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[There's a brief moment of audio. There's a bit of background noise, but not a lot. Louder than the rest is the voice of a very panicked girl.]

Ah, I'm terribly sorry, sir, but, um... The cash register seems to be malfunctioning. I'm not sure what's... I think I pressed the wrong things, I'm really sorry.

...w-what the...

[There's a different voice, a male one, but he's barely audible. The girl speaks up again after him.]

N-No, everything is alright! I'll just-

[The audio cuts out. About an hour later, a text post follows.]

Um... I guess I should be polite and introduce myself? My name's Cerise... but Cherry is fine too, everyone calls me that. Anyway, could... someone please explain this to me?

I mean, what kind of network is this even? I thought it was fake or something... Not that I wanted to doubt anyone or anything, it's just a little unbelievable. But how did it just show up on my cash register?! I don't get this at all...

Comments

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[shiromadoushi]

Some of it's still pretty exciting. Just some of it is the needing a new pair of pants after oh god am I still alive kinda exciting instead of just the pure awesome of being able to summon a 30 foot god or call a mini nuke blast down from the heavens.

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[willchange]

I think I could do without that kind of excitement.

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[shiromadoushi]

The first type, yeah, but not the second. The second is the best~

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[willchange]

I don't know. I mean, I guess it would be cool? But I don't know what I would even do with those kind of powers.

I'm kind of hoping I don't get any impressive powers. It'd probably just be wasted on me.

[Wow, would you look at all that self esteem.]

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[shiromadoushi]

Why you say that?

and you never know what you'd do til you get them and have to use them. That's just the way things go.

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[willchange]

If I got powers like that, I'd probably just screw things up anyway. So it's probably better if other people get the cool stuff.

But I guess you have a point there. It's not like this is something I really have a frame of reference for.

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[shiromadoushi]

Just be careful and don't be an idiot and you'll be fine.

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[willchange]

Right. That much I should be able to do, I think.