24TH FLIGHT ➥ VIDEO;

[crowing]

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!

Hey, City! It sounds like you guys got a . . . ( dramatic pause. ) little robot problem today!!

This sounds like a job for The Great Minami Ikki-sama: ROBOT CRUSHER EXTRAORDINAIRE! For only a couple of coins, I'll free you from the metallic clutches of these nagging assholes!

( the camera then jumps to the crumpled heap of a robot laying pathetically on the floor. )




// FILTER: DEITY //

Oiiiiiiiiiii! Old man Laszlo, you still kicking or did you dry up already?

I need a favour and I'm pretty sure I deserve some kind of frequent buyer reward or something.

Well, whatever. You guys are probably too stingy for that kind of stuff. Anyway, you up for a trade?

(( ooc: SORRY FOR MY BRIEF MIA STINT, POLY. I'VE RETURNED NOW TO GET BACK INTO THINGS FULL SWING!! ♥ ))

Comments

[crowing]

( pause. )

I guess, but I like theirs better. THEY DO IT WITH LOVE.

Robots cannot love!

[everhoping]

How do you know that? Maybe they can, they just can't express it!

[crowing]

Have you seen their eyes, dude? Their soulless dead eyes??

[everhoping]

They're not people, of course their eyes look different!

[crowing]

Come on—

What if they're evil and they're just lulling you into a state of false security? JUST WAITING FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT TO STRIKE?

You can tell, dude, because it's the eyes. The eyes!

[everhoping]

Then we destroy them once they start attacking us! It's not fair to judge them so quickly!

[crowing]

It could be too late then! They're already taking over your life!

[everhoping]

No! I'm still in control!

[crowing]

Are you?


ARE YOU?!

[everhoping]

Y-YES!

[crowing]

WELL I SAY YOU'RE NOT.

[everhoping]

How do you even know that?!

[crowing]

COME ON, MAN.

IT'S OBVIOUS. IT'S SO OBVIOUS I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES FROM HERE.

[everhoping]

NO YOU CAN'T! HOW CAN YOU FEEL THAT IN YOUR BONES ANYWAY? YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW ME!

[crowing]

I DO NOW!!

I KNOW YOU IN MY BOOONNNESS, GUY! IT'S A DEEP AND UNBREAKABLE BOND!!

[everhoping]

FINE. TELL ME MY NAME?!

1/4

[crowing]

. . . .

[crowing]

Hmmmmm!!

[crowing]

. . . Shit, I know.

[crowing]

It's "friend".

[everhoping]

Friend.......

well, I guess that's a good guess.

[ :; FRIEND. FRIEND IS A GOOD WORD. ]

[crowing]

Damn straight it is!

I'm the Great Minami Ikki-sama! What's your name, dude?

[everhoping]

[ That's a really long name..... ]

I'm Riou!

[crowing]

Nice to meet ya, dude.

You been here long?