No, Kat, no! Whyyyyy!?
"Ahahahahaha~! Yes!" Kit laughed, her eye twitching slightly. "It certainly is… realistic…" including the pain when these vicious little wads of meat made their attack!
"Yeep!"
One touched her leg! The first attack! Soon enough it was be chewing her to bits and gnawing...
"I-I guess…" Kit echoed the sentiment. Sure, they had their giant hammers, and most importantly each other, but that didn’t make them invincible, especially where video game beasties were concerned. Video games took things to a whole different level.
By far the worst part of traversing this...
Harukami answered precisely as she should've: punch 'em in the face! It felt a little mild of a punishment, she thought, but at least it was the answer was the in general category she'd expected!
"Good answer!" Kit nodded in satisfaction, hand pointed at Harukami like a judge pronouncing her...
Astorea - Finweald
In a small park, on the edge of Astorea’s capitol, two similarly-designed girls faced each other as they schemed…
"Okay, Kat! If I’m right, with these upgrades, we can now become magnetic at will! You know what that means, right?" She paused, expecting Kat to fill in the...
No. No! NO!
Kit had insisted time and time again that there was no way a petting zoo, of all things, existed in this game! And she'd turned out to be 100% right. This "Animal Sanctuary" hadn't changed that fact; if anything, it only legitimized her claim! In fact, right up to the moment Kat had...
Kit simply nodded as Harukami thanked them in return. She had absolutely no clue the conversation was getting a bit awkward, or that Harukami appeared a bit nervous. That said, she tilted her head in confusion as she was thanked for… uhh… well maybe it was calling her kind? Kat sure had a way...
Kit was likewise dazzled by the crystal world, but not quite so trusting of it. "I don’t know, Kat, these crystals probably swallow souls or something…" she voiced her concerns, narrowing her eyes at the rainbow tree. "Matching accessories does sound amazing, though! We should definitely try...
Kit stepped back abruptly at Harukami’s words, as if she’d pulled a sword and held the blade to her throat. "Wonderful…" Did she just… complement her!? Kit had never been complemented before! Usually, it was just "Get away from me!" or "Stop making stabbing gestures at me with that fork!"
This...
"Of course!"
As Kit spoke in unison with Kat, her eyes widened and she shared a look with her new twin sister, releasing a happy giggle-fit that sounded almost drugged with delight.
Once the high of twinship had settled down, Kit nodded enthusiastically, happy to be called siblings by their...
Kit felt a rush of joy as Harukami took the admittedly botched introduction well, and felt as much embarrassment as Kat began to list her ‘skills.’
Oh boy.
"Being a good twin definitely counts, Kat!"
Firstly, Kit could do… absolutely none of those things (aside from being a good twin)...
Kit visibly relaxed as the animal left the vicinity (though it could just be watching from the shadows…!). She didn’t have much time to relax, though.
This lady had a twin too!? No way!!
Raising her hand nervously to her mouth, Kit murmured, "She’s a rival!" in Kat’s general direction, though...
NO, Kit did NOT want to pet this horrifying (albeit cute) creature! Hadn’t the shy lady ever seen Monty Python? These were killers! Maybe not in the real world, but this wasn’t the real world! That thing thirsted for blood, she just knew it.
… But then Kat stepped forward.
"Nuuuuuu…" Kit...
Down the road, two girls wandered with linked hands. One, a bright white with some tasteful pink thrown in, the other dark black with some bright green, but otherwise carefully crafted to look near-identical in every way.
In her mind, Kit was striding in perfect lock-step with her sister, and...
Kit smiled warmly as she received another hug, relishing it for just a bit longer than any normal person would after Kat let go. Hugs were amazing when you trusted the one giving them to you, unlike the ungrateful pieces of trash she knew on the outside. Those would only hug her if it gave them...
That was an abnormally long and uncomfortable silence Kat was giving her… oh whew, there it was! She was worried there for a moment.
"Right! We have to find the perfect way to defend ourselves together!" It brought up several important questions, in fact. Finding information online about...
She even knew her "nee-nee"s! How on earth did Kit ever doubt that this was anything other than two soulmates finding each other! Their twinship was written in the stars... LITERALLY, in this world's case!
"Righ-- wah!!" Kit stared for a moment at her fallen twin, having shrieked as if she...
Talking with strangers to learn the game, hm...?
"Right!" Kit was fast to answer. Shenanigans sounded amazing! Or an innuendo for unspeakable horrors. But there was no way Kit was in sync with someone who would use it in such a degenerate manner! Absolute trust!
"Wh--" she was about to add...
Kit clapped her hands together in delight as she received the validation she was looking for. Yes! One more hug and she truly began to feel it! Soon enough, they two would morph into an inseparable hivemind and take the world by storm!
... Or they'd eat ice cream. That sounded good too.
"Ah--"...
Despair. An ominous sign, if she chose to believe in such things.
"Ice cream…?" Kit questioned with a deadpan look in her eyes. Was her new sister actually insane? Who the heck thought of ice cream at a time like this!? She should’ve known only a crazy person would’ve agreed to her own crazy...
Despite her nervousness, with each passing moment, Kit felt her anxieties melting away. The angry look of scorn from her new twin’s alleged betrayal was now a thing of the distant past. As the two embraced, and her lonesome-focused terms were corrected, Kit felt a warmth like she never had...
