[h2]Misaka Mikoto[/h2]

There were a few moments of blank staring when the knight walked up. Mikoto wasn't sure what to make of this, not one bit. A fully armored knight? The only possibilities Mikoto could use to explain such a sight was, likely, a very lost cosplayer. But the armor looked so real, while at the same time lacking any of the mechanized components power armor found in Academy City would display. No, this appeared to be some kind of knight. Not only that, but she didn't look Japanese at all. Yet she spoke fluent Japanese, that sounded like it was the language she was born with... Mikoto attempted to understand this. Perhaps the older girl was raised here? But... where was here? Some kind of experiment?

Flashes of those on the darker side of Academy City came to mind, suddenly. But this seemed too strange even for such people. What was going on?

"... Jeez, whoever's responsible for this..." an electrical current crackled around Mikoto's head. Whatever was going on, there was no way it was anything good in the Electromaster's mind.

... Wait, what was...?

The scent that came to Mikoto's nose was one of... frying breading? Meats? It smelled like someone was cooking...

"Does anyone else smell that?"

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[h2]Kino[/h2]

Not only did that armor clad the huge man's entire body, but it seemed to be so flexible too! Kino had never seen any machine like it, not even those human-like machines she had seen prior... no, this armor was something entirely new to her. Raising her hands, she lightly clapped at the massive older man's display. It was a pretty impressive display of some sort of mechanism she had never seen before, so she had to show her appreciation somehow, didn't she?

Egypt and Sweden were countries Kino had never before heard of, but she could assume from context that the were hardly armored. So they had all been taken from totally different places, somehow?

"Ohh... scary! Something took us all here against our will!" Hermes commented.

"If whoever did this wanted to harm us, I don't think they would have let us keep all our weapons," Kino replied. That, at least, made sense to the dark-haired girl. Why would you abduct someone and then leave them with all their methods of self-defense? Therefore there must be another reason... but what was it?

At that moment, the sense of sizzling meat and frying dough met Kino's nose...

"... Ah?"

... Of course, then the sight of a speaking, living skeletal armored being took her quite by surprise. Something like [i]that[/i] was even more surprising then the hulking armored man.
 
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If the smell didn't get any to show up, surely they'd notice [i]this[/i]...

A pan was slammed into the bottom of a large pot, strapped around the waist of [url=https://safebooru.org//images/2034/8fefa31655b6f091ac196ab1a609bca9f178dc6d.jpg?2121097]a small brunette girl clad in a floral kimono[/url]. She didn't what to disappoint the boss, and with the new people who'd just shown up... Well, it was time for a little song!

Hopping from one foot to the other, waving a fan in her free hand, the girl stood in front of a brightly-colored stand that housed a sizzling grill and fryer. She had a little time before anything was done to advertise! ... Which would hopefully distract her from eating any of the merchandise, too...

"[i]Hey! Hey! Look over here! I'm gonna show you why you shouldn't fear![/i]" she declared, her off-key singing only emphasizing the clearly-improvised lyrics as she twirled, banging on the pot and waving the fan, "[i]You want a snack? Check out this... er... shack? We're not hacks![/i]"

She banged on the pot several more times.

"[i]Takoyaki taiyaki yum yum yum, I promise to you that you won't burn your... thumbs![/i]" she continued, looking a little uncertain about those last lyrics, "[i]And if those aren't your taste, we have much more! Don't worry about your wallet, our prices won't make you poor![/i]"

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