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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Sept 24, 2020 8:00:56 GMT
Whitewater City. A busy hub of activity with various digimon going about their business. Some digimon and humans were at the beach but that was not where Mandrake and Lothar were. The duo were walking past various businesses not far from the beach and sitting in the crook of Mandrake's free arm was their son LJ. The tiny purple Punimon was hungry and not feeling up for hopping around until his belly was full. At least he wasn't crying making it easy for Mandrake and Lothar to focus on finding a restaurant. LJ wasn't the only one feeling hungry after all but they didn't need an expensive restaurant to handle their needs.
Soon spotting an ideal place to eat the family entered the restaurant and sat at one of the tables. Mandrake set LJ on the table since the young one was too small to easily feed him while he was sitting in one of the seats. LJ excitedly squeaked "Pu! Pu!" Though his vocabulary was rather limited he seemed to realize his parents were trying to get him some food. Mandrake and Lothar each picked up a menu to figure out what to order.
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Post by Shi on Sept 28, 2020 4:07:03 GMT
Well this was quite the scene for the trio, it wasn't often that Shi went out to eat. The noise always bothered him to a large degree. The people around him eating to their hearts content, the weird feeling that no matter what he did waiters would be annoyed by any little request. But still even he could put aside his naturally stoic nature and treat the twins to something nice, it helped that they both got quite a nice stash of cash from helping some people around Terminus before they came here. Since it was their money they decided to blow it on what they wanted, of course what they wanted was a mountain sized amount of food. Lazily Shi leaned back in his chair with his headphones around his neck, forgetting that his devices didn't work here he decided to just leave it on. They were at a table that could sit at least humans, considering they were a group of three this seemed a bit weird, however one glance at the massive spread of food on the table was clear that this was for more then five people.
Pretty much everything in the restaurant was ordered by the twins, doubles of stuff they really liked were also thrown in-between the dishes here and there. Shi didn't have a meal in front of him though, he wasn't one to get hungry usually and just seeing that large spread pretty much filled him up instantly. Just a simple coffee was on his side as the twins looked at the food with water running down their mouths. Even for digimon this was a bit overkill given that a lot of digimon were looking at their table with a bit of confusion, like wondering if more were going to show up or if it was just these three.
With a soft sigh Shi pulled his hat down covered his eyes a bit, almost as if he was covering it from the horror that was about to unfold in front of his very eyes, His grey eyes looking up at his cap he heard the twins clap once. "A meal like this doesn't come every day bro." Yuudai said with a smile looking at his brother across the table. "So, we making this a contest, who can eat more?" Yasuo asked with a similar smile, albeit a bit more cockiness was behind his. "Ohoho, you ready to lose?" With that both seemed to have Shi as their judge, but he wasn't gonna do that as he simple kept leaning back in his chair, refusing to be associated with the onslaught that was about to unfold before him.
And with that the imaginary bell was rung and the twins started digging into their respective sides of the meal, one would wonder if they tasted anything as they gulped it down with the vigor of a super mega.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Sept 28, 2020 4:18:05 GMT
The restaurant's bell rung as the relatively new Tamer, Yuji, pushed the door open. He and his Tentomon partner Kazuo had gotten the chance recently to visit the Digital World for the first time today, and the first stop was Whitewater as it was a city that Yuji would be more comfortable with. Best to start journeys to new worlds in familiar territory, right?
"I never thought I'd see anything like this, a proper functioning city full of non-human residents," Yuji said with awe to his partner.
"Mhm! There are plenty of cities like this in the Digital World," Kazuo explained. "But not everywhere is as 'safe' as here, trust me on that one. I'm sure we'll have great anime-worthy adventures when you're ready for it, Yuyu!"
"Heck, I'm ready for stuff like that now!"
"Like, now as in RIGHT now? Because I can't exactly go adventuring when my tummy's empty like it is right now."
"Yeah yeah, you're right... let's just wait for our host to seat us. Curious on what kind of food the Digital World offers to its residents, anyways."
As Yuji waited, he looked at the various customers already dining in. He saw a wizard and a lion man at one table, along with a small Digimon that looked like a grape. At another table he spotted a human and two dinosaurs that were eating like their lives depended on it. The sight was honestly pretty gross so Yuji almost looked away, but one thing kept his attention: the other human that was sitting there.
Kazuo, being the sociable insect that he is, walked over to that table to initiate conversation. "You two must be super hungry to be eating that fast! Is the food good?"
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Sept 28, 2020 7:01:52 GMT
Mandrake and Lothar had finally decided on some huge combo platter that would be enough to feed Mandrake for almost a week but with Lothar and LJ it would be just enough for one meal for the group. As they received their order a tamer with twin digimon caught Mandrake's attention. It seemed they had a meal bigger than the combo platter Mandrake and Lothar ordered. When the bell indicating a customer entering went off the twin digimon went at their food devouring it like a black hole. Were those two even chewing their food? Mandrake shook his head not wanting to think about it.
LJ seemed eager to eat the instant the food was sat down and made a excited leap for the food only for Lothar to gently shove the fresh digimon back with two fingers before he said "No, LJ, you need to learn patience."
Mandrake saw that another tamer with interesting hair entered with a Tentomon before he glanced at LJ. LJ was pouting from being scolded then turned to Mandrake with puppy dog eyes that sparkled light purple. "Your other father is right, LJ, I agree it's time for you to learn better manners."
"Pu." LJ said with a pout as he sat staring at the food. Now that LJ was behaving Mandrake and Lothar began to eat each one of them taking turns feeding LJ.
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Post by Shi on Sept 29, 2020 3:21:01 GMT
Shi won't lie, he was barely paying attention to what was going on in the restaurant at the time, he adopted his usually stance in these sorta scenario's of just ignore everyone staring and eventually they'll stop. However one didn't seem to stop and approached the table asking the twins a question, Shi almost let out a sigh as he kicked his chair down, grabbing it before it fully fell as to not make so much noise when it hit the floor. Pulling his hat up he saw who the newcomer was, a digimon he hadn't seen before. Or if he had seen them he didn't remember, wondering if it was rude to pull out his digivice and scan them real quick he figured he should at least talk to them about their concerns with the twins eating habits. Considering the two of them haven't even glanced at the bug digimon it was up to him to say something sadly.
Pulling his hat up a bit showing his grey eyes he decided for a second on what to say before calmly stating. "I wouldn't bother, they get in a sorta Zone when they eat. Nothing you say will reach them." Shi pointed out and his words seemed to be true, they didn't even seem to notice Shi had said something or even moved a bit. Shi used this time to remove his headphones and throw his arms up, getting a small stretch in for a second before continuing. "They're usually like this, this should be enough for even them though."
Shi couldn't help but overhear someone nearby, LJ. The name sounded familiar, he doubted it considering that was someone he knew when he first became aa tamer but still he lazily looked behind him to see three digimon at a table, a wizard a lion and what appeared to be a ball at this distance. Definitely wasn't Lee. Still he hadn't seen a baby digimon around other digimon before aside from the village of beginnings, part of him was curious but he stopped looking after a moment and returned his eyes back to the bug at hand.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Sept 29, 2020 3:40:41 GMT
Kazuo tilted his head in confusion when the two Agumons didn't look up from their eating to at least say hello to the little Tentomon. "Um, hello?" he asked as he flew up to table height, waving his claw in front of the two of them. Of course, they still didn't look up. He would then turn to the human that was with them, who looked like he didn't want to be there at all. "Are they okay?"
Eventually the human did respond, saying that was just how these two Agumon were when they ate. Yuji was impressed by the size of the pile of food they were working their way down towards. "And I thought Kazuo had an appetite... you're a Tamer, right? I'm Moriyama Yuji, and this is actually my first time in the Digital World. Wasn't expecting to find another human here-"
Yuji would walk up closer to the table as he said this, but out of nowhere the young man suddenly lost his footing, as his foot would slip on a water puddle that wasn't noticed or cleaned up by anyone. He extended his arms to break his fall, allowing them to grab onto the table with the humongous pile of food. Unfortunately the table was not very sturdy and it bent down towards Yuji, now taking on the duty of a catapult. The food pile flew as if it was in slow motion, before it eventually landed right on top of the Wizardmon, the Leomon and their baby at the other table.
Both Yuji and Kazuo looked at them in disbelief, who would've expected something like that was going to happen!? Yuji definitely knew how powerful Digimon could be, and he definitely did not want to be the target of whatever attack these two could possibly do. Yuji backed away towards the door slowly, his eyes fixed on the two Digimon, unsure how they were going to respond...
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Sept 29, 2020 3:59:47 GMT
Though Mandrake could telepathically sense the two tamers and their digimon, he didn't worry about them since they showed no signs of aggression. Glancing at the young man with the twin Agumon, Mandrake got the feeling that the human looked familiar. Maybe that human was familiar and it was likely he had merely forgotten him. Between everything he and Lothar had been through such a thing would make sense.
Turning back to LJ after hearing the purple Punimon squeaking impatiently, he reached onto the plate he and Lothar ordered and gave some mushrooms from the platter to LJ. As for the other human boy it seemed the forces of gravity decided to be his worst enemy as the blue haired boy slipped into the table the other tamer and his two Agumon were at causing the table to flip sending food raining down on the family. LJ began crying more from the sudden scare then being dirty causing Mandrake to massage the feelers on LJ's head. Looking in the direction the food came from he saw the blue haired boy moving backwards towards the door.
"It's okay, neither Lothar or I will hurt you. You don't have to run away." Mandrake said while LJ's cries had calmed into soft sniffles. "I guess we just ended up with more food than we were expecting. My name is Mandrake, the Leomon with me is Lothar, and the little one with us is our son, LJ."
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Post by Shi on Sept 29, 2020 4:15:22 GMT
Shi looked up at the tamer who just started talking to him, part of Shi wanted to be a bit sarcastic as considering he was a human in the digital world it was pretty obvious he was a tamer, Holo suited digimon was another possibility but that made no sense to do that in the digital world. However his sarcasm was cut short as he was a bit distracted by the very unique hair style this tamer had, boy hair dye artists were getting more and more creative by the day, however that idea was also cut short as the tamer now known as Yuji suddenly slipped on, from Shi's perspective at least, his own two feet and come crashing down on the table catching himself on the side and flinging the food the twins were still working on towards the digimon Shi had just looked at.
Still with Shi's natural good reaction time he seemed to see everything go a bit slowly, wasn't able to do anything about it except bend down slightly in his chair avoiding any excess food that might've come his was, as he did this his hand reached out and snatched his cup of coffee out of the air, swinging it down lid first keeping the liquid at the bottom before he turned it rightside up. Then he simply sat back up in his chair once it all seemed to blow over and took a long, long drink of his coffee.
After he was done he simply looked over at the twins, their crushed faces as they saw their food, the food they worked hard to get the money for fly off into the faces of some other digimon, if they were upset about the fact they had no more food to eat, or that someone just got a buncha food dropped on them it wasn't obvious. Shi assumed it was both though, a sorta mixed back of oh no.
"Are you ok?" Yasuo asked first getting up off his seat. "Yeah, sorry about that. What even happened?" Yuudai and Yasuo were so focused they didn't seem to even notice it was Yuji who caused that to happen, probably best to keep it on the DL. But they said they were ok so that was enough for Shi. "Well that's good, sorry that happened. I'm Shi. Shi Namika." Shi said standing up with his coffee in hand, Yuudai and Yasuo stood next to him. "I'm Yuudai, That's my twin bro Yasuo." Yasuo shook his head a bit annoyed. "Again sorry, though I think we're the ones feeling more sorry." That was a lot of costy food, now over there, some there. and a bit there. The staff seemed to start coming over to clean up though so that was good.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Oct 4, 2020 4:47:28 GMT
All the attendants at the restaurant at that time got a front row seat of Yuji's renowned clumsiness and his trick of sending an entire table of food catapulting right towards another family. No one really knew what to say or how to react, so all the Digimon around just kind of froze as they stared at the aftermath of the event. Heck, even their baby was crying about it.
The teen had never felt more relieved than when the scary wizard Digimon said that neither he nor his scary lion man Digimon partner were mad about it, and he let out a sigh of relief. "I am terribly sorry about it still, I've never been THAT clumsy before. I'm Moriyama Yuji, and this is my partner Kazuo."
"Hello!" Kazuo said as he waved.
The owners of that food then spoke up, introducing themselves and asking what had just happened as waiters came to clean up the mess. "I have no idea, I think I slipped on some water that was on the floor."
"Hang on a second... I recognize those guys! His little sister is friends with the little sister of a friend of mine's, Kaya!"
"That middle schooler at the game store, you mean?"
"Yeah! We even had to save them from a scary Digimon!"
"Wait, what?"
"Don't worry, they're perfectly fine. Do you guys remember me? It's me, Kazuo!"
The teen looked at the mess of food that was currently being cleaned up. It looked pretty expensive, and now it was all on the floor and turned into trash. He looked at the two Agumons. "Yuudai and Yasuo, right? I truly am sorry about your food... is there any way I could make it up to you?"
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Oct 4, 2020 5:04:02 GMT
LJ looked at Yuji with a dirty look indicating he wasn't happy about wearing someone else's food. The fact that LJ wasn't against getting messy to eat seemed irrelevant. Lothar and Mandrake, meanwhile, where brushing off the excess food that landed on them. When LJ began squeaking out his displeasure at still being covered in food Lothar looked down seeing that LJ was planning to spit paint at Yuji since he had inflated his body. "No you don't." Lothar said to LJ as he scooped up the purple Punimon which resulted in rainbow paint splashing onto the floor.
"Lothar, perhaps you should take LJ to the bathroom to get him clean. He might be in a better mood afterwords." Mandrake suggested and Lothar nodded and walked briskly off in the direction of the bathrooms. Meanwhile it seemed that the Tentomon now known as Kazuo recognized the two Agumon at the other table. Mandrake then looked at Yuji and said "We all have our clumsy moments sometimes so don't worry about it. Sorry about LJ's behavior though, he usually doesn't try to attack others. Good thing his attack is harmless."
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Post by Shi on Oct 5, 2020 0:12:54 GMT
Well everything seemed to work out at least, no one was mad and Shi didn't hafta bop one or two of the parties for starting a fight, which is usually how his day went so the fact it wasn't going that way was way better in his eyes. Shi was gonna leave it at that and go back to drinking his coffee when the bug stated he recognized Shi and the twins, once the two names were dropped the memory came flooding back to Shi, who gave a small sigh and tugged on his hat a bit looking down. "It'd be hard for me to forget that, and about the digimon thing don't ask. Not keen on reliving that memory." After all Shi's sister almost getting hurt was definitely something he didn't want to remember, it nearly gave him a heart attack when it happened. "But yeah I do remember you Kazuo, I suppose it's nice to meet you again." Shi was still he normal cold toned self but luckily the twins stepped up to explain. "Don't think he's dishonest, Shi is always like that." Yuudai before his brother followed up. "Cold tone, emotionless face but he definitely happy, most likely." Shi pulled his hat down, covering his eyes a bit annoyed. "You two don't have to say that to everyone I talk to."
"We Don't?" They asked at the same time. prompting Shi to give an annoyed sigh. "Anyways don't worry about it, Accidents happen." Yasuo gave a small nod. "Plus I think we got enough to tide us over."
"For the next five minutes." Shi mumbled returning his hat back to it's normal position.
Then it was the Wizard's turn to talk, about that kid that was with them apparently going to attack Yuji, even if it was harmless Shi doubted anyone would want paint on them. But considering that hairstyle maybe Yuji would see it as an improvement. "Yeah, still though you two are raising them? Didn't know Digimon could have parents." That was a bit of a shocker considering his past experiences. "Where did you think they came from?"
"Out of laptops, random chance and like you two randomly on my doorstep. That and just spawning at the village of beginnings." Shi had a fair point.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Oct 9, 2020 17:35:23 GMT
Yuji jumped back a bit in surprise as the little baby spit rainbow paint onto the floor. Clearly he had meant to hit Yuji with that paint attack before the Leomon Lothar had scooped him up. The restaurant staff was clearly not happy with having yet another mess to clean up. Hopefully nothing more would happen, unless they all wanted to be kicked out...
Shi and the twins did at least recognize Kazuo, so that was a good thing. Yuji raised an eyebrow, surprised at how much history the Tentomon had before the two of them met. Shi definitely came off as pretty cold, which his Agumon twins Yuudai and Yasuo explained that that was how he always acts. And apparently they say this to everyone they talk to, making Yuji laugh a little bit.
Yuudai and Yasuo excused Yuji's clumsy incident and didn't request any food payback, which definitely made Yuji believe that they were just saying it out of politeness since their food pile was massive. "Look, you don't have to be that polite about it. Kazuo can eat an entire pantry of snacks in one day, I know how much a Digimon can eat."
"Did you really have to announce that...?" Kazuo asked with a blush.
Shi responded to Mandrake by saying that he didn't know Digimon could have parents. Wanting to brush off the embarrassment from earlier, Kazuo flew up and explained the process to Shi. "Digimon breeding is most likely very different than how you humans do it. When two Digimon of any kind become very close to one another, their individual data will sometimes break off and form together, creating a brand new Digiegg. Plenty of Digimon are born this way, so it is not uncommon!"
Yuji blinked in surprise. "Wow..."
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Oct 9, 2020 21:26:54 GMT
Something about the human named Shi seemed familiar and for awhile Mandrake had been trying to figure it out. Then it suddenly hit him as he said "Wait, I remember you too. It was before LJ was born and Lothar had moved you out of the way while your partners were sparring. At the time you weren't happy about it."
At this point Lothar returned with LJ clean and most of the food cleaned off himself. The rest could be taken care of later. As Lothar returned he wiped the table with a napkin and set LJ back down on it. He had arrived just in time for Kazuo to mention digimon breeding. Mandrake had decided to handle explaining further as he said "Well if there's one thing that is usually the same is that digimon, like humans, go through a courtship process. Children are not uncommon before marriage in a digimon's case."
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Post by Shi on Oct 15, 2020 8:29:39 GMT
Yuji seemed to laugh at the twins explaining Shi to him, though Shi just brushed this off. Letting his eyes wander downward towards his coffee rather then the conversation at hand. Which didn't include him so he was right to choose that moment to stop caring. Yuudai and Yasuo were tempted by Yuji offering, they wanted to be nice but he seemed insistent, also seemed to know how hungry digimon usually get. "I mean, if you insist I suppose." Yuudai said with a smile. "Yeah sure, I don't mind that much. You're okay with this also right Shi?" Both wanted his opinion on taking them up on the offer, Shi glanced up slightly before simply nodding once and going back to not really focusing as he took a drink of his coffee.
Then it was up to Kazuo to explain how digimon were able to do that, his explanation made enough sense, well considering digimon didn't make much sense to begin with but it was a start at least. Yuudai and Yasuo nodded, both knowing a bit of that info but now that Kazuo said it that did make sense. "Though it won't work for Twins, cause our Data is so similar." Yasuo mentioned looking up, after all Shi didn't know digimon that were any closer then Yuudai and Yasuo are. "Yeah, be a bit odd if it could work that way. It's why we can fuse so easily and fight in sync." Yuudai said with a smile, but then it quickly faded and he looked confused for a moment.
"Oh, Shi. Now you know how digimon are made between two. I've been curious." Shi felt his heart sink into the ground as he knew what question Yuudai was about to ask the teen. "How do human-" Shi looked up and gave Yuudai a cold look for a moment, which got the Agumon to shut up real fast. Shi was not having THAT conversation in the middle of a diner!
Mandrake decided to mention he remembered Shi, thinking back Shi did recall that happening before. "Oh, Right. Well don't worry about it. I don't hold a grudge usually." Shi didn't remember exactly what happened but it couldn't of been too important if he forgot.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Oct 18, 2020 1:36:08 GMT
"Yuyu, we don't have that much money," Kazuo reminded the teenager as Yuudai and Yasuo accepted the offer of another meal. Yuji remembered now; they were still new to the Digital World, and while Yuji had some Yen on him, he barely had many Bits, just enough to cover his and Kazuo's bills. "We're not just gonna give them our food money, are we? I'm hungry."
"Of course we're not... but now I'm not all too sure what we're gonna do..." Yuji admitted, trying to think about it. He looked up at Shi. "Do you know if there's some way I can turn some Yen into Bits on the fly?"
Kazuo felt proud of himself for being able to explain a vital part of Digimon reproduction as well as he did, as you could... sort of tell by his facial expression. Tentomons were definitely not known for being overly expressive. Hell, their mouths were covered by a mandible when they aren't eating!
Yuji tensed up when Yuudai started asking that forbidden question, a similar reaction Shi had. Had Shi not given Yuudai that very scary looking glare, Yuji would've made something up himself to excuse everyone out of having to answer that question. "What's so bad about that question?" Kazuo asked, tilting his head a bit.
"Maybe when you're older," Yuji said, wanting desperately to move on from the subject. Hopefully a money solution would make itself known soon, as Yuji and Kazuo definitely had to order something soon.
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