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Wait, Elise was actually going to get changed? Xuan-Yu rolled his eyes as she turned to leave, still rocking his own t-shirt and sweatpants combination. Maybe he just…won’t expect her to be able to pick up any zingers from now on. What a serious kiddo. He scratched his head as she went off, leaving him with Louisa, who also seemed more than a little confused.

[b]“Naw, three’s a party n all,”[/b] Xuan-Yu replied. [b]“I’m sure the folks downstairs wouldn’t mind seeing another pretty face either.”[/b] Verdict was still out there whether Lou was pretty, of course, but [i]that[/i] wasn’t the sort of jab he was planning on throwing right after a fight. Whatever thoughts he had, however, was disrupted by the near-catastrophic entrance of Hoshiko. The older man grimaced at the way she contorted her body in order to stabilize the boxes. At his age, considering his occupation, he was already feeling the youthfulness seep out of his own spine, so to watch that happen, her lower back bending out almost like a ‘C’ was painful, to say the least.

He let out a breath that he didn’t know he was holding, before helping receive the boxes of fried chicken with Elise. [b]“Careful with your feet, wrecking ball,”[/b] Xuan-Yu said. [b]“Don’t wanna be [i]that[/i] top-heavy yet.”[/b] With the VTOL loaded up and the others ready enough to go, all that remained was the hanger door. There was a spot of tension, of course. A hanging question mark as to whether the door would actually open or not, but Xuan-Yu was willing to take a hit his cross-country brothers: if it didn’t open, it would open once Deathstalker kickstarted it.

So they descended, the floating elevator taking the most direct route to the airfields that had been cleared out by the Japanese forces beforehand, with Xuan-Yu doing his due diligence with announcing codes and locations beforehand. With new advancements in how scouting functioned in the post-Warped world, security cameras being around the perimeter and surveillance drones being used to establish wider autonomous patrols meant that most who were on-duty and off-duty were more or less concentrated in the same camp. Convenient enough for his own purposes then. Night shifts were shitty enough.

And of course, the first person they met was in fact quite shitty!

While Elise fumbled with the introduction, Xuan-Yu opened up the back of the aircraft instead, allowing just a whiff of the still-warm chicken to waft out. He poked his head out from behind the VTOL next, a sardonic grin on his face. [b]“Evening motherfuckers. The girls made too much chicken and no one even drinks up there. Airsickness and all, yeah? Anyhow, the big boss had the bright idea to send ‘em off to the troops here, and here [i]we[/i] are. Also super awkward to have just bounced the moment the operation ended, even with commander’s orders n everything, so [i]these[/i] lovely ladies here wanted to shake hands and chat with the boys too.”[/b]

He shot a wink at Elise and Louisa.

[b]“Anyhow, that’s the gist of it. There a kitchen you’ve got for me to set up and portion things out in? Ain’t enough to feed the whole army if it’s a first-come-first-served deal, y’see.”[/b]