[
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "She's the one giving the lecture...",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "It's my first time giving a lecture like this, so please forgive me if I'm a little nervous. For today's lecture, I've been asked to speak on the subject of time travel. It's not really my area of expertise, but I'll try my best."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Where's this satellite from, anyway?",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "They still don't know. Rumors say it's from the former Soviet Union, but Russia denies it. So it looks like they can't remove it yet."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Then why don't you try carrying it? Then you'll understand.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Wheugh...! ...It's r-really heavy. This thing's gotta weigh like 30 kilos. Maybe we should've borrowed a push cart. Urushibara-san, is there one in the shrine?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "If you're gonna do science, you need a lab coat! Right!? I knew you were meant for this, Christina! You're the best assistant a mad scientist could ask for!",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "I don't know if that's supposed to be a compliment, but it's coming off as an insult. Now let go!"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "That must be how these people got gelified.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "It wouldn't just gelify you. It would tear you apart particle from particle. That's what a black hole does."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Because the path through the ring singularity is open. We've been over this already.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "We don't know if there's actually a black hole at work here. It could be an entirely different phenomenon that just happens to resemble SERN's experiments. It's dangerous to jump to conclusions."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "But Chris-chan, you said before that time machines don't exist, right? But now you admit they do!",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "It's just that I have to admit it for now. If we investigate how the PhoneWave works, it might turn out to be something that only seems like time travel."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "...Everything is the choice of Steins Gate! This is the power of my magic eye, Reading Steiner! Muhahaha!",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Aaaand he's at it again. I'm not playing along with your games. I bet you came up with that Reading Whatever thing just now, didn't you?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Calm down, Daru! We're not asking you to send something private.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Even if you want to send something private, you shouldn't for now. We still don't know how this thing handles paradoxes, so we need to be extremely careful."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "I know! How about that thing where you get struck by lightning and that turns you into a girl! Like in old comics and anime.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "There's no point to the experiment if we don't use D-Mail. Don't lose sight of the objective."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "...Oh. Give me your report, Christina. If you don't, I'll call you an '@channeler'--",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Didn't you hear me the first time!? I've been working on the translation when I have time, but so far I haven't seen anything new about time travel. It looks like SERN is still struggling to find a solution."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "A particle accelerator!? So, if the LHC was created to generate mini black holes-- Then the PhoneWave (name subject to change) must also produce mini black holes!",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "It's a miracle that thing has been so stable. But there's still one thing I don't understand. Even if it does produce mini black holes, they should evaporate instantly. But that's not what happens in the PhoneWave. The gelification phenomenon proves that. Just like in the LHC, our mini black holes are turning into Kerr black holes."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "Yup♪ Don't you have to work on the PhoneWave?",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "I guess... but I don't relish the thought of spending the night here. At least, not with a certain somebody around."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "It's practically instantaneous. 23 milliseconds or thereabouts. We're using a black hole, after all.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "By the way, the compression only holds in the immediate vicinity of the black hole. Once the data leaves that area, it will begin to decompress on its own. This, too, takes 23 milliseconds."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Suzuha",
"user_text": "Perhaps. But I know your true nature.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Wow, you can see into my heart? That's groundbreaking technology. I'd love to hear how it works."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Suzuha",
"user_text": "No. Ultimately, they're just possibilities that exist simultaneously.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Then how do you observe the differences between worldlines? Wouldn't you need a god's eye view to do that?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "... Have you finished the Time Leap Machine?",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "What are you talking about? I finished it yesterday after an all-nighter, remember? When did you leap from?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "There were also some D-Mails that didn't activate Reading Steiner.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Hmmm. So just cancel the D-Mails that activated Reading Steiner, and the IBN 5100 might come back to you."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Relax. Your Time Leap Machine worked perfectly.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "O-of course it did. Besides, we were already planning to crack SERN's database, weren't we? Fine. Let's see what's in there. If the mail data exists, then it's proof that what you said is true."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "You're the one who said not to speak.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "Y-you're too close... Don't come any closer, okay? You can stay where you are, but come any closer, and I'll push you away, okay? ...Don't look at me."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "Come on. I'll get you a new microwave.",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "I don't want to deny who I've been. Because even my failures are a part of who I am today. Going to the past is possible right now. Look into the sky at night, and you can see how things were tens of thousands of years ago."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“Then um... I can’t think of a good example, but...” “Is it like identical twins? You can’t tell them apart at birth, but as they grow, differences start to form? Or something like that.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“We’re still investigating that, but...” “If the memories they build up are different, I think that of course they’d become something different from the original human. The professor agrees with me.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“Why do you have something like that?”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“Her mom gave it to me, so I’d have something to remember her by.” “I’m trying to figure out what’s on it, so I’m looking for a way to crack the password. I thought you might know something.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Faris",
"user_text": "“It looks like I can still get a data connyanction here.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“That’s strange. This has never happened before.” “Hey, Okabe. Can you try it on your phone?”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“Hey, Hiyajo. How many people called you ‘senpai’ in America?”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“Just one.” “It’s a Japanese word, and a Japanese concept, after all.” “The only one who called me senpai...” “...was Kurisu.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kagari",
"user_text": "“Sorry to make you do all this for me, Maho.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“No. It’s almost done. And I’m doing it for me, too.” “Anyway, I never would’ve come up with the idea of using a cell phone. And even if I had, I never would’ve actually tried it.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“Wow. I can’t believe you managed to make an AI in such a short time.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“You were the one who told me to do it.” “I had the voice software I used for Amadeus, so I was able to build it quicker.” “And this isn’t anything as complicated as an AI.” “You really think you can fool her with this? It’s we’re talking about here.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Faris",
"user_text": "“You came all the way out here, so why not give a toast and introduce yourself?”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“Thank you all for having me today.” “Dr. Leskinen and I are from America, so we’ve never spent Christmas in Japan before.” “And I’m finding out that spending a cheerful Christmas with friends is also a great–”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "“Wow... Sounds like a Hollywood movie.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“My thought was that Kurisu had found proof that they were running experiments like that.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "“Sorry! The microwave blew up!” “Wow... that really scared me.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“It scared you?! It should’ve!” “Explain what’s going on. Where did that smoke come from?”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“...liar?” “Liar...? What do you mean? I’m not lying.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“Hashida told me something.” “He said that a year ago, he couldn’t even bring up the time machine with you.” “And Steins Gate was out of the question entirely. You didn’t even want to hear the words.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Amadeus Kurisu",
"user_text": "“Then what’s it doing on your bed?”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“B-Because your mom says she’s looking for a new house, and she’s living in an apartment right now. I don’t want to give her more stuff to haul around.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "“I can’t blame you, after what happened.” “Want some food? All we’ve got is chicken wings and bananas and snacks, though.” “Or should I get a boxed lunch from a convenience store? Oh, maybe we could order pizza!”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“Thanks. But I’m okay. I’m not that hungry.” “I’ll need to change hotels, too, after what happened. I’ll probably have to fill out some paperwork, so I’ll be back later.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Maho",
"user_text": "“Hmm... I can just talk about whatever occurs to me, but...” “Why don’t we make it a discussion format? That would be more interesting, I’m sure.”",
"asst_speaker": "Kurisu",
"asst_text": "“Um, well... Sure. A discussion format would make things more interesting.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "“Sounds great.” “There’s a bunch of stuff I wanted to ask you.” “You know, I once heard that Einstein liked to play the violin.”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“He seemed to have a lot of respect for Mozart. Maybe it’s a tradition for scientists to like Mozart.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Rintaro",
"user_text": "“This is just in the movie, right?”",
"asst_speaker": "Maho",
"asst_text": "“I don’t really know the details.” “But I have heard that there were some strange circumstances surrounding Mozart’s death, and that he could have been poisoned.” “There’s a theory that Salieri may have poisoned him.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "Huh? But I've always called you that.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "That was then! I have since become Hououin Kyouma, the insane mad scientist hunted by secret organizations the world over. Muhahaha!"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Moeka",
"user_text": "There's an urban legend... in Akihabara. ...Have you heard of it?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Gah... I've remained in this town for far too long! I'll need to make plans."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "You all want some? I can give you one each. 120#",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "So, we've reproduced the conditions that existed when the discharge phenomenon occurred. Right?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "Okarin, you're too loud... and I've been up all night.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Understand? The world has no need for two mad scientists. Before they can get ahead of us, we must outwit them!"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "Let me rest for one day, man. You should treat me better after two consecutive all-nighters.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "SERN's power grows stronger by the day, and here you are without a care in the world."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "You haven't been able to send another email to the past yet, right? Do you know why? Let's run some tests. Man. You have a ton of junk.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "It's not junk! Since you're new to the Future Gadget Laboratory, I'll explain. These are the glorious fruits of our science: the Future Gadgets! Future Gadgets 1-7 are stored here. The PhoneWave, with which you are already familiar, is Gadget Number 8."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "So why does the D-Mail phenomenon occur?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Because the path through the ring singularity is open. We've been over this already."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "Yeah. How do you want to change the past, anyway?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "First of all, the purpose of this experiment is to verify whether or not we can actually change the past. So it doesn't matter how trivial the change is."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "That's not what I said... I don't want to deny who I've been. Because even my failures are a part of who I am today.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Even if we solved all of the PhoneWave (name subject to change)'s problems, you wouldn't use it? Even if John Titor said you could use his time machine to travel to whatever time you wish, you wouldn't use it? Even if a blue robot cat from the future were to jump out of your desk and give you a doorway to everywhere, you wouldn't use it?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "Um... Mayushii just wants to keep hanging out in the lab.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "What? You want to be a lab mem forever? I appreciate your enthusiasm, but this lab has no interest in profit. You'll always be hurting for food."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "Of course she did. Mayu-shi and I are the only ones who can deal with your act, you know?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "It's Hououin Kyouma. Don't hang up. It shows you my number, doesn't it!? In other words, you fear the insanity of Hououin Kyouma! Well, I suppose you can't be blamed for-- She hung up! Again!"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "Hold on a second! Don't tell me you plan on coming along!?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Of course I do. You are my assistant, and I will do whatever it takes to ensure that you are in peak mental condition for the experiment."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "I'm not grateful to you or anything, okay!? A real tsundere, sweet! Anyway. That 'thank you' was just a formality. Don't get me wrong, okay?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Of course. I only did what I had to. I am the founder of the Future Gadget Lab, Hououin Kyouma. My first priority is to protect the welfare of my lab mems. So I have no need for your thanks."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "I said I'm not sure. I need to poke around some more.",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Daru. Super Hacka. Everything depends on your skills now. You are the super hacka who will save the world. In 2036, people will worship you instead of Kurisu, the mother of the time machine."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Faris",
"user_text": "What's that, nya? You mean a kiss isn't enough, so you want to go on a date, nyan? Aww, Kyouma, you're so greedy, nyan. But you know, Faris doesn't mind, nya♪",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "I'm glad those earplugs I gave you did the trick. So get off, it's too hot."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "Why would you say such a mean thing, Okarin?",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "M-Mayuri, it doesn't involve you. This is a serious, confidential matter involving the Organization--"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Moeka",
"user_text": "She was gentle... to me... like a mother... I finally had... a place I belonged! I'd talk to her about my worries... she always replied right away... Like a friend... but gentle... accepting...",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "Have you met her? You haven't met? Even though she's like your mother? Your friend?"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Luka",
"user_text": "Augh... trap, To be honest, it's so confusing...",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "You know, I still haven't had the pleasure to see you cosplay in the flesh."
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Suzuha",
"user_text": "“Forget it, guys. It was my mistake. Nobody else’s.”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“Why do you need to hide from her, anyway?” “You’ve already told her you’re Daru’s sister. Hiding just makes you look more suspicious.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Kurisu",
"user_text": "“Touch sensations are just another of the brain’s functions.” “You won’t be happy here, anyway. You’ll never be rid of the regret.” “And neither will I.”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“That doesn’t change in the beta world line, either.” “I’ve done nothing but regret that I couldn’t save you.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Itaru",
"user_text": "“Wait, Okarin– you can’t!” “E-Even for you, Okarin, I’m not giving you Suzuha! Daddy won’t allow it! Never!”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“You’ve been watching me since last summer. What have you been thinking about me? I want your honest opinion.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "“Yup!” “Are you at the university right now?”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“Nah, Wako City. I’m at what’s basically a lab. It belongs to a professor I know.”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Maho",
"user_text": "“Yes, that’s right.” “I came for that machine with the stupid name. What was it again? ‘PhoneWave (name subject to change)?’”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“I told you what happened because of the D-mails, too.” “Are you going to repeat that?”"
},
{
"source": "Steins;Gate",
"user_speaker": "Mayuri",
"user_text": "“Oh, yeah. What do you think about this?” “Ehehe...”",
"asst_speaker": "Rintaro",
"asst_text": "“You seem pretty happy about that, given how many Upas you already have.” “And that’s a regular green Upa, right? Not the rare one.” “The rare one... Do you mean the Metal Upa?”"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "That's a new one. Who made the booking?",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "The Seifar Toy Company - they make toys for dogs. It's their anniversary or something like that."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Betty",
"user_text": "Beatrice, but everyone calls me Betty. And why do you need to know that?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "If you've been stuck with dogs all day, you'd also be curious when a human walks in."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Betty",
"user_text": "Speaking of ambition, did you start working here because this is what you wanted since high school or something?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "That's a whole new can of worms I don't want to open... but no. Life took me here, basically. Why the question?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Betty",
"user_text": "What do you think, bartender? Do you think there's any point discussing non-alcoholic drinks in a bar?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "In my opinion, people who order a Bad Touch always make me giggle like an idiot, though."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "I-I wasn't sleeping. My eyes were open!",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "You went to college, right? You know having your eyes open means nothing. Don't worry, I don't blame you. It's been a really long time since we've had such a slow night. In fact, I think the last time we had a night this slow was before you started working here."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Anna",
"user_text": "Well, I didn't go for the genetic-level treatment. So, it was longer... and a lot less expensive. I'm not going to complain, though. I'm alive thanks to all that. And I left with so many fond memories too.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "So that's what you meant with the whole \"feeling nostalgic in isolated places\" thing."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Anna",
"user_text": "No offense Jo, but I'm leaving. I'm not staying somewhere where people treat me like a kid. Oh and... won't get my orders right either. So... that! Bye.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Please come again. (That was a bummer.) (I guess I'll ask Boss if we can close early today.)"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Mr. Donovan",
"user_text": "He rarely writes about the places the newspaper sends him to! I've even heard he tries to get free meals by proclaiming that he's a food critic. Poor bastard only gets laughed at when he says that.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I do remember some guy coming here asking for free drinks, and saying he was a critic or whatever."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Ingram",
"user_text": "I saw that woman take out armed rioters with her bare hands. Once you see something like that, it's hard not keep your mouth shut in front of them.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Interesting... You can relax, though. I've only seen her deal with clients personally about two or three times. One involved Class-5 weaponry, the other one a \"pick-up artist\", and the latest had an alpaca."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Sei",
"user_text": "Because I wanted to rescue people from dire situations whenever possible. And going into patrols and all that felt too tiresome. It's also the one with the least paperwork involved.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Now that I think about it, there are different kinds of White Knights, right?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Kim",
"user_text": "You've never had a dream you wanted to chase?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Not really. I mean, most of my dreams have been silly things or childish dreams."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Mr. Donovan",
"user_text": "They're an interesting group, you know? They only accept people born or raised in South California and go through hellish training on a daily basis.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "They have to. No normal person can run around in swimsuits in this cold weather."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jamie",
"user_text": "Mercury... it was such a mystical metal ages ago.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Well, if you saw a liquid that's all silvery and shiny, you'd think there's something mystical about it. I think there was a Chinese emperor that died from drinking mercury mixed with powdered jade."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Gillian",
"user_text": "Do you think she's telling the truth?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Gimme a sec... According to this article, her real name is Michelle Kingston. Deployed about 2 years ago. She did a few variety shows with her jazz band but went solo afterwards."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "Those events where people barely dress, stink, roll in the mud, and fuck in the open?",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "Those are hippies, yeah. He frequents those and... it's something I'd rather not deal with. At all. If I stayed with him, I'd eventually have to. I mean, I need to support my partner in what he does, but if it's something like that..."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "That's early morning by my standards. I mean, it's not that I don't wanna hang out. I just don't want to wake up early.",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "You. Are. Hopeless. Anyway, I'm gonna need another drink here. Like, say... a big Brandtini."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Mr. Donovan",
"user_text": "Come on! There has to be something!",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Well, her love for what she does is so honest and pure that anyone who tries to ruin it should be ashamed."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "*ahem* Yes, she is. Now, go clean the dishes and you can leave for today.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I like to think she'll make an effort now to avoid getting stuck in things."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Streaming-chan",
"user_text": "No quickie with the hobos behind the bar? No stumbling upon a furry orgy in the alleys?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Why do I get this feeling you're trying to see if anybody has done the same things you have?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jamie",
"user_text": "It's not. Which makes the whole thing quite suspicious..",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Huh. Man, if only Gil was here to hear that info. He thought they were gunshots."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "Nanocamo? Isn't that a tad expensive?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Yup. To be honest I asked my mom for it. She had been pestering me about what gift I wanted for Mega Christmas for a while. She's been asking that for four years now and I've always said I was fine. So I... took the chance and asked her for it. Used up all the past gifts."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "They've never been when you get down to it. And besides, I can't afford to not come with the bar closing soon.",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "I wonder if any bar has used impending closure as a means of getting their employees to work. Seems like the total opposite would happen."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Taylor",
"user_text": "I guess you didn't want to make me happy, eh? I'm sorry if I annoyed you.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "No, it's not that... It's interesting, though. Just yesterday I was talking to a client about brain uploads."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "Nah, I wasn't comparing. Just wondering if some of that self-esteem thing would've helped me back then. Say Alma, how many people are there in your family? Just curious.",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "Well, aside from my mom and dad, we're five sis-... sorry, four sisters and one brother. Funnily enough, we all have names that start with the first five letters in the alphabet."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "I'm wondering if your family has ever made a fuss about you being a hacker.",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "\"Hacker\" makes it sound too exotic. It's like if I called you a mixologist."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Alma",
"user_text": "Guide me then. Say, Jill. What's the worst that could happen if you don't get your drinks right?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Well... people have the right to not give me money. If they don't pay for it, I don't get my bonus. No bonus means less money and no tips... which doesn't help because I have to pay bills."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "Is it alright to ask that from him?",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "It's okay. I've known him since pre- school. It just so happened that he got married to my sister. Hey Dorothy, you need a ride?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "(I wonder if Sei is okay...) Should we be worried about Gil?",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "That kid knows how to take care of himself. I'm sure that... whatever it is that he's doing, he's safe. Dare I say even safer wherever he is than here."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "Is there any difference between the drinks at the bar and these?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "The drinks at the bar are more addictive, flavorful and also stronger than the ones they sell in stores. And besides, the one in the bar is more of a Double IPA. This one is more of a Pilsner."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "... Hey, Jill. Where did you get that black Fore ball?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Well, as with any black cat or house cat in general, he's actually a stray. I found him in the alleys near the building. Not long after I moved here, I think."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "I have no idea what you're talking about.",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "Don't act stupid. Back when you first transferred, I called you Julianne and you almost tore me a new one with your glare."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "The one you called for the helmet thing?",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "That one. She's managing a BTC bar in Panama right now, if I remember correctly."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "Oh, but don't worry! Bureaucracy's slow as fuck, so they won't close the bar for quite a while. Better enjoy being there while you can.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Yeah, maybe... Will you be visiting me in whatever bar I end up working in?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Stella",
"user_text": "Wrong drink, Jill. Maybe it's for the best though. Every time I order Bad Touches, I end up in a cycle of bad jokes.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Now that I think of it, did you find that girl you were looking for a week ago, Mr. Von Delay?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Sei",
"user_text": "The word loses meaning after using it so much in so little time. She should've been worried sick, and I couldn't call her after I came back. I'm afraid of what she will say.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "She will insult you, she looks like that kind of girl. But I'm betting all I have that she will be quickly happy that you're fine and alive."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "Watch silly Mega Christmas specials with 1000 grams of black fur on my lap. Why?",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "I was thinking about holding a small Mega Christmas party here this Sunday. You in?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dorothy",
"user_text": "I wonder if anyone has seen fairies after a couple of these.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Some guy tested that by drinking as many as he could. He thought he saw one, but he was dizzy and what he'd seen was his puke."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "Thanks, but I actually need some time for myself. Some me time to put my thoughts in order.",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "Yeah, I understand. But don't do anything funny, you hear me? If any weird thoughts come to you, or if you feel too anxious, call me."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Virgilio",
"user_text": "Really?! Splendid! This'll make a good entry in my poems blog.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "*sigh* I'd feel bad about the way I treated him today. ...if not for the fact that he was being cryptic with his orders for no good reason."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "What do you hope to accomplish with that?",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "Well, at first it was to calm that rage you had earlier. It was either hugs or a cold bucket... and I don't promise there'll be any water in it. You calmed down a bit. But honestly, I know better than to leave you alone for another night. At the very least, all the cuddling will give you an epiphany or something."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Betty",
"user_text": "Would you say for better or for worse?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I guess for the better. I'm too thick-headed to develop any new bad habits. Although thanks to my first boyfriend, I did pick up a very annoying habit of correcting people's grammar on the fly. Pretty annoying when I think back to it."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Alma",
"user_text": "If I find a good man and I settle down, what if he turns out shitty? What if I have a sudden burst where I wanna \"live my life\" and end up like that? What if I have kids and I end up neglecting them because of all that?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "If you ask me, the fact that you're even worried about it is indication enough that you'll be fine."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "...you were just setting me up for that comment, weren't you?",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "Sorry, it's just that when she got here with the bucket of wings, your eyes pretty much started sparkling. Your whole behavior transformed! You became giddy and cheerful all the sudden."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "I-I mean it, you know? Thanks for everything today.",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "Silly Jill. You listened to my problems and I listened to yours. That's what friends are for, right?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dorothy",
"user_text": "Bzzzzzt! Wrong. I still love you, but this is definitely wrong. I still can't believe you actually remembered what I said about the Piano Woman.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "It's always good to keep note of what regulars like, you know? I've wondered for a while though. Why do you keep coming back here?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Sei",
"user_text": "I'm a tad too ripped. They don't look cute on me. Although, with all this healing I have to do, I won't be as fit for a while. They're too... um... breezy too. I feel like I'm wearing nothing. But I bet you'd look good in a dress, Jill.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "It's been years since I last wore one. I wouldn't know. Last time I wore one, I remember worrying my arms were too thin or something like that."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Gillian",
"user_text": "...you just wanted to ask me something right? Okay then. Truth.",
"asst_speaker": "Dana",
"asst_text": "Did you or did you not have a brief stint as bodyguard to a certain Madame Laverne six years ago?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dana",
"user_text": "I bought it three days ago. It's amazing. It looks like just a set of wires, but you can create a frame with them. Put the food inside it, press a button and watch as it warms the food up just like a microwave!",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "It's an informercial bauble, though. Really useful, but tricky to handle at the same time. One wrong move and we'll be out of food for the night. Everything will be scorched in a second."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Art",
"user_text": "Why does everyone keep saying that?!",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Well, Festivus IS a celebration going against the capitalist madness that is Mega Christmas. (And you know... cheapskate.)"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Anna",
"user_text": "... Julianne Stingray, I'm talking to you!",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "!! ... (...calm down. Don't fall for her taunts.) (How did she know my full name though?)"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Stella",
"user_text": "We held a party for the staff and their children... You should've seen the faces of those kids receiving gifts. Nabbing that Santa suit at the last minute the other day was totally worth it.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Santa dresses seem to have been popular this year. I heard they were sold out in most places."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Mario",
"user_text": "She seems like a nice girl. I don't mean for it to sound like I...",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I get it, I get it. Don't worry, you like guys. It's clear. Speaking of, you like motorcycles, don't you?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Gillian",
"user_text": "And their parents got called Cat Boomers?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "A generation of parents obsessed with those cat-like features. The fad quickly passed, but the term remained in use. Eventually \"Cat Boomer\" just started being used for people with the protrusions instead of their parents."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "*Kira* Miki",
"user_text": "Well, they wanted to pop out in the public. They once told me, \"If we want people to notice us, we have to break the cutesy idol concept.\"",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "And so they took the opposite route by becoming \"cool beauties\" with melancholic songs?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jess",
"user_text": "Call me Jess. I'm from Neo-San Francisco, actually. I came here to see the Mega Christmas I hear so much about.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I've always wondered why it's called Neo-San Francisco. Is it like Neo-Tijuana? Or is it more like New Mexico?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "I MADE SURE TO DELETE THAT BLOG! NO EVIDENCE SHOULD BE LEFT!!",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "I can think of at least six different sources off the top of my head that have all that stuff archived."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Jill",
"user_text": "And you didn't tell your mom about that?",
"asst_speaker": "Alma",
"asst_text": "I didn't want her pestering the poor girl. So, are we cool now? Are we even now?"
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Dorothy",
"user_text": "Ah... dick paper cuts. I've done enough \"crazed teacher fantasies\" to know how they can be a problem.",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I don't think you need to have experience to understand that. ...that said, Gil's been grimacing for a full minute now."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Gaby",
"user_text": "Heheh... ... Hey, did you mean what you said? That you'll look after me?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "I'll always be here for you, Gaby. I mean, I'm not Lenore, but... I wouldn't dare leave my little sister alone."
},
{
"source": "VA-11 Hall-A",
"user_speaker": "Virgilio",
"user_text": "So what's your question, Bartender?",
"asst_speaker": "Jill",
"asst_text": "Call me Jill. Two questions, actually. The first one is, why did they brand you as a traitor? Because you killed the other guy? I don't know. It sounds weird considering the other guy assaulted two little girls."
}
]