[ CLOSED ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-_oLjmCGY

[rollin]

Who: the idiots who think this will actually amount to anything
When: IC 11/23 onward
Where: Various!
What: The rescue mission Yata, Sheba and co. discussed at the citywide meeting!
Rating/Warning: at least PG because some people swear like sailors

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[ Once everyone arrives at the agreed meeting area, the CERES Metro-rail Station at the Residential District, Yata briefs the group on what to do. As discussed in the citywide meeting yesterday, the group will split into six teams that were decided by drawing lots. Everyone should know who they're teamed up with by now. Yata's instructions are simple enough: don't work alone (buddy system!), and if anyone finds anything, report to him. Should the missing arrivals be found, don't wait on anyone's orders. Yata admits that he's not smart enough to call the shots, but if he found who they were looking for, he believes that taking action should be the team's first priority. Anyone is free to protest, but he won't go back on his word.

Then he makes a special shout out to Hiccup and Toothless because look look guys it's a dragon how cool is that okay back to business.

By 9:15 AM, all teams should be on the move! ]

RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT | SHOPPING DISTRICT | ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT | TECH DISTRICT | PLEASURE DISTRICT | VIVID

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[ridethathippo]

[As much as Yuya would have been willing to join these sleuthing shenanigans, he's currently stuck in bed with a super sudden cold. He's already gone through all the tissues in the apartment and one roll of toilet paper. BUT NOT EVEN A COLD CAN HOLD HIM BACK FROM MAKING CALLS...even if it feels like his brain is slowly leaking out of his nose, but whatever.

And Shun being the first on his list? It's because of his little gift to Yuzu. How does it feel knowing that he's rooming with his not-sister/sibling lookalike? Also, this is totally a call because it's much easier to lay down and talk at his ceiling with the CereVice on instead of texting.]

Hey Kurosaki...Just wanted to say thanks. [COUGH, yup that totally sounds like phlegm in the back of his throat] For the cards you gave Yuzu. I'm stuck at the apartment, so it was a relief to know that you're looking out for her.

[raidraptors]

[Shun has no feelings on that matter because he couldn't care less about the girl and he couldn't care less about Yuuya too; no matter who they may or may not resemble. Rooming together in an unfamiliar environment is common sense though, and probably the safest for two people that don't know how to conduct themselves properly on a battlefield, so from a strategical point of view, Shun approves.

Shun may or may not make slightly startled faces at that call – are you seriously thanking him for arming her, Mr. Duels Aren't Conflict? Anyway...]

If she decides to enter a battlefield, she should have the means to. That's all there is to that.

[Translate: You are welcome. Probably.]

[ridethathippo]

[There's a difference between dueling to beat up other people and generally beating up virtual monsters and people in a videogame.]

Wait, I thought she was going to check out ViViD. [HE'S ALSO REALLY BEHIND ON DETAILS. Also, give him a second while he blows his nose because he's sounding stuffier by the second.] Well...I'm not too worried 'cause she's with a group. Plus Yuzu is really strong. She'll be fine, especially with those cards.

[Believe Believe B-B-Buddies.]

Anyways, you should come over sometime. [Wait, what.] When I'm not sick, of course. I did say we have to talk, and you already know where our place is. [SINCE YOU'RE A GIANT CREEPER.]

[raidraptors]

[There really is not. >.>]

People calling it a 'game' doesn't make it any less of a fight.

[Dammit Sakaki, you remember the world they live in, right? Nothing is ever just a game. Not ViViD. Not Duel Monsters either. No matter how much you might want it to be all smiles and laughter.

Though, Shun agrees that the girl probably isn't all that at risk, and wouldn't be even if he hadn't sent her those cards. Still, it never hurts to be prepared and Resistance always fights with the worst-case scenario in mind. Anyway, he is not going to comment on that.]

What about?

[He has nothing to say to either of them. And if he did, he definitely wouldn't come to their home for it.]

[ridethathippo]

[Gawd, Kurosaki, your PTSD is showing. Someone's gotta teach you how to have fun again.]

...Yuto.

[Is that an important enough topic for a visit? COUGH HACK BLEH.]

[raidraptors]

[Current chances of that person being Yuuya: -∞

That one name is enough to make Shun pause in whatever he is doing, the wheels of his mind turning sharply as he quickly zeroes in on the reason why Sakaki would bring him up.]

...You were there that night.

[Rather than a question or a statement, it's more a quiet mutter of realization of something Shun knows he should have considered much sooner than now. Sakaki had seen that duel. Whatever had happened that night, Sakaki knows. Shun curses quietly under his breath – the other is right, they do have to talk.]

Fine.

[He reserves the right to ambush Yuuya over this at some place, though.]

[ridethathippo]

[W-why ambush when he just gave Shun an invitation to come over.....]

Right. Between Yuto and Sora...and then Yugo. [Probably the only reason why he remembers the other guy's name is because he was pissed off about Yuto not saying it to begin with.]

I'll tell you what happened to Yuto, but I want some answers too.

[raidraptors]

[Because.

Shun blinks at that last term Sakaki drops; of course Yuuto fought against Fusion, who else would he be fighting, ultimately. Though, about that...]

He was fighting that synchro-using fusion pawn again, wasn't he?

[There is maybe a faint trace of unease in his voice. That pawn... he is someone that matches Yuuto in skill – they know that from that time Yuuto had fought him off in Heartland. Thinking back, he should have ignored Akaba and-

He can't think like that right now.]

Whatever. We'll settle that then.

[Shun's not about to make promises. And anyway, no matter how much he wants to find out about Yuuto, he needs to focus on matters at hand.]