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Post by Kaiyo on Dec 28, 2014 21:56:51 GMT
The bell attached to door of a tiny candy shop jingled as Kaiyo stepped out onto one of the many streets that wound through West Capitol, a slight grimace on face. It was another warm afternoon in the bustling city that she called home. Even then, that didn’t stop the teenager from wearing her usual oversized grey hoodie over her training clothes. She felt odd enough wandering out into the city while the sun was still up. The redhead didn’t want to break her normal pattern too much. Besides, where else was she supposed to conceal a fire extinguisher? While Kaiyo had definitely gotten better at controlling her pyrokinesis, that didn’t mean that accidents didn’t happen on occasion.
She looked down at the plastic bag that was gripped in her hand. Seeing as how she had just left a candy shop, it wasn’t that difficult to guess what was inside. Kaiyo had always had a bit of a sweet tooth, even if she didn’t seek it out all that often. Today had been an exception. There had been a lot on her mind lately, especially with the points about Athren that sister had brought up when she had dragged Kaiyo shopping with her. Her thoughts and emotions were still pretty jumbled up over it. Packing a bunch of sugary stuff into her stomach might help take the edge off. Either way, it was an excuse to binge on something she didn’t normally chow down on.
Kaiyo shoved a hand into the bag and retrieved a couple of malted milk balls, casually popping them into her mouth one by one as she made her way back to the apartment. It was oddly quiet for an afternoon in such a large city. Sure, there were plenty of cars lining the streets, but the sidewalks weren’t very crowded at all. Oh well, Kaiyo wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth. She didn’t especially like large crowds of people. It was too easy to feel overwhelmed and accidentally set something or someone ablaze. That’s why she always preferred going out in the middle of the night. The main problem with that was that most of the stores locked their doors by then, making it a bit difficult to buy up a bunch of sweets.
The grimace that she had been wearing was slowly starting to fade a bit. Kaiyo may have hated being out at this hour, but the chocolate-covered goodness that she was indulging in was already making her feel better. Maybe it wasn't so bad. She hadn’t had any incidents so far. All she had to do was make it back to the apartment, and then she could preoccupy herself with other things until night fell.
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Post by Zexama on Dec 28, 2014 22:16:02 GMT
Zexama was furious, since when didn't they not let demons buy candy? Is that even a law, she was trying to find a way to get some candy while chewing on a lollipop that she made. Of course being the dumb idiot Zexama is, she didn't think of anything. She jumped off the little park bench she was on and started strolling down the path looking for something or someone with candy.
She went roughly 15 meters before smelling some type of candy, in a matter of seconds she figured out that they were malted milk balls that were purchased roughly 5 minutes ago. She smiled at her intelligence of candies and started sprinting to the location of the candy, it was a pretty busy time of the day so she had to dodge various people, jumping on their heads, sliding inbetween their legs or just kicking them in the back, all of hem worked.
When she arrived at the location she saw a red headed teenager human, she smiled and started sprinting at full pace until sliding underneath the bag touching it with her index finger and turning It into the same malted milk balls, opening her mouth to catch s mouth full then looked at the human. "Why would you be so mean to candy? You were about to eat him!"
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Post by Kaiyo on Dec 28, 2014 22:52:48 GMT
”What the-“ Kaiyo grumbled as she suddenly felt her bag of candy get lighter. She looked down just in time to see that all but the handles were gone, as well as a bunch of malted milk balls sliding into the open mouth of what looked like a kid at first glance. A closer inspection made it obvious that no ordinary kid, though. Her skin looked all pink and rubbery. What was supposed to be the white of her eyes were instead jet black. The red irises weren’t so strange to Kaiyo, but rest of her sure was.
So, there Kaiyo stood with her candy gone, a weird looking kid staring up at her from the ground, and several angry glares and shocked stares from some of the people passing by thanks to the commotion she had caused to get to where she was. So much for getting back to the apartment without any incidents... Normally the teenager would have been pissed since the kid obviously just swiped what she had bought, especially since she had ventured out into the city in the middle of the day to get it. Frankly, she was more confused right now. ”Mean to the candy? What are you babbling about?“ she asked, staring back at the girl with a raised eyebrow. ”And what about you, Pipsqueak? Wouldn’t you be just as mean as me since you went and scarfed it all down yourself?“
Kaiyo was kind of at a loss for what to do. She wanted to grab the little brat by the hair, if that pink swirl growing out of the top of her head even classified as hair, and pull her to her feet. She had never really dealt with kids pissing her off before though. Especially not weird, demon-looking kids that could apparently make shopping bags disappear into thin air, or whatever the hell it was that she did. Dealing with younger folks wasn’t really one of her strong points.
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Post by Zexama on Dec 28, 2014 23:05:24 GMT
Zexama was just sitting next to her cracking up with laughter until she saw Kayio, her eyes staring straight into her. She started shaking and started to have mental break down. "I'm not mean to candy, candy let me eat him, he said so, the voices in my head say it's all right. And my name isn't pipsqueak! It's Zexama! And I'm a majin thingy." Zexama knew hardly anything about majins, expect that she was one, she looked back at the red headed human hoping she wouldn't hurt her.
In desperation she look around but only saw a crowd with sticks running up to her, poking her in the head and back. "Go away demon! Piss off! Leave, no one likes you!" Zexama was trying to hold in her tears of being hated, she turned to the human, and jumped up to her head, hands on neck. "Please help me! I'll, umm, GIVE YOU CANDY! Everyone likes candy right?" she was now crying and shaking her head back and fourth.
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Post by Kaiyo on Dec 28, 2014 23:33:00 GMT
Kaiyo blinked as she listened to Zexama speak, a single eye twitching. ”Huh?“ was all she managed to murmur in her bewilderment. The candy talked to her? What? Oh great, this was just what she needed... Not only did this kid look like a demon, but she was nuttier than the walnut tree that grew in the park near her apartment complex! This was just making it that much more difficult to figure out what she was supposed to do in this kind of situation. Kaiyo was still pissed at the little pipsqueak for pilfering her candy, but she was obviously screwed up in the head to some extent.
Somehow, her luck turned from bad to worse when a bunch of punks walked up to them and started poking the kid with the sticks that they were carrying. Goody, an angry mob... Why the hell did it have to be an angry mob? Kaiyo breathed a frustrated sigh and looked down at Zexama, who was now freaking out even more, even going so far as to climb up her and latch onto her head and neck. ”I’d say you owe me that much anyway since you already swiped mine,“ Kaiyo pointed out in an annoyed tone before prying the pink child off of her and placing her back on the sidewalk. All she wanted to do was get out of there. Why the hell did she have to be so nice, especially to the brat that just spoiled her good mood? Oh well, the redhead figured she would just deal with this now and blame Anzu for her good nature.
”Oy, I suggest you high-tail it outta here. I got the situation covered,“ Kaiyo growled lightly to the small crowd. She grabbed one of the sticks and effortlessly pulled it right out of the hands of the guy that had been holding it, casually breaking it in half over her knee. ”Why even bring sticks, anyway? What, are torches and pitchforks too high class for you lot or somethin’?“ The teenager supposed she could always scare them off by tossing a bit of fire around, but she wanted to leave her pyrokinesis out of this if at all possible. It was just a bunch of dumb punks. Kaiyo wouldn’t need to resort to that.
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Post by Zexama on Dec 29, 2014 2:18:39 GMT
Zexama was quite surprised at the skill that the red headed human had, she admired her greatly. She ran a little bit away from the fight and started to prepare the human's candy. She touch a nearby tree and in a spiral motion it turned into a giant candy can roughly 4x larger then herself. She grabbed the bottom of it and started moulding it into a massive bowl for the candy.
When she'd completed the design and construction she started picking out leaves from the trees, exactly 500 leaves were collected in only one minutes thanks to her awesomeness, well that's what Zexama would say anyway. After she out the leaves into the bowl she poked everyone and turned each one into two malted milk balls. After she had 1000 of them she clapped and picked up the giant bowl, as she was walking back down to the human she was surprised that the human's looked at her shocked.
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Post by Kaiyo on Jan 1, 2015 6:05:28 GMT
Kaiyo watched Zexama scurry off from the corner of her eye and let out a quiet grunt. Yeah, this was definitely more trouble than it was worth. It looked like she was just supposed to be a distraction while the little pipsqueak got away. Frankly, she didn’t really care anymore. The redhead wanted to get home and drown out the day’s events in her music. It wasn’t nearly as good as stuffing sweets into her face, but it was better than the crap she was dealing with out here.
”Hey! You defending that demon, missy?!“ snarled the man who Kaiyo had just relieved of his stick. The teenager shrugged her shoulders and gave him a sour look. ”Eh, maybe I am, maybe I’m not. Not too sure of that myself. What I am sure of is that you’re causing more trouble than you’re trying to put a stop to. It’s seriously pissing me off,“ she growled back. She yanked two more sticks from the hands of the people that had formed the makeshift mob. They were promptly snapped in half in a similar fashion to the first before being tossed aside. Kaiyo then folded her arms over her chest and tapped her foot impatiently on the sidewalk. ”Now make like a tree and get the hell outta here before I do the same thing to your faces as I did with those sticks.“
The redhead watched as the irritated eyes of the crowd started to widen in shock and confusion. They weren’t looking at her though. Zexama had come back after all, and was holding a large red and white bowl filled with malted milk balls. Where did she get that from? Was that the candy that she was talking about? It was a lot more than she bought, that was for sure. Maybe the little pipsqueak wasn’t so bad after all, even if she was a bit of a troublemaker.
The members of the crowd were still murmuring to each other, trying to figure out what to do. Their plan to drive the child out of West Capitol had hit a bit of a road block. ”Did I stutter or somethin’? Get outta here before I lose my temper with you lot!“ Kaiyo barked angrily. The murmuring continued for a few moments before the group reluctantly began to back away and disperse into the bustling city. Good, hopefully they wouldn’t change their minds and try anything stupid. Kaiyo really didn’t feel like dealing with their crap.
With the angry mob supposedly gone, the teenager turned to Zexama and shrugged her shoulders again. ”I think they’re done, but you really gotta watch yourself out there, Squirt. People can get rough when they see folks that are different, especially when you go around pissing them off like that. You gotta keep a low profile,“ she explained, having experience in laying low. Though, that probably wouldn’t work too well for Zexama since she didn’t look anything like a human. ”What are you doing in such a big city, anyway? Where’re you from?“
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Post by Zexama on Jan 1, 2015 9:53:58 GMT
Zexama was amazed by her skill, she thought she was before but now she knows she is INCREDIBLE! She saw the human look at her so she waved at her with one of her hands, causing a strain of the other way she started shaking her waving hand uncontrollably, then nearly tripping over but just inches from the ground she used her antenna to hoist herself back into position. Few, she continued to walk towards the human.
She was nearly beside Kayio before Kayio shouted at the angry mob, she laughed at the guys and poked her tongue at them, they grunted at her and started to murmur to each other before running away, Zexama giggled and slowly lowered the giant candy cane bowl of sweats in front of Kayio. She started talking to her again and she listened, she understood what she saying. "Yeah, I think you may be right, I've been beaten up a lot recently, it isn't that fun really. I'm in this city because it has the most candy shops around, and you won't believe this, I'm from a touture facility controlled by evil wizards that summoned me to take over the world."
For reasons only she could understand she want Kayio to be jealous of her amazing back story, but most factors said that she wouldn't be. When she placed the bowl down an idea popped into her head, she went to each corner of the bowl and shaped them into wheels with quick motions of her hands, she stood back up and tested the wheels, they rolled just fine but didn't look very strong.
After doing her quick test she climbed up the side of the bowl and divided into the malted milk balls, eating a few and hoping Kayio wouldn't mind she went to the edge and rested her head on her hands, elbows supported by the edge of the candy cane bowl. "Well, I suppose for that puny amount I ate before, that this will be enough for our little agreement? Anyway, My name is Zexama, Princess of the candies, what's your name human?"
Not meaning that last statement to seem offensive, since well, you know, Zexama has no idea if she is being offensive. She lay there in the chocolate waiting for an answer while repeating throwing a few candy balls into her mouth.
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Post by Kaiyo on Jan 10, 2015 1:56:17 GMT
So the reason Zexama was in West Capitol to begin with was just for the candy shops? Kaiyo liked sweets an awful lot; there was no doubt about that. However, that was a bit much even for her. Sure the city had a bunch of shops like that seeing how big it was. None of them really carried anything out of the ordinary though. This kid had an obsession, plain and simple.
The teenager knelt down by Zexama and giant bowl, swiping one of the malted milk balls off of the top as she continued to speak and popping it into her mouth. She still wasn’t sure where she got them from, but they weren’t bad at all. However, she nearly choked at what heard come out of pipsqueak’s mouth next. ”Wait... what?!“ Kaiyo coughed as she forced the piece of candy down her throat. Did she just say that she was from a torture factory, and that evil wizards were going to use her to take over the world? THAT wasn’t something you heard every day... The redhead actually found herself thinking that a lot lately. A year ago Kaiyo would say that she was just having some sort of weird dream at this point, but lately life seemed to be even more bizarre than anything her mind could conjure up while she was asleep. She supposed that Zexama could always be making it up completely, but it’s not like the kid was at all normal from what she had seen so far.
”So, let me get this straight...“ Kaiyo said slowly, eyeing the pink child. ”You’re saying that a bunch of evil dude summoned you here to take over the Earth?“ Somehow, it sounded even more insane when the teenager repeated it. Hopefully she wasn’t some kind of moron for actually believing it. It’s not like the past year of her life hadn’t been filled to the brim with strange occurrences already. Still, she couldn’t help but feel a bit intrigued by the story. This kind of stuff actually happened out in the world, and yet she was still stuck in West Capitol? Man, she wanted to go out and see it for herself, not be cooped up and have to keep playing ‘normal’ to fit in with a bunch of people she didn’t give a crap about! Next time she saw Anzu, she was going to have to make sure to insist she was ready for that kind of journey. After all, Anzu got to go on all kinds of adventures with their mom when she was little. Kaiyo was tired of being stiffed on those kinds of experiences.
The kid then moved towards the bottom of the bowl and started shaping some of the red and white striped material into wheels as if it were play dough. Weird, the bowl looked solid enough. How was she able to...? Kaiyo quickly shook her head before finishing that thought. You know what? At this point she wasn’t even sure if she wanted to know. Her little trip into the city had been strange enough so far. Something told her that if she asked, it would just get stranger. ”Yeah, yeah... You already told me your name, Zexama. Kind of a long name, though. I’mma call you Zex,“ Kaiyo said as she watched Zexama climb into the oversized bowl. ”I’d say it’s a pretty decent haul you’ve got here. As for me, the name’s Kaiyo.“
The redhead ate another malted milk ball and drummed her fingers on her knee. As much as she didn’t want things getting any weirder, there were things that she just couldn’t help but ask about. ”So that’s really the only reason you’re in West Capitol? You just wanted some candy? How does someone go from helping a bunch of evil wizards take over the world to just wanting to chow down on sweets anyway?“
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Post by Zexama on Jan 10, 2015 11:47:48 GMT
Zexama listened to Kaiyo while she talked about her history, holy crap, how did she know about Zexama's history? Perhaps they had met each other a while ago and she told Kaiyo, yeah that makes some more sense. Zexama then continued to listened to her various comments and then thought how she possibly could think this was decent, how in the world was this decent, that's like comparing a pebble to the universe. Oh so the human did have a name, that name being Kaiyo, well to the human ear it was, but for Zexama's ears it was Ko.
Hmm, interesting name, Ko, like in the video games that people punch each other, so, did ko punch herself then shout Ko? Maybe things like that is meant to be unknown. Zexama thought about her new nickname, Zex, well that wasn't too bad, it was better than the last name given to her, by the Wizards.. Which called her brat or demon all the time. She thought about why she really was in the capital then found the true reason. William Aknow.
"Well there is a candy store about two miles away called William Aknow's candy shop, and when I was released from my old home he saw my powers and took advantage of me, only for a few days, but he made enough candy from me to last him five years!" maybe she was exaggerating a tiny bit, but he dried her to the bone every single day just to make candy, and the worse part was, she couldn't even eat it!
Zexama rememebered the existence of Ko and pushed the thought out of her head, she tried to think of stuff that she could do with her new, well, nearly friend. She stuffed two handfuls of the malted balls into her mouth then asked a question." Hey since we're friends now, how about you say we do something fun, like, umm, we could rob a candy store or go fishing or umm, eat the everything!?!" Zexama was super excited and was jumping around rapidly begging she would say yes.
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Post by Kaiyo on Jan 10, 2015 21:54:22 GMT
So, Zex really was just here for a candy shop then? Though, not to actually buy anything, from what she was saying. William Aknow’s Candy Emporium was definitely a shop that Kaiyo had heard of. She had passed by the place fairly often on her nightly walks. However, like most stores, it was always closed by the time she ended up wandering the streets, so she had never actually gone inside. It looked like a normal enough place on the outside, but the store’s connection to Zex was a bit unnerving to the teenager for several reasons. Though, more than that, it just left her with even more questions!
Those questions could wait a bit, as Zex continued to speak. So she considered the two of them friends? Kaiyo thought about it for a moment before shrugging her shoulders. Maybe that didn’t sound so bad. Sure, the redhead didn’t have much experience when it came to dealing with kids, and this little pipsqueak in particular seemed to be a bit of a troublemaker. However, she didn’t seem like a particularly bad kid. Well, until one of her suggestions was to rob a candy store, at least.
”Take a step back there for a sec, Zex. Remember how I said you should avoid pissing people off? I’d say that stealin’ candy would pretty much do the exact opposite of that,” Kaiyo groaned while lightly scratching the back of her head. Did the kid even realize that it was illegal? She wasn’t quite so sure of that. It was kind of weird how she suggested it so casually right alongside fishing and eating... everything? That last one was a bit confusing too, but the teenager decided to stick to the suggestion that made her sound like a little punk. ”You know that theft is bad, right? Walking into a store and taking their candy would kind of make you look like the demon that that mob was callin’ ya.”
Kaiyo blinked for a for moments before nonchalantly pointing down at the bowl full of malted milk balls that Zexama was still sitting in. ”You didn’t happen to steal this batch of candy, did you?” Kaiyo asked with a single raised eyebrow. She didn’t want to jump to conclusions just yet since there was a lot about Zexama she didn’t know, but the fact that robbing a candy shop was on her list of possible things for them to do together definitely made her at least a little bit suspicious. The redhead still wanted to ask about the situation with Aknow, but she wanted to get through this first. After all, she had been chowing down on the malted milk balls just a moment ago without a second thought. It would be a serious damper on her afternoon if she had to find whatever shop they might have been taken from and pay the owner back for their stolen goods.
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Post by Zexama on Jan 12, 2015 0:38:55 GMT
Zexama was extremely confused and well, amused, this human named Ko, thinks that stealing is illegal, wow this is something else. "Well miss Ko, stealing is not Illegal, in fact according to my tortures it is the right thing to do, and well I did not steal this candy, pfft, no one could make candy this good, expect me of course." She looked at her with her arms crossed looking at her with her deep black eyes.
Then she rolled her eyes and grabbed the candy cane by creating a little handle, hmm, could of done a little bit more detail, but it's just a handle. She pulled the candy invested bowl onto the pathway, hmm, what if she was right, what if stealing was wrong, that couldn't be right her tortures told her it was the right thing to do, wait, didn't that give her more reason to believe that it was the wrong thing to do.
She came to a quick realisation, that maybe Ko was onto something, she needed to ask questions. " Well, if your so smart miss missy moo Ko, oh. Then tell me, how else am I suppose to take my own candy back, without stealing it?" She thought she had just said the smartest thing that anyone had ever said. She stood on her tippy toes and just reached Kaiyo's neck, then looking up at her.
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Post by Kaiyo on Jan 12, 2015 2:01:49 GMT
Ko? It looked like Kaiyo wasn’t the only one giving out nicknames. Ah well, it didn’t matter. It was slightly annoying at most and not worth raising a fuss over. ”Huh...” was all the teenager mumbled. So the kid really didn’t see a problem with it after all then. At least Kaiyo didn’t have any reason not to believe her when she said that candy she had brought over wasn’t stolen. It’s not like she was ashamed or trying to hide the fact that she thought theft was okay. Still, this was going to be a problem.
”You mean the evil guys that tortured you said that it was okay?” Kaiyo asked somewhat sarcastically, trying to stress the words ‘evil’ and ‘tortured’ as much as she could so that Zex might get the hint. ”Obviously I’ve never met the guys before, but they don’t sound like they’re on the up an’ up, if you catch my drift. We’re talking the same guys that are A-Okay with torture and taking over the world. Do you really think guys like that would care about what’s legal and what’s not?”
After fiddling a bit with the oversized bowl, Zexama stood up on her tip toes and tried to push herself as close to eye level with Kaiyo as she could. Great, she was giving her sass now. She sighed and popped yet another malted milk ball into her mouth before standing up. ”Well, most people generally pay money when they want something. That’s just how the world works. However, this Aknow guy sounds like a real douchebag that decided not to follow that rule. I guess we could always go pay him a visit and see what his deal is,” suggested the redhead. Kaiyo shoved her hands into the front pocket of the grey hoodie and looked over the weird looking kid. She couldn’t believe what she was saying. What was she getting herself into this time?
”There’s something that’s buggin’ me though. If you can just make your own candy, and it’s better than anyone else’s to begin with, why go through the hassle of stealing it in the first place? That sounds like a pain in the ass.”
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Post by Zexama on Jan 12, 2015 7:03:23 GMT
Well, this was confusing, the red headed human Ko agreed with her, come to think of it no one really ever agrees with her, well, maybe since her ideas are, let eat people or let's rob a candy store, apparently Zexama was a kid according to many people, but she has been alive MUCH longer than anyone she knew. Now Ko was going on about tortures and how they might be good to trust.
"Well, they were kind of my parents, all ten of them...that are all males... Anyway, if I can't trust them who should I follow? Mister Stompy guy, Wyntre, uhh, candy?" Zexama got off her tippy toes and thought if she should just leave or ask Ko if she wanted to do something.
Her thoughts landed on just leaving until Ko brand up going to the bastard's house and 'find out his deal', yeah, that might be a good idea. Well."You want to know why I steal from candy shops? Well, the reason is, Umm, the reason is that potatoes eat carrots." she said this a firm lecturing voice with her arms behind her back.
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Post by Kaiyo on Jan 12, 2015 10:09:35 GMT
Yikes. And here Kaiyo thought HER family was a bit on the messed up side. They didn’t even hold a candle to what she was hearing out of Zexama’s mouth. She wasn’t even going to go into the fact that the kid looked at ten evil guys like they were her parents. Her own dad was enough of a dork for her liking; he was the type that seemed to take every opportunity to embarrass her in some way whenever she was anywhere near him. Well, at least until her pyrokinesis kicked in a couple of years ago, anyway. He laid off after that, figuring that she was going through enough as it was, and possibly realizing that she hadn’t had any friends to embarrass her in front of anymore. Imagining nine more of him and making them all evil was enough to make her cringe.
”If they were just usin’ ya to take over the world, I don’t know if they really had the parenting thing down. I also don’t know who ‘Wyntre’ or ‘Mr. Stompy’ are. As for candy...” Kaiyo paused, not believing why this one even needed an answer. It was only a brief pause, of course. It lasted just long enough for her to remember exactly who she was talking to. ”As tasty as it is, I’m not sure it gives the best advice when it comes to morals or laws,” the teenager groaned. ”Besides, who says you gotta follow any of them? You’ve got a brain don’cha? Maybe you’re better off making your own decisions. What I can definitely say is that people don’t really like having their stuff stolen. Keep going like that, and you’re just going to have more mobs like that lot after you.” With that, the redhead tossed a thumb behind her in general direction of where the angry group of people dispersed.
Kaiyo blinked as she attempted to process Zexama’s answer to her question. ”Potato... Carrot... What...?” she blurted out in confusion. Wrapping her head around what she just heard wasn’t happening, so she instead stood there for a few moments looking at the kid like she had grown an extra head. Yup, this one was completely batty. She was almost tempted to call up Anzu and plead for help on this one. However, she’d rather not have dragged her sister into this. Anzu probably just end up adding to the insanity somehow.
Kaiyo shook her head violently, trying to rattle whatever failed attempt at reasoning she had just heard out of her brain. ”Err, no. I’m gonna want an actual answer on this one. Potatoes and carrots have nothing to do with it. If the candy you make is so much better than anything you could possibly get in a store, why even bother with the store? Just eat the stuff you make on your own. Wouldn’t that be way better than causing a bunch of trouble?”
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