[ OPEN ] Farewell My Beautiful Summer

[nolicenseyet]

Characters: Keroro, Eve and anyone else in Metokkori R and the Hikan Cafe
Location: the Hikan Cafe and Metokkori R
Rating: G...unless you bring something higher with you.
Time: August 15th and onwards!
Description: Let's send off summer in style! And by that we mean parfaits.

For a while now, some flyers have been floating around advertising the Hikan Cafe's 'Farewell My Beautiful Summer Extravagenza!'. On it there are the silhouettes of ten parfaits with a large question mark on each. There's one more on the bottom with the words, 'NOMINATE A CHALLENGER!' written on top in bright and bold letters.

Besides that there's a date: coming to the Hikan Cafe on August 15!

When the day of the reveal finally came, the flyer on the Hikan Cafe's door was replaced with a fully coloured poster. At each table you will find a smaller, laminated copy as a special menu.

Let's enjoy the end of the summer, guys!

((OOC: Feel free to state whether your thread is open or closed!))

Comments

[pishirogane]

[She jumps, almost knocking over her parfait.]

And might I ask what you're planning to do with that? While I'll allow the parfait to slide, using my likeness for any promotions following without my consent can result in jail time.

[starfruitfrog]

[He gives her a bright grin.]

Don't worry, that's not what I was planning on doing at all, de arimasu!

[At least, not at the moment. But it was actually a pretty good idea.]

[pishirogane]

If you're lying to me, understand there will be retribution.

[Don't want to be on her bad side, Keroro.]

[starfruitfrog]

[Would this face lie?

The answer is yes.]

Of course, de arimasu!

[He's just going to put it up on the wall of memories over near the cash register, full of pictures of all the people he's known in Death City.]

[pishirogane]

[Wrong person to play cute with.]

Hmm...

[Watching him for a moment longer, she decided it would be best to finish her parfait and go to work so she'll resume eating in silence.]

[starfruitfrog]

[Shamelessly snaps another picture on the off chance that the first one didn't come out right.]

[pishirogane]

[Good thing she does wear a hat still and can block the second shot. Putting it back and spoon down, she stares at Keroro.]

Do you mind bothering someone else?

1/3

[starfruitfrog]

[Foiled!]

[starfruitfrog]

[She was good.

But....]

3/3

[starfruitfrog]

[He wouldn't lose.]

Ah. Sorry about that, de arimasu~ I don't know what came over me, de arimasu.

[pishirogane]

Make sure it doesn't happen again.

[Though, she isn't about to resume eating until he leaves. She doesn't mind sacrificing her parfait since she isn't big into sweets and trying this was all she wanted to do. Finishing isn't required.]

[starfruitfrog]

Of course~

[And off he waltzes....

to a place behind a potted plant.]

[pishirogane]

...

[As childish as it is, she resumes eating... while holding her hat to block her face with her other hand.]

[starfruitfrog]

[And as childish as it is, and how unbefitting it is of someone 10,000+ years old, Keroro sits there. And sits. And sits.

Until he finally throws the camera into the wood chips in the pot and throws a tantrum.]

Oi! What's so wrong with taking pictures, de arimasu? Didn't I already promise I wasn't going to use them for advertising? I just want to add them to the cork-board because everyone is always leaving and I just want to have something there to remind the people left that they were really once here, de arimasu!

[pishirogane]

[Naoto lowers her spoon and puts her hat back on.]

If BREW hasn't rid of me now, I doubt it will remove me until this is over. After all, it knows I bear a grudge. I'll fight being removed from this world as long as I can... until my job is complete.

[starfruitfrog]

You can't promise that, de arimasu! What good is fighting it, when BREW is the one that makes the decisions? What good is fighting it, when people leave all the time and you never even get to promise to see each other again, de arimasu?!

[pishirogane]

And what's the point of the photos? When we're done here, they're not going to remain. BREW will return us all, and from the sound of it, none of us will remember anything. Enjoy the moment, isn't that how it goes?

[starfruitfrog]

They're just...!

[He looks down.]

They're just....my way of remembering everyone. Hughes-dono and Itou. Saya-dono. Junpei-dono. Yuichi-dono. Yamazaki. Roy-dono. I want some proof, even if it won't last, that we were all here together. That even at the end, no matter what, someone somewhere believes in us and no matter how dark the road ahead gets, we have a friend.

Okay notifs, what the hell

[pishirogane]

I see. [She recognized some of those names. She supposed there's a point, but he would have to understand, if she took photos, they were never leaving.]

... You can take photos, but could you please alert me beforehand. Sneaking around as you are reminds me uncomfortably of the paparazzi.

Re: Okay notifs, what the hell

[starfruitfrog]

[It takes him a moment to let that sink in, and then he's looking up, eyes bright.]

Really? I can really take pictures?

[pishirogane]

Yes, you may.

[starfruitfrog]

Thank you, de arimasu! Ah. In return, I can give you this! Just give me a moment, de arimasu!

[And he's off for that treasured picture of Kanji in star-shaped shutter shades. They were partners, after all. Maybe she'd like the picture?]

[pishirogane]

Ah, you don't--

[But he's gone. Perhaps she's becoming too soft... still, she needs to give people - even alien frogs - a chance. Taking a bite of her parfait, he comes back. Taking the picture, she nearly choked, face red. What... was Kanji wearing?]

[starfruitfrog]

[He....wasn't sure the choking was a good sign.]

You don't like it, de arimasu?

[pishirogane]

... He has to be blind wearing these.

[That's not really a comment on hating or liking it though. Honestly, she's maintaining a straight face, but she wants to laugh.]