PSL for Chicklet

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Atom's friends from school had left the diner a little earlier. He had volunteered to hang onto to supplies for their group project, and took a while longer packing all the papers and supplies into his backpack before leaving.

As he headed out the door, the restaurant staff smiled and said good bye to him, thanking him as they did every customer who stopped in. He looked back to wave to them, not paying attention to who or what was on the sidewalk when he first stepped out from under the awning of the building.

Comments

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Oh! This place is awesome! And yeah, we live in the temple up the hill!"

[upupatomway]

"You live in a Buddhist temple? That's so cool! Has your family been in charge of the temple for more than one generation?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Oh we arrived a few years ago, My sister agreed to take care of it when the Monk left."

[upupatomway]

"Is it a lot of work? I always see people sweeping at shrines in tv shows. I don't know if that's accurate at all though." He chuckles, but he's seriously curious. It's one thing to find answers in books or the internet. It's different talking directly to someone with experience.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"No, only when Keiichi's craziness makes a mess or something." She gave him a bright smile, fully believing that all the insanity was Keiichi's fault. "Mostly Belldandy takes care of the chores, though Banpei helps."

[upupatomway]

"Is Keiichi your younger brother? I have a little sister."

Skuld makes it sound like he might be a younger child who runs about leaving toys scattered and having clumsy accidents. Out of his own household, it was definitely his younger sister who was more likely to make a mess, though that was due more to her mischievous personality than 'youth'.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Keiichi? My brother?" she laughed, while also looking disgusted. "Ew. No, he's dating my big sister Belldandy.

[upupatomway]

"Oh!" Atom laughs bashfully at the misunderstanding. "He's an adult or older teen then. I thought you were talking about someone younger." Though why is she saying Ew? Is it weird or...?

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"He's an adult. But it isn't like I'm a kid or anything," she said, warningly.

[upupatomway]

"You're not a teenager?" he asks, rechecking his scans. She was registering as a human teenager, not a robot. Did she mean it literally or figuratively?

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I'm a Goddess," she said, a bit huffily.

[upupatomway]

"Really?" He's surprised by the answer. Not only because he hasn't met a goddess before, but he's not entirely sure if she means it literally when it's easy for him to believe that his sister would make a remark about being a 'goddess' to emphasize her supposed elegance.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She nodded. "I'm going for First Class, so that means I don't lie" much. "Got it?" she asked, hands on her hips.

[upupatomway]

His curiosity is peaked to the point of blazing on to another question, "Are you able to do magic like in the fables and legends?"

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She blinked then beamed, nodding. "Uh huh." Well. Some. A little. She was still learning, okay?

[upupatomway]

"I'll tell you more about life as a robot if you tell me about what it's like to be a goddess," he suggests, giving a little grin. "We should talk over ice cream though."

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"YES!" she said, happily. Ice cream, showing off, and getting to learn more about a really cool robot? Absolutely.

Sentaro would be so jealous if she saw the smile she was offering him now.

[upupatomway]

He leads the way around the side of the building where the bike rack is to the entrance and politely opens the door for her to enter before him. The robot working behind the counter greets them and offers to let them try samples if they want to taste test any flavors before deciding. Atom approaches the display case and looks over the flavor labels.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

She beamed him a bright smile as she went past, and all but ran to the ice cream counter. "I'll take two scoops of each flavor please in the largest bowl you have. If there is any extra room, please fill it with the yummiest flavor you have!"

[upupatomway]

Atom was contemplating a sample request when she places her order. He turns to her, eyes wide in surprise. "You can eat that much in one sitting? I've never seen a sundae that big before!"

The robot behind the counter seems surprised too and asks just to be sure if she definitely wants two scoops of every single flavor.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Uh huh. I'll order more once I see which flavors I like best!"

[upupatomway]

"Is this part of being a goddess? Do you eat a lot of ice cream every day?" Atom asks. He was trying to hold back his questions until they were seated but this is too hard to ignore. It will take a few minutes for the robot server to finish scooping her order too.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"I get lots of energy from ice cream so eat it as much as I can!" she said, happily. "For Urd it is alcohol. For big sister Belldandy it is tea." And sleep. Very much sleep. "I am so glad it is ice cream for me, it is so much yummier than tea or sake. Though big sister Bell does make the best tea ever!"

[upupatomway]

"So each goddess has a special charging food? That's so cool! I kind of wish robots could work that way instead of strictly drinking robo energy drinks to recharge," Atom muses. "Tea has been a good experience. And I haven't tried alcohol. But ice cream is definitely the best one!"

The robot behind the counter makes good progress on her order, which is already becoming a mountain in the biggest bowl the shop has available.

[manga_goddess_skuld]

"Ice cream sure is! But I'd love to learn more about Robo energy drinks. I know Sigil hates her dependance on a charging station so she'd love it. Banpei would need some massive modifications to be able to drink them though... since his mouth is only painted on," she said, giving it serious thought now. "Would be nice to be able to fuel them up at the same time without blacking out the temple too... last time Urd made me make all sorts of useless machines because I made her miss her show..." she scowled at that, trying not to shudder. She hated making useless machines. Hate hate hated it.