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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Oct 18, 2020 1:54:24 GMT
When the subject of human reproduction came up it seemed both humans involved were not to eager to get into details which made sense in a restaurant. Though Yuji telling Kazuo that he'd tell him when he was older amused both Mandrake and Lothar. Apparently Yuji was unaware that Kazuo was more than old enough for such discussions despite not yet being an adult digimon.
Deciding to leave the delicate subject of reproduction alone Mandrake heard Yuji ask about turning Yen into bits, he said "Unfortunately, despite being good at magic, I don't know how to change yen into bits. If I did Lothar and I would never be low on money considering that we travel between the Digital and Human Worlds on a somewhat regular basis. Yet we haven't brought LJ to the Human World with us since we were planning on waiting until he was a bit older."
"At least we have a holosuit for him to use when we think he is ready to go there with us." Lothar said finally contributing to the conversation.
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Post by Shi on Nov 16, 2020 5:25:14 GMT
The question of food money was brought up, Shi was asked how to convert Yen into Bits and he recalled something from a while ago. "If I remember right there is a station around Terminus train terminal." Try saying that five times fast. "That lets you convert Yen into bits, can't remember the going rate though." Hearing them talk about food money Shi sighed a bit annoyed before reaching into his pocket and pulling out his digivice, tossing it over to Yuudai. "Just use the cash I got, much easier then going out to Terminus." Yuudai caught the device in hand looking at it before giving a quick nod and running over faster they Shi had ever seen a Digimon run. "Don't spend too mu- Who am I kidding he can't hear me." Yasuo looked a bit conflicted about the situation, but his tail seemed to be wagging despite the conflicted look.
"Don't worry about repayment, it's no trouble." Shi muttered before adjusting his hat a bit blocking his eyes once more. Then Mandrake mentioning the whole Yen and bits thing. "Actually I think it's best you can't cause I'm pretty sure that's illegal." At least in japan it was, would magic count under the laws though? It was honestly pretty hard to say.
Lothar also finally said something about going to the human world, well Yasuo assumed cause of the Holo-suit thing. "Oh, you guys visit the human world? Haven't seen anyone without a partner in the human world yet." It made sense though, just like the humans going to the digital world the reverse was probably true as well.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Nov 22, 2020 3:02:40 GMT
According to Shi, there was a station at the Trailmon terminal for doing just that, converting Yen into Bits, though he claims he didn't remember the going rate. "Wish I knew that before coming here and going into klutz mode," Yuji said in a self-depreciating tone with a sigh. Seemingly not wanting to deal with the situation any longer, Shi gave Yuudai his Digivice to go buy more food, telling Yuji that repayment wasn't an issue. "I'm afraid I cannot just accept that. I can pay you back next time we meet, or I can owe you a favor. Anything!"
"Yuyu's too polite for his own good," Kazuo responded with a shrug. "He gave money to someone he made a bet with even though he won the bet once."
On a similar topic, Mandrake mentioned not being able to turn Yen into bits with his magic, with Yasuo saying that it's probably for the best because it may be illegal. "Well, humans don't know magic exists, do they? Can't illegalize what you don't know, after all."
At the mention of going to the human world without a partner, Kazuo raised his claw up. "I've actually been there without a partner! I dug a little cave for myself underneath someone's house!"
"Oh yeah, Kaya told me about that..." Yuji said before having a slightly more ominous look at Kazuo. "She also mentioned how you were directly responsible for that wide-scale anime and manga theft this spring."
"Ack! She told you about that?!"
"She told me EVERYTHING about that."
"Why are you just telling me this now?! I swear I didn't want to-"
"I'm just messing with ya, Kaz, I know you've learned from all that," Yuji said with a smirk, causing Kazuo to start "hitting" his leg, though it was in the same style that a weak child would try to attack a grown-up.
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Nov 22, 2020 4:41:24 GMT
"When I was first visiting the Human World I was unaware of those stations. If I knew about them I wouldn't of had to earn money performing slight of hand magic tricks considering using my magic would have interfered with my holosuit. As any of you can imagine a holosuit fading out would cause unwanted attention." Mandrake said before he turned to Yuji and continued "As for being clumsy it's hardly anything to be ashamed of. At least no one was hurt by the flying food."
When Yuji mentioned about humans being unaware of the existence of magic, Mandrake chuckled before he said "In the case of most humans this is true. I guess it's lucky most humans are ignorant of the existence of magic."
When Yasuo asked about Mandrake's and Lothar's visits to the Human World, Lothar said "I'm sure there are other digimon without partners that visit the Human World on peaceful terms. We plan on taking LJ there when he's older."
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Post by Shi on Nov 23, 2020 20:58:33 GMT
Shi had a bit of an annoyed face at Yuji not just letting it drop, luckily his hat was in front of his eyes so no one could probably see it before Shi went back to his stoic look. It did slightly annoy Shi a bit when people wouldn't just let stuff drop when Shi asked them too, but Shi supposed that was just Yuji's nature so he shouldn't be too annoyed by it. "Fine, If you insist I suppose I don't have much of a choice." Shi gave a lazy shrug decided it would most likely just be easier to go with the flow on this rather then try to go against it, heck Shi needed more money anyway and favors were always good. "Usually it's us doing favors for others huh Shi?" Yasuo mentioned leaning back in his chair waiting for Yuudai. "Mhm, but usually we don't get anything in return." Shi mentioned taking another drink of his coffee. "Except the knowledge of a job well done." Shi gave a small smirk before saying. "Yeah, I'll just pay my college tuition in that, sure they'll accept it." Yasuo laughed a bit while Shi sat back in his chair.
Shi listened in on Yuji and Kaz talking about being an anime thief, not something Shi can say he has any knowledge in but considering one was willing to steal over it that wasn't the best thing to mention probably, only thing Shi knew about anime is some people can get pretty crazy over it so Shi decided to focus on what Mandrake was saying instead. With the Holo-suit vanishing being a thing Shi knows all too well there was the mention of magic in the human world which Yasuo decided to speak up about. "Only Magic the human world has is street magic, if humans could use actual magic that would be a lot more fun." As Yasuo mentioned this Yuudai came from the front stand smiling. "We could make Shi a mage, Shi the great and powerful." Had a decent ring to it but Shi had to chime in. "If you try to make me wear the outfit I'll punt you." Yuudai and Yasuo snickered at Shi's annoyance before Yuudai jumped back up sitting down.
Yuudai slid Shi's digivice over to him, as he took it the device seemed to shine a bit once it was in his hands and dim just as quickly as Shi looked at his bits account. "Well, guess you two are taking another part time job." It was lower then Shi would've liked.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Dec 12, 2020 19:27:44 GMT
Yuji got out a small notebook and started writing down his contact info on a sheet of paper. Once he was done, he ripped it off and handed it to Shi. "My phone number, my email and a couple of my social media accounts. Contact me if you ever need help with anything, okay?" Shi would potentially notice just how neat Yuji's handwriting really was, as well...
Now was probably the time to actually sit down and start looking at what to order, Yuji figured as he and Kazuo sat a table close to Mandrake's and Shi's groups. Since they had very little money, they couldn't go too crazy with ordering expensive food. Yuji decided a simple rice bowl would suffice for himself, while Kazuo thought the miso ramen looked tasty, since he saw a character eat that in an anime earlier today.
Yuji overheard the Agumon twins talk about making Shi a magician, which was promptly responded with a refusal to wear the stupid outfit. The human chuckled a bit before chiming in. "We once hired a magician for my kid brother's birthday party. Dad hired a damn good one too, because I still have no idea how he did half of what he did."
"Isn't human world magic all based on purr-sep-shin or something like that?"
"Perception, yes. Optical illusions, slight of hand, none of which is the same kind of magic you see in video games or anime. People would freak if they saw something like magic, like you Digimon for example. I personally would've been awestruck if I saw real magic performed right in front of me, before I met you of course, Kazuo."
"...is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Yes."
"What?"
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Dec 12, 2020 19:48:29 GMT
Lothar chuckled when Shi threatened to punt the Agumon twins if they put him in a wizard's outfit before he said "Sounds like a magician's choice of wardrobe isn't for Shi."
As for Mandrake and Lothar neither of them were known to stick in one place for very long seeing as they were always on the move. Upon the discussion going to Human World magic, Mandrake said "It's a good thing I know how to create more than just illusions. I'm also handy with sleight of hand tricks and am an escape artist as well. Digimon magic would disrupt holosuits in the Human World."
Lothar looked at Yuji and Kazuo before he said "I think Yuji is trying to say that you may have affected his life in some ways for the better, Kazuo. Much like how Mandrake and I affected each others lives for the better."
"True enough, old friend. If we never met little LJ wouldn't be here." Mandrake said as he watched LJ as he was eating. It was as if the young one was barely aware of the others.
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Post by Shi on Jan 21, 2021 19:00:00 GMT
Shi was pretty sure he didn't need that much information on this sorta stuff, just a phone number would do for him considering Shi doesn't even really know how social media works. Still Shi took the piece of paper and put it in his wallet for safe keeping. "I'll make sure to contact you when I think of something." He won't. Still the conversation seemed to be continuing so he was doing something right, probably. "My wardrobe is pretty slim, don't think I could do the the same justice to the outfit a Wizardmon could." hell it had Wizard in the name, that had to be some magical stuff to it. "We once saw a street magician in town, I tried to mimic what he did for a bit." Yasuo decided now was time to chime in. "He kept trying card tricks, we ended up just playing 52 pick up cause he kept dropping them all." Yuudai nodded. "Turns out, claws make card tricks basically impossible."
Shi had to admit, magic would be pretty useful to have. "I suppose Illusions would be good to have, though these two don't use anything like that. They're mostly just about attack, attack and more attack." If the fact that one of their forms had a cannon didn't say everything it needed to Shi had no idea what would.
"We made your life better also right Shi?" Yuudai asked, Yasuo also looked up at the teen waiting for his answer. "It has it's ups and downs, but I suppose it's been better then it would be. Save for..." Shi's hand absentmindedly wandered to the scar on his face again, Yuudai and Yasuo looked down for a bit recalling that bad memory. "But still, I wouldn't trade you guys for anything, well. Cept maybe a drawing tablet." Shi joked, though it was his usual deadpan voice so it was hard to tell, Yuudai and Yasuo seemed to get it though. "Lies, Lies and slander." Yasuo said rolling his eyes. "Leave the comedy to the pros Shi."
"When some show up I will." Ouch, burn.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Jan 30, 2021 4:47:47 GMT
"I cosplay sometimes but I don't think I could wear a magician's outfit either," Yuji responded, scratching the back of his head. "And the cosplay is never even anything that special, honestly, it works more as a Halloween costume than anything."
"So that's what all those weird clothes are in your closet, Yuyu," Kazuo had deducted. "Do you think you could get me a cosplay costume of my own???"
"I can certainly try, but tailors aren't gonna believe me when I ask for a costume for a three foot tall beetle," Yuji responded with a slight chuckle.
"Come on, my shell isn't that big," Kazuo pouted in an adorable manner. Shi and the twins then shared their story about the time they saw a street magician in town, and long story short they had to pick up all the cards that Yuudai dropped when he attempted to mimic the card tricks. "Claws make a lotta things impossible. Like my pincer claws, I can barely do anything with these. Thank Yggy that I have an extra set of arms to at least hold a video game controller with!"
Lothar would then explain that Kazuo had made Yuji's life better in a lot of ways, despite the short amount of time that they had been partnered. Mandrake and Lothar shared that they felt the same way about each other, as well as Shi and his twin brothers, the latter pair even making jokes about it, including a pretty sick burn from Shi to Yuudai. Yuji couldn't help but laugh. "To think only a month ago I was doing nothing but a cashier at a video game store."
While the duo waited for the food to show up, Kazuo floated up to talk directly to Yuudai and Yasuo. "Shi said you guys are mostly about attacking in fighting, right? That must mean you both are pretty strong, is there a secret to getting strong like that? I'm kinda weak when it comes to fighting..."
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Jan 30, 2021 5:10:25 GMT
Mandrake chuckled before he said "Having hands does make handling small things easier, I can see how hard it would be for a digimon with long claws to carry things."
"Fortunately you were born with the ability to utilize telekinesis so I guess carrying small objects, in general, have never been a problem for you. That and as Impmon you had hands complete with opposable thumbs while I, as Elecmon, had to make do with paws." Lothar said as LJ had gotten ahold of a large piece of lettuce and, like Lothar, began quickly devouring it. The leafy vegetable hardly stood a chance.
When Kazuo said he was weak, Mandrake said "I doubt your as weak as you think you are. Insect digimon tend to be quite formidable especially the beetle like ones. Don't count yourself short, Kazuo." Lothar, meanwhile, moved an eating utensil that LJ was making a move for proving to be too fast for the sneaky youngster by putting the utensil well out of reach.
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Post by Shi on Jan 31, 2021 20:26:06 GMT
"The only costume we've seen Shi wear was for Halloween." Yasuo didn't know exactly what Cosplay was but it was probably something similar. "It was a white shirt with costume not found written on it." Yuudai didn't get the joke, which was a bit ironic considering he literally was a close relative to a computer. "Well I was going to go as a orange dinosaur but it would've been awkward that three people wore the same thing." Shi mentioned remembering the twins tried to pass themselves off as people in costumes, didn't work too well.
After their tale of cards Mandrake and Kazuo seemed to see the twins plight, it was quite hard at times. "We used to have Holo suits but they uhh broke. Like beyond repair broke." Yuudai mentioned with a shake of his head. "It was around the time Shi's digivice broke, it's better now though we just haven't had the time to go shopping." Well at least it wasn't the twins fault they got broken, that was something at least.
Yuji mentioning his life a month ago did cause Shi to share sympathise with him. "Yeah, it gets crazy at times. Sometimes I think I'll just wake up, that it's all just a weird dream." But no, it was no dream of that he was sure. The scar on his face was proof enough of that.
Kazuo had his own question for the twins though, considering the attack attack attack thing he seemed to want to get stronger. "This is more your speed Yuudai." Yasuo defaulted back to his brother, of the two he was definitely the fighter of the group. "Yup, I'm afraid aside from straight up digivolving there isn't really a quick way to power, it takes hard work and dedication. Getting close to your tamer too is another part. Most digivolutions are caused by a powerful emotion, some out of desperation. Hatred can do it too but, that usually doesn't end well."
"The first time the twins evolved to champion was during a fight in the human world, some spirit tamer had just robbed a place and I decided to stand in his way. He went right for me and the twins evolved to save me." Shi recalled that time, probably the first time this whole thing felt real to him. "It takes a bit of hard work but just keep at it and you'll be able to get stronger.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Feb 14, 2021 0:48:44 GMT
Lothar said something about Mandrake that made Yuji stop whatever he was doing just to see if he had heard them correctly. "Hold on, hold on - telekinesis? As in, 'make a pencil fly through the air' telekinesis?"
"Get pig blood dumped on you at prom before you go apeshit and kill everyone with your mind telekinesis?" Kazuo added, trying to make a dumb movie reference.
"I don't think they've seen Carrie, Kaz," Yuji reminded him. "But it's that kind, right? Even after meeting Digimon for the first time I didn't even think that was possi- where were you when I made all that food go flying in the air?!?!"
According to Yuudai and Yasuo, they used to have holosuits to make life a bit easier for them but they apparently broke. "I had a holosuit that broke as well. It doesn't really matter to me at least, since they feel kinda weird. Besides, I can just put on a conspicuous disguise and no one even knows I'm not human!"
"Yeah, he just needs a green coat and a yellow hat and suddenly he's the most normal person in the area," Yuji laughed. "Nothing makes sense in this world anymore!"
When Kazuo asked Yuudai and Yasuo how to get stronger, Mandrake commented how strong insect Digimon tended to be. Kazuo sighed. "I don't have any fighting skills of my own, so I'm probably as strong as an in-training. But still, at least I am a Digimon that usually become strong someday!" Yuudai spoke up next, saying that it took hard work and determination to get stronger aside from full-on evolution. "I don't think I'm that close to Digivolving at all. I haven't felt much different after meeting Yuyu."
At long last, Yuji's and Kazuo's food arrived. Again, it really wasn't anything much - shoestring budget and all. Rice bowl for Yuji and miso ramen for Kazuo. The two made their prayers and dug right into their meals.
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Feb 14, 2021 1:47:02 GMT
Mandrake and Lothar listened as Shi, Yasuo, and Yuudai talked about a human holiday called Halloween and Mandrake said "I'm afraid I don't know much about human holidays aside from Christmas but this Halloween does sound fun."
Then when mentioned their holosuits were broken, Lothar said "At least holosuits aren't that expensive."
Then the subject of digivolution came up and Mandrake said "Lone digimon like myself and Lothar usually have to work harder than the partners of tamers. Yet for some reason Lothar and I have reached ultimate pretty fast despite not having tamers. Oddly enough when I reached the form of Wizardmon for the first time I did so to protect not only myself but a human as well.
"Though most of the time we reached a new form for the first time it seemed to be to protect each other." Lothar said which made Mandrake stop and think.
Then the topic of why he didn't stop the flying food came up and Lothar said "Maybe Mandrake didn't stop the flying food because it caught us by surprise."
"As for digivolution, Kazuo, I wouldn't worry. Surely you'll digivolve when you're ready." Mandrake said to Kazuo.
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Post by Shi on Mar 2, 2021 13:13:45 GMT
Yuji did have a point, after all he did get a lot of food on himself, however where Mandrake didn't mention why not and his Leomon partner did Yasuo decided to chime in. "Pretty sure Telekinesis takes a lot of focus, kinda hard to do something like that in a split second don't ya think?" Yasuo figured at least, he didn't have any moves like that in his move set.
"Eh it's all under the bridge now, time to not worry about it." Yuudai was pretty easy going about it, he had more food now and that was all he needed.
Kazuo apparently knew the pain of a broken Holo Suit, which had Yasuo remembering something with a small laugh. "Just be glad it didn't break in public, like Yuudai's almost did." That was almost a bad scene.
"Held on long enough to get me home but still, made my core skip a few beats." It was one of the more intense moments Yuudai had been through.
Shi seemed to skip on the conversation for a few moments, after all none of the topics were aimed at him so he went to a different function, while everyone was talking he took his notebook out of his pocket and had a pencil he kept in his jacket pocket. He seemed to be drawing pretty intently, looking up occasional at the three new digimon for a moment before going back to drawing.
Yuudai patted his chest with what one could assume was supposed to be a fist. "Another way to get stronger is train, train and more train. Sparring matches help a ton too. Oh there's also a buncha training regiments you can go through that'll help. And. And."
Yasuo grabbed his brother by the mouth and held it shut smiling. "Hehe, sorry about him, he's a bit of a battle maniac when it comes to stuff like this. One of the best fighters I know but he can get a bit intense about this stuff." Yuudai really liked fighting.
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Post by Yuji Moriyama and Kazuo on Mar 11, 2021 22:31:06 GMT
Lothar suggested that Mandrake might not have caught the flying food because it came at them in the form of a surprise. Honestly Yuji couldn't necessarily argue against that since he didn't know how telekinesis truly worked and it could take a lot of focus, but he had seen shows where telekinetic characters could do it effortlessly and it wasn't like it was a COMPLETE surprise, they could've seen it coming. Still, Yuji chose to not elaborate further. At least no one seemed mad about the incident in general.
Apparently Yuudai's holosuit nearly broke in public. Knowing how humans treated Kazuo while he was in his Tentomon form, he shared the twins' feelings of how scary a situation like that must have been. "It's lucky that it didn't completely turn off while you were in the middle of a crowd!"
"I can imagine the headline now: 'Sudden T-Rex Appears in Shibuya Crossing.'"
Mandrake continued the conversation by explaining how solo Digimon had to work harder to Digivolve since they did not have Tamers, while also commenting on how fast he and Lother reached their Ultimate levels despite this. "Ultimate level... that's the level above Champion, right? Those Digimon must be absurdly powerful."
Yuudai started to get a bit crazy with explaining ways to get stronger, prompting Yasuo to literally hold his mouth shut and apologize for how much of a "battle maniac" Yuudai was being. "It's okay! I get that way when I tell friends about shows and games, and they usually look at me like I'm a crazy bug afterwards."
While they were talking, Kazuo noticed how Shi pulled out a notebook and began scribbling in it. Being the curious Digimon that he was, Kazuo flew over to Shi to get a good look at the notebook. "Whatcha writing in there?"
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