Ask Raymond Shields

“Well, just in case you’re wondering, Gregory’s office is doing just fine. Uncle Ray’s been taking good care of it.”. There was a sense of bitterness in his words usually lacking in his sincere charm. “Go ahead and use whatever shady tricks old Manfred taught you.”, he said with a smile. “But that won’t stop me from doing my best, too. It’s hardly bluffing if I’ve got the evidence, now, is it?”

“Ahem. I digress. I see the distraught bailiff is doing his utmost to marshal us into the courtroom, so our competition must continue as attorney and prosecutor. Shall we?” 

“Good luck out there, Miles. I’m looking forward to taking on a von Karma in court!”. He’d bet he first to admit that got more personal than he’d like... but he had a job to do, and his client came first. Into the courtroom it went.

Now, Jai’s interest was pretty much half scientific. Which was a bit of a pity, because she did have all the charm of a performer - if rather unhoned at this point.  He clapped enthusiastically, half trying to assess the ornament on her arm which seemed to be the source.

“Pretty outstanding, huh? Now, for one last draw!”, she jumped from the sign enthusiastically, drawing a card and landing on one knee, the card outstretched. “Well, what are the odds? It’s the star of the show! Odd-Eyes Dragon!”, placing the new card on the device, a bright hologram lit up of a strangle looking dragon, roaring where Yuya had stood atop the sign.

“It’s a bit of a long story as to why that is, though. If you’ve got time, I could tell you, but I’m pretty confused as to your situation as well.”

“Whoo!” Reptile club represent! Wait, if it was a hologram - how was concentrated beams of light moving her around?

“And what else do we have up our sleeve?”, she landed atop the sign again, drawing another card. “Why, it’s... Entermate Partnaga!”, another snake appeared, this one with a waving cartoon hand on the end of its tail.

ray literally why did u take a picture of him whilst he was thinking of his father im cryin here,,

“Hey, I’m ready when you are, kid!” Well, after he lit up. Might as well multitask! A lighter click later and he was ready for round two.

“Perfect! Then I introduce to you... Entermate Whip Viper!”, placing a card on the device on her arm, a purple snake in a strange circus outfit appeared, winding its tail around the sign and it’s head around Yuya’s arm. In an instant, she was off the ground and swinging from side to side.

“Hey - if ya need a test audience, y’got one, kid!” Ah, she was a real cutie though…A winning smile earned a winning smile.

“Definitely! There’s always got to be an audience!”, she nodded determinedly. Having an enthusiastic audience helped a lot, too. Not like the others who didn’t seem to care. Now that was the smile of an enthralled audience.

Oh. Oh, no… Poor kid.”Of course, kiddo!” The problem with having three entire moms is that you had no idea how on earth to deal with anything involving dads. “You learned well! I’m pretty damn entertained right now, an’ I’m an entertainer’a sorts myself. Keep up th’ good work!” He clapped wildly, like any good audience ought to.

“Then all that’s left is to find the perfect finishing crowd-pleaser! Maybe if I release all my Hippos and bring out Odd-Eyes...”, she mumbled to herself, thinking, before snapping back to attention. “Oh, but that’s right!”, she bowed dramatically. “We’re glad you enjoyed the show!”

Holograms! Like Miku Hatsune and Micheal Jackson. He understood this. The principles of holography were rather familiar to Jai - he’d taken a rather long detour studying them as one of his final projects for his Physics degree. “Well, I’m pretty damn entertained, so, ya did it!” 

“Awesome!”, she exclaimed with glee. “I’m getting to be a better entertainer by the day! Maybe some day I’ll be as good as my dad. He was the inventor of entertainment dueling! People kept saying he ran away but that’s just a lie. And when he comes back he’ll see how much better I got at it.”

“S-sure is, kiddo.” Jai didn’t even know what was up, anymore - but now she was off the gate, at least. “How’d you do that, huh?” It sure was something he hadn’t seen before.

“It’s the magic of my entertainment dueling!”, she replied with a wink. Then, after a short pause, she added. “Well... that and this duel disk here. It’s not Real Solid Vision out here, but it still creates lifelike holograms of my cards.”

There were six dancing, colorful hippos, one girl standing on a gate, and only one dragon. Unusual circumstances popped up every day, of course, but this one was a little more extreme than the usual standard RPG fare.

She looked over at the school behind her before jumping down from the gate. It’d probably be best to stop now before Yuzu decided to show up and smack her with a fan again. “Fantastic, isn’t it?”, she said with a prideful bow.