Right, what would Twirl do at a time like this?
Scratch that, dumb question. What would Lan do?
...Somehow an even worse question.
Nevertheless, I need to handle this reasonably, and calmly, and not freak the fuck out.
My hands went to the keyboard as I started typing out my response.
Magical Girl Tail Red: What time? I'm not gonna hang around until midnight again.
The response came in the blink of an eye.
Dark Grasper: Four pm.
Magical Girl Tail Red: Wait, at Four pm? As in the middle of the day?
Dark Grasper: Well when you put it that way… Hold on a second.
A minute passed before the user returned.
Dark Grasper: Your opponent says she doesn't care.
Magical Girl Tail Red: Wait weren't you guys supposed to hide your existence?!
Dak Grasper: Mentioned something about kicking the memories out of people's heads.
Magical Girl Tail Red: How does that even make sense?!
Dark Grasper: What's the matter Tail Red?! Too scared to fight us out in the daytime?!
Hey! I'll have you know I have a legit reason for not wanting to fight then!
Magical Girl Tail Red: I don't want to be sued for property damage if we accidentally destroy a car or something.
Dark Grasper: Ha! That's where you're wrong! Everyone knows you can't sue a magical girl!
Magical Girl Tail Red: What? Why?
Dark Grasper: Look the legal system doesn't really apply to you if you end up causing World of Cardboard shenanigans in the name of fighting evil. There's no law expressly stating that you guys are exempt from all charges but unless you reveal your identity or another magical girl reveals it, the Automatic Identity Protection that comes with being a magical girl means you can't be put on trial for anything nor can insurance companies call you up. Got it?
Magical Girl Tail Red: That sounds… wrong.
Dark Grasper: There is a lot of things wrong with this world when you look at the details.
Okay that was… depressing. Just going to move on before this Dark Grasper guy gets me down.
Magical Girl Tail Red: Alright let's go. Oh but send me a photo of you so I recognize what you look like.
Dark Grasper: Pwhaha! You think I would bother to show up at the fight? Wrong Tail Red, I have much better things to be doing with my spare time!
Dark Grasper: Also I, uh, run a YouTube channel. You know, if you want to check that out… Here.
I quickly clicked on the link only to find myself on a moderately well off (As far as I knew about these things) channel. One of the videos began to auto play and a black haired girl wearing glasses, a frilly dress, and most importantly a pair of twintails, appeared on the screen.
"Hi hi! It's everyone's favorite YouTube idol Anko-chan~"
I paused the video before what felt like throwing the pm back on the screen.
Magical Girl Tail Red: Don't just send me a random girl's YouTube channel!
Dark Grasper: That actually is my YouTube channel though?!
Magical Girl Tail Red: I thought you said you were a guildy!
Dark Grasper: Eh? Oh! I said I was working with the Guildys, not that I was one!
Magical Girl Tail Red: For you to claim to be the owner of those Twintails… I'll fight you all head on!
Dark Grasper: I just put those on because it looked cute though?! Are you even listening to me?!
I glanced out the window before taking a deep breath.
Yes, for the sake of that girl's twintails, I will definitely accept the Guildy's challenge!
Dark Grasper: Hey! Answer me! Why does it feel like you're insulting me?!
Dark Grasper: Hey! Listen!
For some reason when I woke up the next day my inbox had exploded to 500 PMs.
The day was Thursday, currently lunch time. My destined duel was on a Saturday afternoon in a parking lot. I must fight, for the sake of the Twintails-
"Hong, what the fuck are you doing," Lan asked flatly from beside me.
"...Dramatic monologue?"
"Why."
"I got a message from the Guildys earlier about the next duel location." I sighed as I turned my head, "I also kind of upset the messenger a bit and now she's just sending me pics of herself in cosplay."
My phone buzzed.
Lan glances at it, "Is that the reason why you've answered none of my text messages?"
"Err, yes?"
My blue haired friend groaned, "I feel like I should just give up on questioning anything you do from now on but if I do then the next thing I know you'll be going around proclaiming you're a superhero and the world would believe you."
"Oi, don't treat me as a rehab from my mom's cafe."
"Those guys are irredeemable." She waved before pausing, "Wait a minute, go back a bit."
"I'm… not a rehab case from my mom's cafe?" I repeated, feeling a bit awkward.
"Further back."
"I haven't answered your text?"
"A tiny bit more…"
"The Guildy messenger is sending me pics of herself in cosplay and keeps messaging me?"
"There! Right there! I was too busy being distracted by your ridiculousness!" Lan exclaimed, pointing at my phone, "What the hell did you mean by that?!"
"Well apparently she didn't like when I called her a Guildy and accused her of not being human so she's been sending me photos-"
"Show me!" She growled and fearful for my life I grabbed my phone and brought up the first one. A picture of the Anko idol from earlier in a tracksuit with a piece of paper that read "Believe me now?" hastily scribbled on it.
Grasper (Presumably) looked nowhere near as good as she did back on her YouTube channel, probably because of how hastily the photo was taken and because she was glaring at the camera.
Of course, it wasn't as powerful as Lan's glare of one million supernovas so I wasn't affected as much.
"Give me that!" The girl in question ordered, swiping the phone out of my hand before her fingers turned into an absolute blur of motion. "Can't believe Twirl made you a ToHO account and the first thing you start doing is picking up girls…"
"Wah- Hey!"
"You don't get to 'hey' me in this situation!"
Oh come on! It's not like I was anything more than an acquaintance with Grasper anyways!
Lan paused before screaming and throwing the phone back at me. "How the hell did she-?!"
Trying to be as sneaky as possible, I glanced back down at the phone only to find my PM with Grasper open.
Magical Girl Tail Red: Leave me alone, I don't want your photos.
Dark Grasper: Hah! You're 1000 years too young to take me on! Hand the account back to the real Tail Red imposter!
...Okay yeah uh, what?
"You know what?! I don't care anymore! Go hang out with your cosplay girlfriend!"
"Oi Lan where are you going?! Hey Wait!"
You have 3 days until the duel. Pick (5) actions
[] Social
-[] Hang out with Lan
-[] Hang out with Twirl
-[] Hang out with your Mom (Loser)
-[] Hang out (I guess) with Dark Grasper
[] Martial
-[] Have Lan kick your ass in Magical Girl Boot Camp
-[] Go beat up the Twirl Bots
-[] Who cares about your magical girl form, it's time to W O R K I T until your base form has those glistening abs.
[] Information
-[] Waste time crawling through shitposts Read threads on ToHO
-[] Man the cafe and keep an ear out on what the customers have to say
[] Time-Wasters
-[] Waste time watching TV instead of being productive
-[] You've put it off long enough, admire your twintails
+3 EXP Meet Virtual YouTuber Kizuna Ai Dark Grasper
3 EXP Gained = 24 EXP
