A Tea Cruise of Memetic Proportions [Amelie and Sasha]

Maybe that portal hadn't been calibrated all that. The truth was that... Amelie and Sasha had fallen directly into a dark alley, somewhere in Shibuya's downtown. But, overall... that was fine; just a small contingency that could be fixed with some walking.

"Whoops! I guess my aim was a little off; we shouldn't be that far away, anyway!"

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Of course, many things had happened during the girls' journey. For example? A certain bean reminding them they had a tea party pending.

So, Sasha and Amelie finally encountered Anzu, who was doing Anzu stuff like wandering around the city while bothering Akemi through text messages. Typical of her stead, but at least it seemed that thus far... everyone got along well with each other? It wasn't like the brunette had been that aware of the blonde's interactions with the holosuited digimon, besides the somewhat awkward introduction, but mostly due to the fact that she wanted to get to her apartment as soon as possible.

"We shouldn't be very far! In fact..." At the distance, the building was fairly obvious. With a quick gesture, a finger pointed towards that place, just to snatch the Bean's phone right afterward. "Let me do that for you. You just hit 'send location' like this and... there, now she should be well on her way."

A small adventure indeed, and more than in one aspect, to boot. But at least, that meant that fun would begin soon. Well, as fun as a tea party could be with such a colorful entourage!

"Aaaah...Thank you, Amy! Now, I just need to close this off with one last message so I don't look like a chump or anything. Chumps are for the weak." Anzu stated, finally concluding the pestering of her partner with messages (after grabbing her phone back from Amelie, of course,) and focusing her attention on Sasha. "You'd be correct. My name is Anzu. Ah...Nakayama Anzu." She had an entire fake name at the ready, holy shit!

"She's a very good friend of mine. Nice hobbies and she's really kind to my other friend. Which is a big plus in my book." The pink-haired girl continued. She was also trying to ascertain if Sasha was like literally every other person that she and Akemi had met so far in the Digital World, in that they could use ghosts to turn into Digimon...Or if she was in fact actually a Digimon...Or just a regular human. It was a very troublesome process of elimination.

Though, she seemed nice. "...It's very nice to meet you! Sorry I forgot to say that, manners escape me sometimes. I-I'm doing my best, though!"

As it turned out, this girl Anzu was just as friendly as Amelie, much to Sasha's relief. She was ever so slightly concerned about being treated as an outsider by the french girl's acquaintances. Not because she cared about their opinions or fitting in, mind you, but after her whole existence as a human had took a rather sudden turn less than one hour ago she could really use some likely minded individuals in a similar situation to her, so they could fill her in on the inner workings of the whole thing, while also serving as a mental crutch of sorts to remind Sasha that no, she hadn't just snapped.

A bit later the three had reached the french brunnette's place. Her appartment was similar, yet very different from Sasha's, being just as neatly kept and well cleaned, but considerably smaller than the russian's own place, nor as garishly over decorated. Not that this was a bad thing, as the small place irradiated a rather welcoming and cozy feeling. She sat down on the chair as instructed, slouching on the table a bit as they waited for the tea and the other guest to arrive.

"I'm guessing by work you mean that whole city businness, right?" She inquired, leaning back on her chair. She was slowly but surely getting over the initial shock of her whole discovery of the Digital World, and it hadn't taken her too long to just...accepting it and moving on. It was surprisingly easy, all things considered, thanks in no small part to Amelie's rather matter of fact way of adressing the whole thing.

Now if only this headache she had been feeling for a while now would go away!

It was an overall pleasant gathering, that was for sure. Even if the apartment had thrice the number of people it usually did, Amelie found herself at ease as the water began to boil inside the teapot.

After Sasha's comment, she decided to smile somewhat wryly at her. "Yup, it implies city-building. Seems like we have a smart one over here!" And, after a small pause, she added. "I guess you can call it my greatest project up to date, so... I kinda tend to nerd out about it a lot."

As self-deprecating as those words sounded, that didn't make them any less true! But, it seemed like Anzu didn't want to do anything with that topic, and that was fair too. Without progress, you could only revisit the same topic so much. "Fair enough."

It was interesting, how Anzu could be pretty insightful at times, at least in regards to when it was an okay time to relax and when to work. Not to say that the question posed by her had been quite interesting! "How we meet, huh? That's an interesting story, even though I can't... quite recall it." The brunette smiled apologetically at the Tsukaimon, then looked at the blonde. "Maybe you'd be able to retell the tale more... accurately? I can take over on the part where I wake up the next day."

Somewhat lazy? Yes. Accurate? Yes, too! The good side was that the water was almost boiling and that the tea would be ready soon.

    Magnum Opus. Amelie liked the ring that word had; it made her feel important. And maybe even a bit needed, even though this endeavor had been conceived by her own hand.

    Did that change anything at all, though? And most importantly…

    “I didn't know you knew Latin, Anzu. Where did you learn it?” Of course, her own knowledge of the language was surface-level at best. But she could recognize the language when spoken.

    Whether she got an answer or not, two precise rings of the apartment would alert Amy about her newest visit; the only and one Akemi!

    As soon as her visage became evident from the door, the teenager smiled. “Hey, Kemi! Come in!”

    Expecting full compliance from her friend, the brunette closed the door behind her. “How have you been? You look a bit different.” After making a bit of a pensive pause, she smirked. “You changed your FC did something to your hair, didn't you? Looking to impress a boy? Or a girl, maybe!”

    Ultimately, that wasn't very important; a spot at the table was offered to the newcomer, and a cup of tea for her was on its way. “Now that you're all gathered, I guess we can begin talking about what really matters. Thanks to our small adventure with Anzu, we can begin tackling the Dark Area's heavyweights.”

    Of course, the brunette wasn't even sure if everyone present was in line with the plan, but that was just what made everything a bit more exciting!

"Ah, the wrong crowd." Anzu took a sip from her tea. "Amy's got better taste than that--so of course she wouldn't need a hand!" The disguised Digimon took a pause at Amy's own question.

"Well, this might come as a surprise, but I'm a little smarter than the impression I might give off, Amy. I know...two...three languages and I can hold a good conversation. As to how I learned it? Uh...I'm afraid this is going to be boring but I learnt it when I became Mephistomon. Back when I was...previously alive, that is."

Akemi gave a smile and a little wave as Amelie welcomed her into the apartment. Oh, gosh, was her change in attire really that noticeable? The haircut she could understand--she had to do away with her twin tails for that. "Ah...I'm...actually not looking to impress anyone. No boy's caught my eye and...Not to say some girls aren't cute, but...Girls can't love girls."

How heretical. "That sounds like bull!" Anzu called out! "Heresy!" Akemi meanwhile took her seat at the table. "Heavyweights, huh? Tackling those can be quite difficult without proper preparation..."

To say that Sasha was surprised by the revelation that Anzu was in fact, more than met the eye would be an understatement, judging by how wide her eyes went for a moment.

"Wow, you don't mean..." She looked back at Anzu, incredulous for a moment, before chuckling in bemusement a bit. After the things she had seen earlier, this was surprisingly easy to accept for her. "So how are you doing that exactly? Holograms? Shapeshifting? Mind manipulation?" She asked with almost childlike wonderment and curiosity, eyeing the pink haired girl, looking her from head to toe as if trying to find anything wrong with her disguise, something that would make it obvious she wasn't really human, but she couldn't find anything of the sort. Hell, had she not seen the things she saw, she would have assumed Amelie was just making a joke at her expense.

Her surprise didn't last much longer, as she was distracted by a rather personal question from the french girl. What was she going to do? That was a good question alright!

"Hmm, well..." The petite blonde took a long drink from her cup, clearly pondering on her answer for a moment, before looking back at Amelie. "I'd love to say I'll just figure it out myself but let's be frank: I'm way out of my element here, so I guess I could like, stick around with you all while I learn the ropes and figure what to do." She said with a nod, not so much asking for opinion but simply affirming her decision. She had just made up her mind, and if Amelie wanted to stop her well...Sasha just hoped it wouldn't come to that.

Besides that? She'd be happy to move on to another subject entirely...even if said subject involved who were girls allowed to love or not. She found herself agreeing with Anzu, of course. though she didn't go as far as to call it a heresy.

"Listen to your friends, there's no need to get so prudish there, Akemi. You know how that oldass song goes: some girls just wanna have fun." She said with a playful wink. Was it a bit unortodox for her to talk so nonchalantly and openly about such things to someone she had just met? Most likely but...for some reason she felt rather at ease around both Amelie and her friends, and not just because they were all that close just for that one escapade last night. There was something inviting about them, and for once Sasha didn't feel the need to hide behind her usual mask of high brow, well educated and polite rich girl she so frequently used to get what she wanted, but for once she could finally loosen up (without there being any booze to help with that.)

After that though, she'd settle for sitting quietly and letting Amelie explain their situation. She understood the basic gist of it, but most of the details escaped her. Settlements of digimon or humans? Was them being aware of their city a bad thing? And more importantly...had the trio of girls bombed a settlement?!

Too many questions, but she figured it was better to let her finish her explanation before asking anything important. Although...
"So watcha planning? Blowing up more stuff?" She wondered, half sarcastically, half with a serious expression in her face.