Fourth Day - Video/Action/Text

[thebelsareinert]

Is it me, or are these bugs starting to get tired? They don't seem as angry as they were on the first day of all this.

[As if to prove his point, Hiro's Larvitar - which was having trouble taking out the things en masse a few days prior - now attacks a pair at once and takes them out no problem.]

They're still mad, but I think it's getting close to an end. I've actually been able to try catching a few of them now. Lucky me, this nose thing found me earlier and decided to team up with me. Pretty cool of it actually.

[Hiro shifts the camera to his newest team member, the stray Nosepass that he discovered after its master, Don Paolo, vanished mysteriously from Johto. The Nosepass goes to take out some more bugs, and Hiro turns back to the screen.]

By the way... Anyone else read what the thing says about Paras? Hold on a second--

[After hitting some buttons, during the gd video, some text scrolls over the screen. Thank you being BFFs with a super hacker.]

Paras has parasitic mushrooms growing on its back called tochukaso. They grow large by drawing nutrients from this Bug Pokémon host. They are highly valued as a medicine for extending life.

It is doused with mushroom spores when it is born. As its body grows, mushrooms sprout from its back.

Pretty cool, huh? [... and sort of cruel and demented. feel free to call him on that.] Couldn't help myself to a few more of them after reading that.

Filtered to Naoya

Do you see anything you like? I saved my last ball for you.

Filtered to Squalo

I'm in Violet now. When will it be possible to get that Torchic egg?

[Hitting the hay! Will tag back any waiting tags upon waking up and returning from class such o/]

Comments

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Look at that!

[and here is kyoko, looking kind of worse for wear, but not as bad as some others most likely are. still, explosive pinecones everywhere?

not what she was expecting from this kind of place at all.]

All calm and unphased, huh?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Something like that. I got a good haul.

How're you holding up?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

So you are catching these things... Keh, weird. There's no way I'd want one on my team.

[she pauses to look backward... and there's some 'lickiii' sounds and... sounds of several bugs fainting. kyoko just jabs a thumb backwards, to the source of the noise.]

What do you think?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Not even one?


Not bad. [a pause] I hope it's not eating them though.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

I'm not stupid enough to put something like them on my team. They've been around way too long, anyway.

[aaand at hiro's last point, she's raising an eyebrow. eating them? seriously?]

Don't joke about that.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

You think it's stupid? [he raises an eyebrow] They're pretty strong.

... Right. But you never know...

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

They've spent all their time trying to blow up my face. I don't trust them, so there's no way I'd keep them. It's common sense, right?

[... that just makes her pause, and then shake her head. she's going to reach off-screen for something, taking out a red-bean bun. and take one, big bite into it.]

Just thinking about it is gross. [muffled, because she's still eating.]

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

They have their reasons. Besides, I say it's common sense to get the strongest things I can get. It'll get me out of here all the faster, won't it?

[... o kyoko]

Makes you lose your appetite, right?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[thoughtful silence. except no, she's just swallowing her food. :T]

Unless they don't listen to you. Wherever they came from... I don't trust it.

[don't mind her as she eats more.]

Nope. I have to finish.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Then I make them listen to me.

[... he nods]

Good.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

... Huh.

[just a small pause as she takes one final bite of her dumpling. and this time she'll actually swallow before she speaks.]

Is that how you do things?

[video] 1/2

[thebelsareinert]

[a pause] If I have to. Most demons aren't really as nice as these things, so in comparison, even these nasty bugs seem pretty harmless to me.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

To tell you the truth, this whole thing probably felt more normal than anything else here has so far.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[that last part kyoko can understand, because fighting these things... is a lot like the stuff she did back home. Though she would never say that to anyone else. it was weird to think she was... used to that stuff.

oh, wait, she's spacing out. time to focus on hiro.]

. . . What about demons?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

...?

Did I not say anything last time?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

There's no way I'd forget about something like that.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

I know that feeling.

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

So you didn't say anything.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Well... You know what a demon is, right?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't?

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

Ever seen one? Fought one? Fought with one?

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

I don't think so.

[she pauses. she's not really supposed to say this kind of stuff, but what does it matter in this case. the things here are weird, too.]

But I've seen things that come close enough, I guess.

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

... [he nods, then starts telling her about how they invaded Tokyo and such.]

[video]

[destinybonds.livejournal.com]

[she's going to sit through the story, as stone faced as possible--and when hiro finishes, that expression stays.]

. . . You seem fine, though. [with stuff like that going on, she'd expect someone to be all kinds of hurt or crazy. maybe he's just resilient.]

[video]

[thebelsareinert]

... A lot happens.

[He looks off into the distance - he didn't touch on God, the government, or the angels yet, but he'll get to them in a moment.]