route_1065 | happy birthday from all of us to you

Who: All the Dangans + Parker!
Where: Violet City
When: 8/31, evening
Summary: It's Ishimaru's birthday and his classmates are throwing him a surprise party. This can't end badly.
Rating: PG-13 for language. I'll update this if there are any changes!
Log:
Never again. Mondo is never planning a party this big ever again. Of course the original plan didn't take into account the arrival of five classmates, so originally this would have been easy enough to handle. Now, though? He'd practically run himself ragged making sure that everyone was here and everything was ready.

The hotel was kind enough to lend them the Conference Room for the occasion, and it was quite a large room that should easily fit all of the Hope's Peak classmates and Alice. All the food is spread out on a table by the wall (it's entirely vegetarian, since that's what Ishimaru likes) and the tables are situated nearby so that the guests can actually sit and eat. There's plenty of open space in case anyone wants to dance to the music that's been set up (though Mondo doubts Ishimaru will set foot on the dance floor, it's mostly to entertain the other guests). The gifts are all piled in the back corner and there's even a large TV for the guests to watch. All in all, it seems like the perfect place to hold a party.

All that's left is for Fujisaki to bring Ishimaru to the location, so Mondo fires off a quick text to his friend, letting Fujisaki know that everyone's ready and in position. This is gonna be awesome.

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What? No, I'm not—

[Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Is this guy seriously suggesting that Ishimaru is not a perfect catch and completely datable and obviously the only reason why he's not is because he's far too good for anybody to even attempt it?

Because it sounds like he is.

WELL, THEN.]

Wait, what are you talking about? Ishimaru is great.

[Hagakure blinks in confusion. Did he offend her? Because it sure seems like it from that response.]

Huh? W-Well yeah he's great! I just didn't expect it, y'know? Ishimaru-chi doesn't seem like the kinda guy to go out on dates.

[Trying his hardest to backpedal because jeez he just met this woman who is apparently close to Ishimaru and he's already made a bad impression.]

Why would that be weird? He can date anybody he wants to.

[Clearly the reason he doesn't is because he's just too good for them.

...Or because he's like her and dating like normal people is a herculean effort, but either way.]

I never said he couldn't, dude... I'm just saying he doesn't seem like the type to go lookin' for 'em.

[This is seriously getting weird. He's wondering what kind of relationship Ishimaru has with Alice if she's that concerned about his dating life.]

Oh.

[Well, that's fine, then.]

He's probably got more important things to do, yeah.

Yeah! Exactly, dude! That's what I was gettin' at!

[We're good now? Okay cool, he can breathe easy. He's still a little weirded out though.]

Uh, that aside... I'm Yasuhiro Hagakure, but you can just call me Hagakure. I'm one of Ishimaru-chi's classmates, dude.

[Her mouth silently forms the syllables of his name as she sounds it out once or twice, dragging out the vowels and getting used to the sequence.]

Hi! I'm Alice. I said that already but yeah, that's me! Ha-ha.

[Classmate. Okay. That means he was at the school with the shooting where all the bad stuff happened, like Ishimaru and Mondo had mentioned. Okay. Don't talk about stabbing. Don't talk about ritual suicide. Don't talk about dead people. Talk about something normal.]

How do you get your hair to do that? Are you one of those conspiracy theorist guys?

[In fairness, the last time she saw someone with hair as...unique as Hakagure's, it was one of her friends pretending to be a whackjob conspiracy theorist, and he'd told her so.]

Haha, yeah. But still, it's nice to meetcha, Alice-chi! I'm sure we'll get along great.

[Here Alice, have some more confusing honorifics to deal with.

And normally that question would probably be weird and offensive to anyone else, but it actually catches Hagakure off guard.]

H-Huh? How did you...? [He almost looks panicked that she guessed that right off the bat.] I guess you could say that? I mean, the government's definitely hiding a lot of truths from us, like the existence of extraterrestrial life and ancient supercultures. Time travel too, for sure.

But to answer your question about my hair, I don't really do anything to it! I let it naturally turn into dreads and they just kinda stand up like that.

[... There he is: Miss America.]

[Wait.

Holy shit.

Someone who understands.]

I knew it! They said it was just a submarine and something about..."The Council", I forget what, but it was all "I'm not at liberty to discuss that with you" so I'm pretty sure he's on it.

[...]

I knew it.

[... Whoa, he's finding so many people who aren't judging him for his beliefs in this world. He's legit shocked.]

Whoa, what's this Council thing? And a submarine? What've you been hearing, dude?

[Are they actually sharing their conspiracy theories right now? This isn't just a dream?

What is this madness.]

You know, that all the major wars of the past fifty years were ordered by a mysterious shadowy organization called The Council?

[HER FRIENDS THOUGHT THIS WAS FUNNY. THEY DID THIS.]

I know a guy. He's on it.

Dude...that one's new to me, but I'm totally interested.

[He leans in closer to Alice, eyes practically twinkling with excitement.]

What do you know about it, dude? Aside from what you just said, of course.

[Oh boy she's succeeding at being social THIS IS AWESOME.]

He kept saying he wasn't at liberty to say anything. But he knew that we faked the moon landing and he's been to Area 52, which is the real one instead of Area 51 which is fake, and he's got all kinds of shadowy past-y connections and stuff. Reeeeeeally shifty.

Are you serious right now, dude?! Even I haven't heard of the Area 52 thing! This is all too much to take in, man!!

[NOW THIS IS A STORY ALL ABOUT HOW HAGAKURE'S LIFE GOT FLIPPED TURNED UPSIDE DOWN--]

It's super top secret. But they know.

[What they know, she's not entirely sure, but hey, whatever it is, presumably they know it.]

And some dude who's in on it just up and told you about it? That's insane. Most of the time they have to kill the people who end up knowing too much!

[He's suddenly really glad he's in the Pokemon world and not back on Earth where knowing this info could be deadly.]

happy birthday from all of us to you

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