Asa Mitaka's Necoshima Adventure

***Congradulations Miss Mitaka, You’ve won an all expenses paid trip to Northern Necoshima! Enjoy a wonderful 2 week vacation in the wonderful land of the cat people, Starting April 29th and ending May 13th! See famous sites such as the Neco City clocktower and eat some of the best street food known to both human and neco kind. Terms and condicions apply.***

Asa Mitaka stood outside the Neco City airport and looked around her. Everything was so strange, a mismatch of both human and neco architecture and with weird cat people walking around the street without a care in the world. It was all so unfamiliar. “Excuse me are you Miss Mitaka?” yelled a human taxi driver parked out the front “ah…ah… OH yes that’s me” replied Asa, somewhat startled that another person was talking to her. She quickly and clumbsily shoved her luggage in the boot and sat in the back seat. They took off without another word and started driving towards the hotel.

Asa didnt actually know what her accommodation was going to be like, the travel agency had told her it was all covered. She wondered if it was going to be one of those advanced smart houses that rich people had, or perhaps a nice clean room in a luxury hotel. As the taxi pulled up to it’s destination she couldent help but feel her soul sink. It was a converted shipping container at the back of a petrol station, even worse was that it was one of many. The other seven were filled with other drunk and greasy tourists, most of them loudly arguing with eachother and throwing empty vodka bottles into the sky to see how far they would go. “A-Are you sure this is the right place?” Asked Asa. “You weren’t the only one who won the sweepstakes kid” the driver replied “They got you all on the same tour too.” Asa gulped in fear, she had to spend the entirety of her holiday with These people. There was no events planned for the first day so she just stayed in her cramped and somewhat damp shipping container, all the while the neighbours continued to throw junk at eachother throughout the night.

The next morning a woman with the travel agency arrived at the ‘Accomadation’ and gathered everyone to begin a historic tour of Neco City. Asa was relieved that she could finally spend some time outside, but was equally horrified that she had to get on a bus with the fellow tourists. The ride into the city was all she hoped it wouldn't be, all her fellow ‘travel buddies’ took advantage of Necoshima’s lack of public drinking laws and started preloading on the bus, the smell of chemical bio-fuel was almost as bad as the smell of the synthetic wheat beer. They stopped off at the first of many national historic wonders: The statue of Neco Unity. Asa wondered why it was considered historic when as far as she could tell it had only existed for at most 5 years. Eventually listening to the tour guide talk about neco politics got boarding, if the topic was starfish she would listen but it wasn’t. She looked up at all the nearby fast food places and realised she could pop out for some food without being noticed. Everyone was too busy loitering and making cat-nip jokes to realise she was gone.

She made her way to the public square’s food court and looked at all the options. ‘Can Jam’, ‘Meow’s Morcals’ and ‘Burger Neco’ were the ones that stood out to her. She ultimately decided on Burger Neco because she was already short on cash. She walked into the fast food place and go in line. Everyone else inside were necos so for once she was the tallest in the room. Her height advantage let her see past all the queue and to the front counter where she noticed a strange woman with devil horns on her head. “Weird” she thought to herself. Immediately she forgot about it and opened up Tumblr, a user had called her OC cringe and she would not let that slide. The counter argument she had thought up would make even the best classical authors blush with the creative and deep cutting wordplay. Of course, what she actually wrote was riddled with spelling mistakes and cringeworth strawman arguments, but none the less it made her feel better about herself. When she looked up from her phone she was shocked to see that she was at the front of the line and everybody was waiting for her to order. The weird lady with the horns was staring at her impatiently. “So? Waddaya want!?” shouted the woman “Are you stupid?” Asa’s mind went blank, she was never good at ordering food. “Uh…can I get uh……..” her eyes darted from menu item to menu item, despite her desperation nothing was registering. The other necos waiting in line all looked at her annoyed. “Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Can I get……… A Neco Burger?” The horned cashier looked at her with a deadpan expression. “A single Neco Burger? Nothing else?” once again Asa’s mind went blank. “ah yea.. Just that” The horned lady pressed some buttons on the register. “That’ll be 8 Neco Dollars please.” Asa shakily took out her purse and handed over the money. Once again the horned woman looked at her like she was a mental patient. “Have a Dori Dori Day…. Weirdo.” Asa quickly collected her food and rushed out of the restaurant. This vacation was going to suck.