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I encountered several sentences where に was used—from my deduction of the
context—to enumerate things. For example a character about to go somewhere,
checks his bag if he has everything he needs :  
2:「忘れ物は？」  
1:「大丈夫ー」  
1:「－だと思うけど確認しておこう」  
1:「 **バンデージにタオルに** 」  
1:「 **トランクス** 」

I tried searching this grammar but couldn't satisfy my curiosity. Why and how
に is used to enumerate things? I understand that it is basically used to tell
the time, place, directions, cause, ect... But I'm lost on how to understand
it used in that way.
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grammar particle-に
Particle に to enumerate things / to list items?
The parallel marker に is used when you're putting together a list of related
things (nouns), adding each one as you go. In particular, it gets used if
you're _trying to think of things_ (like when you're at a restaurant, trying
to think of what food you want to get), and that includes when you're _trying
to recall at least two things from memory_ (like if you're trying to remember
the names of a couple old friends).

I'm not a native speaker, so I won't try to make up my own examples. I'll take
a couple from the 日本語文法ハンドブック:

> 大根`に`にんじん`に`、えーと、それからトマトをもらおうかしら。

In this example, the speaker is trying to think of which food they'd like.
They list three: `大根`, `にんじん`, and `トマト`. Note that the last item doesn't have
`に`. Also pay attention to the `えーと、それから` which helps give you the impression
that the speaker is _trying to think of the items_ \--that's the sort of
situation in which you tend to run across `に`.

Let's look at another example:

> イタリア旅行ではいろんな都市を訪ねたわ。ローマ`に`フィレンツェでしょ、それからミラノ`に`ヴェネツィアも行ったかしら。

Here again, the speaker is trying to call to mind a list of items. In this
case, there are two smaller lists, but they function as one larger list: `ローマ`
and `フィレンツェ` form the first list, and then the speaker thinks of `ミラノ` and
`ヴェネツィア` as well, adding them as a second list. In each case, `に` is left off
the end of the list.

Another example, this time from a video game (Gameboy Wars Advance 2):

> 「ほっほっほっ。マックス`に`イワン。  
>  また、ともに戦う事になってしもうたのう。」

The speaker remembers Max and Ewan from the first game, but he hasn't seen
them in quite some time. Because he used `に` to list the names, you get the
sense that he's calling their names to mind from memory. In this case, again
the list only has two items, and again `に` is omitted from the last item in
the list.
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