Kimiko had known the location of this life source when she had first scanned roughly a minute ago, but now that she was near the location she couldn’t seem to find the source. Of course that didn’t mean much when the little Adnroiud was looking via sight and nothing else. She had been hoping that she would be able to tell the source of that good life energy when she saw them like it had been with Zef. Sadly, though that didn’t seem top be the case as everyone that she could see looked like typical humans which meant she didn’t have anyway to find them without sensing again.

She was about to reactive her sensors when Kimiko’s attention was somewhat pulled from her train of thought. She heard the sound of children laughing and having fun and couldn’t help her head from turning in that direction. What she found was something called an arcade. Based on her data of human language this sort of business establishment was one that housed games for children to play for a fee. It was similar to a theme park, but instead of outdoor games an arcade kept machine games inside along with a few other sorts of things.

Mesmorized by the idea of having fun and experiencing the same sort that was making all these kids cheer and alugh Kimiko didn’t even realize that she was walking to the arcade and within no time at all she was inside of it looking around. This was definitely not like the Void Diver or anything else that Kimiko had experienced so far. In all honesty this was perhaps the most joyful place that she had been on Earth so far. She was like a beaming beacon of wonder and excitement as she stood inside of the arcade wandering around and looking at all the games, watching various kids play them and wondering for herself just how well she’d don if she tried any of them.

As she wandered throughout the arcade Kimiko watched some really simple games that were still very colorful and gave the kids playing them big smiles, while others seemed to be meant to give the kids a challenge and many of them displayed rage towards a loss. This palace really was something of wonder that Kimiko kept examining. Almost as if she were studying the kids inside of the arcade and trying to learn what the purpose of each game was towards the kid or what the kids got out of playing them. It didn’t take long for her to see that when a child did well in a game they were rewarded these small orange colored pieces of paper.

Referred to as tickets by some kids in passing, Kimiko learned the designation for these small pieces of paper that acted as a sort of reward for accomplishing certain standards in these games. What did the paper do though? Once again she could only keep walking through the arcade and eventually found the ticket counter.

“So these are the real prizes?”

Kimiko looked throughout the counter and behind recognizing that the larger objects had larger costs associated with them. That’s when it hit her what the purpose of this arcade was! This arcade was a rudimentary teaching establishment with the goal of teaching these small children how monetary function worked in a society in order to prepare them for adulthood. What a wonderful practice with the best of intentions! Kimiko then heard the sound of a group forming and looked through the arcade until she saw that a good number of the individuals within the building were forming around a single game.

Approaching herself Kimiko saw that this game was one that set the goal of randomized placement of the players' feet. Based on the display on the game screen and the location where the player stood it meant that whoever played was supposed to place their foot on the appropriate space as that sign went by the screen. “Motor control training?” Kimiko, not realizing that she had just asked the question out loud pondered over the purpose for this game. Although the girl that was playing at the moment was landing everything fine and didn’t seem to need any further practice in controlling her extremities, so why did she continue to play?

This girl much like herself was a very cheerful individual with a smile that rivaled even her own, Kimiko couldn’t help herself from smiling in return.When the girl started to approach though Kimiko was slightly surprised. Had she done something that would call attention to herself? No one should be able to perceive her power level, so that likely wasn’t why this girl was approaching her. Kimiko has a slightly off guard look to her face which was mixed with the sensation of confusion. It didn’t really go away either when this girl asked what about a costum.

It took a moment of just standing confused for Kimiko to respond to this girl that despite having just been dancing for a good deal of time with a wide variety of body motion wasn’t sweating all that much. Kimiko could only surmise that she had to be in top physical condition for her age in order to pull this off. “I’m not wearing a costume. I liked your dance, you’re very good.” Kimiko, still fresh to the planet and having only met a few different people throughout her existence so far still wasn’t the best at small ta;lk unless it pertained to something she knew, dancing was no such topic.

Kimiko though had a moment of clarity between thoughts and realized that she had lost her train of thought. She hadn’t come to this building to look at the games. She had only found this place after she had sensed the life force of someone above the average. Someone that may be a strong fighter. She believed that a fighter with the life force she sensed earlier would definitely know where the Papaya island was also. Kimiko activated her sensors once again and immediately her eyes went wide in surprise followed only by her mouth in unison. Look of pure cheer and excitement would almost jump out at the girl in front of Kimiko. “It’s you! You’re the one I was looking for! Are you a fighter! Do you know where Papaya Island is? Have you seen a World Martial Art Tournament?”

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Kimiko really was trying to figure out what this girl meant by costume. She was just wearing normal clothes. Not to mention she was actually wearing what she believed to be acceptable for the public. Was her style off and seen as a sort of costume? No that didn’t make much sense based on what everyone else was wearing as it all wasn’t that much different. She finally got her answer though when the girl pointed to her own face specifically just under the eyes at the height of the cheek bones. This gave Kimiko clarification as it was obvious that she was wondering about the appearance of Kimiko’s skin.

“OH. I’m not in costume or in character. I’m just me, I’m an Android.”

Kimiko saw the look of almost overwhelmed thoughts and took a step back after she blurted out all her questions. Shouldn’t be rude, it's not nice.

“I sensed your life energy which is a good bit higher than everyone else around which let me find you here. I did get distracted by all the bright and fun looking games though.” Kimiko took another look around the arcade now recognizing where a large portion of the game stations she had seen were located. She knew that she had come here to find this girl and that was definitely still what was making her smile brighter than the sun, but she’d like to play one of these games at some point.

The girl started to shine just as bright as Kimiko, now the two of them giving off an aura of such positivism that more than a few of the kids in the arcade moved away from them finding it a bummer that someone could be so dang happy.

“Ayami! I’m Kimiko and I’m a fighter too! You’re really lucky I haven’t gotten to see any tournaments before, but I hear it's when all the really good fighters converge. When’s the next tournament? Did your brother win? Do you train with him? If you like we can train together!”

The expression on Ayami’s face broke into what Kimiko believed to be excitement mixed with a bit of surprise once she was told that of Kimiko’s substance. What came next was something that Kimiko wasn’t really expecting though, although it brought out a big smile from the one that had started to retreat back into a normal one from the grand display when she had found out that Ayami was a martial artist. So her lips were literally going from small to grand down to normal and now once again fairly large. An Android showing emotion better than the majority of humans, perhaps wasn’t so far fetched.

“Yes! I have met Zeni! She’s really nice.”

As Ayami described the Budokai tournament Kimiko’s smile and bright eyes only seemed to shine brighter as she hung on every word. “Third place is still really good if the tournament is host to the best fighters on the entire planet! He must be really strong. I’m sure that makes you strong too if you train with him even if it is for fun.”

“I’m not sure when you’re free, but whenever you want to train together let me know.”