Second Hit | Audio + Action for Route 35

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[If you thought Kuzuryuu would be happy about the prospect of a fancy red carpet event, then you are sorely mistaken. Though, at the moment, this might have more to do with the uh...method of invitation Clair decided to employ than the event itself. Three guesses who got beaned right in the head with a few of those ping pong balls. First two guesses don't count.]

[It was Kuzuryuu.]

Why the everloving fuck would you decide to invite people to something by dropping goddamn plastic balls on them!? That's not fucking normal, who the hell does something like this!? This better not be something that happens regularly here, I swear...

[He trails off, falling into a sort of contemplative silence for a few moments.]

What the hell is a prom, anyway? Some kind of party or something? [Hello, I am very Japanese and we do not have proms. Also I went to murderschool. There are no dances at murder school, only murders.] VIPs I get but wh-- son of a bitch!! [The sounds of a jostled struggle can be heard, along with a range of very happy Ariados noises.]

Goddammit, Meiwaku!! You can't fucking-- [What is even going on over there...] Get off you dumbass!! I swear to fu-- [Thankfully, the transmission cuts out fairly quickly into the unseen scuffle. He'll uh...he'll get back to you if anybody actually wants to answer that question about prom.]

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[For anybody who happens to be out and about, they might run into Kuzuryuu mid-spider scuffle just outside of Goldenrod on Route 35. He's been out here training for most of the day (as per usual) and has two new evolutions to show for it: Bisharp and Ariados. The former appears as calm as she ever does, cradling Kuzuryuu's Pokégear in her hands and watching the scene before her with something that might be amusement. As for the latter...apparently she either hasn't noticed or doesn't care that evolving means she's quite a bit bigger than she used to be. So she's very determinedly trying to climb all over her master just like in the (not so) good ol' days. It's not really working but that isn't stopping her. Nothing is stopping her.]

[She WILL reclaim her fuzzy throne, rules of physics and everything that is logical be damned!!]

[Needless to say, Kuzuryuu is not amused and there's quite a bit of yelling going on and even more swearing.]

You're too big for that now, dipshit!! Fucking-- QUIT!! I didn't even-- DAMMIT! How about I fucking sit on you for a change, huh!? Then what, fucker!?

[He wasn't kidding about that because after a few more moment's wrestling, he definitely plants himself squarely on her back. Though...since he hardly weighs more than she does, the impact is probably not as impressive as he was hoping for. It surprised her enough to pin her to the ground, sure, but she barely seems to mind if the even happier noises and excited squirming are anything to go by.]

[Approac-- more like turn around and walk away and pretend you didn't see this. Why would you...]

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...Hm. You'll come, right? Please? I want to go to the party with all of us...where the Elite Four live!

[ and she will keep asking until this becomes yes if she has to so help her ]

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You say that like we weren't all just together for a party a week ago...wait. Aren't the Elite Four those super strong trainers you mentioned? The ones surpassing the Gym Leaders?

[Hello is that a hook there? That's a hook. Go, Nanami, go.]

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Yep. You wouldn't be able to meet them if you didn't go, because they're not taking visitors right now. So you'd have to come to see them...but if you don't want to meet them, I guess the rest of us could...

[ THAT'S A HOOK ]

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[Curse you, Chiaki Nanami!!!!]

[You've got him making one of his weird Kuzuryuu noises again. One that's clearly torn between "fuck parties with people beyond my tiny social circle" and "must find out Elite Four's strengths and weaknesses to better strategize how to beat them one day". IT'S NOT FAIR.]

[How could you exploit him like this.]

...Ngkk.....kheh....

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[Goddammit, that's a break.]

...F...Fine. I'll go. But not for the party part of it, you got it!! Nobody better expect me to dance!

[Well that took far less convincing than expected. At least the attendance part.]

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[ OH, SHE WILL EXPECT YOU TO DANCE...

But a good gamer knows that you never leave the boss time to prepare for an attack. So she's not saying so as of yet.

...This time she got to see the Kuzuryuu noises with video, too. ]

It'll be fun, you'll see. Tsumiki already said she was going as well, and now you, so we just have to make sure everyone else is going, too.

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[Oh my god Nanami. You just get more and more underhanded the longer this conversation goes on.]

[He's going to be so angry and yet oddly proud by the time prom rolls around.]

Yeah, yeah, if you say so. [HOW OBVIOUS IS IT THAT "FUN" IS NOT THE WORD HE WOULD USE?] I'll let you handle the others then.

[On the bright side, though! The hardest to convince is already out of the way! It's all smooth sailing from here, really.]

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[ As long as he is angry and oddly proud as he dances with her! ]

Yep. I can make sure everyone else goes, no worries there.

[ ...Literally all she has to do is ask Hinata to go and that will work, and as long as someone invites Tanaka he'd probably go, and Souda will go anywhere Hinata and Kuzuryuu are going so that takes care of him, and then Saionji will probably want to go because of dancing? Maybe? ]

We just need to have enough tickets. Oh, but someone could use your plus-one, too, so we don't need enough for everyone...

[ clearly you want one of the boys as your plus one right ]

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They've been dropping these things everywhere, haven't they? Doubt it'll be a problem. Though uh... [He glances at some spot on the ground off-screen.]

...You think they'll still take them if they've been taped together?

[Kopeko might have started attacking some of the balls after the first one that conked Kuzuryuu on the head.]

[...A few of them might have had tickets inside them.]

[Oops.]

[ALSO NO FUCK THAT THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON HE'D ACCEPT AS HIS PLUS ONE. AND SHE'S NOT HERE. SO HE'S GOING SOLO, FUCK ALL Y'ALL.]

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...They should probably take them.

[ Kuzuryuu why. Kopeko why...

And wow, are you saying he wouldn't have taken Nanami if she'd needed to be a plus-one?

...Of course she didn't, but.

...If Komaeda were here, he'd have all the tickets, wouldn't he. ]

Don't rip them up any further, though.

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[...Okay, if Hinata weren't here, then yes, he might have made an exception for Nanami. Because he's assuming the two of them are going to end up going together He's in for a surprise. But as it stands with everyone who is here...Tsumiki is already accounted for, he's not bringing another guy that's just weird, and Saionji can go fuck off for all he cares.]

Hey, it wasn't me!! And they aren't ripped so much as they're...sliced. Very expertly and cleanly, I might add! It was some damn impressive blade work.

[BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE???]

[If nothing else, it makes Kopeko look a little happy from her spot just behind Kuzuryuu's shoulder. Master is proud of her...even if she did something she probably shouldn't have.]

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...You really care about your Pokemon, don't you? I knew you'd make a good trainer, Kuzuryuu-kun.

[ Countdown to flustered tsun embarrassment... ]

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K...keh!! [There it is. There's the flustered blush.] Of course I would, I'm the Super High School Level Gangster, aren't I?! Of course I'd kick ass at something like this!!

[Kuzuryuu there is no reason to yell.]

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...I don't know that those two things are related...

[ ... ]

...So...loud...

[ you're hurting her ears............ ]

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[While he doesn't acknowledge his volume issue, he goes at least turn it down a bit.]

Sh...shut up!! They're definitely related!

[Sort...of......]

[In a way...........]

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...I don't think they really are. It's more to do with the sort of person you are, not your talent...

[ You know, if you ask her.

...

Which you didn't.

But you get the benefit of her insight anyway, you're welcome. ]

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My talent is the sort of person I am!! They're one and the same!!

[Remember, Nanami? His talent is more a position and way of life than it is a talent...]

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You're a nice person who cares about his friends, though. And who thinks that there's a certain way to do things, always.

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I guess that works...

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The fuck do you mean you "guess that works"!?

[Also, are you calling him stubborn and opinionated...]

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What I said...

Sometimes I think you all could have more than one title, you know. It seems a little silly to just give one, when...you all have things you're amazing at beyond that.

Kuzuryuu-kun is a good friend who is always reliable, no matter what. I think that's Super High Level in and of itself.

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[...good job, Nanami. You appear to have broken Kuzuryuu entirely.]

[He's not even making weird flustered noises. He's just staring and practically blushing all the way to those stupid little swoops shaved into the sides of his head.]

[A...chievement unlocked? Is this an achievement? This doesn't feel like it should be an achievement.]

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[ She peers at the screen a little more closely. ]

...Ah, I embarrassed you, didn't I...

[ No noises, even... ]

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[NO SHIT, NANAMI, YOU THINK?]

N...NO!!!

[Kuzuryuu, your face is basically a tomato you really can't tsundere your way out of this one. The proof is right there.]

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[ All she said was that he was a Super High School Level friend... ]

...You're all red.

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Hgk!!

[Look, it's one thing to say you think of him as a friend. It's another thing entirely to say that he's a friend to a Super High School Level degree. Think about how often he hears something like that.]

[Never. The answer is never.]

Sh...Shut up, that doesn't mean shit!