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Post by Alpha & Beta on Mar 28, 2022 23:30:03 GMT
"Tch, get back here!" Alpha shouted at a retreating digimon, some small DemiDevimon that was running around the backstreets of Terminus. The loudness of the city could still be easily heard from back streets as two Hackmon ran after this digimon. Eventually coming up to a wall which the small digimon just flew upwards to reach the top away from the pursing Hackmon.
"Alpha, boost." The female twin called out hitting the wall with her claws upward, using that as a stepping stool Alpha shot upwards to the top of the building catching the side and pulling himself up quickly.
"Ach, why can't you two just leave me alone!" The small digimon called out as he flew to the other side of the building, at the very least he could separate the two of them and try and get away from Alpha.
Though that didn't seem to work for long as the Hackmon jumped after grabbing onto the digimon and pulling him further towards the ground instead. "You, Take, Our, Cash, and have the nerve to ASK THAT!" Alpha shouted as he pulled down more, eventually it proved enough as the Demidevimon fell down and hit the ground, which sadly caused the Hackmon to fall as well hitting the ground with a lot less grace then the other digimon, right on his back. "Ughh, I don't know how Beta deals with this..." He muttered out not noticing the small scarf he always carried falling out of his cloak onto the ground nearby.
Overall this would be quite the sight to see for anyone who happened to be walking near this alley at the time.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Mar 29, 2022 14:07:27 GMT
"This place...I mean...I mean..." Oliver's voice was mixing together with the sound of his pen scratching the page of his massive, leather bound notebook. He was sketching the edges of buildings, noting down every detail of the facades of businesses, carts and vendors. It was like a human city looked at through an endless kaleidoscope, the colorful forms of digimon digging through the dust and growing grime as Procopius lead him through a city that was swiftly getting to feel less like the gleaming central capital of the Digital world and more like a collection of slums held together with duct tape.
"Hmm? Oh yea, yea kid it's grand. Now where was that street?" Procopius mumbled, the Tsumemon clinging to the little scholar's shoulder as he looked through the web of interlocking alleys in order to find a way back toward his neighborhood. He could count the times he'd been outside of that low down neighborhood on one hand so having to find a way back IN was getting to be something of a challenge...until he heard chasing, running and shouting in one direction. "That way! I know the sound of a dirty scrap when I hear it!" He said, leaping off of Ollie's shoulder and scrambling along the floor like a spider strapped to a fire cracker, forcing Ollie and his heavy backpack to bolt after him, the sound of books, pencils and god knows what else bouncing inside the massive rucksack as they both rounded the corner into the line of sight of the small scale battle going on.
"Should we really be getting involved? Procopius?...Procopius?" Ollie turned around to find his partner gone, scrambling toward the battle until the was much closer than the fighters would realize, close enough for a shout to jar them.
"HEY! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He said, shouting at the devilish little thief, blindsiding the DemiDevimon with the sound of his voice...the boss was ALIVE?!
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Apr 3, 2022 9:56:08 GMT
Alpha took a second to take a small breath before he jumped back onto his feet rubbing the back of his head as he slowly made his way over to the DemiDevimon. "Alright then, nowhere to run no- Huh?" Alpha was caught off guard by someone yelling down the alley they were near. It had been a while since Alpha had dealt with this whole criminal thing but he couldn't help but feeling that the voice was somewhat familiar. "Wait isn't that..." Before he could think any further on it Alpha was bashed with a headbutt from the flying digimon and sent back into the ground, apparently having recovered from hearing a dead mon speak a lot faster then Alpha could.
Flying upward a bit the Demidevimon looked down at Alpha and the two newcomers, apparently he also recognized the voice. He noticed Alpha's discarded scarf as well and just let out a loud groan. "First I'm dealing with one of Myotismon's goons and now that dead gang boss is around? Screw this I'm out of here!" Apparently he really didn't want to deal with what he assumed was either an imposter or just a straight up Ghost and like before starting flying up and over one of the buildings.
"Get back here!" Alpha shouted as he swiped at the digimon, sadly to no avail as he barely managed to miss landing back on the ground below. "Ughh, darn it." And unless either the of the newcomers could do something about that the flying digimon would fly over the building and away from all this noise.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 3, 2022 13:16:53 GMT
"I'm gone for like a day and already this neighborhood goes to hell. I tell you, what's the world coming to?" Procopius said, mumbling it more to himself than to the other two that were standing there on the rooftop with him. Evidently he didn't know about the time difference between the human and digital worlds, he had been gone for MUCH longer than the day and change that his own personal sense of time was telling him.
"Procopius!" Came Ollie's voice from down over the lip of the building, shouting up as he stood on his tip toes. The academic lad wasn't exactly going to make a show of scaling the building, especially with his rucksack slung over his shoulders bigger than he was.
"Alright, alright, keep your shirt on, kid!" The Tsumemon shouted down to his partner, scratching his head with one of his finger claws, making the pen case slung around his "neck" shift as he scrambled back down the building without giving either of the pair that he had just interrupted in their devil hunt much thought.
"What on earth was any of that?!" Ollie grunted, slumping back against the wall, propping his weight up against the overstuffed pack he was hauling, shaking his head as he finally allowed himself to breathe.
"What that was was some punk evidently thinking that my neighborhood has become fair game since I've been gone. Lord know what he stole and from who but I aim to get it back. I've got a reputation to keep!" Procopius said, still in the tiny Tsumemon form but with all the conviction of meaning it well and truly, he protected his plot of land, no matter what.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Apr 11, 2022 7:54:47 GMT
Alpha let out a small curse under his breath, backing off a bit he took a deep breath in to center himself for a moment doing his best not to get mad. "Ughh, I almost had him. Who even was that anyway?" By the time that Alpha had looked over they had already hopped back down the building without so much as a sorry or anything, which definitely urked the Hackmon as he walked a bit closer.
However to his side eventually his sister hopped up, finding her way up top. "Did ya get him Alpha?" She asked tilting her head and staring at him with her red eyes, she was sure he had to of been able to. Alpha doesn't mess up after all.
Sadly he shook his head. "Nah, someone got in the way and I got hit, flew off that way. We might still be able to find him, can't of gone far." However Alpha managed to overhear the digimon that interrupted him before down on the street.
Walking over Alpha and Beta both poked their heads over the ledge staring down at the two of them. "Well if you mean it then you should start calling us Lord cause we know what he took." Alpha mentioned as his sister chimed in.
"Yeah he took the cash our mom gave us, We were trying to get it back."
"But some Tsumemon yelling distracted me so I couldn't." He finished for his twin as the two of them hopped down to their level.
"Hi, I'm Beta and this is my brother Alpha!" The more bright Hackmon said with both arms out like she was presenting him to them.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 11, 2022 15:10:40 GMT
"I'll call you whatever you please if you can help me serve that punk his own teeth. This is my stretch of street and I'm sure as hell not letting pickpockets run through here...without paying the toll and following the rules." Procopius said, not really taking a principled stand on the issue as much as he was concerned with the unwritten rules of his neighborhood and maintaining control for the sake of his reputation.
"He umm...I'm sure he doesn't mean that." Ollie said, clumsily shoving himself to his feet with a rattle in the contents of his rucksack, turning to face that pair, blushing and looking toward the floor. It was hard for him to even find the "courage" to look his conversation partners in the eye. "I'm Ollie and this is my partner Procopius." he said, gesturing over to the Tsumemon who was looking off in the direction that the thief had fled, still silently simmering on his anger.
"I run this stretch of road for my entire life. I keep things organized, I keep things set up and running nice and the instant I'm gone it all falls to pieces. How do you like that?" Procopius said, almost spitting in disgust (impressive considering his current form doesn't seem to have any kind of visible mouth). "Well if I need to send a message not to mess around when I step out then that's what I gotta do." He said, again mostly talking to himself as Ollie's blushing continued to become brighter and more deeply ingrained as he listened to his partner casually admitting to a lifetime of criminal activity in front of these two people they didn't know anything about.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Apr 13, 2022 8:43:18 GMT
Whoa, Aggressive. It had been a while since Alpha had to deal with this sorta aggression from someone he didn't know, serving someone their own teeth huh? Glancing over at Beta she looked at Alpha with a mixed look of concern and worry for getting help from this digimon, most likely not understanding what he was talking about as well. Alpha gave a quick nod to try and assure her it was fine which seemed to calm her nerves a bit.
Now it was the human's turn to talk, looking towards the floor as he introduced himself. However Beta was taught to look your conversation partner in the eye by Ciel so she stepped on over forcing herself into his field of view with a slightly awkward look up at his eyes with her own red ones. "Nice ta meet you Ollie, is there something interesting on the ground?" There was a mix of genuine curiosity in her voice, she didn't seem to understand he might be shy.
Run this stretch of road his whole life, falls the pieces the second he left. Wait Alpha remembered where he knew this guy. "Wait yeah, I know you. I guess it was a bit before me and Beta were born. I remember hearing the rumors some boss that ran around here got killed. Guess that must be you." Alpha was still pretty young when it happened, plus Beta was still stuck in an eternal sleep so no way she'd know about it.
"Well regardless if you wanna help that's great! We need that money to buy this like, super large stuffed animal for my room. It's four times the size I am!" This was some super serious buisness, the little girl needed her stuffed toy.
"Oh right, that is what we were going to get wasn't it." Ok so it wasn't life or death but still! Alpha probably should be a good brother and help his sister get her toy.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 13, 2022 14:42:24 GMT
"I umm, I-I, Uh-uhhh..." Ollie blushed and stammered. it was very rare that another human being would call someone on their shy or antisocial behavior, probably because humans were much more accustomed to picking up on the social cues of that sort of thing, though Beta seemed to be young enough that whether human or Digimon the result would probably have been the same. "No, I just...it's nothing really I...-" Ollie tried to think of some way to explain himself while Beta was just staring up at him with those big, glittering eyes. he almost let out an audible sigh of relief when Alpha finally started talking and Procopius reacted to what he had said, saving Ollie from the awkward social confrontation.
"Wait, wait, wait, WAIT. Before you were BORN? How long have I been gone? Feels like I was just here a couple of days ago at most." Procopius said, slightly in a panic. The time dilation between the human and digital worlds was bad enough, let alone the fact that he had had no idea how long it had taken him to reincarnate, he hadn't really thought about the possibility before now that he might have been gone for any really considerable amount of time\
"I suppose reports of his death were greatly exaggerated." Ollie said. Yes it was a quote, a rather famous one to the point of becoming trite but Ollie's literary knowledge was the only thing getting him through most days anyway
"You help me put that little imp in his place and I can get any merchant on this block to give you a real sweet deal. Heck, if they're feeling in the generous mood I might be able to get it to you, no questioned asked. I take care of the people who take care of me and my neighborhood." Procopius said, sounding more and more like the kind of slick haired gangsters that Ollie was reading about both from America and Japan.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Apr 14, 2022 13:09:01 GMT
The humans face was turning red, Beta had no idea that humans could do that! Could he also turn his eyes red like hers or was it just his face. She had no idea what he was trying to say though, just kept saying I-I, Wait was he saying eye, were her eyes scaring him!? Oh no hopefully that wasn't the case. Usually it was only seeing them glow in the dark that scared people. "Oh, well if it's nothing Okay!" And just like that it was instantaneously dropped, if Ollie said it was nothing Beta seemed quick to believe him.
"Well mostly the rise to power thing was from before I was born, dunno exactly when I just remember hearing about about your death a while back." Alpha couldn't tell really when he died just that one day things started getting a bit worse and he wasn't around anymore. Not that it mattered much to Alpha considering the group he ran with before hand barely met with any trouble... Oh right he probably shouldn't say too much in front of Beta, she looked so confused at the moment.
"If it makes you feel better me and Alpha aren't that old, so it wouldn't of been that long ago, probably." Beta showed it more then Alpha but it was pretty clear these two were very young, probably in human terms even younger then Ollie. "They are indeed exaggerated, I'm no expert but he looks pretty alive to me." Beta, absolutely did not know the quote that Ollie was saying, taking his words completely literally.
Though with the part Procopius mentioned about no questions asked, Beta tilted her head for a moment confused. "Why would they ask questions?" Yeah this whole gangster talk was going right over her head.
"If anything you're helping us, besides if we come back home with the money and the toy mom will uhh, probably have some questions we won't want to answer." So it seems a deal was struck, to go beat up that thief and get Beta a toy. Not the most noble of quests but it made great for a beginner one!
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 15, 2022 13:34:07 GMT
While everyone else talked Ollie got to doing what Ollie did, cracking open a notebook, balanced on the palm of one hand, twirling a pencil in the other and he began to etch words into the page. Starting something about their quest, taking broad sketches of the pair of digimon in front of him.
"Sounds like a plan to me. I know a couple of fences around the place, good spots to get rid of hot money." Procopius continued. One of the upsides of getting robbed in your own neighborhood if you had the inclination to track the guy down to where he might go. "if the little punk's smart he'll know that carrying around your cash isn't a good look, you never wanna open carry that much money on this block. If he knows what's good for him he'll trade it in for credit someplace...and I think I know just the dive where a punk like that would wanna run up a tab." Procopius said, thinking through his list of options and finally landing on what he had in mind, making a discreet gesture for the pair to follow but remembering he had to rouse Ollie from his stupor if he wanted him to come too. "Come on, Ollie. You wanna see a spot full of digital roughnecks?" He said, instantly popping Ollie's face up out of his notes with a glimmering light in his eyes. Even if they hadn't known each other long, he knew that would work.
"Yes~ That sounds fascinating!" Ollie said, continuing to scribble as they walked. Procopius seemed to be leading them to nowhere, down cramped alleys and past the packs of more "respectable" businesses in the area until hey were walking down a flight of totally forgotten and unmaintained steps to a grimy wooden door inset in the underside of an arch holding up the walking path above them. He pushed open the door with one finger claw and the dark, quiet seeming corner of Terminal was instantly alive with the sound of Digimon, laughing, fighting, eating themselves into a coma and whatever other raucous and slightly seedy business you could think of.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Apr 28, 2022 8:01:13 GMT
The human seemed to do a buncha stuff, twirling a pencil and started writing something down on the note which Beta had seen her mom do something similar before, though Beta was pretty sure Ollie over here wasn't drawing notes for weapons and attacking, nor were they probably writing down stuff like Dylas would. What they were doing was a mystery to the girl that she would definitely check were it not for the fact that she was indeed very short. Such was the burden of being a rookie, she could probably evolve and try to check that way but her interest in what he was doing wasn't THAT intense. "...Why are they getting rid of it?" They stole from them so obviously they should want to use it right? Also why was it hot?
While Beta started to understand as Procopius explained what he meant by get rid of Alpha seemed to already be pretty aware on the subject at hand. "Ok I'm just going to say this now Beta, if Mom asked we never went to where I think he's going to take us." Alpha decided just to come out and make sure his sister was on the same page as him, he was fully willing to do this to make sure she got what she wanted but was also pretty sure that Ciel would have some problems with the route they're taking to obtain it.
"I don't know why but if you say so then ok Alpha! I'll trust your word on this." Alpha had to admit he was taken aback by her sheer trusting of him but with a quick nod he looked over at the human and digimon duo walking away and went after them followed quickly behind by Beta.
Heading down quite the interesting path to a pretty gross looking door opened up to quite the loud bustling display of many different digimon laughing and beating the tar outta one another. "Beta, stick close ok?"
The Hackmon nodded making sure to be right next to her brother but definitely looked around the area with a bit of interest, not used to a place like this in the slightest.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on Apr 28, 2022 14:40:16 GMT
"If your mother even knows where this place is than your mother is a scary woman, so I would agree with the idea of never telling her I took her kids here." Procopius said, climbing up Ollie's back and clinging to his shoulder, yanking on the fabric of his shirt left or right so that he could avoid blundering directly into any of the patrons or worse, any of the tables holding their drinks up.
"So many different kinds..." Ollie said, making rough hewn sketches and broad noting scribbles on everything he could see. Procopius sighed and shook his head a little, knowing he's have to keep an eye on the young nerd's pockets to make sure he didn't get anything pinched from him. The best way to get targeted in a joint like this was to look like you didn't belong there.
"Everyone just follow me. I'm gonna tug on a few hairs and see what shakes loose." Procopius said, tugging Ollie up to the back of the room where a rough looking Nanimon in a bowtie polished glasses with his oversized hands. "Barkeep. Long time no see." Procopius said, sniffing loudly to draw attention to himself as he hopped down onto the bar. The sound of his voice, familiar to just about every patron in the place would probably make at least a couple of the patrons around where the Tsumemon was standing freeze in disbelief if it didn't throw the bartender off guard first. "Must have been longer than I guessed too. See, someone was pinching on my stretch of road and didn't stop to give me my cut. Must have forgotten. Dangerous thing being that forgetful, someone might get hurt." he said, praying he still had the skills and reputation left to lean on the barkeep like that. He wouldn't get the information out of the tender, one spilled secret and he'd lose all of his business in a heartbeat, but Procopius could probably get at least a lead in the right direction if all went well. He just had to hope that his cred still carried that kind of weight and that the Nanimon didn't realize the little digimon was functionally surrounded.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on May 3, 2022 9:16:23 GMT
Would Ciel know about a place like this? Thinking for exactly one second on if she would Alpha instantly just nodded to himself for a moment. "Yeah she probably knows about this place, she can be pretty terrifying when she wants to be." Ever since watching her go up against two Mega level digimon without a trace of fear in Ultimate it was easy to say Alpha thought quite highly of her. Also was terrified of getting her mad!
Meanwhile Beta was still interested in what Ollie was doing, hopping up behind him for a moment to check over his shoulder. "Ooh, are you drawing something? That's cool! I can't see too clearly though what is it?" Speaking of looking like you don't belong here, Yeah Beta probably stuck out like a sore thumb with her cheery voice and general child disposition.
Alpha decided just to stay quiet and let Procopius handle this, if someone heard him they might recognize him and he really didn't want to deal with that at the moment. So standing next to ollie and Beta he let him do his thing.
The barkeep polished his glass looking at the Tsumemon for a few moment as they spoke, setting the glass down as the other digimon around the bar seemed to freeze for a moment after hearing his voice. However he didn't seem to be that thrown off as he inhaled a bit sharpy before saying. "Hohoho, Another one back from the dead! Hey Nao throw it back up on the board we got a live one! Procopius!" As he shouted that a Lucemon from the corner of the bar seem to nod before messing with a whiteboard behind him with the names of different digimon on it, at the top of the board was three lists which read Revived, Loaded and question mark. Writing Procopius' name on the revived section and erasing it from the question mark one.
This caused quite a number of patrons to loudly sigh, annoyed as they handed over bits the the Lucemon who seemed to take them with a smile on his face as he went back to manning the betting table. "Sorry bout that my compatriot, For the record I didn't think you were down and out for good but bets gotta bet and all that!" He laughed as he attempted to smack Procopius on the back. "Anyway someone moving on your turf? Makes sense you can't keep most of those mons down if ya tried! Let me take a guess it was a BlackAgumon right? Been hearing a lot about them threatening folks. Or maybe that new kid on da block a Terriermon, poor kid doesn't know what life he's gotten himself into! Oh there was also a DemiDevimon who passed by, little bugger tried to steal some of my glasses! Sticky fingers that one!" The barkeep was loud and proud and didn't seem worried in the slightest, but he at least seemed like he was willing to help.
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Post by ollieandprocopius on May 3, 2022 16:23:28 GMT
Ollie's eyes opened wide as he saw Procopius play the social angle like he was born to it. Rolling his single eye along with the huffing and laughing of everyone in the room, he had to try and keep himself at least partially serious minded if he was going to get what he wanted. The bartender was an old soul, maybe the oldest in the neighborhood, no one knows where he had come from because the bar had always just been here longer than anybody could remember.
"Eep! I-I-I'm just sketching each of the digimon in here in case I don't see them again, I want to have SOME kind of face to put to the story, you know?" Ollie said, his skeleton feeling it nearly jumped out of his skin as Beta's high pitched voice broke the anxious tension that watching Procopius had inspired in him.
"Yea, yea, yea, everybody gets their bets in the dead pool I know how it works. But let's cut the chit chat. You and both know I'm here for the DemiDevimon and you and I both know that because I would bet that he's either only a couple minutes ahead of us OR he's still here. Don't try to play me for a sucker, barkeep. Nobody carries that much hot cash on this block and you're the only place a little punk like that would turn it in for credit. So..." Procopius, tapped his black nails up against the hardwood countertop of the bar in front of him. The barkeep's friendly tone was intentionally friendly and disarming but Procopius had known him for a long time and he knew when he was getting played. "How about you hand over the little bastard, hand back the cash he hocked you to these nice people behind me that he stole it from and everybody gets to go back to status quo. After I rough up the stuffed shirt little rat that is." Procopius said, talking ever so slightly louder than was probably required. he was making more than one statement at once after all. Not only was he communicating the literal intent of what he was saying to the bartender but he was also making the announcement to the DemiDevimon who had about a 50/50 chance of still being somewhere in the establishment and he was speaking to anyone at the bar who might be overhearing him speak that he was back, he was ever so slightly pissed off and he wasn't taking challengers at the moment, at least not without a fight.
Ollie froze in place. There was no way that this would ever turn out the way that Procopius thought it would...right? I mean sure, he had some kind of reputation but there's no way that this style of "fighting words" negotiation was actually how it worked? It seemed that Ollie had a lot to learn about dealing with people of the kind that frequented spots like this, Procopius on the other hand could only hope his cred held even after however long he'd been away.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on May 4, 2022 2:46:35 GMT
"Oooh, I just memorize faces. Never thought about drawing them down. Or could I never really tried to draw before. Hey Alpha let me draw your face when we're done here okay?" Beta called out to her brother who just gave a shrug as a response. "Oh you should probably know one important thing, My eyes are Red but normal Hackmon's eyes aren't, it's something I got from my Dad! Apparently he had the same eyes, weird huh? Makes me match my brother though so I like it. I can also see in the dark!" Ollie probably wasn't going to be keen on making conversation but luckily Beta seemed to be more then willing to pick up the slack.
The Barkeep seemed to lose his smile for a moment as Procopius started talking, but quickly running his hand over his head he cooled down for a moment. "Heh, man you have been gone a while. Suppose I forgot that fire of yours. Hate to tell ya but I'm not playing you. He did try to trade up a little but like I said he tried to steal from me. You should know better then anyone that if ya steal from me." Placing his hand on the glass he had just polished the Barkeeper applied a little pressure to it causing the glass to almost instantly explode in a rain of shards making the twins jump a little. "You don't come back alive." As he said this the same Lucemon over by the board seemed to grab a bottle and smash it against the table to prove a point. "NAO! For Yggdrasil's sake I was making an example. Don't go breaking all my stuff!" The Lucemon seemed to look at the bottle and toss it away with a shy smile as he went back to manning the betting table.
"So yeah he's not here, you can stop shouting to draw him out. Though I don't get anything from protecting his hide so I can tell you where he went. Down towards Old Terminus. Might be looking to ditch the money in some old hole or something and make a get away. If ya hurry you and the kids there might be able to catch him. Nao add him to the board I wanna see how this plays out!" As he said that the Lucemon went to write something, realized he didn't know the name of the DemiDevimon so he just wrote a rude word and sat back down. "You take care of em and I'll give ya a reward or two, Hell since I'm feeling generous I won't even mind that you brought Alpha in here." Alpha's eyes went wide and Beta glanced over at him.
"Alpha how does he know your name?" Beta glanced over at her brother, tilting her head slightly as the Hackmon looked away.
"Told you I was a thief for a bit, word must've spread farther then I thought. I'd never come into a place like this." That begged the question of who the Barkeeper heard it from, if whoever it was were here now that would definitely be bad.
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