(GS3) Field: Destroyed Shopping District

[Skyzlimitz]

Sky directed his attention away form Seifer still holding up his deck case. "Hello Rosalia.... Mooncrest that's quite the last name where are ya from?"

[Cece Lockhart]

Walking around the shopping district, Noel lost track of time after trying out the different tasty treats she never thought existed. I'm so gonna gain weight after today but who cares! Totally worth it! she thought after munching down the last sweet red bean bun

Noel continues walking down the district when she heard a girl's voice saying "Heyo, Seifer~"

That name! Could it be?! Noel instantly stopped and turn towards the direction she heard the voice coming from. It's coming from that laundromat! She instantly starts rushing towards the laundromat and when she gets closer, she sees two guys and a girl gathered there.

When she gets there, Noel notices the two guys holding deck boxes similar to hers. Vanguard fighters? she thought. Noel then decided to lay low and watch from a distance to see what would happen next and challenge the person she has been searching for to a cardfight...

[Cipher Izanagi]

Even at the start of the fight, Seifer didn't really seem like he was in the fight to begin with, more like drifting through his thoughts. It showed in his uncaring guards and plays. Didn't help that he checked so few triggers against Sky's multiple trigger checks, but then again the fight didn't mean much to Seifer, even as the sixth damage hit his damage zone. Stretching and yawning before gathering up his cards, he put them away in his deck case he stood waving. "Good game." he spoke before sliding his hands into his jacket pockets, noticing Rosalia and walking over. "Hey, sorry for leaving you by yourself this morning and asking you to go do errands for me. Accidents kinda happened though. Anyway, I owe you so... If you want we can go shopping wherever you'd like."

[RosaliaIzanami]

Rosalia felt a light fluster fill her cheeks at the question. She didn't think of her name as odd, but it probably wasn't common either. "Y-yeah, I'm not from around here.. I just moved to Rijuku recently." After that though, there wasn't any time to talk as the fight started. She was used to seeing her housemate wipe the floor with anyone, but this fight didn't feel so.. enthusiastic like it was when he fought Tsubasa the other day. But it was over soon enough, and the female smiled again at the brunette walking over to her. "Eh? It's okay~ I got the paper towels, and I kind of went shopping myself.." she admitted with an embarrassed smile, holding up the shopping bag. "I got two dresses, and a bunch of other things.. oh! And this~ Do you like it?" Rosalia pointed to the silver butterfly hairpin in her hair, the metal hairpin about the size of her fist in the midst of her massive curls.

[Skyzlimitz]

"Y-yeah, I'm not from around here.. I just moved to Rijuku recently." Sky believed he heard Rosalia say that and knew it'd be rude not to acknowledge that, but he did not care. There was something eating at him. It had been bugging him during the whole fight. His opponent didn't seem to care about the match. Rather he seemed ...bored! "Hey..... What the hell was that? Do you call that a fight?!" Sky said rising to his feet frowning. "I don't know who you think you are, but don't act so high and mighty when someone challenges you and gives it everything they have! I mean there I was coming at you with all my passion and you seemed like you couldn't care less. If this is how the Japanese play vanguard then maybe I shouldnt've come here." Sky said his eyes tearing alittle. He stared at his Blaukluger and said. "Can you imagine how Mordred feels? He's your avatar right? How do you think he feels to have someone who couldn't care less about their fights riding him?" At this moment his clothes had been finished. "Thanks for paying for the shirt." he mumbled putting on the now clean shirt and walking out the door avoiding eye contact with Seifer. "It was nice to meet you Rosalia, I hope that if you do play vanguard you're more passionate than that one." Sky said sticking his thumb towards Seifer. He then walked out the door and saw a black haired girl staring inside the cleaners. He could tell by the way she was gripping her deck she had watched the fight that had occurred. "I wouldn't waste your time, he's no real fighter." Sky said and then crossed the street.

Seifer -3AP
Rosalia +0Ap
Noel +0AP

[RosaliaIzanami]

Rosalia jumped as Sky started to go off on a rant. Rage. Vent. Whatever it was, she was a bit surprised at the passion behind each word. And yet... She felt it wasn't right to yell at anyone like that, let alone Seifer. She frowned and nodded curtly as Sky spoke to her directly before taking his leave. She didn't, however, hear him address the other female outside. Instead, Rosalia gripped the handles of her shopping bag tightly, taking a deep breath as she moved one hand to brush a familiar, purple colored deck box at her side. "Don't pay attention to anything he said, okay?... I.. I understand what happened I guess..."

She lifted her hand from the box to her eyes, rubbing away the tiredness with a small yawn. "I'mma head home, okay? If.. you wanna take a walk or something, you can. You know where to find me.." Rosalia paused, hesitating to turn and leave, then gave her housemate a quick hug. "Just be careful, okay? And don't stay out too long~" she said brightly, trying to leave on a happy note.

On her way out of the dry cleaners, the redhead passed another female, glancing at her briefly. Maybe she was going into the cleaners to pick up some clothes? It wasn't her business, Rosalia simply waving slightly to the stranger before heading down the streets. Destination: her home, and a nice long rest.



Seifer   AF +2
Sky   AF -2
Noel   AF 0

[Jello]

The shop was actually more crowded today than the last time they were all there. How to get an idol into a coffee shop without people noticing...

Probably not going to happen. He simply walks next to Hana, trying to walk at her pace. Looking around he comes to notice that there are actually more workers here too, serving biscuits and coffee and donuts. Sweets were a thing more recently around here, Haruka was sort of hoping they did that over at uncle's little cafe too. Taking the lead, Haruka opens the door for Hana and sort of gestures her to come in.

"After you." He looked around the area, making sure nobody was stalking Hana. That happened sometimes apparently, according to Neo. Neo had taught Haruka a lot about idols and how hard it was to keep them from being followed or making sure they're safe. Sounds difficult. Poor Neo.

[Hope]

How Harooka was acting reminded Isabella of Dogebuster. Hopefully he got his paycheck.

"Sankyuu!" she walked through thr door and turned, waiting for Harooka.

"What do you usually get? I always get frappes cause hot drinks aren't my kinda thing. Frappes feel like shakes and ice cream and I really like those." She took in the aroma of the cafe, "smells like late night song writing..." she muttered under her breath.

[Jello]

"Hmm... Royal Brew. It's a rich coffee made extremely dark, typically meant to be flavored with honey because it tastes pretty awful otherwise." Haruka ran his hands through his hair for a second, trying to figure out what he wanted this time around. He figured going with the standard would work today. He wasn't in the mood for much else.

"Yeah, I'll do a Royal Brew half-and-half with two drops of honey, hmmm, that'll do." Haruka walked over to the back corner table Hana was at a couple days before, letting her sit down. This was probably the best place to not get spotted, considering the circumstances.

"Funny you mention, I can't stand cold drinks. Soda is good, but only because it fizzles so much. I hate stuff like water and all that..." Haruka was actually very much against cold drinks because they all made a really weird cool feeling down his chest when he drank them, like he could feel the water move down him and that made him want to throw up. So he just grew up preferring stuff like hot chocolate, soups and coffee. Speaking of, he sort of wanted a cup of hot chocolate now...

"Hmm, I'll probably do hot chocolate instead." He switched his order and returned his attention the idol girl in from of him. It was weird addressing her normally after spending time in her celebrity life. Haruka now knows the fatal lifestyle that comes with fame. He never wants to go down that kind of path, ever.

"So,  did you have fun today?"

[Hope]

"See, I'd think of you as the cold drinks kind of guy with all those burns. I'd avoid anything hot if something like that happened to me ahhh." she stretched as she sat down on the same table that she had been on a few days prior.

"Soda? Not allowed in my diet, the again neither is ice cream, but idols sing about it so much that I need to eat them for lyrical inspiration. That excuse always gets manager-san good." she laughed.

"I always have fun with being an idol, eben when its hard, its what I've always wanted. Even when Bermuda Triangle was gone and I no longer felt like shooting for this dream, I still did my daily practice just out of pure habit." She moved the chair on the other side of the table, offering Harooka to also take a seat. "This is what I want, so through the thick and thin, I love it. People say its bad, but if I've learned anything, there'll always be something bad going on... At least even though I go through hardships now, its because I am doing what I love..."

[Jello]

Haruka had completely discarded the comment about his burns because that was a really touchy subject and talking about it just made him feel awkward. They felt foreign on his skin anyways, despite knowing where they're from.

However when Hana brought up if she had fun, she went a lot deeper than Haruka had expected when he asked. All he was interested in was her day, if she enjoyed the fights or Drake's company or something but then it was completely different. She went on to explain how she gets to do what she loves everyday despite the problems and barriers she faced within the past couple of years.

Haruka sat down as well, awaiting the orders.

"Hmm... that's brave of you, Hana. Persevering is really important, I hear. Y'know, constantly working to get better? It's impressive." Words weren't coming to Haruka the way he wished they would. This was a marvelous inspiration he had, but he wasn't sure how to express it.

"I'm glad you kept pursuing your dreams. You definitely are an idol after all!" Haruka laughed a little, leaning backwards to stretch out his spine, letting his head roll around to work the kinks out his neck. Gosh, he was stiff. Definitely needed to start doing some yoga or something.

[Hope]

Isabella noticed her that Harooka had avoided the comment on his burns. She remembered hearing bits about it being talked about between him and Yukino years ago, but she was sleepy. In all honesty it was the first thing she noticed about him, well under the scarf and also beyond Darkyusha. She felt that she didn't really get to know him until she really got to know about it. Though, she is glad that she was able to inspire him.

"Do everything the best you can I suppose! Even making coffee!" Her coffee had arrived, and she went to go retrieve it.

Upon coming back, she looked at his burns again, then right back up at him. "So why don't you wear a scarf anymore?"

[Jello]

Haruka pulled up the collar of his shirt. Hana was starting to stare and he wasn't sure how to proceed talking about that normally around her, especially in a public place like this. He was just getting into the habit of not scarfing up every morning but he was already reconsidering wearing them again.

"It got constricting, I guess."

That was Sera's excuse anyways. He said that it made it hard to breathe in the host body, when the second entity already got a 40% of the oxygen supply, while the main host took the other 60% to stay conscious. It's also why Haruka doesn't run and jump as much as he used to. He's easily fatigued by other bodily resources being drained by Sera.

"I mean, it's not like it was covering up much anyways."

Haruka pointed to the remaining burn across his left cheek, and on the collarbones. It was obvious that the fire had made a mess of the boy, but the scarf at least covered the ones on the collar. The only person who knew about the burns was Yukino, and even then Haruka still felt a bit estranged despite her knowing. Telling Hana would be easier since it'd be the second time around. Lucky for her though, he wouldn't be stripping off his shirt to do it, should the need arise. Knowing they exist at all should be enough of an explanation as to why all of what happened, well, happened.

"Why...?"

[Hope]

"I just thought that it was because you got more confident or something." She took a small sip from the green straw, keeping her focus on him.

"Well its just that you seem really shy and awkward, but you go ahead and do rash choices... bravely? You act like you're strong." Isabella started to follow the scar up across his body, wondering how recent that it was that he got it. Mom-san would probably be able to figure it out in an instant. "I don't care to know where they're from, since I can see you're uncomfortable about it, but hey, having confidence isn't bad... even when its a touchy subject isn't that bad right? Well, I just asked about the scarf thing to see if you've gotten more confidence, and I hope you have."

[Jello]

Confident? Rash? Brave?

Haruka was having trouble putting those traits to himself. He took a large gulp of coffee, nearly done with his first cup. He laid back for a second, using his hand as a rest for his chin. He tilted his head and looked at Hana for a second.

"I-I'm not sure what you mean."

Haruka wasn't sure whether or not that was a compliment. At least she wasn't prying out his past memories right now. Maybe another day, or if they had more time to talk about it. But the evening had approached and most of the day had passed. He sat up, thinking for a moment. He had decided that he definitely was more confident than he used to be, and we would be more so if that last bit was with him.

"Thanks Hana. Nice of you to say."

To be fair, Haruka wasn't sure if she meant any of it, but he wanted to believe that she was being honest with him. When his anxieties disappeared, he was rash, brave, and confident. That was the sort of person Hana believed him to be. And to Haruka's knowledge, that sounded about right. Maybe it was just that missing push he needed. Being told he was all those things was definitely a boost to his ego, but Haruka's ego was pretty tiny as is so all it really did was make Haruka smile a bit and look down.

Can't maintain eye contact still, but accepting the, er, compliment(?) was a step forward in its own right.

Haruka's phone was sitting on the table still, and in order to conquer his jitters, he needed something to do or someone else to be here to take care of that. Shiki! The only guy more awkward than Haruka. Perfect candidate.

"hey come to coffee shop nao, free coffee on me tomorrow! -haru"