for a moment, before frowning.] Pinoko doesn't know what you're talking about, but that attitude is really irritating!

[violenthearted]

Irritating. Yes, those of us who were around when the glory of Japan was helping perpetuate the murder of more than six million people are often thorns in the side of those who'd prefer to pretend it never happened.

[1/2]

[pinokosthewife]

...?

[Pinoko blinks, looking genuinely clueless for a moment, before putting her hands on her hips.]

Mishter, what does Pinoko have to do with that?!

[2/2]

[pinokosthewife]

Pinoko's never killed anybody! Pinoko's probably chaved more lives in one day than you have in your whole entire life, bub, and she won't lishten to you badmouth her home on account of the yakuza!

[Yeeeeah, that's what she thinks he's talking about.]

[violenthearted]

Yes, I imagine you probably have. [Every pan is dead now.]

If you're going to purport to nationalism you ought to at least be aware of the past you're celebrating. A time that has next to nothing to do with the yakuza. Pick up a European history book sometime, it'd do you good.

[Aaand he's only going to argue this so far with a person who as far as he can tell is about six, so this is where the feed clicks off.]

[pinokosthewife]

[And her response will come after the day is done.]