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A Stroll... At Unknown Pace? [Zack]
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Post by karin on Jun 3, 2021 16:46:51 GMT
"...Have you slept?" Karin asked after she saw Zack as they met in Shibuya Station. To avoid any sort of chaos they gone slightly above the rush hour. After all, in metropolis like Tokyo, the train are always jam packed like can of sardines. There are even specific station workers assigned to push you in to the train. In that kind of situation, they can't really go to Digital World... but if they gone where the train is not at its peak either it's a bit hard to cover things up as they going to an elevator...
this elevator leads to a sealed off platform, supposedly. But, one thing that any chosen know is to show their Digivice toward the reader on top of the buttons rather than pressing up or down button. This will lead them to somewhere deeper... to the Trailmon terminal that is.
It's here that Freya touched her brooch and put it aside in her infinistore. The one that appears from her taking off her disguise is a humanoid plantlike Digimon.
"So how was it? It's a disguise to hide my true form. Well there are more humanoids Digimon also, but they're quite... far and inbetween, ones that could really pass as a human that is. Because most of the time they're angel looking, or perhaps looked as if they stepped out from a cosplay event."
"Let's see... we're going to Terminus, so look at the board over there, the digital one, yeah" Karin pointed at the electronic board, ignoring Freya. "Look at the time of arrival and whatnot. Then you go enter the right one. There should be icon of what kind of Trailmon goes where. They also have number on their side to make sure you're not entering the wrong one. So for Terminus... let's see.. Worm 03. That one over there," she pointed at a Worm type Trailmon. "We'll ride that. There's till about twenty minutes before departure, so if you want to buy any bento, you can do it over there," she pointed at several bento stands. "Personally I'll buy about three myself."
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Post by supesman on Jun 3, 2021 17:16:03 GMT
The way Zack and Marigold both carried themselves was like night and day since the last time that the pair saw them. Zack for one didn't look like he was going to topple over every time he took a breath. The dark circles around his eyes had more or less faded, leaving him with a bright, grinning face and deeply expressive blue eyes. Marigold was sitting softly in the netted side pocket of his backpack but she held a grin on her face that made it very clear she was happy to see her father in better spirits.
"About fifteen hours, the both of us, give or take. I didn't exactly get a chance to look at the clock before we passed out. We just curled up in bed and were dead to the world before anything else could really happen." He chuckled, rubbing the back of his head as he followed along behind them. He smiled at Freya as she revealed her human form. "Well I think you look beautiful. Very lush. Keeping all of those leaves misted must be a pain in the ass though." He said with a grin to make it clear he was joking. Marigold had a very different reaction, fluttering up into the air now that they were in a more private spot. The red scarf she was wearing was much better filled out now that she was better fed and more well rested. She got up close to the petals and leaves around Freya's body and began softly sniffing at them.
"You smell like...really good, miss." She said, doing another small circle around the flora digimon before taking a comfortable seat on Zack's shoulder. Zack smiled, patting her on the head.
"Yea really are a little bug, through and through." He said, nodding at the advice to go get something for them to eat on their day trip. "Alright little lady, you ready to pick out some lunches." He said, to which Marigold replied with a sharp nod, pointing forward toward the lunch counter like she was a knight trying to spur on the horse she was riding.
"Onward to lunchtime! hehehe." She snickered into her nubby hand as they walked up and took a look at the menu, ordering anything that was mostly veggies and fruits so that it would match with the kind of sugary but healthy diet that Marigold needed.
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Post by karin on Jun 3, 2021 17:51:43 GMT
"Ufufu, my self care is not all that complicated. Ara, thank you dear. I don't mind to share more of my nectar or fruits with you provided that you don't just steal it out of me without saying any words."
"...And you shouldn't, really. She's poisonous. The scariest Digimons is the ones that knows their own weakness so much that they make it a trap card that's ready to be sprung anytime." Karin commented.
It's not even lunchtime though, Karin mused. But eh well whatever. She ended up purchasing sizeable bentos. "Well then, the plan is to go to network plains... But do you want to like... absorb the sight of Terminus first? It's one of the safest city in Digital World. If there's any fight breaking out there's usually knightmons that will stop any fightings..."
"So certainly, you'll be safe there," Freya summarized. "But at the same time I guess... it's very... capitalist? If you don't have some currency that works over there, it won't be long before you got kicked to the streets I guess. Hum hum... Anyway, it's sometimes cheaper to stay out in the wild, but... well, Marigold need to be at least Adult stage before you could do that I guess?"
"Anyway, let's ride. One thing you need to know is you don't need to pay the Trailmons. They're all paid by Terminus directly. Apparently the business that human brings to Terminus far offsets the price of operating the entire Trailmons, and there are probably dozens of them."
Ys probably knows, but she's not exactly in the city economic management team...
The ride was uneventful... bars the unmistakable sense as if they have passed a certain barrier, and there's something... strange feeling as something touching their skin for the humans. It didn't even take five minutes before they arrived. "We're here, at Trailmon station."
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Post by supesman on Jun 4, 2021 5:17:13 GMT
Zack held out Marigold to stand on his outstretched hands, pointing at each of the boxes she wanted until he was forking out the money for at least half a dozen lunches. He made sure to be half looking over his shoulder to let them know that he was still listening though, not wanting to come off as ungrateful or inattentive when the two of them had already done so much for him and Marigold.
"Oh absoulutley, we'd love to be able to look around and see what the big city looks like. I'm not from anywhere special myself, a medium sized metro in the northeastern United States was all that I ever really got used to before moving here for a semester of school. It's still a huge adjustment that's taking me a lot of time to clock on to. I can only imagine what a big, bustling metropolis of the Digital World would look like." He said, setting the bento boxes that Marigold had picked out on the seat beside him, making sure to keep a steadying hand on top of them so that they wouldn't topple over like a tower of blocks with the rocking of the train.
"I like being around a bunch of people, it makes me feel like I'm not doing things all by myself. It's good to have people to talk to or even just to feel people around you." She said, sitting on top of the back of her father's hand and kicking her little nubby feet as the train rocked back and forth, making her giggle. "This is a super big Digimon, I wonder if I'll ever get this big!" She said, motioning her tiny stump arms at the cabin of the massive digimon train around them.
"Can't disagree with you there, little lady. I hope they don't work these big guys too hard. Feeding and housing big boys like this must be a task and a half." He said, idly musing about the out of this world concept of the living passenger train. He picked up their boxes and motioned with a jerk of his head for the duo to lead the way, though even through the windows the two of them were already gawking like tourists.
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Post by karin on Jun 13, 2021 5:46:43 GMT
"Fufu, Terminus, is it? It... definitely looked futuristic, that's for sure. The city's size is probably comparable to the biggest capital in the world... or maybe more? It's the de facto in standard of development that's for sure. It have been there for several hundred years they said? But either way, you'll be shocked. Oh speaking of which, the city is also mismash of different period of development, so it might surprise you.seeing stone and brick building beside wooden building... beside totally futuristic buildings. Well at the very least they still have coherence though," Freya mused.
"Well anyway, let's get out of here first," Karin commented. Terminus station is indeed futuristic, but she... frankly doesn't quite like it as much as the more natural Rosewood Train Station, or Whitewater one... Ys one is the best though for her, feels more warm and welcoming rather than grand and futuristic. "You can go to different part of Digital World from here. Sometimes those who don't really want to like... visit the city and just want to get to their destination could immediately board the train... Let's see... We're bound ot Railroad plains, so... We can either ride the train there or walk first the board midway. Which will it be?"
"Look at the signs above the Trailmon if you're lost," Freya would add. "See that sign there on the ceiling? It should be written in multiple language. of where the trailmons are heading. Speaking of which, Trailmons are economic class. You can also ride Locomon, which is far bigger, and offer more security... but you need to pay for them. Grand Locomon is the best, but generally those are for ones who want some sleep while going to far off places. They provided greatest security measures of the three. Being attacked while on board of one is a very very very unlikely occassion. But... the price is already five times of Locomon's... so there's that."
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Post by supesman on Jun 13, 2021 14:38:46 GMT
Zack and Marigold exchanged glances at the question before simply shrugging. Neither of them had even the slightest frame of reference for what was happening and were just as happy to simply go along for the ride at the behest of Karin and her partner. Zack was the first one to express such an idea.
"Hey, we're following your lead. So take it away and we'll be right behind you. Assuming me don't get distracted by the first shiny object that we see. Tourists, you know how it is." He says with a wry grin, placing his hands on his waist and following them out of the train onto the big, concrete platform, the sounds of hissing steam filling the air. He reached out a patted the Trailmon on the side next to the door, smiling up at the shape of the large beast. "Thanks for the ride, sir. Comfy and fast, as always I'm sure." He said, not wanting to simply ignore the massive beast of transport. Marigold following his lead and giving a good natured tap to the side of the Trailmon's body.
"Woah, even through the windows this is the biggest place I've ever seen." She said, hovering just above Zack's shoulder as he carried the mass of boxed lunches in his joined hands, the tower of half a dozen boxes swaying ever so slightly with each of his steps to one side or the other. His eyes followed Marigold's out through the windows into the massive megalopolis that stretched out seemingly forever in that one direction.
"You're not kidding, baby girl. Holy, it looks like you squished New York, Shanghai and Tokyo into a bottle and shook it all up." His eyes glanced up at the signs that marked each of the destinations that the Trailmons would be able to take them too, smiling at the huge absurdity of it all but simply turning his gaze back to their guides. "Like we said, we'll follow your leads."
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