shiningboxofjustice | PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

My thoughts exactly. This is all normal to them, as it was to Professor Oak.

Yeah. Normal...

[ Hopefully they'd be better at explaining their normal to them than she had been with explaining where she came from to Athrun. ]

... But while we're talking about normal, do you think there's normal animals here, or just the pokémon?

I hope so. It'd be odd to have Pokémon as both companions and food. ...To say the least.

[Athrun isn't willing to go vegetarian, either. Meat is too important to a balanced diet for him.]

[ ... Yeah. Eww. Yukari's face is going just a little green at the thought now. Thanks a lot Athrun. ]

... Let's not think about that and just get over to that other town already.

[ ...It was still just as far away as it was before, Yukari. ]

My thoughts exactly.

[With that, things continue to proceed as they have been. Several hours later, they finally reach their destination -- Viridian City.]

[ This place really needed things like trains and cars. Having to spend hours getting to different towns was not fun at all.

But now that they were here she couldn't help but notice something. ]

This place doesn't really seem that different from that last town we were in. I was expecting something a bit more like a city back home...

Yeah, it's a small city.

[Athrun's just relaxing for the moment. He may not look it, but his feet hurt from all that walking.]

It's still larger than Pallet Town was, and at least they have places to stay. I mean, I wouldn't want to stay at a house with a woman who thinks she's my mother.

[ Yukari wouldn't want to stay with her mother period, but she doesn't say that part out loud. There were more important things to worry about.]

Yeah. I guess we should figure out what we're going to do about that... Somehow I don't think they're going to take yen here. [ Not that she had enough on her for a room anywhere in the first place. ]

Right. I'm not sure they'll take my currency, either, unfortunately.

[Most of Athrun's fortune was in bank accounts and investments, but he did carry a thick wad of cash in his wallet in the event of an emergency. Not that it does him any good if he's in a place where Orb currency isn't accepted and there's no place to exchange it for a currency that is.]

I'd say we'd probably have to find work, but that would conflict if we decide to keep traveling.

[ It'd do a bit more than just conflict. It'd be completely impossible to do both. ]

... Well, we definitely can't stay here. It's not like a way home is just going to magically show up in this town.

[ Not that it's going to be easy to find that anywhere but at least if they were moving they had a better chance of learning something. ]

At the same time, we need money. But maybe we can find out some more information on how to go from here. This place is larger than the previous town, after all.

Yeah. Might as well...

[ She sighs, looking around for a moment before she notices a pretty decent sized building. ]

... Well, if we want answers this "Pokémon Center" is probably as good a place as any to start.

[Athrun nods.]

I think I saw some brochures in the lobby when we first arrived. I'll go take a look.

[After saying that, Athrun stands up from where he was seated and heads out. A few minutes later, he returns.]

Well, a lot of it seemed pretty irrelevant, but these two looked useful.

[He tosses them onto his bed. One is for the Pokémon League challenge, and the other is for a Pokémon trainers' school.]

[ Pokémon League challenge? What the heck was that? It didn't really seem like something that was, well...

Okay. Screw it. Trainer school brochure it was. After looking it over for a few moments though, she frowned. ]

... Well, I don't think the trainer school thing is going to be a good idea. Looks like most of the students there are kids. If they even let us in for classes, we're going to look and feel like idiots.

Maybe...but I'm not sure that we necessarily need to sit for a class. All we need is some more basic information, right? We could probably glean that much just from talking to teachers or students.

And if we need more, we could pay one of the students to lend us a notebook or something along those lines.

[ She frowns, because she's really not sure how well that's going to actually, you know, work, but what could they really do right now? ]

Well, it's worth a shot, anyway. Maybe the teachers there will actually listen when we mention that we have no idea what's going on here.

They'd be pretty lousy teachers if they didn't. I'm sure the press would eat it up if they refused to help.

[Cue the wry smile. He's kidding.]

Yeah. I'm sure that's not going to be good for their reputation.

[ She's smiling a bit herself, though after a few moments she shakes her head. ]

So... what was that other brochure that you picked up for?

[Ah, so she can smile. Good.]

Ah, that. It's for the Pokémon League Challenge. It sounded relevant, so I grabbed it.

Looks like there's some kind of hierarchy among trainers here. Maybe if we can work our way to the top, we'll be able to get some answers.

... Huh. That makes some sense. But I wonder how it works...

[ Part of her wants to go take a look at the brochure, but she's not sure if there's going to be enough information there to make a lot of sense. ]

... Speaking of how that works, does everything here revolve around pokémon? I didn't really see any cars or anything.

[Athrun shrugs.]

It kind of seems that way, doesn't it? So far all the roads I've seen have been dirt. For now, we should either get used to walking a lot or find Pokémon large enough to ride.

[He seems to be pretty confident that such Pokémon exist. After all, if they didn't, then there'd be a pretty big need for cars.]

And on that note, perhaps getting some portable camping gear.

[ Yeah. All of that was definitely something they needed to work out. Now the best question on how to do that was... how?

Yukari sighs, leaning up against the wall. ]

Well, hopefully any place that's hiring here isn't going to think about trying to do a background check. Somehow I don't think one of those would go well for us.

Considering that, as far as this world goes, we have no background? Naturally. Honestly, if there's a better way to get money, I'd rather pursue that.

... What better way could there possibly be? It's not like there's a lot of legal options.

[ At least, back home. Unless they just managed to get lucky and find some sort of job that paid without asking too many questions... but that was probably not on the side of legal that she wanted. ]

I don't know. But if this League Challenge is a legitimate way of going about things here, then there has to be some way to earn money in spite of constant travel. They wouldn't offer something like this if there wasn't one.

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