Relaxing at the Tavern(OPEN)

It had been sometime since he had last seen digital civilization. He sighed a bit as he strolled into the bar. The Koromon and Demiveemon attached to his body tightly. The Koromon was sat upon his head, perfectly perched whilst the Demiveemon hung off his left shoulder. The young man still had his black sword hanging from his waist as he strolled into the area. As he looked around, he tried to figure out what sort of establishment he was in, the poor kid had not learned the language of the Digimon despite having tried.

His two Digimon thankfully had a natural understanding of the language, likely thanks to their past lives as stronger Digimon...if they had past lives, he did not know still if the two were former Tamer digimon or what. All he knew was that the two were his partners. Koromon and DemiVeemon at the same time both said “The sign says its a Tavern!” “The White Water City Tavern!” The two Digimon were their typical hyper selves, not caring if others overheard them jubilantly exclaim the information to the hapless DigiTamer. He slowly walked up to the bar and sat down, trying to signal for a server or a barkeep or something, he was relatively thirsty...

Tanaka was growing rather tired of the two basically infant digimon jumping on his head and shoulder respectively and felt a moment of reprieve as they leapt onto the counter of the bar and began to bang their hands...and body against it demanding food and drink. It was around then that he heard the voice of someone coming from behind him. Spinning in place on the stool he was a bit surprised to see an Impmon sitting alone, yet also not surprised considering he was in the Digital World currently. Blinking a bit as his prior experiences told him most ‘wild’ digimon did not take kindly to humans, the fact this one readily spoke to him was...disconcerting.

Deciding there was no real harm in it, the young man spoke up “Yeah, they are my partner Digimon and I’m their...I guess you could say Tamer, feels more like I’m their babysitter at this point hoping that their parent’s don’t try to stiff me on the bill...” The young boy chuckled wryly at the thought of parent digimon, the idea was chuckle worthy as for as far as the young boy knew, Digimon did not reproduce in the same way as pretty much any species he had known of.

The young man then heard a server finally approach and the young man said “Hey, barkeep can we get some food and water, the two little ones don’t quite care about what the food is so whatever you have I guess...” He knew that his two partners were going to need plenty of food to grow still at this point. He wanted them to grow stronger so that they could fight individually on their own if need be. It had been sometime since he entered this realm, who knew how long had really passed in the physical world, but Tanaka knew he wanted to go back sometime...

Tanaka was more or less used to the idea that Digimon, these animal looking creatures, were quite human like...when they weren’t wild. He supposed that at some point in their evolution as a species as a whole the group began to become more civilized and some parts of their species simply did not evolve along that route much like the Humans of the physical world. He watched as the Digimon Barkeeper, one he was wholly unfamiliar with, brought a few plates of food that looked like some kind of meat dish with and three glasses of chilled water.

Taking one of the glasses the young Tamer took a long sip, it was quite refreshing to feel the cold liquid pass his lips and go down his esophagus. “Nice to meet ya Mandrake, my name is Tanaka, Ryusei Tanaka.” Tanaka was enjoying the relative peace of his two partners scarfing down the food that was brought to them, knowing that such moments were fleeting at this point while they were still so young and so small. The young Tamer felt like being near these two when they weren’t eating or sleeping added about ten or maybe a hundred years to his age.

“I’m relatively new to the Digital World still, I’ve only come...so far since I found myself waking up in that weird digital desert a few weeks ago, before I knew it I had these two thrust upon me and was fighting for what felt like my life, its been a strange time if I might say...” Tanaka let out a wry chuckle at his own seeming misfortune and yet fortune. He was happy to have met Koromon and DemiVeemon, but he knew that they likely would have been better off without him, maybe a more experienced Tamer was actually meant to have had them...

Tanaka stared blankly at the small Impmon as he spoke of a holosuit, he had not heard of such a thing before and had never seen one either. He could only wonder what it was in actuality. “Holosuit? Whats that? Some kind of clothing? The sound of it makes it sound quite fancy though if I think about it. Is it a thing you wear to formal functions or anytime you like?” Tanaka was still obviously but a child to many adults of the Human plane, as such he did not know a lot still and even by teenager standards he was on a bit on the dumb side about many things.

The young Human then began to feel a grumbling of his stomach, he could also definitely hear said grumbling which meant others could hear him too. It had been a few Digital Days since he had last eaten, but he could not yet read the menu because it was clearly written all in the Digimon’s language, that strange writing that looked like it was trying to emulate about five different styles of Human writing yet still tried to be wholly original. He sighed a bit, knowing he would yet again have to play Russian roulette with what he ordered to eat.

The young man then began to wait for the barkeep to make his way back over, not sure on the proper etiquette regarding his situation, after all in the human world he mostly was with his family still when he went to eat so he was unsure how to get the attention of the wait staff to place an order. He wondered if this place was going to accept the bits of data that other places seemed to use as a form of currency as his prior experiences seemed to say they did.

Blinking a bit as the Impmon summoned the Barkeep and whispered something after explaining what a holosuit was, the young man nodded in appreciation and noticed that there were foods that both Digimon and Human’s could seemingly enjoy. It seemed that the Digital World began to make foods that were palatable to Human sensibilities, it made sense after all if they were even half as capitalistic as the Human world was. He then signaled the barkeep to return to the counter and ordered a burger that would still be medium rare in temperature and a basket of fries.

A basic human meal that could be found anywhere so he supposed it would be a good and basic testing of the way they prepared human style food here. “So, if you have a Holosuit...do you go to the Human world often or are you just a...rich Digimon? If such a thing even actually exists...” Tanaka knew he was equating things to his sensibilities but that was all he really knew, the two digimon partners were also already ordering another plate of food each, though Tanaka himself was more lost in thought over this Holosuit to notice the two bundles of energy eating more...

Tanaka listened to the Impmon as it spoke of how Digimon could be rich just like humans but he…? She? It? Was not. The Impmon explained that they had spend most of their money on the holosuit and had only been to the human world once, to which Tanaka nodded his head slowly. It made some level of sense to him after all. He was about to speak up when suddenly the Impmon pointed out that he should keep an eye on his two partners as they had large appetites. Tanaka was slightly confused by what the small creature meant.

That was, until he turned his attention back to the two Digimon expecting them to be choking on food or something or have the entire meal in their mouths. However, when he saw the two excitedly staring at the Barkeep as he brought a third plate of food for the two of them, the young Tamer’s eyes went wide. He let out a breathless shout at the two, the words getting lost on their way out of his throat at some point during that sight. He wanted to kill the two little creatures right then and there, to strangle the life out of them.

Though, with the Koromon that would likely be difficult. As the Barkeep was about to put the food down, Tanaka grabbed the two much to their protest and shouted that they did not want the food, he then slapped down some of his bits and ran out of the restaurant without another word. Hoping that he did not come off as rude to the kind Impmon, he would apologize properly to him at a later date. As it stood now, these two needed to be stopped lest they put him in the poor house, if such a concept even existed here.

[ATTEMPTED EXIT]