001 ★ | [audio/video]

[homerunning]

There we go!-----wait that's audio.

[Please Stand By. It takes a few seconds before Junpei can flip it to video, where a confused face of a teenager looks into the feed for a few seconds, squinting and pursing his lips accordingly.]

Dammit, I meant to do--Oh hey, I got it!

Okay? Okay. heh..'Sup Everyone.

The name's Junpei Iori, and I guessss you could say I'm 'new' here. Totally not new to the whole superhero thing. I'm what you call a pro★. It's kinda what I did back ho-



Wait.

[It's like the revelation just hit him or something.]

Why do we need jobs if we're already -working- on saving the world? Couldn't they just PAY us to be a superhero?

I'm not the only one who's thought of it, am I?

[He just wants to put 'hero' on his business card, okay.]

Comments

1/???? not here

[amadaman]

[Oh, look, it's Junpei-san. Did he really just manage to speak with a star? Did he really just speak a star? He really doesn't change, does he?]

2/

[amadaman]

[And of course he'll start blurting out the SEES thing in 5 seconds. You know, if Junpei-san was the first SEES to arrive here, maybe Jaime-san would've had an easier time. Like instead of having to wait a year to find out any of the details when Sanada-san and Aragaki-san were some of his best friends. Jaime-san wouldn't even have had to ask.]

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[fistofthejoestar]

[ah, the technology blues. there's a sort of sympathetic air to Jonathan as he starts speaking even if he doesn't mention it directly - he's been there, buddy, and it sucks.]

A true hero doesn't accept monetary compensation for simply doing what's right. I doubt that's the reason they haven't made our supposed purpose here a full-time career, but...

[he laughs quietly and shrugs]

It is the truth, so I suppose it all works out.

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[amadaman]

[Ken sighs as he clicks on the camera for himself, too. Ken's got his orange tips and Koromaru is chewing on the end of his hoodie string and they're sitting outside. You can see the sky.]

You're actually not the first one. There's apparently a whole world out there that--

4/

[amadaman]

[wait]

/5 ok i'm done

[amadaman]

[Ken's eyes open wide. But he's been here long enough, he's seen this enough times. Instead of pure surprise, Ken's face contorts with something more like yearning. This is real, right? It's got to be. He wants it to be.]



... Junpei-san?!

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[homerunning]

Well yeah! I mean...don't get me wrong. Doing the hero thing?

Totally cool.

[It's not like he got paid for any of the stuff he did back home, but--]

You'd think it'd be a little easier, you know? Keeping up a job and this hero stuff and--Do I SERIOUSLY have to still go to school?

[homerunning]

[Oh MAN is he happy to see you, bud. Sure, he totally freaked out in the bathroom of the facility that he was stuck in on first arrival.

That sure happened.

But it's over now and he was about to take this in stride, alone in a new world without any help and apparently two jobs which is 100% more than he had back home.

There's a flick of his cap when Ken finally addresses him.]

Amadaaaaamannn!

Didn't know you were trapped here, too.

[fistofthejoestar]

[his enormous shoulders shake a little in restrained laughter. this is very serious to Junpei, he's certain, and it would be rude to let his own amusement cut off someone else's much-needed venting.]

Heroics have never been historically easy. [but that's probably not very comforting, so...] You can always consider it further training in multi-tasking.

[amadaman]

.............. Don't call me that!

Junpei-san, what the heck! When did you get here? Wait, you're really here?

Where are you? I'm going to come find you.

[homerunning]

Huh? Calm down buddy, you'll sprain something.


[Seriously, what's got you so up in arms, Ken?]

Heropa, but they said I'm living in some place called Maurtia Falls?

[amadaman]

You should stay in Heropa. Or Nonah or -- Aragaki-san and Sanada-san are in De Chima right now, so there's okay too.

Anyway, I'm gonna head to Heropa now, I... I'm gonna come get you! We'll catch up there!

[He wants to see him in person. ]

[homerunning]

-Tell- me about it.

[Someone who understands!]

Dammit, the one thing I was never good at...I'm more of a [Slacker] selective enthusiast.

[fistofthejoestar]

[BOY DOES HE UNDERSTAND and he also understands about not being built for academia even if he's still a giant nerd]

All the better to have as much practice as you can then, don't you think?

1/2

[homerunning]

Catch up? Dude...

I was gone a week. You know why.


It's not like I fell off the face of the earth.

2/2

[homerunning]

...



Waiiiiit what do you mean Aragaki-senpai is okay.

[He's pretty sure he's anything BUT okay. Okay?]

[amadaman]

I'll explain. Promise. Just --

... I've been here for a year. Hold on, let me just--

[He keeps the camera on for now, but he also pauses to search for Junpei with the mindlink. Are you prepared for a voice in your head, Junpei?]

Can you hear me?

[homerunning]

[A year? Oh god don't do this to him, Ken. He's already bad at math.]


Yeah I hear you--



Okay, how did you do that.

[The voice is inside his head and...not from the comm?]

[amadaman]

You know how in season three Featherman gets kidnapped by the big boss from the Neo Empire Fear and got that weird chip in him that was a tracker and a bomb and also what helped him in at the end of that arc anyway?

It's like that. The nanites let us do that. You can think your thoughts to me.

[thinking is how you have thoughts]

[homerunning]

[He does better on his finals sleeping than if he actually takes them, that's how bad he is.]

Well..heh...guess I can't say no to practice.

and Professional Hockey Announcer -does- sound pretty sweet.

[fistofthejoestar]

[at least your one and only classmate for 85% of your school career wasn't Actual Satan. it could always be worse!]

Ah, that's...the one played on the ice, right? It certainly seems a lively sort of game - you'll have plenty to comment on, at the very least!

["lively" Jonathan I know you play rugby but come on hockey can get brutal please stop being so British]

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[ursawhiner]

You were a superhero back home?

[This is a pretty skeptical face.]

Also if they paid you to be a superhero, wouldn't you just be a soldier?

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[homerunning]

[Nice hat, bro.]

...

Thought soldiers had to join the army...

[ursawhiner]

Mercenary, maybe? We know a bunch of those, they're pretty cool.

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[huntergames]

A pro superhero? What's the difference?