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"BAH!" Replay said after a while of searching for some dude named Squanto. "Plant your own damn corn,I'm gettin' the hell outta here!!" Replay said as he flailed his arms around,then snapped his fingers.

He was back in good 'ole Tokyo,where he lived pretty much. He wandered around,looking in store windows,walking down the street,evading people who looked in a hurry. He walked into a small store and purchased a handful of energy bars and energy drinks, the chashier looked at him rather suspisiously,but said nothing. He handed Replay a plastic bag full of the items he had purchased and Replay gave him exact change in Yen.
He smiled and wandered off again.He was stopped by two cute Japanese girls that were cosplaying and asked him to take their picture.


"だんな あなたは私たちの写真を撮ることができますか?"

"もちろん!"

"ありがとう!"

He took their picture,they squeeled in delight,then walked off again. He smiled and laughed,and continued to look around.

Replay was cramming bar after bar into his mouth,which now looked like a stuffed pepper. He swallowed,which looked painful,then took several big gulps of energy drink. He sighed in relief and continued to look.
The sun was starting to go down now,and the flashy neon lights of Tokyo started emerge. As well as people adorned in glowsticks,and lot of 'em.
He stared into the window of a place with a strobe light,it hurt his eyes.
It was a Pachinko parlor and was covered in anime advertisements.
He grinned,and entered. He hadn't gambled in a few weeks,and couldn't resist the noise.

[[I've been to Japan,it was fun. I went in May,and stayed for a few days. We saw lots of Pachinko parlors,and I wanted to go in one despite my age. T-T It sounded like a lot of fun... It was really noisey too. xD We were feet away from the enterance and it was like CHING! CHING! BRRRRRINGG! DING DING DING!!! Like uber loudness. ._.]]

He entered,and two women greeted him and smiled. He nodded,and entered. Making his way to the booth to get the silver metal balls which was used to play with. He slammed down several thousand yen.
[[NOTE: 1,000 yen is about $10. So it's not like puting down thousands.
^ ^;;]]

The man at the booth gave him a large yellow bucket full of the chrome colored balls.Replay grinned, and made his way to the next vacant Pachinko game.

Replay made his way to a vacant Pachinko game and dumped the chrome balls into th machine. It buzzed and hummed and make a few clicking noises to show that it was ready to play.

"O-KAY!" It said in an adorable voice,it sounded very young.
On the top of the game was a little chibi with an enthousiastic grin and a large thumb that was on a close up. It's little fox ears were perked up and twitched every few seconds.

Replay slammed his hand on the button that said "Play" in Katakana.The balls fell from the opening at the top and fell downward into little holes at the bottom,each hole had numbers on them and resembled points. Each one had entered in a hole,and not the large hole at the bottom that had no number on it.
There was a loud bring sound of a bell and flashing lights on his screen. At the spot where the chrome balls would be awarded to him stood his bucket.

People turned around and stared at him,he had gotten the jackpot.

Balls fired into his bucket with a ploo ploo ploo sound.It was very loud.

After had awarded him all of his points. He took the now very heavy bucket to the front booth,people cheering for him,Replay smiled in acknowlegence.
He dropped the bucket onto the man and he rummaged around for something,then gave him a prize of a video phone.
He smiled at Replay as well. Replay smiled back,then fled from the Pachinko parlor in fear of more praise.

A girl with bright red spring curls stood talking to a group of people enthusiastically. The flashing lights and loud noises didn't effect her at all anymore. She worked there. Her pink and black striped stockings stood out under her short harajuku/gothic lolita styled dress. She talked with her hands, that were covered in all sorts of different rings. She laughed, and it was just barely heard over the rucus. But it was a loud, real laugh. It made her spring curls, and the skull adornments on them, shutter. The rest of the crowd laughed as well.

((I've never been, but I used to be subscribed to the "Gothic Lolita" magazing, which started me on Harajuku as well!))

The energetic red-head was approached by a short, bald man wearing shades. He talked to her nicely, and she nodded, though their conversation could not be heard over the noise. She stepped outside and stretched till she was on the tips of her black and white saddle-oxfords. She yawned, rubbed her head, and whipped out her new purple and black striped sliver cell phone. She started texting a million miles a minute, as if she had been doing so as a profession for many years.

"Eeeeh?" she inquired, turning to look at him, her fingers still well at work. She sent her message and looked at the man's eyes. She was transfixed for a second, before seeing the peice of paper. She started reading the sheet of paper in a Kanzai accent. "Basically, you do this," she remarked when she was done reading. She started going through the whole phone slowly, showing him step-by-step ways to access everything short of the kitchen sink. "Bunmei ka?"
[[roughly: Get it?]]

"No problem," she insisted in her oh-so-kanzai accent. She could have been a yakuza's daughter, with her tounge. She started to walk off, but then she hesitated. She turned back to him and asked reluctantly, "So, where are these places you've been?" she asked slightly shyly.