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Characters: Chika and Mulan, Chika and Shinji
Location: Triple A arcade
Rating: PG-13 at worst
Time: June 28th
Description: Chika introduces Mulan to what exactly video games are. And Chika runs into Shinji as he's passing by the arcade and goes to bother him.



[Mulan: After training]

Chika really couldn't believe how much of a pain in the ass it could be to actually set something up. She had meant to show Mulan around the Arcade a lot earlier in the month, and she was JUST now getting to it. Over two weeks later.

Still, what was important was that, finally, both she and Mulan didn't have anything important coming up to keep them from this. So that's why Chika was leading Mulan over to the Arcade now, so that she could finally show the other girl what video games were. She wasn't sure how well Mulan was going to do at them, but there were plenty of simple games in there that she should be able to pick up and play without too much trouble. At least, once Mulan figured out the controls.

Chika turned to Mulan once they got within sight of the Arcade. "Well, here we are," she said, giving the other girl a smile. "I'm sorry it took so long for our schedules to actually, well, work out."

[Shinji, Afternoon]

Chika sighed, stepping out of the arcade and stretching a bit. So far the day hadn't really been too busy, which was good, because she was still a little bit tired after her mission with Asuka yesterday. There wasn't anything to complain about there, the mission had gone really well.

Didn't mean she couldn't be a bit tired though. There's a reason why Shibusen wouldn't let them take mission after mission. And it was a good thing that they could rest, she was really out of practice. She turned to look over at the signs outside of the arcade, wondering if any of them needed to be updated. It didn't look like they did, and the 'Now Hiring' sign was pretty much a basic fixture of the Arcade window at this point. She really wished that it didn't have to be that way, but well, there wasn't really all that much that she could do about it now.

With BREW taking people away like it has been, the chances of getting a full staff at the Arcade that weren't Shibusen students was pretty much nil. She shook her head, before turning around again.

She was distracted about any more thoughts about employment when she saw a family face walking by. Her lips curled up into a smile, and she couldn't help but wave over to him. "Ikari-san! Hey!"

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[scatterflower]

Chika nodded. That... well, that was an answer. Though it didn't really tell her much, since there was a difference between enjoying fighting and being good at it. After all, you only really had to look at her to see that.

... Though she did have to admit, fighting against unrepentant, irredeemable monsters was a lot better than having to fight against something sentient.

"I see. Do you think you're going to be okay on your mission tomorrow?"

[hedgehogsdilemma]

"I wouldn't be going if I didn't think it would probably go well." Most of the assuredness comes from his trust in Takuto's abilities if nothing else, but, yeah. Still going to keep that thought to himself.

"I mean... It can't be any worse than anything we went up against back home..." he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. A part of him was still pretty hesitant to try and explain too much about the war back home to people, but Chika had already gotten some information about it from Kaworu, and undoubtedly Asuka as well. He figured that it wouldn't be too bad of an idea. "And having someone fighting too always makes this kind of thing easier."

[scatterflower]

Chika nodded, giving Shinji another smile. "That's good. I'm not really sure what exactly you were fighting against back home, but from what I've heard, I think the kishin eggs aren't as bad as what you're used to fighting."

"And yeah, I know what you mean there. I don't think that I'd be doing anywhere near as well on missions if I had to fight alone."

[hedgehogsdilemma]

Not too keen on going in to details, Shinji was content at leaving the Angels as 'maybe worse than Kishin eggs'.

"It was really rare that we ever went up against anything back home without back-up, but it's... kind of awful." Not that any of the pilots were ever alone in the Evas, per se, but, details. "The way things are set up here makes everything a lot easier."

[scatterflower]

Chika wonders about what he said with that. It was... kinda weird how he said that it was better here. Even though sometimes the only people there were meister and weapon. But then again, just having that connection had to have counted for something, right?

"Yeah. It'd definitely nice knowing that there's always someone fighting with you that you can trust."

Well, most of the time, anyway. She was sure there had to be a few cases of someone partnering up with someone that they actually didn't trust. Though Chika was even more sure that those were rare.

[hedgehogsdilemma]

He gave a small nod of agreement to that, but wondering if the subject wouldn't be getting too heavy if he perused this line of conversation too much further, he decided to shift the topic a little once more.

"So, is this where you work...?" He inclined his head slightly toward the arcade. He seemed to recall her saying as much previously, but a confirmation is always nice to have.

[scatterflower]

Chika smiled at him, going along with the change of subject. "Yep. I'm the manager of Triple A. It's... honestly it's not anywhere near as fun as you'd think." She admitted, sighing. "I mean, as a clerk the job was pretty awesome, but there's just so much stuff to do as the manager that needs to be done that it takes up a lot of time."

Time that could've been spent training or playing some of the games. That said, it did make decent money, all things considered, so it could've been a lot worse.

[hedgehogsdilemma]

"Mmm, that's usually how it works with higher up positions, right?" Not that he had any sort of real experience with it, but he felt like he could at least make a pretty good assumption. "That's sort of how it was with our guardian back home when she got promoted."

... 'Our' referring to both himself and Asuka, naturally.

[scatterflower]

"Yep. Pretty much," she said. "I really don't know how Minato-san or Junpei actually handled it... well, okay, Minato-san maybe. He was pretty efficient and stuff."

She gave a bit of a nervous laugh, but it was in a good way. "But even though it's hard, it still makes me feel really proud that I'm managing it okay, you know? I mean, business could be better, but there's a lot less of us 'guests' around than there used to be. And that anti-us group that's around hasn't been helping things much either."