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“A business in the afterlife? What does it do? Do Spiritually in touch people pay you and your friends to scare people?” Goku asked with a chuckle, his response came quick as images of an old lady being surrounded by people that she cannot see that each held a household appliance in the air and waved them around. That poor old lady was so scared that when one of the spiritual scare squad slammed a door she keeled over dead. It was a great image to have… if you were done with people in general.
“Whoah? Arcade games? Lookout Japan, the baddest Arrancar this side of Kyoto is on the loose!” Goku quipped as he moved closer to the undead woman and pushed his hand forward in a gesture to shake hers. “Sure, I know just the arcade to cheat at.” He said, a glint of mischievousness sparking in his eyes. Goku had a terrible home life and never had any luxuries, his mother never provided him any… hell sometimes meals were a surprise. So, he had taken to games of skill in the arcade where winning tickets could get prizes.
“I’ve had my eye on a Gamezone Five for ages!” He said with a nod, he thrust his other hand into a pocket and pulled out a handful of change. “Ai can get me some money too.” He spoke scheming to get the powerless Shinigami roped into this. She was too much a goody two shoes to do this willingly so some simple white lies were likely in order.
Post by freshstrawberries on Dec 1, 2023 21:56:10 GMT
"Nah we smuggle goods into Hueco Mundo using a device that converts physical matter into spiritual. Some weirdo wants champagne for a party? We go straight to France to get them some." Rabirria replied casually, with no regard to whether he had any idea if there was anything in the hollow realm that necessitated a business such as that.
Her eyes would lift and shift in the way of someone giving a big, happy grin though. "Yeah that's me, no one more threatening than this here delinquent. I'm gonna clean that place out, walk away with you holding every single prize up on the wall and the shirt off of some poor employee's back." She snickered, before listening nodding. "Well, I don't see a reason not to hit up this 'Gamezone Five.'"
She looked at the handful of change and then snickered again. "I could just skip right back to that vending machine and grab some change yanno, or just hit up a new one."
Goku shrugged with the idea of going to kick some vending machines to pinch the cash that was inside of them. While Goku was a delinquent, that money was what paid the wages of some people and while he hated society, he never wanted to get in people’s way like that. He still had a moral high ground to all of this.
With a soft shake of his head, he tapped at his phone. “Don’t Ai owes me for taking over her job as a Shinigami.” He explained as the phone rang in his hand. “She can’t hurt you… I apparently took all of her powers, so she is stuck here until I apparently figure out a way to fix her.” He tacked on, well grumbled as he pressed the dialling phone to his ear.
“Goku?” A melodic feminine voice could be heard on the other end. “Goku where are you? There’s a very big hollow presence right on top of you!” It spoke, tones laced with a fear.
“Hey Ai, don’t worry it’s fine. It’s just Rabirria. She’s a bored Arrancar that just wants to cheat in an arcade, and we need some cash.” Goku replied, smiling brightly as he put on his most calming dad voice. He was radiating that protective kindness despite taking the stance of someone who had little to no cares in the world.
The other side of the phone was quiet for a few moments. “YOU’RE SUCH AN IDIOT!” Ai screamed, loud enough that the speakers on the phone crackled. “Fine, but I’m keeping an eye on this Arrancar, I may be mostly out of power but I can still cast some mean Kido.”
Goku slowly pressed the phone to his ear. “Great! Meet us at the arcade we usually hang out at , the one I’ve been eyeing up that Gamezone Five,” The young man beamed with a big smile to his new friend as the phone was hung up. “Score!”
Post by freshstrawberries on Dec 11, 2023 23:55:38 GMT
"Taking over her what?" Rabirria asked, sounding genuinely surprised for the first time in this conversation, that seemingly unflappable attitude cracking just once. He took her powers? That was a thing? A thing humans could do? Just...take the powers of a shinigami? No, no come on, she was smarter than that. Even if it was a thing that didn't mean it was simple, there was no reason for him to give some detailed explanation of the process.
Still this kid wasn't just one of those humans who could see spirits, he was...somehow borrowing the powers of a shinigami, whatever the hell that meant, and literally had said powerless shinigami on speed dial. He was also going to ask her for money so he could join in arrancar in cheating at an arcade.
Okay, this might just be the best day ever.
Rabirria wasn't the type to eavesdrop and so she could only hear what he said...at least until the woman on the other end started screaming. She started laughing, and she started laughing hard. Her jaws actually parted, showing the dark monstrous mouth within that didn't seem like it should even fit on her skull, her hands went to her stomach and she doubled over laughing.
A shinigami was going to give her money to cheat at arcade games! "Oh yeah...that's a score alright! Hahahahaahaaaaaaaa, hah!" She was having trouble stopping herself, but she could at least straighten up. "Okay, hohoho, hokay, lead the way kid."
The young man watched as he hung up the phone, the arrancar was having a wail of a time after finding out what he was and who he had on his contacts. That wasn’t for him to judge, everything was weird and odd in his new world… however, it was far better than the life he had been leading before this had all started.
“Alright, follow me.” He said with a cheeky smile and a chuckle, while she seemed to be unfazed by most things, he was still a little blown away by the fact Hollows could attain a more human form. Rabirria was a marvel to him, was there a way to make all Hollows like this and not need to fight them? He had no idea how hollows became Arrancar.
Those thoughts continued to plague him as he walked out of the park, leading the mask woman. “How did you get like this? All the hollows I see are a bit monstrous and hunting souls.” Goku said, explaining his lack of knowledge pretty succinctly. Ai only ever taught him about the basics of the soul world, almost as if she assumed she’d get her powers back and leave the young man high and dry to deal with the consequences of the events that had gotten to this point.
“I mean, is it like Pokemon? You win enough fights, eat enough souls and boom, the mask breaks off and you look far better than you used to?” He asked, trying to put it in a more simple light, with a tough of humor.
Post by freshstrawberries on Dec 26, 2023 16:30:57 GMT
Rabirria would calm down from her gleeful laughing eventually, tapering off into simple giggling and chuckling to herself as she nodded and started following him. A shinigami giving her money to cheat at arcades, amazing.
Her partner in crime had some things he wanted to talk about on the way there though. Some very excellent questions too! She wondered about the answer to some of these herself. She'd especially love an answer to the question, 'how did she get like this'. Truly a question for the ages.
"It's one of the great mysteries honestly. I'm not entirely sure why I came out like this either. My mother, now she's a real monster. Not sure how my father, may he rest in peace, survived even a single night with my mother, but he did it at least once and I was born. Honestly if you think this mask looks a bit ill-fitting," her hand would come up and grip the lower edge of her 'jaw' wiggling it, "you shoulda seen what it looked like when I was a toddler."
It was the kind of thing that screamed that she was screwing with him, especially when paired with her behavior so far. It sounded absurd. This was because as far as Rabirria was concerned, it was absurd, completely absurd. Being born an Arrancar? Come on! Of course, she could have helped her story, actually gone into detail about what an Arrancar was and the more conventional methods...but it was more fun to present the truth as this 'obviously fake' story.
Goku listened to the tale of how Rabirria came to be and nodded along… he didn’t know that hollows could even have children. Then again if humans could and presumably Shinigami could, then why couldn’t Arrancar? It was logical… in a way.
“Your mum sounds like a piece of work, something else we have in common. Sorry about your dad though, mine couldn’t take the pressure either.” He said jumping to the conclusion that her dearest dad had bailed on existence the same way his had… though his may have carried on its existence either as a plus and headed to the soul society, forgetting about his former life. Or he became a Hollow.
“I don’t know Rabbie, your mask suits you.” He said with a chuckle as he looked back over his shoulder and then down to his phone to see a text from Ai stating that she had arrived. “You do look pretty fashionable, which I never expected from a dead person.” He added.
Post by freshstrawberries on Dec 29, 2023 18:25:53 GMT
Wait he believed her?! Rabirria was absolutely confident that what she'd said should have sounded to someone uneducated as complete nonsense! Was he just that gullible or was he screwing with her right back by just pretending to believe her wholeheartedly?!
Rabirria sideeyed him, before giving a shrug, hands moving up behind her head as they walked along. "To be honest I never met the guy, doesn't really matter much I suppose." Kid had his own parental problems huh? Was that a prerequisite to be the type of person who'd be totally cool with seeing someone else break into a vending machine?
Heh, there was a lot of literature written discussing that exact topic wasn't there?
"Oh why thanks. I suppose I can't take all the credit though, most of my fashion comes from watching you little humans." She gave a flourish of her large pink coat, which also showed off the winding serpentine tattoo on her left arm, glittering and golden. She brought her hand up to her mask, along the gilded edges. "Decorating masks like this is actually pretty popular back home though, so I guess my fellows have some sense of fashion."
The young mortal delinquent was still leading the way as Rabirria accepted his compliment about her fashion sense and how she got it by observing humans. The comment she made about masks being decorated where she comes from raised so many questions in his head. Did hollows have a society? Cities and towns that operated like the real world, like how Ai said the soul society operates?
“Don’t know what is going to happen to me when I die, but when it happens, I hope I can be as carefree as you.” He said just before turning the corner to see a tall youngish looking woman with long brunette hair that was tied up into a neat ponytail with a red ribbon. Her hair was so long it stopped just behind her knees. She herself was in a fashionable outfit, a close-fitting denim jeans, a white loose t-shirt that had red ribbons woven onto it. Her face however was a picture of annoyance.
She noticed Goku and frowned and then saw Rabirria and the frown deepened before she sighed and walked over. “Gokuro, you are going to be the death of me. You cannot befriend every creature you come across.” She spoke before pulling a purse out of a red leather handbag.
The mortal chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. “Well if you aren’t there to push my out of my body and actually fight some of these threats then I do the next best thing.” He teased and accepted a large wad of cash from the refined girl.
“Your payment for taking care of some Hollows. Don’t spend it all at once.” She said before looking to the Arrancar. “King Dantemus lets you play out now? I thought he hated his subjects leaving Hueco Mundo.”
Post by freshstrawberries on Jan 5, 2024 21:53:07 GMT
"I highly recommend it. It's a real easy two step process." Rabirria replied as he talked about her being carefree. She was going to go on about what those two steps were but then the two rounded a corner and oh. This must be the shinigami! If Rabirria had had lips they'd have stretched into a jaw splitting grin, her eyes certainly expressed impish delight at least.
The cash was handed over, and the woman addressed Rabirria who...threw up her hands and let out a dramatic sound of disappointment. "Awww c'mon! I was gonna tell the kid we were a confederacy with each state having its own absurd elections, and you just blithely reveal we've got a king?! Tsk, lame."
Did this woman actually think arrancar weren't allowed out of Hueco Mundo? Possibly, and if she did, Rabirria dodging the question was going to have implications for her. Implications that Rabirria found funny as hell. What was she going to do if she didn't like it? Go complain to the king?
“Don’t go filling his head with stupid notions, Goku has one job and that’s to fix the mess he caused.” Ai said rather coldly as she moved into try and be between Gokuro and the Arrancar who was clearly a bad influence on her substitute. He was not going to make a good Shinigami if he contorted with the likes of this one, who actively filled his head with lies and misinformation.
The young man looked between the two and chuckled. “It’s fine Ai, Rabirria is just teasing. I’ve taken everything she has said with a pinch of salt. Just like I do with you!” He said, his bright smile and warm chuckle fading rather suddenly when the young woman turned around to him and gave the same cold and annoyed glare to him as she was to Rabirria. “You know I’m good on my promises, I will get you your powers back and beat hollows while doing it… but you didn’t say Arrancar. So Rabbie gets a pass.” He explained, easily jumping through the obvious loophole in the wording so he and Rabirria could be friends that cheated in the arcade.
The primly dressed young woman sighed, acknowledging Goku’s win in this and turned her attention to the arcade. “This reminds me, we should get you a soul candy.” She said, moving to lead the way into the establishment. “Maybe we can hit up that exile and get your new friend a Gigai too, let you both go out on dates.”
Goku raised an eyebrow at the last statement, he could be pretty dense but even he picked up on that twinge of jealously. Ai was not one for being subtle. Something he had learned from the many girls in his school when they had boy troubles was that a jealous woman could be a dangerous force if not calmed down, or a deadly weapon when pointed in the right direction. “If you say so.” However, this was not one of those times as Ai was stubborn when she was in an annoyed mood. It was best to weather this oncoming storm.
Post by freshstrawberries on May 7, 2024 3:36:28 GMT
"I'm pretty sure most people have one job, he's not special." Rabirria said in a faux offended tone of voice, folding her arms and sticking her nose up in the air. "I've got one job too yanno." Then she snickered, putting her hands back behind her head as she kept walking along listening to them chat. Good on him being skeptical, sure it was less fun for her, but it also meant she didn't have to worry about telling particularly stupid lies.
At the mention of gigai though, the arrancar glossed right over the mention of dates and instead focused on something else. "Gigai...them's those fake bodies you shinigami like to use right? Man, I got scared out of my boots the first time I saw one of them pop out. I'm pretty sure I was robbing a bank and some loser was walking down the street, didn't pay them any mind until they collapsed and one of you black-robed buzzkills popped out sword swinging. Hmmm, not sure if I care for the idea of having a "real" body. What sounds funnier, a chef staring in shock as the food they just prepared vanishes off the plate, or actually physically showing up and then dine and dashing..." She rubbed her large, white jaw thoughtfully as she genuinely considered which would be more fun to pull off.