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Post by freshstrawberries on Jun 14, 2024 20:07:34 GMT
It would have been so easy for Rabirria to ruin the mood, and by the king it was sorely tempting. Her first mission as a shinigami and she'd had to shove her powers off onto some human teenager? The jokes practically wrote themselves! However, Rabirria had never actually seen a Shinigami relax before, and frankly ruining the mood like that might also ruin her chances to run her little arcade scam with Goku so...probably for the best to play nice and bite her tongue.
"Hmmm we're still going to need a decent amount. Even perfecting all the games they'll only give so many tickets, but a decent amount ain't all or even close. I think there'll be plenty of room to show your pal some of the more interesting games." Those being ones that didn't give tickets but were frankly the more appealing for most people, actual games rather than skee-ball or shooting hoops, or those more electronic ones that were actually straight programmed to only allow a jackpot after a certain number of plays! No scamming those ones...yet but there were still plenty others.
Goku nodded at Raberria’s estimate and looked to his powerless Shinigami friend. “Let’s get enough to play some other games too.” He said with a bright smile, moving to pluck a few notes out of Ai’s hand as she was getting the money out of her purse. “You’ll love the racing games!” The young man added as he turned, running to a change machine to convert the notes into a hefty amount of coins for them trio to use.
The Shinigami nodded and moved to follow, looking up to the Arrancar that was invisible to the naked eye. “So… You’re just a bored anarchist?” She asked, raising an eyebrow to the half-masked menace to society. “I’ve got ro say, I expected you to be a bit taller and more menacing… you look more cute.” She teased, looking forward again to make it look like she wasn’t talking to the ceiling to any random person that was nearby.
Coming back with a pair of cardboard tubs that were filled with coins Goku was like a wrecking ball perfectly designed to interrupt a conversation. “Lets do the skee ball first! Normal then we can do the Rabbie trick.” He said, looking up and giving the arrancar a wink. “Gotta make it look like we are at least trying to not cheat.”
Post by freshstrawberries on Jul 7, 2024 17:57:11 GMT
Between the shinigami's excitement over seeing an arcade for the first time, and Goku's delight at getting to show a (presumably) usually stuffy and cold boss some actual joy and excitement this was looking to be a fantastic afternoon. Rabirria was looking forward to having some fun, rubbing her hands together before Ai spoke up saying something that caught the arrancar completely offguard.
"Anarchist...?" Her head tilted to the side, before Rabirria started quivering, eyes going wide before she hunched over wheezing as she tried to keep herself from bursting out laughing and instead just turned it into desperate giggling. "Ohoho..oho my...ohohohohhahahahahaha!"
She straightened up and then bent backwards, a hand going to her forehead. "Oh I'd be offended if I didn't know you're talking about the popular movie version of an anarchist! Hahahaha..." Goku came back over before she could say more, and she managed to force herself mostly calm.
"Haaa, what are they going to do? Accuse you of using telekinesis but ahhh, perhaps it can serve as a little lesson to Ai in why we're going to be cheating to begin with."
Ai watched how the Arrancar was reacting to her assumption that she was an Anarchist, at first it was confusion but then when she spoke about the movie version it clicked with her. This Arrancar had a formal education, the kind that the average Hollow who had lost its mind in the menos stage wouldn’t have. Either this girl killed a Shinigami just after dying and becoming a Hollow… or she was something way worse. A natural born Arrancar to a high-ranking member of the king’s court. It was then that she put it together and her personality made total sense.
Before she could call the creature out on this Goku returned laden with coins so the group could play their games. “I still don’t think you should be cheating…” She spoke softly, not wanting to discourage the boy she had come to know that had lived such a hard life that he was disillusioned with society.
Goku shrugged and flashed a winning smile. “The way these games are designed the only way to really win is to cheat their system.” He spoke, nodding to Rabirria and her view of showing Ai how it would be good to prove the point. “Yeah, let’s play one or two normal rounds before we cut loose and really empty the machines.” He spoke, moving to the closest basketball machine and pressing a coin into the slot to make it flair to life and release the balls.
“Aim of the game, throw balls into the hoop and that triggers a sensor. The more you get the more tickets come out.” Goku explained, picking up a ball and throwing it with perfect accuracy. He was practiced and his recent spiritual awakening seemed to amplify his base skills. Without looking he picked up a second ball and threw it, relying on his muscle memory and a rhythm to throw the balls into the net at a good pace. It however was only as good as a natural human could do. By the end of the ninety seconds Goku only had one hundred and fifty, giving him the same amount of tickets… his intended prize cost ten thousand.
Post by freshstrawberries on Aug 11, 2024 19:54:42 GMT
If only Rabirria knew what Ai had just pieced together, she'd be delighted. Still she followed Goku to the hoops as she added onto his explanation. "Some games, like these, are relatively fair, and thus give the lowest payout, meanwhile something like that?" Rabirria would gesture towards a distant machine, no higher than hip or stomach if you were short, it was roughly circular, with a large plastic dome over a ring of lights. A single larger light shifted red and was in front of a large button as the lights went on and off in a circle. "If you want I could fetch you the manual that details how to set up how many times it has to be played before you can win. Until that number is met no matter how fast your reflexes you'll always be juuuuust short of the jackpot."
The arrancar walked up to the machine that Goku was playing at watching him throw. "Trust me, paying these guys a few thousand yen for our prizes instead of a few tens of thousands isn't going to hurt them any."
After his first round she clicked her tongue...which definitely sounded weird. "Do you know how to do it the professional arcadester way? Dual wielding the balls? You pick 'em up one hand at a time and just go in a cycle." She lifted her hands up one miming throwing while the other went down to grab an invisible basketball and then lift to throw while the first went down.
Goku looked over to the Arrancar and a competitive fire had been lit within him, a coin was slipped into the slot and the machine came to life. He turned and looked back to Ai and with both hands now he started to throw the balls in a near perfect stream of precision.
“I have been doing this for quite a while.” He spoke, his smile twisting to a wicked grin as he heard the buzzer each time a ball was sunk into the basket. “Since you gave me these powers things have gotten easier… its not cheating I’m just better.” Goku explained, finally shifting his gaze up to Rabirria.
“Which machine did you want to practice your ethereal skills on?” He asked, not even noticing that he had reached his previous score in half the time he had.
Ai watched and genuinely smiled seeing that the man she had royally messed up for was finally letting loose and enjoying himself instead of plastering a smile on his face to keep everyone else around him happy. “C-can I play too?” She asked, wanting to test her skills at this. Whilst she was a highly ranked seated officer of squad twelve, she never got much of a chance to have this kind of fun.