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- Texas
Curse my trying to type on a phone! It has made me a fool!
A Bro's Life (AGG-ish Anime Bro Quest)
- Thread starter LinkOnScepter
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Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
Same here, I don't recall there being anything that would have indicated that Hayato knew that Elizabeth was aware/part of the Organization. Her being part of it is all OOC information.
- Location
- Israel
Okay, thankls, I forgot about our conversation with her but I knew it was about something supernatural related.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
It was that she is interested in supernatural and believes that supernatural exists. Hayato shared the sentiment.
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
Let's see...
Meeting with Estella it is.
Meeting with Estella it is.
ToTD End/Week 11
LinkOnScepter
The One who Strangles Concepts to death
- Location
- Interwebs
[X] You'll meet her and Irina after this. Guess it's time to get serious. (1 AP will be locked to meeting Estella and Irina next week)
"As of now, there's very little information on the exact nature of the emergency. The Tournament organizers and School Representatives are currently working with the Police to uncover the truth of the matter. But the camera footage has revealed little save for the moment before the power went out. Authorities took the time to ask the students and faculty what they believe happened, but have yet to gain any definitive answers. Until then we-"
That's when Yamato pauses the reporting video on his laptop. He turns to you and nods, "It seems that Estella kept her word."
"That's great," you let out a groan as you lay down in your bed. You look up at the roof of your dorm room, mind going back to what happened after you agreed to Estella's proposal. Estella had Irina carry the unconscious Kuziwa out. After throwing her coat over the downed boy's intact arm, she picked him up easily. You were rather surprised when the thin looking bodyguard managed to carry the young man on a single shoulder. While pushing her Boss' wheelchair with her other hand. Yameko, back in her student guise, helped Yamato carry you out the auditorium together. You appreciated the help. Especially when your left leg gave out on you.
Walking outside was an experience. The entire Martial Arts Club was just standing outside the door, with the Chess Club members nearby. You swear you saw Hose being held back by Sensei as he tried to push his way through you all. When your group got outside, you were surrounded by your fellows who all tried to ask you what happened. You just smiled and waved, giving a few thumbs up here and there. Estella fielded most of the questions. Mainly by pointing out that you were injured and needed medical attention. Irina remained silent but her eyes never left Estella for longer than needed.
It was thanks to her that you got to the bus without issue.
But getting back to school?
Straight to the nurse. And even then...
Current Health Status: Badly Injured. -1 AP for a Week.
...You still didn't feel back at 100%. Turns out there's only so much a single woman can do to help with supernaturally inflicted wounds. Even if the things that were supernatural about them have since disappeared. You have been given strict orders to "Take it easy" and "Not do anything too strenuous". Meaning all the fun things you usually do, you can't. At least not much of them.
You groan and flop over onto your side. Your eyes start to roam the room, meeting Yamato's own gaze after a second. Then you start to move toward your karate gi laying on the floor. Make matters worse, the whole situation has left the Championship up in the air. No one really knows how to rule who won, when they don't even know what happened in the semi-final round. And no one wanted to keep the Tournament going when there were injured students. Even if you and Kuziwa were the only ones.
Speaking of, you haven't really heard anything about Kuziwa for a while now. You hope he's doing alright. You do trust Estella, but you're not sure if he or his parents will. Nor if anyone will really buy that he's always been part of some kind of experiment to regrow limbs. But...not really much else you can do.
[Trickery: 3]
That kind of stuff is wwaaayyyy out of your wheelhouse.
You sigh before your eyes fall onto Yato once again. You frown while thinking back to the fight against Arashi. You've known him to get angry before. But up against that Oni...it was the first time you've ever felt him give off genuine rage. As if he knew that Oni and, personally, wanted her dead. And he did seem like her somewhat recognizing him was a normal thing. He welcomed it in fact. Why? What is it that made him act like that?
Lots of questions.
Not a lot of answers.
Buuutttt....eh. You'll cross those bridges when you come to them.
You yawn then stretch your arms toward the ceiling, "Welp, guess I'm kicking it for a bit, huh, bro?"
"I would hope so. But, knowing you, you would attempt to improve yourself regardless of your injuries. I will be sure to be there to make sure you don't do anything that would aggravate your wounds at least," he says in his typical monotone, back to tapping away on his computer.
You smile, then get up from your bed and head on over to Yamato. You sit down by him, ignoring the throbbing in your legs, and put an arm around his shoulder, "You know me so well. Thanks, bro."
"It is no trouble," he says, not looking you in the eyes. But you can tell he's happy.
[Tournament Of The Divines Complete!]
[Result: Contested due to sudden Oni Presence!]
[Oni Defeated! +10 XP to Hayato and Yamato!]
1 AP Locked due to Injuries
1 Weekend AP Will Be Locked to Estella Meeting
Current AP: 3
Pick Three Skills to Train.
Skills with (+) gain 15 a week.
Skills with (-) gain 5 a week,
Skills with neither gain 10 a week.
When Training with Someone Else:
Shared Skill Bonuses get a +10 to points gained.
Your Debuff of a Skill will get canceled out if your Training Partner has the Skill as a Bonus.
If both Skills are Normal, you both get a +1 Point Gain Bonus.
If you have a Skill at Normal, but your Partner has that same Skill at a Bonus, you get a +2 Bonus to the points gained.
If you have a Bonus to a Skill, but your Training Partner has a Debuff to that same Skill, then you don't get any extra points, but they do.
[] Train Alone
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[] Train with Yamato
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[] Train with Yato
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[] Train with Yameko
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[] Call up Hose and see if he wants to Train/Hang Out
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[] Call up Ritsuko and see if she wants to Train/Hang Out
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[] Check on Hiroko and see what's she's up to
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[] Meet up with Elizabeth
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[] See if you can contact Iji
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[] See if you can meet up with Estella
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[] Maybe Irina would be willing to talk?
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[] Go meet up with Keishi and Aina
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[] See if Kazama Yuki would be willing to talk
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Sensei Hazma is locked while you're healing...
Aaaannnn we're back.
Also, if anyone can gather up all the XP you guys have earned since the start of the Tournament Arc, that'd be great.
"As of now, there's very little information on the exact nature of the emergency. The Tournament organizers and School Representatives are currently working with the Police to uncover the truth of the matter. But the camera footage has revealed little save for the moment before the power went out. Authorities took the time to ask the students and faculty what they believe happened, but have yet to gain any definitive answers. Until then we-"
That's when Yamato pauses the reporting video on his laptop. He turns to you and nods, "It seems that Estella kept her word."
"That's great," you let out a groan as you lay down in your bed. You look up at the roof of your dorm room, mind going back to what happened after you agreed to Estella's proposal. Estella had Irina carry the unconscious Kuziwa out. After throwing her coat over the downed boy's intact arm, she picked him up easily. You were rather surprised when the thin looking bodyguard managed to carry the young man on a single shoulder. While pushing her Boss' wheelchair with her other hand. Yameko, back in her student guise, helped Yamato carry you out the auditorium together. You appreciated the help. Especially when your left leg gave out on you.
Walking outside was an experience. The entire Martial Arts Club was just standing outside the door, with the Chess Club members nearby. You swear you saw Hose being held back by Sensei as he tried to push his way through you all. When your group got outside, you were surrounded by your fellows who all tried to ask you what happened. You just smiled and waved, giving a few thumbs up here and there. Estella fielded most of the questions. Mainly by pointing out that you were injured and needed medical attention. Irina remained silent but her eyes never left Estella for longer than needed.
It was thanks to her that you got to the bus without issue.
But getting back to school?
Straight to the nurse. And even then...
Current Health Status: Badly Injured. -1 AP for a Week.
...You still didn't feel back at 100%. Turns out there's only so much a single woman can do to help with supernaturally inflicted wounds. Even if the things that were supernatural about them have since disappeared. You have been given strict orders to "Take it easy" and "Not do anything too strenuous". Meaning all the fun things you usually do, you can't. At least not much of them.
You groan and flop over onto your side. Your eyes start to roam the room, meeting Yamato's own gaze after a second. Then you start to move toward your karate gi laying on the floor. Make matters worse, the whole situation has left the Championship up in the air. No one really knows how to rule who won, when they don't even know what happened in the semi-final round. And no one wanted to keep the Tournament going when there were injured students. Even if you and Kuziwa were the only ones.
Speaking of, you haven't really heard anything about Kuziwa for a while now. You hope he's doing alright. You do trust Estella, but you're not sure if he or his parents will. Nor if anyone will really buy that he's always been part of some kind of experiment to regrow limbs. But...not really much else you can do.
[Trickery: 3]
That kind of stuff is wwaaayyyy out of your wheelhouse.
You sigh before your eyes fall onto Yato once again. You frown while thinking back to the fight against Arashi. You've known him to get angry before. But up against that Oni...it was the first time you've ever felt him give off genuine rage. As if he knew that Oni and, personally, wanted her dead. And he did seem like her somewhat recognizing him was a normal thing. He welcomed it in fact. Why? What is it that made him act like that?
Lots of questions.
Not a lot of answers.
Buuutttt....eh. You'll cross those bridges when you come to them.
You yawn then stretch your arms toward the ceiling, "Welp, guess I'm kicking it for a bit, huh, bro?"
"I would hope so. But, knowing you, you would attempt to improve yourself regardless of your injuries. I will be sure to be there to make sure you don't do anything that would aggravate your wounds at least," he says in his typical monotone, back to tapping away on his computer.
You smile, then get up from your bed and head on over to Yamato. You sit down by him, ignoring the throbbing in your legs, and put an arm around his shoulder, "You know me so well. Thanks, bro."
"It is no trouble," he says, not looking you in the eyes. But you can tell he's happy.
[Tournament Of The Divines Complete!]
[Result: Contested due to sudden Oni Presence!]
[Oni Defeated! +10 XP to Hayato and Yamato!]
1 AP Locked due to Injuries
1 Weekend AP Will Be Locked to Estella Meeting
Current AP: 3
Pick Three Skills to Train.
Skills with (+) gain 15 a week.
Skills with (-) gain 5 a week,
Skills with neither gain 10 a week.
When Training with Someone Else:
Shared Skill Bonuses get a +10 to points gained.
Your Debuff of a Skill will get canceled out if your Training Partner has the Skill as a Bonus.
If both Skills are Normal, you both get a +1 Point Gain Bonus.
If you have a Skill at Normal, but your Partner has that same Skill at a Bonus, you get a +2 Bonus to the points gained.
If you have a Bonus to a Skill, but your Training Partner has a Debuff to that same Skill, then you don't get any extra points, but they do.
[] Train Alone
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[] Train with Yamato
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[] Train with Yato
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[] Train with Yameko
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[] Call up Hose and see if he wants to Train/Hang Out
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[] Call up Ritsuko and see if she wants to Train/Hang Out
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[] Check on Hiroko and see what's she's up to
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[] Meet up with Elizabeth
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[] See if you can contact Iji
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[] See if you can meet up with Estella
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[] Maybe Irina would be willing to talk?
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[] Go meet up with Keishi and Aina
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[] See if Kazama Yuki would be willing to talk
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Sensei Hazma is locked while you're healing...
Aaaannnn we're back.
Also, if anyone can gather up all the XP you guys have earned since the start of the Tournament Arc, that'd be great.
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Should we relax this week by hanging out with others?
BurningLaugh
Shape Shifting Master of Hiatus
- Location
- The Land of Retconnia
pfft, what are we a wimp!
INJURIES JUST MEAN MORE TRAINING!
Edit: I say we train our resistances and possibly our evasion
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Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Pretty sure this is vetoed due to medical reasons.
That said, it doesn't completely lock us out of training; we just probably shouldn't do physical training. We could work on our Supernatural knowledge, for example, though it might be more likely that we'll wind up on Empathy instead.
But yeah, I'd like a social week instead of pure level grinding, especially when we're doing it out of spite. We did spend the last, what, two weeks almost entirely on powering up for the tournament, after all.
Honestly, I'd like to at least be able to reach the point where all of the stuff we have bonuses to learn are at least at 50. ...Putting aside Martial arts, since like. We've already got several of those at 100+ (Though getting Unyielding Mountain Technique up to 50 just makes sense to me, but that should probably wait until we get Spirit Resistance past 35.)
That being said, we don't really have proper trainers for Empathy and Supernatural as far as I'm aware? We'll have to hang out with some of our more obscure contacts and see if any of them specialize in them too?
That being said, we don't really have proper trainers for Empathy and Supernatural as far as I'm aware? We'll have to hang out with some of our more obscure contacts and see if any of them specialize in them too?
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- Location
- west
This seems like the perfect time to go on Yato's vision quest, or whatever it was.
Hentaiwizard
Grand Magus of the Lewd
We still need to train street fighting.
train mental, spirit, and hang out with friends.
Let's spend some time with others. It's a mistake to only train, as Rules of Nature over on Spacebattles can attest. They only trained and it ended up with their friend turning into their enemy.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Yeah, shonen tends to be about as much about the strength of a character's bonds as it is about the strength of their fists. Either we get enough relationship levels that we can tap into that power ourselves, or we become the Ineffectual Loner. Just look at what happened to Vegeta over in the Dragon Ball franchise!
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
Irina stronk.
Ouchie, but not surprising after the tenderizing Hayato got.
And that's ok.
Answers we'll probably get during Yato's vision quest.
[X] Plan: Wisdom and Charisma
-[X] Go meet up with Keishi and Aina
--[X] Train Empathy: Motives
--[X] Train Empathy: Feelings
-[X] See if you can meet up with Estella
--[X] Train Speech: Diplomacy
With both exams and the tournament behind us, we can get back to training our other two most important skill groups: Empathy and Speech. We also have a big, important meeting with lot from people this weekend, so best to up these skills so that we're on the ball and can ensure that we get everyone to work together. And best way to train skills is with friends! Keishi is our Empathy expert as we already saw when we first met, and in his omake, and Estella is am amazing speaker as we saw during her debut, se we get best gains with them. And I also want to see more of them. We can socialize more during weekend, I'd really want to get one more social with Elizabeth before the meeting.
We have just done massive amount of combat training and need to up our other most important skills as well, especially since Empathy should be our next All-100 for the bonus.
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- Location
- Goose Land
Well.
On one hand, it's nice and sensible that they shut down the Tournament like that, but it's a bit less Anime than I expected? The reduction in potential XP gains is comparatively rough, but fair enough.
We're out on injury and if we haven't actually received XP from all of our passed Skill Checks then we're practically guranteed one level due to how close we are...
Can you mark a specific update? I'll try to grab every passed Skill check and whatnot during lunch.
[X] Plan: Relaxing Is Training Right?
-[X] Train with Yamato
--[X] Supernatural: Persons of Interest (The Who)
---[X] This is blatantly a cover to hang out and watch anime with our Bro.
-[X] Train with Yato
--[X] Resistance: Spiritual
---[X] Heart to Heart, Spirit to Spirit, it looks like we need to have a chat with Yato about what all that was.
-[X] Call up Hose and see if he wants to Train/Hang Out
--[X] Perception: Environment
---[X] This is blatantly a cover for taking a walk and giving Hose the opportunity to bring up whatever Sensei stopped him from talking about when we just got back.
Previously there was a little bit of talk about Write Ins I think? So @LinkOnScepter please give a yeah or nay if this is all alright.
Beyond the intended "Following the Spirit of Doctor's Orders and actually trying to Rest this week", if we get 1 level then 1 AP into The Who gets us the All-20, Spiritual Resistance is our weakest Resistance and I suspect if we had it higher we could have resisted the Magical Attacks we received, plus it pushes us closer to the All-50, and our Perception is honestly kind of trash so any investment into it is good, and this maybe gives Hose the opportunity to talk to us about the bullcrap going on.
I want to start doing Massive Combat Training, but there are three things holding me back.
First, I don't actually remember where the caps for our Partner Arts are listed, and we apparently train them at 35 points per AP right now, so I want to make sure everything is set up properly before we revisit UMT and start pushing for proper mastery.
Second, it's only the fact that we're out on Injury that's preventing Sensei from training with us, and I suspect that we'll be able to do a Training Montage with him once we've gotten better, so it's best that we don't delay our recovery (Link, can we have an update in our SLs to include any training bonuses we've discovered as well as Sensei's info even if we don't have his SL yet? (I don't *think* we actually got his SL...)) so we can properly work on that.
Third, I'm expecting there to be mechanical or narrative consequences, or both, to trying to do Proper Combat Training before recovering, so best to put a pin in that for now.
Once we've recovered, I have thoughts in mind about a Training Montage where we follow after our Bro like he followed after us, and spend some time pushing for the prerequisites we need for a higher raw UMT score, especially as we see Martial Arts provide a lot more benefits than we'd previously seen for getting them to the "traditional" cap. Maybe grinding up one of our Resistances to 100?
After that I'm thinking we narrow in on Empathy Training to grab the All-100 and fully unlock our next steps, since I think that's the Tree that people had been wanting to work on before for that? I wouldn't be opposed to going for the Supernatural All-100 as our fused class component but I remember Empathy being what people wanted.
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[X] Plan: Wisdom and Charisma
This plan is good too.
On one hand, it's nice and sensible that they shut down the Tournament like that, but it's a bit less Anime than I expected? The reduction in potential XP gains is comparatively rough, but fair enough.
We're out on injury and if we haven't actually received XP from all of our passed Skill Checks then we're practically guranteed one level due to how close we are...
Can you mark a specific update? I'll try to grab every passed Skill check and whatnot during lunch.
[X] Plan: Relaxing Is Training Right?
-[X] Train with Yamato
--[X] Supernatural: Persons of Interest (The Who)
---[X] This is blatantly a cover to hang out and watch anime with our Bro.
-[X] Train with Yato
--[X] Resistance: Spiritual
---[X] Heart to Heart, Spirit to Spirit, it looks like we need to have a chat with Yato about what all that was.
-[X] Call up Hose and see if he wants to Train/Hang Out
--[X] Perception: Environment
---[X] This is blatantly a cover for taking a walk and giving Hose the opportunity to bring up whatever Sensei stopped him from talking about when we just got back.
Previously there was a little bit of talk about Write Ins I think? So @LinkOnScepter please give a yeah or nay if this is all alright.
Beyond the intended "Following the Spirit of Doctor's Orders and actually trying to Rest this week", if we get 1 level then 1 AP into The Who gets us the All-20, Spiritual Resistance is our weakest Resistance and I suspect if we had it higher we could have resisted the Magical Attacks we received, plus it pushes us closer to the All-50, and our Perception is honestly kind of trash so any investment into it is good, and this maybe gives Hose the opportunity to talk to us about the bullcrap going on.
I want to start doing Massive Combat Training, but there are three things holding me back.
First, I don't actually remember where the caps for our Partner Arts are listed, and we apparently train them at 35 points per AP right now, so I want to make sure everything is set up properly before we revisit UMT and start pushing for proper mastery.
Second, it's only the fact that we're out on Injury that's preventing Sensei from training with us, and I suspect that we'll be able to do a Training Montage with him once we've gotten better, so it's best that we don't delay our recovery (Link, can we have an update in our SLs to include any training bonuses we've discovered as well as Sensei's info even if we don't have his SL yet? (I don't *think* we actually got his SL...)) so we can properly work on that.
Third, I'm expecting there to be mechanical or narrative consequences, or both, to trying to do Proper Combat Training before recovering, so best to put a pin in that for now.
Once we've recovered, I have thoughts in mind about a Training Montage where we follow after our Bro like he followed after us, and spend some time pushing for the prerequisites we need for a higher raw UMT score, especially as we see Martial Arts provide a lot more benefits than we'd previously seen for getting them to the "traditional" cap. Maybe grinding up one of our Resistances to 100?
After that I'm thinking we narrow in on Empathy Training to grab the All-100 and fully unlock our next steps, since I think that's the Tree that people had been wanting to work on before for that? I wouldn't be opposed to going for the Supernatural All-100 as our fused class component but I remember Empathy being what people wanted.
Edit:
[X] Plan: Wisdom and Charisma
This plan is good too.
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Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
If our Resistance skills would be useable on enemy attack, then they added to the check and mentioned there. Actual skill level doesn't matter.
Yes, that's our next goal.
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- Location
- Israel
[X] Plan: Wisdom and Charisma
-[X] Go meet up with Keishi and Aina
--[X] Train Empathy: Motives
--[X] Train Empathy: Feelings
-[X] See if you can meet up with Estella
--[X] Train Speech: Diplomacy
I like this plan the best because we're supposed to be the more diplomatic, outgoing and emotional one of the bros, so let's get better at that.
-[X] Go meet up with Keishi and Aina
--[X] Train Empathy: Motives
--[X] Train Empathy: Feelings
-[X] See if you can meet up with Estella
--[X] Train Speech: Diplomacy
I like this plan the best because we're supposed to be the more diplomatic, outgoing and emotional one of the bros, so let's get better at that.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
The level of SL doesn't matter to the bonus we get from training, and the numerical bonuses we get from high SLs are low and we have no way to know who gives what, and both plans have us train with other characters so it is not just training.
- Location
- Texas
[X] Plan: Relaxing Is Training Right?
I think both of these are good votes, so I'm trying to think about it from Hayato's mindset. After the literal slugmatch with the oni I can see him wanting to learn how to defend against these sort of spiritual attacks.
I think both of these are good votes, so I'm trying to think about it from Hayato's mindset. After the literal slugmatch with the oni I can see him wanting to learn how to defend against these sort of spiritual attacks.
Sir Plusse
Overly Vicious Quester
- Location
- Kansas
Remind me: Does "training together with someone" count as "working on their SL?"