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[b][color=DarkOrange]Location:[/color][/b] Forbidden Kingdom - Esaka’s High Tier
[b][color=SpringGreen]Bowser Jr: Level 15 [/color][/b] EXP: [color=SpringGreen]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](337/150)
[b][color=Aqua]Rika: Level 12 [/color][/b] EXP:  [color=Aqua]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](173/110)
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After getting some help in making their winding tales and anecdotes make sense for those lacking all of the context they didn’t even think to add, the kids ended up nodding in agreement with the idea of taking down the Consul. Better they take her down now instead of waiting for her to get the jump on them, after all. 

Given that they couldn’t do that now because the rest of the teams were off to risk blowing their cover in the tournament matches, they might not get to act on that however. Self confident as the kids were, it wasn’t like they thought they could two vs one a Consul.

[color=SpringGreen]”I mean, getting into a really rough spot like that would be a way to get an Interlink going like Clover’s parents said it would”[/color] Jr halfheartedly started to suggest, but he didn’t really think it was worth the risk. Or, as Rika put it [color=Aqua]”No. That’s silly”[/color]

Which left them with the questions of what they were going to do today, which was helpful answered by the call from the UN to come participate in their new ‘powerstone games’ 

[color=Aqua]”Power stone? Wasn’t that that cool treasure that we fought that… bone… guy in the dead zone tree for…”[/color] Rika recalled with a furrowed brow, before siad brows rose sharply and she jabbed a finger at her brother as she remembered [color=Aqua]”which you then lost!”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Bringing the ceiling down on his head was a good plan! It's not my fault the gross monsters showed up before we could dig it out!”[/color] Jr retorted, hands thrown up in frustration, before pointing out [color=SpringGreen]”And hey, look, it doesn't matter, because we can just go and win some now instead”[/color] 

Rika immediately perked up at the idea, before furrowing her brow and kicked her feet as she remembered [color=Aqua]”But its a tournament with people watching”[/color]

[color=SpringGreen]”Sure, but, like, way less people, n they’re not gonna be super invested either”[/color] 

[color=Aqua]”Hmmm. I guessssss. Plus there’ll be treasure so. sure”[/color] she said, not sounding that committed at first, but finishing it with a resolute [color=Aqua]”Yeah! Lets do it”[/color]

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As it would turn out, they weren't the only ones expected to find Juri already there and making a scene when they showed up. 

From off by their entrance point Jr called out a friendly (if questioning) [color=SpringGreen]”Hey Juri! Where’ve you been hiding?”[/color] while Rika gave her a big gauntlet handed wave.