Miyabigaoka Academy

[Bloodedge]

"Hmm..." As Akiza carried on with her explanation of each individual team, how they functioned, and so on, the blonde male traced the individuals in question with his eyes. From all that she said about the groups, they would be relatively fine. He did find these individuals to be a bit strange compared to his expectancy of them. "Sou ka. So this is the sort of force the Black Order has to offer. I suppose with such a balance as that, you all can better yourselves, as well as each other along the way. Yare yare. My information didn't prepare me for this." With that said, the man reverted his vehicle into a low power setting, and used it to coast along the stage while nodding his head in Akiza's direction. "No more questions. Arigatou gozaimashita, Aki-chan," he said just before gliding away from the lass to get a better view of the other teams.

[Apollymi]

Akiza seemed to find it funny that the information the man had didn't seem to prepare him for the sort of people the second generation of gravity children had turned out to be. The thought of it made her laugh. To his statements of these points she had nothing to say, she simply watched as he aimed to go away at his slow pace and do whatever he intended to do. "No problem. Thanks again~" she said in reference to the small box she continued to possess. "This is going to be amazing!~" she chimed about the small box seemingly to herself.

Meanwhile the two blonde twins made their way around the other groups. They'd already gathered all the names necessary from the Vongola directly from the extra members and were now circling around Shizuka and her members filing away their important information as well. "Hai hai!~ Shizu-nee. Let us know if you need anything else." they said to her and their group at large. Shizuka simply nodded, knowing that the duo of blondes would be reporting back to Chiyo in a matter of seconds. While she looked back to her own group. "Anything else we need to do while we're here with access to anyone else?" she asked not seeming to remember anything in particular.

The Twins' behavior in these moments was always very normal. They spun around hand in hand in the space between the Black Hand and Chimera which was down to four members as the rest had been sent on their way. "Chiyo-chan~ We've finished." the pair sang as they skated around her. Much to the small girl's irritation she didn't bother trying to escape the circling and instead simply held out a hand for the device they possessed. It was handed over as the pair both held hands and continued to spin the devices around their waist slowly pulsating with the fanged girl's heart beat as they happily held hands.

[Bloodedge]

Mukuro had been occupying himself with minor discussions of plans with the new official members of the Vongola core team while Akiza had her little meeting with the motorcycle-riding male. When he vacated the immediate area, the Tar King's eyes shifted toward the girl's location. "And who might that have been? I hardly doubt you'd be accepting the gift of a stranger."

In the meantime, Toshiro retained his growing habit of silence during this team interaction, even taking to moving throughout the Black Hand team as a whole while things finished up. Lavi, ever the lazy one, had never moved from the Echo Queen's side. "Nothing I can think of. Shiro-chan looks like he's getting used to everybody still, so I'd just leave him to that and call it a day for the meeting. Y'know, we should really bring burgers to this thing!" he said. When the whirring sound the blonde male's motorcycle made in its low power state drew closer, Lavi's eye shifted in its direction. It seemed this was the direction he had chosen to go, and Lavi was taking note of his presence for the first time now. "Sou ka... that's what that noise was. Fuckin' sweet bike, but who the hell's that?"

[Apollymi]

After her conversation with Shigeru, it seemed that Akiza was fated to have another conversation with Mukuro about it. His observation that she wouldn't have accepted a gift from a stranger was rather spot on. That being said, the magenta haired lass shifted towards the Tar King and shrugged. "Just a guy who kidnapped me once." she summarized, finding the joke to be a bit amusing before giving the proper explanation. "Ito Shigeru, he's one of the Windstorm G-Men. Specifically, he's Roze's second in command." she said with a nod. "And this isn't technically from him... it's from her. She told me I could take an upgrade whenever she got around to making it, and have my own Pledge Queen hook it up because she didn't want to tune me directly. Obviously I am fine with that, though I was kind of hoping it'd come with a bottle of wine." she said seeming to serious about this.

Shizuka was looking around, testing out the full extent of the extra usage of Chiyo's vision. In so doing she was able to do something she normally did... but at a much greater distance. She read Akiza's lips and knew the name of the man on the motorcycle and chuckled just a bit as Lavi claimed this meeting both needed burgers and that her brother was getting used to the group. "Yare yare, how does Chi-chan resist spying on everyone? That man's name is Ito Shigeru. Apparently he's a subordinate of our predecessors' Sky Queen. Also, no one else likes burgers as much as you do. " she mentioned having gathered the necessary information. "Oi, my friend likes your bike~ How's it going?" Shizuka said since the man was in visual distance it seemed a bit odd not to just say hi and from what she gathered he wasn't a threat to any of them. Though she seemed to find the fun in using the pig tailed girl's extra vision first. "Shiro-chan!~ Long time no see." these would be the words of Mikasa who hadn't seen this boy since she was a very young child herself. That being said familiar faces were always nice.

[Bloodedge]

"... Sou ka. Just a bit friendly for a business visit, isn't it?" he asked, seemingly in rhetoric, as he turned his gaze away from the Thorn Queen. Mukuro was about done in this location, and with a single gesture of his left hand, he dismissed the lower-ranking members of his team.

"Oi, burgers are awesome! Maybe one day, someone else will realize they've been missing out by not appreciating the perfect meal that is a hefty cheeseburger," Lavi said as his eye finally veered away from the blonde man. Knowing who he was now, the Hammer King seemed to become disinterested. He thought the bike was cool, but he had secretly been hoping this was someone he would be able to deal with. "Ohayou gozaimashita. Don't mind me; I was just hoping to get a closer look at things... though it looks like I've come a bit late. Aki-chan tells me your team is something of a special group?"

As Toshiro moved around the crowd, a voice called out to him. He turned to face the culprit, but what he saw was not at all a person he recognized. With wide eyes, he stared, finding nothing in his memory related to this young woman. "Eh... ano..."

[Apollymi]

"Well, friendly beats awkward. Besides... he's not really on duty, aside from giving me these~" she said of the small box. Though the question had been mentioned in a rhetorical fashion she'd spoken to its merits, if only because it allowed her to take a bit of a playful jab at the young man's reaction. "Also I realized that was rhetorical but... you seemed a bit green for a second~" and with that the pink haired girl giggled and let go of the teasing.

Meanwhile, Shizuka and group were being greeted by the man on the motorbike who seemed to have questions about their group. She'd done a tiny bit of spying Akiza and this man when he'd arrived so she had some inkling of why that information would be needed. And if Akiza trusted him enough to provide it to him, she'd do the same, after all there was nothing particularly well hidden about a group as active as the Black Order. "Aki said that huh? Hmm, looks like she has me figured out then." Shizuka said thinking about it a bit more. "Yeah, I gathered an interesting group of people this time. I am all about logistics but I've discovered without a bit of strength at the foundation it gets a bit risky to be tactful. This group is gonna do that this time~" she said seemingly amused by her own ability to choose a strong team of specialists for the purpose of making them work together. This was her newly developed strategy... which she made for reasons unknown to most.

Meanwhile the Thunder Queen was having the awesome realization that people didn't recognize her now that she was older. Though she knew everyone in their generation on sight without having to be told about any of them, none of them ever seemed to know who she was. This made her pout as she tried to figure out what about her could be so different. "You don't know who I am either huh?" she said a tear formed in her eye but she soon wiped it away. "Nishimura Mikasa... I'm the Thunder Queen." she said wondering if that would help. If it didn't she'd likely burst into tears because it was completely outlandish to her that anyone shouldn't know her when they grew up together.

[Bloodedge]

"Hmph! Don't be ridiculous," Mukuro said in a prideful huff. "We're leaving now." With nothing more to say on the topic, and nothing more to do in this location, Mukuro revved his wheels and took off on his exit of the amphitheater.

Shigeru heard out the Echo Queen's summation of her own team, and with her mention that this particular group would serve her purpose well, he visually inspected them all once more. "Sugoi," he said with a grin. "That's a tough role to fill, but you seem like you've got it all figured out. Has anyone ever told you that you're a very misleading individual?" he asked, addressing the fact that Shizuka didn't seem at all like a tactician of sorts from first glance. "By all means, no offense is intended. It's just that your type doesn't usually seem so soft around the edges."

When Toshiro was given the name of the lass before him, his eyes widened further. "Mika-chan!? Ah! Hontoni gomen nasai!" he said, bowing to the Thunder Queen. "Sugei; you've matured a lot over the years. I didn't recognize you at all!"

[Apollymi]

"Hai!~" chimed the still amused Thorn Queen as she took off after the Tar King who'd left in quite the huff. She figured then that her idea that he'd been at least a tiny bit jealous was right on the mark, after all such a reaction was completely unwarranted otherwise. With the exit of the Tar King from her line of sight, Chiyo would be returned three points of her vision as she stared at the screen of her device filtering through her own potential team mates as well as the ones chosen by the other leaders of the Black Order.

Meanwhile Shizuka was having a conversation with the blonde man, who seemed to appreciate her ability to put together a team. Beyond this though he said she was misleading. Her eyes widened just a little, because she'd never been told such a thing before. But she supposed when she thought about it honestly it made quite a bit of sense. And the man went on to say that he'd meant no offense in his words the silver haired lass held up both hands. "No offense was taken. It's a pretty accurate statement. And a rather useful thing now that I think about it... imagine all the people I didn't realize were underestimating me~" she said something of a fire behind those blue eyes of hers. She could crush many with her own logic and a bit of a time, and such was her nature.

Meanwhile it seemed that Mikasa would be spared from crying for a second time today. Her childhood friend recognized her then apologized saying that she'd matured quite a bit. She didn't really have the space to consider she might look a great deal different than she did as a child. Everyone else did but she still recognized them. "Don't worry about it. It's okay, we all look really different I guess." she said offering the lad a smile. "I hadn't seen you in ages, you're like the third person I've walked up to who didn't have any idea who I was." she said. There were obvious exceptions to this, but it was beginning to become normal for the girl to see her old friends and have them not recognize her.

[Bloodedge]

"Indeed. The more they underestimate you, the better you fare against them, right?" the man stated. With an inability to lean heavily forward on his vehicle, he leaned back instead, gaining much support from this as he conversed with the Echo Queen. "Given what you've said, though, I doubt you really need the extra edge. But, to say that... I suppose I sound like I'm prying for information. I assure you, I'm just making a bit of small talk from a point of genuine interest."

Apparently, Toshiro was not the first person to recognize Mikasa since leaving the tower. This made him wonder what situations others had found themselves in during this rather large window of time, but that was an aside for later days. "Eto... You say it's fine, but you recognized me. But neh, maybe I haven't changed much at all. Your look is way different, though! I like it!"

[Apollymi]

"Hai, that tends to be the case." said Shizuka. This man was surprisingly into the conversation they were making, she hadn't given much detail in her statements but they were still talking. When he went on to say that he doubted she needed the extra edge based on what she'd already said she smiled. She wasn't a paranoid type of person, but if she was, she'd have thought he was fishing for information, of course when he went on to mention that this was likely how it sounded she couldn't help but raise a brow. "Yare yare. I am not the sort of paranoid that would make me assume that sort of thing. Besides, Aki talked to you for quite a bit and didn't feel the need to alert anyone else to your presence. With all of those things being the case, I can assume you aren't here to do us any harm, so I'd tell you anything you'd like to know." said the girl her blue eyes traveling over the bike the young man had. Now that she thought about it, it was rather nice. "And you're right, I don't really need the extra edge, but it could still be useful. There might be a situation I haven't thought of yet where such a strategy could be worked in without compromising the overall effectiveness of the team. Like a small trap..." she said willingly continuing the conversation for the sake of chatting up the blonde man.

"Arigatou Gozaimasu~" said Mikasa to the thought that the young man liked her new look. On the matter of him looking the same or different she could only shrug. "I see everyone pretty much the same way I always did. You all look older but none of you really look different to me." she said perhaps it was more than that, it was easy to recognize people she thought of as her family in such a way.