[center] [img]http://imgur.com/8ZPRnMc.png[/img] [h2][color=ffd400][b][u] Itsuko Kanzaki [/u] [sup][sup]Murasaki City Arcade ❖ 1st Floor[/sup][/sup][/b][/color][/h2] [/center] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/oM62y04.png[/img] [@ERode] [b][color=ffd400]BGM[/color][/b] [youtube]https://youtu.be/edHS1NEcB2k[/youtube][/center] [color=ffd400]“Ahh, I can’t believe that I couldn’t take down that Flame Hair,”[/color] [url=http://i.imgur.com/JiKRtT3.jpg][b]a certain cool-dressed blonde[/b][/url] griefed to herself, slumped over the controls of an UFO catcher, in a certain well-crowded arcade, staring at a squid plushie she had snagged instead of the phoenix chick she wanted, while listening to a few songs. Not that she could say this was a bad haul as well. Still what annoyed Itsuko was, how could she lose to a glass cannon such as Burning Blossom? [color=ffd400]“Well, yeah, I guess this doesn’t matter now. Next time I’m gonna make her eat her own tee—”[/color] Itsuko said, talking to herself again— a habit that she seemed incapable of dropping— when she was interrupted by the rumblings of a needy stomach. One that wasn’t her own, by the way. [color=ffd400]“Hey, you,”[/color] Itsuko said, coming from behind the machine Moe was slumped over (Was that such a common thing on arcades?). [color=ffd400]“Are ya ok? I mean, ya seem a bit down and all that. If food is what ya wanna have, I know a cool stand close to the Academy. Ya don’t need ta worry ‘bout money, t’ll be my treat,”[/color] realizing that she may have sounded a bit creepy, despite her million dollar smile and her loaded Okinawan accent, Itsuko quickly pointed to the plushie she won. [color=ffd400]“The thing is that I won this lil’ guy after trying for so long and I wanna celebrate, but I can’t ask a boy, they would get weird ideas, y’know? But ya seem to be ‘round my age, it won’t be problem, right?”[/color] The blonde kept her smile on, even if she had lied about her motivation, she still wanted to hang out with someone around her age. It couldn't be bead to try to make a new friendship over some cheap, totally unhealthy, but thoroughly delicious street food, right? [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/oM62y04.png[/img][/center] [center] [img]http://i.imgur.com/YcSbYzy.png[/img] [h2][color=9400d3][b][u] Eris Reinhardt [/u] [sup][sup]Murasaki City Mall Residential Towers ❖ Eris' Apartment[/sup][/sup][/b][/color][/h2][/center] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/gC1WHll.png[/img] [@Lonewolf685] [b][color=9900d3]BGM[/color][/b] [youtube]https://youtu.be/pdPg8tYGEgM[/youtube][/center] [color=c0c0c0]“Hah! I don’t know about you, but we could use a little extra food,”[/color] Eins said cheerfully, still clinging to Eris’ shoulders, when Kanbaru commented that they might not have enough space for desserts. [color=c0c0c0]“I mean we have a way to go before we get to ‘that’ level.”[/color] The direction of the the gaze of the Older Reinhardt twin— that is, Kanbaru’s well-stacked chest— made it clear what her message was supposed to mean. [color=9400d3]“W— well, I suppose we should go now, right? Before the food gets cold?”[/color] Eris said, breaking the awkward mood set by Eins and her ‘playfulness’. [color=9400d3]“By the way,”[/color] the Younger Reinhardt said, as she motioned for them to begin walking, dragging Eins if need be, [color=9400d3]“You don’t need to worry about that, Miss Kanbaru. The fight, I mean. I realize that Eclipse Princess’ reputation precedes me, people seem to have this idea that I— no, we,”[/color] Eris said, pointing to Eins, [color=9400d3]“are some kind of monster. Like a berserk beast out of the depths of Hades.”[/color] [color=c0c0c0]“But, the thing is that we just like the game as it’s, I mean, a game”[/color] Eins quipped, [color=c0c0c0]“What’s the issue with that?”[/color] [color=9400d3]“Then again,”[/color] Eris took the word once more as the three exited the public area and got into the residents’ lobby of the tower the twins lived in, quickly making it to the elevator, [color=9400d3]“I think I can see their point. With how society works these days, people that can take Deep Ground as a game are rare. And, I do realize that we may have condemned a few to a life in the gutters, while— in their eyes— nothing that happens inside that ‘game’ will change the fact that Eins and I are from a privileged background. It’s easy to breed hate when society pressures you to think like this.”[/color] [color=c0c0c0]“It’s a sad fact,”[/color] Eins said as they made it to their apartment’s door, [color=c0c0c0]“that some have so much while many have so little. But you understand— that’s how it is, how it always have been, right? People like us, have the obligation to help others, that’s only right. But it doesn’t mean that we are obliged to forsake that which our ancestors fought for, that’s a big disrespect. People who ask for others to do this, don’t know the weight that comes with being nobility.”[/color] [color=9400d3]“Furthermore, Deep Ground is but a farce,”[/color] Eris said as they got into the living room/kitchenette, the first room right past the door of their small, yet very luxurious apartment, [color=9400d3]“there’s no way the world can produce enough resources to provide a stable living for all. It only promotes Social Darwinism, but based on our skills to kill one another on a video game. If you never do anything of your life, but play well, you still can get into a job where you’ll never have to worry about anything, despite having no qualifications for that function. That’s just… wrong.”[/color] For a moment, Eris remembered about Cassandra, thinking that she had to send her a message before going to sleep. After all, the redheaded never replied Eris' earlier message, which was beginning to worry the youngest of the Reinhardts. Yet, for now, she would entertain their current guest, Eris thought, after all she was having quite a deal of fun. Hopefully, Cassandra was having it too. [color=9400d3]“Oh, but—”[/color] Eris suddenly halted her discourse, while placing the lukewarm boxes on the microwave, before turning to Kanbaru with a slight blush in her face. [color=9400d3]“I’m sorry that we went on such a tasteless tangent.”[/color] [color=c0c0c0]“I guess we just opened up to you quite easily, heh?”[/color] Eins jested. [color=c0c0c0]“Maybe it’s because 'something' on you remembers us of our mom, I don’t know what, really, but anyway. Let go back to a more friendly talk and forget about Deep Ground, or big problems.”[/color] [color=c0c0c0]“We’ve been doing pretty much a monologue, so... why don’t you pick a subject this time?”[/color] Eins asked, as she motioned Kanbaru to the couch, where they could wait for their food to be reheated, in a more comfortable position. [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/gC1WHll.png[/img][/center]