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I'm always try to keep myself busy; there is my part job at the Speakeasy, then I spend some hours training with a few folks. On free days I come up with dueling strategies.

「He's all but bored, really.」

Oh right, y-you're at the speakeasy.

[She pauses a moment, considering if she's opening a can of worms here, but then decides she really wants to know.]

By the way, uhm. What's dueling?

「What is dueling, she asks, and Atem's eyes seems to flare at that.」

Dueling, my friend, is the best game there is.

「He fishes out his deck from his duelist belt, and handles it to her.」

The idea is to defeat your opponent with these, monster, spell and trap cards; you have to build your deck using a strategy, ready it for anything the other can send at you.

[She takes the deck gingerly, sliding the cards over in her claws.]

Oh, it's-- it's a t-trading card game! I've heard of these.

[Heard of being the key word. No one would throw out stuff like this, so she never got it.]

I've never played, though. Just, uh, heard of them.

Would you like to learn?

「At this point, after trying to coerce a few friends into it without much success, he's not nearly as enthusiastic as he had been at the start.」

[She looks up from the deck, having been flipping through the cards.]

Oh! I mean, uhm. I don't want anything to be boring to you, I d-don't think I'd be very good, and uhm, I don't have my own cards...

[She kind of always wanted to do stuff like this, but she never had friends who would be interested or nearly enough opportunity. Though, now that she's on the surface, maybe it's time...]

Why would you be boring? You're anything but. I think you'd be good at it, you're good at analyzing things, and planning ahead. There is a lot of strategy involved in Duel Monsters.

「He does ponder for a moment, he doesn't have enough cards to make her a deck... But Kaiba does. But Kaiba is Kaiba.」

I will try to get you some.

[She blushes, ducking her snout a bit into the cards before she carefully restacks them.]

Well-- thank you. It's okay if you, uhm, c-can't though! But I'll keep my eyes out.

[Not that she knows how to recognize them. Her sandwich finished, she pulls herself to her feet.]

I should probably get back to my lab, but uhm, it was g-good seeing you!

「For the moment, Atem doesn't give her too much hope, but merely nods at that, it is something he really wants to do, there is so many people he'd like to play against, but it's really a matter of logistics.

Once he finishes, he doesn't stand, if only to keep himself at her eye level and waits for her to give him back his most precious possession. Yeah, his deck, of course.」

Likewise. Don't be a stranger, Alphys.

[She gives it back to him with both hands, careful as can be.]

Of course. Thanks for letting me know about your, uhm, f-friend.

[She seems like she considers shaking his hand, and instead gives him a little hug. She's very small so she probably hits his stomach or mid chest. It's cute. She won't let it linger though, and gives him a wave as she scampers away.]

See you!!

「Oh dear— so unused as he is to people doing this to him, Atem is taken by surprise and left with some fiery cheeks instead as he watches her leave.

Ahh... He does linger for a moment before putting his deck away and heading back home.」

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