"It's best at most of the things it's good at when it's one vote for every person in the entire population."

"Maybe I can get some books on governments from your world!"

"Sure! Machine translation'll be janky for a while, but it's probably already capable of spitting out a mostly legible fifth edition Earthly Governance. Do you want that now or just like eventually?"

"Reading's really hard? But I can put a few hundred clones on it now, only have some training to do otherwise and the old man gets annoyed at me if I do nothing but train. Assuming you don't have to read it all in order?"

"There aren't very many phonemes in your language, I can probably have it turn it into an audiobook if you're dyslexic or something. The specific book I named does want to be read in order but there are probably some that don't."

"Listening's not a ton better?  But thanks. I think if there's different books I can put different clones with them, and learn about the same fastness?"

"I'll see what I can dig up. Do you have movies, are movies better, I could just plop your clone in front of a bunch of documentaries."

"We have movies! It's - unless I'm really interested in something I can't focus on it? And separately I don't know a lot of words just written, but writing I can figure out where I was if I lose focus? I've only ever seen like two movies, though, so I don't know how well I learn stuff from them since they were both interesting? Usually I learn stuff through talking to people."

"But maybe different clones with different stuff and I'll figure out parts of things and put them together?"

"Do you drink coffee?" Cam wonders.

"Haven't had it!"

"I'm just a regular doctor, not really a psychiatric one, but you sort of sound like you have a thing that people often self-medicate with coffee and if you said 'yeah I go through six cups a day' I was going to suggest trying something more specific."

"I metabolize most meds really fast? Dunno if that applies to whatever coffee does or whatever you were gonna suggest?"

"It'd certainly make dosing complicated!"

"Yeah. Most medical stuff with me's hard - I've got a healing factor, and it works at different speeds depending on what's going on."

"Maybe it wouldn't help. Some people find the meds really useful though."

"I'll try them sometime, maybe."

"Lemme know and I'll find a refresher on stimulants to read."

Jiraiya's going to yell at him no matter what he does with taking strange medications from weird foreign guy, but Sasuke seems to trust this guy and his dad at least tentatively approves of him - "Maybe after I've talked to Sasuke some?"

"Legit! He is not available right now, inconveniently."

"Yeah, I get that."

"Oh, good. You wanna pick an apartment?"

"Yeah! - Oh, and so I don't forget, when can I have a book or documentary or something?"

"Depends how long it takes me to find and translate something, the machine translation's early results might be great or they might suck."

"Okay, that makes sense. There's lots of stuff for me to get caught up on just here anyways, plus my normal training."

"Whatcha working on?"