Adventures in Iorys - Etrian Odyssey V Oneshot/Drabbles

Valentine's Day

Summary: While everyone else in the Lux Guild knows Valentine's Day, one member doesn't know exactly what to do on this particular day. So he get's to figure out what to do for his girlfriend...

Ships: Korey x Hilda

AN: At some point, I unintentionally mentioned an EO prompt from TheShatteredRose​ about the Guild Master matchmaking a couple. It just felt fitting, considering it's Valentine's Day where I'm posting this. If anything, I'm sorry this couldn't be any longer, cause school was in the way, and I wasn't quite willing to go through this mid-school. Just goes to show how much I could've prepared for this more than ever, so this is technically a drabble. I hope you enjoy it regardless.

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"You haven't participated in Valentine's Day?!" Keiko's voice rang throughout the guild house. Despite the start of the afternoon, some people in Korey's guild have been pondering over how they're gonna spend Valentine's Day.  That was, until Keiko's sudden outburst caught everyone's attention, before some of them slowly continued trying to ignore the outburst from the Therian woman.

"What, is it strange not to? I personally never found the point when I was a child." Korey inquired, scratching his head in total confusion.

"Sheesh, Korey..." The twin sister, Demetria, spoke up, after making sure her sister wasn't yelling their ears off. "I know you may have reasons to not like it, but even if that's the case now, you still have to do something to at least feel like you've accomplished something today."

"Do something like what?" Korey asked, raising an eyebrow. Demetria could only facepalm at the Fencer's mere naivety to how Valentine's Day works... And he's been in a relationship for at least a few days, how should he not know how one day in an entire year goes?

"Some roses could work. Many girls love flowers." A black and yellow haired Pugilist named Ayako suggested. "Oh, I've heard tons of girls have a sweet tooth for chocolate." Bortos added.

"Hell, you can probably even find something in the labyrinth if it would make her happy. Just have an Ariadne Thread with ya and you should be fine!" Ayako continued, grabbing their item compendium and placed it inside Korey's bag. Korey sighed, "But wouldn't that take forev-"

Way before he could even finish, Keiko grabbed Korey's bag and grabbed his hand, interrupting him mid-sentence. "Just get going, buster! You've got a date to accomplish!" The brown haired Therian complained, tossing the Fencer out of the house, throwing the bag right beside him.

Korey groaned, rubbing his head and gets up, facing the Therian that kicked him out of his own guild house. "Keiko, what are you-" Korey began, walking up to Keiko, only to be shoved away from her by the same person he was attempting to get pass.

"And don't come back until you've found something!" Keiko declared, closing the door and locked it, leaving Korey to search for something on his own. He took a deep breath, and went to retrieve his bag on the ground.

"Guess I should've known Keiko was this determined, even when it's not meeting people of royal blood." The brown haired fencer sighed. "I better get going. Don't want to waste my afternoon for naught." Korey took the initial steps to Iorys' shopping avenue, as apart from Syrik's store leading into the avenue of food and other interesting things,  it was the main attention for crowds of people waiting in line could be seen.

He glanced around, seeing a variety of things related to Valentine's Day on display. Some stores were selling cards specifically meant for today, another few were selling heart shaped boxes containing something within them. Some Brouni's have gathered flowers from the labyrinth and are selling them to the commoners. There were even some Earthlains and Celestrians selling chocolate.