plot; storyline; scenario / previously-settled path forwards; scenario

main point, thread (of a story)

branch (thin and long) / something stringy, thin and long state / path / reason / something written in bullet points (terms)

pulse / vein / something that continues (in a straight line, path) / connection

(uncommon, scholarly) Putonghua; Standard Mandarin

secular speech / everyday speech

Kyūjitai form of 会話: conversation

Kyūjitai form of 対話 (“dialogue, conversation”)

(idiomatic) settle a matter / (idiomatic) negotiate, arrange

come to terms, reach agreement