Diadem heard Duer groan from across the room as she made several edits to her blog to make it look a little nicer than it was two seconds ago. She turned around and saw him slump into the ugly green couch, staring at the ceiling with his glowing red eyes with a bored look on his craggy face.
"Auuuuugh," he said again, his entire body sinking further into the cough. "Dia, is there ANYTHING to do right now?"
"If there was, I think I would have told you by now, Duer," Dia replied with a frown before turning back to her work. "This offseason's kind of slow for some reason."
"Probably because people heard 'Kobbers' and decided to avoid this dimension altogether," Duer grumbled, turning to his side and staring at the TV cabinet instead. "Guess we have moving to that island to look forward to, but I don't think we'll be having many interdimensional incidents this time around."
"You never know: they can happen at any moment!"
"Until then, though..." Duer sighed as he scratched his head. "We're stuck doing nothing, and with nothing planned for the future. Except for maybe handling Oboro's shit."
For the next few minutes, the shack was silent as Dia cleaned up more of her blog and posted pictures of herself being cute. She had to admit, it would be nice to have something to do while she was on Kuwahawi aside from her job as both a Planeswarden and a Publicity Agent. Something fun to do on the side, something to look forward to! But that sort of thing doesn't come easily...
Beep, beep!
Duer was startled out of his stupor as Dia's phone vibrated, the couch creaking as he sat right up. Dia glanced over at it and unlocked her phone to see what was going on. Nobody sent her a text or called her, but the number of emails definitely went up by one. And after she went through all the trouble of cleaning it out!
She opened it up in her laptop, her eyes widening as she read the contents, Duer peering over her shoulder.
"Congratulations, Diadem!
You are one of the many people chosen for the production of 'Magical Girl Mayhem', handpicked by the producers behind 'Beautiful Bearoness Brianna' and 'Fight On! Punch-Out Princess'! This show focuses on those wishing to become magical girls, doing whatever it takes to become the best of the best! There'll be love, friendship, and plenty of combat for those who are itching for a battle!
If you are interested in being one of the first official Magical Girls for this production, send a reply back with a cover letter detailing your interest!"
Dia and Duer exchanged glances for a moment before turning back to the email. Duer looked back at Dia with a concerned look as excitement spread on her face.
"Dia, this is probably the most obvious scam I've seen in centuries," he said bluntly. "You're not really considering this, are you?"
The milletian smiled apologetically at him as she replied, "Well, you're probably right... but it is tempting! I mean, we can at least look into the validity of the claims, right?"
"By throwing yourself into a trap?"
"...Yes?"
Duer opened his mouth to say something when Dia's phone went off. She hastily picked it up and answered with, "Hi, Diadem speaking!"
"Oh, uh, hi!" said a nasally voice on the other side. "It's me, Brandon! I think... I think Sammy discussed something with you about me?"
Dia's eyes lit up with excitement. "Of course she did! You're the other publicist, right? It's so nice to actually talk to you! Did you need anything?"
"Not really, I'm just kind of curious about something." Dia could hear some tapping and the vauge sound of reggaeton playing in the background. "Did you happen to get an email about this show called 'Magical Girl Mahem?' "
Duer mouthed 'Spoopy' to Dia, the elf stiffling a chuckle as she asnwered, "Yes! How'd you know?"
"Um, Sammy got something similar... and my first thought was, 'Dia probably got this, too!'" Brandon chuckled a little bit before he continued, "And coincidently, I got one, too. I think someone thought B.C. was the initials for a girl's name... or confused me for my own character, somehow. Sammy thought it was spam and deleted it. I was gonna do the same, but one of my friends kiiiind of wanted to see where it went. And honestly, I'm kind of curious, too! So I was wondering... do you think we could investigate it together?"
Dia thought about it for all of two seconds before she replied cheerfully, "Of course! With all three of us on the case, we'll find the truth of the matter! And maybe get a tiny bit famous! I wonder if Kogasa got an email?"
"Not sure; the email mentioned something about becoming a magical girl. Kevvy is kind of already a Magical Girl... on TV, I mean. So there's no reason for them to send it to him..."
"Hmmm. I'll have to check! Anyway, I'm gonna reply to the email and see if I can find anything else on this! If you find out anything, just give me a call, okay?"
"O-of course, of course! Ah, um, thank you for your time! Have a good day!"
Click. Diadem squealed on the inside as she replied to the email, although her spirits were kind of dampened by Duer giving her a look of disbelief.
"We're really doing this, then?" he asked. "We're really going to go down the rabbit hole?"
"As long as we don't have anything to do," Dia said with a nervous smile, "I don't see why not! I mean, aren't you even a little curious?"
Duer sighed and flung himself back onto the couch, the pillows sinking as far as they can go under his weight. "Just a little. If it involves a good fight, I'd throw myself in, but not until we find out whether or not this is true."
"I'm on it, Duer, don't you worry! I'll confirm everything before you know it!" Dia replied with a wink.
For the next few days, Dia did all she could to see if it was a scam, while Duer found himself some magical girl animes to binge on when Dia had a moment to spare.
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"Did they all get the email?"
"Of course, poppo! They all recieved them! We personalized a few of them, and we're already rolling in responses!"
"Wow, I can hardly believe that worked, considering you guys wrote it! Well, that's sure to please the master. Now, did we get all the equipment?"
"I got the cameras!"
"I got the green screens!"
"I stole Kai's wallet, poppo."
"Give it back before he beats Master silly."
"But it had 20 dollars!"
"20 dollars isn't going to touch even a fraction of the budget we need to make this work! Sheesh. And this is what I have to work with?
Anyway, keep 'em posted. Let's keep with the preparations on Kuwahawi; there's going to be a bigger audience there, with those Kobbers around. Who knows? Maybe one of them will join this madness."
"Roger, poppo!"
"Man... I can't believe she got me involved in this. First board games, now this. This will probably end up flopping harder than a fish on the island... and what is she planning, recruiting some weirdoes from New York into this? 'Every magical girl anime needs major antagoinists!' Yeah, but was that really necessary?"
"Sigh.... I don't think I have a big enough paycheck for this shit... poppo."
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