tensai | 003; video/action for violet city; it's getting cold out here;

[here's marui at the violet inn lobby, seated comfortably on a couch. his munchlax is sitting next to him, slowly devouring a bowl of fruit. marui, meanwhile, is sending a video message to someone.]

--gotten the Zephyr badge and Jackal and I are making our way through Union Cave soon to get to Azalea for my next badge. We'll be back in Goldenrod soon, Yukimura-kun! Tell Sanada we're working hard and keeping up with our training.

[he finishes this message and hits the send button. after this, he records another video message.]

Hey Sisuca! Look, I got my first badge! [he brings the badge up with his free hand to show her.] I've got a long way to go to catch up to you, but I'll definitely make it! Let's have cake to celebrate, okay?

[now that this message is done, he'll send it to sisuca--]

ERROR: ID Number not found.

[marui frowns. that's... not supposed to happen. so he tries to send it again.]

ERROR: ID Number not found.

[and again.]

ERROR: ID Number not found.

[and again. this time, he accidentally broadcasts his recorded video to the whole network too.]

ERROR: ID Number not found.

[shit. marui looks worried. and very sad. he takes a deep breath, eyes closed and pinches the bridge of his nose-- boys don't cry after all.]

[the video feed ends there, but anyone at the inn would find a redhead sitting at the lobby, holding a munchlax like a teddy bear, with his 'Gear on the other side of the couch, just staring off into space.]

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[That's... really kind of cute, but Marui doesn't comment on it since it might ruin the moment. He just smiles.]

Thanks again for the advice. I'm Marui Bunta, by the way.

[Ven'll smile right back of course]

You're welcome, and it's nice to meet you. I'm Ventus, just call me Ven.

Nice to meet you too, Ven.

And congratulations on your badge too, I forgot to say that earlier.

Thanks! [he flashes a V-sign] My pokemon really worked hard in that battle.

[He's actually never seen the gesture and looks a bit puzzled for a moment or two. And then he'll ask]

Um...what's that mean, when you do that with your hand?

Huh? [he's confused for just a second, and then does the V-sign again.] You mean this?

It's a V. For Victory!

So when you win at something, that's what you do?

[Curious indeed]

Most of the time, yeah. But it's also like, hmmmm... Like saying you come in peace.

Oh! And if you wanna make shadow-bunnies! There's also an idol back home who puts them by her ears [he demonstrates, doing the V-signs on both hands by the sides of his head.] and going "Usa-chan peeeace!" [and he laughs because he knows it must have looked silly on him.]

Oo-suh what? Is that...hm...that's that Japanese stuff, right?

[If only because he's heard -chan before]

Yep! That's right. You've been to Japan before?

[He shakes his head no]

Uh-uh, but some of my friends've been from there.

I hope you get to visit, one day. It's a great country!

It sounds like an interesting place, so I hope I can too. Think it's part of a much bigger world than I'm used to, so I oughta know it if I see it.

Um... "Bigger world"?

[because marui sometimes forgets that people come from a much different world than just simply an alternate version of his own.]

[And now he nods]

Yeah, the worlds I've been to aren't nearly as big as this place.

You've been to other worlds? [he looks excited now.]

Uh-huh! I've traveled between several before so showing up here wasn't as weird for me as some of the others.

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