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Who:

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When: Early April
Where: Source Below: Cerealia's most surreal karaoke bar
What: How do you come to terms with death and disappearance? Get hammered and sing about it, obviously.
Rating/Warning: alcohol, hot tubs, death mentions, and j-pop

Ket Whiss is gone for good, and Minato has returned from his PLAYER ONE GAME OVER moment, courtesy of a hungry monster. And there's the residual trauma of everyone's jungle/elemental adventures.

So, well. Why not have a party?

Source Below is Cerealia's most popular — and most surreal — karaoke bar. It features a costume closet, with hundreds of outfits to try on, for that full idol experience. There are themed rooms: one with overflowing candy, another built to resemble the interior of a spaceship, one full of robotic cats who yowl in time with the music, to a pitch-black room filled with pairs of enormous, glowing, slowly-blinking eyes....

But Team Catastrophe's party isn't in any of these, because none of these losers made a reservation. Instead, they got stuck with the only one left, covered in white tile, with a hot tub in the center.

This is a bad idea on so many levels, but it's not as if that's ever stopped anybody.

(ooc: open to any extended cr, feel free to handwave how you heard about it. the more the merrier!)

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They certainly could! It wouldn't be very grate if your buddies got in such a pickle in that situation.

[...]

What were we talking about again? I lost track and got a bit hungry once we started talking about cheese.

[ Ah. Is he being trolled after all? Yu debates internally on whether or not to remind this guy, trying to decide if the derailment was intentional or not.

In the end he smiles crookedly, sighing through his nose. ]

I can see Minato-san and Kazuya-san have interesting taste in friends. [ The politest shade. A pause, wherein he glances away, looking out over the room. ] If this is a topic I shouldn't be asking about, that's fine.

[Hiro totally noticed it and honestly didn't mind as what Yu thought about him. Whatever others saw him as was their business and he'd leave it at that.]

I'd say you should ask Kazuyan yourself, but he'd totally dodge the topic altogether. [And he'll take a sip from his glass.] What I'm trying to say is that you should be more careful when it comes to certain people around here. Not everyone here is entirely what they seem from first glance.

[Himself included. Hiro was something more than human now, but he didn't have demonic impulses influencing himself, however.] Which raises a question... What kind of world did you come from? Was it entirely a human one?

[ For what it's worth, by interesting, he means only interesting - something neither inherently positive nor negative. He's not really sure what to think, still, other than they're all in good company for being a bit strange. Himself included. ]

That much I can understand. Not many people are what they seem to be at first.

[ Whether it's on a more literal level like being human, or more subtle like having a deceptive personality. He's had his own problematic run-ins with the latter.

The question wins a thoughtful sound. ]

That's hard to answer. Yes, but that's not to say it was mundane. [ A beat. ] Actually, Minato-san and I are from the same world, just a few years apart.

[That went for anyone... It didn't matter if you were human or non human. There was more to anyone that met the eye. From the sound of hearing Minato and Yu being from the same world...

Hm. His eyes twinkle in interest from hearing that. It wasn't very day that you met someone from the same world that you were from around here.]

Seriously? That's a really cool coincidence. [...] Kazuyan and I are from different worlds, but I think we went through similar experiences.

[At the very least... Hiro knew that they both dealt with demons and had to make some big decisions on how to deal with the world. However, he wouldn't want to go through three world loops (one that he wasn't around for) of the same deal happening again.]

Sometimes it feels like more than just a coincidence.

[ It's uncanny, how much he and Minato share in common. They're both the Wild Card, and share the same powers and experiences with the Velvet Room. They're both the leaders of their respective teams. And then there's... well, that strange feeling he gets sometimes is neither here nor there. ]

Similar experiences?

Yeah... Very similar. Our worlds were invaded by demons. And that had triggered a long string of events that would've ended our worlds. I had to put up with that twice in a row, but I think he just had to deal with it once.

[He'll take another sip from his glass. From the tone of his voice, Hiro sounds like he's just playing off all of this as some weird video game he played before.]

Buuut I think he's mad at me for having certain things that he didn't. [And he just gives an amused snort.] What a brat, right? It doesn't matter who had what or who didn't have what... The point is that we survived through that shit. So why bother getting jealous about it?

[It really really was stupid to him... Hence why he could laugh it all off. He wouldn't expect anything less(er) from an immature guy like Kazuya.]