@Kurisa

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Nodding along, Shinpachi didn't talk much once they entered the Seireitei. Strolling through their barracks, he had an air of confidence around him. They just took down a hollow, without their shikais and the hollow was an odd one at that. Oddly enough, there wasn't really anyone else around in the barracks. Are they all on missions? Or did the captain send them out to do something else? In any case, he was ready to give his report and what he saw during the encounter.

"I don't need you to put in a good word. I'll get my shikai and bankai before you for sure." He shrugged, walking next to Shizuo. When they reached the captain's office, he push the door open after knocking twice, ready to give his report.

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Kurisa shook his head as Kuroda claimed that he'd get his Shikai and Bankai before him, however now was not the time to be bickering. Following Kuroda into the Captains office, he gave a light bow to their Captain "Captain...we've just returned from our mission in the Human World. I know we were told to contact the Squad when we had found the hollow we were looking for however we deemed the hollow to be far too dangerous to just let it run rampant. By the time back up had arrived, who knows what it would have done. I understand we may have disobeyed the mission order, but we made a call we felt was necessary in protecting the inhabitants of the human world...besides...the hollow was certainly no normal hollow, it fought with seemingly some for of intelligence, even learning as it fought us"

Akira was sat behind his desk, his Haori out in front of him, still covered in dirt from earlier on in the day. He listened as two of his subordinates entered the room and explained their mission to him, this made him rub the right side of his face with his right hand, letting out a sigh as they reported that they'd in fact killed it..."I see...Regardless of what you two thought may have been the right call, we have these measures in place for a reason. In this instance, we were asked by Squad 12 to locate some unusual hollow so that they could be captured and used for research to find out why these changes were going on in such low level hollow." Akira was still somewhat impressed that they'd managed to take it down, although it didn't look like it was done flawlessly.

Akira then spoke again "Squad 12 wont be happy to hear about this, they wanted as many subjects as they could get. Let's hope the other groups manage to fulfil this mission to make up for your mistakes. Understand this..." Akira's eyes narrowed slightly as he began to exert a little of his spiritual pressure "Your orders are orders, that's it. If you think that you cannot complete the order, then retreat. At no point was it an order for you two to engage this hollow, you're lucky to be alive...these things are said to be evolving and learning at rapid rates, they've even given some of the seated officers some trouble...If we believed you were capable of tackling these, that would of been the order given...next time...obey the order or if it's too much, then retreat...I'd rather not have fresh out the academy graduates dead so soon...a waste of potential if you ask me. Now...I want your written reports on my desk by tomorrow morning and as further punishment you two will have to clean the barracks floors and bathrooms...also...do 20 laps around the Seireitei, no breaks and grab me some cigarettes on the way back...out of your own pockets"

Akira then closed his eyes for a moment then opened them, exhaling a little before speaking "You're both dismissed...unless you both have something you want to say?"

Kurisa decided at this point it wasn't good to really argue their case, however he still felt they'd done the right thing...he didn't trust Squad 12, not after all the shady things he'd heard and read about them...who knows what the hell they'd do with these subjects. Kurisa then bowed to his Captain, then turned to leave the office...both him and Kuroda both had a lot to do between now and tomorrow morning, it seemed like sleep probably wouldn't be an option

@Kurisa

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Shinpachi remained quiet as Shizuo spoke to the captain. What he said was true, to a T. They did encounter the hollow. It was indeed weird. It did seem like it was learning as they fought and they definitely took it down. Shinpachi had his hands folded behind his back for the duration of the meeting, standing upright and giving the captain his full attention.

Then came the reaming.

The captain essentially told them to fuck off if they couldn't obey the orders. Orders were given because there were more things at work than both him and Shizuo knew about. Apparently, the Gotei 13 already knew that these were not normal hollows, but needed more specimen to fully research and study. Which, to be fair, is completely valid. Squad 12, for all their brilliance, was also a squad of secrecy and shadiness. Shinpachi trusts its members as far as he can yeeeeet them.

In any case, the captain took in their verbal reports but handed down punishments for disobeying orders as well. Giving a slight bow, Shinpachi backed out of the office, speaking to Shizuo at this point "Well fuck. I'm going to get some food and finish the report first. When you want to clean the barracks, let me know, we'll get that shit done I suppose..."

@KillBox

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Kurisa looked at Kuroda once they got out the Captains office, listening to him speak before nodding "Sure...I'll go work on my report out the way also...just don't take too long on your report yeah?" Kurisa then began walking off towards the direction of his room "We don't need to get in anymore shit..." Kurisa chuckled a little as he continued walking, eventually making it to his room he stepped in and closed the door behind him, letting out a sigh before he spoke quietly to himself "Damn...This shit was messed up, eh...screw it...I'll just get this report done" Kurisa then went to his desk, sat down and began writing out his report, even if he did handle things wrong...he was going to make his case here regardless.

@Kurisa

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Nodding, Shinpachi went off in the direction o his room as well. As soon as he stepped through the door, he let out a sigh. Going to his desk, taking out his thermal flask and sipped the warm tea from it.

"Fucking hell. All we did was kill a hollow. If they're in such dire needs of a specimen, why didn't they just send someone from their own squad to collect it? Or better yet, send someone with up to collect it while we're all out there anyways.... God dammit."

Shinpachi grumbled on, as he began writing his report.

@KillBox

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A few hours had passed and finally Kurisa had finished his report, sitting back on his chair and looking up the ceiling he let out a sigh and closed his eyes for a moment "There's just no way in hell I'm going to let myself stay here at this point...I need to get stronger, things feel like they've already been going on for an eternity..." Kurisa then looked down at his Zanpakuto which was resting against his desk "Once I manage to get my Shikai then I'll know I'm making actual steps...until then..." Kurisa then stood up and picked up his Zanpakuto and his report "I'll just have to learn everything else I can...I will become a Captain one day..."

Kurisa then exited his room and closed his door behind him as he then made his way through the barracks hallways, noting how messy the floors actually were around here...he couldn't help but thing that they'd end up doing this cleaning crap anyway. After a little walk Kurisa arrived outside Kuroda's room and knocked on the door "Hey! you finished that report yet? We may as well get these turned in and get to cleaning..."

Next -> @AbigailTenshi

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The fight between Yusuke and the hollow kept raging on, he'd landed several blows on this hollow and yet it just managed to heal them all and the hollow would not let up now, it's attacks beginning to become faster which had Yusuke now having no choice but to try avoid some of them "You're getting stronger huh? Shit...guess I should stop holding myself back!" Yusuke then stopped dead as the hollow thrust it's right hand forward, it's claws extended out in an attempt to pierce Yusuke. The wind then began to pick up as Yusuke's eyes began to glow, then with a quick slash from left to right he cut through the hollows claws "Don't piss me off...I may not look it, but I'm not your average academy graduate!!" Yusuke then released some of his purple and green Spiritual energy

This caused the hollow to take a few steps back which made Yusuke grin "So...a mindless creature such as yourself can feel fear huh!? Then let me see just how much fear I can strike into you!" Yusuke then reached into his pocket with his left hand, switching his music off as he then took off his headphones and let them sit around his neck, he then gripped his Zanpakuto's hilt tightly in his right hand as he took a step forward, this caused the hollow to roar loudly which Yusuke took as nothing more than a scream of fear.

Taking another step closer he spoke "Scream all you like...but it's either me or you...and I'm choosing you!" Yusuke then burst into a sprint as he raised his Zanpakuto above his head and then quickly slashed down towards the hollow. Blood sprayed over Yusuke as his eyes widened in surprise...what...the hell just happened? Seemingly out of nowhere another hollow had appeared and...took the slash for the clawed hollow "W-What the hell?" Yusuke then tried to pull his Zanpakuto from it's corpse, however as he did a red glow lit the area up, looking up to see the hollow charging a cero "No! Not here!" the hollow then fired the cero at near on point blank range at Yusuke, causing him to fly back and slide across the roof. His body was now badly burnt and the top half of his uniform barely even attached

Yusuke slowly made his way to his feet, his headphones from around his neck crumbling and falling onto the roof "You've really done it now...try harm me, that's fine...but try and harm these innocent humans?...I'll fucking tear you apart for that" Yusuke no longer had his Zanpakuto on him, it was still near the clawed hollow...so now all he had to use was his own body and kido and it seemed that more hollow had begun to show up. Yusuke then tore the top half of his uniform off and threw it to the side "I'm just as good with my fists you pieces of trash...if not better..." Yusuke then took a deep breath before continuing to speak, this time directing his words towards his teammate "If you want to just stand there and watch then that's fine...I don't need you in the way, but the least you can do is call backup...cause we're not making it out of here alive like this"

Yusuke said this as many more hollow appeared, this was not a job for unseated members anymore and even if he was strong...he wasn't capable of handling this many "Until they arrive though...we're gonna have to survive...cause I sure as hell aint dying here! I've got a certain person I need to get some payback on!" Yusuke then ran towards the many hollow, these ones thankfully were seemingly just normal and much smaller. Yusuke ducked and weaved through the few hollows attacks as he then slammed his right fist into the mask of the hollow directly in front of him, he then ducked an attack from the hollow to his right, grabbing it's right arm with his left hand he then pulled it towards him as he charged a Hado 31 up in his right palm and firing it through the hollows mask. He then turned his back to the hollow he'd just killed and threw it over himself and into the other hollow, quickly firing a hado 4 through them both with his right hand. "That's why Squad 11 wouldn't take me...They aren't very big fans of Kido..." Yusuke then turned his attention towards the rest of the hollow that had begun to gather around the clawed hollow...he needed to make his way towards his Zanpakuto but it seemed like he'd have to punch his way through them all.

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Itsuko watched Yusuke's altercation with the hollow; watching in confusion as he spoke to the being as if the beast could understand him. There may have been a few chances where she could have stepped in, however at the same time Yusuke didn't really leave much room for another to join the battle.

It wasn't until another hollow appeared outta-nowhere to shield the hollow Yusuke had been fighting did Itsuko begin to really get worried. 'That idiot! Now look at what he's done, we came to report the hollow not draw multiple to our location!' The time to standby was certainly over, Itsuko prepared to launch herself off of the current rooftop she was observing from when she promptly stopped herself at the sight of the glow of a cero. Said cero blasted Yusuke point blank, appearing almost like it was revenge for the earlier kido Yusuke had fired but Itsuko knew better; hollows are just mindless beasts, there is no meaning to their madness.

Taking off towards Yusuke, she stood at an acceptable distance from the mint-haired man, watching as his headphones crumbled to his feet. Itsuko stifled a chuckle, but soon her neutral expression transformed to a scowl. "_{Now that you don't have your headphones you think you can order me around after ignoring me for this whole mission.}" She mumbled under her breath, now wasn't the time to start arguments, but later Itsuko will be having words. Whipping out her spirit phone, Itsuko called for backup as asked before putting it away, Yusuke was unfortunately right even though he was the one who caused this mission to get out of hand in the first place.

Swiftly Itsuko unsheathed her zanpakuto and immediately got to work. Springing off of her right foot towards her first target, she slashed in a motion from her bottom left towards her upper right to begin her attack, landing it cleanly. This hollow was one of the weak ones so she didn't have any difficulty taking it down... It was the volume of these weak hollow that would cause issues, also not to forget to mention the strange hollow that was clearly much stronger than the hollow they would have faced during the academy days. Itsuko kept quiet as she got to work, oddly she preferred not to talk while fighting in order to fully be able to concentrate, this lead her to of course ignore Yusuke so she could focus on her next targets.

@Kurisa

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Shinpachi had been done with his report. In it, it simply stated what he saw and what they did, including his own thoughts on why his actions were justified at the time. He knows that the captain might not like what he said in the report, but being truthful in what he thought and saw was important to him.

Matter of fact, he had been done for about 30 minutes now. He thought he'd take a nap before going to check on Shizuo, to see if he was done with his report and wanted to get cleaning. He wanted to be done with those two tasks before dinner, then take his laps after he eats as his nightly exercise.

In any case, Shinpachi was half asleep when Shizuo came knocking. "HUH? Oh UH. Yeah. I'm done. I'll be out in a second..." He hopped out of bed, got dressed and straightened up in the matter of moments. Sliding open the door, he had his report in hand and zanpakuto strapped to his left waist. "Looks like you're done too. Lets go hand this in, then get cleaning. This place is quite messy, and I want to be done by dinner... I think I'll start on the east wing, by the practice rooms, and you can start in the west side, and we'll meet in the middle?" He said, stepping out of his room and started towards the captain's office to hand in his report...

@KillBox

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Kurisa waited outside for Kuroda as he woke up or tried to clean up whatever depraved act he was doing and after a few minutes Kuroda emerged, had he been panting or something this would have been awkward. He then listened as Kuroda gave his suggestions on how they start the cleaning of the barracks "Seems fine to me. I'm pretty sure at some point we may have to do more because of our reports but screw it...we were just doing our duty as Shinigami, we're meant to eliminate hollow...not capture them and experiment on them...that shit's weird." After a little walk the two would come to the outside of the Captains office, Kurisa then gave a knock and entered, the Captain was absent from his office which seemed kind of odd but it made this a little easier if anything "Well this makes this easier I suppose" Kurisa then placed his report on the Captains desk and left the office, waiting outside till Kuroda was done.

Next -> @AbigailTenshi

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After Yusuke had taken down a few more hollow he looked back to see his partner finally doing some work, it was about damn time. Yusuke then turned his attention forward to more oncoming hollow, taking them down with a mix of Hakuda and Kido, At this rate he probably wouldn't make it to his Zanpakuto and using this much Kido was going to have some bad effect sooner or later. "Tch!...If this highlights anything it's that I need to learn more god damn skills...what they taught us in the academy seems barely useful in one on ones, let alone when the odds are stacked against you..."

As Yusuke took down another hollow with a hard Tessho to it's face, back up arrived...in fact...a lot more than expected. Yusuke stopped for a moment as he looked at all the Shinigami that had gathered, these guys were almost certainly from Squad 13. "Damn...it was only one difficult hollow, we don't need an army for this..." A shinigami then landed next to Yusuke, the shinigami's eyes focused on the targets ahead as he spoke "This is a very important hollow, perhaps one of the highest ranked on our list...I assume you can see why?...We cannot risk it getting away here" before Yusuke could say anything in response the Shinigami shunpoed off, the hollows that he and his teammate had been fighting were dispatched in mere seconds and the clawed hollow was then captured with multiple Bakudo and sealed in some kind of Kido crate? It seemed like the crate was designed for this hollow in specific...no matter how much it roared, nothing could be heard.

Yusuke moved up to where the Shinigami were and grabbed his Zanpakuto, finally re-united with it. Then the same Shinigami that had spoke to him before spoke again "You two did good here...I can tell you both engaged this hollow which was stupidly dangerous but in this case it was probably for the best...this hollows been evading us for a long time, perhaps it thought it had a chance this time around to win and grow stronger by consuming you both...anyway don't worry, you'll get a good word put in for you guys." The Shinigami all then moved out, transporting the hollow away...leaving Yusuke just standing there, gripping his Zanpakuto grip tightly with his right hand "...I don't get this shit...why would you want to capture this?...tch...not like an unseated member like me would get the answer anyway, but that thing should be killed if it's that dangerous..."

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Focused on the hollow situated directly in front of her, Itsuko continued to strike one after another with calculated moves in order to output only the minimum amount of energy necessary to make each strike fatal for these weak hollow. Since she was now in the brunt of it, she felt she had to be very careful not to overexert herself in-case back up was delayed for any reason.

With another leap, her next target disintegrated before she was even able to budge her sword an inch. This hastily caused Itsuko to stop and widen her view range. 'Well that was quicker than I had expected' It seemed she didn't need to think too much about conserving energy as the back-up arrived sooner than she expected; none-the-less it was still good strategy practice, even if it was just for a short amount of time. Catching a glimpse of mint, Itsuko shunpoed over to her teammate as he voiced his confusion as to why so many members of Squad 13 had been dispatched. She managed to arrive just in time to hear what the recently arrived fellow shinigami had to say. Crossing her arms, her eyes swayed to the main target hollow as it was captured within a kido created box. Needless to say she had a feeling that the reason they were on the lookout for said hollow in question was due to it being of some interest to others back in the Soul Society, otherwise they would have been given the order to eliminate it.

Tagging along, Itsuko followed Yusuke as he made his was closer towards the allied shinigami. They spoke once more, however their short speech lead to Itsuko mentally facepalming. There she was trying to follow orders, Yusuke decided to act upon his own accord which in fact turned out to be the correct course of action. If he wasn't here the hollow would have escaped, atleast that's what Itsuko assumed based off of what the allied shinigami had just stated. "Your praise should only be given to Yusuke. I had no hand in the capture... which is rather frustrating but I have to admit that he took charge here and I didn't do much other than watch." With that said, Itsuko may have came across as seeming defeated, but in fact she simply did not want praise for something she didn't do as taking credit for would have been a blow to her pride.

After the allied shinigami along with the captured target left the scene, Yusuke decided to speak up yet again. "Dummy, it's pretty self-explatory. If that hollow is dangerous and different to the others, perhaps Squad 12 want to examine why it is different and what caused it. Sure that might not be the exact reason, but researching it makes more sense than killing it since there might me more hollows like that lurking about. How else would we be able to prepare ourselves?" Placing her hands on her hips, Itsuko sent a small smile in Yusuke's direction. "You're rude, and I don't like that about you, but I have to admit you're strong. This mission would have failed without you so I commend you. But I sure as hell hope I don't get partnered with you again" Slight malice may have been heard in her final words since she was still annoyed at being ignored so heavily, however Yusuke still preformed well so some of that annoyance has dissolved at this point. "We should head back and give in our report"

Next -> @AbigailTenshi

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Yusuke continued to stare off into the distance as he teammate began to talk to him, probably the first time he'd heard her properly to be honest and she was just as annoying as he'd thought. "I don't really care much for credit...and you think we need to prepare ourselves for hollow like that? These guys stepped in and scooped it up in a matter of seconds, it's like they were waiting nearby or something...that and they already knew it's rough whereabouts, they just needed us to report it's exact location. I wonder how many others were sent out on missions like this..."

Yusuke then shook his head before he continued speaking "Na...I don't like this, somethings up here and it isn't normal...I wonder just who the Squad 12 Captain is anyway..." Yusuke was annoyed by all this, it didn't feel right...just capturing strange hollow so they can what? Learn simply about how it's mutating this way?...if that was the case then why would they need so many? No doubt this isn't the only one...they'd need back ups in case one dies on them anyway. "Eh screw it, I'll figure it out eventually..."

Yusuke then thrust his Zanpakuto forward and then turned it to open up a Senkaimon before sheathing it "Well you'll probably be shit out of luck...cause we'll no doubt be paired up often, so you best get used to it." Yusuke then stepped into the Senkaimon, walking ahead so he could get back sooner

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Itsuko listened as Yusuke contemplated the reason for this mission and the reason behind a load of other factors that occurred today. Honestly Itsuko thought it was really unnecessary for him to try and rack his brain over rhyme and reason to anything requested by the upper powers. "A job's a job so who cares" She shrugged her shoulders, at the end of the day they were performing a service for money, unless there was a personal reason behind it, why bother question? Perhaps this is another thing that made Yusuke different to the usual lackeys in Squad 11; it seemed Yusuke liked to ask many questions.

Humane or not, Itsuko was in no position to question. If something morally bad was really going on in the background, what could she even do about it? She'd much rather be ignorant until she actually had power to change things, otherwise knowing the ugly truth about anything would only serve to haunt her thoughts.

Her burgundy eyes watched Yusuke open a Senkaimon before sliding the tip of his Zanpakuto back into his sheath finally. "Ulgh, how annoying. Look, if we get paired again, the least you can do is keep the music volume to a reasonable level. I may as well be paired with a brick wall otherwise." Itsuko followed behind Yusuke, giving her last retort as they made their way back.

@Kurisa

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Walking with Shizuo, Shinpachi agreed to what Shizuo was saying. "I mean, yeah. We're meant to restore balance to the world by purifying hollows and send them back down the right path, not like those filthy Quincies that does nothing but disrupt the balance of souls by obliterating them as they kill them... So yeah, its quite odd that we were meant to only observe and not even capture this particular hollow. And that Squad 12 had requested it so they can do more research. Odds on it was Squad 12 that fucked up their experiment and let this hollow loose to see how it would fare in the real world..." An preposterous accusation, of course. Shinpachi was of neither rank nor power to be making these kind of claims, and he knew that, and that is why he only confides in Shizuo with this kind of blasphemous talk.

Shinpachi dropped off his report after Shizuo did so. "So, we need to sweep the entire fucking place them mop, right? Lets get to it, its a big place after all..."

Next -> @AbigailTenshi

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Yusuke listened to his teammate who he'd still not learned the name of "Hm...we will see about that"

After a small while they would arrive back in the Soul Society and immediately Yusuke knew what he wanted to go do "Alright! Back at last, I've got things to take care of so catch you later!" Yusuke of course didn't mean this literally, he had no intention of meeting up with this girl at all. Now however he needed one thing...and that was a new pair of headphones and he wasted no time in heading off to get them, after all there was no way he'd be able to sit there and write a report without his music and then there was training...damn that would be boring as all hell without music...

@KillBox

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Kurisa had waited until Kuroda joined him, now they'd have to clean the entire barracks which seemed like it was going to take awhile. "Yeah let's get this done so we can get the Captain off our backs..." With that Kurisa headed off in the opposite direction to Kuroda to get not only what he'd need to clean the barracks but also go with the plan Kuroda had come up with.

~A few hours later~

After a few hours had passed Kurisa had finally made it to what could be considered the center of the barracks, his part of the cleaning was done here and just as well cause this was almost certainly one of the most boring things to do. "Finally...at least now I can probably just head out and get those laps done, that'll at least be some form of training..." Kurisa waited till Kuroda would finish, he figured that he was probably more through with this cleaning than he was but it really didn't matter to Kurisa...hell he wasn't a professional cleaner

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The very moment Yusuke and Itsuko set foot back into the Soul Society, the former gave a quick goodbye before scurrying off. "O-Okay, later then" Itsuko waved off her teammate as he left her sight. Now it was time for her to also get a start on something important.

Weaving through the streets and alleys, Itsuko made her way to the Squad 13 barracks and immediately to her room, cutting all interaction down to a simple wave and smile whenever she came into contact with a familiar friendly face. Once in, she shut her door and took a deep breath in relaxation, lingering in the exhaled state for a mere moment before balling a her left hand into a first to place on her right hand's palm. "Right, down to work!" She declared to herself, walking to sit in her working space while fetch a writing apparatus and a couple sheets of paper. Her first order of business was to complete the previous mission's report, if she took too long before starting it now doubt she'd end up forgetting details. It was best to get a start asap while her memory was still fresh.

@Kurisa

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Shinpachi was finished around the same time Shizuo did. He did take a little more time to put all the equipment away. Before long, he met up with Shizuo and straightened himself up a little bit as well. "I mean, I was planning on having dinner and going through out regularly scheduled training first before going for those laps later on tonight, but you feel free to do whatever. I mean, I don't need to be there for the laps, unless you want me to beat you that is..." He said, with a slight chuckle.

"So yeah, feel free to join me for some food, otherwise I'll see you later then, man."