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[Well that's certainly a nice scarf you have there, Gundam.

Hope you don't mind if...it starts getting little tugs on it. And then bigger tugs accompanied with weird otherworldly-sounding giggles.

Eventually, a strange purple ghost-like thing pops into view and calls out miiiismagius! before it disappears again and resumes the invisible tugs. A moment after this, a girl comes into view, looking around.]

What do you mean there's a purple man over here--? [She stops when she notices Gundam, blanching.] --Sumire! Stop that! [She's answered with more creepy giggles, but the ghost reappears at her side nonetheless, looking very pleased with itself.] I am so sorry about her, she didn't bite you, did she?

[ Good manners are nice, sure, but to Gundam they mean close to nothing. Though this is to be expected from someone who uses "Ore-Sama" on a regular basis. Turning slightly to face Botan, one would expect him to be angry, but all he does is chuckle slightly. ]

Luckily for her, she did not.

[ He casts a quick glance at Botan, but his attention is soon much more focused on the Mismagius. That's one species he hasn't seen yet, and ghost types were particularly to his liking, so he takes a moment to inspect it from afar. ]

Had she bitten me, I fear for the fate that would have befallen her, fufufufu.

...Eh?

[Botan seems more perplexed by this than impressed or intimidated. She looks at Sumire, who glances back and only offers a questioning miiis?]

I think he was saying that if you bit him, he would have done something nasty to you. Not sure how, given that you're a ghost. [She shrugs, and Sumire gives the equivalent of a shrug one can have when they don't have shoulders or arms. Unlike Gundam, though, Botan knows that it's rude to just go off talking to someone else in the middle of conversation (even if that someone is her Pokemon).]

Anyway, I haven't seen you around here before, are you new?

I suppose.

[ He's not new to the world though he's played Pokemon ever since he was tiny. ]

For in a way, the mighty deity that is Tanaka Gundam holds unparalleled knowledge of worlds the most feeble of mortals would cower simply upon imagining them!

[ That made no sense, but he's rolling with it. ]

And of course, the land should be humbled to have the greatness that is me walking upon its earth, so that its inhabitants may be inspired by my magnanimous presence!

[ Fufufufu. ]

...Tanaka Gundam...a deity? [She's kind of muttering to herself, considering, has she heard of a god by that name?

...No, gods don't have last names.]

I've never heard of you. To what part of the Spirit World do you belong?

[ What even. Wait. He's seen her face somewhere before, though he can't quite make out where. ]

To a part unbeknownst to mere dwellers, of course!

[ It's on the tip of his tongue. He quirks up a brow as he tries to muster the brain power to remember but nothing so far. ]

That said, it's for the best that none know of my presence, lest they know the true meaning of terror.

[ Wait. Holy shit. ]

That sounds more like it'd make you a demon, Tanaka-kun.

[But she really hasn't heard of him, they keep a uncatalogued of all demons in their records.]

You look more like you'd be a schoolmate of Yusuke's, if you'll pardon my assumption.

[ He chuckles. Even if this is who he thinks it is, he's still got to put up his act as best as he can. Let's hope memory serves well. ]

A naive assumption! To reduce the image of the dark lord of the underworld to a mere demon is truly a shining example of folly!

[ Fufufufufufufufufu. ]

It is, perhaps, for your safety that my true nature is not known to you. I do not have any intentions of inflicting fear upon the undeserving.

[??? A dark lord of the underworld now, what.]

I think Lord Koenma would have something to say about you claiming that title!

But I'm afraid my titles aren't simply claims.

[ He shifts to a cackle. ]

Mwhahaha! Cower, before the lord the the underworld, king of seven hells, and the dark hand of death! The Phoenix King reborn from ashes once more!

[ And his tone quickly drops. ]

And of course, prized animal breeding blogger. Even if it is but a ploy to hide my collection of arcane magics, it is one of my many accomplishments.

[...She's exchanging a look with Sumire again. "Is this what you would call a dweeb?" Sumire asks in her repetitions of mis-mis-missmagius?]

That's rude, Sumire.

[...But yes, it is very dweebish, says Botan's expression. He looks alternative as hell, maybe a little punk, but ultimately he's just a regular otaku.]

Botan, ferrywoman of the River Styx. I've been assigned as a breeder here, too.

[ Oh he knows who you are. But he's not going to say he spent a good portion of his life reading a manga about you. ]

I look forward to working with you, should you be able to survive continued exposure to my deadly aura.

[ Chuckle. ]

However, isn't the ferrywoman of the River Styx, said to carry the dead, slightly out of place as a breeder?

[ For the first time, his tone isn't menacing or accusatory, he's actually just a bit worried about the babies. ]

[Yeah that would be a little weird.]

I think I'll manage.

[But he does raise up a good point, about her being assigned as a breeder here.]

You're right, I thought so too when I first got here, but a--[friend, boogeyman, acquaintance??]--associate of mine brought up the point that with death comes renewal, making way for new life. So being able to actively bring new life to this world has become my privilege. [Sometimes she really doesn't like being a reaper anyway, so.]

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