victory_road | Josuke Higashikata Meets Pokémon (part 1)

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Whoa whoa whoa hey, don't touch the hair - and you better explain what I'm doing here, now!

[Josuke is practically being forced out the door of "Mom"'s house not only by the mystery woman, but also by the Pansage riding his shoulders eagerly waving and pointing at everything in sight. He's sure never met her before, and it's really freaking him out. He thought his real mom could get crazy.

The door gets slammed on him before he realizes he's outside.]

Oh, now this is just great.

[He's gonna be strolling around looking for answers. You look out of place, maybe you know something?]

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[That... is the side of a face. Someone seems to have not noticed the lens... or maybe not.]

Apparently this thing I got is a phone, not just a camera? Fancy stuff. Guess the first question is, who am I even calling? Wouldn't think it'd make one with no number.

[He'd been poking around, and found some things that looked phone-like, so he gave it a try. It is acting odd, but maybe it's like a Stand or something. There could totally be a phone stand.]

Wouldn't be right to just say that, though. Name's Josuke Higashikata. A little confused by all this, but I guess I've got time to work it out since it doesn't look like I'm going anywhere anytime soon.

Got a song stuck in my head something fierce, though.

[He finally moves the Gear away from the side of his head, giving everyone a really clear look at his pompadour and face, finally. He's managed to get Yes to calm down, at least, but he also forgot to hang up.]

Wait, maybe...

[He's taking off his jacket on camera. It's midsummer so sure, that makes some sense, but the way he's looking over it might seem more like there might be a problem with it than just looking at it strangely.]

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Same shit anybody does when they've lived somewhere for years. Screw around, work a few odd jobs, deal with the goddamn menagerie people kinda end up with around here.

Years?!

[This is not something he expected or wanted to hear. Okuyasu and Koichi can handle themselves fine, he's not really worried about them - this is just kind of a nasty shock, although it's not the only thing he's noted about what that was. He takes a second to recompose, and...]

Guess I'm supposed to be collecting more o' these weird animals, at least.

[Yes hops on Josuke's shoulder again as if called.]

Years, yeah. Somethin' around five or so for me. Kinda get used to the whole 'weird animals' thing, at least.

[please don't be so calm about this]

Name's Cu Chulainn, by the way. People around here just call me Lancer.

No surprise there, I'm not sure I could get that right.

[It sounds really foreign - so much that Josuke's not sure his tongue could ever work that way.]

Not sure what I'd do with a dozen pets though, considering I haven't had even one...

[And of course Koichi isn't around to ask. Not that Police ever does anything.]

Nobody ever does, don't bother.

[it's so hard, josuke]

Ain't too tough. Nothin' saying you have to get a dozen at once, anyway.

What, takin' care of these guys? What do they need?

[Like, generally speaking, of course.]

About what you'd expect--food and water ain't tough to get around here, and training's easy once you've fought with 'em a couple times.

Food for them, sure, but if I'm stuck in this town for much longer food for me might be a problem...

[There's not a lot of money to be made here, or restaurants to get it at. It's kind of odd just how much nothing there is.]

No idea what it's lookin' like between there and Cherrygrove, but if you can get that far I'm pretty sure every town always has some part-time stuff open. Place is kinda weird like that, you learn not to ask too many questions about it.

'Course, if you really run into trouble I guess I could lend ya somethin' so ya don't starve to death. Hate to see a nice kid in trouble.

[...he's also worked far more odd jobs than any human ever should]

Haven't heard much about it, just that there's something rampaging, people are taking care of it already, and that me getting involved is a bad idea.

[Apparently, though, it's been at least a week since they started.]

So obviously I'm gonna see what it is.

Nice approach.

['when there's trouble, run directly towards source of the trouble.']

You'll probably be fine around here with an attitude like that.

Josuke Higashikata Meets Pokémon (part 1)

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