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Post by yuuki on Jun 17, 2021 7:44:20 GMT
"This is me... yeah... I see, so there have been a minor sickness storm going in Ys at the moment huh... take care of yourself. Don't be too stressed out... Tell Haku to be careful. I'll be currently staying in Whitewater for a while... yeah. There might be some new leads of something going on here, so... I'm not sure how it will affect things over here, but I hope... not too severely? It's hard to say... My device should be able to send you all the needed data. ...Yeah I'll be careful. I love you too. Tell your Dad I love him too, and please hang in there."
On the backdoor of a rented beachside cafe, a Dorumon ended up his call with someone unknown. Not that people would be able to hear it anyway. Said Dorumon slowly stretched his body and shook his fur. Man, the southern tropics is really hot for his winter fur, but at the very least the heat makes him want to nap under the sun... is he an old man? Eh whatever, he already have grandkids, so...
"Today too, let's work hard!"
This is the sister shop to Aeterna, pop up cafe 'Transience'. The name is picked because the cafe would pop up in different places every week. This time around, it's the third day of working in Whitewater... What is Hikaru doing opening a shop like this here? Simple, he's gathering info from tourists. Using Transience's theme "Fun Floral Summer" by making a theme based food and drinks, it have been... quite a success! For example, there's island style shaved ice, which is milky shaved ice, added with syrup of choice, decorated with cut fruits to resemble some sort of island shape. Another includes fizzy color changing soda with edible flowers. In short, the food are very "instagrammable" if you want to use human words for it.
Speaking of which, for this shop... he's employing some KIZNA Digimons who he knew he could trust... specifically, ones under Jill who belongs to her information gathering division. Their goal isn't anything related white how whitewater operates, but more to if there have been any incident in Digital World.
Specifically, pertaining to ExD.
Hikaru heard something quite alarming in his en route to Whitewater, that is... there have been reports of strange fruits being sold and it might have some strange properties. Yet, every single time, he found them completley bought out. What's even worse, it's seem that because the demands skyrockets, those who sells them often charges exorbitant amount of price
....Concerning. And that's why he's here at this moment... doing his best in finding more informations about this fruit.
As for his partner? Yuuki is currently on one of the table with umbrella. typing away furiously on a laptop. Something of a college assignment it seems.
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Jun 17, 2021 8:02:31 GMT
Kshin toddled along just ahead of Mandrake and Lothar the family unaware of any potential troubles elsewhere. Mandrake was keeping a close eye on his and Lothar's adopted son worried about Kshin's issues with his separation anxiety. The youngster still hated being left alone even for a brief time but who could really blame him seeing as he lost his family so young.
When Kshin slowed down and began panting, Mandrake asked "Are you okay, Kshin?"
Kshin turned to look up at Mandrake before he said "Yeah but I'm hot and thirsty."
"Makes sense seeing as you are covered in all that fur and have been running around all day." Mandrake said as he telekinetically lifted Kshin onto his left shoulder before turning to Lothar as he said "Perhaps we should find a café of some kind before the heat gets to all of us."
Lothar nodded in agreement and the two champions began looking around as they walked soon spotting a human at a table with an umbrella clearly busy with something as he typed so they decided not to bother him as they headed inside the café. The trio found a table and sat down with Mandrake setting Kshin on the table since he was still quite small being a Dorimon after all.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Jun 17, 2021 8:19:29 GMT
Well these past few days haven't exactly been the most productive for the twins, for a while they had just been wandering around for a bit. Usually near towns just in case Myotismon or someone who works for him got any ideas on hunting Alpha and Beta down, though that lead to some problems where they couldn't really do much without risk. "Silence, then LJ. I guess we've learned a bit but we're still no closer to getting stronger." The blue cloaked Hackmon Alpha said with a small sigh, was it really this hard to get stronger?
His twin a Hackmon of the opposite type looked at her brother with her red eyes, blinking as she tilted her head to the side. "I'm sure we're getting there. But finding someone to teach us has been a bit hard..." There was only so much the two of them could do on their own after all. Still the two of them just quickly shook it off and decided just to head home for now, nothing much else they could do.
That is until someone the two of them knew walked in front of them, looking up it was Cici. Though she looked just like a normal Sistermon Ciel the silver gauntlets on her arms and revolver near her leg showed them easily who it was. "Oh Alpha, Beta. What are you two doing in Whitewater?" She had her sword in her right hand as usual but a bag in the other hand hanging loosely down.
"Shouldn't you know? Usually you follow us?" It was true that the Sistermon tended to follow the twins around a lot, just to make sure they didn't get into trouble. But at this Cici just gave a small laugh.
"No, not this time. I do have stuff to prepare for after all." Cici held up her bag for a moment. "I was getting a custom part for one of my weapons, well I guess all my parts are custom but this one was something I couldn't make on my own." That was a bit of a lie, she could it would've just taken too long for her to do it. Alongside all the other stuff she had to do.
"Still though while we're here how about I treat the two of you?" As she asked this the Sistermon glanced around the many places they could go. "You two haven't had too much variety have you.... Oh how bout that place? Never seen it before." It was a café called Transience. Well if it was anything like that name suggested best get it now.
"Might as well before we head home, you good with that Beta?" As Alpha asked though she was already walking over towards the café, her mind made up. "Should've guessed that was gonna happen..." Cici nodded with a muffled laugh as she followed after Beta, then Alpha joined them.
Getting to the Café they'd first notice some furious typing going on inside, best to leave them to their typing probably. Best to just go take a look at a menu and see what they should get.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jun 17, 2021 15:48:04 GMT
It was an awkward time for Kaya and Hawkeye. After doing something stupid, then splitting apart, then awkwardly coming back together, things between the two were still healing. Sure, they still loved and cared for each other deeply, but it was hard to show that love after the fact that Kaya did just abandon Hawkeye in the Digital World out of shame. Kaya figured that this bad feeling was merely her punishment for acting like such a stupid child.
The two were hanging out around Whitewater City, since summer fun usually was a good way to get others to connect. Kaya had hoped that a trip here would give her and Hawkeye a chance to more properly rekindle their friendship, but while they were having a good time regardless, very few words were being spoken between the two. That is, of course, until they spotted a cafe as they were walking down the street, "Transience."
"That's odd... I don't remember seeing this cafe here before," Hawkeye said, scratching the bottom of his beak.
"Maybe it's brand new... hey, I got an idea. Why don't we get a nice cool treat here? I'm sure the desserts at a place like this are great!"
"Well I cannot say no to a dessert," Hawkeye said with a grin. They were both thinking the same thing: maybe eating ice cream at a cafe like this would help them better get along?
The two would walk into the cafe, and the first thing they'd notice besides a few of the customers that were around was a human furiously typing away at his laptop at one of the umbrella tables. However, Kaya and Hawkeye would indeed recognize this very human. It was none other than... "Itou Yuuki? Is that you?" Kaya would ask very quietly as she remembered how he and his partner Hikaru were incognito the first time they had met. "It's been a while, how have you been?
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Post by yuuki on Jun 17, 2021 23:30:53 GMT
Hmmm, it's that family that he have seen before... Honestly, the king does not really want to interact with them for the moment and watched as a Falcomon came to their table to wait on them, so he instead opted to greet the Sistermon with two Hackmons... it reminds him of his own hack "brothers". He had no idea how one became two, and the white one became Chuunibyou, but whatever.
"Welcome to Transience! We're a cafe specializing in themed food and drinks! What should I get you today?" Hikaru asked after putting down few plates of complimentary ice cream in a bowl and soft, mini citrus cake. "Oh these are complimentary. You can of course order for more if you like them, but those are not complimentary heh. These are "Sparkling Blue" ice cream, a refreshing salty yet sweet combo, and this one is "Orange Sunshine", orange cake with a hint of sourness, but also sweet."
As for Kaya and Hawkeye, they would be met with a hand raised from the young man who still typing furiously for about three minutes before he clciked send and closed his laptop soon after. Yuuki quickly leaned back on his chair and looked up to the sky. He exhaled loudly.
".......I hate college..."
Then turned his attention at the two. "...Beside dying from too many assignments I guess I'm fine. That was the last of it thankfully."
"Yes, yes, Good Work, Boss." a Renamon with two tails approached him with a glass of soda float. Yuuki sipped the blue colored drink after mixing a bit of the ice cream in. "...Don't call me Boss, it's weird. Anyway, thanks for the soda. Should you not help your father though?"
"Eh, father asked me to look after you for the meantime. There's still Finn and Ares working, so we're not shorthanded at all."
"I'll probably stay here still... My brain is still fried..."
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Jun 17, 2021 23:48:49 GMT
Mandrake sensed a familiar mind and looked around surprised to see the king of Ys here of all places. Maybe he was trying not to standout. Either way unless the king mentioned his purpose for being there Mandrake would not intrude on the Dorumon's business. As Hikaru went about his business while a Falcomon approached the table Lothar and Kshin looked at Hikaru with vibes of Deja Vu written on their faces and before Kshin could say anything Mandrake telepathically said to both Lothar and Kshin "Lothar. Kshin. It appears that the king of Ys is here but if he doesn't want attention drawn to him it is best we pretend we don't recognize him." Lothar was amazed at how easy Mandrake read them but Kshin didn't seem to notice.
Kshin didn't so much as let out a peep as the complimentary ice creams and the mini citrus cake were set down catching the young digimon's attention before he said "Thank you for the ice cream and cake."
While Kshin's tail began wagging back and forth Mandrake looked at Hikaru and said "We mostly came in to get out of the heat and I don't remember this café being here the last time we were in Whitewater. Do you have a drink special of some kind?"
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Jun 18, 2021 0:59:52 GMT
Well this place seemed pretty nice, though Cici wasn't too sure about giving the twins sweets... Eh after all they've been through the two probably deserve it. Plus it'd be far more awkward to just walk outta here after coming in and sitting down after all!. Before she could raise her voice about what their server left on the table he already chimed in that they were complimentary. "Oh, well thank you very much." Cici said with a smile looking at the two bowls of ice cream and cake.
Alpha pondered for a moment before grabbing the bowl of ice cream and pulling it closer, meanwhile Beta seemed to go for the orange cake. "Yup, thanks." Beta added with a smile, then both Cici and Beta stared at Alpha for a moment.
He was about to start with a taste but then noticed them looking at him, oh right. "Ah sorry, thanks." That's probably what they wanted him to say right? "Uhh Cici, you gonna wear those while you eat?" Alpha added right after.
The Sistermon blinked for a moment before realizing. "Oh, right yeah whoops." She pulled her arms up revealing the twin gauntlets around them before taking the both off her arms, flipping a small switch near the inner mechanism on both before setting them down on the table. "Heh, I wear them so much I forget about them." Cici added a small awkward laugh before going back to their server.
"Well, what're the themes for today? Any recommendations." After all it was their first time here, hard to tell something just from a name and short description.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jun 18, 2021 4:14:29 GMT
While Kaya and Hawkeye were over with Yuuki, they could overhear what sounded like Hikaru's voice describing that this cafe was named Transience, a cafe that specialized in themed food and drinks. Judging from that description, it sounded like this place actually changed up its theme every so often. That... actually sounded like a neat concept for a cafe, so that not everything is the same all the time. Kaya just hoped that this place could sustain such a thing without overworking themselves or burning themselves out...
When they were talking to Yuuki, the man simply gave a wave towards Kaya and Hawkeye while he continued typing away at his keyboard. The two partners looked at each other then back at Yuuki, realizing that it might take a bit for him to be finished with his work. They would sit down at a nearby table and wait for a server to come take their order, and not too long after that's when Yuuki finished his work, apparently it was a college assignment he was working on. "If the homework is that bad, I'm really not looking forward to college," Kaya said with a slight smile. "At least you're done with it now."
That was when a vulpine-like Digimon with two tails had shown up, congratulating Yuuki and giving him a blue-colored ice cream float. Kaya actually had to squint a bit as she looked at this drink, she had never seen anything like it. "That must be the Sparkling Blue ice cream that Hi- that waiter mentioned," Kaya said, almost letting it slip on who the Dorumon truly was.
"It truly does look good," Hawkeye commented. "Though the orange cake looks divine as well..."
Kaya smiled as she rolled her eyes, she was correct that coming here would be a good idea. Nothing mends an awkward outing quite like a nice dessert. However as she was looking around the cafe, Kaya spotted something - or rather, someone - familiar. She spotted a white-scaled dragon in a red cloak at the other table, along with a blue-cloaked dragon and a human with quite a bit of weaponry. She couldn't see the red-cloaked Digimon's eyes, so her first natural thought was that she knew this Digimon. "Luneth? Luneth, is that you?" she would call out to the other table.
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Post by yuuki on Jun 18, 2021 12:48:31 GMT
The Falcomon noted that the customer looking at Hikaru. The Dorumon... definitely already quite understood that his identity have been compromised. But that was way too indescreet for them to be some sort of counter intelligence operative. His tail waved once while talking with the sistermon and two hackmons.
"Fufu, good question, dear customers. This is whitewater so obviously the theme will be... summer! Summer and flowers and fruits. We have tons of desserts, mostly cool ones... for example like soumen... but we also have hot, spicy foods if you want. We of course have main meals like carbonara, yakisoba, or even okonomiyaki. But those are what we offer. Oh burgers and hot dogs are also available, but you might find them inserted with some fruits. So if you're not too fond of fruits, I won't quite suggest them"
Hikaru then passed the menu. "We also suggest some ice cream floats if you want. Soda is identical to summer after all! Of course if you want there are also kakigori. Our kakigori is paired with fruits and some jellies, so it's a little bit more filling than just some shaved ice."
The Falcomon noticed the king's gesture and answered. "Certainly," the Falcomon answered to the question. "We do have some sodas, although if you're not fond of that, fruit juice. If that's also not to your taste, we have some cold fruity teas. Currently our soda floats are discounted."
For Kaya and Hawkeye, a Muchomon immediately came to their table bringing ice cream and cake for them each. The same one as the others.
"This? This is not the Sparkling Blue. This is Summertime Sweetness. Don't ask me why it's named like that, ask that guy there." Yuuki pointed at Hikaru. "It's basically soda float. Blue colored lemon soda with ice cream... but also..."
Yuuki poured a syrup in and its color changed from blue to purplish red. "........It's kind of color changing."
Hmn, well they're going to talk with the others it seems. As for Yuuki, he's just going to lean more on his chair while sipping on his drink.
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Jun 18, 2021 21:27:32 GMT
The idea of all the foods was exciting to Kshin as the group didn't eat in cafés often while traveling around and the concept of eating other than fish, mushrooms, wild vegetables, wild fruits, and meat apples was even more exciting as the young Dorimon's tail was swishing at super speed. It appeared as if Kshin didn't know what to pick from.
Lothar, meanwhile, seemed to be people watching and Mandrake knew the Leomon was far from a picky eater so he was going to be fine with anything. So not interrupting Kshin or Lothar, Mandrake took the lead as he said "Three servings of okonomiyaki will be fine with one of them being smaller than the other two and three sodas please." Mandrake knew that please was not heard all the time in public places but he was determined to show a good example for Kshin and any of his potential children by showing them that being polite can go a long way.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Jun 19, 2021 5:38:00 GMT
Ahh yeah Summer, that made sense to Cici. Whitewater did seem like the place most would like to spend their summer time, though she had to admit it wouldn't appeal to her personally it would still be nice to get a taste of that kinda stuff in a cafe. Though as the Dorumon mentioned summer Beta tilted her head to the side, she seemed a bit confused.
Which Alpha seemed to quickly catch, having already gotten used to explaining stuff to the Hackmon. "The four seasons Beta, Summer is the more hot one so usually colder drinks." He quickly covered before Beta could ask. The Hackmon seemed to understand and gave a small nod in affirmation.
Back to the order on hand Ciel really didn't know what they'd probably all prefer, Beta and Alpha didn't seem to know either. "Well considering there's three of us those first three main dishes you mentioned sounds nice." Burgers and Hot dogs sounded nice too but the first three seemed like they'd be a bit better.
Alpha seemed to shrug not really worried about trying new stuff, nothing ventured after all and Beta was all for it. "Those Ice cream floats also sound good, should get some of those too." Cici and Beta seemed to nod in agreement.
Their order seemed all ready now, with that though Alpha noticed someone nearby looking at them, a human? Seemed to be looking at Beta? "Hey Beta, I think that girls trying to get your attention?" He didn't hear the name she called out though.
"Huh? What girl?" Beta asked as she looked back, red eyes looking at the human. "Uhh hello?" Beta responded with a confused wave.
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Post by Kaya Matsui and Hawkeye on Jun 24, 2021 20:19:29 GMT
"Sparkling Blue... Summertime Sweetness..." Hawkeye repeated the names after Yuuki explained what he was drinking exactly, a giant bead of sweat dropping from his head. "Of course it would be Hikaru who came up with those names, why am I not surprised?"
"Come on Hawkeye, the names are perfectly fine," Kaya said as the Muchomon handed the two the complimentary blue ice cream and orange cake that the other tables were getting as well. "Thank you so much," Kaya said to the Muchomon as she slid the cake closer to her.
"Hmm, thank you," Hawkeye said as he did the same with the ice cream. Yuuki then showed that the soda was color changing as well, pouring some kind of syrup into his that changed it from blue to a sort of purplish red. "Interesting..."
"Definitely not like any soda I've seen back home," Kaya said before taking a bite of her cake, right at the same time Hawkeye took a bite of his ice cream. It took a few seconds for it to process for them...
"IT'S SO GOOD!" Kaya and Hawkeye both cheered at the same time, their eyes practically sparkling with joy. Kaya would turn back to Yuuki as Hawkeye continued to munch on his own treat. "This cake is one of the best I've ever tasted! I'm definitely excited to try some of the other things this place has as well- slow down Hawkeye, you're gonna give yourself brain freeze if you eat ice cream that fast!"
Now their attention was fixed on the Hackmon at the other table. Kaya could've sworn that it was her friend Luneth, so naturally she called out to that other table. What Kaya was not anticipating, however, was for the red-cloaked Hackmon to turn around and greet her with the most high pitched voice Kaya had ever heard. Kaya was so confused that her eyes would've become beady if this were an anime. For her it was as if a neon sign hovered over this Hackmon with arrow pointing down saying "DEFINITELY NOT LUNETH." Of course Hawkeye took notice of Kaya's reaction and actually started to laugh a bit. "Hahahaha~"
"What're you laughing at?" Kaya bitterly asked her partner before turning back to the Hackmon. "Sorry about that, I confused you for someone else. My friend Luneth is also a Hackmon, only he's a guy and has blue eyes..."
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Post by yuuki on Jul 5, 2021 4:33:24 GMT
Well that's some orders! Hikaru quickly wrote the rest of the order and handed the piece of paper to the Falcomon who quickly retreated to the shop. "The waiting time will be around thirty minutes. If there's anything else, please do tell us! In the meantime, do you mind if I ask you something? Have you ever heard of any fruits with blemishes perhaps? They're sold in whitewater and seem to have... certain addictive qualities to them. I'm not quite sure if they're nice tasting or not though."
One point that caught his attention is that this fruit have no side effect on humans. Probably because they're analog, and something doesn't get translated 1:1 when they ate it. If something is affecting Digimon but not human, it's definitely very... curious. Then again he never heard of food poisoning in human when it comes to Digital World... or he's just going to places where the food quality is assured.
"Never seen one?" Yuuki asked. "It's usually found in themed cafes. Butterfly pea flower tea is the greatest example. It started as deep blue but if you pour in acidic juices it will change color into violet. Anyway.... I think you overheard the guy. You guys have been around to many places, have you seen any of those?"
As Yuuki asked that he sipped more of his soda float. It tasted nice... fizzy and refreshing.
'"...Because apparently there's a mafia gang or sort using this fruit to get rich really quickly."
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Post by ricochet6-Mandrake on Jul 5, 2021 6:30:51 GMT
The customers were just as excited as Kshin it seemed judging by how happy they seemed to not only be getting out of the heat but possibly getting food and drinks. Kshin seemed to be watching all the action going on around them with typical childlike wonder and excitement which made Mandrake and Lothar smile as they watched the youngster watching everyone else tail twitching with happiness.
With the orders taken it seemed all everyone had to do was just wait. Then the mentioning of blemished fruit with addictive properties caught Mandrake's attention his eyes reflecting confusion as he had never heard of such fruit. Knowing his boyfriend must of easily overheard it he turned to look at Lothar, he said "An addictive fruit with blemishes? I certainly have never seen of heard of such fruit. Have you, Lothar?"
Lothar shook his head before he replied "No but aren't most things with addictive properties dangerous? I would think something like that would be hard to smuggle into large cities never mind served at restaurants."
Maybe someone else was more aware of Digital World plants than they were. All they knew were the plants that were medicinal and edible but to hear of one like this was shocking to Mandrake and Lothar.
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Post by Alpha & Beta on Jul 6, 2021 1:06:06 GMT
Well that was the order put in, would be a bit of a wait but it's not like they didn't except that would probably be the case. Though what their waiter asked afterwards did peak Alpha and Cici's curiosity. Not Beta's but mostly because she didn't know any better. "Fruit with blemishes? Like something from the human world? That ain't exactly normal around here." Alpha pointed out, Beta seemed a bit confused on that but just nodded figuring her brother probably knew what he was talking about.
"No, I can't say I've seen that fruit. I think did hear overhear something about a get rich quick scheme but I didn't think much about it." People have ideas like that all the time after all, though it did make the Sistermon wonder. "Why do you ask? If you don't mind me asking. Are they dangerous in any way?" Like Alpha said that wasn't exactly a normal fruit, it was a bit concerning to hear.
Meanwhile as she was asking Beta was distracted by the girl who was trying to get her attention. She seemed to have quite the animated reaction upon hearing Beta's voice, which made the Hackmon tilt her head slightly confused. Especially when her partner started laughing. "Did I say something funny?" She didn't really get what was going on.
Though the explanation on being mistaken for another Hackmon did make sense, which her brother Alpha decided to chime in. "Yeah, pretty much the complete opposite then. Beta's a girl with red eyes." Which was a bit funny to think about that mistake being made.
"Do Hackmon usually have blue eyes?" She was so used to just having her eyes be red she kinda figured all Hackmon had her colored eyes.
"No, usually they have yellow eyes I'm pretty sure. You get your eyes from... Well I guess from your dad." Technically it was more complicated then that but it was a lot easier to just say that in a restaurant without drawing too many questions to them.
"Oh, well no worries on being confused. My names Beta, this is my twin brother Alpha." She Motioned over to Alpha pointing him out, to which the Hackmon just looked up.
"Yo." he said pretty simply, his voice having a noticeable difference from Beta.
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