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Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Sorry if it's a little short. I have to go somewhere soon, so I wanted to make sure I had a post out before I left.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Tai laughed awkwardly as the man in front of him joked about his poorly phrased question. "Well, I'd think we all have skeletons in our closet by this point in time. Yeah, I've got the app-" He said, nodding his head. Unfortunately he was cut short by another earthquake. "Wha- Another quake? You're kidding, right?" the man asked, taking the words right out of Tai's mouth. Then, as Tai was stumbling and trying to straighten himself, the corpses of the people killed by the quakes started moving the rocks and such off of them, and more demons appeared.

Tai's phone was already out, so he noticed the beep fairly easily. 'WARNING' in big red all-caps text appeared on his screen, probably to tell him if someone was trying to ambush them. Then a 'demon summoning protocol' started. Once again his red friend popped up, though this time it seemed to not want to kill him. "Huh? Oh, we're fighting now. Cool." Obarion said, taking a battle stance.

Tai looked at the other two demons the people around him had summoned. Some fairy thing that could fly, and a wolf beast monster with a club. He felt like he kinda got the short end of the stick about the whole demon thing. The girl got a flying demon, a very helpful ability, and the man got a cool beast man with a weapon. He got a short red suction cup demon. Ah well, he was sure his demon could hold his own.

"U-uhm, I'm not too good with this whole fighting thing. I do not even have a weapon of anything on me. I-it was a miracle I beat that thing in the first place." The girl stuttered. Tai grinned. Sure he couldn't talk to girls, but beating things up for girls was like the opposite of talking to girls. Although he didn't speak, it was obvious in his expression that he was ready for a brawl.

But before he could commence wrecking these zombies' days and making contracts with all the demons, a creepy dude stepped out of an alleyway nearby. He held a knife stained with blood, from a zombie he had just executed, and gave the girl this horrifyingly disturbing stare. Tai didn't like him. "Hello... You wouldnt have happened to have seen my darling son anywhere... Have you?" Creepy man asked, presumably to the girl. "No, we haven't." Tai said firmly, gripping his guitar in as threatening a manner you could hold one. He stepped in between the girl and the creepy man, knocking a zombie out of the way with his guitar to get there. He didn't bother to see if it was dead before glaring at the creepy man.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Sorry for not posting. Give me about an hour and a half, if I don't post by then just go on without me. I don't want to hold you all back.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

You people post very fast. I may or may not get another post up tonight.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Tai smiled as the girl got off of the rock pile she was sitting on and responded to him, respectfully putting her phone back in her pocket. He didn't get to see her face that well when it was buried in her phone, but now that it wasn't he could see she was quite attractive."...that is like, half the population of Japan." She joked. Her voice was nice. It was a polite tone, but still one that carried a small amount of fun. Tai laughed, a little awkwardly, at her comment. Trying to describe his father to her further would end in the same stuff. It was kinda funny how generic his father was. Just another business man, he supposed, but ah well, what could ya do?

"But, apologies. I have not seen your father." She said. There was a pause for some reason Tai honestly didn't know, and she looked from side to side. Oh god was he being boring or something? Did she not want to talk to him? Maybe she was looking out for more pokemon or whatever to tame and/or run from? Tai prayed it was the last one. Which reminded him, he needed to see if she had the same demon as him. If they were all as easy to take down as his, than he was sure pretty much everything would be back to normal soon. If some teenager could take down one of 'em, guns would do the trick with ease.

"Uhm... I-I would not mind helping you look, Wakahisa. I...well, travelling alone doesn't seem like the best idea right now, does it? I mean...with those things around, right?" She asked/offered to Tai, fidgeting and stuttering and pausing in a surprisingly cute manner. Oh god, she wanted to help him? "H-huh, hm, really? Thaaaaaaanks..." He stuttered, rocking on the balls of his feet as he thought of what to say. "What's your thi-demon, what's you demon like? Mine's, um, he's like a little red guy, with like a ponytail braid thing. And he's really to the point about stuff, and uh... Stuff." He paused, looking around for an out of this obviously awkward and horrendous conversation. Luckily, another person was approaching, and this time it wasn't a cute girl. "Hey look another person let's go talk to them." Tai mumbled, trying to be loud enough for her to hear even though honestly all he wanted right now was to not speak at all and to go somewhere else.

Tai walked briskly up to the new guy. He looked a tad bit older, probably a class or two above him in school. "Hi, sir, do you have demons?" Tai asked, before quickly realizing what he said. "I mean do you have them in your phone? Well, like, do you have..." Tai paused as he grabbed his phone to see what the app was called. "Cortensia. Do you have that app on your phone?"

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

I'm debating whether to have Tai be smitten by Keiko or not. Both have there ups and downs, I guess.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Tai is neutral. He just kinda blunders his way through life.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Tai decided that the best thing to do at the moment would probably be to find his father. The rest of his family would probably be fine at home, but his father was all the way over at Akiba might have been in danger. Especially if there were more demons around. Sure, the one he encountered was small, but they could gang up on people, especially some middle-aged business man. Plus, Tai had a 'weapon' to defend himself with, even if it was highly improvised. Thank god he had band practice today.

As Tai made his way to Akiba, he was astounded by how many people he saw dead. Sure, he saw a few dead bodies in Marunouchi, enough to make him queasy and fear another earthquake, but as he got closer to the famous electronics district, more debris and dead littered the streets. Tai briefly wondered if he was in any danger. Some signs still hadn't fallen, and he'd seen first hand that something odd was going on. He then worried for his father. Certainly none of these corpses were him...? Tai shook the thought out of his mind. Never. He pushed the thought out of his mind as he continued deeper into Akiba. He eventually found someone alive, and asked them about his father. They hadn't seen him. With a sigh, Tai continued deeper into Akiba, now getting completely lost in the district. He should have brought a map, he was always getting lost in this place. So many buildings and flashing signs. At least now the signs were closer to eye level, and not flashing.

Finally, Tai found another person to talk to. Some girl on her phone. Maybe she was contacting emergency services? That was certainly a possibility, though his better guess was that she was on concerto or whatever the app was called. He probably wasn't the only one to get it, there were other people alive so he assumed they had the app too. "Uh, hey, I'm Taidana Wakahisa. I'm looking for my father, you see him? He's got black hair, about this tall, wearing a really nice business suit?" He asked, gesturing a height slightly taller than his own. Hopefully this girl had seen him, otherwise he'd probably just end up wandering the streets of Akiba for the next two hours until he decided to go home.

Protagonist Drop!

I'm here.

Shin Megami Tensei: Hand of Time

Kafka used 'Steal'!
Got 'Color Coded Speech'!