HEART SOLDIER SENSHI

[idolpro]

You find yourself in a room like this.



It's a simple theater room with a giant colorful couch for everyone to sit or lie on if they so choose, and on the screen, you'll find a screen with twenty clones of a single, sexy assistant holding boxes, each box being labelled 01-20.

Also by sexy, I mean she's wearing stained sweatpants, crocs that are like 10 years old, and then this shirt. She looks grumpy and put-out, almost like she doesn't wanna be here.

There's also a remote that has the numbers 01-20 for you to press, and also buttons "DEAL" and "NO DEAL".

Oh yeah, and popcorn and soda!

Comments

[crossmyheartandhope]

...you doing okay, dude?

[leaveofabsence]

Just making sure I understand this correctly.

Our punishment is to be determined but whatever is stored in these boxes. And yet, there is no explanation why we are being punished or correlation to the punishment and the offense.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Kinda how this place rolls.

[leaveofabsence]

I see.

So I suppose we do not have any information at our disposal until what is inside some of the boxes is revealed.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Pretty much. We're kinda shooting blind.

[leaveofabsence]

[ Man, Hurricane. That is the resigned face of someone who has seen a lot. And on someone so young, too. ]

Then may I ask you in return -- are you doing all right?

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean, it is what it is, yeah?

Just kinda wish I could fastforward till the end, after everyone's healed up already.

[leaveofabsence]

. . .

How often do you get injured?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Depends how quick the rough games come, mostly.

[leaveofabsence]

[ So that means every time a rough game happens --- he chooses not to say. ]

Then I will wish for that as well.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Sorry your first one sucks, dude.

[leaveofabsence]

The outcome is not yet decided.

Let us hope for the best while preparing for the worst.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Pretty good advice.

...how you doing?

[leaveofabsence]

[ He tilts his head, considering that question before gesturing for Hurricane to come sit with him on the brightly colored couch. ]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Comes over to plop down next to him]

[leaveofabsence]

I must admit that the unfair nature of this game does not sit well with me. And from what you have said, it seems like this is not an unusual occurrence.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah. We get this kinda stuff a lot.

[leaveofabsence]

And does it numb you over time?

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean, not numb so much as you get used to it?

[leaveofabsence]

I see.

How long have you been here, Hurricane?

[crossmyheartandhope]

[That is a complicated question,]

Since the start?

[leaveofabsence]

I'm afraid I do not know how long this production has been running.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Coming up on about a year, I think?

Ish.

[The timeline is not his strong suit,]

[leaveofabsence]

A year must seem like a long time for one who has just started living.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I'm older than I look, y'know.

...you telling me you're secretly like grandpa age or something?