Carbuncle: Good luck, Otohime!
Otohime: I shall do my best.
Heated Otohime.
Gargoyle: Wait, maybe we should switch.
Otohime: Lord Gargoyle? I believe it makes sense for me to go this round.
Gargoyle: I meant, perhaps you are pushing yourself too hard. I know how it is to be patterned after a dragon.
Otohime: (stares)
Flashback!
Back during training week
Otohime: Lord Hephaestus, may I ask you something?
Hephaestus: Otohime! I heard you were joining Mommy in the sports fest. G-good luck with that! So did you need help with that?
Otohime: I wanted help with my body. Can we take out the safeties?
Hephaestus frowns.
Hephaestus: But they're there to keep your body safe.
Otohime: Yes, but maybe I can help everyone by going beyond my limits. I don't want to be left behind for being useless.
Hephaestus agrees out of sympathy.
Present
Otohime: Would you please keep this quiet? I know they'll stop me if they knew, but then I wouldn't be able do everything I can for them.
Gargoyle sympathizes.
Gargoyle: Fine.
Otohime: Thank you. Here I go.
Out at the arena, the crowd cheers!
Belphegor: Everyone sure seems excited, new commentator Ixbalanque.
Ixbalanque: Tu'er Shen-senpai went in last round because he had a chance of winning, and maybe he does this time too? I coulda done good too, though so can the other team dispatches.
Field
Kyuma: I'm gonna win, Shuten-senpai.
Shuten: Well I can't let y'all show me up, heh.
Masashi: Lord MC, look! I can do way better than Moritaka!
Snow: Master has ordered me to win points.
Temujin: You actually came out for this, Balor? You can't beat an Archer at this game.
Balor: Pffft, it's just tossing balls into a basket. I can just throw a hundred at once.
Ixbalanque: Welp. Pretty sure I could've had a shootoff with someone there.
Belphegor: Why AREN'T you in, actually? I figured Team Southern Tokyo would've sent you this time.
Ixbalanque: Same, but "Big Bro" really wanted in so I let him have it.
Big Bro meaning Yamasachi, who is talking to Otohime.
Yamasachi: I'm gonna win, Otohime.
Otohime: I've been hoping to face off against you. And I kind of expected this to happen.
Yamasachi: Hey, Otohime. If I win...?
Party Waiting Room
Carbuncle: Wonder what they're talking about? They seem to get along.
MC: Yeah / (jealous) / They're going all out when things start
Carbuncle: Kick his ass at the last second!
Chernobog: Let's believe in her.
Arena field
Yamasachi: If I win, I want you to stop pushing yourself so hard.
Otohime: !
Otohime: ...here's to a good, clean battle.
Rules time! This is a RHYTHM game of Fill the Basket! Tempo starts off slow but will speed up. What's not in by the end doesn't count.
Masashi: So just a regular game of Basket Catch?
Belphegor: Oh no, there's more. Hang on, one moment.
Click! Arena change! The baskets are stuck onto wyverns!
Belphegor: There we are! Besides the tempo increasing as things go on, the wyverns will get stronger too! Also, no messing with your opponents this round!
Ixbalanque: Huh. I wonder how that'll go.
Belphegor: Welp, guess we'll see! Game on, everyone!
Temujin and Masashi start shooting arrows with balls into their baskets!
Temujin: ...interesting. You challenging me to an archery contest??
Masashi: Indeed!
Someone makes their wyvern stop moving!
Balor: Mystic Eye bullshit, go!
Shuten's batting balls into his basket!
Shuten: This ain't nothing new to me.
Masashi: Remember, no sabotaging anyone else this round!
Yamasaschi uses his fishhooks to carry balls into his basket.
Kyuma: I must be like the only guy throwing them in like normal...
Snow: Oh no, so am I.
Otohime: Installing baseball schematics.
Snow and Otohime throw in their balls!
Kyuma: Whoa! You two don't actually play ball. do you? Alright David, help me!
Later
Time for things to get harder!
Masashi: Pffft, is that all?
The wyverns start knocking Masashi's arrows down!
Masashi: WHAT
Temujin: Amateur.
Temujin's arrow makes it in!
Later
The wyverns start moving erratically now!
Balor: Dammit, my Mystic Eye isn't hitting as often now!
Ixbalanque: Dude this is supposed to be a ball game.
Later
Now there are TWO wyverns carrying baskets to throw/shoot balls into!
Shuten: What, we gotta get both now? Fine!
He shoots, he scores!
Snow: Impressive. I can scarcely believe you're that good.
Shuten: Hey, you could be a good baseball player yerself.
Snow: Well thank you, but I will focus on butlering.
Later
Getting hard now...
Shuten: Well damn, I suck.
Ibaraki: (from the stands) YOU'RE SO COOL BRO
Shuten: Thanks, but that ain't helpin'.
Snow shoots! Snow misses!
Belphegor: Only four people left, which is a surprise in itself really.
Ixbalanque: Yeah, none of them missed so far, which I guess it both a skill thing and a class thing.
Kyuma and Temujin have Sure Hit powers. Yamasachi has homing fishhooks. Otohime has Computerized Calculation.
Belphegor: So Temujin and Kyuma are using their club skills here?
Ixbalanque: Maybe. I have to at least say I believe in my teammates.
60 rounds of ball throwing and counting. More wyverns have spawned in by now and are attacking the players this game.
Temujin: (Asian dramatic cough of death) Okay this is getting to be bullshit.
Temujin's Weak Constitution is kicking in! Red Wyvern attacks!
Temujin: Oh no!
Kyuma: (saves Temujin) You okay!?
Temujin: Why would you do that?
Kyuma: Who expects wyverns to attack in a sports event?
Temujin: Well I can't go any further into debt, so I'll have to withdraw here then... good luck to you.
Kyuma: I can't keep this up much longer either... Sorry David. (flops over)
And then there were two. At 100 rounds of ball throwing...
Yamasachi: (wheeeeze)
So many wyverns! Hardest mode!
Party Waiting Room
Girimekhala: Damn...
Aegir: They're in the zone. But it's obvious who's gonna drop first.
Chernobog: Doesn't Otohime seem to be moving strangely to anyone else...?
Carbuncle: Maybe she's tired...
MC: Maybe... / Don't push yourself! / You're almost there!
Arena
Beep boop, overheating alert!
Yamasachi: Otohime, please stop.
Otohime: Maybe you should stop as well, Yamasachi.
Yamasachi: But if you--
Otohime: Thank you, but I want to be like you all!
Otohime super jumps!
Otohime Subsystem: Beep boop, overheat warning!
Otohime: I will jump beyond all boundaries...just like Lord Susanoo once did!
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Round 120 of ball throwing and counting! The crowd goes wild, but Otohime and Yamasachi are barely hanging in there!
Otohime: Beep boop, computation levels falling... but I still have my arms.
Yamasachi: Goddammit Otohime, you are so--
Otohime: My apologies, being a machine means not being that flexible.
Finally at Round 130 of ball throwing! Yamasachi misses his throw and Otohime makes it in!
Yamasachi: Damn, just like me to trip at the end. Good job Otohime!
Belphegor: Oh my god it's finally over! Yamasachi missed first! Big round of applause, everyone!
Ixbalanque: Too bad, Yamasachi-senpai. But you did good out there.
Otohime flops over.
Yamasachi: Oh my god, Otohime!? Medic! Or, engineer or something!
Otohime tries to say she's fine but can't speak. She blacks out as she sees the party comes running out!
Later
Some hospital room or something
Otohime: ...huh?
MC: Oh, you woke up! How do you feel?
Hephaestus: I-it's okay Mommy! I did some emergency maintenance, but maybe Otohime should stay on the bench the rest of the festival.
Aegir: Girl, sit down a while. And talk to Yamasachi later, boy was worried about you. He...well no, he should say it himself.
MC: Hephaestus told us he took off your safety limits. Son, why didn't you stop her?
Hephaestus: I-I'm sorry...
Otohime: Please don't blame him, it was my idea since I wanted to help you all...
Girimekhala: Uh, it's bad to push yourself hard but you did get us into 1st place!
Current rankings! 1. Team Carbuncle at 29 (+10) 2. Team Southern Tokyo at 27 (+8) 3. Team Yoyogi at 25 (+6) 4. Team Eastern Tokyo at 23 (+0) 4. Team Kudan at 17 (+5) 6. Team Bukuro at 14 (+3) 7. Team Shinjuku at 13 (+2) 8. Team Army Prison at 12 (+1)
Chernobog: You did score 20 points for us, Otohime.
Otohime: That's good, but it's not much of a lead. So who's next?
Chernobog: Carbuncle and Gargoyle are playing Ultimate Volleyball right now.
Aegir: They're getting their asses kicked, but I guess that's how it goes with those two against them.
Arena
It's Carbuncle and Gargoyle vs. Ixbalanque and Tu'er Shen!
Ixbalanque: Hey, think you can beat us?
Ixbalanque meteor kicks the ball over the net!
Carbuncle: OH GOD HELP
End of Episode part
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