A Devil's Luck

[bondsofsuffering]

Who: Hizumi Mizushiro, Miyako Hotsuin, and YOU
Where: Various places around Hinoto-Ri, most notably Cancer and Pisces districts. Takes place on April 1st for the general open portion and April 6th for the yakiniku dinner because saving log space saves the world.
Summary: Hizumi has obtained a job at a game arcade and is hunting down alternate versions of people both while on and off the job! And later in the week, he treats a certain lady to yakiniku because this is an important dish to experience in your life.
Warnings: Fierce yakiniku parties.

[APRIL 1ST: CANCER DISTRICT]

It's a smaller arcade than most, but that doesn't make its selection any less good. Indeed, some of the more hardcore gamers prefer it, as it has less of those fake gamers with their mainstream games and more of the classics standing side by side with the latest and greatest.

Hizumi's on clerk duty today, but that doesn't stop him from weaving among the customers and generally being friendly and conversational. He doesn't interrupt people during their play of course, but he's quick to crack a joke with anyone around, or even point out flaws in peoples' strategies in the case of a person failing a stage. If you're standing around, he might just end up chatting with you!

"Hey, how's it going?"

[APRIL 1ST: GENERAL]

Once he gets out of work, he'll be wandering around the city, keeping a sharp eye on all of those around him. With all the time he's spent in Hinoto-Ri, he's gotten quite good at telling Visitors from normal civilians, and thus it is these whom he is on the lookout for. If he spots anyone, you can be sure that he'll be casually walking up and greeting them. "Hey! You're a Visitor, right? Think you could help me out a sec?"

[APRIL 6TH: CLOSED TO MIYAKO]

The food is prepared, with slices of various meats and, after much debate, a selection of vegetables on the side. He hasn't begun cooking them on the small table-sized grill, of course - that would have to begin only when his guest had arrived, so that they could enjoy the food when it was at its peak deliciousness.

Which meant that for now, all he could really do was wait for his poor, deprived honored guest to show up.

Comments

let's do this

[capitalbackup]

She have to admit to herself, Miyako's rather curious about yakiniku and did her own research during the two weeks. Despite her initial impressions upon finding out, she refrain from trying them until this evening.

Mizushiro promised her an unforgettable experience, so she honoured it by allowing him to give her that first taste.

After spending the day dragging her brother around for her civilian activities research, Miyako finally allowed her brother to leave before she returned to Pisces's apartment.

Minor timeskip yo

It's now evening when she left her room and walked over to Mizushiro's place. 11-3.

Knock, knock.

Cancer District

[hetried]

Daichi didn't really care about all that hardcore, fake, gamer stuff-- he basically picked which arcade to go to at random if he felt like messing around Cancer on any given day.

Right now, he'd been standing around waiting for his turn on one of the machines, but when Hizumi got his attention, he didn't seem all that bothered if he got distracted from his current goal. The opposite in fact, as he turned and greeted him with a smile and a wave.

"Hey! Pretty good; I'm just loitering around against the better judgement of society while waiting for one of the machines to free up. You?"

/CRASHES THE YAKINIKU PART-- no okay out and about April 1st

[fools_journey]

Minato looks up from the game he was examining and blinks in surprise. "Ah, hello Hizumi." He spies the clerk outfit or nametag or whatever it is that differentiates Hizumi from other patrons. "You're working here?"

April 1st: Cancer District

[frequent_flyer]

It was only a matter of time before Hinata ended up at the arcade. It was a shock he hadn't come sooner, but with keeping Otonashi alive and helping Yuri get settled and familiar with Hinoto-Ri, he'd been busy.

But he'd finally meandered has way inside, taking up residence at a dated zombie game, House of the Dead Guys. The obligatory opening cinematic with the kidnapped girlfriend rolled by, prompting Hinata to take up the red plastic light gun, pointing at the poorly rendered zombies and taking them out like a proper veteran.

...He was also gritting his teeth and holding that gun way too seriously for the difficulty of the game. Relax, champ.

He'd carry on perfectly fine for a little while, until he got to the menagerie stage where the zombie monkeys were throwing themselves at the camera. He put up a good fight, but he wasn't fast enough to take them all out without a second player, getting a game over countdown.

"Damn..."

Arcade

[ineedthemforanalyzing]

The girl in the frilly dress - the uniform of that café a couple blocks over with several Visitor girls working there, actually - nods to his greeting, but continues focusing on her game. It's an old but fairly casual timed shooter, one she could probably talk over without missing much judging by her perfect score so far. She's probably just shy.