Never meet your idol

"What? How is that even possible?" Piers was in a state of disarray.

He couldn't believe his ears. He just heard that Santa Claus just came to his home and had a chat with Jimmy. It would've sounded absurd to any other human being, but he knew it to be the truth especially since he had seen Santa once.

"Well, with this!" Jimmy opened the inventory that Santa hastily added into the system and brought out the chimney.

"A chimney?" Piers asked.

Although he believed Jimmy word's up until then, seeing a chimney on the ground, even he felt like the claims were absurd. It was too bizarre. Even though he knew about the rumor that Santa came to houses through the chimney, this just felt like a joke.

"You don't seem to believe my words." Jimmy spoke.

"Yup." Piers didn't deny it. After all, it was the truth.

"Try pulling that chimney away from the ground." Jimmy challenged.

"Huh? Didn't you just put it on there? So why-" Piers accepted the challenge and tried pulling out the chimney, but it didn't bulge one bit. "Wait a minute. Did you put glue underneath or what?" He asked.

"Nope." Jimmy replied.

"How should I believe that? For all I know, you prepared this beforehand." Piers spoke.

Jimmy sighed. "Are you gonna continue asking these trivial questions?" He asked.

"Well, it might sound trivial, but tricking people like this isn't good, you know? Now that you played this prank here, this chimney is gonna get stuck here forever, acting as a nuisance for people. So no, this is not trivial." Piers replied.

"I see. So, you really don't wanna see Santa? I mean, he was all excited to see you and stuff. Like, he was saying how you're gonna be hyped up about it and stuff." He spoke.

"Shoot. I said nothing then. My questions were all trivial. Show me Santa then." Piers was quick to change his behavior.

"Sheesh. That was awfully fast." Jimmy mentioned.

"Well, it's Santa we're talking about. Even though I saw him on the screen, seeing him for real, it'll be pretty amazing, don't you think?" Piers was all excited, just as Santa said he would be.

"I guess? I wasn't that excited, but everyone has their own choices, so I appreciate yours." Jimmy replied before looking towards an empty space where the system screen was up for his eyes alone. "You heard it, right? Coming out?" He asked towards the screen.

Soon after, the chimney started giving out a holy like light and out came Santa!

"Santa! What the-" Piers, who was initially excited, dumbfoundedly looked towards Santa who was wearing a white T-shirt and red sweatpants. All the excitement of seeing Santa in a Christmas suit was out in the drain.

"Ooh, he's so excited to see me that words aren't coming out of his mouth!" Santa gave out a ho, ho, ho after that.

"Well, I don't think that's the case. The dude was expecting to see you in a full-on Santa suit and you just entirely disappointed him. Shame on you!" Jimmy didn't mince his words at all.

"Hey! You don't even know how hard it is to wear that damn suit, so don't be sassy at me!" Santa hit back.

"What? It's just a freaking suit, right? What's up with it?" He asked.

"Well, try and wear that! Then, you'll understand what I'm talking about." Santa scoffed.

"Well, if you didn't like it, why did you start wearing it in the first place?" Jimmy asked.

"I wanted to surprise a kid I knew. So, I just took the first costume at my disposal. Who would've thought that I would end up being such a worldwide phenomenon. Damn you, Capitalism for popularizing this version of mine!" Santa swore.

"Dude, you're supposed to be a mythical being. Don't start slandering stuff like this." Jimmy warned.

"Why not? Even God is doing it. So, it's not like I'm the only one." Santa replied.

"Wait. God? Why would he swear at someone? I mean he's the almighty, right?" Jimmy was surprised by this revelation.

"Why, you ask? Because a person was crazy enough to bill him into a wrestling match! And then made a complete joke off him." Santa replied.

"Ah, I remember. The holy light stuff. Why didn't he just come fight, then? It would have been cool to watch it." Jimmy fantasized God fighting in a wrestling match as he spoke those words. He was genuinely excited.

"You really think he didn't want to do that? He wanted to knock some sense into that guy, but heaven's contract doesn't permit him to leave the place unless it's to grant someone's wish." Santa replied.

"Well, wasn't that the wrestling guy's wish then? To watch God in a wrestling match?" He asked.

"Ah, no. He's on Satan's side. Like, he got his powers from the other side. You get it, right? And it's scripted. It's not like he could start a shoot fight in the middle if that guy scheduled God to lose." Santa explained.

"How come something makes total sense and it doesn't at all at the very same time? So weird." Jimmy mumbled.

"So, yea. It's not like we don't swear. If someone tries to screw us over, we retaliate!" Santa replied.

"Ha, it's fun seeing a mythical being act like this." Jimmy laughed. "By the way, we're missing the input of one person! It seems like he still hasn't gotten over your costume blunder." He replied, while pointing towards a dumbfounded Piers.

"Hey, it's not a blunder. It matched perfectly! And Piers doesn't care about all that. He loves me even without all that elaborate set-up. Right, Piers?" He asked. However, no response came from Piers' side.

"Oh, will ya look at that? It shocked him to the point that he couldn't even give out a reply. This is why they say not to meet your idols. You'll be quite disappointed." Jimmy sighed.

Santa decided not to heed his words and called Piers out once more. This time, he snapped back into reality. "Huh? Well, at least you look like what I imagined, minus that clothes." Piers replied.

"Dang, imagine how he'll react when he hears that you have decided to change your entire look as well!" Jimmy shrugged.

"What?" Piers was dumbfounded yet again.

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