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"So.."

The chair was a little small for him, but Hiro managed to get comfortable in it. Anyways, it was exactly built for him to sit in, so he didn't have any reason to complain.

"You're not from.. this place, Equestria, that's right?"

"R-right."

"And you're telling me that you're real home is on.. er.. Err-ff..?"

"Earth, it's Earth."

"Yeah! And, uh. You say you got, um.."

"Transported here.. somehow."

Hiro gestured his hands in the air, Roseluck gazing at him curiously.

"See, there's this thing called.. um, a universe. And there's lots and lots of universes - and what I think happened is I sort of.. somehow got from this universe here,"

He made a somewhat understandable diagram of his explanation with his fingers.

"To here."

Hiro gestured again, "which is this.. Eck.. Equi.."

"Equestria, it's Equestria."

"Yeah! And.. so that's that."

He was almost ashamed of how awkward he was being. The ruby-haired pony's head, however, went on a tilt, her eyebrows scrunched up in confusion.

"Then how'd that happen?"

"I," he sighed, setting down his cup of water, "have no clue."

"I don't remember anything about how it happened at all.. just that I was, all of a sudden.. you know,"

The youth massaged his forehead with one hand, looking slightly disgruntled.

"..here."

The rose colored pony appeared to have given it an appropriate amount of thought for a moment; then, seemingly coming out of a serious stupor, clapped her hooves together and smiled,

"Well, while you're here, you can make yourself at home!"

Hiro stared.

For real?

"Ponyville's a great place, you know. I mean, you're different and all, but I'm sure you can learn to get along with everyone else..!"

Either she has a really small attention span, or she doesn't really care about how I got here at all..

At the very least, Hiro decided while finishing his water, she was kind. Kindness was good.

Luckily, Roseluck was the only pony who noticed Hiro a half hour before, nobody else hearing her scream or caring. He'd woken up in the spare storage room in Roseluck's flower shop, scarcely used for anything much, as the pony already had a perfectly good storage room to use on the opposite end of the hallway. She'd had a customer who wanted a batch of roses, and on that particular day, Roseluck had placed an order for every flower save for roses. Shocked and simultaneously not wanting to disappoint her customer, she'd looked desperately in the room Hiro had woken up in for an old batch of roses she might have held onto. That, of course, was when she discovered a human standing inconspicuously behind the first pile of crates she went to investigate.

Roseluck closed shop early that day in light of the situation. It took a little bit, but once she realized that Hiro wasn't a monster and - coincidentally - could talk, the rose colored pony lightened up some more.

"..Still don't know how you ended up on the spare bed, but I guess we won't know that anytime soon!"

Hiro scratched his head nervously.

"Oh, pardon me! We go through all this complicated stuff and I never even introduced myself!"

"O-oh, right."

Although the creature sitting across the table from him wasn't exactly a human girl, she was a girl nonetheless. So he decided to be a gentleman and speak first.

"I'm Ki- I mean, Hiro Kirigaya. It's a pleasure to meet you."

She stared.

"Come again?"

"Uh.. Hiro. Kirigaya. Last name, you know?"

"K.. Ckee.. Keeree.. What now?"

Hiro sighed and leaned back in his chair. He couldn't say that he wasn't expecting it.

"Well, that's sort of a mouthful, huh? Think I can just call you.. er.. what was that first one now.."

"Hiro."

"Hero, right!"

"N.. no, it's Hiro."

"Hero?"

"Hiro. Sort of.. a stronger 'r' sound."

"..Hero?"

"Nevermind."

Hiro Kirigaya was known from that day on - not from just Roseluck, but from nearly everypony in Equestria as - "Hero," the human in Equestria.