Tama ☆ Emerald Goat

[hanaban]

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[hanaban]

[ ... Yeah, that doesn't really explain much of anything. Even if he tries hard to think about it and put context together, all he can really think is "psynch" being like linking, linking machine... ??? handcuffing somebody to you and threatening to break their wrist if they don't tell you the truth ]

And that's not something you guys can make here? Or get shipped from Amazoom?

[ballies]

[ tama would love there being handcuffs involved but she's not telling her smol ghost son that ]

Sadly, no. It'd make the trials a lot more interesting, as we could kinda dig around for more clues with it but... I don't think the Amazoom system would cover the entire network we'd need to pull it off.

[hanaban]

What if each of us asks for a small part of the system? There should be parts of it that can be found anywhere, and I've got lots of tokens from doing my homework!

[ballies]

I'm proud of you for doing your homework, but there's no way I could put together a Psync machine by myself. I'd need the guy who maintains it to make sure nothing broke or went wrong in the setup...

[hanaban]

We could Amazoom an instruction manual... I'm pretty good at putting things back together.

[ballies]

If you can put together a Psync machine, I think Pewter would have a job for you. Several jobs.

You've not been using your tokens for cards?

[hanaban]

[ Ha, and Reigen was saying Hanako is such a delinquent, he would never be able to join the workforce, take that ]

Mm... There's not really anything I want. Ryuki bought me a wonderball once so I could have a card, though! I got Nimona!

[ballies]

[ ABIS is a weird little place for weirdos he'd be fine. ]

It's pretty fun to see what you get -- card wise and in the Wonderball. [ although! ] Ooh, really? Do you have it with you?

[hanaban]

Yep!

[ He pulls it out of his inner jacket pocket to show her. Ta-da! It's in a sturdy gold foil card sleeve so it won't get damaged by the 208590345323 knifes he also keeps in there ]

[ballies]

[ SWEET NIMOOONNNAAA. ]

Aww, she looks really cool. And you're taking really good care of her, huh?

[hanaban]

Mmhm! If anything happens to her, I'm going to destroy the person who did it.

[ballies]

... Card her, real her, or both?

[hanaban]

Both.

[ballies]

[ hmmm. that's fair. ish. ]

Don't do something that would get you hurt though. She'd be mad at you if you did.

[hanaban]

Yeah, she already beat that into me. And Reigen, and everybody else...

[ ugh!!!! everybody treating him like the kid he is /: ]

[ballies]

I think she'd say that to everyone important to her. No one wants to see someone they care about hurt. Whether they're younger or older.

[hanaban]

I guess. But you can't help that, when the world is out to hurt people.

[ballies]

[ … sigh. ]

Well. You’re not wrong here. But getting involved with the problem and ending up in that execution arena would make a lot of people sad, you know?

[hanaban]

On which side?

[ballies]

On which side…?

[hanaban]

[ ... ]

I've sorta been thinking about it. People don't want to fight their friends, or teammates, but I... would have been willing to do that, so they don't have to. Is that why I haven't been picked yet?

[ballies]

Picked… to wake up on a Thursday, you mean?

[hanaban]

Sunday! In the arena!

[ the gladiator battles, Tama!! Hanako's all about striking down villains, he'd be so good at it! ]

[ballies]

It does seem to be totally random, doesn’t it?

[ hmmm. ] I don’t know how it works — I’ve never been up there, but I’ve not thought much about going up there in the first place. Do you just wish really hard, or is it looking for whoever will hurt the “villain” the most?

[hanaban]

I don't know. I've wished really hard every week.

[ Ever since Mika. Ever since he failed to save Mika. ]

Hey, Tama. What would you do if it were you and Ryuki up there? You'd refuse to do anything, wouldn't you? I thought it would've gone like that.