Late on the 6th [Voice]

[justicereigns]

Right, this is Smoker. I'm back in my own body, thanks to everyone who helped when I was a kid, and you know... during the shift.

Jitte and kickboxing lessons will be delayed until the 10th, but that doesn't mean stop practicing. Keep up the exercises, because I'll be very disappointed if any of you start slipping.

For anyone else interested in joining in, I teach basic self defense, kickboxing, and jitte. There are one-on-one sessions and group sessions, feel free to ask about a schedule because with the drafts ongoing, at least you can learn something to get a fighting chance for survival.

And who still here in the village knows anything about motorcycles? A friend recently reminded me life can be too short not to pursue some things.

Lupin, if you still remember the thing I asked Red about, I'd like to discuss it.

Kotomi-chan, if it's not a bad memory, whatever did happen with the paper your father was writing?

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[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

[Yay for death's lack of permanency in Luceti then.]

You'll probably have more than enough time.

[That is one habit of Ikki's Smoker could do without.] Two to four years -- or more, should be enough time for anyone.

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

[ Yeah, Hyoga was getting kind of annoyed hearing it from Ikki. ]

...what do you do here? For that long, I mean. [ or anywhere at all actually since he doesn't really know what to do with himself when there's no world saving to do. ]

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

[He and Smoker can commiserate and form a plan to make Ikki knock it off.]

Mostly I train jitte at the barracks.

At first I was just trying to work my way through the library and read every mystery and political book they had. I guess sometimes I still read a few. But mostly I've been teaching basic self-defense. The drafts are pretty indiscriminate here and just because someone doesn't know how to fight doesn't mean they won't get chosen. So at least they can try to learn in advance.

[Plus he's a little obsessed with getting stronger all the time. Oh and he stalks the Straw Hat pirates, also obsessively. But he's not about to admit to either of those things.]

[ voice ]

[kyknus]

[ he's quiet for a long while after hearing that. It's not something he could do, it just doesn't suit him and though he did spend most of his life training he's not sure how he can train here. Not without disrupting the natural environment anyways. He thought about the library but that requires being in the village regularly. ]

What does Ikki do? [ it occurs to him he should just ask Ikki that but he doesn't really field general questions and Hyoga doesn't like getting too specific in case he steps on something he's not supposed to. ]

[ voice ]

[justicereigns]

[A shrug. Sorry Hyoga.]

You'd have to ask him. Lately he's been coming to some of my lesson, but mostly to check on Kotomi-chan I think.