soul_campaign | Audio August 4th

Hey everyone!

... I know what I'm about to ask might be a bit weird, since we just got back from a skiing trip, but my friend Minako and I have been talking about setting something like this up for a while, so I'm going to go ahead and ask this anyway.

How many of you would be interested in having a beach trip or something sometime in the future. Not right away, obviously. We did just get back from a vacation day, but both of us figure that gathering interest now and planning things is better than trying to rush it all at the last minute.

[ Not to mention that, you know, people knowing about it in advance would make it easier to not have something else come up and make it so it needed to be pushed back because she hadn't had time to ask about it. ]

Also, if people are interested, what type of food would you like us to have there when it happens? Though I guess we might need to ask again closer to the date, depending on how many new people we get by the time we decide to actually have this.

[ Though you know, maybe she should say something else too. ]

Anyway, I have something else to talk about too. Something a little bit more important than a vacation day. My partner and I are thinking about trying to take on more missions than we have been. But... I'm not exactly sure what's a good balance. Like... how often should we go on more missions?

I mean, I know that we're not allowed to go on one everyday or more than two in a week. But for partners who haven't gone on that many before, is that a good schedule to follow? Or should we try to do one every week instead of two a week? I don't want the two of us to burn out on missions because we thought we were fine and then we suddenly crash, since that's not really going to help anyone out here. Does anyone who's been going on missions steadily for a while have any advice here?

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... Is everything okay, Miki-san?

Hm? Yes, I'm okay, I was just wondering a few things about Death City. That's all!

I was just wondering what else we could do about this place.

[Why no, he's totally not changing the subject. What are you talking about, Chika?]

[ Chika pauses, not sure where he's going with that change in subject.]

You mean with stopping the Witches? Or are you talking about something else?

More with the idea of weapons and the idea of using them to fight a war like this. I can't say that I'm use to something like this but I don't think I have much of a choice...

Oh! Yeah. That takes a lot of time to get used to. Especially since, you know, the weapons are people.

[...]

But it's important to figure it out how and to fight with those people...

[And yet..]

I'm not saying that it's not.

But once you do find a partner that you click with, it's great. Especially if you're friends too and not just partners.

[Hm...]

Mind if I ask you something, Chika-san? How did you manage to get your partner?

Honestly? Luck. When she first got here, the clothes that she was in wasn't really something that she could wear around, so I came and brought her some better stuff. I'm part of SEES, and we're the ones who do those gift baskets for people and she didn't stop by to get one.

She just happened to be a weapon, so eventually after being friends for a while we tried working together, then decided to make it permanent after a couple of missions.

[Now that got Miki wondering]

I see. I suppose finding a partner isn't quite as difficult as I thought...

[Okay, now he has to laugh a bit] This place isn't quite what I once thought it would be!

It can be a bit difficult, or you might find someone that you click with easily. It really depends. But at the very least, you should be able to find someone to partner with for a mission or two without too much trouble.

[Now he can't help but wonder a few things...]

Hm, then that seems a lot easier and especially if it's with someone I know...

[ She doesn't say anything for a moment. ]

Yeah. There's more than just resonating to being a partner. If the two of you can resonate but argue over everything, you're going to have a really hard time fighting together. And well, Shibusen does recommend that partners live together, so if you can't get along that well that's just going to be horrible.

[Meanwhile, that got a bit of a chuckle from Miki]

Then I'll just have to see how that goes! Until then, I'll just have to hope for the best from the other weapons here.

Well, I'm sure that you'll find someone eventually. Who knows, you might get lucky and find someone almost right away.

Hopefully but until then...

I'll just have to see! And just hope...for the best in a place with so much devastation and destruction around.

[...Yeah about that]

[ Chika nods. ] Yeah. It's... we just have to try to work around that part. And hope that we'll be strong enough to keep it from being bad next time.

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