Dunno. I mean, it could be some kind of weird prize...or it could just be a huge joke. [hmmmmm] We got a pail? We can at least keep it till we're done and then see what happens.
[She looks around the boat where all the equipment is.] I found one! [Lifting up the pail, she then dunks it into the water to get some, before dropping the odd fish into it.]
[if Big Fish then he'll really have some fun. But for now, he leans an arm on the gunwale and peers down into the water as if he can see where his dumb little fish might be.]
I wonder if they put weird prizes down there or something. But you wouldn't need bait for that, I guess. It's not like treasure chests would be swimming around looking for food.
[So Sanji is...confused. He's just been dumped into some shitty ballroom, dressed all snazzy and fancy even for him, and he feels...vaguely disoriented. He has a pretty good idea where he is, what fucking...place he's in, but he also has a weird feeling that something's gone wrong. Even though he doesn't have any memory of anything strange happening.
Or, well. Stranger than usual.
But it's really never good when this shitty place decides to just drop them in random places for no reason.
He glances around for a familiar face, but quickly remembers the shitty device thing for communicating here. Weird again that he feels rusty with it, and that he has to pause and think about how to navigate through the damn menu to get to where he wants. Soon enough, though, he's shooting off a text to his idiot roommates. Or one of them, anyway. He knows Luffy ain't always one for reading, or typing into this thing. Probably easier to get answers from Zoro.]
[So there's not a lot of people Zoro gets texts from, so whenever the little 'ding' goes off he's usually pretty startled and curious. Today, no different. First thought, Vietnam, since they've been hanging out recently. Second thought, Kashuu or Dotanuki. Third thought...misfire?
He grabs his device and almost can't believe the name he sees there.
But that's not...
Zoro stares at that name for a long time, before even bothering to read the text. And then it all sort of slams into him like a sledgehammer to the gut. Is it really him? He's back. What the shit. WHAT THE SHIT.
A few minutes and a considerable amount of strenuous thinking later, he finally manages to text back.]
Sanji stares at the screen for an equally long time, brow furrowed. And then his reply gets delayed even more because apparently all the shitheads around him are trying to have some kind of fight to the death, so he has to deal with that for a bit. He eventually manages to type out a reply while kicking some asshole in the face.]
yeah here's me kidding. haha what a great shitty not joke. the hell's wrong with you, marimo? also WHERE are you? and Luffy?
[He actually...can't sense them in here. Goddammit, is he in a ViViD thing??]
Oh yeah? [c'mon Vietnam, you're not truly relaxing until you feel like you could take a nap. But less tense is a good start] I bet you can relax even more. Take it easy, don't worry about what we catch.
[Excuse him, he's still sort of reeling. Particularly from that weird sense of being actually happy to hear from this asshole again, because that ain't right.]
nothing, shit. just you know you disappear for a month and some and now i'm getting messages from you again. sure you're not dead?
[The joys of not being arsed to go anywhere near ViViD if he can help it. Except for fishing games shhhh.]
[He fires off that one right away, almost an automatic response while the rest of his brain trips over the fact that apparently he fucking disappeared. Damn, really? That's annoying...]
[So a moment later, after he's kicked a few more idiots around and had time to make his brain form words:]
as if I'd die that easily. it's really been over a month?? who's been feeding Luffy? is my kitchen destroyed? my kitchen is fucking destroyed, isn't it.
that ain't what I'm doing, I WISH that's what I was doing. think I got dragged back in with all the other new people, you know how that shit goes. they're all fighting over who the fuck knows what. think I'm in ViViD.
[Which, uggghh. How do you get out of the thing.]
why so eager anyway? miss me, marimo~~?
[He's just assuming Zoro's hungry, really. But why pass up an opportunity to tease?]
SHUT UP I DID NOT MISS YOU ONE SECOND STUPID CURLY BROW
[that...might not have needed to be capslocked oops. Blame the weird sensations still curled in his gut, the desperate yearning for something familiar that isn't Luffy, a mix of things he might have been thinking about over the past month without admitting to himself...and yes hunger, actually.]
fine play whatever stupid game they got you in this time. have fun.
[really, he could nap right where he is. But he's got company so he'd better stay awake and chat. He drapes one arm down over the side to let his fingers trail in the water.]
The rest of the world can look after itself for a few hours. It ain't gonna end if a couple people go fishing.
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