[... okay, so, this is how Dave was expecting this to go down: they'd banter with each other for like another minute, maybe there'd be a grand struggle over who got to shove who in the pool, with the shoving and the digging of the heels in the ground, and then Dave would have just busted out his trump card of assigning Ryuji to an actual card in his Sylladex and turning him out into the water.]
Hey— !!
[but, really, knowing Ryuji as well as he does by this point, he should have expected that he'd immediately go for the self-sabotage option! but, he didn't. and so, there he goes, sprawling into the stampede right along with the king of Pride Rock. or the jungle. whichever one results in the funniest splash.]
[in the distance, Simba whirs, then plops in the water right after them. a poolbot's work is never done, witness to a murder or not.]
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Hey— !!
[but, really, knowing Ryuji as well as he does by this point, he should have expected that he'd immediately go for the self-sabotage option! but, he didn't. and so, there he goes, sprawling into the stampede right along with the king of Pride Rock. or the jungle. whichever one results in the funniest splash.]
[in the distance, Simba whirs, then plops in the water right after them. a poolbot's work is never done, witness to a murder or not.]