GO TO THE ARCADE WITH YUU

Tomoko's plans for the weekend were that simple. It's not like she could really do much else. As a shut-in, entertainment was limited... Besides, they recently got a new machine in, and Tomoko wanted to give it a try. Maybe it was a Virtua Fighter machine? She hadn't played Virtua Fighter in a while! Buuut then again, Yuu-chan isn't very good at fighting games... Ah well. That was a bridge she'd cross when she got to it.

Once she was close to arcade, though, Tomoko realized that she actually had a few minutes to spare! Quite a few, in fact... Tomoko decided to waste a little time before going to the arcade. She wandered around the area, secretly hoping to encounter a punk or two to absolutely destroy before she hung out with her friend. A child's voice started to annoy her, though... He was yelling out "Queen!" over and over again! Kid must've lost a pet, or... Or... W-wait. The sudden realization that the boy was calling for her hit Tomoko like a truck.

"Queen!" He walked right up to her, from behind. She had enough guts to get into a street fight, but not enough to turn and face the boy. "I'd recognize you anywhere, Queen! Wow, I can't believe I actually ran into you!"

Tomoko still refused to turn. She tried to talk, but all that came out were noises. "Shit, I need to get into-"

"Are you alright, Queen? Are you sick? Oh no, I'll go get some medicine for you!"

That made Tomoko snap around. She went to get him to stop, but the boy had already ran off. "Shit! SHIT! I gotta stop him, before he gets his friends and MORE brats show up!" For context, Tomoko used to play card games with middle and elementary schoolers to make herself feel cool. She also cheated. She also hadn't seen any of these kids in a little over a year. Honestly? She forgot about them. She didn't need to cheat in card games against literal kids to feel good about herself, anymore. She could just beat people up, now.

At full speed, Tomoko followed the boy. Using a short-cut or two, she managed to actually get to the convenience store before he did (she deduced that he was going there, since it was the closest place that carried Staminan.) She planned to just... Say something cool. Kids were easy to impress, so she'd say something like "I don't get sick." Or something to that effect. She mostly wanted to keep up her carefully constructed "Queen" persona, just in case she ever needed it.

Tomoko waited for the boy to show up. She wasn't THAT fast, so he was going to be there any minute. Any minute.

...

Alright, there was something up. Did the kid make a wrong turn? A glimpse into a place off to the side revealed that a larger kid was stealing this kid's... Cards? This larger kid was a tad hefty, but couldn't be much younger than Tomoko. Mugging an elementary schooler? REALLY? Tomoko wasn't going to let the crime happen because of moral reasons, but even without her "code" she'd still kick this guy's ass for simply being pathetic. Tomoko stepped into sight, embracing the Queen persona once more. She put on her best "cool voice."

"Robbing a kid, huh? You're too pathetic to fight, but since you're so vile... I guess I have to."

The smaller kid turned, Queen's arrival was something he didn't expect. His pudgy attacker turned and faced Tomoko, "Oh, a girl! What are you gonna do, hit me?"

The boy cheered as Tomoko's fist sunk into the pudgy mugger's face one last time. After declaring that Tomoko wouldn't get away with this, he ran off. Tomoko was pleased with herself, but she had a character to maintain. After a scoff, she put her hands into her pockets, and walked off. She left the boy behind as he cried out her title. Once she was out of his line of sight, she comically bolted off. Crisis averted.

"Queen..." The boy spoke to himself, once he lost sight of his savior.

Royal Legacy END

Experience Points: 5,000

Tomoko had killed plenty of time dealing with that, so she met up with Yuu-chan once she dusted herself off. It was a particularly normal outing. The new arcade machine they got wasn't Virtua Fighter, though... It was House of The Dead 4. The one with the machine guns. Tomoko had fun with it, but since Yuu-chan wasn't good at this type of game, Tomoko carried things. In no time at all, Tomoko and Yuu-chan had beat the final boss. After a brief celebration, the two girls got a little something to eat. Tomoko had some extra money, so she paid for the whole meal.

After talking about mundane, anime things for a bit... Yuu-chan got a little grave. "Mokocchi... Some of the rougher boys at school have been talking..."

Ah, so they DID go to her school. Tomoko let Yuu continue, "...I'm a little worried about you. They've been talking about how they're boss is going to get back at you! My ex-boyfriend, he even told me to keep away from you, just in case. They don't care about 'collateral damage,' he explained."

Tomoko had once more shrugged off Yuu-chan's worries. "You're putting too much thought into this. I beat him up once, I'll beat him up and his punks again. That simple."

The blonde wished that Tomoko would take this more seriously. Still, Tomoko had reason to be confident... Naruse saw first hand the results of Tomoko's wrath, the delinquent boys complained about their injuries days after the incident. Ultimately, she dropped the issue. Tomoko wasn't going to listen to her, so there was no reason to keep going with it.

The meeting went fine... The two girls said their goodbyes and headed to their respective homes. Tomoko came home to find her mother waiting for her, with several opened letters in hand.

"Tomoko, don't get mad... But you got some mail, and I looked through it-"

Tomoko almost wigged, but the older Kuroki was prepared for this. Before Tomoko could get a word in, her mother had already went into her next point: "I'll be frank, Tomoko... It's hate mail. Really detailed hate mail."

Finally, Tomoko was getting a tad concerned. She looked at the letters... T-these were hand delivered, they had no postage... They were here? At her address? At her home? They knew where she lived?

The content of the letters were not pleasant. I know this is rated M, but I'll still refrain from describing them. They were THAT bad. Tomoko was both proud and worried: She beat them up so badly that they resorted to this, but at the same time they knew where she lived. She'd have to call Majima-sensei once more... This wasn't over, not by a long shot.