impheired | First Hit

[Hello Network, are you having a peaceful day? Nice and quiet? Good, because this kid is about to ruin it. Half-pint here apparently doesn’t know the meaning of the word "inside voice."]

[Even if he is technically outside, but semantics. He’s still yelling far too loudly for that to not be disturbing somebody.]

Hey, Hinata! Or any of you other fuckwits, what the hell happened!? Where are you??

[What do you mean there are other people who can access this network?]

I think that Naegi bastard might have lied to us. Tch, and here I thought we'd have nothing to worry about with a face that harmless looking. We need to regroup and figure out what went wrong with--

[Just as Kuzuryuu is about to unload some real SHSL spoilers, he cuts off, paling slightly due to a small, nervous voice piping up from somewhere off screen. His head spins around so fast it’s a wonder he didn’t break his own neck.]

U-um. [Now that she’s approaching her friend, the girl is clearly unsure if this was what she wanted to do. He didn't seem very happy about their circumstances - though who could blame him, really?] Wh-who are you talking to? Is Hinata-san there? [Yeah, guess who hasn’t really done diddly squat with her gear.]

Sh-shit!! Tsumiki!?

[The feed ends abruptly, with the shorter boy only looking all the more like he's seen a ghost.]

((ooc: Responses will come from Kuzuryuu or Mikan, probably both. Also a warning for spoiler in castmate threads because there’s just no way those aren’t going to pop up.))

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It's about time you showed up, you fucker.

[And he says that as endearingly as possible, you know he loves you, Hinata. Even if you are a fucker. Seriously, where were you, Mr. Protag? You're supposed to be the one explaining this shit. At least he's calmed down by now. For now, anyway.]

Don't worry about it, I'll catch up to you in no time. I just needed to know where I should be headed.

[Did you really expect him to accept the offer? I mean really.]

[He knows, but he's going to apologize again anyway because he feels bad.]

Yeah, sorry... I've been training my Pokemon for most of the afternoon, so I haven't been paying attention to my PokeGear at all.

[Please forgive him for slacking on his protag duties. He honestly wasn't expecting more classmates to show up this quickly.]

Anyway, it should be a pretty straightforward path most of the way, but once you hit Violet City, you'll want to head north to Route 36, then go down Route 35 until you reach Goldenrod. I should warn you that it'll take at least several weeks, though...

[Hence why he made that offer in the first place, but if they both really insist on walking, then he supposes he'll just have to leave them to it and hope that they'll be safe.]

Oh, and there's a map of the region on your PokeGear if you need to look at it.

You take this shit seriously already, don't you? [Not that he's super surprised by that or anything. This is Hinata we're talking about.]

Map on this thing though, got it. [A beat.] Wait, so why aren't you with Nanami?

[Didn't the two of you have like...a thing going?]

Well, I was a fan of the games when I was a kid, so... this whole thing is actually a lot of fun for me.

[He's definitely not as big of a Pokemon fan as Nanami is, though. A-and they totally don't have a thing going, what are you talking about!!]

I didn't go with her because I'm not really prepared to hit the road yet, and my Pokemon are still nowhere near strong enough to face the gym leader in Violet... I would've just slowed her down. Besides, she has a couple other people with her, so I'll know she'll be fine.

[You have A Thing. Maybe not a fully romantic thing but A Thing nonetheless.]

Right, she mentioned that you and Tanaka were the last ones here before us. Didn't realize it hadn't been all that long. [A smirk spreads across his face.] Good, means it won't take me long to surpass you!

[Yeah he might not have played the games but guess who is already completely onboard with this monster fighting tournament thing?]

[He actually laughs a bit at that.]

I'm kinda surprised you're getting into this already. Were you a Pokemon fan when you were younger, too?

[It doesn't seem very likely, but he's curious.]

Never played it. [Pretend you're surprised.] But what's not to like about a world that revolves around making monsters fight to prove who the strongest is?

[Again: pretend you're surprised by this answer.]

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