In a room where there was an occupant snoring away on the bed, the man just slept like it was nothing and next to him was a nightstand where there was an alarm clock that said 7:29 AM, and the moment that the clock turned to 7:30 AM, that's when music started playing, loudly. Grunting and snorting about as the man scrambled to get up, he groaned as he felt his way across the stand and then pressed the top of the alarm clock and turned off the music. From there he slowly got up until he was sitting on the bed and yawned as he stretched his body and cracked his neck, Markus's day had just started.
Markus slowly got up and went to the bathroom of his apartment as he trudged past various stuff in his bedroom, ranging from a makeshift work desk which held a lamp, a computer system, a binder full of papers, and his Pipboy as some of the big things among them. Past that was a large wastebin filled with trash, and beyond that was a makeshift workbench where there was a large array of junk parts and tools laying on the workbench. And opposite to all that on the other side of the bedroom was his closet and a shelf filled with random stuff from books, manuals, newspapers, batteries, and held in a secured and personal section on the shelf was a photo album, one that had the only documented proof of his previous world.
Markus then turned on the light in his bathroom and took a quick splash and cleansing of his face before he started working on brushing his teeth. As he brushed his teeth as well as he could, Markus couldn't help but look at himself in the mirror again at how different he looked now. He was no longer tanned due to his new setting, and it had started to die down when he started wearing full covering clothes and spent most of his time inside. He still had his dark blonde hair cut short to an acceptable length to cover his bullet scars, thankfully for him, there was a barber nearby that can fix his hair. And the one thing that made him always want to cover up his eyes were his own unique eyes, which were of two different eye colors, red and blue, or aqua and ruby if you want to be more specific.
Markus, for all of his confidence, never exactly really liked his eye color, it brought way too much attention, and even for all the weird mutations that exist, and this is coming from a guy that once heard of a ghoul fused into a tree all the way back in the Capital Wasteland, people tend to notice them a lot. It wasn't exactly uncommon as mutations do occur in the wasteland, but it bothered him a lot since people just stared creepily into his eyes when they do so. It made him very self-conscious in ways that he really didn't like talking about at all. Which is why he prefer to wear shades, or headwear that covered his eyes completely, if possible, all the time. Even when he lived with Kira and the others, they never saw his actual eye color as he almost always wore his Lucky Shades or a sleep mask of sorts if possible.
Now that he was done with his daily cleaning ritual, Markus walked out of the bathroom where he passed by the main room, which had a table, a television, a couch, plus a few other oddities to make it look presentable and like someone lived there, mainly in the form of Chinese decorations, and connected to the main room was the kitchen. That thankfully, had an oven, dishwasher, sink, fridge, microwave, toaster oven, tableware and a pantry for all of his cooking needs. Reaching into the fridge first, Markus cracked it open and looked around until he found what he was looking for and picked up the bowl of congee that had some spices, toppings, bamboo shoots, and some pork floss and ripped off the wrap on top and set it inside the microwave and turned it on.
Then Markus hummed to himself as he went back to his bedroom and started changing out of his pajamas into actual clothes as he thought about his current life right about now. It's been over two months since he took up on Wu-Fei's offer and told Kira about the offer he got and then took. While the Homeless people are a bit sad to see him go since they liked him, they brightened up when Markus still make time to see them and get them stuff to help take care of themselves. While accepting Wu-Fei's offer, he took up residence in an apartment or dorm complex, or whatever it was called under an old lady by the name of Hui-Fang. She was suspicious of Markus at first, but Wu-Fei speaking up for him and then Markus proving his worth as a Handyman made the old lady warm up to him, the fact that he spoke and understood Chinese plus actually treating her with respect also helped with that.
As soon as he finished changing, the timer on the microwave finished and he went back out, picked up his congee and started eating it, and after he finished it, he washed down what little food there was left into the sink and left it there. Before he then walked up to the entrance and picked up the toolkit near there and then exited his apartment to start his day. As he walked by, he saw various other residents greeted him kindly and warmly, as Markus made sure to do the same to them. When he first started living here, the residents were nervous about him, but after some time now, they consider him one of them and basically accepted him as a neighbor.
And for that, Markus will be grateful and then some, and as he took the stairs to exit the apartment Markus took out his Smart Phone, this one really confused him a lot, and fiddled as he slowly worked out the touchscreen and clocked on his schedule…app he believed it was called? And then checked the schedule for what he had to do today and nodded as the first visit was the local laundromat that a number of people use as most people couldn't afford to have a washing and drying machine in their own homes due to either a lack of space, time, or money to do so.
With the schedule started off, Markus nodded and headed off to the Laundromat to see the issue.
"And that right there is your problem." Markus grunted as he got out from the electricity room of the Laundromat, while wearing a mask, as he turned to the owner, Chao. "Your wires haven't exactly been updated in over a decade and due to a lack of maintenance caused the wires to slowly degrade and stop working, you're lucky that you called in when you did." Markus said seriously as he took out a flashlight and pointed the light in the room to see small amount of dust. "If that had been there for a while and you called in much later? The room would be full of much more visible dust looking, and that would have been a health hazard." He said to Chao, who looked surprised.
"What do you mean by health hazard?" He asked in concern.
"All matter breaks down, and wires like these can break down and allow nasty particles that could cause lung complication and respiratory failure." Markus revealed as Chao paled a bit. "Good thing you kept spare wires, I had to rip out all of the old ones out of the room, and tied it up in this trash bag here." Markus said as he pointed to the bag next to him. "Your electricity shouldn't fluctuate anymore, but you have to be careful, because you, and your loved ones will be at risk if this not dealt with properly." Markus advised as Chao nodded at that.
"I see, you have my thanks." Chao nodded as Markus shrugged. "So, I imagine the usual from you?" Chao said with a smirk as Markus nodded.
"About the usual, with money subtracted for when I use your Laundromat." Markus confirmed as Chao simply laughed at that.
"If it were anyone else, I'd likely be robbed, and get a half-assed job done for my troubles. But with you, I feel like I'm robbing you." Chao said in amusement.
Markus shrugged. "Money won't do that much for me as I got everything I need. Besides, I'm part of the community now, it wouldn't be neighborly if I try to rob you for everything I want out of you." Markus pointed out.
"And that's part of the reason you managed to find your place here without much trouble." Chao smiled as he patted Markus's shoulder. "Bah, you shouldn't have to hear an old man complain, go off and head off to your next appointment, I got everything I needed from you done." Chao said as Markus nodded and headed off to his next appointment, earlier than expected, but it paid to arrive early, good reliable, early services were worth their weight in gold, and Markus hated being frivolous in that regard.
And soon Markus found himself at his next appointment for a family in the neighborhood and knocked on the door and waited until someone answered. Who turned out to be a housewife. "Ah you must be the Handyman, yes?" She asked as Markus nodded. "Good I need your help, the dishwasher at home hasn't been working all that well for some reason." She said fretfully as Markus nodded and smiled.
"Show me." He said as he walked in and did his work all the way until lunchtime.
"And here we go!" Wu-Fei said with a smile as he dropped by Markus's table to deliver him his food. "A plate of seafood fried rice as requested." Wu-Fei said as Markus smiled and nodded as he took to the plate and ate his lunch before Wu-Fei returned back to his cooking duty as the restaurant was kind of busy and needed to help out his workers.
"Thanks chef." Markus said as he paused and finished his chewing to deliver his thanks. "Your dishes are as good as ever." He said as he washed down the meal off with some hot tea, something Markus had never exactly tried before until now…well there was that one time in Zion. But Markus still believed that the tea was nothing more than drugs of some kind, on the upside he somehow killed a ghost, so that was neat.
This was his new normal now, since he started living in Chinatown, wake up do some work, and then eat lunch at Wu-Fei's place and then continue to work the rest of the day until he can stop. Normally there wouldn't be a lot of issues if a lot of these locations had been touched up by professionals, and not strangers like him, who only knew basic repair skills and can jury-rig stuff, but there are very few professionals willing to come all the way to Chinatown.
Add in the fact that for most people like Chao, repairmen and the likes will always try to overcharge means that very few people can actually pay for the services needed to do so. Hence why there's a lot of issues in Chinatown that kept Markus busy.
And for that, Markus is very grateful, it allowed him to interact a lot more with what expectations of the new world he is in and what kind of social, cultural economic, scientific difference there were between his world and this world. And strangely enough, the Chinese Immigrants here have a very strong love of a type of music genre call Idol Music or whatever? Markus wasn't sure, but he did try listening to one example but gave up on it, in his opinion, it was a little bit too sugary for him.
While Kai-Ming was disappointed that Markus didn't care much for Idol Music, she was happy that he did like music in general, even if they were, in Kai-Ming's own words. "Too old fashioned and something grandpa would like." Markus took offense to that one and started an intense and passionate debate with Kai-Ming over the merits of their music selection.
And right now, Kai-Ming was humming as she came over to his table, thankfully for her, today was a holiday so she didn't have to go to school. "Hello Markus!" Kai-Ming greeted casually as she sat at his table with a smile on her face.
"Kai-Ming." Markus nodded back to her. "I thought you would have gone out with your friends doing whatever it is teenagers these days do or whatever." Markus said as Kai-Ming giggled at hearing those words, causing Markus to raise an eyebrow beneath his hidden eyes. "What?" He asked in confusion.
"Markus, nobody but elderly people say teenagers these days or whatever~" Kai-Ming said playfully teasingly at Markus, who didn't show that much of a reaction. "Considering your taste in music, are you sure you are not an old man deep down?" She asked as Markus's eyebrows started twitching.
"You take that back, my taste in music is absolutely superb, it's your taste in music that's inferior." Markus retorted as Kai-Ming gasped in shock at that. "Don't act like that when you know it's the truth, your Idol Music got no soul or heart like Johnny Guitar, or Stars of the Midnight Range, don't blame me for your tasteless choices in music." Markus sad as Kai-Ming's eyes started twitching.
"This coming from the man that just recently discovered Wayward Son and had just started to figure out how to use the Internet?" Kai-Ming retorted. "And the first thing you somehow found when you got your first laptop was to find the nearest porn site?" Kai-Ming said as Markus turned red at that. "Yeah, good taste in music my neck! You just can't stand anything that's Idol music because you can perv on the Idols!" Kai-Ming nearly shouted back.
"I told you before that I never learned or forgot to use the internet! How the heck was I supposed to know that typing in the word hentai was supposed to lead to be an adult entertainment website?!" Markus retorted. "I'm still learning Japanese for crying out loud, and I am not a pervert!" He said, though internally he winced as he was kind of a pervert, he did sleep with Red Lucy and Sarah after all, and he did get FISTO for the Garret Twins...and banged Johanna at Gomorrah before learning of her issues...he wasn't helping his case and ignored everything that he just thought. "And that still doesn't change the fact that your so-called Idol Music is clearly inferior to my Music!" Markus then retorted back as he got back on track to what's important.
"Oh yeah?!" Kai-Ming shouted. "Maybe with your lack of knowledge and the likes on how the internet works and your taste in music, you're just a dirty old man underneath who you pretend to be!" Kai-Ming declared as Markus's eyes twitched at that. "Yeah, I know what you are, I watch enough anime to know this trope quite well, you're just like Roshi from Dragon Ball, Markov from Fairy Tail, Osmund from Familiar of Zero, Jiraiya and the Third Hokage from Naruto, and other dirty anime old men!" Kai-Ming said with a triumphant expression on her face.
Markus looked silent and Kai-Ming got even smugger at that and then he spoke. "Your taste in music is crap, Idols are forgotten the moment that they hit their peak and get replaced by a new Idol. My music is timeless and classic, how many songs by Idols do you know of that can say that!" Markus retorted as Kai-Ming actually flinched at that, causing Markus to grin a shit eating grin. "Ergo, there is none that you can rightfully say that does that. Ergo, my taste in music is superior!" Markus declared smugly.
Kai-Ming collapsed into her chair that she sat in at Markus's table and then she gave a grudging smile to Markus as she made hand gun signs and pointed to him. "You're pretty good." She said as Markus smirked smugly at that. "But next time, it will be my victory and I will show you the proof of the superiority of my taste in music." She declared melodramatically.
"We'll see but as expected, you can't expect to break the fortress of good taste that is, my music." Markus declared arrogantly, as the two paused and then their faces broke into wide smiles and started laughing as they just had another one of their silly fun debates. At the same time, most of the restaurant customers looked highly amused and some started clapping for the entertainment they got. "Ah no matter how many times we debate, I never failed to get amused by you." Markus said in amusement as he started to calm down from laughing.
"Debating with you is fun as well." Kai-Ming chirped. "Almost everyone these days want to debate about politics and what politician would be nice for the future." Kai-Ming said as she rolled her eyes. "Not like it matters to people like us, considering just about every politician treats us like garbage all things considered." She said with some small amount of bitterness that Markus easily caught.
"Debating about anything relating to politics is a unfun event." Markus said wisely. "Politics as far as I'm aware is a very dirty and very nasty type of work, and only the most cutthroat, most ruthless, most charismatic, or the richest kind of scum can survive and thrive in there." Markus said as he rolled his eyes as he had to deal with his fair share of politics back home. "But always keep in mind that politicians are full of crap, they're not going to care for small folks like you and me, just lobbyists who can throw the most amount of money." He said as Kai-Ming nodded at his words of wisdom.
He remembered the rare times he got involved in NCR Politics, and good lord he almost wished he was back in the Big Empty or the Sierra Madre as the unlucky fool who got caught up in stupid shit beyond his means. He still wondered how President Kimball had to deal with that crap, sorry, former president Kimball he meant; and he also wasn't really sorry about Kimball getting booted from the Presidency. Him and Oliver that is, they both got the boot from the NCR Senate after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam for corruption charges, voting fraud, as well as military incompetence in the case of Oliver.
Good thing too, since under Kimball's administration, Super Mutants and Ghouls were facing severe discrimination that was completely and utterly unnecessary as well as being incredibly shortsighted. Super Mutants were tough fighters and highly dangerous warriors in their own right, why wouldn't you want to have them on your side? Ghouls are the longest living beings to exist in the post nuke wasteland, meaning a number of them have knowledge of the pre-war, including critical skills that would be nigh impossible to learn accurately. And that was not even getting into the issue off how hard it is for women to enter the NCR Army, that was literally cutting your potential powerbase in half.
Oliver was just shortsighted, the man completely screwed over the Mojave Campaign, by doing what he did. He was literally ceding the initiative to Caesar just so he can win glory in a Second Battle of Hoover Dam, he didn't gather Intel, launch raids on their supply, reduced their numbers and outposts, plus a whole host of other important objectives needed to win a war. Markus literally had to clean up all of the mess Oliver left behind to make it so that NCR didn't suffer a pyrrhic victory at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam.
Thank God, he had found the incriminating evidence and accelerated the timeline for Kimball and Oliver to take the boot, else the NCR might have ended up in an even worse position, and might not have even able to help out in the Brotherhood Civil War. Bright side to them being gone now is that James Hsu became General James Hsu and started using actual tactical foresight and make smart decisions that the entire NCR Armed Forces started to shape up, and good thing that Hanlon retired as Ranger Chief and became a Senator as well. Because damn could the old man make a damn good argument and being the former head of the Rangers and speaking against those two made him popular enough that he became the next President and started making the NCR less shitty.
Of course, both of those men knew that Markus played a big role in getting Kimball and Oliver out, and in thanks for helping the NCR out. Even if he did technically turn against them to play loyal man to House, his actions still saved countless NCR lives and gave them the much-needed boot to get them out of their complacency. As such they had sent their own gifts to Markus once they got settled in, Hanlon gifted Markus a Ranger Custom Revolver, and Hsu gifted Markus the only Power Armor that they have ever gained proper claim that was not Enclave and upgraded and refined it over the years that they dub the Scorched Sierra Power Armor, a highly refurbished suit of T-45d Power Armor…which later turned out to be wrong as it was actually a model of Power Armor known as T-60…go figure.
Then he tuned in back to the conversation with Kai-Ming as he snorted in amusement as she complained about her school life, mainly tests and projects. While it would be weird for a teenage girl to spend plenty of time with a guy that was in his early twenties or late teen years. Markus honestly does not know his own birthday or how old he was, courtesy of the bullets Benny introduced him to, but Doc Mitchel estimated him to be very young all things considered, so he was…twenty now? Yeah, twenty sounded like a good number, since he did gain some height and his voice did mature since he woke up…either that or the mutations and gene modifications did that for him, he honestly did not know.
But for some reason, Kai-Ming started to see him as a cool older brother figure, which may have something to do with the fact that he did aid her, and during his time here, fixed her phone and retrieved her photo data. And to be perfectly honest, Markus liked hanging out with her like this, when she wasn't busy being a model student of some kind, she had some hilarious wit to her and gave it as good as she got when they had their witty debates. So, all in all, Markus had enjoyed talking with Kai-Ming, she kind of felt like the little sister he never had to be honest.
Then he heard the timer on his smart phone go off, causing Kai-Ming to pause as Markus checked the time and shrugged. "As much as I would like to continue talking with you Kai-Ming." Markus said as he finished his meal and got up and started packing up. "I have a job to do and I got another appointment coming in this afternoon so sorry to say kiddo but we have to stop our fun debate here." Markus said as Kai-Ming pouted at hearing that.
"Fine." Kai-Ming whined but eventually brightened up as she realized something. "That just means I can vent to you some more the next time we meet again for free time or whatever!" She said cheerfully as Markus chuckled at that. "Ah you do like hearing me vent, is something wrong with you perhaps~?" Kai-Ming teased as Markus still held his friendly smile.
"Nah, you just amuse me, and hearing you talk is like listening to a free stand-up comedy night, funny beyond measure, free, and best of all, fresh." He said as he now had everything. "Well then, until next time Kai-Ming, see you next time." He said as he waved her off and Kai-Ming waved him off in response as well with a smile on her face as Markus couldn't help but feel some joy, as he thought about what folks like Kai-Ming go through everyday in this world. It certainly had its challenges but smiles like those made this world seem bright to him.
As he headed out, Wu-Fei spoke up to him. "Ah Markus!" Wu-Fei said as Markus blinked and turned to him in surprise. "I have something that I need to ask of you, so if it is possible, can you please come back here later tonight so we can discuss that matter?" Wu-Fei requested.
"Sure." Markus said, barely giving it any thought, he owed Wu-Fei a lot and from the short time they spent together, Wu-Fei rarely asks for anything impossible. "I will be sure to come back here after my day is done and hear you out." Markus replied as Wu-Fei smiled and nodded to him. "See you soon." He said as he left.
"…I'm sorry, but could you repeat that again?" Markus said blinking in surprise as he had finished all of his appointments early for the day and decided to meet up with Wu-Fei ahead of time just to get whatever Wu-Fei needed him done, to get done. Right now, though, he was very confused at what he heard.
"Kai-Ming's birthday is coming up soon." Wu-Fei repeated. "And I wanted to get her something nice, and the one thing I do believe would work splendidly for her as a gift are the tickets to see that idol group that she's been talking about lately." He said to Markus, who nodded at what he heard but was befuddled still.
"And you have to get her these tickets and not something else, why?" He asked as that part confused him.
Wu-Fei sighed. "Because I haven't gotten her anything good for a long time." He said to Markus who looked confused at that before he clarified what he meant. "What I always get for her birthday are useful supplies that would help her in the years to come like a watch, alarm clock, and so on." Wu-Fei said to Markus as he nodded his head. "This year however…I want to do something different; I want to get her something special, something so shocking and wonderful that it would put a happy smile on her face." Wu-Fei said with a smile. "I want her screaming in joy as I get her something she never got before."
"So, in short you want to make her happy." Markus summarized as Wu-Fei nodded before he sighed a bit. "I'm not going to lie to you Wu-Fei I don't know enough about Tokyo and where to buy tickets, and there are still many things that I have to relearn and learn again." Markus started off as Wu-Fei looked slightly down. "But, Kai-Ming is also my friend and she helped me out when I was not doing so hot, so consider this a done deal." He said as Wu-Fei's eyes went wide in shock and he looked hopeful at hearing that.
"You really mean that?" Wu-Fei asked as Markus nodded as Wu-Fei soon bowed to him. "I owe you a great debt." Wu-Fei said to him.
"You don't owe me nothing." Markus shrugged it off. "You did right by me and I will do right by you, also know the name of the Idol Group she likes or whatever?" Markus asked.
"It's an Idol Group called B-Komachi I believe." Wu-Fei answered as Markus nodded at that, making sure to memorize the name of the group.
"B-Komachi huh?" Markus muttered to himself as he got up. "Alright then, I will be sure to get tickets to see a B-Komachi Concert." Markus said as Wu-Fei nodded and Markus got up and headed off like it was nothing. "How hard can it be to get tickets to see an idol group or whatever?" Markus questioned as he exited the restaurant.
Much Later.
"WHY IS IT SO DAMN HARD TO FIND A TICKET BOOTH OF SOME KIND?!" Markus nearly snapped in frustration as he was in an ally crushing a piece of discarded metal sheet like it was nothing beneath his feet. "Is it that hard to find a place that sell these tickets or are Japanese people quite unwilling to show basic human decency in helping out?!" He snapped.
While it is racist of Markus to make such a statement, but the problem was that Markus had been asking for help from anyone to help him find tickets to B-Komachi, but literally no one was helping him or they pointed him to the wrong direction. And Markus has been stuck in a literal loop of failure trying to find the damn tickets…for over five hours.
Five! Fucking! Whole! Hours!
Markus may be patient when it comes some things but this was literally started to push his patience and the lack of any help was really, really getting to him. Markus groaned and then took a deep breath to try and calm himself down to focus. This wasn't about him, this was about Kai-Ming and her happiness, so focusing on that; Markus calmed down. "Okay, let's try this again." Markus muttered. "But let's try looking for something or somewhere to find wherever those damn B-Komachi tickets are." He sighed as he walked off again.
And again, Markus had no luck that he almost all but given up on trying to find tickets to see B-Komachi this day and decided to try again, but he wanted to try a little bit more and couldn't find any place or anyone that would tell him where those damn tickets would be. Sighing in frustration, Markus walked past a building that had a strawberry on it and entered the ally to avoid the people and soon found an empty spot to stand and contemplate his life. At that Markus let out a groan and rubbed his head in frustration before he heard a door opening and soon heard voices coming out.
Markus decided to see who was coming out and then the group paused as they saw him and he saw them…and there was silence as the only man among them, a blonde guy with sunglasses on looking in shock and in worry at him, while the girls…well they look kind of worried, save for an older looking lady and a bluish-purple hairw girl looking at him curiously. Deciding to speak up to avoid trouble, Markus spoke.
"Easy there, I'm not looking for trouble, I just needed a moment to myself as I am dealing with some…personal frustrations, I'm not looking to cause any issues or anything." Markus swore as he spoke much better Japanese now, as the man looked at him curiously.
"Is that so? Then what's causing you so much issue that you need to be here?" The man asked.
Markus laughed helplessly at that. "Would you believe me that I am trying to get tickets to see an Idol group of some kind for a friend for her birthday?" Markus asked.
"Idol Group? Which one?" The bluish-purple haired girl spoke up curiously.
"Some Idol Group called B-Komachi or whatever." Markus shrugged indifferently as the girl at hearing that started to smile.
"Oi, you said you were looking for B-Komachi Concert tickets and you're saying you didn't intend to come here at all?" The man said suspiciously.
Markus just looked done with him. "Yes, yes, that's totally my reasoning, I'm picking up concert tickets for a group I don't really know much about outside of some random building and that's clearly how I'm going to get the tickets." Markus deadpanned as the girl from before started giggling, while the man blinked at that.
"You don't know much about B-Komachi?" The older woman asked curiously.
Markus delivered a deadpanned look to her. "Do I look like someone that cares about Idol music or whatever? Besides I prefer country, classic rock, and more Western music." Markus asked bluntly first and then muttered the last bit underneath his breath.
"So, you have absolute no ideas as to who we are, despite you searching for tickets to B-Komachi of all things?" The snickering bluish-purpled haired girl said in amusement.
"First time I've heard of that group today, and I'm only trying to find tickets to the concert for my friend, even if I know literally nothing about the group or who you folks are supposed to be." Markus retorted as the group gave him a look as though he was a moron, and at that, the girl finally collapsed to the ground howling with laughter at what she was hearing. "Thank you, your amusement at my annoyance is clearly appreciated." Markus muttered in annoyance at her.
"You honestly have no idea." The man muttered as he observed Markus in a whole new light.
"Yes, I said that already, is something in your ears old man?" Markus snapped back in sheer annoyance as said "old man" flinched and the other girls and woman started snickering at that, but caused the girl howling with laughter to laugh even harder.
"This is too hilarious~!" The girl on the floor laughed as the woman helped her get up and soon Markus could see her face and he had to admit, she looked kind of pretty and he swore that as he looked closer at her, he saw...stars in her eyes? "Well then let me introduce myself~!" She said cutely, interrupting his train of thoughts, as she made a pair of victory symbols with her fingers and pointed to herself as she stuck out her tongue with a wink. "I am Hoshino Ai, the lead singer and an Idol of B-Komachi, we are who you are trying to get a ticket for your friend to see stranger~" She…Ai said to Markus.
"…What?" Markus blinked in surprise.
