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Being Social Doesn't Require Alcohol [Johan]
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Post by Johan Walker on Apr 16, 2019 17:14:12 GMT
Johan listened as Yuuki explained what Hikaru was like. Going out of his way just to make someone smile... well, it was respectable. It gave Johan a deeper fondness for someone like Hikaru. "That's a really nice way to look at life, actually. Tell me about his temper though, because to me he didn't really seem to have one."
"'Out of the norm' is one way to look at it," Dokamon said, "although he does not seem too bad. Owen has my respect, so if Hikaru's his husband than that must mean he's a good Digimon. Plus this grilled meat apple is delicious."
Yuuki then asked if AEGIS was in trouble, after Johan and Dokamon explained that they were living at AEGIS HQ as agents. Johan sighed and nodded. "Yeah, we are in trouble. You know about DATS, right? Well after that attack in Scramble Crossing I haven't been able to sleep at night. I'm just anticipating their next move."
"It's really the uncertainty that's bothering him more than DATS themselves. He's tossing and turning at night, assuming he's asleep at all. And the whole thing isn't sitting too well with me either."
"Thankfully I'm feeling more relaxed today, thanks to this place."
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Post by yuuki on Apr 20, 2019 1:55:55 GMT
"...Oh you will be surprised," Yuuki answered. He'd rather not say how Hikaru almost pulled his bagpipe and smacked one patron across the face with it... "He hates not being respected enough, or if there are... well, killjoys. He dislikes stick in the muds and loathe when someone criticizes his way of enjoying his life. When that came tho, you either will have a hard white glove slapped across your face, or... worse, a bagpipe, followed with hot coffee tossed to your face."
"Ha, that reminds me when someone asked french fries extra crispy and Hikaru told the guy a charcoal is inedible, because he tried his damn best to fry it right, but the ass just doesn't seem to be happy with all attempt that came out from the kitchen. He ended being bricked with a lump of charcoal on the face instead," a Seadramon quipped.
"...That happened huh," Yuuki muttered. "Well either way that guy doesn't take crap when the patron wanted to give him one. This is his establishment. If people want to dine in, he'll let them, and will serve them like an old friend if they follow his rule. Against his rule though he'd rather brick them with a rotten peanut pot."
...After the attack on Scramble Crossing? How does it goes again... He heard some stuff from Ryouta... A Dark Tower appeared, people from Luminas...
"Ah those pain in the ass," suddenly Hikaru quipped. "Never been fond of Luminas, and Luminas have issue with people treating them as hideous holier-than-thou pricks. Holy city my fluffy ass. Luminas treats the other like disposable pawns or rough workers, or worse, slaves. They think they govern everything... well human did invade, to be fair. Vexus was it? I don't remember the story."
"Were we there?"
"Been a while," Hikaru answered "so can't really remember if those are in our first era of adventure or not. Either way..." Hikaru poured some blue syrup on a small glass and drunk it. "Second wave of invasion is unlikely. I'd say that Luminas get its just desserts, but at the same time the invasion of the human was way too brutal, sooooo... everyone is at fault here. Just because someone's pain in the ass and you want to make them pay doesn't make it right to invade it and try to bring the city down. Luminas is like nest of hornets. Some pain in the ass one. You leave them alone, they'll leave you alone."
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Post by Johan Walker on May 5, 2019 4:09:13 GMT
"I mean, no one likes to be disrespected," Johan said as he shrugged, not really seeing the problem yet. He then mentioned how Hikaru disliked killjoys. "Then he must absolutely despise Dokamon right about now. It's all serious business with him most of the time, but he does like to have fun here and there, right?"
"Depends on what you mean by 'fun'," Dokamon responded. "I do enjoy human television however. Although some of it is... bizarre, I must say." He then paused and looked at Yuuki with a confused look. "Wait, what do you mean by a bagpipe? He doesn't actually throw those, does he?"
The nearby Seadramon then chipped in and shared a story about how Hikaru actually chucked a lump of charcoal at a customer after they had complained about their fries not being crispy enough. The AEGIS agents just stared at the Seadramon in disbelief. "S-So he likes to throw stuff, huh?" Johan asked, low-key scared of Hikaru now.
Hikaru then came back from out of nowhere, saying how Dark Towers were a pain in the ass. They also brought up Luminas City, a place that Johan did in fact research but was confused as to why he brought it up. "I don't think it was Luminas City, Hikaru. Recently the city has gone through many changes, so it's not as stuck up as they used to be. I read they just let Virus types into the city just like that now. Besides, the human world invaders had an agenda: to seal off the rift between our worlds, making travel impossible."
"Which is exactly what DATS wants to do as well."
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Post by yuuki on May 11, 2019 11:24:37 GMT
"...I wouldn't say so... as long as one doesn't exactly keep pushing his button then he'll let them be. Still, I guess you're not wrong... He tends to forgot his annoyance in five minutes after he get angry though. So if you don't make him absolutely livid, chance that he'll just mark you as 'annoying'."
Television? He just hoped that the two doesn't deal with NHK bullshit. Yuuki just smiled wryly about the question regarding the bagpipe. "No, he slaps someone with it. He got tons, and if he's cross, he either toot it and plays the worst song in his repertoire called 'Suffering of 1000 Swans' or slaps it across someone's face. Usually more to the former than the latter."
Looks like they missed the point though. "Well, thing is, let me ask. If they returned fries to the kitchen a dozen times exactly, don't you think they're asking for it? There's nothing wrong with the fries. The guy is just a massive arsehole," the Seadramon commented. "And Hikaru did warned him. 'Any crispier and it'll be charcoal. The guy told him to just do it. So he does, and the moment they found it's charcoal, they're furious, and Hikaru just tossed it at that person's face and tell him to get the fuck out."
Still... this is... strange... They don't think it's Luminas?
"...I think you haven't done your homework enough then..." Hikaru approached the two again and pulled a chair. "Let me give you a crash course as your senior, ex-AEGIS officer. It's related. How you ask? I think I heard it from third party that they mentioned something about Luminas... which means they likely came from there. I don't give rat's ass whether they changed or not, but old Luminas was so much pain in the ass that I remembered I never want to step my foot to its gate. The holy city is a city of bigots, far worse than El Doradimon citizen. At least on the case of the latter, it's justified, but the former? Ew.
And an invasion was done to that holy city. Humans stormed it in attempt to bring the holy city down to earth. For what reason? Hell I have no idea! All I know is that it's a failed invasion, but the victim amount was staggering, enough to make some people of Luminas hates human so much. You see how complicated that is?
By the way, the old DATS apparently was a joke of an organization that never really moved? Something like that. Newbie Digimons was scared of them though, mainly because they does return Digimons to Digital World without question. At least according to rumor... but new one seemed to be pain in the ass huh..."
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Post by Johan Walker on May 31, 2019 4:05:08 GMT
Forgetting something that agitates him after five minutes? Either he just forgives easily or he has the attention span of a goldfish. "Forgive me if I sound rude, but that sounds a lot like having a short attention span," Johan said, trying to sound as less rude as possible. "Does Hikaru have one of those? Or is he just one of those 'slow to anger, quick to chill' kinds of Digimon?"
Johan and Dokamon listened to Yuuki explain how Hikaru either plays one of the worst songs ever with the bagpipe or just uses it as a makeshift weapon against those angering him. "So when Hikaru is crossed he eithers attacks your ears or just attacks in general." Then, for the first time probably ever, Dokamon started... laughing! "That's probably the best thing I've ever heard!"
"D-Dokamon!" Johan gasped, never hearing Dokamon laugh... ever. "Yuuki, Hikaru, are you two magic?! How are you doing this?! I've never heard Dokamon laugh before!"
The topic of conversation moved back to the Scramble Crossing attack. Yuuki insisted that Luminas was related in the attack, saying he "thought" he heard it from a third party. "You... thought you heard it? That doesn't seem like a very stable source," Dokamon commented.
Yuuki continued, saying he didn't care that Luminas had supposedly changed, since there was an attempted human invasion in the city that had failed, yet the victim count was so high it had Luminas grow a hatred for humans. "My friend said that he and his partner were able to get into Luminas no problem, even though he was a human. Why would Luminas attack Shibuya if they changed?"
"The attackers might have been from Luminas, but there isn't any evidence that they were acting on Luminas' behalf. All we know is that the attack ignited the new DATS. And you are right, they are a pain in the ass." Dokamon then looked at the clock on the wall. As expected, alcohol hour was hours way. He sighed in disappointment. "A nice cold one would be fantastic right now..."
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Post by yuuki on Jun 2, 2019 12:31:25 GMT
"Totally not. It's not a short attention span. More like he feel there's no need to get angry for too long. He's the type that's more to 'usually chill, but will get angry if you look down on him too much or ire him. If he's angry, he's the type that would be really scary, but usually if it's not a serious thing he's angry about, he'll quickly just forget about it'. I mean, he said it himself, but being angry for long doesn't worth it. It'll only make you unhealthy. Hikaru always took care of himself on mental health part, thus it only makes sense for him to not get angry for too long" Yuuki explained.
Huh so this old man also can laugh. Yuuki just smiled and shrug at the question of magic. "Pretty sure if I'm talented in such thing I won't be losing my memories."
The heavy talk followed.
"Well, no," Hikaru answered. "More like our friend heard from Colin and we heard from this friend of ours. It might not be 100% accurate, but it must be credible enough. After all, didn't all electronic malfunctioned? There are no camera working, and unless you have some form of analog camera that can capture movies I don't think you can capture whatever happened there, right?
Also I didn't said that Luminas attacked Shibuya. If they did, it wouldn't have been a small scale invasion like this. It would have been a war. I said the two must came from old Luminas, and is believer of extremist doctrine. Luminas old or new. does not seem to be behind it at all. The scale is too small. It's more like a personal belief, executed rashly, albeit still rather..." Hikaru airquoted "peacefully. Doesn't help that unfortunately it further the current government agenda. If you have no idea, the previous government has lost in the election. The picked people are unfortunately are not interested with "aliens in the house"... or better said, Digimon in Japan."
A nice cold one would be fantastic? "Too early for that," the Dorumon answered, smirking. "We don't want any AUI- Aggression Under Influence."
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Post by Johan Walker on Jun 10, 2019 3:02:45 GMT
Johan understood what Yuuki meant by the way that Hikaru looks at anger. Being angry all the time wasn't exactly healthy, that he agreed on. But sometimes it's just hard to not be mad. Optimism can really seem like a stupid option at times, especially for Johan who preferred to look at things logically. "Kinda wish I had Hikaru's view of the world. I try to be calm but sometimes when I'm stressed I can just get very bent out of shape, snapping at people I love. Plus, I... never mind."
Johan didn't want to bring up his accident just to a random stranger. That's a very good way to kill the mood.
For the first time ever, Johan had heard Dokamon legitimately laugh! He could not believe it at first, and asked Yuuki if he was magic. The human nonchalantly mentions that if he was then he wouldn't be losing his memories.
Wait, what?
Clearly neither of them were going to let that one slide. "Come again? You're losing your memories?"
Hikaru did have a point. "Yeah, all the electronics in the area did go haywire. Pretty convenient way of not capturing the shit that went down there, thus rendering all those who saw 'giant monsters' potentially insane. And a couple Digimon with Old Luminas' ideals does make far more sense than Old Luminas entirely. Whatever the motives are, DigiDestined and Digimon have to live with the consequences of the attack. What I'm worried about is what is going to happen next."
Meanwhile, Dokamon was still wishing that it was eight o'clock, as he was in the mood to drink. Hikaru, of course, commented that it was still too early and that he didn't want any AUI's happening. "Ugh, fine. Can I get a refill of coffee then please? This time with extra expresso?"
As the two partners were eating, Johan noticed two bizarre figures walk in and sit at a booth, patiently waiting for a waiter or waitress. They both looked like Flamedramon, but... off in a weird way. Oh well, probably nothing.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 11, 2019 12:41:47 GMT
"Well do this then... Try to take a deep breathe, disengage from whatever you find annoying... take a break, drink something nice that makes you calm. Chamomile tea came to mind... Put on some aromatherapy or if you like to sing, sing," Yuuki suggested. "There are many ways to diffuse anger, and the bad mood that came afterward from it. What you have to do is to just toss out those bad thoughts and doesn't linger too long on it."
Yuuki however did not reply to the lost memories thing and just vaguely smiled.
Hikaru meanwhile smiled when Johan replied to his piece. "See don't you think that's a good lesson there, lads? When you're acting in this sort of scope, remember two things: One, your action will speaks for your group, even if you didn't meant to speak for the group. Two... everyone who's in your group will have to suffer the consequence of your action, even if you didn't meant to. This is why you should tread things like this with care. If you go gung-ho and all 'I'm a hero, and I will save the world' about your actions, 80% of the end will lead to unfortunate consequence... Remember where you are, keep your wits with you, and you'll be fine."
Oh hear that bell chime? Looks like there is a new customer. "Welcome!" Hikaru greeted. "Please pick your own chair and the waiter or waitress will be there shortly."
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Post by Johan Walker on Jun 12, 2019 3:40:20 GMT
Yuuki had suggested a couple of things to Johan to help calm him down in the future if he ever did feel too stressed. Those things weren't exactly what Johan had in mind when it came to being relaxed, however. "Those are good suggestions, but none of those things actually relax me. Especially singing; I can't sing to save my life."
"Johan's more of a tech guru," Dokamon explained, "he loves to take tech apart and put it back together, see how it all works. You should've seen him when we first joined AEGIS; fell right in love with their tech. He's currently trying to crack the security system to find possible flaws with it."
"So far AEGIS isn't messing around with their technology, I gotta say. But I'm going to have to check about twenty more times to be sure it's completely foolproof. Dokamon's right though, I feel more relaxed when I'm using a computer or even something as simple as a D-Terminal."
Yuuki's lack of response to the "memory loss" question was not lost on the AEGIS agents. "Yuuki, is it? You don't just bring something like that up and expect us to just not touch on it."
The two Flamedramon-esque Digimon looked at Hikaru as he welcomed them, informing them to take a seat. The purple Flamedramon simply nodded his head. 'Thank you, sir.' The way that this Digimon thanked Hikaru would've felt... weird for him. Like his brain would feel funny as it was being said, like the speech was going right into his mind.
The two Digimon simply sat at a table and waited for a waiter or waitress. The blue one in orange armor looked to be bored out of his mind, constantly looking for one even though they had just sat down.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 14, 2019 10:25:56 GMT
"Suggestion is just that, suggestion. I'm not saying to do 100% of that sort of action. in the end it all boils down to just do what you enjoy, take away your focus from the stress and deal with it another time with calm mind. Have you tried? In the end, it boils down to enjoyment rather than 'I have to be good at it'. I myself not that good of a singer to be honest, but I find singing to be relaxing. Whistling too," Yuuki answered "That's another part of the thing by the way.
If you have such strong opinion on something without trying it, then you won't know the wonder of it. That's what Hikaru told me. Though, if you're really stressed, it's best to any destressing method you know rather than trying something new. Stable things are nice too, mainly because you already know the result to your psyche already."
On the commentary about the memory loss, Yuuki just smiled once again. "But I think it's my personal rights to elaborate on it or not. I might not be that good at this table-waiting job, but I feel when I dropped things like that it definitely gave me a bit more charm, doesn't it? The old me might said that I'm drunk or too affected by Hikaru though."
Jill came to him to hand the coffee with extra expresso, one that he served in front of Dokamon. "Your order sir."
meanwhile, the Strabimon approached the table of the two newcomers with the menus. Hikaru gestured to her something that seemed to be a military code, to which she made an OK sign to.
"Welcome to Aeterna, customers. I'm Jiltis. If you're ready to order you can call me or any of my coworkers. If you have any question before I left you to your own device, I'll answer it as best as I could."
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Post by Johan Walker on Jun 20, 2019 20:57:48 GMT
Heh, this Yuuki fellow was pretty wise, Johan thought. Sure his intelligence was a bit higher than most average fifteen year olds, but Johan was still just that: a fifteen year old. He still didn't have too much knowledge about the world or who he wanted to be. But listening to Yuuki's advice, it... made him feel a lot better and more confident. And Yuuki seems to have gotten a lot of it from his partner Hikaru.
"Hikaru sounds like a very wise Digimon, Yuuki. You are very lucky to have him as a partner."
"I agree, I don't know him all too well aside from what you told us, but he does seem to be fairly decent." It was at this point that Jill had come back with Dokamon's refill of coffee with extra expresso. "Thank you, ma'am," Dokamon said while nodding to the Strabimon.
"Uh, before you go, could I have a refill of my drink as well?" Johan asked the waitress before she left.
Soon she would approach the table with the two Flamedramon-esque Digimon sitting there, welcoming the two of them to Aeterna and asking if they had any questions, which the blue and orange Digimon did have. "Hi, yes, which item on your menu has the highest amount of calories?"
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Post by yuuki on Jun 21, 2019 13:20:03 GMT
"I wouldn't flatter him thaaat much," Yuuki commented, grinning wryly. "I'd rather not have him acting bigheaded because he's called a wise guy... But even then I guess that's a pack that came with experience. He's been around quite a lot, and you know Digimon's mental growth are... probably faster than human when they reached certain stages."
"I'll echo that, my father, as much as I love him with all my heart, is annoying when he's overproud," Jill commented. "I'll pass on the message to the other waiter, it'll be a moment, Sir."
She does that because she need to serve these ones after all... Still, she... did't expect someone would ask the food with the most calorie in here. Hikaru somehow already grinning widely upon hearing it. Oh, Homeostasis... why, oh why....
"....That would be 'Fluffy Creamy Fairie Paradise Parfait Bowl", sir. Approximately 5000 bits of diabetes inducing sweets, complete with select ice cream, mochi, crispy waffles, a bit of soft candies, wafers, fruits or other topping of your choice."
If someone want to order this then holy shit.
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Post by Johan Walker on Jun 27, 2019 16:32:54 GMT
"Oh, he's one of the 'big headed' types?" Johan chuckled. He took another look a Hikaru. Yeah, that Dorumon does seem like the type that would have a big ego after receiving praise, he thought as he took another sip of his drink. "I've only been with Dokamon for almost a year so far. He's been my companion ever since I moved to Japan."
"Arriving in the human world was a complete accident on my part," Dokamon commented, "but I met Johan out of it, so it was not all bad. I would not change a thing if I had the chance to."
Back with the new guests, as soon as the blue Speedramon asked for the highest calorie-induced food, Hikaru came up and introduced the "Fluffy Creamy Fairie Paradise Parfait Bowl", which was exactly what the Digimon was looking for.
"Perfect! I will take three of those then," The Digimon requested as if it was just a normal thing to order.
When it really wasn't.
Johan and Dokamon heard this and tensed up a bit... did he... did he really just order three? S-Surely his friend is gonna have one, right?
"And I will take a nice bowl of ramen, the most popular kind you have," the purple one asked.
...oh god, he was gonna eat all three of those bowls himself, wasn't he?
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Post by yuuki on Jun 29, 2019 14:56:14 GMT
"Well, being praised is not something that's bad, but I'd rather have him not flaunt it to his customers at this point... by the way, that customer there is asking for trouble. I have no idea if they're serious or not, but... Either way, I hope they really can finish it..."
The reason would soon get revealed. Jill sighed, and muttered "excuse me". She took out a measuring tape and quickly measured the Fladramon look-alike's height and width, then she writes the specification and handed it to the kitchen.
"...Three Fluffy Creamy Fairie Paradise, Parfait Bowl and one sirloin katsu savory ramen," her voice sounded so dead inside. But on the reverse the crowd broke into a huge cheer.
"...The kitchen said they need twenty minutes for your order."
What's the need of twenty minutes? Well, that will be revealed the moment twenty minutes passed. By the way, it only need the kitchen five minutes to send the ramen out.
...And after twenty minutes, suddenly a from the kitchen came a huge bowl of ice cream and various dessert... its size? amost as big as a table, and that's the bowl alone. Jill pulled an empty table and signed to the staff to put it there, to which they did. The cheer broke again. It's pretty much like seeing a table on top of a table, with huge dessert ready.
She then passed a shovel-sized spoon to the customer. "Your order, sir. Please enjoy... and make sure to pay even when you don't finish it, otherwise that's a felony."
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Post by Johan Walker on Jul 5, 2019 1:41:13 GMT
Johan rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah, you'd have to be the most humble person in all of the universe to not let praise go to your head at least a little bit... or just have mental illnesses, whichever."
Everyone in the restaurant's attention had gone right over to the new customers that had walked in: the Flamedramon look-alikes. One had ordered something entirely normal, but the other had ordered three of the most unhealthy item in the entire restaurant. Hell, it sent the whole place into cheers just from the thought of it.
Yuuki mentioned how they were asking for trouble by ordering that item. "Exactly. I looked over that item on the menu, and I do not know who can possibly have that much ice cream and not explode into data, let alone THREE."
As soon as Speed and Psych ordered, the waitress got out a measuring tape and measured Speed's height and the width of his waist. "I assure you, I'm perfectly healthy, miss. No need to measure my body."
They said that the ice cream would take twenty minutes to get ready, while the ramen only needed five. They brought out Psych's ramen dish way before the ice cream, and Speed could do nothing but watch his brother eat his meal, stomach rumbling like no tomorrow. Mon, he was so hungry!
Finally, the moment arrived. They brought out the dish that was as big as the table itself, causing the crowd to cheer again. The waitress told Speed to pay even if he doesn't finish it. "Oh don't worry, I will indeed finish it."
Johan's eyebrow raised when he heard that. "Okay, what is he planning...?"
At that moment Psych simply lifted out of his chair away from the table, and before anyone realized it Speed started zooming around and around the bowl, to the point where it looked like a mini tornado, only considerably less destructive.
"Oh my god... Yuuki, are you seeing this?!"
About three minutes later Speed stopped running, sitting right back in his seat rubbing his belly, which somehow did not extend at all. Not only that, but every last morsel of ice cream was gone. It was... it looked unreal.
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