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🧙 WHO: Soundwave and Mukuro Ikusaba
⚔️️ WHAT: Mukuro nerds out about military stuff and magic training
🕒 WHEN: Early April
🗺️ WHERE: Mukuro's place
⚠️ WARNINGS: None yet

[It's high time for him to meet Junko's real side- Mukuro, rather, as he's learned back at the elevator and the gatekeeper Gnome months ago. Ever since that, he has been mildly curious about seeing Mukuro's true self. Though Mukuro had shown snippets of being herself during the occasional times where they were alone, mostly just her talking about firearms or military topics, he's never seen her off her Fashionista disguise before, either.

Until today, that is. He's already at her front door at the promised time, knocking on it while he patiently waits for her. Her place should secure the privacy they need for her to be herself without worrying about exposing her disguise.

There's another reason for him wanting to meet Mukuro today, but that can come later, as he's made up his mind to simply hang out with Mukuro.]

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Huh- Hey, Soundwave, that you?

[Mukuro was using her usual 'Junko' tone as she called to the door. Given Soundwave had appeared at the time they'd agreed, she was 99% sure it was him- but no harm in double checking before she answered as herself.

Thankfully it was before her room got flooded out, so they would at least have some privacy.

Truth be told, she was a bit nervous. She hadn't really been 'out' to many people as herself like this... but she wanted to do this. That person she'd spoken to online said it was helpful to have her 'truthkeepers', people who knew her who would keep her sane whilst she was acting undercover.

As it was... Soundwave was someone who already knew most of the truth. So honestly, he fell into that role quite naturally.]

It's me.

[The mechanical voice is unmistakable at least. Though Mukuro being cautious about it and wanting to be assured that it's him is an understandable action, given how important this is to her. Even when she's behind the door, he could guess that she must be nervous about this, but he'll try to reassure her there's nothing to be afraid of with him.]

[Yes, that voice was definitely distinctive- it was him.

So, she went to go and answer the door. Although her clothes and fake nails were still very much Junko's, as she'd not taken the time to buy anything more to her personal fashion, there was still a stark difference between how she presented herself out and about and how she appeared now.

The Ultimate Solder wasn't wearing either her blonde wig or her makeup, appearing as a much plainer girl with freckled cheeks, short black hair, and the symbol of a wolf tattooed on the back of one hand. Her whole demeanour had shifted as well- and although she was glad to see him, she seemed more serious, dour and withdrawn that she'd been when posing as 'Junko'. A side that came out just a little whilst at the end of their elevator mission.

As always, her trusty combat knife was strapped onto the scabbard she wore on her thigh.]

Um. Hey. Come in.

[Without a "face", she's robbed of his surprise upon seeing Mukuro's appearance as herself, only tilting his head a little to the side. Just like her personality, she looks like a radically different person than who Junko was. While he was waiting for her, he had half-expected for Mukuro to answer the door with a little bit of cheer like usual, but the dour demeanor is how she truly presents herself.

This is the Ultimate Soldier.

At the invitation to come inside, he nods and steps in, ducking to avoid hitting his head on the doorframe.]

Are you nervous, Mukuro?

[He asks. Normally he could sense it from a person, but without his power, it's still a little hard to tell how she truly feels.]

Yeah, a little bit. Not really spoken to many others as 'me'.

...I'm not exactly good at talking to people as it is.

[She gave a gesture for him to make himself at home - the other bed in her room was unused if he wanted to sit there, or there was the chair by her desk.

The room was sparsely decorated- most of her makeup, accessories and the 'helpful' sewing kit she'd arrived with were tucked away in a drawer. Her Magic Mask sat beside a strange, fruit-bearing magic plant and the weird self-improvement statue she'd picked up some months back. The Junko wig was carefully positioned on a model head near the sink.

Perhaps what would be more interesting was the pistol she'd left out, sitting by the plant and other strange objects.]

But...this is me.

I can imagine it's difficult for you, but you'll be fine with me.

[He tries to be encouraging. Words aren't his best suit, but he tries.

Soundwave takes the other bed once he's given the okay from Mukuro, and with how the furniture here is imbued with magic, it's probably unsurprising that her bed does not give in to his weight. He's gotten so used to how things work here that it doesn't phase him anymore. There isn't much to look at in her room, probably would be surprising to him if he had visited her place before he knew the truth, so the pistol sitting there in the open is the first thing he notices.]

You were able to talk in length about your favorite topic before, as Junko. [About guns, military stuff.] Are you able to do that as yourself now?

[First order of business is to help Mukuro be comfortable and confident as, well, herself and that is to talk about the things they normally do. Well, more like Soundwave does the listening and Mukuro the talking- the usual.]

H-huh? Yeah, sure-

[She glanced back over to the pistol, thinking to herself a moment. Yeah. They could just talk like normal- let's start with that.]

I was able to get my gun upgraded at the Traders a couple of weeks back. In theory, once I work through its usual ammunition it should be able to 'reload' using my magic, but I'm not sure how that will function in an actual combat situation. That still needs investigating.

I'm in contact with someone over the network who's doing similar research into magic-based weaponry here. Hopefully we'll be able to find something affective that we can use against enemies who hold unnatural levels of resistance to traditional means of attack.

...Those slimes, for instance.

I wonder if plasma weaponry would be viable against them. Though I suppose that'll be asking too much considering the tech level, here.

[Can't help but muse to himself a bit about that. He's starting to miss his plasma blaster, even though he hasn't gotten much use of it over the past two years. Now for the actual topic...]

I see you've been busy. Would you mind sharing your future progress with me, especially with how it works in actual combat? It could be useful knowledge...

Wait, you've worked with real plasma weapons??

[She'll get back to the rest in a moment, but right now that was definitely the most important thing here.

Real plasma weapons? Don't mind her, she's just staring at him in awe.]

Yes. Our technology is generally significantly advanced when compared to human's.

[It's generally a true fact, at least with the humans he's met, even the ones from different versions of Earth.]

During the war, laser rifle is the most common type of blasters, ion blaster, plasma blaster, but ballistic weapons still had their uses. I used to have a missile pod mounted on my shoulder.

[Not anymore, here.]

[Despite her more withdrawn demeanour as her true self, she had shuffled forward so she was sitting right on the edge of the bed as she listened- eyes getting wider with each weapon type he described.

Perhaps she should have expected that a giant not-robot would come from a more technologically advanced world than her, but she'd not thought too much about it.]

Woah...that's incredible. Some military forces have laser weapons but nothing like that- wow...

It's a shame that I have no ways to demonstrate to you the weapons or even show you a video.

[Even his harmless ability to project a video from his chest is disabled, here.

Soundwave does notice Mukuro leaning forward and her eyes growing wider at each weapons mentioned. What a surprise. Even in her true, withdrawn demeanor, she can't ever fake her interest in military weapons.]

Yeah...I would have loved to see something like that.

[There we go, there's a rare little smile.]

But it's still pretty incredible to see someone like you here, all the same.

Think there's any way we can try and replicate anything like that sort of firepower with the magic here?

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