Ahhh I'm finally back, the fact that Voltron season 7 came out today took up my entire day.
Welp, let's jump right into this!
Paruko felt... out of place, to say the least.
Well, she was here, as per Takosuke's advice and pushiness, and she honestly had no clue what to do.
Guess all she could to in order to keep avoiding the blue-haired boy wonder was to just stick by this party's equivalent of the punch bowl.
Meanwhile, Gao was taking challenges still, playing on the game-mat this time, currently facing Tasuku while everyone watched, increasing the tension since every time you drew something good or bad, someone behind you would react in some way.
"So... has anybody noticed anything off with Paruko?" Asked Gao, causing Tasuku to look up from scanning the field, "hmm?" Tasuku said, "I mean, she seemed out of it during her commentating today, didn't she?" He asked, "oh, and I set Dragomemoria, Dragon's Reminiscence, I call Overturn Armordragon, Drum Bunker Dragon to the left, and I buddycall Thunder Emperor Dragon, Barlbatzz to the right!" He said, placing the cards on his field.
"Her commentary did seem to have less energy in them lately..." Said Gaito, watching from Gao's side, who looked confident in Gao's win, "yeah right?" Said Gao, "do you know anything about it Senior Tasuku?" Asked Gao, "huh?" Said Tasuku, "o-oh, Yeah..." he said, looking down, "I'm sure it's nothing..." Tasuku said, though it looked like he was upset about something.
"Hmm..." Said Gao, resting his item, Steel Fisr Dragoknuckle, and Drum's card on his field, "I dunno... I link attack the fighter, OVERTURN!!" Gao said, continuing the fight, still a bit concerned.
"Me and Drum have a total of infinite power, and together with Drum's boosted critical, it's a total of 7 damage!"
"Granthese's effect reduces it by 2!"
"That's still 5 damage!"
"Good move Gao!"
"Thanks Kanata!"
"Hmm..." Said Batzz, looking at the pinkette, "something's up..."
Later...
After they had decided to put the card games away for now, things went back to mingling, and Gao went towards Paruko before being stopped by his buddy, "h-huh? Batzz? What's up?" He said, confused.
"Listen, something's definitely up..." he said, "so good luck, okay kid?" He said, before walking off.
"Hmm..." Gao said, before apparently having a great idea.
Which was just to flip his jacket inside out to show the sun on his back and become the Mighty Sun Fighter.
"Hey Paruko!" Gao said enthusiastically, surprising the girl, "what's up?" He said, "G-Gao!" She said, walking backwards in slight suprise, "o-oh! Nothing much..." she said quietly, "hmm, okay," He said, suddenly realizing he hadn't thought this far ahead, "well uhhhhhh..." he said, drawing and charge-and-drawing blank cards, before suddenly being taken away by Batzz.
"Kid! I need you for something! Come here!" He said, dragging him away.
After they were out of Paruko's range of hearing, Gao breathed a sigh of relief, "thanks Batzz, I was drawing blanks over there..." he said, sweatdropping, "tch! I told gave you a wish of good luck and everything!" He said angrily.
"Gao?" Said a voice from behind them, startling the two, the voice came from Jack, Tasuku's buddy.
"Huh? Jack?" Said Gao, confused, "what's up?" He asked, "you're concerned about Miss Paruko, aren't you?" He said, "Well yeah... she seems a bit upset, you know?" Gao said, earning a chuckle from the green dragon.
"Yes, and I think I know why..." Jack said, a hint of melancholy in his tone, "huh? Why's that?" Asked Gao, his full attention now on the monster. "I believe it started like this..." he said, beginning to explain, "you both know about how Miss Paruko was well, infatuated with Tasuku, correct?" He said, earning nods from the two buddies.
"Well, shortly before you arrived here, she had finally decided to be true to her feelings..." Jack said, looking at the girl, "and one night, she met with him and..." Jack said, trailing off.
Gao and Batzz looked at eachother before looking back towards Jack, "well?" Said Batzz, "what happened?" He said with a hint of his usual anger.
Jack hesitated, before continuing, "Miss Paruko confessed, and... Tasuku rejected her..." he said, earning a gasp from Gao, though Batzz looked like it didn't suprise him.
"I can't say I wasn't surprised, Tasuku has never shown any particular interest in girls..." Jack said, "he gets fan-letters almost on a daily basis, but he hasn't shown interest in anyone that I know of." He said, looking towards the reporter.
"At the time, she looked like she had taken it well, but thinking back on it now..." he said solemnly, "she must have been hurting after hearing that..." he said sadly.
"Oh wow..." Gao said, leaning back, "is that why Tasuku got awkward when I asked him about it?" He asked, looking at his rival. "Most likely, yes..." Jack said, looking at his buddy as well, "believe it or not, but that was the first time anyone had ever gone up and told him directly," Jack said, "until then, it was only through letters from fans." He said.
Gao looked at the girl, "how long has it been since then?" He asked, "it's been four da-" Jack began to say before Batzz cut him off, "FOUR DAYS!?" He yelled out angrily, before getting his mouth covered by Gao, Paruko didn't seem to hear him.
When Batzz had finally calmed down, he seemed ticked off, "four days... that's ridiculous, she can't still be upset about it now!" He said angrily, "Batzz!" Gao said loudly, "that's really insensitive!" He said angrily, earning a scoff from Batzz.
"Tch! She should get over it... plenty of fish in the sea..." he muttered angrily while Gao continued to talk to Jack. "So why are you telling me this?" He asked the flying dragon, "simple," he said in response, "it was obvious to me that you had noticed it, and I believe that you won't leave it alone." He said, "so if you're going to try to help her, you might as well have the information," He said looking at him dead in the eyes.
"You've pulled my buddy from the darkness when he had sunk incredibly far in..." he said, keeping eye contact, "I believe that you would have the best chance of helping her." He said, keeping eye contact.
Gao rubbed the back of his head, looking at the pink-haired girl, she did indeed look depressed.
"Alright..." He said to the green dragon, "I'll do my best!" He said, grinning.
AHHHH I FINALLY DID IT.
I said "tomorrow", well apparently that was a lie, a lot of stuff came up, but the chapter is here now!
And finally, the reason behind Paruko's mood has been revealed, truth be told, I actually started shipping Gao with Paruko after Tasuku went to the future with Paruko and Sophia and met kids who were most likely, his descendents, who strongly resembled Tasuku and Sophia.
This basically confirmed that Paruko, despite her infatuation with Tasuku, wouldn't end up with him.
And so I thought, who else could go with her, and guess what.
Who's commentated almost ALL of Gao's matches, to the point where that person completely understood his playstyle when she fought against him?
Yup, Paruko, not only has she been with us since the FIRST EPISODE, she's also shown on multiple occasions, a lot of confidence in his skills, she knows about his frankly incredible luck, his skill at the game, and if you watch the first two episodes, at the start, Paruko dissed him a lot, calling him a newbie (which he was tbh), and many other things.
Then along the way, she grew to know a lot about him and just how good at the game he was, mind you she would put Tasuku's matches as a priority over his, but that was because she was infatuated with him.
Gao has actually encouraged her in many ways, Paruko doubted her skill as a reporter after not being able to commentate properly after seeing Roaring Slash!! Gargantua Punisher!! For the first time, and during her fight with Gao, he had (despite not knowing) helped her become a better reporter.
During the final fight with Yamigedo, he encouraged her that she could keep commentating despite the fact she was commentating the match that determined the fate of the world.
Basically, many many things, so I wasn't surprised when it was revealed that Yuga's mother is Paruko, meaning that's who Gao gets with.
Anyways, that's enough about that, thank for watching, and see you next time!
P.S. What do you think of Lost World? I'm honestly dying inside after seeing it (jk)