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[b][color=DarkOrange]Location:[/color][/b] Forbidden Kingdom - Esaka’s Pools
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 15 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](304/150)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=Aqua]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](140/110)
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Rika turned her gaze away from Pit’s match and towards her brother, who was staring at his phone instead. In one corner, a little window displaying the fight was shown, a red dot indicating it was being recorded. 

The shot angle wasn’t great.

The rest of the screen was taken up by a 3d view of Seek walking through a digital archive of forum posts and guides. 

[color=Aqua]”Find anything else?”[/color] Rika asked to which her disgruntled brother replied [color=SpringGreen]”Ugh. Kinda. Apparently you need these things called ‘Digimon’ to do hacking? This net setup is so weird”[/color]		

[color=Aqua]”Ok… So do you have one?”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Nope! Trying to figure out how they even work first”[/color]

[color=Aqua]”Alright”[/color] Rika replied with a shrug, before leaning in over his shoulder and asking their Ai companion [color=Aqua]”Anyone done with their fights yet Seek?”[/color] prompting the Net-Navi to pull up a helpful list they had been compiling in the background.

[color=Aqua]”Uh huh. Yup. Them. Her. Out already?”[/color] she said to herself as she went over it before thinking and asking [color=Aqua]”Wait, how’d you even know all these people are seekers? And their names?”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Yeah I didn’t even know that loser was a seeker”[/color]

“...”

[color=Aqua]”You can just do that? Huh”[/color] Rika replied to the explanation about matching names to faces the AI had done.

[color=SpringGreen]”See this is why I was kinda vague on the emails we sent to Clover’s folks. If any of the Consuls are using people like Seek to keep an eye on stuff we’re in trouble if we don’t act smart”[/color] Jr said, tapping his forehead as he did, before saying that [color=SpringGreen]”Like if that one with the four kings cares at all she’ll know we’re already here from the names alone”[/color] 

[color=Aqua]”I guess she doesn’t then, if she’s not come after us already”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”I dunno about that. Maybe she’s waiting to see if anyone gets taken out in the tournament? We’re gonna be here till it's done, so she can just sit back and scheme in  the mean time”[/color] Jr speculated, before adding  [color=SpringGreen]”Or maybe she already did with G-Corp, n now that they failed she’s being a bad boss and getting rid of em? Or using em as bait”[/color] 

[color=Aqua]”Maybe… Probably should still go after em to find out which it is though, right?”[/color] Rika suggested, to which her brother nodded in agreement and then said [color=SpringGreen]”I’ll keep looking stuff up, you make a call n get everyone who’s done to meet up somewhere”[/color] 

Rika in turn stepped away, raised a gauntleted finger to her ear and then paused as she tried to work out what she should actually say. After thinking for a moment, she ended up falling back on her memories of Abysall fleet radio commands, saying: [color=Aqua]”Team members who have completed or failed their matches for the day are to report to the top of the southern Mid-Tier access lift!”[/color]

Even as she was saying it, she found she didn’t like it, and so right after adding a [color=Aqua]”Um. Please?”[/color] followed by [color=Aqua]”We were thinking of looking into that G-Corp stuff and it’d be good to, you know, get together n work out who’s actually free to do that stuff”[/color]

After having done this, she glanced over at Jr. The boy had been giving her a weird look, but upon meeting her gaze gave a smile and a thumbs up.

Rika sighed a little in relief, and then said, mostly to herself [color=Aqua]Well… hopefully that’ll work?”[/color]