duel 9. video

[puzzlingly]

「There is this guy, finally showing his face on the network after like a month or so of chilling at Hope's temple. He smiles widely at the camera.」

Hey... What did I miss?

「How long has it even been...? Please don't say 3,000 years...」

Um, thanks for the umbrellas, by the way... to whoever did that. 「He pans the camera to the umbrella fort that someone made around him, it's got the most stylish umbrellas~

He manages to get out of there and then his face lights up like if it was Christmas Day.」

... Kaiba, guess what?! They are here! The Duel Disk pieces! You can finally put it together and stop being so moody! Thanks, Hope!

「He shows them to the camera as well, a bunch of electronic little pieces scattered here and there on Hope's altar, he picks up one gently and examines it, yep, he has no idea what it does. Any other day he would have just skipped this and go look for his friend privately, but this is way too cool to let it pass! Everyone has to know! Specially the moody part.」

Come on, come help me carry these so we can have that duel!


( ooc: coming out of meditative state will make this guy extra emotional to absolutely everything and might explode at the most stupid things, this will last a couple of days. take this is a blanket apology <3 )

Comments

[puzzlingly]

「He blinks a couple of times at that, has to go to the entrance of the temple to check out that, yes they are still in the islands, if the very light rain is any indication of that.」

We are still here, aren't we?

[hot_mes]

yes

it's only been a month

[puzzlingly]

「Oh. That gets a reaction from this one. He startles, then seems to think about it. It could have been much worse but...」

I lost an entire month?

「He looks back inside of the temple. It better be worth it. It better frigging be.」

[hot_mes]

yeah that.

feeling all right? [does he have to housecall for frozen legs or anything?]

[puzzlingly]

Yeah, sure, I'm fine. I mean, I'm just a month older, just another month I didn't get to live. Isn't that fucking great?

「yeahhhhh... he's totally, absolutely, physically fine. Look at that, turn out he can use the f word just fine.」

[hot_mes]

[easy there angry little king]

of course it's not but what exactly do you mean? something about Hope I gathered but I'm short of details

[puzzlingly]

「Don't tell him what to do!」

I offered Hope to get the power he needed from me but, I didn't think it was going to take that long!

[hot_mes]

[tempted to say something about being careful making deals with the gods but ahaha like he can talk. Ahem.]

what a dick. guess he was hungry.

to be fair you missed another round of falling into useless trances for no good reason so there's that

[puzzlingly]

Hey! Don't talk about him like that! He gave me what I asked for.

「Now if he could make up his mind...」

... What do you mean?

[hot_mes]

waking dreams/blanking out/same old same old. I can't even tell which god wanted it that way

[puzzlingly]

「Law really is the worst friend, ignoring half of the things he says.」

Hmm... sounds like you're getting bored. Or too used to it.

[hot_mes]

not remotely

[he's using text because it hides a multitude of emotional tells. he's actually annoyed and frustrated and several other things.

but, you know. text.]

whatever you made that shit deal for better have been worth it

[puzzlingly]

「Until they explode.」

It will be.

[hot_mes]

if you say so

but if you want a break I'm hoarding a sailboat

[puzzlingly]

... I think I got enough of a break already, don't you think?

[hot_mes]

not what I meant but suit yourself

[puzzlingly]

What did you mean, then?

[hot_mes]

do

you

want

to

sail

[look at him, trying to not be coy]

1/2

[puzzlingly]

「Law, what--!」

[puzzlingly]

「Does he want to to sail? Does he?」

Yeah! I-I'd love to!

「He'd love to.」

[hot_mes]

[nerd. of course he missed this]

you don't have a means to get from one island to the other, do you?

[puzzlingly]

No. I made this deal just the day we moved... I was lucky everything I needed was here.

「The temple, the right Kaiba, etc., etc..」

... How is it?

[hot_mes]

then I'll have to come get you.

[better to teleport than to sail, it's faster. he keeps one ship tied up in a place only he can reach.]

decent

[puzzlingly]

Why, where are you?

Have you been fishing out there?

[hot_mes]

clinic at the moment, but the boat is behind the south island

yeah the fishing is better than the desert but still a lot of work