[Action & Video] Comas and Roses and Ice Cream, Oh My!

[youfool]

5/20 - Sleeping Foodie - Ted & Satou (Action, Closed)

This looked to be one of the more tedious bounties. Ted couldn't yet procure the medical reports pertaining to the nature of the poison used, so for now he had to resort to general, Hail Mary pavement hitting. And the first thing to do was to confer with the police department and ask to see their suspect list. He also needed a disguise, since the world at large was getting wise to his bounty hunting act and how (mostly) successful he was.

The secretary was pliant enough, telling him to wait while she got the records. And who should he find milling about the office but the sinful witch herself?

"Ah, hello Kuroneko. Your beat extends to this city too, eh?"

6/5 - Roses are Red - Ted & Rin (Video)

[Come on Ted, spit it out.]

So, um...I'm afraid my latest bounty is proving very elusive. To draw him or her out, I'll need a woman about my age, or one who looks it, to pose as my lover in however many roseal places until things become more open. You'll need to be very obvious about it too. I won't insist on anything risque, but, erm...well, we'd start with hand-holding, and go from there.

Aheh, don't worry! I've, ah, done plenty of bounties and, so far, haven't gotten anyone killed. Your security would be my top concern, and the villain's capture a close second. Goodness, using that flower to enact death. Have they not heard of rosaries? What perversion won't Everglade stoop to?

[He hangs up very quickly. What vexes him so much isn't the odd bait he's suggesting, but that he has to bring a girl into it. He made it sound ridiculous and reckless on purpose just to discourage any would-be heroines. OOC: Rin will ultimately be who he picks, but feel free to tweak his nose anyway.]

6/6 - Ice cream absolution - (Action, Open)

[Ted needed to wash his hands of involving not one, but two women in his crusade against crime. Will his chivalry ever recover? Is he losing his touch? He needs to do a good deed that doesn't put the fairer sex in danger, for a change. Oh hey, he got a right answer in the newspaper again. A month's supply of ice cream turned out to be...not that much.

Hang it. It's summer time, and that gives him an idea: handouts.

In all of the main cities, you'll find Genessia's court jester with a large board hung on his back. It reads: FREE ICE CREAM. Satsuki might not loose his diet enough to indulge in it anyway, and what better way to unload excess supply? Just don't ask where he's keeping it all.]

Comments

[innocent_royal]

It is~ The Honnouji uniform. This is my third day.

[She tilts her head to the side slightly inquisitively.]

...How do you inherit ice cream?

[youfool]

Ah, good for you! Does Sta--Satsuki teach personally, or are you at the mercy of other educators?

Heh, through the newspaper. A "month's supply" is milder than I imagined. Don't worry, no one had to perish to get it.

Do you want any? I know you prefer colder things.

[innocent_royal]

I have other teachers. But Satsuki said she may instruct some classes.

[She is just about 100% certain she won't ever see Satsuki teaching Ballet class. At the offer of ice cream, she...was unusually quick to answer, given it's coming from Ted.]

Do you have strawberry flavor?

[youfool]

Hah, suppose she can't do everything.

[He tries to start any upstart educators her way whenever they appear in The Bay, but the supply can't meet the demand.]

Certainly. One moment.

[He thought ahead and got Neapolitan. With some void hijinx later, he scoops out the pinkest third, then places it on a cone he also got from seemingly nowhere.]

Here you go.

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia has quite a sweet tooth for anything strawberry. She may have even smiled at Ted, but then she saw where it's coming from. She didn't expect it, but then she should've seen he didn't have a fridge cart.]

...It's all clean, right...?

[youfool]

[Don't worry An. It didn't come from his butt.]

Yes, An. Perfectly pasteurized.

[innocent_royal]

Thank you, then.

[Anastasia politely accepts the ice cream cone and takes a small lick from the strawberry-flavored dairy treat. A tasteful end to a school day~]

Mm~

[youfool]

You're very welcome.

[His conscience feels just an ounce cleaner. He keeps in mind that preference for future reference.]

Would you like someone to walk you home?

[innocent_royal]

I have someone picking me up. The meeting spot is in front of the library. You're welcome to stay with me until then.

[Strawberries are, indeed, the fastest way to keep her happy. That and stuffed animals and bunnies.]

[youfool]

Sure thing; hopefully some will relieve me of the rest. What sort of subjects were covered? Anything interesting?

[He'd chatter about the wonders of edjumucation while wondering where, exactly, An lived anyway. He thought it was with Satsuki, who...lived at the school? Didn't she?

He's not great at detail.]

[innocent_royal]

[Anastasia begins to lead the way to the library, all while licking up the melting drips from her ice cream.]

Today was practical math with money management, Japanese One, and physical education. Japanese and "P.E" was more fun, though.

[She heard of clubs that will open up later, but she doesn't know enough about them yet.]

[youfool]

Haha, sound like good subjects for royalty. Should you ever broach the French Revolution, you'll learn just how necessary money management is for the aristocracy, and how desperately they need P.E. when the peasantry tire of their malfeasance.

[Not sure how useful Japanese would be, but then Satsuki always insisted on it for him too.]

Awful lot of those streaming in, eh? I had the dubious pleasure of learning what an "otaku" is.

[innocent_royal]

Is there a reason why you brought that up?

[She may be a Princess, but a revolution is not a proper source of math and money management lessons.]

Otaku? I'm not sure if I want to know.

[youfool]

Hah, just making conversation. If you ever get to A Tale of Two Cities, you'll get a--fictional, mind--glimpse of how that sort of thing shakes out.

Ahah, no, it's a very sad condition.

[innocent_royal]

It sound Japanese, so I doubt it will be covered in any of my classes.

[Finally, they reach the library. Now the wait begins. The ice cream top was also gone, and Anastasia was proceeding to nibble away at the edible cone.]

Otaku is a disease then?

[youfool]

It sounds more like slang, so I suppose it depends on how dignified the Japanese class likes to be.

No; not a physical one, anyway. Apparently it applies exclusively to men, rendering them terrified of contact with the opposite sex, and relegated to their homes but for evening hours, where they...go out to meet teen idols.

[It sounds very strange and sad to him.]

[innocent_royal]

((ooc: My last post was supposed to say "It doesn't sound Japanese". Oops.))

[Well. There goes much of what she knew about men. She originally thought they all would go out of their ways to fight for a girl, but apparently she still has a lot more to learn.]

That doesn't sound like a healthy lifestyle... I can't imagine living like that.

[youfool]

[Knowing about men? Say no more.]

No, but then, that is how the masculine reacts to overwhelming amounts of stress. Men withdraw, women scream. Or something along those lines.