[Play: STAR ANIS : We could be | GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE OST]
[Hope, Erie, and Juliet's chat~]
Erie: Ugh. We have wifi but the plane ride is so boooooring
Hope: T_T It seems so long without Mister John around to talk to...
Juliet: You guys are on a plane with wifi? Woooow, that's money
Hope: Mister Reaper says it's secret tech just for us. But it's still so boooring...
Erie: You know it's bad when Hope is complaining >.>
Juliet: You're probably having more fun than me. I'm stuck sitting in the museum lobby while Johnny negotiates.
Hope: Oh, right! Is Mister John actually buying you the guitar you wanted?
Erie: I looked that thing up... you're seriously getting a historical artifact just because?
Juliet: I can play it! ...Probably.
Erie: Probably?
Hope: @_@ You aren't going to break it, are you?
Juliet: Hey! I'm actually good at playing guitar! I wouldn't break it!
Erie: I guess that's true. You kept your guitar while homeless and it's still fine... somehow.
Juliet: Because it's my baby! I would never let it get broken!
Hope: I know the feeling! It's just like my Aoko hoodie! I handwash it and everything!
Erie: I guess we all have something like that, huh?
Juliet: What's your treasure then, Erie?
Erie: I have a vintage Victorian porcelain doll I inherited from my grandmother.
Juliet: ...
Hope: !!!
Erie: What's with the reactions?!
Juliet: You really like creepy things, huh?
Erie: I-It's not creepy! It's cute! It has little dresses and everything!
Hope: Sorry, Erie, but... porcelain dolls are creepy! @_@
Erie: Hoooope. No!
Juliet: Why are you two talking two each other like you aren't in the same place...?
Hope: Because we aren't! I'm in the pilot area with Mister Reaper and Erie is in the back!
Juliet: ...What?
Erie: I wanted room to relax and Hope is paranoid about us crashing.
Hope: I'm not! I'm just... um. Still not used to flights?
Erie: Hope was hyperventilating before Claud and Seth took her to sit with the pilot so she can see how everything's fine.
Hope: >.>
Juliet: Pft. Relax, Hope. Johnny wouldn't put you two on a plane that wasn't safe.
Hope: I know that! But it's still scary! What if the engine fails or something! I've seen all those plane crash videos, you know! It just takes one thing!
Erie: Were you this scared heading to Japan?
Hope: I had Mister John! Both there and back!
Juliet: Wait, you flew here WITH Mister John the first time? How? Wasn't he in Cali?
Erie: ...Wait, that's right. How did you end up here with Mister John if he was here with us?
Hope: Oh! Mister John says he has a shortcut back to Japan, but it's not legal so he can't take us through it.
Juliet: ...Now I'm REALLY interested...
Erie: Oh my god, does Mister John have portal tech? I mean, the handbooks SAY he does, but... like, for real though?
Hope: idk! But Mister John says he likes planes! It gives him an excuse to just lounge around.
Juliet: He would XD
Erie: Sounds like him, lol.
Hope: ...Aw. We still have ten hours left...
Juliet: Can't you just write rhymes, Hope?
Hope: T_T I did that! But for ten hours? >.>
Erie: I'm just having fun reading the lorebooks disguised as employee handbooks. Did you know that Alphy could literally murder her way out of a building?
Juliet: ...You know, that somehow doesn't surprise me.
Hope: !!! Alphy would never!
Erie: Apparently, she could. Most girls have bodycounts for guys, but hers is apparently literal...
Juliet: 🙄
Erie: You did NOT just eyeroll emoji me.
Juliet: I did. What's so fun about digging into our senpai's pasts anyway?
Erie: It's not digging if it's literally in the handbook! ...But fair- Wait. ...Oh my god, these are APPROVED lore dossiers.
Hope: !!! So everything in the book was approved by the person it's talking about?
Erie: Looks like it. ...Now I wonder which is real and which is flavor text... Like, it says that Kuromi is apparently the heir to an ancient martial arts lineage.
Juliet: That sounds plausible. She's doing a UFC tour right now, isn't she?
Erie: I guess. But then it says that Tsubame is "the reincarnated mortal half of the Vermillion Bird Zhuque." I mean, that's GOTTA be flavor text, right?
Hope: ...I think Mister John is just letting LoreOwl have fun with these entries...
Juliet: That's probably it.
Erie: But my intuition for paranormal activity is saying that this is true!
Hope: You have intuition for paranormal activity, Erie?
Erie: Of course I do! It's in my blood! Probably! I'm like, at least a quarter Irish! That's part fae, isn't it?
Juliet: ...
Hope: Oh, Erie...
Erie: Are you doing the midwestern thing where you patronize me, Hope? Woooow.
Hope: XD
Juliet: Before I forget Hope, you said you were sitting in the pilot seat with Mister Reaper...?
Hope: Yes! His full name is Tobias Reaper, but he likes being called Toby! He's John's personal assistant for international matters! And he's super talented!
Erie: He's literally a hitman.
Hope: He isn't! ...Probably.
Juliet: ...Probably?
Hope: Well... he DOES make a lot of money. And he's really good at blending in... and lots of skills...
Erie: He's a hitman. It's literally in his name, Hope.
Juliet: I KNEW Johnny was shady. But in a good way, I guess? You can't be that rich without being able to put skeletons into closets.
Erie: Skeletons in closets... 🤔
Juliet: ...We are NOT letting you buy prop skeletons to put into our apartment.
Erie: But think of the shenanigans! We could even do like a fake seance with Tsubame-senpai!
Hope: We shouldn't play with those things! I knew some people in high school who got ouija boards and disappeared!
Juliet: Hope. You lived in the middle of the midwest countryside. It was probably just normal murder.
Hope: Since when is murder normal?!
Erie: Oh man, you wouldn't believe the things that happened after dark in Los Angeles.
Hope: @_@
Juliet: XD We are sooooo cancelled if our groupchat ever leaks.
Erie: lmao. Probably. But I bet our senpais are worse.
Hope: Since that includes Rhea, I think so...
Juliet: OMG RHEA. She probably sends six digit codes ALL the time...
Hope: Six digit codes?
Erie: If you don't know, Hope, it's better. But Julie, Rhea is tooootally a reference to 'that' hentai, right?
Hope: H-H-Hentai?!
Juliet: YES! I've been dying to hear someone else point it out! The glasses, the hair, the way she became a gyaru...
Erie: RIGHT?!
Hope: @_@
Juliet: Oh wait, Johnny's coming back to chat. One sec
Erie: Don't worry about it, Hope. You're a normie, so it's fine.
Hope: >.> Everyone keeps saying that! What's a normie? And why does everyone think I'm normal!
Erie: Because like, you are? I mean, aren't you compared to all of us?
Hope: I'm different too! A little! I have white hair!
Erie: Wait. You mean your hair isn't blue?!
Hope: Of course not, silly! Nobody has real blue hair!
Erie: You have Marie Antoinette Syndrome?!
Hope: ...What's that?
Juliet: Back. We got the guitar~
Juliet: [stradivarius.png]
Erie: ...Isn't that just a Spanish guitar?
Juliet: It's Italian you uncultured swine!
Erie: My bad, sheesh.
Juliet: Wait, what's this about Marie Antoinette?
Erie: Hope's hair isn't blue.
Juliet: IT'S NOT?!
Hope: T_T What made you think I had real blue hair?
Juliet: Because it suits you! Like, perfectly!
Erie: Right? It doesn't like dyed at all!
Hope: ...Thank you?
Juliet: Wait. So then your hair is naturally white?
Erie: ...OH MY GOD! Hope can cosplay as a real ghost!
Hope: >.> I am NOT dressing up as a ghost again.
Erie: Again?
Juliet: Again?
Hope: #_# The kids used to make fun of me being a ghost. Then one year I dressed up as a ghost for halloween with my white hair... I think I caused a few car crashes by accident...
Erie: LMAO
Juliet: Now we HAVE to dress you up as a ghost, Hope.
Hope: Nooooooo I like being normal!
Erie: You were just complaining about not being different
Hope: That's that, this is this!
Juliet: Oh, Johnny's talking to me. One second.
Juliet: He wants to know if you want white corn, yellow corn, sweet corn, or purple corn.
Hope: Purple corn?
Erie: PURPLE CORN EXISTS?!
Juliet: Apparently.
Hope: Um... could I get all of it?
Erie: All of it?! How much corn are you going to eat, Hope?!
Hope: W-Well, Japan doesn't have corn! I miss it!
Erie: Are you like going to freeze it or something? That's crazy!
Juliet: Johnny says he'll have a small crate of each shipped over. But he also asks why you like corn so much.
Hope: Corn on the cob is yummy! And tortillas too!
Erie: ...Are you sure you're not like, Latina, Hope?
Hope: I'm not! My biological parents were white!
Erie: Oh my god, can you SAY that?
Hope: W-What did I say?
Juliet: Pft.
Hope: ???
Erie: ...Yeah, definitely not Latina. XD
Hope: You two are mean!
Juliet: Do you like tamales, Hope?
Hope: Tamales are yummy! One time, I stayed with some foster parents who made lots of them every day!
Erie: Ah, that explains it.
Juliet: What's your opinion on pasta, Hope?
Hope: I love it! Especially mac and cheese with ketchup and mustard!
Juliet: YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Erie: HOPE! That's a war crime against Italians!
Hope: But it's yummy!
Juliet: Okay, I'm getting Johnny to buy real ingredients. When I get to Japan, I'm making you REAL pasta. Because no. Just no.
Hope: I've had real pasta though. It's kind of... not very tasty?
Juliet: BLASPHEMY!
Erie: ...Okay, now I HAVE to ask. Hope, what's your opinion on Chinese food?
Hope: I like BF Changs?
Erie: OH MY GOD.
Juliet: I'm not even Asian and that offends me!
Hope: What's wrong with that?! It's good! And the restaurants are fancy!
Erie: Did you tell Mister John that?!
Juliet: Let me tell him
Hope: Nooooo! Julie, don't!
Juliet: Johnny VISIBLY cringed. And he said that he is going to feed you proper food if it's the last thing he does.
Hope: @_@
Erie: No wonder Miya-senpai is your favorite. Your poor tastebuds must have been suffering all this time...
Juliet: Hope... what was your go-to meal?
Hope: Um... I usually made a cheese quesadilla with a slice of Crafts cheddar on a tortilla and then made tomato soup by boiling a little ketchup?
Erie: ...
Juliet: ...
Hope: What? What did I say?!
Hope: @_@