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Chapter 6: Important Entrepreneurial Skills (Street Smarts)

Summary:

It's Buster Cookie season, baybee!

Notes:

Yo Its been a hot minute!
This chapter is the least coherent yet! I had a bunch of ideas and tried to cram them all into one chapter lmao

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

10:22 AM

DeadorDead: hey Doppo

DeadorDead: Ramuda told me to tell you to tell Jakurai “Fuck you UwU”

DopeOh: got it thanks I’ll tell him this afternoon 

 

1:50 PM

TinyBappy: Ichiro says ”imma beat Samatokis ass” please pass the message when you get a chance

SurvivalCookin: K

SurvivalCookin: he says ”just u fuckin try”

TinyBappy: cool

3:34 PM

DeadorDead: Yo have any of you seen a stray shoe around at your places?

TinyBappy: Uhh no??? How did you lose a shoe and not realize it?

DeadorDead: I dunno shit happens man

SurvivalCookin: No shoe here

DopeOh: Haven’t seen it, I’ll check when I get back

DopeOh: Oh also in Response to Ramuda

DopeOh: Sensei says “Get in line, twink” and also “hello Dice”

DeadorDead: DAYUUUMMMMM FUCK IT UP JAKURAI

DeadorDead: I’ll make sure to tell Ramuda

DeadorDead: Also tell Jakurai I say hi back

DopeOh: Just did

DeadorDead: Thanks

DeadorDead: Anyways thanks for checking for my shoe, keep an eye out

5:17 PM

DopeOh: Hey Dice

DopeOh: Is this your shoe

DopeOh: shoe.png

DeadorDead: YEAAAA BAYBEEEEEEE THATS MY SHOEEEE

TinyBappy: I’m still so confused about how you lost a shoe

TinyBappy: shouldn’t you be able to feel when one foot doesn’t have its wrapper

DeadorDead: WRAPPER???

DopeOh: yeah Saburo has a point

DopeOh: How didn’t you notice sooner?

DeadorDead: W R A P P E R?????

SurvivalCookin: shoes r quite noticeable ye

DeadorDead: ARE WE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT SABUROS USE OF THE WORD WRAPPER TO DESCRIBE SHOES???

TinyBappy: are we not going to talk about your lack of bodily awareness?

DeadorDead: we’ll talk about this later

TinyBappy: you say that like you’ll be seeing me later

DeadorDead: ye exactly I’ll be at your place in a bit I’m hangin out with Jiro

TinyBappy: wonderful :)

DeadorDead: for some strange reason I sense you aren’t looking forward to my visit

TinyBappy: for some strange reason I sense you are right 

DopeOh: do you really hate him that much???

TinyBappy: no I just don’t like when Jiro does things he enjoys

DeadorDead: damn savage little man

SurvivalCookin: hey lil bro 

SurvivalCookin: Samatoki says “yo where those cookies at, bitchboy” to Ichiro

TinyBappy: Ichiro says “fuck you I have customers who ordered earlier, you can wait like everyone else asshat”

SurvivalCookin: Roger tht

DopeOh: cookies??? 

SurvivalCookin: its buster cookie szn

DopeOh: ???

DeadorDead: yo you haven’t tried buster cookies yet?

DopeOh: no??? 

TinyBappy: so basically Jiro and I sell cookies every summer as a competition to keep us from killing each other

TinyBappy: we made it an annual thing and we keep track of who sells the most cookies

DopeOh: oh cute! So Ichiro makes the cookies then?

TinyBappy: yeah he taught us how to bake them but he always makes them anyways

TinyBappy: he says it’s therapeutic 

SurvivalCookin: cookings like yoga 4 me

DeadorDead: so that’s why Samatoki angrily asked Ichiro about the cookies

DeadorDead: he’s the man behind it all

DopeOh: you know I’ve been thinking

DopeOh: it feels like we do a lot of communicating for the leaders

DopeOh: why don’t they have their own group chat?

SurvivalCookin: they tried once n Samatoki threw his phone

TinyBappy: yeahhhh the leaders are kinda at each others throats, they really only have insults to say to each other

TinyBappy: We kinda work as a buffer

DopeOh: that’s understandable with their pasts and all

DopeOh: Ok maybe not the leaders… but what about the 2s?

TinyBappy: We’ll Jiro is illiterate so

SurvivalCookin: ha same

SurvivalCookin: also Jyutos not v sociable

DeadorDead: I’m gonna be honest Gentaro isn’t very easy to understand when he texts

DopeOh: well at least Hifumis nice!

TinyBappy: how did you pull that one off

DopeOh: I used all my luck for it

DopeOh: literally all of it

DopeOh: not a single good thing has happened to me since then

DopeOh: ok so then

DopeOh: why are the 4 of us the only ones who get along?

SurvivalCookin: because we’re the third member of our groups which means we are slightly yet noticeably less popular than our bandmates and therefore the creators see less need to pit us against each other

TinyBappy: …

DopeOh: oh

DeadorDead: hey bud you doing ok?

SurvivalCookin: ye

DeadorDead: great just checkin

TinyBappy: back to the topic of cookies though

TinyBappy: Dice if you’re coming over you wanna buy some buster cookies?

TinyBappy: they’re only 350 yen a box

DeadorDead: sorry dude I already stocked up on buster cookies that’s actually one of the reasons I’m coming today

DeadorDead: to pick up my tasty buster bakes

TinyBappy: Oh ok :)

DeadorDead: once again I feel like my visit is not welcome

TinyBappy: once again I feel you are right

DeadorDead: sorry man Jiro hopped on those cookie sales real quick this year

TinyBappy: Heres the deal

TinyBappy: starting next year I’ll offer you cookies for 25 yen cheaper

DeadorDead: hm. Only 25 yen for the trouble of changing my dealer?

TinyBappy: 25 yen and I won’t tell Jiro What You Did Last Week

DeadorDead: you wouldn’t

TinyBappy: not if you buy cookies from me :)

DeadorDead: deal

DopeOh: what just happened?

DeadorDead: buidness

TinyBappy: buidness

SurvivalCookin: buidness

DopeOh: okay 😀

DopeOh: well Saburo if you’re looking to get some cookie sales I’d love to buy a few boxes

DopeOh: please don’t swindle me I’m not good at price hassling

TinyBappy: benefits of being a buster scout I guess

TinyBappy: Ichiro calls it “learning important entrepreneurial skills”

TinyBappy: Jiro and I call it “street smarts”

DeadorDead: if he’s teaching you street smarts has he taught you the ol’ 5000 yen in a money clip trick?

TinyBappy: unfortunately yes

TinyBappy: Lucky for you Doppo I have no intentions to exploit you

DopeOh: that’s reassuring 

TinyBappy: how many boxes would you like?

DopeOh: I think 3 is good. One for me, Hifumi, and Sensei

TinyBappy: Oh Jakurai-sensei already has some

TinyBappy: we always schedule our yearly checkups around Buster Cookies sales time so he can get some

DopeOh: Wow ok he never mentioned that to me or Hifumi

TinyBappy: everybody’s got a secret little addiction 

TinyBappy: my pediatrician’s is Buster cookies

SurvivalCookin: Stick w 3 boxs tho

SurvivalCookin: theyre good

SurvivalCookin: Ichis got that butter/sugar ratio gud

TinyBappy: yo Riou you want in on the cookie action this year too or are you just gonna mooch off of Samatokis supply like you did last year

SurvivalCookin: mayb Ill buy a few

TinyBappy: heck yeah

 

8:33 PM

DeadorDead: bustercookies.png

DeadorDead: I got them ASSETS

DopeOh: Oh wow those do look good

DeadorDead: here’s the thing

DeadorDead: you know how it rained last night?

SurvivalCookin: ye?

DeadorDead: so there was this puddle and I accidentally stepped in it on my way out which is fine and all but my foot felt a bit wetter than normal

TinyBappy: please do not imply what I think you’re implying

DeadorDead: I’m gonna be frank

SurvivalCookin: whos frank

DeadorDead: homie I left my shoe at your place

TinyBappy: it’s bed time I’m already in my PJs

DeadorDead: that’s ok I can stop by tomorrow!

DeadorDead: damn 8:30 is your bedtime?

DopeOh: wish that were me

TinyBappy: no you’re not getting your shoe back you don’t deserve it

TinyBappy: I do not understand how you could possibly forget to put on a shoe and just walk out of my house with one naked foot

DeadorDead: I ain’t got my shoe but at least I got them sweet sweet buster cookies

SurvivalCookin: who’s frank?

Notes:

Throwback to when Girl Scout cookies were only $3.50 a box

Anyways hope y'all enjoyed!
If you have any ideas for future chapters or thoughts on this one, comments are much appreciated :D

Notes:

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