WEEK 4.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 4 Three more have died this past week. Milla Maxwell was killed for breaking a rule, Chiyuki was murdered, and you all had a hand in executing Yoshikage Kira. It seems like this isn't going to stop any time soon. How many more will join them this week? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Despite the Wordsmith's reaction to the last trial, it seems as though you've been rewarded once again for a job that was...well, it was done, even if he didn't explicitly say it was well-done. Another door has opened in that stairway, it seems, leading you further down into the building; once again, there are more rooms down there, more things to occupy yourselves with. Or perhaps just more means to get creative with regards to how you take initiative with your fellow Apprentices. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 23 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 22 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 20

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investigation

[tsugomori]

[ Well, Mikazuki had told Chiyuki that he would be looking through things, so he hauled his ass early up in the morning to do just that. Of course, doing such a thing was never really all that easy even if he's sort of become accustomed to the clock going off early in the morning.

After that dream and getting ready, he'll be dragging his feet first but briefly towards the library to investigate. He'll start off by seeing if there was anything within those books that stood out.

Following that, he'll be making his way towards the dojo eventually. He really needs to get into shape, so he'll do some jogging in here, even if he's still waking up. He'll probably also be thinking of hitting at things at one point, but he'll likely be starring at the pads instead of hitting at it... ]

dojo

[acherontiastyx]

[...time to stare at Mikazuki staring at the pads.]

...are you expecting to glare a hole through it, or...

[tsugomori]

Ah, well... I've never used any of these before. There is a dojo back at the citadel, but when I am in there it is to practice sparring with my blade.

[ ... ]

So I wondered, if this may be more effective or easier if there was a second person helping me with this.

[acherontiastyx]

...well, neither have I, but... yeah, that makes sense. I think it's probably better to have someone move the pad around for you if you wanna practice that kinda stuff, because otherwise you're just beating down a stationary target.

[tsugomori]

Hmm, then, would asking for you to do that be too much?

[ He'll smile sheepishly. ]

[acherontiastyx]

...I mean, I'm usually the one doing the beating, but nah, that's cool.

[He'll go over and pick one up, then.]

[tsugomori]

My, then I suppose I know where to come if I am in a pinch?

[ He'll wait patiently until the other man is ready before he will consider throwing one. \o/ ]

[acherontiastyx]

Yeah. If you need me to beat the crap out of someone, I'm your man.

[right. gonna hold it up, steady himself, and then nod.]

[tsugomori]

I never thought I would meet quite the learned martial artist~

[ He doesn't know if Guzma knows martial arts per say, but it probably will do for anyone who is good at hand-to-hand for now (or what he presumes is the case).

He'll then start with trying to go straight forward in terms of throwing a punch. But the coordination is a little dubious due to his inexperience with hand to hand. ]

[acherontiastyx]

I wouldn't call it martial artist. More like I've punched a fool more than once.

[And he'll bring the pad up to meet it! ...and sort of...]

Man, you know, you need to hit a little harder than that. And --- wait. Lemme see how you're holding your fist.

[tsugomori]

Ahh, I see, I see.

[ Indeed, he didn't hit it too hard--

He'll hold out his fist. His thumb is sticking out, over his fingers, instead of under... yeah he's clearly never thrown a punch before in his life, um. And it's probably not being held as tightly as it should be.]

Hmm, is something wrong?

[acherontiastyx]

...are you kidding me with that? Well, okay, look. At least you don't have your thumb in your fist, but you don't wanna have it out over your fingers. See, look.

[He sets the pad down and walks over to demonstrate.]

You wanna hold your thumb like this, see? With your thumb below your fingers. Otherwise, it's gonna get in the way of your knuckles and you'll probably break it if you hit somebody wrong.

[tsugomori]

Oh, thank you.

[ Mikazuki puts his thumb inside by accident at first, before correcting it immediately after and placing it below his fingers properly. ]

I didn't quite know how to hold it the correct way. You see, this is the first time I've tried to punch anything.

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[trustwellness]

[So what kind of books are you looking at, Mikazuki?]

[tsugomori]

[ Admittedly, he started looking at the sci-fi novels first, because he picked at a random spot and this seemed like a good place to start... ]

[trustwellness]

[Are you looking for something in particular, or are you just paging through? What are you trying to find - something in the books, something with the shelves...?]

[tsugomori]

[ Something within the books; maybe something like information left behind about the Academy (can he be that lucky). So, that would wind up with him paging through a book or two first. ]

[trustwellness]

[One more thing before we start: what sort of science fiction are you looking at? There are a lot of things that covers; are we talking space travel, time travel, robots, AI, what sort of thing are we looking at...?]

[tsugomori]

[ He'd probably first look at time travel, since that is something he'd be interested in (and the other things rank secondary). ]

[trustwellness]

[Good choice there, friend.

There isn't anything odd about the books themselves, but as you're paging through them maybe something will catch your attention in the margins - namely, it looks like there are notes written on some of them.]

[tsugomori]

[ As he's looking through and indeed his eyes catch the section where notes have been written, he takes a pause in his page flipping to try to examine these notes closer. ]

[trustwellness]

[The notes are written in simple handwriting - two different sets, from the look of it. The first set is blocky and awkward, the second is unflourished but more practiced-looking and deliberate.

"does it really work like that do you think", says the first, with a crudely-drawn arrow drawn toward a passage explaining how that book's particular time travel mechanic works.

The second set seems to be an answer. "I don't know. Maybe we should ask the bunny."]

[tsugomori]

[ Mikazuki feels himself clenching the book a little harder than he already was before as he stares at the handwriting as if he were trying to glean anymore answers from it. After that fruitless moment, he'll probably examine the passage itself because of the fact that the notes seemed to be discussing (albeit briefly) about a time-travel mechanism.

Is there anything to note within that description or is that not all that important? ]

[trustwellness]

[It's actually not all that important; it makes about as much sense as your average sci-fi phlebotinum nonsense makes.]

[tsugomori]

[ Alrighty then, it looks like he may be just about done here... probably. There's nothing else of note if he looks through the book right? Just for the sake of being thorough here. ]