I think I get what's going on, now.

The Japanese language has 3 alphabets, if I should call them that. And foreigners who don't fully dominate the language often use one of the alphabets to comunicate, when they could shorten the phrase by using the more complex glyphs.

I think this is what's going on with the Octarians... Because they often have the intelligence of a single tentacle, they pick the most simplified form of text.

But because it is so simplistic, documents entirely written with that collection of glyphs are very rare. Because Octolings, for example, have the brains needed to learn complex writing.

This scroll that we just translated, scroll 2-24, being like it is just reinforces my theory that the Octarians don't mind much other than weapons and millitary. That document was written in a simple way for the Octarians to study, while Octolings may be busy thinking about higher business.

However, in the same way that this simple text is used by the Octarians to comunicate easily, it is also used in plane tickets for foreigners to understand.

Check this out.

"Flight"

"Ika Airlines ??"

"Passenger"

"Miura"

(It's Flow's Japanese name.)

"Seat" "Departure"

"14C" "14:30"

We just translated half of another scroll.

We're making progress.

Even if one day we get the hang of these languages, all that Nitendo has to do to avoid spoiling stuff too hard is to hit us with mundane wording, like that of a plane ticket...

I'm so glad to find that it's not just gibberish, after all.

Also... Apparently, Flow has been living in Inkopolis since 2010 of this world.

And 2019 is just about to start.