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Soul Eater Not! Chapter 10: American guns, American guns.
After a one-month hiatus, Not! is back. And how.
"Let's ignore our school responsibilities and order shots whut up fo'schizzle?" Agna suggests. Oh my god. Her pose. Her face. That dialogue.
"Hey hottie, we got a 10,000-yen bill here, so stick with us to have a good time!" Me-Me adds, playing along.
I'm the "hottie"? Tsugumi think-bubbles. "Um, you guys... This is the Master's restaurant, so can you please tone down the roleplaying..."
"Uuuugh..." Agna groans, still in character. "Guuuurl you ain't no fun." Okay, she's like, trying really hard to be gangsta right now, but she just can't pull it off.
"I'm itchin' for some fraction!" Me-Me adds, also still in character, but pronouncing things wrong. "Dosukoi!" That is a sumo battle cry, you idiot.
"Aha... Aha ha ha..." Tsugumi laughs nervously. In case you're wondering what we're doing here and why my friends are acting like this, it's because we watched the movie "West Side Glory" and then an episode of "Girl Gang CSI" on TV yesterday.
"Hey you--" Me-Me tries again. "What gang are you with whut up?"
"I'm with Shibusen whut up!"
"Jiggawhat? Shibusen? Never hearda it."
"Me-Me-san," Tsugumi says nervously, "when you say it like that it sounds like you're not joking..."
"Huh?" Me-Me says, completely breaking character. "But I don't actually know what 'Shibusen' is!"
"It's our school. The school that we attend."
Suddenly, waitress! "HEY. Order."
"Ah! Waitress-san... Are you two ready to order?"
The waitress places her hands on her hips and blows a bubble with her chewing gum. Gang BANGer, a caption behind her informs us.
It's Liz.
Tsugumi proceeds to silently flip her shit. She's a REAL gangster!!
But Agna either doesn't notice or is completely unfazed. "I'll have the spaghetti napolitan," Agna orders.
Likewise with Me-Me. "I'll have the lunch special."
But Tsugumi is so tongue-tied that she can barely speak her order. "R... Ri... Rice pilaf..."
Liz stares at Tsugumi, orally molests some ellipses, and then writes down the girls' orders. Then, without saying another word, she turns around rudely and walks away.
"Here." Rather than handing Master the paper with the girls' order on it, Liz tosses her entire clipboard at him. He barely manages to catch it.
A moment later, Agna is at the Master's bar, fuming. "Master!!"
"I know," he says. "But those girls... They're still on probation. So please don't judge them too harshly, okay?"
"Excuse me!" another customer is complaining loudly. "What a rude waitress!"
"Yeah yeah yeah," Liz says. "If you've got a complaint, tell it to the old fart over there. He's my manager."
"You have a beautiful face, young lady," the customer says, "but you behave like a thug!"
Tsugumi watches the exchange nervously. "She's on probation..."
"Goodness..." Agna sighs, finally completely back to being Agna. "What a disgrace..."
"She... She was pretty scary, wasn't she?" Tsugumi says. "It felt like she was the real deal..."
"Well, she ain't a member of my clan, though," Agna says, trying to imitate gangster-speak again but using samurai vocabulary instead.
"Outta da sight, outta da mind," Me-Me adds. I don't even know what that's even supposed to be originally.
"I can't believe you guys are still..." Tsugumi face-palms. "And you can't even get the whole 'juvenile delinquent' accent right, either..."
Suddenly, Patti.
Patti throwing food at the girls.
"And now our replacement waitress is a reckless beserker, too!" Agna huffs. "Furthermore, this isn't even what I ordered! I requested the spaghetti napolitan!"
"Haaaa? Napolitan? Never hearda it."
Patti's face is scary enough to make Tsugumi and Me-Me suddenly tear up and clutch each other.
"W... Well..." Agna backs down. "Every dish on Master's menu is delicious, so I suppose that this will do."
"I brought this out for ya, now shut up and eat it." Patti turns and walks away from them. "Or you'll regret it."
As soon as Patti is gone, the girls breathe a sigh of relief. Then all three of them rush to the Master's bar. "MASTER--!!"
"...Fine," Master says. "Those two are the Thompson sisters. They can turn into weapons the same way that you can, Tsugumi-chan. When they were children they were abandoned on the streets of Brooklyn, so they've had to take part in all sorts of illegal activities in order to survive. I suppose you could say that they only did what they had to do to survive, but a sin is still a sin--... But then they ended up bound to a certain somebody who is a Very Important Person at Shibusen. Or so I've heard."
He goes on. "Did you notice the bracelets on their wrists? Those bracelets have GPS homing devices in them. No matter where those girls decide to go, Shibusen will always know exactly where they are."
Unless they, you know, take off the bracelets. Um.
Shibusen has GPS technology but they haven't yet made the leap to thosespectacularly creepy microchips that you can implant inside a child's skin so that they'll always have a permanent homing beacon?
But maybe Kid/Big Daddy actually are smart enough to realize that bracelets can, you know, be taken off, yet they chose to go with bracelets anyway because it's a trust thing.Hi shipping goggles, haven't had you stuck to my face in a while.
Either way we know that Liz and Patti aren't wearing those particular bracelets anymore by the time that we meet them in the prologue of Soul Eater proper - in fact, Patti isn't wearing any bracelets at all - so I guess they've proven themselves to Shibusen by then?
Tsugumi makes sad-face as Master goes on. "Being born as weapons has given those girls formidable 'power.' So they were able to survive on their own. But if they hadn't had that power... Who knows what would have happened to them out there on the streets."
I have a mother, and a father, Tsugumi think-bubbles, and even though he picked on me all the time, I always had my big brother to count on, too... And I even have my dog, too, although she probably doesn't miss me at all... But if I had grown up the way that those girls did, I probably would have used my power to do bad things, too.
Later!
"It was delicious," Tsugumi compliments Master.
"Thank you very much."
No, that's not true... If I had been forced to fight for my survival, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it...
Liz is waiting for the girls outside the restaurant.
"Hey look, it's my customers." Liz grins at them wolfishly. "I never got my tip from you."
"Tipping is optional within Master's establishment," Agna says, gamely attempting to stare Liz down. "You are an employee at this restaurant, yet you feign ignorance of this fact?"
"Aren't you all dolled up like a precious baby goth," Liz says. Patti stares at Agna.
Well, Agna does dress like adoll gothic lolita.
"Like some snobby little rich girl..." Liz goes on. "Hey, come with us for a bit."
Liz and Patti lead the girls into a rather abandoned-looking alley. Tsugumi and Me-Me cower behind Agna as she stands her ground, still glaring at Liz.
"So you said you were Shibusen students?" Liz says. "Let's see how strong you really are."
"Oh no no no," Tsugumi says quickly, "I'm actually... We're actually in the NOT class... We're really terrible at fighting."
"Tsugumi-san," Agna cuts her off. "NOT students though we may be, we still cannot stand quietly in the face of the challenge they have issued. Because we are Shibusen students above all else!!"
"Looks like one of them actually wants to fight," Liz says. "Patti."
"Gonna be fun," Patti says.
"TSUGUMI-SAN!! HURRY UP AND TRANSFORM!!" Agna snaps at Tsugumi.
"Wha... But..."
"YOU IGNORANT COMMONER!!"
"O... Okay! I got it..."
"No way... You're really going to fight them?" Me-Me exclaims.
Since the moment I enrolled at Shibusen I've been training my mind and body for combat... Agna think-bubbles. She flashes back to the time that the Traitor attacked her. I won't let myself be beaten again!
"I just hope we don't get hurt," Tsugumi says as she transforms.
Agna grips Tsugumi's weapon form and poses.
"What's this?" Liz says, mocking Tsugumi's weapon form. "Aw, she's still just a baby blade. Not all of her sharp edges have grown in yet."
Liz holds out her hand as Patti transforms. "Now it's our turn."
She's a delinquent, so her weapon form is probably going to be a bat or something!! Tsugumi think-bubbles. Or maybe a razor? Or a chain?!
Nope. None of the above.
"A GUN?!!" Tsugumi wails. How American!! But I guess in kind of a bad way...
So that's it for this month's Not! Unfortunately Not! is going on a break next month, but it will be back in the February 12th issue of GanGan. And for once I'm actually looking forward to it!
"Let's ignore our school responsibilities and order shots whut up fo'schizzle?" Agna suggests. Oh my god. Her pose. Her face. That dialogue.
"Hey hottie, we got a 10,000-yen bill here, so stick with us to have a good time!" Me-Me adds, playing along.
I'm the "hottie"? Tsugumi think-bubbles. "Um, you guys... This is the Master's restaurant, so can you please tone down the roleplaying..."
"Uuuugh..." Agna groans, still in character. "Guuuurl you ain't no fun." Okay, she's like, trying really hard to be gangsta right now, but she just can't pull it off.
"I'm itchin' for some fraction!" Me-Me adds, also still in character, but pronouncing things wrong. "Dosukoi!" That is a sumo battle cry, you idiot.
"Aha... Aha ha ha..." Tsugumi laughs nervously. In case you're wondering what we're doing here and why my friends are acting like this, it's because we watched the movie "West Side Glory" and then an episode of "Girl Gang CSI" on TV yesterday.
"Hey you--" Me-Me tries again. "What gang are you with whut up?"
"I'm with Shibusen whut up!"
"Jiggawhat? Shibusen? Never hearda it."
"Me-Me-san," Tsugumi says nervously, "when you say it like that it sounds like you're not joking..."
"Huh?" Me-Me says, completely breaking character. "But I don't actually know what 'Shibusen' is!"
"It's our school. The school that we attend."
Suddenly, waitress! "HEY. Order."
"Ah! Waitress-san... Are you two ready to order?"
The waitress places her hands on her hips and blows a bubble with her chewing gum. Gang BANGer, a caption behind her informs us.
It's Liz.
Tsugumi proceeds to silently flip her shit. She's a REAL gangster!!
But Agna either doesn't notice or is completely unfazed. "I'll have the spaghetti napolitan," Agna orders.
Likewise with Me-Me. "I'll have the lunch special."
But Tsugumi is so tongue-tied that she can barely speak her order. "R... Ri... Rice pilaf..."
Liz stares at Tsugumi, orally molests some ellipses, and then writes down the girls' orders. Then, without saying another word, she turns around rudely and walks away.
"Here." Rather than handing Master the paper with the girls' order on it, Liz tosses her entire clipboard at him. He barely manages to catch it.
A moment later, Agna is at the Master's bar, fuming. "Master!!"
"I know," he says. "But those girls... They're still on probation. So please don't judge them too harshly, okay?"
"Excuse me!" another customer is complaining loudly. "What a rude waitress!"
"Yeah yeah yeah," Liz says. "If you've got a complaint, tell it to the old fart over there. He's my manager."
"You have a beautiful face, young lady," the customer says, "but you behave like a thug!"
Tsugumi watches the exchange nervously. "She's on probation..."
"Goodness..." Agna sighs, finally completely back to being Agna. "What a disgrace..."
"She... She was pretty scary, wasn't she?" Tsugumi says. "It felt like she was the real deal..."
"Well, she ain't a member of my clan, though," Agna says, trying to imitate gangster-speak again but using samurai vocabulary instead.
"Outta da sight, outta da mind," Me-Me adds. I don't even know what that's even supposed to be originally.
"I can't believe you guys are still..." Tsugumi face-palms. "And you can't even get the whole 'juvenile delinquent' accent right, either..."
Suddenly, Patti.
Patti throwing food at the girls.
"And now our replacement waitress is a reckless beserker, too!" Agna huffs. "Furthermore, this isn't even what I ordered! I requested the spaghetti napolitan!"
"Haaaa? Napolitan? Never hearda it."
Patti's face is scary enough to make Tsugumi and Me-Me suddenly tear up and clutch each other.
"W... Well..." Agna backs down. "Every dish on Master's menu is delicious, so I suppose that this will do."
"I brought this out for ya, now shut up and eat it." Patti turns and walks away from them. "Or you'll regret it."
As soon as Patti is gone, the girls breathe a sigh of relief. Then all three of them rush to the Master's bar. "MASTER--!!"
"...Fine," Master says. "Those two are the Thompson sisters. They can turn into weapons the same way that you can, Tsugumi-chan. When they were children they were abandoned on the streets of Brooklyn, so they've had to take part in all sorts of illegal activities in order to survive. I suppose you could say that they only did what they had to do to survive, but a sin is still a sin--... But then they ended up bound to a certain somebody who is a Very Important Person at Shibusen. Or so I've heard."
He goes on. "Did you notice the bracelets on their wrists? Those bracelets have GPS homing devices in them. No matter where those girls decide to go, Shibusen will always know exactly where they are."
Unless they, you know, take off the bracelets. Um.
Shibusen has GPS technology but they haven't yet made the leap to those
But maybe Kid/Big Daddy actually are smart enough to realize that bracelets can, you know, be taken off, yet they chose to go with bracelets anyway because it's a trust thing.
Either way we know that Liz and Patti aren't wearing those particular bracelets anymore by the time that we meet them in the prologue of Soul Eater proper - in fact, Patti isn't wearing any bracelets at all - so I guess they've proven themselves to Shibusen by then?
Tsugumi makes sad-face as Master goes on. "Being born as weapons has given those girls formidable 'power.' So they were able to survive on their own. But if they hadn't had that power... Who knows what would have happened to them out there on the streets."
I have a mother, and a father, Tsugumi think-bubbles, and even though he picked on me all the time, I always had my big brother to count on, too... And I even have my dog, too, although she probably doesn't miss me at all... But if I had grown up the way that those girls did, I probably would have used my power to do bad things, too.
Later!
"It was delicious," Tsugumi compliments Master.
"Thank you very much."
No, that's not true... If I had been forced to fight for my survival, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it...
Liz is waiting for the girls outside the restaurant.
"Hey look, it's my customers." Liz grins at them wolfishly. "I never got my tip from you."
"Tipping is optional within Master's establishment," Agna says, gamely attempting to stare Liz down. "You are an employee at this restaurant, yet you feign ignorance of this fact?"
"Aren't you all dolled up like a precious baby goth," Liz says. Patti stares at Agna.
Well, Agna does dress like a
"Like some snobby little rich girl..." Liz goes on. "Hey, come with us for a bit."
Liz and Patti lead the girls into a rather abandoned-looking alley. Tsugumi and Me-Me cower behind Agna as she stands her ground, still glaring at Liz.
"So you said you were Shibusen students?" Liz says. "Let's see how strong you really are."
"Oh no no no," Tsugumi says quickly, "I'm actually... We're actually in the NOT class... We're really terrible at fighting."
"Tsugumi-san," Agna cuts her off. "NOT students though we may be, we still cannot stand quietly in the face of the challenge they have issued. Because we are Shibusen students above all else!!"
"Looks like one of them actually wants to fight," Liz says. "Patti."
"Gonna be fun," Patti says.
"TSUGUMI-SAN!! HURRY UP AND TRANSFORM!!" Agna snaps at Tsugumi.
"Wha... But..."
"YOU IGNORANT COMMONER!!"
"O... Okay! I got it..."
"No way... You're really going to fight them?" Me-Me exclaims.
Since the moment I enrolled at Shibusen I've been training my mind and body for combat... Agna think-bubbles. She flashes back to the time that the Traitor attacked her. I won't let myself be beaten again!
"I just hope we don't get hurt," Tsugumi says as she transforms.
Agna grips Tsugumi's weapon form and poses.
"What's this?" Liz says, mocking Tsugumi's weapon form. "Aw, she's still just a baby blade. Not all of her sharp edges have grown in yet."
Liz holds out her hand as Patti transforms. "Now it's our turn."
She's a delinquent, so her weapon form is probably going to be a bat or something!! Tsugumi think-bubbles. Or maybe a razor? Or a chain?!
Nope. None of the above.
"A GUN?!!" Tsugumi wails. How American!! But I guess in kind of a bad way...
So that's it for this month's Not! Unfortunately Not! is going on a break next month, but it will be back in the February 12th issue of GanGan. And for once I'm actually looking forward to it!