Shadows of the Past

Toujiro and Shelbie meet up at the mall for their first actual date, no last night doesn’t count- we talked about this! Shelbie’s excited, but with the fight with her brother fresh in her memory and her mother’s birthday party on the horizon, there’s a lot of decisions for her to make.

The Digimon system we're using is being homebrewed by Lio as we play test it. Our theme song and graphics were made using AI, and the background music in most episodes comes from M4S on Spotify.

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Hi, it's Little Chomp. Welcome back to the Chaos Cruise here. Last time, Zangamon and Glutchmon were attacked by Leomon, and Sangamon decided to give him her Sapatama. This led to a fight with four members of the Zodiac 13 because it was an ambush. Glutemon ran off to try to get their people, and Sagittarium chased him down, leaving Sangamon to face Arizmon and Taurus Mon alone. Aresmon was defeated, and the fight with Taurus Mon was going pretty well, actually. But then the Digidestant got there and he ran. Sangamon and Kyo got into a fight about whether they should be hanging out alone or traveling with people, and Sangamon refused to leave without healing Cherrimon. So they just yelled at each other there, I guess. Back in the human world, Shelby woke up and it was way too early for her date, so she decided to actually research some of the stuff that's come up. Um she learned about Tagia Akane, one of the five stars, and how wealthy and apparently altruistic he is. Uh Tactics Team 9 doesn't show up in any kind of database or ranking or anything like that, which is weird. And there's also no public records about Kiomori to give her any kind of timeline about how quickly she developed. Which is fine, annoying, but fine. At about this point, there was a knock on her door, and somebody slid a threatening note underneath. Before she could respond to that, they broke into her apartment from the balcony, and while she was getting ready to attack, and found out it was just her older brother, thinking this was a great joke. They got into a fight that escalated too far, and so now she doesn't know if she's even gonna go to her mother's birthday party. But once he leaves, she storms out of her place and goes to the bar she visited with Lena just to clear her head. And finds out there's a Vex concert tonight. So that's something.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

Um okay. So Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:43

We are going to swap over as you are going to the mall. Uh what a what a shit fucking concession this'll be. Let's all go hang out at the mall.

SPEAKER_16 3:05

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_11 3:08

What a crappy hole over kinda idiot made this.

SPEAKER_12 3:17

Uh cool. Um so you head over to the mall. Um it's fairly busy today, people moving in and out, doing their thing. It's just, you know, the basics of the day.

SPEAKER_16 3:34

Not, I'm gonna try to find Tojiro.

SPEAKER_12 3:39

Yeah. Uh you move your party forth. Uh you find Tojiro just standing around waiting.

SPEAKER_05 3:47

Oh, he's now.

SPEAKER_12 3:48

As he looks up and nods towards you. See? Yo, what's up? How you doing? Uh Did you find it okay?

SPEAKER_18 3:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 4:01

Good. Good. It is the mall.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

It is the mall. Yeah. Um what it what do you need to do here?

SPEAKER_12 4:16

We don't we don't need to do anything at the mall. We just hang out at the mall sometimes. Oh! Usually people throw away bagels. That's kind of a big deal for us.

SPEAKER_07 4:27

Okay, have you eaten yet?

SPEAKER_12 4:32

That's not what matters.

SPEAKER_05 4:34

You don't want to get food with me.

SPEAKER_12 4:38

No, I just told you we're gonna get food. Did you br uh did you bring uh anything that like you you'll see, you'll see. Flamwiz, you've got a spare bag, right? I got the Hessian bags. Alright. We gotta go outside. My buddy will let us through.

SPEAKER_08 4:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 5:01

You walk through a store as his friend sits there and buzzes you out into the back lot. Uh he goes straight to a dumpster and starts jumping in it.

SPEAKER_05 5:17

Gonna just like throw the stuff out and then we bag it or what do you mean? Are you gonna toss it? Chevy ready to catch something?

SPEAKER_12 5:29

No, no, no. We collect it all after the fact. Uh you just have the bags are for sorting garbage versus good stuff.

SPEAKER_09 5:41

Oh.

SPEAKER_12 5:42

Uh, as he starts like dropping out uh pretty much uh bags of like sealed plastic bags filled with like old bread loaves and stuff.

SPEAKER_08 5:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 5:56

See. Alright, just look out for any uh any instances of uh you know your usual things, like I don't know. Uh like what? Mold.

SPEAKER_05 6:18

And if we find mold, we throw that in the trash, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 6:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 6:29

Okay. I think she's got it. Let's see, cool. Uh they take the next hour doing this.

SPEAKER_05 6:40

I will sort stuff with them, sure.

SPEAKER_12 6:44

Sure. Some me a um trip check to see how well you do.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

Okay. She's not like super comfortable, but she's definitely trying to downplay discomfort. Twenty.

SPEAKER_12 6:59

Twenty. Yeah, you're smashing through it as you're sorting. Uh feels a bit weird.

SPEAKER_05 7:05

Oh, definitely.

SPEAKER_03 7:09

But like, she's probably also surprised that some of this food is good. Because, like, this is a real thing.

SPEAKER_13 7:16

Food waste where the food is still fine, but for some reason they're not selling it, and she would not have experienced that ever. So Imagine that's weird.

SPEAKER_12 7:28

Uh, yeah. It's it's a bit weird. Uh as you go through the dumpsters eventually, he gets out, is he? Cool. Cool. That's uh how good's the hole, Flame Wizard, is he? Uh I'd say two days. Probably two max. Is he? Alright. That's good, that's good. Now we do the next part. My friend at uh my friend who works at the uh McRonald's here uh leaves the back door open, which means that we get to use the grill. Let's move.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Hey.

SPEAKER_12 8:11

He heads to the back of a fast food, like the fast food shop here.

SPEAKER_08 8:16

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_12 8:16

As he as he just walks in, uh It is closed at the moment. They are undergoing renovations as he walks in and just starts like checking all the stuff in here, turning all the like fryers and shit on as he. Alright, what have we got that we can deep fry as Flameless Mon just? I've got like 12 bananas. Yeah, we can flip we can definitely deep fry bananas. That's doable. Like whole or like uh they both look at you like you're a moron.

SPEAKER_05 8:56

What?

SPEAKER_12 8:57

You can just deep fry the banana. Yeah, what are you crazy? No, that's why we do this, is he pulls out the bread, uh, and they start ripping the bread apart.

SPEAKER_07 9:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 9:12

Uh, they start like rolling it out. Uh, do you wanna roll a brain's check to see what they're doing?

SPEAKER_05 9:19

No, because Shelby's never had to cook a thing in her life. The robot asked her what she wanted, and she said what she wanted, and then she waited and got food. So I would like to fail this.

SPEAKER_12 9:33

Yeah, sure. You have no idea what's going on. No. Uh. So they go about this. They go over as they open up the fridge, as he day old milk. Um sorry, day past expiry milk. As he okay, that should be good. Bring bring it uh as he then opens a bag as he pulls out a bunch of loose eggs as he uh swallow eggs are really good for this. He cracks them up. He is He starts like mixing stuff and then starts c uh they steal the flour here. Uh mix the milk in, do all that. Uh I'm just gonna.

SPEAKER_05 10:26

I feel like they're making French toast or something, but it's because I've cooked it before.

SPEAKER_12 10:36

You'd actually be surprised what they're cooking.

SPEAKER_05 10:39

Well, no, if it was French toast, they wouldn't be they wouldn't be tearing the bread apart. But you do need the eggs and the milk and stuff. I will probably be surprised what they're cooking.

SPEAKER_12 10:50

15's enough. Cool. They uh they start mixing it up, putting it through, as they then coat the bananas and stuff in this uh before dropping it into the basket and dropping it in. Uh, they just made a batter. You can literally make batter out of bread.

SPEAKER_05 11:11

Really?

SPEAKER_12 11:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 11:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 11:14

You chop it down, drop it into a blender, make it like fine breadcrumbs, and then yeah, pour water or milk.

SPEAKER_05 11:23

Okay. So we're going, I mean, uh, we're going kind of like a fried plantain route. Yeah.

unknown 11:30

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_12 11:31

Yeah. Which they uh do this for the next like five, ten minutes.

SPEAKER_05 11:38

Uh it takes them like find a place to like sit down. And I guess if it's closed, I can bring they have loose chairs or something and bring one of those back here.

unknown 11:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_12 11:51

They uh they do this for sorry, what I said five, ten minutes. They do this for about an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_09 11:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 11:59

Uh, as they then start like cutting up these things, setting them all out. There's like five containers worth of deep fried banana that they can put into uh little boxes, put into their bag as they Alright, we're good here. Oh. Next we gotta go to uh a guy over in the food court.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

Uh he runs it's fine. I'll pick up the chair and go put it back.

SPEAKER_12 12:38

Okay. Cool. Uh he turns everything off, exits out. As you walk back through, go to the food court where you were just in a store that was at the food court, but he refused to go through.

SPEAKER_16 12:53

Well, it's closed. We should be walking out the front of it.

SPEAKER_12 12:56

Yeah, doesn't want anyone to see him.

SPEAKER_16 12:58

Right.

SPEAKER_12 12:58

Uh he walks, he walks over as you see him like start talking to a dude, and then all of a sudden you see what they're doing. They're trading these fried things for actual like bits of um for money, which they uh after a bit they come back together as he. Alright, how much did you get Flemwiz? Is he? Uh 48 50. See, alright. With mine. Alright, now we can go shopping. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_06 13:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 13:36

They go through the shopping mall. Uh, straight up. You're just witnessing a dude who doesn't work, doesn't do anything, barely survives. Yeah. Cheating the system.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 13:54

Uh they buy more bananas, they buy more flour on top of everything else.

SPEAKER_08 14:02

So I'm just hanging out with him for work.

SPEAKER_12 14:06

Yeah. He's taking you on his work trip.

SPEAKER_08 14:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 14:12

Let's see. Oh, cool. So what uh how are you doing? How's your day going?

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Um I mean this part's okay. The morning was not.

SPEAKER_12 14:28

That's the morning not good.

SPEAKER_05 14:37

My older brother dressed up as a serial killer and broke into my apartment as a joke, and then we got into an argument, and he told me just not to come back.

SPEAKER_12 14:49

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_07 14:51

It's not.

SPEAKER_12 14:53

Oh, okay. My bad. What uh is it bad because he like dressed up as a serial killer, or is it bad because he told you not to come back? Both um You don't wanna What, you won you like hanging out with your family?

SPEAKER_05 15:12

No, but I really don't want to be completely alone in the world. And I just thought I would have a little more time to fix that. Uh flame sorry, no, brain. Whisby told you last night that I smell like loneliness, so um. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 15:36

He's wrong. Smell kinda like smell more like pineapple and persimmon.

SPEAKER_09 15:46

Why are you sniffing me?

SPEAKER_12 15:49

Fuck you, I wasn't sniffing you. Um it's very noticeable. I deal in lots of fruit. I can I have a nose for fruit. It's not my fault. Also, how can you be lonely? We have Digimon. We're the one people in the world that don't get to be lonely. I mean Wizamon! Not those bananas! We can't afford Ladyfingers, you know this! They taste better! I care about goodness! I care about see you are you are a major flaw on our whole system, Don Giro! If we make better things, we can charge more! Not if we have to pay more! Sorry, this is a daily thing.

SPEAKER_08 16:47

Okay, that's fine.

SPEAKER_12 16:49

We've had this fight at least 17 times. He just does not understand the viability of lady fingers. They do not work. They're too small.

SPEAKER_03 17:03

Um you two can sort out however I'm not gonna interfere with your business.

SPEAKER_12 17:13

What do you mean? It's not a business, it's just life.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

Well, I'm still not gonna interfere with it.

SPEAKER_12 17:22

Fair enough. What about you?

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Wood how's your work going?

SPEAKER_05 17:32

Uh I mean I guess it's fine. They gave me a student teacher, so now I'm allowed to miss school if I want!

SPEAKER_08 17:45

Which is helpful.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Um I would never show up again.

SPEAKER_05 17:54

Yeah, well. Oh, I never told you why I actually teach, um.

SPEAKER_12 18:04

No. I presumed it was because you're tomorrow and you're like, uh, I have to make everyone know that I am intelligent.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

POST our grade! Well they posted our grades in the hallway at Water Me.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

You saw them!

SPEAKER_12 18:21

I didn't look at your grades. Oh, I didn't care about anyone's grades but my own. Nobody else was important to me back then.

SPEAKER_05 18:32

My name was not near yours. It's in the the middle. The always You were in the middle?

SPEAKER_02 18:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 18:46

Ugh.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yeah, I know. This is why I said you were the smart one.

SPEAKER_12 18:55

I'm not that smart. Smart enough.

SPEAKER_05 18:59

Savvy that working actually changes your results, so it's no better than me.

SPEAKER_12 19:09

Hey. Just because working didn't change it doesn't mean that you're dumb.

SPEAKER_05 19:17

She smiles, but it's one of those like tense I'm not going to say the thing, smiles.

SPEAKER_11 19:30

Fucking called me dumb, you motherfucker.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

What? Are you speaking for me or was he saying that?

SPEAKER_12 19:40

No, I was speaking for you.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

Oh, no, but that's not it!

SPEAKER_12 19:45

Okay, good. Uh he stands there and see just no. Just honestly, there's plenty of things that are a fucking problem with school anyway. People in schooling systems don't work a lot of the time.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Well. Our art teacher in high school is one of the few people who actually like saw me and paid attention to me and wasn't just disappointed. And I I'm sorry, I don't want to be crying. My brother just threw me off. I'll get it shut down so she don't have to deal with this. Um.

SPEAKER_12 20:46

Yeah, man, it's gross. We're in the middle of a store. Don't be don't be crying. People will think that I'm beating you or something. Be weird. Then I'll have to answer questions, and you'll have to answer questions, and then Wispy will have to answer questions, and they're gonna draw a blank there. It's gonna be a whole fing problem.

SPEAKER_06 21:10

She will just like.

SPEAKER_05 21:17

How do I say this? Like the emotion just drops out of her face. And she just silently dries her tears and just isn't it?

SPEAKER_12 21:29

You know I was joking, right? You're allowed to cry. It don't matter if you cry.

SPEAKER_05 21:38

It's annoying and it's always too much, and so it's not gonna be a problem.

SPEAKER_12 21:43

Who gives a fuck? If you if you care about what all these fucking morons around us think, you're gonna get into the state where they dictate what you can do. I care about what you're doing. You're allowed to do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

And I don't want you to be annoyed with me like my family is. So I just won't do it.

SPEAKER_12 22:08

I ain't never gonna be annoyed with you like that. I don't care. You shouldn't care. Nobody should care. Hey, kicks over a thing. Everybody should do whatever the fuck they want.

SPEAKER_05 22:19

No! You're in a store! You're trying to buy stuff! We'll set the thing back up. Sorry! Sorry, it's an accident, it's okay.

SPEAKER_12 22:31

I'm not sorry! It's not an accident. I did this on purpose. Fuck your store. Fuck your stand.

SPEAKER_05 22:37

You are trying to buy food from these people. You need to at least check out the food stuff.

SPEAKER_12 22:44

Uh they'll what are they gonna do? They gonna ban me from coming here? Cool. The only power people have over you is the power you g give them. Flame was bomb! Yeah, bud. Oh. You need to express some emotion. What emotions are you feeling right now? I'm feeling pretty angry! What are you feeling angry about? I'm feeling angry that I don't get to buy Lady Finger bananas! Who are you mad at? I'm mad at you!

SPEAKER_05 23:20

Fuck you! Fuck you! Okay, if I- Okay, if I promise that I got the point, can we stop?

SPEAKER_12 23:28

This isn't about you! They both scream as they look at you. We can't buy lady finger! You don't know what we can or can't do! You never try! As uh Gemon, they're fun. They are they have lots of energy.

SPEAKER_05 23:49

Glad you like them.

SPEAKER_12 23:51

Wispy goes invisible and hides somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 23:55

That's totally fine.

SPEAKER_12 23:58

Pretends not to know these people.

SPEAKER_05 24:00

Just stay close enough that if something happens, you can get to me, okay?

SPEAKER_12 24:07

There's always no response, but sure.

SPEAKER_05 24:14

I really want it to be like warm breeze. As acknowledgement at some point. We gotta we gotta talk about this.

SPEAKER_12 24:25

Gem1 starts jumping around your feet as these two fight. Uh a manager walks up to you and says, Excuse me! Yeah. You can't be making a commotion like this in this store.

SPEAKER_18 24:37

I know.

SPEAKER_12 24:38

This is ridiculous. You two I'm gonna have to ask you to leave as Titra looks at him and Flame Wizon looks at him and see, and what if we fucking don't? What will you do?

SPEAKER_04 24:50

Please don't.

SPEAKER_12 24:51

Well, I'll call the police then, and what will they do?

SPEAKER_04 24:54

Please don't.

SPEAKER_12 24:55

They will come take you out of the store to see. Uh I'm not super scared of police. I'm not scared of nothin'. Blame Wizman? Yeah. I ain't scared of nothing either.

SPEAKER_05 25:13

Hoping to spend more time with you today and not like buying bars. Can we just buy the stuff you want and go? Please.

SPEAKER_12 25:25

You got lucky. You got lucky. But tomorrow we'll be back. I know Tojuro, you do this every day. I know I do. And I appreciate the leniency you give me.

SPEAKER_08 25:40

And I will be working tomorrow, so.

SPEAKER_12 25:45

Oh. You are welcome, Tojuro, and we appreciate your uh your things. Usually. I appreciate your professionality. See knocks over the Ladyfinger banana stand. See, god damn it. Every time. Uh they walk out and how expensive are Ladyfinger bananas?

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Not that expensive.

SPEAKER_05 26:17

I'm gonna buy just like a couple bunches of them.

SPEAKER_17 26:24

And I'm gonna give it a banana.

SPEAKER_12 26:26

Are you gonna let him see you buy them? Uh you try to give them the flame? He sits there and see, what? Do you think I'm a charity case? I don't need your bananas, lady! I have bananas!

SPEAKER_08 26:43

You wanted them.

SPEAKER_12 26:45

I want to buy them! I don't want to be giving them like some goddamn charity case thing.

SPEAKER_11 26:55

I hate you! He runs away.

SPEAKER_05 26:57

I wanted to be friends! Bananas this week.

SPEAKER_12 27:10

As he stands there, see all right. Well that's most of my uh dailies. What do you need?

SPEAKER_18 27:19

Uh shoot, I haven't even thought about it.

SPEAKER_12 27:26

You haven't thought about like you haven't made your grocery list yet? It's pretty easy.

SPEAKER_05 27:34

Well, I mean I went shopping a few days ago because Jim ate everything in the fridge on the day that it became Black Tokemon X, so like I was a problem.

SPEAKER_06 27:50

Yeah, I could see that I didn't call you a problem.

SPEAKER_12 27:58

No, because I'm not one anymore. I'm not problematic. You're not, but well then why why didn't we come to the mall? What are you planning on doing?

SPEAKER_05 28:16

You said you needed to go here?

SPEAKER_12 28:18

And you didn't?

SPEAKER_05 28:23

No. You don't have anything planned for the day, do you?

SPEAKER_12 28:30

How would I have anything planned for the day?

SPEAKER_05 28:32

Hmm.

SPEAKER_12 28:36

Is that like something I was supposed to do, Flynn? I d I don't know. I'm not sure. Is that part of it? Uh give me a second. I just need to consult someone over here. They walk over there as you see him pull out his phone and then panically start pacing.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

It looks like he's panicked.

SPEAKER_12 29:07

A little bit.

SPEAKER_11 29:14

Hey, hey! What are you doing over here? It's a private private area.

SPEAKER_05 29:18

Okay, can you can you just tell him it's okay?

SPEAKER_12 29:24

We don't know what she's talking about. Everything is okay.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

Fine. Yeah, can you can you take a message to him and tell him it's okay even if nothing is planned? It's fine.

SPEAKER_12 29:34

He walks back over and sees, okay, it's all good. I have plenty of plans. I've got so many things that I can do. As you hear, Toe, Toe, you forgot to you forgot to hang up the Sapatamax.

SPEAKER_05 29:47

Hi, Tomanaga!

SPEAKER_12 29:49

Shut fuck! He throws the thing at the wall. Don't know what you're talking about, Tomanaga's not here. I'll collect it. So friend eats it.

SPEAKER_11 30:08

I fixed it. He's in my stomach now.

SPEAKER_05 30:10

Wait! Wait! Wait. Did you use the word date when you were talking with not Tomanaga on the phone?

SPEAKER_12 30:21

No. What? Why would I use the word date?

SPEAKER_03 30:27

I just wondered, because I said hi because I was happy to hear him. But if he if you just asked what kinds of things you're supposed to do on a date, and then I said hi, then he knows.

SPEAKER_11 30:41

Uh pale.

SPEAKER_08 30:47

He goes pale.

SPEAKER_12 30:48

Pale, look ahead. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 30:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Uh okay, cool. That's fine. It's fine. Like if things worked out, it's not like I was gonna try to hide it from the team anyway. And hey, you know, yesterday morning, uh Lena already asked me if I was in love with you, so it's not like anybody's gonna be particularly surprised. They find out.

SPEAKER_12 31:15

She what?

SPEAKER_05 31:17

She asked if I was in love with you.

SPEAKER_12 31:20

Why?

SPEAKER_05 31:22

Because when she told me you weren't doing okay, I freaked out kind of a lot.

SPEAKER_12 31:33

So she asked you if you were in love with me?

SPEAKER_05 31:37

Uh uh, well, she's like looking at- What did you say?

SPEAKER_12 31:44

What did you say to that?

SPEAKER_03 31:49

This sh I asking because you want to know what I told her, or because you wanna know what the answer is?

SPEAKER_12 32:00

Yeah, because you're I wanna know cause you literally started a story and you haven't finished it yet. Fine. I don't we don't need another bit. It's it's fine, it's fine, it's all good. No, I I really do wanna know. It it sounds interesting.

SPEAKER_05 32:16

Okay, so it wasn't just that, also a lot of the stuff uh she was asking about my deal was going on in the team and whatever, just kept circling back to you because she's the person that I know best on the team and everything, and she was kind of like uh calling me out for We gotta talk about this.

SPEAKER_12 32:44

This is fine, we we can move on.

SPEAKER_11 32:47

Yeah, honestly, this is a bit sad.

SPEAKER_07 32:54

What's sad about it?

SPEAKER_11 32:58

Uh honestly, it just feels like a lot of awkward situations for all of us.

SPEAKER_05 33:05

Everything with me involved is awkward.

SPEAKER_11 33:08

Um that's I have noticed.

SPEAKER_03 33:15

Okay, level with me. Are you opposed to this too?

SPEAKER_11 33:18

Like opposed to what?

SPEAKER_03 33:22

I point at Tojiro myself.

SPEAKER_11 33:25

You're in general, like No.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

Maybe No, I mean like if I was dating Tojiro, are you opposed to that?

SPEAKER_12 33:41

Turn and see. What's dating Tojiro? Is that like hanging out? Uh kinda, yeah, sort sort of like hanging out. I don't really like hanging out with you. Yeah, ask a lot of questions and didn't help with the prep at all. So I'm kind of leaning towards.

SPEAKER_05 34:01

Okay, one, I wasn't asked to help, and two, I don't know how to cook anything, but I felt like it would be weird for me to mention that, so I just look at you with shock. What?

SPEAKER_12 34:16

You don't know how to cook anything?

SPEAKER_05 34:18

No.

SPEAKER_12 34:18

Wow, that's bad.

SPEAKER_05 34:20

It is. I know. I've been living out of like takeaway in the convenience store for the last year and a half.

SPEAKER_12 34:29

They stare at each other.

SPEAKER_05 34:31

What?

SPEAKER_12 34:31

Alright, I know what we're doing today.

SPEAKER_05 34:36

You remember that my family was rich, right?

SPEAKER_12 34:40

Yep, and we're gonna fix that.

SPEAKER_05 34:43

We're fixed my family's wealth?

SPEAKER_12 34:46

What? No, just your just your dependence on it. Come on, you're driving me to your house.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

Uh okay.

SPEAKER_12 34:58

Wispy reappears at this point. Conf just looking at you with concern.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

What? Sorry guys, I need a moment. Um we're having we're having a conference. Okay. What, Wispy?

SPEAKER_12 35:17

Looks at them, looks at you.

SPEAKER_05 35:19

Hmm. Use your cat wisps.

SPEAKER_12 35:25

Towards the directions. Or the picket.

SPEAKER_05 35:28

Yeah, I might. Why?

SPEAKER_12 35:34

Why don't I gets real shy.

SPEAKER_05 35:38

Okay, okay. Is this is this because of what he smells like?

SPEAKER_11 35:43

Shakes his head.

SPEAKER_05 35:44

No you worried about them being in your space?

SPEAKER_10 35:56

Slightly nods.

SPEAKER_05 35:57

Huh? Slightly nods. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 36:04

Do you think it's too s too soon or you He blows He blows a catwisp, and uh this cat comes out and starts rearranging its head as it has now a wizard hat on, and then another catwisp comes out as it like pushes its things up so it looks like it has a hood and looks like Wispy.

SPEAKER_08 36:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 36:28

And then a third catwisp comes out and like assumes its hands up in the air above itself and lies down as the other one starts, like the wispy one starts picking it up and moving it, and then the wizard one comes over, slaps him, and takes it.

SPEAKER_05 36:48

Um, do you need time to like hide all your special things first? Okay, if I let you go in first through the door and hide your special things, and then you come out and tell us when you're ready. Is that good? Okay. Uh, Jem, do you have any concerns about it?

SPEAKER_12 37:21

No, I don't own knives and forks that Wizmon will steal.

SPEAKER_05 37:26

Okay. Actually, you know what? I did tell you we were gonna buy you stuff.

SPEAKER_11 37:33

Oh. Hang on. Okay, I don't need stuff. I like people. I like this. This is good.

SPEAKER_05 37:43

You don't want any toys?

SPEAKER_12 37:47

Can I give them to Wispy?

SPEAKER_05 37:50

Uh, that's up to Wispy.

SPEAKER_12 37:54

Then yes, I want toys.

SPEAKER_05 37:57

Okay. Okay. I'm gonna just ask though, because like, yeah, it would be convenient for me time-wise if we went shopping now while we're here. But since Wispy's concerned about hiding his special things, Wispy, do you want us to go shopping later so you can so you don't have to hide these special things too? Okay, alright. We'll go on a family shopping trip later then, okay?

SPEAKER_12 38:22

Hooray!

SPEAKER_05 38:23

Everybody good?

SPEAKER_16 38:29

Okay. I'm walking over to them.

SPEAKER_00 38:37

You took forever.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

I it's a it's a three-person conversation, and one of us doesn't use words, so I'm sorry that it's slow, but you're gonna have to deal with it. I'm not used to saying stuff like that, but it's gonna be fun! Let's go to the car.

SPEAKER_12 39:02

You head to your car as you drive Tojuro and your little girl.

SPEAKER_05 39:07

It's so easy to find. I walk up to my hot pink car.

SPEAKER_12 39:14

Get in the hot pink car as you drive back to your apartment.

unknown 39:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 39:18

Uh Tojuro and play with money in hand.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

When we get out in the parking lot, I'm gonna let Wispy just go straight out, fly up through the balcony, and uh do whatever he needs to. So, like, instead of coming through the building with us, he can just come in on the outside, fly through the glass, and then like do his thing.

SPEAKER_12 39:44

He does. Okay, I'm just gonna wait for him to you get up to your apartment door as Tejero just. What are we waiting for? What's going on?

SPEAKER_05 39:56

We're giving whispy a moment.

SPEAKER_12 39:59

Why?

SPEAKER_18 40:00

Because that is how things are done in this family.

SPEAKER_12 40:06

Okay. Twenty minutes. That's how long you're gonna be waiting. Would you wait that long?

SPEAKER_02 40:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 40:18

Cool. After twenty minutes, the ghost flies out the door.

SPEAKER_14 40:24

Okay, you're good.

SPEAKER_12 40:25

And nods towards you. Yep.

SPEAKER_14 40:27

Okay. We'll unlock the door and come in.

SPEAKER_12 40:32

Cool. Cool. Uh, just for the purposes of this uh thing, we might just put you in essentially this apartment. Because that's what yours pretty much looks like right now.

SPEAKER_05 40:50

That's fine.

SPEAKER_12 40:53

Preston. He walks in and says, You have zero utensils. Yeah, you know I just You don't have any bowls or plates, you have no knives or forks? Nothing. You've got no spo You don't even have any pots or pans.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

Okay, well, I wouldn't have pots and pans because what would I do with them?

SPEAKER_12 41:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 41:16

I didn't want to say this when we were in the the the restaurant kitchen, but like. I wake up in the morning, I walk out to the dining room table, I eat the breakfast that I ordered last night, the robot rolls up to me and it says, Hey, Miss Colby, what would you like for dinner this evening? And I say, What are the options that you can make with what we have in the fridge? And he gives me a list of options, and I say, I will take the smoked salmon and vegetables, please, thank you. And he says, Very good, and then he just rolls off, and I come home and it's there. That that's life.

SPEAKER_12 41:52

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05 41:53

I know.

SPEAKER_12 41:54

He opens the fridge as he turned back as he You said you went shopping.

SPEAKER_05 41:58

Wispy.

SPEAKER_12 41:59

He opens it, the fridge is Wispy.

SPEAKER_05 42:02

Where's the food?

SPEAKER_03 42:09

Wispy.

SPEAKER_12 42:13

I've shakes its head at you. You open this door, your bed linen's gone, your pillows are gone, your chair is gone, your la your computer is gone.

SPEAKER_16 42:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 42:31

Most of your plants are gone, except the ones that would be impossible to- Wait a second, you guys just stay in the kitchen.

SPEAKER_08 42:40

Jem, be a good host. Wispy, I need you to come over here.

SPEAKER_12 42:46

Comes through.

SPEAKER_08 42:47

Shut that door. Wispy, where's my stuff?

SPEAKER_12 42:53

He uh he sits there as he puffs up his chest looking real proud.

SPEAKER_03 42:59

Yeah, you did you you hid everything super good. Gonna come open this closet just in case. Is it like stuffed to the top of everything?

SPEAKER_12 43:07

Empty.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Wispy. Wispy, where did you put it?

SPEAKER_05 43:11

If it's in someone else's room, I need it back or if they find it and keep it, I it's gonna cost me hundreds of dollars to replace everything, Wispy.

SPEAKER_12 43:26

Wispy motions as if it's gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_05 43:31

No! Where is it?

SPEAKER_12 43:35

What's up to the wall and knocks his head against it. Put it in the next door.

SPEAKER_05 43:40

Wispy Is anyone living over there?

SPEAKER_12 43:49

He would sit for a second and then shake his head.

SPEAKER_06 43:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 44:01

I need you to bring my stuff back.

SPEAKER_12 44:08

He makes the two whiffs as one does the flame mon thing and one makes himself a big rectangle as the that one walks over, pushes it open, and walks out.

SPEAKER_05 44:23

You want Flame Whiz to leave before our chef.

SPEAKER_12 44:27

He shakes his head. Oh not.

SPEAKER_05 44:32

Okay. Alright. Um one second. I'll open the kitchen door and come back. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 44:42

Um You don't have any toilet paper in your toilet.

SPEAKER_05 44:47

Yeah, we we need to talk. Wispy is concerned that flame is gonna uh destroy our stuff because we're just throwing stuff around the store. Um I just I need some reassurance that my stuff is going to be okay. So that I can convince him to bring it back.

SPEAKER_12 45:15

We can't make any promises. Yeah, we can't make any promises. If you got some like real bad stuff, I might burn it. Don't well I I'm not going to if yes. Keep it clear.

SPEAKER_05 45:31

What's the bad stuff you might burn?

SPEAKER_12 45:36

Well, let's see. What what sort of stuff is that? I don't know. You got like a bed?

SPEAKER_05 45:45

Yes, fortunately that was heavy enough it did not get moved.

SPEAKER_12 45:52

Ugh.

unknown 45:54

What?

SPEAKER_12 45:55

Does it have blankets on the bed?

SPEAKER_05 45:58

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_12 46:00

You're good then, you're fine.

SPEAKER_05 46:05

I look back through the door. Whispy, did you know he hated blankets?

SPEAKER_12 46:11

Maybe not.

SPEAKER_05 46:13

Oh! Okay. Alright. Um tell you what, fly into the next door uh apartment and just lock the doors and the uh the patio glass door real good so no one could get in, okay? That way at least my stuff is s safe.

SPEAKER_12 46:34

He shrugs as he nods. He doesn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

No. Is it already locked?

SPEAKER_12 46:41

Nods.

SPEAKER_05 46:42

You did that before you came.

SPEAKER_12 46:45

No, Jason said.

SPEAKER_05 46:47

Well then how do you know it's locked? Did you check it?

SPEAKER_12 46:51

Nods?

SPEAKER_05 46:52

Okay, alright. Okay, okay, okay. That's pro that's probably fine. How long were you planning on being here?

SPEAKER_12 47:03

Well, I was gonna teach you how to cook.

SPEAKER_05 47:06

Well, I don't own any stuff for that, so I do have dishes and I noticed. I do have dishes and silverware, but like, why would I have pots and pans and stuff?

SPEAKER_12 47:17

That's fine. Looks in as he. You don't have a lot here.

SPEAKER_05 47:24

Wispy, can you bring the food back at least? Please.

SPEAKER_12 47:30

That's going out.

unknown 47:34

Okay, so.

SPEAKER_12 47:35

It's gonna take some time as he it's all good. Uh, let's see. He walks into your bathroom, opens your cupboards. Wispy hasn't taken everything, just things that he likes.

SPEAKER_05 47:48

Okay. Um, so out of curiosity, are all of like my magical girl things from the main room still here or gone?

SPEAKER_12 47:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:57

They're still here?

SPEAKER_12 47:59

They're still here.

SPEAKER_05 48:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 48:01

He didn't deem them very he didn't deem them very important.

SPEAKER_05 48:04

Totally fine. Um, is the bulk of my clothing still here or is that gone?

SPEAKER_12 48:10

No, no, that's gone.

SPEAKER_13 48:21

He likes the toilet paper. Enough that he stole it.

SPEAKER_05 48:32

It's fine. It's gonna be fine.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Uh, normally my apartment does not look exactly like this, but it's okay. We're compromising.

SPEAKER_12 48:44

He walks over, finds your trash can, opens the trash can up as he hmm. Uh he full breaks the top off of it. Sorry.

SPEAKER_18 49:01

Argue though, he's kinda deliberate.

SPEAKER_12 49:05

It was deliberate, but we're improvising.

unknown 49:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 49:08

Uh he uh rips a bit of his shirt off as he like takes a piece of like what looks like just mass basic uh wood. Wraps wraps it around the wood. Uh and then pretty much gets Flame Wizmon to melt a hole into the pan uh into the bin lid on the side so he can insert the wood. Uh as he's made you a makeshift uh frying pan.

SPEAKER_05 49:47

Okay. Please tell me we're gonna wash that before we use it.

SPEAKER_12 49:53

Of course we are. We sanitize everything. Flamwizmon. They put it in the water, flamewizmon heats the water up.

SPEAKER_07 50:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 50:03

Uh soap, sanitize, all that. Lispy brings the food back. What food have you bought? You said you're a you don't cook.

SPEAKER_05 50:14

I presume that means that there's not a lot of you're gonna see a lot of just really impressive stuff like those Japanese sandwiches in the little boxes, um, rice balls, the the jugs of like fruit juice and milk and water. Um, I still have a couple of the donuts from yesterday left. Um, there's probably like top noodles.

SPEAKER_08 50:50

It's real noodle.

SPEAKER_16 50:52

It's real bud.

SPEAKER_12 50:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 51:00

Um like her face is just covered in like takeaway place flyers. Neatly though, it's not like entirely just chaos, but like you can tell where top four are, you know. We could also buy stuff these.

SPEAKER_12 51:29

He goes about disassembling the sandwiches, uh taking the meat and things out and setting them aside. Uh he takes the noodles, uh, they cook them, work it in, do a bit of like stuff with the meat and things from the sandwiches, they use the uh donuts to sort of make a bread pudding situation.

SPEAKER_18 51:55

Come over here to watch.

SPEAKER_12 51:58

Uh I would love for you to roll an intelligence check.

SPEAKER_05 52:01

Uh Brains it is.

SPEAKER_12 52:04

Brains it is. Uh versus which will be 25.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

That's a 19 on a 20.

SPEAKER_12 52:14

Cool. He's not explaining super well. He's mainly just doing. Yeah. But you go out picking up really like what he's putting down. It's pretty easy to follow, as he shows you sort of how to cook.

SPEAKER_09 52:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 52:33

Uh it's better if you have, you know, actual ingredients, but we make do with what we have.

SPEAKER_09 52:41

Thanks.

SPEAKER_12 52:41

Uh he's also using some of his stuff, so the flour and all of that, uh, for the bread pudding and all of that.

SPEAKER_08 52:48

Oh, when I have bananas, obviously, I just put like two bunches.

SPEAKER_12 52:53

He adds he adds the bananas into it. You uh oh wait, that's plus six, so that's a 19. Uh he he has one skill that's like cooking.

SPEAKER_11 53:08

It's not cooking, it's survival.

SPEAKER_05 53:11

Oh yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_11 53:14

Yeah. He has the upgrade from skill that. Uh, which I don't think you can get.

SPEAKER_05 53:24

I mean, I'm skilled at arts and languages and stuff. I don't need to be skilled at survival. That's my that's my thing.

SPEAKER_12 53:31

Yeah. Uh oh, that's what it is. No, he's got two skill bats that apply here.

SPEAKER_18 53:38

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_12 53:38

Uh he's got skill that survival and skill that uh skilled at something or other. It's not listed.

SPEAKER_16 53:52

Oh well, I believe you.

SPEAKER_12 53:54

I feel like it's pretty much like staying alive.

SPEAKER_13 53:59

Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_12 54:00

Um you know, using junk. Uh but yeah, he cooks up this meal as he hands it to you as he it needs spices and things like that, but for a basic living, this stuff is pretty good. Uh you taste it, it actually tastes really nice. For a person who literally eats gas station sandwiches and shit like that, this is this is pretty good. It's not your takeaway varieties, but it's pretty decent.

SPEAKER_05 54:42

That's doesn't seem like it's actually that hard. Like I probably couldn't.

SPEAKER_12 54:48

During this time, Wispy and Flame Wismon started hanging out together and playing something.

SPEAKER_05 54:55

Playing something, okay.

SPEAKER_12 54:56

Uh eventually, you see them go out onto the balcony and then disappear. Um Gemon's just sleeping in the bed.

SPEAKER_18 55:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 55:10

Alright, I'm gonna choose to trust my Digimon. And your Digimon.

SPEAKER_12 55:15

You gotta trust your Digimon.

unknown 55:17

Yeah. Thanks.

SPEAKER_12 55:19

They have their own things.

SPEAKER_05 55:22

Yeah. Um, thanks for for cooking and for not making fun of me for not knowing how.

SPEAKER_12 55:26

Uh well, I'm going to. I just didn't want it to be fresh before I did it.

SPEAKER_03 55:34

It's fine, I know it's pathetic.

SPEAKER_11 55:38

It's not pathetic.

SPEAKER_16 55:39

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_11 55:40

But it is sad.

SPEAKER_16 55:41

It's really bad.

SPEAKER_12 55:46

It's not uh, it's not your fault you were born in the lap of luxury and your butlers did everything for you.

SPEAKER_15 55:52

We don't have butlers, we're next but they have robots.

SPEAKER_12 55:57

So much better. Do you do you need me to show you how to wipe your ass as well, just in case? You might it's a really hard thing to do sometimes, and I don't think that they that's something they would teach you.

SPEAKER_05 56:12

Okay, um the robots did not do that for me. I did learn. And you know that I'm telling the truth, because they smell like fruit and not shit.

SPEAKER_12 56:23

That is true, but maybe you just maybe you just shit fruit with this stupid diet that you have.

SPEAKER_16 56:33

I'm good.

SPEAKER_12 56:37

Considering you got a whole shoe rack area here that's missing, I don't know if you could.

SPEAKER_05 56:45

Wispy was concerned about his special things that he likes being damaged, and we don't have a big enough place that he has his own space, so I offered to let him hide them, and I thought he was gonna put like five things in the closet and close it. I did not expect him to move my entire apartment into my neighbor's place.

SPEAKER_12 57:10

So DJ Mon page of weird things.

SPEAKER_08 57:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 57:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 57:16

Some things you wouldn't expect. But fun.

SPEAKER_05 57:23

Um, I'm sorry that I don't have enough space to own a bed and a couch, so I can't be like, hey, do you want to sit on the couch? And he also stole my computer chair, so I can't offer that either. But it do you want to go in the other room or do you want to just hang out in the kitchen?

SPEAKER_12 57:40

You asking me to sit on your bed with you?

SPEAKER_05 57:43

I think one of my Digimon is sleeping on it, so I don't think anyone is going to be sitting on it. I'm asking if you want to sit on the floor in the big room.

SPEAKER_12 57:56

I would love to sit on your floor in your big room.

SPEAKER_08 58:04

Walk into the other room and sit down.

SPEAKER_05 58:12

Yeah, welcome to the sad little apartment that is only partially full of plants because the small ones got evacuated as well.

SPEAKER_03 58:19

Normally there are quite a few more.

SPEAKER_12 58:22

There's more?

SPEAKER_03 58:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_12 58:24

Jesus Christ. So this one, this one, this one, and this one would all be too heavy for him to move.

SPEAKER_04 58:33

Yeah, there's there's maybe like five or six little ones.

SPEAKER_12 58:39

Why? Um none of these are fruit uh like fruit or veg plants either. You're just growing flowers and stuff.

SPEAKER_05 58:50

What would I do with fruit or veg if I had it? I have to eat them raw because I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_12 58:55

You would cook at you.

SPEAKER_05 59:00

No meno's had a cook.

SPEAKER_12 59:04

You do now, so you have no excuses.

SPEAKER_05 59:07

You didn't use vegetables in that.

SPEAKER_12 59:10

Gemmon, if she doesn't cook stuff from now on, you get to take her supperama, call me, and I will yell at her. Okay, that sounds like a reasonable plan. See, Gemon agrees.

SPEAKER_08 59:26

You walk my Digimon up to tell her that.

SPEAKER_12 59:30

I wasn't sleeping. I just like lying on the mattress.

SPEAKER_05 59:34

Oh, well, that's fair. Someday I'm gonna have a place that's big enough that you can have your own space.

unknown 59:45

Hopefully.

SPEAKER_12 59:46

Ugh, sounds sounds so damn confining.

SPEAKER_16 59:51

What?

SPEAKER_12 59:53

Having somewhere big. You don't need everything like that.

SPEAKER_05 59:57

Oh no, I just want a third room so that I can put my bedroom in a separate place and own a couch. These are my lofty goals.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:09

This is so big. I mean so much place for activity. You could put a couch over there in that corner, or where those plants are. That is blocking that door. I mean, I could maybe put some of the plants on the balcony, but you could put it over there in that uh weird little front of that door. What's in the closet?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:33

Close.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:36

More so ever is he opens your closet.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:38

Okay, normally close.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:40

There is clothes. Um I was about to say there's no clothes in here.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:44

Yeah, apparently Wispy likes my wardrobe. It's on the list of things that he likes.

SPEAKER_12 1:00:50

Uh, it's probably things that he Why do you want to see my clothes? Maybe I wanted to see if you wear anything besides your weirdo hoodie.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:00

Ugh.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:01

Um, you work at a school.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:08

You do.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:09

You would have an outfit.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:11

You've seen it before. It was the sexy lawyer outfit.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:16

Sexy lawyer outfit?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:17

That's what you called me. Twice on Tuesday. You did have head trauma that day though, so maybe you forgot.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:28

I did indeed forget that day. A lot of those details went away.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:34

That's fine.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:35

Um enough concussions.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:37

All you really need to know is that it's uh it's a really underfunded public school, so I'm not even gonna be eligible for the uniform until I survive six months there. So I'm just in the wear something black and red and we'll call it good enough, stage. Um. So you saw the the black dress and the red jacket already.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:03

Um and those are the two color two uniforms you have. No, wait, you have that weird colorful one with the like yellow ass jumper, don't you?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:16

Yeah. Uh, I wasn't really allowed to have colorful stuff, baggy stuff, anything that was childish when I was growing up, so now that I have my own money and my parents can't throw shit away while I'm at school, I combine stuff for myself. I gesture up at the pristine set of magical girl figurines on the shelf on the wall above where my computer is.

SPEAKER_16 1:02:49

Wow. I know. I have no idea why you thought going out with me would be a good idea, but I'm not gonna lie to you about what I am.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:08

Yeah. Yeah, you m you definitely didn't lie that you're a nerd.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:14

No.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:16

Just a big old I just didn't realize that you were a goddamn lecherous. Yeah, let uh what's what's the word uh oh god.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:36

I'm not attracted to the little girls, I don't have them.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:42

So I hey man, I don't I don't judge. I don't judge your uh what porn you love.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:49

Wow. If I was into that, why would I be on a date with you?

SPEAKER_12 1:03:55

I'm pretty amazing. Uh it's not my fault. That's what gets you going.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:03

Are you gonna wear a skirt like that for me? Sorry, I shouldn't talk. I'm trying to drink things.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:13

Um hey man. You get you get your things out of your head. I ain't no sailor something something.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:23

And I'm not attracted to that. I wanted to be that when I was a kid. It's like I wouldn't want to have magical.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:32

So you're the one that's gonna wear those, uh, wear one of those skirts? Nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:38

Why?

SPEAKER_12 1:04:42

I just wanna know.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:43

Are you into that?

SPEAKER_12 1:04:44

I just think that's hey man. It's uh I'm not the one with all the mini um the collectibles about it. Oh this really At this point you hear Wispy and Flame Wismung come back over as flame uh is playing with uh spoons as Wispy is playing with forks.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:10

Oh! See Okay, you guys are getting along.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:16

Yeah, it's good times. Wispy just showed me his whole stash. It was really cool, you know, apart from the dead body. There's a Swispy nods in agreement.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:26

Wispy, please bring my stuff back in here.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:33

Starts moving back.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:35

There's a dead body!

SPEAKER_12 1:05:37

It's alright. Yeah, it's alright. He's super dead, he's not getting back up.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:43

Okay, you like how super dead, like like fresh or like oh shit, there's been a dead guy over there for like you wouldn't know what the gay looks like. You don't watch the law in order.

SPEAKER_11 1:05:56

I'll go take a look. Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:03

Shh. Uh in about a minute. About three weeks.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:11

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how you didn't smell it through your walls.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:17

There's a lot of flowering plants. Okay. Um I'm sorry, I have to go climb onto my neighbor's balcony and start throwing my shit back in here because I'm not letting the world union people.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:29

I probably wouldn't do that if I were you.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:31

Why?

SPEAKER_12 1:06:33

That's how you leave evidence that you were over there? They can get Digimon fingerprints.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:42

I can't afford it.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:47

Jem, can you help? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:55

The Digimon start moving shit back.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:58

Over the course of 20 minutes. Thereabouts they get everything back over. It does have a weird must to it, including like your clothes.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:08

Have a little bit of a That's fine, I can afford the laundromat. I'm going to afford the laundromat. Okay, great. Call is all of my stuff back.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:21

Why do you need the laundromat?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:25

My clothes smell like that person.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:29

You don't have any detergent? Just wash them in your bathtub and then hang them on your line.

SPEAKER_15 1:07:37

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:07:40

He walks outside and pulls uh a clothesline that you didn't even know you had.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:47

Is that what that strain is for?

SPEAKER_12 1:07:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:53

How long has that been there?

SPEAKER_12 1:07:56

I presume the whole time.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:04

I thought it was for curtains.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:07

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:09

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:08:13

Sometimes you run into someone who truly does not understand the world. And that is you, Shelly.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:20

I know. I think I mean I'm Why are you on my you know what? It's fine. It's fine, whatever.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:30

Where else am I gonna sit?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:31

Sit on my desk.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:35

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:37

Yeah, that's that's fair. Well Um, hey wispy. Do me a favor. Would you be willing to play on the balcony and watch and make sure Taca's car doesn't come back?

SPEAKER_12 1:09:10

A deep sigh comes out as he heads out on the balcony.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:15

I'm gonna go lock my apartment door and check on my Savitama. Does my brother have location enabled?

SPEAKER_12 1:09:25

No.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:27

Make sure it's turned off on mine. Like I imagine it would be since she was trying to keep her family from knowing and just double checking. It's definitely off. He's he's my brother. I never told my family where I lived when I moved out, and then he just showed up here. Because apparently my father hired private investigators to find out where I lived, and so they've known I've lived here since the first day, and he just showed up without calling, texting, anything, and sounds like they really care.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:04

Are you being sarcastic?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:10

Which would you prefer?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:13

I'd prefer sarcasm, but honestly, I'm trying to figure everything out because it's like I was convinced that the moment my family figured out where I lived, they would try to break my lease out from under me and sell all of my stuff and make me move back home, and they haven't done that. They've let me be here for a year and a half, so I was clearly wrong, but like I don't know.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:45

I mean, why would they need to? They know where you are. They obviously don't need to make you come back.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:54

It's just it's been six days? Five days? I don't know, since the last time that my mother told me to move back into the mansion and quit my job and let her buy me a better one from one of her friends and all this stuff, so like they have made it very clear that they don't approve of me trying to do stuff. You asked why they would they need to like make me move back in with them.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:51

I don't I don't think you need to move back in with it.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:54

I don't want to.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:57

Then don't.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:58

I'm not gonna, but the point was not what I want to do. The point was why did I think that they were gonna do that to me? It's because they say shit like this to me, and they've been saying shit like this to me my whole life.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:15

People can say whatever they like to you. It doesn't matter unless they have anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:23

I just don't back to the thing from earlier. I just don't want to end up completely alone. And yes, I have Digimon now. It's been a wild week, and I appreciate it, but there's some things that they don't understand that people understand, and I feel creepy and weird trying to like Well, not trying to, I'm not doing it, but like if I was going to try to have my Digimon actually like take care of all the stuff, you know? We came back to the base last night, and uh Alina checked on me and like patted my head and stuff. Like you see people do on TV or the movies, and it was nice. I'm not gonna tell Gemon, hey, I'm sad, please pet my head.

SPEAKER_12 1:13:24

Walks over and pats your head. Well fuck. We're all here for you. Lamp ladders aren't just a bunch of fuckers that just hang out sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:46

Yeah, but this is kind of the point, like I don't know. The money that I was saving up that got stolen from me overnight Sunday was like first month's rent and a deposit and like furniture money and stuff for a bigger place because I was kinda hoping to um shit. I think I'm gonna sound extremely pathetic if I actually just tell you this.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:35

You're already pretty pathetic in this situation.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:42

So just go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:48

I was gonna try to rush into relationships so that when they go to the stupid prison egg next year, I won't be completely alone out here. And there's a part of me that is pissed off that I that I didn't just give that creep what he wanted last night because what if that was my chance? Like what if nobody else is gonna like me because I'm a trash person and so only trash people are gonna want to be around me, and I don't want to be completely alone, and there's a lot that I can tolerate if it means that I don't have to be completely alone, but I just hate that there's even a part of me that's considering it.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:46

Stop it.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:47

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:15:48

Stop crying. Stop!

SPEAKER_05 1:15:51

You had this whole thing at the store about how I should feel emotions, and now they're too much again.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:00

You're allowed to feel emotions. You're not allowed to feel sorry for yourself. You're oh you're not allowed to fucking think lies or truth. You're not uh you're not alone? We're here. I'm right here. So you uh you can't be alone, because alone means you have nobody. So get that shit out of your head.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:26

It's not like you're just gonna be here every day though.

SPEAKER_12 1:16:29

Yes I am. Boom, already done. After I get my bread and shit, I'm coming here to cook it.

unknown 1:16:45

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:16:47

No, uh. You need someone to be here? I'll be here. You want uh you want someone to talk to? I'm uh I'll get Lena on the phone and Lena will fucking talk to you for three hours whilst we go work out with her. You want someone to I'll talk you through how to fix a supper toma? I'll find Simon and Simon will come here and work on your bullshit with you. Me and Tommy'll come here every fucking second day to make sure you know how to cook.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:23

You're uh you're gonna tell Tommy you've been coming over to my place.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:29

Tell Tommy everything. Tomanaga is my boy.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:35

Okay. Well, since he can't keep your secrets worth shit, I should just assume everybody else is also gonna know it, but that's okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:45

Anyone who thinks Tomanaga can't keep a secret doesn't know Tomanaga.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:50

Ah he's told me multiple things that you told him.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:58

Yeah. But that's not secrets, that's just shit that I told him.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:04

You were okay with him telling me that you thought I was cool in high school? You wanted me to know that. But was that a secret? Because it felt like a secret at the time.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:23

If it was oh, if it was meant to be a full secret, we would have never hung out. Maybe maybe I tell Tommy things and he knows what things other people should know. What he can tell. He's not terrible at this.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:51

Okay. You know, to be fair, to be fair to him, he did keep your uh cover story about yesterday, and also won't tell me whatever the history you two have is, so I guess he does keep secrets.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:13

That's not something you need to know about.

SPEAKER_17 1:19:17

What isn't?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:22

What our history owl history.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:28

It depends.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:32

It's not gonna come back to fight bite you.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:35

No, but in person it'll affect it me.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:40

Yeah, and if this gets too serious, then stuff that affects you is gonna affect me. So at that point I do need to.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:01

Man, you're lame.

unknown 1:20:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:07

So lame, you wanna be serious with me? Why you whoa. What a lame wad. He spins your chat.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:17

I'm gonna roll grit.

SPEAKER_16 1:20:22

Not that there's any reason to roll grit, I'm gonna roll this is an 11.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:31

No, is it bad? Like, take tokens bad.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:37

No, I never asked for it. Do I get foul a thing? You intended to.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:45

I don't intend to fail. I'm just vibe-checking, man.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:49

No, no, not intend to foul. You can't foul a thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:53

I can't get tokens on rolls that I call for.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:56

Your choice? Yeah, pretty much. Otherwise, I would be sitting here like, I'm gonna roll brains to roll brains.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:05

Okay, what do I get? Vibe check with an eleven.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:11

He honestly, with an eleven, you don't get a ton from him. There's a bit of like he finds you very serious in this moment, and he's just trying to joke around.

SPEAKER_18 1:21:26

Okay, that's fine. Then I'll drop it.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:38

You so you seem so in your head about everything.

SPEAKER_16 1:21:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:49

Did I say something wrong?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:51

Huh? Did you say something wrong?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:55

No? Oh, well. Sometimes you say stuff and I can't tell how serious it is or not serious it is, and I am just choosing not to.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:13

Is this because I called you lame?

SPEAKER_18 1:22:15

No.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:19

Cause I just want you to know I am serious. You're very lame.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:28

I wish you had not used the word seriously.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:30

You're like the lamest dude I know. I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:34

I know. I understand this is gonna be the only time we do this. It's fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:45

Um yeah, I uh it took a while after graduation to like come to terms with the fact that I had uh wasted my chance, I guess. And then I moved on with my life and maybe just let me get through this and then you can But I like talking. Okay, fine. You can interrupt me and then I'll just get thrown off and I won't say the thank you. No, go ahead.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:24

I just want to ask questions.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:25

Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. What is it?

SPEAKER_12 1:23:28

Wasted your chance for what?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:29

Being friends with you.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:32

Oh. I wouldn't have been friends with you back in high school.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:37

Ouch.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:38

And that's not about you. I wouldn't have been friends with anyone in high school. I you think that you missed out. I pushed people away. Not because I didn't want friends or anything like that, but there was more important things to me than ever talking to anyone. I felt uh people think that I hold a grudge to all the people who like bullied me. I couldn't give a fuck about them. I don't remember a single one of them.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:15

Oh, well that's good.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:20

Whereas I remember you because it seemed like everything that I did, the amount that I worked and how hard I put every effort into things, how uptight and stringent I was, and it just felt like you were the opposite. You didn't I don't I don't want to say you didn't care, but like you didn't have to care.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:54

Not at school.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:55

And not yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:58

At school, I was just uh a prop for Haraka and Rain, and I got through the day, and then the other stuff happened at home. Uh my older brother is a genius, so everything just came to him, and then that kind of set my father's expectations. And the this stuff just did not come to me, but I should be capable of the same thing, because I'm also his child, so couldn't have his DNA being inferior. So uh I was supposed to get A's and everything as well. I was supposed to be on the advanced track and everything as well. And I couldn't do it. And so it wasn't too long before stuff just got taken away. Hanging out with friends, that's a distraction. You can't you can't do that until you get your grades up. You wanted this thing for your birthday or for a holiday? Well, fuck you. I bought you another year of private tutoring for math because you're behind. You should be happy, it's an investment in you. Couldn't go to the class trips, couldn't go to parties, couldn't date anybody, even if I wanted to. Continued all the way up through college, just these are things that smart people get to do. If you just were better, I wouldn't have to push you so hard. And uh school for better or worse, it's a place that my father didn't interact with me directly.

SPEAKER_17 1:26:55

So I guess in some ways it was a break, but I mean...

SPEAKER_12 1:27:18

you're you seemed free, there was a literal moment where you were the only person I saw. And it had nothing to do with you at school, with whoever the fuck they were, Haruka. Don't even know who that is. Uh some weirdo.

SPEAKER_15 1:27:41

She was one of the athletes. And but that doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_12 1:27:46

Ugh. And whoever Rin is, they sound dumb. Did they beat me in grade? No. They'll beat me up for being the smartest. Well, obviously they're shit at what they did. But It didn't matter about them, and it didn't matter about anything else. When I saw you, and everything seemed to click, was when I saw you drawing. Cause at that moment, I don't know what your dad's talking about, you not being smart as your brother. Cause fuck me, did I just hate you for a minute? Cause no matter how much I drew and how much time I spent dealing with art, I watched you and you just did it. I I went home that day and I tried to draw the exact thing you drew, and I had a breakdown.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:50

Oh no.

SPEAKER_12 1:28:51

Because I just could not do it. And then every time in art class I would watch you draw. And I would freak out about how I couldn't do it. Until it got to a point that I wasn't freaking out anymore. I was just watching. If your dad thinks you don't have talent or you're not smart or anything like that, he's a fucking moron because you are a genius. I don't know how you do it. And it pains me. Well, if that's I got into the egg mainly due to an art scholarship.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:41

What? Good for you. I think. You came back out, so I don't know whether. Did it upset you that I called it the prison egg? Did you like it in there?

SPEAKER_12 1:29:57

He seems to just head goes down as he. It's not really that great. Okay, but fantastic. Not because of the egg. But regardless, I got into that and I felt like such a goddamn fraud. Cause the more I looked at every piece of art I created, and the more people were like, This is awesome, all I could sit there and think is, I'm not the best. Your brother? If that's how he makes you feel, I can see how frustrating that is. But at the same time, I think in time when things became what they were, I just started to feel like maybe it didn't. I didn't have to be the best. I didn't have to compare to you anymore. I couldn't compare to you. Not there. And so eventually I just started thinking, who am I?

SPEAKER_17 1:31:25

And what was the answer?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:31

I'm working that out.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:36

But right now, I'm the guy sitting on a really weak ass mattress with no blankets on it.

SPEAKER_08 1:31:45

Bro!

SPEAKER_12 1:31:47

In a cute girl's apartment that her Digimon has stolen all her shit out of and put in with a dead body.

unknown 1:31:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:55

And she can't even fucking cook. What a sad life.

SPEAKER_18 1:32:00

You called me cute.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:03

I also said you can't cook.

SPEAKER_18 1:32:06

Which is true.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:06

I really I really neg the shit out of you. There's no- I also called that sad.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:13

It it is. Sorry, I don't get offended by the truth. People have said multiple times with you, with Lena, with Keo, like, oh, they're being mean. I hope they didn't say anything that upset you. Don't worry about it and whatever. And it's like. Why would I be upset? I'm not as good at you I as you I do suck. Like, whatever the thing is, that they're they're shouting at me. Yeah, it's true.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:41

The moment that you think that's true, you're fucking kidding yourself.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:47

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:32:48

Because you're way cooler than Keomori.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:51

Oh, she didn't say she was cooler than me. She said, We're not on the same team because I'm better than you, which is true.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:59

That's not true at all.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:01

It is.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:01

She's not better than you. She's a piece of shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:04

I've been doing this for a week. Objectively, skill-wise, she is.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:10

Skill-wise, she's a piece of shit. Fuck her.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:15

I disagree, but I think she's dumb. Because she left you guys behind, and you've been more welcoming than pretty much any other group of people that I've met. Like, she could have had something incredibly valuable and she threw it away for what? Prestige? I don't that stuff doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:45

Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:46

That's right. Stuff doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:54

Thank you for what you said about my art.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:02

You probably don't remember all of the stuff that I made, and that's fine. There was a while there in like our second year where I was trying to talk to you through paper.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:12

He pulls out his sapatama, moves something across. It is glitching heavily as he goes in and throws it to you. Uh, it is a photo album.

unknown 1:34:25

What?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:28

You look it's art. Those are all the pieces I tried to recreate. None of them are right. Is it pictures of all of it?

SPEAKER_05 1:34:38

Is it pictures of my art or pictures of his attempt?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:43

It's a picture of his attempt at your art.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:48

From when you were in school.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:51

She's gonna swipe through that while she's listening to him until she gets to the C one that I've written a description of. I'm telling you that because there's like a hologram screen, so you potentially can see that, but go ahead and keep talking.

SPEAKER_12 1:35:06

Mm-hmm. Uh the C one that yeah, you slide through. Uh, it is a whole thing in there. Uh he just goes he goes quiet with it as you look.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:22

No, I want to hear what he's saying. I'm just telling you.

SPEAKER_12 1:35:27

He's he's not saying anything, he's letting you look.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:31

Sure.

SPEAKER_12 1:35:36

You get to the one that knew uh the So yeah, I can describe it if you want. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:46

Um, so it's an underwater scene. The bottom portion of it is like um a coral reef with animals on it. It's very loose and organic and everything, and there's like uh almost like a light source down towards the bottom, which is weird. You would think that there would be more light at the surface of the water, but it actually gets darker as you get closer to the surface. Um at the surface, there is a mess of like foam and stuff, and then one of the corners, there's the only like symmetrical perfect thing in the painting, which is I'm assuming you have these two, but we have like these plastic ring things, so if you buy like a six-pack of drinks, they'll have like plastic binding around the necks of the bottles or whatever. If you don't, it's trash. But um, they're perfect symmetrical circles, clear, straight lines. This is the only thing that's precise. The rest of it is loose and organic, and there's places where maybe it's a bit uneven, it's a bit asymmetrical, but any mistakes in the line work are just integrated into the piece itself.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:29

And she just stares at it. Well, at his version of it, but that's what it looks like.

SPEAKER_12 1:37:37

His version? So a lot of his art looking at this, he's good. He's really good. However, looking at it, it literally feels like someone has taken a piece of art and thrown it into like an AI, essentially. It's like it's cleaner, it's lines are better, things are just like outright. If you like put it there, it's picture realistic. It doesn't feel right. Like, it doesn't convey anything that you were there, the uh the like things in view, the th uh all the things you were talking about are sort of like lesser defined because they're so defined.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:38

The plastic rings floating there are now a lot heavily visible withn amidst the foam.

SPEAKER_12 1:38:48

The uh sunset, its colour hue has been changed ever so slightly to be more realistic, but not there. It's the factor of someone painting without the feeling.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:02

Yeah, I wrote down technically correct, but no soul. Because I think that's basically what you're saying.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:08

Essentially.

SPEAKER_12 1:40:08

He walks over, takes his sapatama, moves it across, uh, and sends you a picture. This is not a picture of the thing he just showed you. This is a picture of the real one. How do you think I copied you? I'll tell you. I took pictures of all of your things. Hoping I would get some sort of understanding of how to do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:42

I uh my parents did not communicate that I only had 48 hours to get my stuff out of my room when I left. I moved out on a Saturday and set up here and went to work on a Monday, and then went back to their house the next weekend, and my father had thrown all of my stuff in the incinerator. I didn't bring the painting because I thought it would get damaged in my car. And he burned it.

SPEAKER_17 1:41:34

I'm not going to my mother's birthday party.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:51

For my family to work. And the moment it stops being okay to talk about me like this in order to treat my stuff like this, then I'm going to get angry. And I can't afford to get angry at the only people that I have, but they're not the only people anymore.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:13

That's right.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:19

I can't believe you still had it. I never took a picture because I had the real one, you know.

SPEAKER_12 1:42:28

Yeah, fuck you for that. Would have been way easier to copy if I had the real one. Seen every brush stroke. How to do every bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:44

I thought about recreating it, but it was meant to tell my parents that I cannot live in captivity.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:58

And they burned it. And there's a poetry in like my greatest attempt to try to communicate me. Destroy. I just don't have the heart to do it again.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:17

You don't have to.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:37

In a while because all of my paint I uh splattered across my balcony a few days ago, and I am not gonna be able to afford more for a bit, because I have loan payments.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:52

I don't really paint much anymore. Just a draw now.

SPEAKER_17 1:43:56

Just an offer.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:00

I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_17 1:44:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:33

Like Sure, you're always dumb.

SPEAKER_17 1:44:37

I know.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:39

Yeah. But you're not dumb, dumb.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:43

Just you know gonna have to come along behind all of your insults, because I will just accept them all as true.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:55

Well then. Keep telling you which ones are s oh which ones are wrong.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:02

Um. But yeah, I told you you uh You beat me for the first art contest because I half-assed it. Sorry, that sounds arrogant. I did half-ass it, and you beat me.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:19

Don't worry. I know.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:21

Okay. Well, it was like I know you half-assed it.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:25

I was pissed. You didn't even for days.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:31

I'm sorry. I didn't know there was competition. I never half-assed it again after that, if that makes you feel like that.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:38

That's the problem. There was no competition to you. To me, it's all that mattered.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:45

No, I mean, like, that was our first one of high school. You didn't go to middle school with me. You saw what the other kids in our class were capable of. I used to win first without trying.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:01

I know. That's why I was pissed. Why? Because you because even though I won, I could tell I didn't deserve to win.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:13

You did. The first one I could tell the Hey, I let you talk.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:21

No, you go ahead. You go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:24

The first one was like a scene from daily life and whatever. So not only did your piece stick out because all of the stupid rich kids are like drawing a car or a pool or something dumb.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:43

But like.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:47

Sorry. Just like walking down the hallway and it's stupid rich stuff, stupid rich stuff, stupid rich stuff. Mine's even stupid rich stuff. And then you had like a plant growing out of a crack in the concrete and a pothole full of water with this oil sheen on it, and the iridescence on the oil. Has bothered me since the beginning. Because, because your your transition of me between colors is like really subtle. And it was exactly how it looks. And I thought this guy actually sees the world when he looks at it. You know? Actually hears when he listens, is not just living in a daze like these other people. And I still can't do gradients like you. That's why don't use colored pencils because they suck. But it was striking and it was different. Huh?

SPEAKER_12 1:47:56

Nah. That's just another thing. It's just it's just technique. It's just shit I'd read, things I learned. You know what that uh that whole thing was supposed to be daily life?

SPEAKER_04 1:48:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:48:13

I've never even seen something like that. What? That wasn't my daily life. That was just bullshit.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:22

But the veins on the leaf was just like.

SPEAKER_12 1:48:31

I was meticulous. But I'd never seen anything like that. I'd never thought of anything like that. I just got reference images, put them together, because I knew that would win. I have been everything. If I drew my fucking daily life, it wouldn't be as fun as that. Wouldn't be beautiful. What did you want me to draw? Kid with burn marks on his skin? Uh cupboard with nails in it? Ain't nobody gonna give that first place.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:16

Cupboard with nails?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15 1:49:23

What's that for?

SPEAKER_01 1:49:27

So you don't keep moving.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:35

If your parents weren't dead, I would never mind.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:41

Don't Don't go there.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:45

I already did on Friday, but you know, maybe we don't need to talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:52

We definitely don't need to talk about that.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:57

My parents were messed up. They weren't great people, but they didn't deserve what happened. Nobody did.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:15

This is too fucking deep.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:17

Sorry.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:17

We should go. Tom and Aga said we should go to cafe, and then I told him I don't have money, and he said cafe serves water. So could we go to a cafe?

SPEAKER_04 1:50:35

We go to a cafe, I'm gonna wanna buy stuff.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:39

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:40

Would you take it?

SPEAKER_12 1:50:40

It's not good then. Let's go for a walk in the park.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:44

Have you eaten today?

SPEAKER_12 1:50:47

Yeah, I hadn't uh I had the same thing you just did.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:52

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:53

I don't cook and not eat.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:56

Well, you did with the bananas.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:57

Uh that's work. You don't get high on your own supply. Also Yeah, that's that's a quick way to lose business.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:51:07

I have been eavesdropping the whole time.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:10

That's fine. I just wanted to make sure my brother wasn't coming back. Okay, great, cool. Uh, the donuts that are still here were for you. I was really excited that yesterday was our first day as friends. And so I bought them. So we were gonna hang out yesterday morning, and then I did not offer your portion to Lena because I don't need her knowing that some days I just eat sugar. But if you want them, uh, there's still like three.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:47

I ain't gonna say no to free shit.

SPEAKER_17 1:51:49

Okay. They're in the kitchen.

SPEAKER_12 1:51:54

Takes them. Gives them to Flame Liz who puts them in the bag that they had previously.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:01

Good. Yeah, we can go walk in the park, sure.

SPEAKER_12 1:52:08

Sounds good. So, over the course of the next few hours, you go for a walk in the park. Is there anything else you would do on your agenda? It's pretty you know, nice, not crazy. Um There's moments that use talk between. If you if you want to say anything, you could.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:30

I think if we're going to a park, if it has a playground, I am probably going to play with my Digimon. Oh, it does. Like push them on the swims and stuff. Because they're still kids, after all.

SPEAKER_12 1:52:47

You do, and they have a wonderful time. Uh yeah, honestly, hours spring by. I'm not gonna go deep into the depths of the game.

SPEAKER_18 1:52:59

Yeah, this is like have a 10, 12 hour long thing.

SPEAKER_12 1:53:05

Yeah. Um nothing special happens whilst you're playing with them at the park. It's pretty decent, pretty chill. Fun day.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:19

So I'm gonna have to eat again eventually. And uh I I don't think I want to see my family today. I was going to go to the party. I honestly plan to tell you, like, hey, I need to be done at five. Um but that didn't work out. So I can I don't know if you want to just keep hanging out, but I can figure out what to do for dinner. But, um, there's you don't want to somewhere I need to take you at nine o'clock.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:14

Alright. What are we spending the whole day together?

SPEAKER_05 1:54:19

Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:24

Alright. That's fine.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:26

Can I buy you dinner since I actually have money? It would be weird for me to buy food and then eat it in front of you.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:40

You could make us dinner. That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:55

You can buy us dinner, but today only.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:59

Okay. But condition before the next cooking lesson, you go grocery shopping. And uh you help me figure out what I need to actually buy, because I don't know what goes in anything.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:16

I'll get Tom and I'll get to send you a list.

unknown 1:55:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:22

I'd send you a list myself, but I don't understand texting. I never will.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:28

If you get him to if Okay, what are the odds he's just gonna show up with all of his stuff purchased for me so that I don't have to do it? I worry.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:38

That's a 50-50 chance. But that's the world we live in.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:52

Okay, well. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:59

Yeah. Um don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:06

You sure you're not like I don't know. Bored annoyed, miserable, uncomfortable, any of that stuff. What would I Because it's me?

SPEAKER_12 1:56:18

Why would I be miserable?

SPEAKER_05 1:56:20

Because it's me. And I'm lame.

SPEAKER_01 1:56:27

Yeah, you're lame, but you're not like boring.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:36

Please tell me you're not just like here because you need entertained, and I'm entertaining. I already have somebody else who just treats me like entertainment.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:55

If I needed you because you're entertaining, I would be shit out of luck as fuck. You are so lame.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:08

You can say it, it's okay. Yeah, uh, he only seems to be happy when I am actively stressed out or overwhelmed or run down. Which he thinks is entertaining. Uh I realize That sounds stupid. Yeah. Oh, hey, just in case, um Does it make sense to you that sometimes I need time to rest after stuff's been really stressful and I don't want to just go do adventures every day, all day.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:51

I I couldn't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:53

Yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:55

If you you need a rest, you need a rest. That's just like vectors. Yeah. That gives us time to hang out.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:06

Hell yeah, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:12

Also got called boring.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:17

That's just because you're boring. Hey, she's not boring Flame Whiz. I'm sure he's lame.

SPEAKER_14 1:58:25

Boring him though.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:28

I am pretty bored here.

SPEAKER_11 1:58:33

And she hasn't interacted with me, like once.

SPEAKER_14 1:58:40

Sorry. What would you like to do? We'll walk over to him.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:46

Well, first off, you've you've given Tojuro a heart-to-heart. Where's my heart to heart? Oh, sorry, buddy. He stopped walking off.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:56

Um, do either one of you guys want to hang out with Tojiro right now? Just checking. This is your chance.

SPEAKER_12 1:59:05

Whispy goes back to the playground.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:07

That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_18 1:59:08

Gem? Playground with Wispy?

SPEAKER_11 1:59:10

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_18 1:59:11

Or go meet.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:12

Yes, please.

SPEAKER_18 1:59:13

Alright! Cool.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:59:17

Hit me with the deep emotion.

SPEAKER_18 1:59:19

Sure. Yours or mine?

SPEAKER_12 1:59:22

Yours, yours. I mean I'm waiting for you to start crying so I can dispense wisdom.

SPEAKER_16 1:59:29

Okay. But before I start.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:32

Uh I'm never gonna tell anybody about your s your smoke form or your fire form, even though they were both adorable. Okay? It's fine.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:44

You better not. You better not.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:47

I'm not. I I'm glad you're okay. I just thought you were really cute. And I don't know why you don't like those forms, but you don't get to call me cute! Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:58

Not cute. I'm cool!

SPEAKER_05 1:59:59

Hey, we're in a heart-to-heart! I get to see what I feel, man! That's how this works.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:08

That's not how this works! You don't get to call me cute!

SPEAKER_05 2:00:18

But yeah, no, just the little forms. I drew the picture of you because I thought you looked really awesome when you were making that fireball, and I actually took a picture even though it was in the middle of the fight, and I feel a little bit bad about it, but man, did it help with the details?

SPEAKER_18 2:00:35

I haven't had time to get to the second artwork you requested, though, yet, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:42

I what? Find you impossible. How dare you not have it ready to go?

SPEAKER_07 2:00:53

Yesterday was a rough day.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:59

It doesn't matter how rough the day is, you still get the work done. I take care of- Do you think we don't have rough days?

SPEAKER_02 2:01:06

I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 2:01:08

We have all the rough days.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:01:14

I've been out here going crazy with uh Tojuro and me fighting over bananas for the last 70 weeks. But we still get it done.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:30

See, you know, I bought you the bananas you wanted so you could make a test run of the product your way and see if it did actually sell better. Give me a cut of the profits if you feel like it. I don't need that, but it was just, you know.

SPEAKER_12 2:01:50

You don't get my money!

SPEAKER_04 2:01:53

We didn't want charity.

SPEAKER_18 2:01:54

I was just anyway. It's fine.

SPEAKER_12 2:02:00

It's fine, it's fine. Now hurry up with the life-altering uh field trip.

SPEAKER_18 2:02:06

Life altering stuff, okay.

SPEAKER_12 2:02:10

Lena got one, Amanaga had one, where's my one?

SPEAKER_05 2:02:17

I'm not sure what you'd even be interested in.

SPEAKER_12 2:02:19

Dispense some wisdom.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:21

Wait, you want I thought you wouldn't dispense wisdom to me.

SPEAKER_11 2:02:25

No, no, because you changed their lives, so you have to have been saying something, right?

SPEAKER_05 2:02:31

Wait, I changed their lives. What?

SPEAKER_12 2:02:35

Yeah, do you not notice that? No. I'm the only person with eyes on this team.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:42

I mean, to be fair, I don't know them from before I knew them. And I don't know what they're like when I'm not around because I'm always around when I'm around. But okay. Um I really want to know why you don't like your little forms. They're just a little forms.

SPEAKER_10 2:03:15

It's not me. I'm me.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:18

How's it not you? We all have sides of ourselves that aren't great, but like you will always be this, even if you're little.

SPEAKER_12 2:03:30

Do you like being little you?

SPEAKER_05 2:03:33

It's not my favorite, but I know it's gonna pass.

SPEAKER_11 2:03:37

What a that's that's not an answer. Then you're not okay with being little you! You wanna become big you.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:46

I guess. But I'm not embarrassed of little me, because it's just a part. If I was, I wouldn't be crying in front of people.

SPEAKER_11 2:03:54

Then why would you be why did you cry in front of Tojuro about how bad it was back when you were kids?

SPEAKER_05 2:04:01

Just I feel safe enough to actually let him know that I get hurt by stuff. I don't have a lot of people that I feel that safe with.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:13

See, that was that was the kind of like little You're not really changing my life with this information.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:20

I don't think I changed their lives either. But I just wanted you to know no matter what you look like, I still see this, she gestures at him. When I look at you. If you get bigger or smaller, you're still this, and you're still really, really cool.

SPEAKER_12 2:04:48

I am pretty cool.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:50

I know.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:51

But I'm cool as I am, not as I was.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:57

Why just like this?

SPEAKER_00 2:05:01

Okay then.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:02

What? You're not gonna tell me.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:07

I don't know anymore.

SPEAKER_18 2:05:09

It's okay.

SPEAKER_12 2:05:10

This field trip is over. My life-changing field trip didn't change my life. No, I'm sorry, buddy. That sucks.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:33

Change the other people's lives. I don't think that's real.

SPEAKER_12 2:05:40

There's time goes on, uh, you go into the night, you go have a meal. At some point you would get uh your supper timer would start blowing up unless you turned it to like do not disturb.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:57

Is it my family?

SPEAKER_12 2:05:59

It is your uh it is your father, mainly.

SPEAKER_17 2:06:07

What time is it?

SPEAKER_12 2:06:10

Around five, five thirty when the first call comes in.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:20

I'm thinking does he leave a voicemail?

SPEAKER_12 2:06:32

No, he just hangs up and calls again. Just over and over.

SPEAKER_05 2:06:38

I wanna set my phone to do not disturb after the third one.

SPEAKER_17 2:06:45

Just put it back in my pocket.

SPEAKER_12 2:06:50

So Drew doesn't ask questions as the night becomes uh you have a decent meal, a good time as you head into that night.

SPEAKER_18 2:07:12

We're keeping company with that.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:18

You're good. Doesn't affect me. I'm happy to hang out.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:27

Seems like an easy thing to do.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:30

You would think. Okay.

SPEAKER_18 2:07:34

Um, do you wanna know where we're going beforehand, or do you want to be surprised when we get there?

SPEAKER_03 2:07:48

Because you trust me enough to go, apparently, which is good.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:53

I don't need to know where we're going.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:59

I trust you.

SPEAKER_04 2:08:02

Might regret that. I'm gonna take him to the bar.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:08

You take him to the bar as he. I know this bar. Lena comes here all the time.

SPEAKER_18 2:08:13

She does. We're going in the back.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:17

Why are we going in the back?

SPEAKER_04 2:08:19

I know a guy, and I'm gonna open the back door, go into the storage room, move the barrel, and go down the ladder.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:30

Please head down the ladder. Head down. Uh, as you come into the space here. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 2:08:38

Ah! I what happened to me? I just moved myself there I am. Clustering my people on the left, there would be space for Tojiro.

SPEAKER_18 2:08:58

Oh, stand like Ezra.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:03

Tojuro, Flame Wisp. All come in as this place is packed full. They're not here.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:15

I was wondering.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:17

Like, oh just a fuck ton of people all around, people sitting down drinking, all of that. Music is playing as Sojura looks around and sees flies as he. Oh my god! Oh my god, it's Vex playing! Oh my god! I don't know what this morning.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:39

I thought since it didn't work out yesterday.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:41

I'm gonna try and get a spots. I'm gonna try and get a spots into the stage. You get us drinks! Keep pushing. They try and push through a mosh bit of people.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:53

Oh, a couple of words at the box.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:58

Uh Gemmon runs in after Tojuro.

SPEAKER_08 2:10:01

Oh, okay. Sure.

SPEAKER_12 2:10:02

Uh I'll put her over there. But as you're there, Wispy does stand there for a second before Wispy looks around and just flies off this way. Excitedly.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:22

Oh, okay. Like good excited.

SPEAKER_12 2:10:26

It seems like it. Okay, can I get you some drinks?

SPEAKER_05 2:10:30

Uh yeah. Um. Can you just give me a couple of beers? Nothing fancier.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:39

Sure. There's two beers out.

SPEAKER_18 2:10:41

Hang on a second, I'm gonna just uh peek around the corner and see where my Digimon is gone. I'm right here.

SPEAKER_12 2:10:48

You see him up here, looking down this way, talking to someone.

unknown 2:10:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 2:10:55

Uh who is hidden by Villa. You see him. You actually hear some like noise coming from here.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:06

Okay. Uh yeah, what do I what do I owe you?

SPEAKER_12 2:11:16

He is bartender.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:22

What do I owe you?

SPEAKER_12 2:11:24

Nothing. I'm the house.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:27

Thank you. I'm gonna pick him up. And like I'm on the stairs.

SPEAKER_18 2:11:35

I know where Tojiro's going, so I'm gonna just uh come down the hall a little bit after wispy and just see.

SPEAKER_05 2:11:46

If I can get all the way up that I can see the person, I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_12 2:11:50

You'd have to get about here before you see the person.

SPEAKER_18 2:11:53

I mean, if nobody reacts as I'm approaching, I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_12 2:11:59

You get there. As walking up you ke. Well, ain't this as sad as you would see polio looking back at you. And that's where we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:25

Fuck this boy.

SPEAKER_04 2:12:37

I thought you were dead, and then I'm like, Shelby doesn't know that. Oh, right.

SPEAKER_11 2:12:43

Uh well Well, hell.

SPEAKER_16 2:12:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:12:54

Meanwhile, in the digital world running from running from death.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:04

Who's running from death?

SPEAKER_12 2:13:08

Everyone.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:09

We won the fight! Pio's mad at me! Pio's mad at me.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:17

And I'm looking forward to seeing my dark dig evolution.

SPEAKER_01 2:13:24

Oh, it's coming. It's coming.

SPEAKER_12 2:13:26

Uh the good thing is, meanwhile.

SPEAKER_09 2:13:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:13:33

Elsewhere.

SPEAKER_18 2:13:35

Oh, it's the server room or whatever.

SPEAKER_12 2:13:40

As a figure walks in, looking down as they spin around on the thing, as it lights up the same indicator, I believe it was this one, that indicated the world that uh good old Sangamon went to, as Varl Island comes up, as this person looks down as they anomaly detect it. As it zooms in, zooms in, zooms in, as Orcumon sits over the top of uh sits over the top of uh Cherimon. As it dispensing the royal knights.

SPEAKER_17 2:14:28

Sounds fine.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:30

That's where we're gonna end the session.

SPEAKER_18 2:14:33

Well that was an emotional roller coaster for me.

SPEAKER_05 2:14:39

And I wonder if the thing that uh Flame Wiz said at the end about me changing people's lives means that Leo's figured out what my element is. Or crest I get or whatever. Fingers crossed.

SPEAKER_18 2:14:57

Hopefully the concert goes well. I almost don't want to talk to Polio because I don't want the plots to interact. I just I just want to go back and be fine and pretend that tomorrow's not gonna be a disaster because I chose not to answer the call from my father.

SPEAKER_05 2:15:21

It occurred to me after session that it could be something really bad, like mom had a heart attack and she's in the hospital or something. Hope not! See you next week. Bye.