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[deputychief]

You've reached Itsuki Koizumi; I will be sure to return messages as promptly as possible.

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[deputychief]

No, it doesn't. It's a Western system. My country's has a lunar new year which tends to fall a couple months later.

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[occulthymns]

You all don't follow the same calendar?

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[deputychief]

They developed independently of each other. There are smaller calendars out there as well. Of course, for business purposes we follow the Western one for convenience.

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[occulthymns]

Convenience?

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[deputychief]

It's rather inconvenient to communicate with someone if you don't have a common system of time, isn't it?

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[occulthymns]

I suppose so.

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[deputychief]

You merely suppose so?

At the very least it would be difficult to schedule meetings.

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[occulthymns]

I'm not the type to have meetings.

[deputychief]

What about clandestine trysts, then?

[occulthymns]

That's getting into really private things!

[deputychief]

Theoretically, perhaps. But I was merely talking about scheduling them. If they exist at all, they have to be scheduled. In any case, are you sure they're as private as you think, Euri?

[occulthymns]

You must not know a lot about clandestine trysts. Those aren't the kinds of things you schedule on a calendar.

[They are spontaneous!]

[deputychief]

But don't you say "meet me at X location in two hours"?

[occulthymns]

That's still spontaneous!

[deputychief]

Yes, but what if the other person measured "hours" differently than you? Or didn't have any conception of what an hour was?

[occulthymns]

That would be so inconvenient.

[deputychief]

To say the least. And that's why we need a uniform calendar.

[occulthymns]

Okay, I think you've got a point.

[deputychief]

Even though I had to resort to that most important topic to convince you, I'm glad to hear it, Euri-san.