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[codes]

Hey Digilosers, a lot of you have a number of questions about this world as well as the events that brought us here that haven't been answered before, right?
I'll help you get those answers if you give me your word you'll remember how I helped you out in the rare situation that I'll ever need help with something.
It's important to understand the value of equivalent exchange and in a world where the skilled are highly valued, I suggest you also learn how to market your abilities in this way.

TLDR: If you could have any question answered, what would the question be?

PS: Don't give me any of that philosophical bullshit like 'what is our purpose for living' or 'the meaning of the number forty-one' ok?

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[ LOCKED: interspace ] Special message for you.
I'm back and we can start work whenever.
Let me know, ok?

Comments

[velveteenmage]

I'm not blind, that's exactly what you did!

[codes]

Can you prove that it doesn't make sense within the context of the original text? If you can, then I may concede to your opinion.

[velveteenmage]

Why would anything need assembly, who would need batteries in this situation, and what do anchovies have to do with it?!

[codes]

Most things require assembly and honestly, I'm not going to sit here and offer to put together plot points that people should have figured out on their own. By the way, in case you haven't noticed, we live in a world of technology. Most things require batteries and there's a lot of people from strange third-world worlds that have never heard of electricity so yes, batteries are something I'll probably be asked about.

Anchovies... nothing really. I'm just not providing them to people today.

[velveteenmage]

WHY ARE YOU PROVIDING ANCHOVIES?!

[rin i'm so sorry but he's so confused]

[codes]

Didn't you hear me? I said that I wasn't going to.

[ GOSH WAVER. ] Listen, do you actually have any questions about this world that isn't 'how to insert tab a into slot b'?

[velveteenmage]

Of course I do, but you're going about this like a lunatic!

[codes]

I might be a bit mentally unhinged, but I get shit done.

What does that say about the rest of the goodie two shoes here?

[velveteenmage]

You are far more than 'a bit' mentally unhinged. But the fact that you raise a valid point leaves me truly and genuinely afraid.

[codes]

That's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me, Velvet-san.

Are you growing soft on me?

[velveteenmage]

What part of that sounded like a compliment?!

[codes]

You acknowledged me. [ Iyaaan senpai. ]

[velveteenmage]

Acknowledged you as being mental.

[codes]

It's acknowledgement all the same.

[velveteenmage]

Now I'm a little worried for your standards.

SUDDENLY LOCKED.

[codes]

Waver, did you know talking like this is the closest I've ever been with someone?

locked because that escalated quickly

[velveteenmage]

...Sorry, what?

[codes]

I didn't have friends back home.

... Well, I guess I made a friend in the Moon Cell, but beyond that I wasn't able to have friends.

So talking with people who answer every one of my calls like this really makes me feel better. Please don't stop doing it now that I've told you.

[velveteenmage]

Tousaka--

[Waver hesitated, trailing off for a moment and glancing around nervously.]

Before I met Rider--and before I came here--I...didn't either. I don't have any family, and no one at the Clock Tower-...well, I wasn't exactly popular.

So if you want me to keep answering you, I-I'd expect you to do the same. It's equivalent exchange, after all.

[codes]

That's not surprising.

Er, that you weren't popular I mean. [ EVERYTHING SHE SAYS IS COMING OUT WRONG. ] It's just that you're better than those stubborn old folks with their outdated practices so it makes sense that they couldn't like you.

Because you learned to adapt with the world. Ah... It would have been nice if we had more people like you in my world. People who aren't afraid of making changes despite being told they're wrong... Well, it's admirable at any rate.

--But I guess I have no choice. It's only fair to give what's given to me, so if you will answer when I call, then I'll answer when you call.

[velveteenmage]

What...y-you... [WOW HE'S GENUINELY TOUCHED AND AT A LOSS FOR WORDS]

...Thank you. I don't hear that kind of thing very much, and if you of all people are going out of your way to compliment me I'd imagine you must really believe it.

For what it's worth, I don't really think you're all that bad either.

[waver velvet, master of complimenting women.]

[terminalcresting]

[It's a brilliant light green light, shining on Rin's side of the screen. At least, that's what it becomes. First, it's small, like a dying ember, behind her as she locks her message to Waver.

But it grows. Grows as they continue to talk.

It grows until it's bright and impossible to ignore, as Waver compliments her. It's reacting to the both of them, but especially to Rin. Her frankness. Her honesty.

Her purity. Crest of Purity.

[codes]

[ Isn't it nice that her cresting took place on a locked feed where no one other than Waver Velvet could see it? Yeah, it's real nice. ]

Geez, I've got a real bad case of a glare here. Let me go shut the... [ Turning her back from the device left on her desk, she's caught off-guard staring. ] Is this what I think it is?

H-Hey, you can't show up here when I'm in the middle of talking. It has to be a fight or something!!

[velveteenmage]

[How extremely convenient.]

...If it makes you feel better, I got mine getting a fish hook out of a Digimon's mouth.

[At least he looks impressed, Rin.]

[codes]

[ JUST SHUT UP AND DON'T NOTICE WHAT THE CREST ACTUALLY IS. ]

What Crest did you get again? Maybe it's related. Crest of Fishing?