lapinfrost | ✸ 1st Day: Staring Contests = Serious Business

[ When the feed suddenly opens, a dark-haired kid with bright blue eyes can be seen staring intently at the screen for a few seconds. Then it suddenly becomes saturated with bright pink and a smiley face, the stuff of anyone's pink-induced nightmares. One adjustment of the camera later, it becomes clearer that the bright pink thing is in fact a bright pink blob otherwise known as a Ditto. But once again, the kid shows up right above the blob. ]

I have an important question. Actually, I mean "questions". But for now...

[ He starts poking the top of the jelly blob, watching it jiggle slightly in response before returning his attention to the feed. ]

Can this dem-- Pokémon blink? Just wanna know if staring contests would be fair or not.

[ At that, the Ditto's smile turns upside down. The kid spares a glance downwards and pokes it again. Leaving it to pout, he looks back at the screen, poker face still in place. ]

But if you can't answer, that's fine. I'd settle for someone helping me figure out where I am instead, because I'm totally lost.

[ And in a ridiculously sudden manner, his poker face switches to a rather friendly smile. ]

Aaand that's all for now. Bye-bye! ♪

[ He then starts waving at the camera, his Pokémon half-heartedly joining in a few seconds later before it starts moving and the screen fades to...pink. A muffled voice can be heard in the background after a moment. ]

...Ah, I don't think that's how we turn this off.

[ Tags: !ic, new bark town, ^arrival, ^totally not competitive ]

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Same here. I only became a tamer recently though, so I'm not that familiar with it.

[ Honestly, Hiro was just trying to get him to tsukkomi him over the concept of Devil Auctions... ]

Well, it's an auction to bid on demons. We bid on them against other tamers within a time limit. Whoever bid the most wins and get the demon's contract.

[Unless the demon turns out to be something else entirely.]

My friend usually did most of the bidding whenever we have time.

[ Nodding. Well, he knew that much at least. ]

I just bid while walking around. But I usually don't bid with someone or have someone else do it since we're not together all the time.

[ They always end up doing their own thing outside of invader stuff after all. ]

We normally stick together, unless we have to split up.

[Usually to find food and water.]

I'm usually busy with something to bid.

[Or emo'd over something.]

Yeah, something about demons appearing cuts into your free time a lot.

[ Staying still for long isn't exactly an option after all. ]

That and helping people with demons.

[People can die if they are killed.]

Along with fighting invaders.

[ It's like Eva without the mecha. ]

...What invaders?

The ones causing mass mayhem on Earth.

Or maybe just Japan. They like attacking he...there for some reason.

Invaders as in alien invaders?

[Whoa...]

Wonder why they like attacking Japan. Is there something there attracting them?

Something like that. By the way, they aren't demons.

[ Well, he's pretty sure they aren't by now. ]

And yeah, probably. Can't say I know what they're after though.

Really? That's interesting.

[Since that's one of his thoughts.]

Hopefully, you or others find out in time. [You know, since it seems like these invader cause a lot of damages along the way.]

Hopefully. At least they only appear once a day.

That's something to be glad for. If they all attack at once...

We're utterly screwed.

But we'd still try to wipe them out either way.

It must be really tough to fight them.

You could say that again.

[ Thankfully they had luck and Yamato's plans on their side. ]

So what was going on in your world?

[Now how to put it simply...]

People's been summoning demons, so the angels ordered the government to put the Yamanote Line under a lockdown to deal with them.

...Huh.

[ That's a new one... Definitely something to keep in mind for later. ]

There's widespread destruction going on where I'm from, but no lockdown. Demons are pretty widespread now though.

The lockdown's bad enough with the demons and tamers...it's probably worse if they're all over the country. [One hand, not being barricaded in. Other hand, demons and people using demons.]

I've only seen Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, but yeah, quite a lot of places have been knocked down or destroyed. And supplies are getting lower by the day. Plus, phone lines are normally down, so it's hard to get in touch with people.

Even mobile phones? I know they cut off access for even that in the lockdown to prevent information leaks about the demons.

Normally down. Some still can use their cells. But they usually have some sort of tie to this organization or are mooching off them, from what I know.

Makes sense. Only people in the government or the SDF can really communicate with each other.

SDF, huh?

[ Translation: SDF? Really? Wow, it sounds like things went down the shitter even worse where you came from, dude from another world! ]

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