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Who:Okuyasu Nijimura and Josuke Higashikata
Broadcast: Open, Video
Action: SS Bloodsport
When: RIGHT NOW!!

[The video starts out with a very… distraught looking japanese school boy, who… actually looks kind of like a punk. Face marks, dollar signs on his chest, the words BILLION and MILLION on his sleeves…

Yeah. He looks like the kid of guy you don't want to meet in a dark alley. But that is all looks- because right now he looks like he's in near tears. To his right is another school boy about the same age as he is, his face only really showing up on the edge of the screen, but the pompadour on his head is taking up a lot of space on the feed above both of them.]]

They have vanilla!

Dude-

They have chocolate!

Hey-

They have spicy chili!

Man, chill-

Where is the strawberry flavor?! How am I supposed to deal with this, every morning, having only chocolate ice cream?! How am I supposed to start off the New Year this miserable??

[OKAY RELAX PAL, the other schoolboy moves closer to grab his shoulders, giving him a few shakes.]

Hey, c'mon! Don't freak! I'm sure they have strawberry somewhere. We'll...we'll just ask, alright? Chill out.

[So...he looks directly into the camera.]

Hey, yo, so...little help on the strawberry front? We can like....work something out, cuz we're new so we don't got any cash or nothin'.

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[Guess who doesn't care about armor- THIS GUY!!! Say hello to your stupid partner security officer.]

Ice cream! It's what I have for breakfast every morning! I can only deal with just chocolate for so long!!

Just chocolate?

[ excuse you!

but, calm. be calm. ]

Maybe if we upgrade the kitchen, we could get more flavors... but that'll take a while.

We can do that? How?

I think it takes two members of the ship to cash in credits, unless you get really high ratings. [ crossing his arms, leaning against the doorway. ]

Either two people can buy one upgrade in a month, or you can buy half one month and finish up the payment next month. [ ... looking away. ] I can't help, or I would--I already paid for an upgrade this month.

What?! You did it without even asking all of us?!

[ he's starting to wonder if he should've transferred off... ]

There's five people on board. Only two of us made an upgrade. It takes two people to make an upgrade.

[Probably..........]

Y'ain't ever heard of a democracy?? If there's five people on board and only two do whatever they want, that's not the majority! Even I paid that much attention during class!

[HE CAN'T LEAVE YOU TO DO THE TALKING AT ALL CAN HE...

So he just neglects his comm for a second to intervene here, putting a hand on Okuyasu's shoulder and giving it a pat.]

Man, cool it already, we can just do it ourselves. I'll buy it with you, alright?

But we can't even get it for a whole month now!

[ riku just pauses when he speaks, not saying a word at first but righting himself. ]

A month's a month. There's no use sitting in the past--I'll make sure everyone knows not to make an upgrade for next month so you can get yours, alright?

Yeah, like the guy says, there's no point crying about it. If we gotta wait a month, we gotta wait a month.

[LITERALLY. STOP CRYING ABOUT ICE CREAM.]

[TRYING REALLY HARD TO STOP CRYING ABOUT ICE CREAM...]

Alright... I can tough it out for another month...