// Wow. They sure are.. up front about it. There's something so jarring (disturbing?) about it just being so... out there? Plain? Casual??

"𝙊𝙝, 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙚"

𝙀𝙡𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙑𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛

𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗉𝖾𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖯𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗒𝖺𝗅, 𝖠𝗅𝗅 𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍𝗌 𝗋𝖾𝗌𝖾𝗋𝗏𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝖠𝗋𝖼 𝖲𝗒𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗆 𝖶𝗈𝗋𝗄𝗌
𝖭𝗈 𝖺𝖿𝖿𝗂𝗅𝗂𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇, 𝗇𝗈 𝖺𝗋𝗍 𝗎𝗌𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗌 𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖾, 𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗄 𝗂𝗇 𝖻𝗂𝗈 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖼𝗋𝖾𝖽𝗂𝗍𝗌~

𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴~!

"𝙎𝙝𝙪𝙩 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚~"

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♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱ ☠︎︎ ♱

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 .ᐟ

𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚑 .

"When was the last time we even sparred? I'm WAY better than I was last time— Anji and I have been practicing all kinds of new stuff."

A brief pause as the ninja seemed to realize something.

"Hell, when was the last time we 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘥? Feels like everything I've heard about you has been second-hand."

I mean- it's not like I'm going to change the name or anything! Tuesday's still gonna be Tuesday.

...thoughidontreallygettheconcernabouttacos

"— it'd be some easy PR, you know?"

"Well yeah, you're... you or whatever you said last time."

As the other stood up, Chipp brought his hand to the back of his neck, rubbing it as somewhat of an awkward habit.

"Sorry if I scared you... I just heard word that there's a demon or something this way and vanquishing it sounds like—

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I really should make Monday part of the weekend... that IS something I can do, right?

// Nothing wrong with taking things easy and giving yourself breaks. Gotta afford yourself the kindness and patience you'd give to others, yeah?

Take care, man.

// Are you alright? Handling it okay?

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so . . . what now ?

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// Granblue is kind of fun. Granted, I was playing as the boss characters, but the game & world seem neat. :)

// I imagine. I've got a few and slowly adding but sheesh. It's impressive!