[Event Post]

[duelacademynpcs]

::For Professor Kantei and Principal Yoko (seperate threads if either is interested), you 'lucked' out on the school's night security detail that rotates since for whatever reason, the school's budget request for night security guards keeps getting misfiled enough that they can only handle the school late enough that there needs to be a gap filled by volunteers.

One day, that budget request will be properly filed. Tonight is not that day.

You've been paired up with Mrs. Yuuki! It'll probably be fine until the part-time security guard gets here.::

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[danse_etoile]

Yes. Yuki Judai. We're both Alumni of the main Duel Academy High School. We both joined to become Pro Duelists, I ended up finding teaching was more my interest, and my husband...

Had a time of it, there.

Ended up Dueling as a Pro for I think a decade before cashing out to run an NGO for Duel Spirits full time.

[sakaki_family_values]

Oh, yes. I believe I've heard his name before. He runs... SAI, is it?
My son, Yuya, occasionally volunteers to work with the Duel Spirits there and last year my other son, Yuto, adopted an Ancient Gear Beast from there too.
My husband has also been visiting it every now and then. He's taken a keen interest in Duel Spirits since he retired.

[danse_etoile]

Yeah, I remember your husband's career ending injury. Sorry that happened. And yes. He runs SAI with me as a board member, I think. The top of SAI is a bit patchwork. We ended up merging with the Arcadia Movement after Isabel Marias went missing, with the now Empress being a long time philanthropic backer.

[sakaki_family_values]

Yes, his injury was a big shock to us all, but life goes on, as they say. Yushou is keeping himself busy.

From what I've heard, SAI seems like a really great place.

[danse_etoile]

I think I recall reading once your husband was a scientist before he became an entertainer?

And we try to. Psychic Duelists are people too, and need help. And all the more animal Duel Spirits need help trying to find their way in an urban environment like this. I do wish that rabbit would stop breaking into everything...

[sakaki_family_values]

Yes, he was. He did a lot of research on duel systems and even cards and such with an old friend of his in the past, which lead to them developing the Real Solid Vision system. It's something he wishes to get back into and it's why he's taken such an interest in Duel Spirits as of late.

It sounds like you do really great work at SAI. I can't imagine what it's like for the little Duel Spirits, finding themselves lost in a completely different world to what they knew.

[danse_etoile]

Ah, I wouldn't mind meeting him someday. I don't know how much I could contribute... But. The spirits.

Mostly scared or you find them rummaging through trash.

[sakaki_family_values]

Ah, it's the same as finding a stray animal.

*She motions to En.*

I found En on the street as a puppy. No one around, no microchip and he was scared and covered in dirt.

So, I'm glad those little spirits have a place finding them and helping them.

[danse_etoile]

Yeah, it's great, but the main problem with our Ens, so to speak, is they can breathe fire. Or phase through walls.

::Snorts.::

[sakaki_family_values]

*She gives out a little laugh.*

That is true. You always have to expect the unexpected.
I remember when Yuya first got his Performapal Kuribohble spirit, it uncontrollably ate anything that was shiny in the house.

[danse_etoile]

Oh geez.

::Snorts and laughs a little as she walks with you.::

The ones I deal regularly with keep cheating at poker.

[sakaki_family_values]

*Yoko gives out another laugh.*

Well, they certainly make life interesting, that's for sure.

[danse_etoile]

I'm pretty sure one of them ate their cards to avoid losing.

[duelacademynpcs]

::It's then you hear something weird. Like a crow's caw but from a direction that shouldn't be able to produce that noise.::

[sakaki_family_values]

*Yoko swings around and shines her flashlight in the direction she heard the noise, noting that it... couldn't possibly have come from where she thought she heard it from.*

...did you hear that?

[danse_etoile]

No. But if you thought you heard something, let's go check it out. One of the first rules in the unofficial manual we've cobbled together is to trust another teacher that something did happen.

::... Did that classroom exist there before, Yoko?.::

[sakaki_family_values]

*Yoko looks over at the classroom.*

Hmm.

I've not been here for very long, so I have to ask... was this classroom always here?

I've been trying to get used to the layout of the school by walking around it the last week or so and I just feel I've not noticed this room before.

[danse_etoile]

...

That room definitely was not here before, ma'am. It wouldn't fit in the space there...

::You can sense the hairs below her neck bristling.::

[sakaki_family_values]

Alright.

*Her expression gets more serious as she scans around for something she can carry to use as a weapon. Spotting a nearby storage room, she moves over and reaches in, grabbing the handle of a broom.*

This will have to do.

*She holds it defensively in front of her.*

Guess we should go check it out?

[danse_etoile]

If you think we should. There's definitely something strange going on.

::She holds her flashlight a bit like a club.::

[sakaki_family_values]

Yeah and I'd like to get to the bottom of it if we can.
Follow me.

*Yoko signals for Asuka to follow behind her as she carefully steps towards the classroom and opens the door. Walking in slowly and carefully, she shines her flashlight into the room, while holding the broom defensively in case she needs to hit something.*

[duelacademynpcs]

::Hey, Yoko, that's an anatomy model wearing the bust of Beethoven, sitting at a piano, playing it.

That sure sounds like noise and not music.::

[sakaki_family_values]

*She stares at it and blinks, wondering if they just wandered into a horror movie. She gestures to Asuka.*

You... might want to take a look at this...

[danse_etoile]

::Tilts her head in.::

[danse_etoile]

what the heck.