The mention of the chocolates made Shion flinch slightly., and simply stare at the ground intently. Rationalising to herself that Kenji meant no harm at all, she barely managed to hold her tongue. But still... she should probably just let Kenji go with Aiko. It was obvious she was only getting invited to prevent some sort of situation, so Shion figured just leaving would solve that.
Still, when the two headed for the cafe, Aiko was beckoning for her to follow, leaving the cheerleader momentarily stuck. Why would anyone genuinely want to be around her? It didn't make much sense to her. As much as she wanted to avoid proving how stupid she was with words, that simple gesture was enough for Shion to cave in and shuffle after them, her face reddening slightly.

[i]Well, fine, I just won't order anything.[/i] Shion decided, [i]I'll just sit there, not say a word, and we'll all come out of this just fine. Yeah, that makes sense, just shut up, Shion, it'll be okay.[/i]

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The crowd was being thinned, slowly but surely. The challenge was, well, non-existent, but the sheer tedium was proving far more lethal than the actual battle. Why couldn't this be an army of super-powerful goliaths or something? Something that would take at least a few more hits to fell! God, something interesting happen already!

And then others came to fight the Negatives.

Well... it was different, at least.

Crushing one more of the creatures underfoot, Riot Lily glanced at her fellow Alter-Egos, a small grin on her face, "Hey now, shouldn't you lot be hiding somewhere safe? I can protect you all just fine on my own!"

Lily planted one of her flower-like weapons into the ground, hoping that using only one would up the challenge even slightly, even if it was going to be mitigated by her having allies in this fight. Still, gotta make the battle more interesting somehow!
"Aw, there's not a whole of 'em left..." lamented the Alter-Ego. Those numbers were gonna diminish so much faster now... oh well, they were far too weak to live, anyway. Maybe she'd get lucky next time. With a casual swing of her rose-like weapon, Riot Lily began to enact the end of the battle.