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Chapter 1159 What The Hell Is A Karaoke?
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The highly technological "futuristic" city of this spaceship was indeed quite entertaining to see. Big artificial lights everywhere, flying cars carrying people. Enormous buildings with holographic projections over them, and also a lot of people. Although because everyone was just a citizen, there weren't unruly thugs and the like, every citizen was moderated by the ship, even though that sounds really oppressive.
Though not as much, there were still street vendors screaming in the streets, large robots singing and advertising their shops, and also people selling things in the streets on small floating cars and with robots helping them. Citizens earned their credits in all sorts of ways I suppose…
"I'm glad you decided to come to the city for a change!" said Henriette. "Being stuck in the area where the robots are stored or the cafeteria all the time is not good for your health. You should entertain yourself from time to time."
"Ah, where are you bringing me to, Henriette?!"
She grabbed me by the arm and then dragged me through the streets, amidst several buildings, we ended on a large one with people with microphones in the advertisements made of bright red lights.
"A Karaoke! Let's go sing!" she said excitedly. "I am actually pretty good at singing myself!"
"Hoh, a karaoke?" Emilia smiled. "I've heard they got good drinks but it's too expensive to go inside."
"Isn't an hour inside like… thousand of credits?" wondered Patrick. "Yikes…"
"They got unique snacks," said Hermes, reading the holographic menu. "Oh, what are potato chips?"
"Papa I wanna go inside!" Saphira said, pointing at the big building. "I can hear music and it's so wowowow!"
"Hmm…" I was about to reject Henriette because I just didn't care about her that much but with Saphira insisting… "Ok, sure… but you pay?"
"A-Ah, ok, fine!" she sighed. "It's on me! It's very early so let's spend an hour or so inside!"
"If a Xenoid attack happens you're going to make us get there super late though," I said.
"I-I'll take responsibility…" she groaned. "Now let's go!"
She practically was pushing my back to enter the building.
And once inside, we were greeted by a man and a woman with brown hair that looked almost identical wearing blue clothes that seemed to be the owners.
"Welcome to Karaoke Singalong! Is this the first time you come here?"
"Oh, pilots! Aren't you rare around the big city?"
"Ah, yes, we're new…" said Hermes.
"I've never been in a karaoke before!" said Patrick. "How do you do the whole stuff?"
"Yeah can you lead us lady, boy?" wondered Emilia. "Also what drinks do you have?"
"I wouldn't recommend getting drunk at this hour Emilia," I said.
"Oh, come with us then, we'll bring you to a room," said the man.
"I'll prepare the menu for you and the newbie souvenirs!" said the lady.
The man then led us inside the building, which was rather cozy inside.
The walls looked to be made of fake wood, and the floor had a blue colored rug with white stars, resembling a cosmos.
The lights on the ceiling were also calm and not as strong, giving the place a relaxing interior.
"This place's so different than anything I've seen before dude!" Patrick said looking around.
"Hm, indeed," Hermes nodded. "Is that imitation wood walls? Amazing."
"The rug down here is also cozy to touch," said Emilia.
"I'm glad you enjoy the place, we've worked hard to make this a good experience for any person," said the young man. "Here, this is a good room for your number."
He opened a door which led to a larger room with cozy-looking seats, a table, and even a huge tv.
There were microphones over the table.
There was also a floating library full of small cartridges that seemed to contain collections of songs.
"Wow this place's so amazing!" said Saphira. "Dad I want to sing!"
"Wait Saphira, nobody can see you here," said Eleanora. "Don't try anything funny, ok?"
"But I wanna!" said Saphira. "I was so bored for three whole days…"
"Fine…" I nodded. "Alright so what do we do here, Henriette?"
Henriette quickly ran into the library to pick some songs.
"Do you like ancient history music? Or maybe you want modern stuff? I'm personally a lover of 70's and 80's songs!"
"20.080?" asked Patrick.
"What? No! I mean 1980!" said Henriette.
"Wait what, isn't that like archaic?" wondered Patrick.
"They have the best music! Everyone says I'm outdated with my tastes, but I like it." Henriette said. "Now let's pick this! 1980's classics! Also the 70's later!"
"Anything is fine I suppose…" I felt awkward but just went along with the flow.
"I've come with your menu! Please see the menu and then tell me what you want to order."
The lady arrived loading the menus into our digital devices.
There was a lot of things…
Eleanora and Hendrick were in their robots right now, right behind me while Saphira was looking around wanting to join.
"Food! I want to eat some food too…" she sighed. "Papa when am I getting my robobody?"
"Later…" I told her.
"Saphira, use mine if you want," said Eleanora.
"Really? Thank you mama!" Saphira flew inside of the robot and possessed it instantly.
"Yaaay!" she immediately screamed, making the rest of the people here glance at her.
"Hi!" she said.
"Hey…" Patrick waved his hand.
"Blake did your robot just get hacked? Why is she acting like that?" Hermes wondered.
"I left her on… free style, she can do whatever she wants. Probably she wants to sing and eat, so just leave her," I smiled.
"Suuure, I mean if you want to I don't mind," shrugged Emilia. "Let's order these! I want hotdogs!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Coke too! Cold coke!" said Patrick.
"I want something sweet… a strawberry cheesecake," Hermes said.
"I want the usual," Henriette said. "So Blake what do you want?"
"Whatever she wants," I pointed at Saphira.
Saphira looked at the menu obsessively and then chose what she wanted.
"I want this, and this, and this! And this and this!" she kept pointing.
This was going to take forever… But it was a nice change of pace.
Might as well experience these unique places while I'm here, Spiritias has no such things after all.
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