"Seriously." It's kind of entertaining that 'human royalty' is weirder than 'not human in the first place,' but whatever works, right?

Akira laughs. "That'll be from something else. There's not much point in using it within the Realm, since hardly anyone else has one and there's not the infrastructure for it, but I've texted people just fine."

And had Futaba cheat around the 'lack of signal in the Realm' problem, since that falls under her purview.