"Right." He's pretty sure most people were, but he won't comment on that- not the least because he's well aware that most people didn't join in on the physical exercise there. "...Well...I hadn't meant to at first, but I'd come into one of the rooms the people there used for training- and at the time, with everything that happened... ...I didn't want to end up somewhere where we couldn't use our powers, and have no way to defend myself," the boy explains.

"When I brought this up, they were really careful to share techniques they had that I could use! ...I don't know if I could manage the rest of the art without tentacles or something..."