netherworld_academy | The Awesome Power of Pay Toilet Wealth

All right, Netherworld Academy -- listen up! I'm sure all of you expect me to throw my hat into the Student Council elections. After all, who's more suited to be student councilor than me? Awesome mana power, rugged good looks, game protagonist, strongest in the cosmos -- you can't deny I've got it all.

Except I don't have a hat. I think I'll go the Slytherin route here and throw the awesome weight of my mana and vast financial resources behind whichever candidate makes me the best bribe, kickback offer, or shameless reciprocation of services. You want the might of Zetta, come and start the bidding!

[What financial resources is he talking about? Well, funny thing... the Dark Assembly sort of handed Zetta a weapon almighty in the course of deliberately screwing over his bill. At first upset, Zetta had what is for him an unprecendented stroke of genius. With the help of a hot mad genius girlfriend and his own surprisingly-high TEC score, Zetta has rigged the bathroom to be a pay toilet.]

[From the inside. You get inside, you do your business, and you're charged a modest fee to be allowed out again. Or you get to sit in there till the Prinnies let you out and shake you down for some valuables... which they usually wait to do until the person has been inside for long enough to consider being shaken down by Prinnies well worth their freedom.]

[Oh, on slow days he Invites it in crowded areas just to make people run for it. Or sends a minion around to bonk people with it, thereby inflicting its status effect on people. ]

[As for Zetta, these days he's simply claimed an unused classroom for his room (not that any of them are used, but nevertheless), moved in some comfortable furniture, and has sprawled out in relative luxury. He may not be a genius, but he has a certain amount of cunning.]

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Are -- are you even listening to what you're saying?!

...I'm planning to win by playing the local card. I'm the one who is familiar with the system, I'm the one who is actually from a Nippon Ichi game, and I'm not Asagi Asagiri. That's my second plank of the platform-I'm reasonably sane, and that is something of a rarity around here. Mao is important to help remind people what the alternative is.

You're not thinking this through! Overlords come in only two kinds -- absolute lunatics, or emotionally-detached people who need to be cured with the power of love! That's not exactly the sort of people you want on your side.

Absolute lunatics and emotionally detached people who need to be cured with the power of Love? Zetta, Zetta. If that's true, than which am I, Mad, or an ice queen who needs her heart defrosted?

Uh, the second one.

I'm pretty sure you're practically the poster girl for the concept, actually.

[Zetta, of course, remains completely unaware that he's ALSO the second one...]

Tch! Why you...of all the slanderous things to say, I never though I would hear such an accusation. I am not, nor have I ever been icy, and there was never a need nor a cause for anyone to defrost my heart!

Edited 2013-02-15 18:11 (UTC)

[With a blank look in his blank white eyes, Zetta stares at Rozalin in amazement.]

[Then, with a wave of his mana, he drops down his scientist minion next to him. She obligingly hands him a Disgaea 2 script she'd gotten off the internet, which he offers to Rozalin.]

Revealing character traits that were there all along is hardly 'defrosting'. Or did you simply ignore all the times I showed kindness and understanding to dear Tink? Simply coming to appreciate new people and show them a private face, is that all that is needed?

Uh, I'm pretty sure you were repeatedly planning the death of that guy you eventually warmed up to.

Changing my opinions on one battle maniac isn't a change in my character, for the last time! Now you give me that, and I'll show you what I think of your theories!

[Rozalin moves to grab the script-and Zetta.]

What about the whole "life of nobility, ugh peasant stuff" thing -- hey!

[Zetta is seized!]

Open wide.

[The simple order is followed by her ripping the cover off the script and stuffing it into his mouth. I hope that wasn't a collector's edition, because she's moving onto the next page.]

[All of Zetta's mighty power is useless before the ultimate weapon, slapstick comedy! He sputters in indignant rage, spewing paper.]

Hey! Hey! I'm PAST the book jokes now!

[Not enough pages evidently. HAVE SOME MORE.]

Did you hear something? It must have been some insignificant little moron who doesn't know when to shut his mouth.

[With a furious and undignified flailing, Zetta pulls himself away to spit paper out frantically.]

INSIGNIFICANT?!

[Rozalin calmly folds her arms and stands there, unimpressed.]

Hmmm, well let's see. You don't actually have much influence outside your own reach-aside from turning Asagi loose upon the world. So yes, insignificant might well be the right word for you.

What the hell have YOU done that has multiverse-shaking implications lately?!

I could if I wanted to, but there's no fun in it. And a serious amount of not-fun things as well. Shake the multiverse enough and it begins to come apart. The entire place is no fun if it all collapses.

Exactly! Why the hell should I be in a hurry to go out and wreck the place up? You want cosmically-significant changes, you wait and see how my disciples shake up the place when they're ready to make their appearance on the scene.

...There are other ways to have influence and importance besides rocking the foundations of the world. And as I generally support the status quo, I can't say that I approve of your disciples causing havoc.

Law of the Netherworld. The weaker get displaced by the stronger. That's the real status quo.

Well. If I believed in that, let us just say that there would be a tremendous splash. One that might drench even you.

Hmph. It'd be nice to have a challenge for once. One that ISN'T coming from Alex. Seriously, that barely even counts.

I don't think...

Oh fine. A round of sparring, to help you work the kinks out. I'll bring live ammo.

...No offense, I can read your status screen, so don't think I'm calling you a wimp or anything, but you're still not really in my league. Besides, that's not the sort of challenge I meant.

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