#wldrose 01

"What even are these? Human knockoff bands? Come on, who would even do something like this...?" Uzi walks her fingers along the CD selections, but nothing catches her eye. Correction, nothing good. A lot of these bands have similar names to ones she know from back home, but they're all humans instead.

"Is this some kind of sick joke?" she mutters. She starts listing off the real bands as she spots the impostors. "My Chemical Robots, Fallout Bot, Linkin Port, Desktop Confessional, Funeral For A File, Panic! At the Disc, Blink-182-Bit, R.O.M., Green Data...! I hate this place!"

She raises one of the CDs above her head before realizing that if she smashes it on the ground, they'd probably make her pay for it. Teenage rebellion gives way to teenage resignation, and she carefully puts it back in its spot.

But someone's been watching her- or maybe they've just been nearby and Uzi's self-consciousness thinks they've been watching- and this girl looks... trendy. Uzi doesn't have a great history with teens like that, but the people in this city have been pretty nice so far, so...?

denji was never really one for shopping, mostly because he was never able to. aki did most of the shopping at home, tagging along sometimes for what food to buy.

but here, he's alone. at the mermaid cove mall to be specific. he's been wandering around aimlessly for about an hour now.

he'd only just now noticed he was next to someone who appears to be around his age.

"I do." Kugisaki just enjoying watching him be lost.

"Well then why didn't ya say so before?!"

Whatever goes on in her head is an enigma to him. She just likes fucking with him, doesn't she? No wonder her and Vash get on like a house on fire.

"Oh, another one." Jujutsu High students. The uniform's a little different on hers, but there was no doubt about it. She's from Jujutsu High. That's the third student he's seen here, plus their pissant of a teacher.

Definitely not some hell he's fallen into, then. Weird dimension? Likely, and the phenomenon isn't that strange all things considered but still, his circumstances before coming here were.