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Training: Part I; Kakeru, Karma, Mia, Aleph, Toki, Suzu (ask first for others)
Topic Started: Jan 4 2014, 08:49 AM (1,312 Views)
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Yes! They were finally outside! Aleph sniffed the air deeply. It was nice to finally be back among civilization again. Well, almost among civilization, as they were still in a forest. But he didn't care that he had to walk back home a long way. He pretty much enjoyed some exercise every now and then.

He listened as Kakeru gave his overall evaluations of the group, then scratched his head. Mostly well? What did they fuck up? Was it Aleph's fault? It was probably his fault. Shit. Or maybe it had something to do with Karma's little freakout over Mia getting hurt. Either way, Aleph felt bad.

"So, you're not gonna tell us now, dude?" He asked.
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Once safely out, her knife was put in the sheathe that dangled from her belt. With that she looked up expectantly to Kakeru with her hands behind her back. She couldn't have made it more conspicuous that she stood close to Karma. But for the sake to spare them both a caution that they can't lose their cool over one another in future excursions, she tried to seem a bit more neutral towards him that time.

"Yes, I'm pretty curious as tow hat an expert would think about how well we did overall, and what places needed improvement."

As for personal questions? There was one that hung over her head, it was in fact irresponsible for her not to ask it. "Is there anything I can do to improve my ability to avoid attacks?" Given Lif's weaknesses, her margin of error for avoiding attacks was almost non-existent. She'd have done well to get very good at that, and as soon as possible.
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Kakeru just smiled after hearing Toki's question. "Personal evaluations, huh?" he tapped his own chin for a while before he spoke. "Well, like I said before, you guys did mostly alright, but let's see here..." he looked at the team. "First, Toki-san, Suzu-san and Aleph, I see no problem with you three. You guys can function well as teammates, mostly," then, he looked at Karma and Mia.

"You two, on the other hand..." he looked at Mia first. "Why didn't you tell us first about your weakness against physical attacks?" he asked the girl, frowning slightly. "I could've put you somewhere safer in formation," he said. "Well, if you want to improve your ability to avoid getting hit, you have to train your reflex first. It's a little difficult, but I'll tell you more about that later..."

Then, he looked at Karma, this time sterner. "And you..." he said to Karma. "Please don't let your emotions clouding your mind. I suggest you to stay calm," he added. He had seen Karma's emotional outburst earlier, and he had to find a way to deal with it sooner or later.

"..." Karma gritted his teeth in anger. He was angry, obviously, but not to Kakeru, but to himself. He had showed his pathetic side to Mia and others, and he felt like being a liability instead of being a productive member of the team. "...Yes," he said, hanging down his head in shame.
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Toki sighed out visibly in relief - apparently, his error wasn't that costly when it came to teamwork, and, for once, something went right, despite how complicated it had been. "T-Thanks, dude." He said towards Kakeru with a nod and a grin, excited about his own success.

In the meantime, uncharacteristically enough, Suzu found her gaze drifting towards Aleph. 'Good teammates, eh?'

Maybe he's not so bad after all.

Suzu pondered for a moment on Undine's words. He hadn't made any stupid mistakes, and neither did she; their weakness and strength combinations seemed to have good chemistry. Not to mention, the two were the strongest in the newbie group.

'...Maybe...'

The non-hostile glance then vanished as she glanced at Kakeru. "That's that then? I'm done." Her forceful personality soon returned. "Oi, Toki, we're goin'."

"E-Eh?!"

Before the man knew it, he was being dragged along by the wrist, by a much smaller yet ferocious redheaded devil. Such was his life...
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Aleph smiled softly as he listened to Kakeru's words. Everyone seemed to have done pretty well during the entire thing overall, though Mia had a few crippling weaknesses and Karma needed some help controlling his emotions during battle. Aleph raised an eyebrow in suprise when Kakeru said that he, Toki, and Suzu functioned well enough as teammates.

Aleph scratched his head while blushing "Well, I guess everybody did pretty good, right? Huh." He said, embarrassed. Though, maybe training with Kakeru, Suzu, Karma and the others didn't seem like such a bad thing after all.

Suddenly, Aleph watched as Suzu walked home, dragging Toki with her. He tried to open his mouth to say something to them, but they were already gone. Looking back at everyone for a moment, he then shrugged, deciding that he might as well head home too. Aleph waved goodbye to everyone then walked back to Nagashima.
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"Honestly? I didn't think it'd make much of a difference, Kagami-san. In addition to physical attacks, my Persona is weak to fire, ice, electricity, wind and darkness." It didn't take much to knock her out, and just being in the ruins was enough to leave her in extreme mortal peril. She wasn't kidding when she said she posted that she needed all the help she could get.

But there was a moment of self-consciousness. She was a liability to the group in general in her current state, no matter what she did it wasn't going to make up for something like that. It was also just going to be more grief and stress for Karma if he had to watch that over. "With this in mind, what do you propose I should do, Kakeru-san? Furthermore, I also have to accept my share of blame for upsetting Karma, too." Yes, she was really holding the group back. She wasn't able to look at it any other way than that.

Ironically she came to this because she was hoping for a means of not being in such a helpless position and being able to take care of herself at some point. To consider she was even too hapless and vulnerable for that? It was a bitter pill to swallow, but she had to remain rational about the whole thing and go with whatever further advice she was given.
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"Then, there will be more reasons for you to tell me about it," Kakeru responded to Mia, crossing his arms over his chest. He had sort of forgotten that not all Persona-users were as balanced as him, stat-wise. And he was ascended and experienced, and he had to remind himself that there were many of other Persona-users who were still far behind him in term of strength. He did feel bad about it, and he had to do something about it.

Kakeru sighed as he pressed his fingers on his brow. "Look, I'll tell you more later. Right now, before we can go on to the next stage, I'll need to focus on you first. I can't guarantee it, but I'll find a way for you to be able to fight well like others," he told Mia. "I'll help you with everything I got, get it?" somehow, he felt weird. There was a familiar feeling while he was talking to Mia. Sort of like protectiveness, same like how he felt when he was around Shizuka.

Well, it's not like he could help it. Whenever he was around people younger than him, he instinctively acted like an overprotective big brother to him. He didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Meanwhile, Karma remained silent. He tried his best to not show it, but it was clear that he was bothered by his outburst earlier. He tried to distract himself by thinking about other things, but the fact about him being the most unstable member of the group sure bothered him a lot.
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