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▶ 004. TEST DRIVE & SIMULATION #4

[icyspicy]

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✨ akechi

[icyspicy]

( from here )

[ Jury’s out on whether or not this meeting is going better than their first (by Winter’s recollection). ]

I have little choice but to be there. As do we all. Though I’m certain you’re well-aware of that fact by now.

[laevateinns]

[ akechi has not yet gotten into full brat mode, so it's... probably better??? maybe??? wow, times change. ]

Mmn. Indeed. [ he agrees, swirling his spoon in his soup to have something to do with his hands. ] Thought I suppose there are worse ways to spend one's time.

[ dramatic sigh!! ]

[icyspicy]

Worse ways than fighting kaiju?

[ Winter’s eyebrows wing up. He motions at Akechi with his fork (he has yet to master chopsticks). ]

Just what sort of charmed life do you lead?

[laevateinns]

[ oh, akechi laughs at that. he gives winter a patented detective prince smile! ]

The most charmed, I'm sure! [ he says cheerfully, before letting his expression fall. ] I just mean... at least it's worth something. Means something. We're not wasting our time for nothing.

[icyspicy]

I suppose.

[ He idly starts prodding at his lunch again, contemplative. ]

Myself and a great many others aren't happy about being conscripted into a fight that's not our own, but at least it's a purpose, as you say. And largely we understand that by playing nice with LILITH's wishes, we have a better chance of returning home.

[laevateinns]

[ there's at least something he can get behind. ]

I'm not a fan of being forced to do anything either. [ he says simply, looking back to his untouched soup. ] I suppose I would usually be angrier about this, but...

[ but compared to the hellhole of a "perfect reality" he just got out of? it's almost a relief, in some ways, how fucked up this world is.

...and when he was a kid, being specially chosen to fight monsters and save the world or whatever would have been the coolest thing ever and-

no, no. he's just... tired, honestly.

...he's left his sentence hanging too long. ]

Hmm. Well, perhaps it hasn't fully sunk in yet. Ask me again the next time there's a giant kaiju to fight- or more likely, as soon as being forced to live in this place and follow it's rules chafes.

[ so like, real soon. ]

✨ ishmael

[icyspicy]

( from here )

Feels a bit like your brain’s been scrambled, doesn’t it?

[ He sighs and leans back against the bench a bit. Just that motion is enough to make him wobble worryingly for a second. Where’s a cleric when you need one? ]

LILITH does rather like to throw us to the wolves, I’ve noticed. Or perhaps to the kaiju?

[wheft]

It's both. I'm used to it, though. Such is the mercenary life.

[ a Fixer's job is never done... sigh. ]

Aren't you? I mean, obviously you would know how to fight a monster or two if you've been picked to be here.

[icyspicy]

[ She’s not the first he’s met who would describe themselves as a mercenary, and he doubts she’d be the last. It’s a good type of people to conscript, he supposes, because at least they’re used to it. ]

I am, and I do. I’m a thief by trade– [ that’s becoming less and less of a secret the longer he’s here. Might as well get it out there. ] –but in a world where it’s more than smashing shop windows or picking pockets.

[wheft]

[ now that piques her interest, what with how her eyes light up a little. ]

Really? What else do you do, then?

[icyspicy]

Traipse my way into temples and ruins that are best left abandoned, for one. Those sorts of places are normally crawling with beasties, not to mention the undead.

[wheft]

[ beasties... that's such a cute way of referring to monsters. ]

Sounds like the mission we're about to undertake right now.

Do you... usually do these things alone?

✨ makima

[icyspicy]

( from here )

Not many people enjoy being insulted to death.

[ He says it with a note of humor in his voice. Not exactly cruel, but not exactly concerned either. ]

Just a little bit of magic, that’s all.

[kubricks]

No, I imagine not.

[No real reaction here. Lots of not concerned going around in this pair.]

If that's a little bit, I'd think with more we could just leave dealing with the kaiju to you.

[Okay now there's a little smile on her face about that.]

[icyspicy]

I prefer to save the big magic for the big kaiju. The much bigger kaiju.

[ Like the kind that rampage around abandoned theme parks. ]

Handy as it is, magic isn't an infinite resource for me.

[kubricks]

Good to know. No shortage of those it seems, so hopefully you won't run out when the next one shows up.

[Giant whale, big lizards, the boars weren't too bad, but they also didn't seem to big a large scale operation like the other two. So she imagines the next one will be closer to the others.]

[icyspicy]

I usually manage fairly well.

[ He’s got a supply of far too much complimentary ramen to prove it. ]

What about yourself? I noticed you did something to the creature but I wasn’t able to catch what it was.

[kubricks]

I'd say I manage fairly well too.

[Just without the supply of instant noodles. But that's okay with her.]

And that's okay that you didn't catch it. It worked well enough, and I think that's what matters.

✨ ereshkigal

[icyspicy]

( from here )

[ He’s got no idea what her threshold for “absolutely and positively dreadful” even is, but given her reaction to seeing him without his shirt, he’s got to guess the bar is low. Well, it’s not for him to decide what makes her uncomfortable. ]

Give me a moment to get dressed. Then, would you like to come in? Get out of the hallway for a bit.

[queenofkur]

[ Get in? B-But he's not even wearing clothes, not on the upper half of his body at least! ]

C-Certainly... [She steps in and immediately looks for something that can distract him. Does he have flowers? A pet perhaps? She'll take a window to just look at!] I-I'll wait till you are dressed.

[icyspicy]

[ There's plenty for her to distract herself with. Since Winter has gotten the room style hologram, he's modeled the place after his own tastes, which skew toward gothy dark academia with a hint of maximalism. Like this, only more suited for the smaller dorm space instead of a full-on suite.

He steps off somewhere to fish up some clothes, though the instant he tugs his shirt on, his style implant glitches and he finds himself, you guessed it, in a maid outfit. ]

Huh. Is this what you were talking about?

[ Said as he picks at the hem of his skirt. ]

[queenofkur]

[ At least he got great tastes. His room is well-decorated and she could absolutely see herself live in it if she had to. Probably the second best room she's seen so far (obviously, the first is her own). Why, she would compliment him for his refined tastes - if not for the terrible predicament they're in.

And indeed, when she turns around she can see he's been cursed with a shameful attire as well. ]

... Yes.

[ Honestly she prefers that to him being shirtless. ]

W-We need to act quickly.

[icyspicy]

[ This dress and the accompanying thigh-high stockings are doing great things for his legs, at least. He seems fine with the whole thing, really, down to the heels that give him an extra inch or two of very unneeded height. ]

So under that blanket is... a maid uniform?

[ Girl he thought she was stuck in something more scandalous than that. ]

[queenofkur]

[ She can see it... He thinks she's exaggerating! Why would she be so embarrassed by a maid outfit? Well because she's a goddess, of course.

But most importantly, because she is convinced people will think less of her if they see her wearing something like that. ]

I am a goddess... It would be most shameful of me to be seen wearing that!

[ She turns away and looks for his papers. They must he here, right? ]

L-let's work on your paperwork, alright?