(GS3) Field: Amusement Park

[Hope]

She looked around for something good. Then there was that smell. It was the kind of smell that allured her and attracted her. Yes, this is what she was looking for, a good amount of anticipation lay in wait in her heart for the very moment that she would be able to experience such a delicacy within an amusement park. To her far right, a stand let out a strong smell.

"Deep fried fishballs!!" She ran excitedly to the booth.
"I'll take thirty!"

[Beryl]

"Th-thirty?" Satoshi sweatdropped. Neu wasn't afraid to throw money around, clearly. He wasn't quite sure what to do, to be honest. She was doing what she wanted for sure. It was almost like he wasn't even there. Kind of bugged him that she didn't respond to what he asked, but it made sense that food was a reasonable answer. He ordered a beverage from the stand to have something to keep him going on this escapade. He was more than likely going to need it, considering the circumstances.

Seph, meanwhile, was watching curiously from above. Satoshi had clearly found Neu Edelweiss; why wasn't he doing anything remotely close to fighting her to save the clans? Was there something he was missing? He understood that human interaction was important, but...with someone who was clearly an enemy?

[Hope]

Close by was actually a little area filled with fight tables. Neu saw it and smiled, very happy at the fact. To her this was a joy, that these people were able to enjoy Vanguard at a place like this. It can be fun every and anywhere! The thought of playing Vanguard in a place full of ride, and with a really joyous atmosphere made her really tempted. She just had to try it.

"Amazing!" She yelled excitedly, getting some people's attention, "hey, hey! Does anyone wanna play a game too!?"

(28/30) She actually finished one serving of fish balls while all that was happening now she was eating another as she was walking around the tables, watching games happily, and looking one for herself as well.

(27/30) She had finished another serving immediately after.

[Beryl]

After all this effort and money spent, what she wanted to do was play Vanguard? They could've just gone to one of the shops...hell, even the underground where Yukino trained for a time was closer than this amusement park.

Satoshi shrugged. Well, it looked like it was time to see what this Neu Edelweiss was all about. Maybe even get some of his questions answered finally. He waved a deckbox at her.

"I play, y'know, if you were interested."

[Hope]

She turned to him, seeing a completely different person than what she saw before.

"Oh so you cardfight? Huh... well you should've said so jeez." She reached for her purse and took out a deck box.

"I'm always game for one yeah." She led him to a table and put down her cards, "whew, this'll be enjoyable I hope."

[Killa]

The next day, Makuto revisited the Amusument Park hoping to have fun and eat a lot once again. As he went through the main gate, he noticed a deep fried fishball stand. He ran straight to the stand and ordered some fishballs. After he ate and enjoyed his food, he noticed some Cardfight tables some steps away and a bunch of people playing Vanguard. He decided playing some Vanguard wouldn't hurt him so he walk up to a person and asked him to Cardfight.

After a tough battle versus a Narukami player, Makuto lost. Anchor wasn't enough to beat Limit break once again, but Makuto was glad to Cardfight someone stronger than him. He thanked  him and stood up. He decided to observe two people Cardfighting, one person was using Neo Nectar and the other one was using an unknown clan to Makuto. He tried to remember if he's ever seen those cards but nothing came to his mind. He stood there silently and kept enjoying watching their Cardfight. Though the Cardfight didn't last long and the Neo Nectar user lost to the unknown clan. Makuto surprised the final score was 2-6.

"Royal Paladin." he heard the other guy say and now he knew how the unknown clan was called.

[Beryl]

Satoshi couldn't believe it. Not that he had lost; honestly, considering the lack of triggers and the extreme amount of grade 3's he encountered---he only had seven in his deck but saw five of them over the course of the game---he definitely should have lost. It would've been amazing if he had won.

No, it was that Yukino's story about Neu was completely true. The way she played as though the clans were merely toys and not real beings...the fact that she had these clans labeled by the names of their original champions, kept within her purse...the fact that she unleashed Limit Break with those clans as though it had always been a part of their game plan...

It didn't fit the way Neu had seemed initially. Hell, her aura in the first place was perhaps a little bit lonely, which may have explained why he wanted to approach her in the first place. But now, it was all too clear. Neu Edelweiss had some sort of responsibility for the disappearance of Cray's mightiest clans.

At the same time...he drew a blank on what to do next. She wanted to go somewhere else and do something as though they were still on a date. His mind raced through the possibilities and settled on one that might give him the chance to ask her some important questions.

"What about the Ferris Wheel? I wanted to go up in it last night, but I didn't have anyone to go with...and honestly, Neu, you seem like a pretty great gal." He smiled a bit, content with this choice. "It really surprised me none of the guys you were looking at approached you. They really kind of missed out, y'know?"

[Hope]

"Shoot that was a really fun game, felt like he was trying to go in a little too serious though, but I'm hoping he figured out that there was no need to be so tense. He called me strong too, man what an insult." She stretched and put her deck back into her purse and replaced what was in her hands with her giant bag of fish balls.

"The Ferris Wheel? Huh sure, I was kind of into something more quick, but if you're scared of Roller Coasters then I guess why not huh." She just completely ignored the complement as she is not really used to receiving them, much less from people of the opposite gender. She sighed and thought to herself, "Man only mom and dad were the ones that complemented me like this haha."

[Beryl]

Satoshi sighed. He had been on a roller coaster once as a child. It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't exactly the best sort of ride to be able to have a chat with someone. Especially someone who might be able to explain the headaches and the voice.

"I'm just feeling a bit more like getting to know you, I guess." He gave a closed-eye grin and scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

[Hope]

She got the Ferris Wheel.

"Yes."

She felt nothing.

"Uh, yeah get it and let's do the usual Ferris Wheel stuff or whatever sure."

[Beryl]

Riding on the Ferris Wheel was definitely a pleasant experience environmentally. The breeze was light, the sun was very kind with its rays...a very pleasant riding experience as the Wheel got to the top and stopped briefly.

Satoshi knew Neu wasn't really enjoying herself, but unfortunately for her, that wasn't really the point of this. He couldn't contain himself any longer. He had to know.

"Neu...the Royal Paladins you have from Yukino Espoir...they're a clan not meant to exist right now. They're gone, locked away. I couldn't believe someone had them, let alone was capable of using them so well." He shook his head. "But there's something about it that bugs me. I've...seen you before." He stared at her orange eyes. "You were at Magallanica with the rest of us...and you defeated my friends, multiple times over. Yukino Yugure Espoir...Haruka Nakahara...Jellal Kisaragi...all of them fell before the being you controlled."

His face pained a bit. "That being...that being continues to give me headaches and haunts me. It talks of locking things away...hopeful things, happy things. I don't understand it. So..." He bit his lip a little. "I figured I would go to the only one who could possibly explain this to me...you." He sighed. "It isn't my place to ask for your help, but I can't let this bother me anymore. Please, I need to understand what's been going on."

[Hope]

(18/30) She looked out the window, the Ferris Wheel now reaching its peak and overlooking the top of the park. The world was beautiful and things were at peace, she wanted to keep it this way forever. Her pleasant ride then gets slammed with really weird inquiries from leaf boy, no... Leaf boy with a large dose of amnesia. "Oh right that was my fault whoops," she giggled to herself at the though, "better owe up, but man is this a bad way of doing so."

She turned towards him anyways, since he seemed desperate or something and that just made her sorta feel bad, or at least it was supposed to. "I mean the civil war was caused by two clans being too strong, then they just caused a problem for everyone else whether they hand anything to do with it or not. Sheesh wipe them both out, problem solved, things are at peace. Don't ya think? Look at how it is now."

The sun was at it's peak as well just like the Ferris Wheel, the rides were full of screaming and happy consumers. The fight tables that they were at had fighters whom fought and fought with smiles in their faces, just plainly, they were having a lot of fun. Neu pointed at all these things, "Isn't everyone happy the way things are now, jeez, the clans being gone doesn't even affect them at all."

[Beryl]

"...Right..." Satoshi looked out over the crowd. "Most people don't even know...even if something feels wrong, they let it pass by as if nothing had happened." He shook his head again. "But is it right for those clans to just be locked away? If people knew the truth, that the cards they once played with were just gone...if those cards had meaning to them, isn't that unfair to them?"

A pulsating feeling starting coming in the back of his mind. The headaches were starting up again.

[Hope]

"If it had that much meaning to them then they'd remember. You didn't even remember them until someone told you."

[Beryl]

"I was there for it and was the only one who didn't remember...everyone else who was there that day remembers the clans they loved so dearly." Satoshi felt a flash of anger as the headache throbbed. "Tell me what the hell made me different from them that I wasn't allowed to remember! Tell me why I keep seeing the figure you used in my thoughts more clearly all the time!"