Eris Reinhardt
Current Location: Purple Crown Academy, Gymnasium backstage
"They did what? Well, let it be, this is an important day for everyone, we mustn't sully it with petty behavior. If there's need of it, buy more at the nearest convenience store, I'll cover the expenses as well." Eris replied to the same maid from before, after she came to Eris with more secret communication.
"I'll take my break after I'm done with one more errand and see the Festival with Cassandra. Is that thing I asked for ready?" Eris asked while gesturing toward some delivery boxes that laid beside the cashier.
The other maid nodded. "Yes, Miss Reinhardt, the girls worked double time to get it done as soon as possible. Should we, hmmm... dispatch it already?" The girl took a moment to contemplate something, gazing at the lustrous sheen of her shoes. Once out looked like she had chosen her words right, she scuttled closer to Eris and whispered while covering her mouth with a hand. "Are you really sure of that, Miss Reinhardt? I mean, Sun-sama usually is generous as well, but this past year things grew stranger day by day. I've never seen her like... that." The maid cast a stealth gaze at Chiyo gloating in her throne instead of being with the rest of the guild.
"I don't know her for long, but I can see what you mean. My impression of Chiyo Kuroke was a better one. However, I hope that by doing our best we can help her and more importantly, the whole of the Ivory Masks. Either way, I'll be taking these with me, you can have someone else deliver the others." Eris took two plastic bags, in a hand four boxes and on the other two thermos. However, she paused when Cassandra's order was ready and went to deliver it personally, after arranging the bags on the floor.
"Here's your order, Master. Please, take your time and enjoy it." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to do a delivery. After that I'll be on my break, if you want to see the stands together we can meet at the gymnasium in..." Eris paused to check her watch, ascertaining herself of the current time.
"... about half an hour to forty minutes? That would be around eleven o'clock, so it shall give you plenty of time to help your own guild or do something on your own while I'm busy with guild work. Now then, please excuse me." With another bow, Eris pulled herself away from Cassandra and picked her cargo, moving swiftly through the packed corridors of the Purple Crown Academy, towards her mysterious destination, just as a few other maids left their guild's stand, carrying deliveries to other places.
Sometime later, Eris would arrive at her destination. To her surprise, she was admitted quite easily in the backstage of the Ebony Strykers and Cobalt Bruisers' presentation. Perhaps, because the first ones to get Eris' treats were the "guards", or perhaps, because there seemed to be orders from Moon Rider herself to have Eris in if she came. Frankly, that intrigued Eris but,
"You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, after all" Eris shrugged, traversing the last set of corridors until...
"Good morning to all of you. I have brought a gift from the Soleil. May I set it over here?" Eris asked before setting her bags right next to the cans of stolen drinks. Despite knowing the origins of those, Eris didn't even batted an eyelash at them. She wasn't there to incite petty disputes, after all. The platinum-haired German took out the boxes and thermos, setting them besides a pack of paper cups and napkins, before opening all of them except for a smaller box which looked like it was reserved for someone, filling the cramped room with the aroma of freshly baked crepes and premium grade coffee.
"Apologies for the lack of diversity, but I made sure to include the most popular flavors. There's strawberry, chocolate, whipped cream and coconut, plus coffee with both sugar and not. Please, suit yourselves." More or less around this time, the other guild sponsored stands would be getting similar deliveries from the other maids Eris sent forth, likewise all was completely for free as a demonstration of good will from the Ivory Masks, directed by Eris.
Either way, Eris was about to take the reserved box, containing two of Eris' personal favorite tropical fruits mix crepes, and go look out for Yoshino, who was the one it belonged to, when she caught sight of Akane fixing the costumes for the rest of those who probably would take up the stage.
"That's some nice handcraft. The materials are lacking in quality, of course, nevertheless the couturier's skill more than makes up for it." The words of praise coming from Eris seemed to be genuine, after all, most of Purple Crown knew of her passion for fashion, which was only as big as her love of complicated things and fencing. Well, Eris really was a uniquely idiosyncratic individual, as always.
"Excuse my rudeness, I do not believe the two of us have ever met. I am Eris Reinhardt. It would be a pleasure to have you visit the Fashion Club sometime, if you ever find the time and will in you." Eris extended her hand to Akane, letting out an uncharacteristically warm smile grace her refined features which were already embellished by the handcrafted maid outfit.
Itsuko Kanzaki
Current Location: Purple Crown Academy, Sports Gymnasium
"Well, that should do it. I guess I'd better meet Hibiki now, before it's my next turn to be dunked, heh!" Itsuko said to herself as she stepped out of the lockers wearing a Kanzaki Motor Sports brand racing suit, with a towel draped around her shoulders. She had just took a bath, clearing the sports drink that previously dripped off her body. For once she had done her hair in a way that resembled Huntress' trademark ponytail and wore a
not really flashy sports swimsuit under her clothes. After all, she was going to get soaked anyway, why should she wear more clothing that it was really necessary? If one didn't looked closely it wouldn't be hard to confound Itsuko and her DGO Avatar, the Rampaging Tiger.
"Should have convinced the King to do a cart race, instead of that. I mean, they are legal for someone our age, aren't they?" Itsuko gestured to open her interface and message Hibiki just as she exited the Gym's side door, but as she was about to press "send".
"Whoa what's it that we have here? A basket contest? Might as well use the chance to get some cool prize for Hibiki, all we have on our stand are those boring camo shirts and stuff like that." Itsuko bought a ticket to take part on the Scarlet Harley's half court shot contest, without even checking which prize they were offering, more or less immediately becoming the subject of many a laugh, given her meager size.
--"Hibiki, I'm here on the Gym. Gonna pull some cool shots and get you nice present. Come here is ya can."
Itsuko messaged Hibiki while doing warmup exercises as she waited on the sidelines. When Itsuko's turn came, the current record was 05 shots in a row. Quite impressive when you consider that the guy who did it looked like he was about to faint from an asthma attack after doing the last shot. Almost everyone bet that Itsuko would get even one shot, but as soon as Itsuko let out the top of suit hang down to her waist, showing off the, now slightly sweaty, result of her bone breaking workout, quite a few went silent and...
"Five, Six, Seven and... Eight," as soon as the shots began adding up, quite a few gave up. However, Itsuko still wanted to make sure she would get the best prize for Hibiki, she thought about a thing, taking the ball and slowly walking the the opposite side of the court, with a confident grin on her lips that wouldn't be out of place on her avatar, she turned to Michael and Aaron.
"Hey, Boss Man and other guy, if I score a full court shot, will ya give that prize to me? I gotta get a cool present to my friend and this competition is the best form me, after all. Heh!" Emma Fujioka
Current Location: Purple Crown Academy, Close to the Gates
"Oh man, that's the stuff! Prez and the others don't know what they are missing, it's not everyday that you get takoyaki this good so cheap. I wonder what those guys are doing? Probably this won't pay even for the ingredients they used." Emma muttered while stuffing herself of the typical Osakan dish, dipped in a generous amount of kind of overly salted soy sauce and herbs.
"Either way, I'm supposed to get this job done and go back to the Guild stand to help BB and Nixon. Lemme see, I was supposed to link up with Hibiki and go look over the stands. Well, maybe I can kill two birds with a stone, let us see." Emma walked around until she finally spotted Hibiki waiting by the gates, looking like she was waiting for someone.
"Heya! Waiting for someone, Hibiki?" Emma came out of Hibiki's blind spot, silent like a ninja --or maybe the whole noise of the Festival covered her-- and offered one of the extra dumpling she had to the younger reporter.
"Wanna one? Don't worry about money, they are super cheap and super good, I got more than enough here with me." In fact, that was quite true, as Emma illustrated by pointing to a bag with like six or so more takoyaki sticks, neatly wrapped in tin foil, dripping with a mouth watering mix of sauce and oil.
"By the way, do you have somewhere you wanna go first? We were supposed to look over the stands. I did some surveying, and everything looks more or less like the same, except that the Gym has like three, or better four, Guilds sharing it for their presentations. That should be a good place to start, right?" Emma took another bite of her treat, chewing slowly as she waited for Hibiki's reply.
Yuuno Kurogami
Current Location: Purple Crown Academy, Gymnasium backstage
"Chaos, chaos, chaos, everywhere I look it's just chaos. What is Bel-sama thinking with those orders she issued? That will cost us a fortune, I have to find her and... and... do something about this." Yuuno walked distressed through the, otherwise brimming with life and joy, school grounds of Purple Crown, heading to the only place she could think of finding Maribel, to try and put a stop at the self destructive orders the Blue King had been issuing to the Cobalt Bruisers as well as part of the school council through the past week or so.
So distressed was she with the state of disarray of the Bruisers and the school council that Yuuno didn't even remembered the dance presentation they were supposed to do in a few hours even as she barged in the backstage, seeking her leader.
"Has anyone here seen Tita, I mean, Bel-sa... ma? What's up here, huh?" Yuuno's train of thought was derailed by both the smell of the Soleil's sweets and crossing Asahi's gaze, which was when Yuuno's face lit up as she finally recalled it.
"Oh, Goroshi-kun? Do-don't you say that the presentation was supposed to be... today?" Yuuno asked, though the answer was obvious, if she only dared to run her gaze through the room.
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