Money is forever - Poverty Quest (continued from old forum)

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"Oh well. Nothing for it."

>"Well, this is the life of a blue collar worker." Nitori says as she whips out her wallet. "I'll pay for the lunch, then we'll go back to the workshop and continue working until it's time for dinner. Ok?"

[It's Purvis!]

>Nod.
>"Yeah."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>Nod.
>"Yeah."

>"Alright then..."

x-x-x

>After paying for the meal, the two of you make your way back to the car workshop...
>...To find that the garage door has been grafitti'd on, with something... um... crude... on it.
>"What the fu-" You hear Nitori curse under her breath upon seeing the vandalized door.

[It's Purvis!]

>"You know. I promised I wasn't going to get into any more fights. But if they're not going to leave us alone, then it doesn't make any difference whether I do or don't..."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"You know. I promised I wasn't going to get into any more fights. But if they're not going to leave us alone, then it doesn't make any difference whether I do or don't..."

>You hear Nitori take a deep breath.
>"Alright, calm down. Calm down..." She says. "If they want to pick a fight with us, it's their choice. But let's not go pick a fight with them unless absolutely necessary..."

[It's Purvis!]

>Nod.
>"We don't even know who it was. Right."
>Just head back in. We had lunch, our mood is good, dambit!

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>Nod.
>"We don't even know who it was. Right."
>Just head back in. We had lunch, our mood is good, dambit!

>The two of you head inside the workshop.
>Nitori then immediately heads into the storage room. She comes back out just a few seconds later, holding two cans of spray paint.

>"Good thing I have a solution to the graffiti problem." She said. "Want to give me a hand? This won't take long."

[It's Purvis!]

>"I've never gotten to play with one of these before!"
>Hold hand out.
>"Happy to pitch in."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"I've never gotten to play with one of these before!"
>Hold hand out.
>"Happy to pitch in."

>"Here." Nitori gives you one of the cans of spray paint. "Nothing fancy. Let's just cover up this... inappropriate work, shall we?"

[It's Purvis!]

>Give it a good shake, aim toward the graffiti, and get to spraying!

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>Give it a good shake, aim toward the graffiti, and get to spraying!

//My apologies for the slow activity lately. The quarantine has made me quite stir crazy and prone to being distracted. A mild case of ADHD, I'd say...

>You shake the spray can a bit, then start spraying over the crude graffiti alongside Nitori.

>The two of you are done within a minute. Now there's a big splotch of grey on the garage door that contrasted the rest of it, but at least it's a lot better than leaving that crude graffiti there.

>"There!" Nitori announces as she lowers her spray can. "Ready to start the next shift?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"Let's get to work."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"Let's get to work."

>"Right then."
>Nitori goes to remove the "OUT FOR LUNCH" sign from the outside of the workshop...

x-x-x

>The two of you worked hard until the day's shift has truly ended at 6PM. Nothing interesting has happened during this time.
>"Whew. What a day." Nitori says. "Good thing we haven't run into any Sukeban today, huh?"

[It's Purvis!]

>"Well, they tried earlier... Let's get home."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"Well, they tried earlier... Let's get home."

>"Yeah, let's get back home..." Nitori says. "With what the Sukeban has been doing in the past few days, I'd rather get back home as soon as possible..."

x-x-x

>The two of you get back home without a hitch.
>"I ordered take-outs." Nitori informs you as she puts the phone down. "It'll arrive in a short while. In the meantime, let's just rest..."
>The kappa then threw herself on the barely intact couch.

[It's Purvis!]

>Plop down beside her.
>"After food, I'll do some cleaning up."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>Plop down beside her.
>"After food, I'll do some cleaning up."

>You plop down beside her.
>"I don't want to look like I'm having you as a slave, though. But thanks anyway..." Nitori says.

[It's Purvis!]

>"Don't worry about that, I'm doing it to help out after all you've done for me. Even after..."
>Gesture around at the damage that has been done.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"Don't worry about that, I'm doing it to help out after all you've done for me. Even after..."
>Gesture around at the damage that has been done.

//You actually still remember the damages done to Nitori's apartment...

>"Whatever you say..." Nitori answers you.

>Lots and lots of bullet holes on everything. Except the TV which was miraculously spared when the Yorigami Sukeban raided the apartment a few days ago. (The door was also shredded, but you and Nitori got around to replace it with a new one)

[It's Purvis!]

>"No, it's not a 'whatever you say', Nitori. I'm honestly really grateful you've let me stay here these past couple days, given me actual food to eat, and just been my friend. I haven't had any of those things for a really long time, you know?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"No, it's not a 'whatever you say', Nitori. I'm honestly really grateful you've let me stay here these past couple days, given me actual food to eat, and just been my friend. I haven't had any of those things for a really long time, you know?"

>Nitori blinked for a bit.
>Well, I've always complained about me being a blue collar worker doing the white collar people's dirty works... The feelings of people without proper lives, much less works, kind of slipped my mind..."

[It's Purvis!]

>It's easy to not think about it if you aren't used to having it."