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Have the fire extinquisher ready

Who: Xue Yang and OTA
Where: Training carriage
When: For the entire week after the new arrivals
What: Xue Yang has decided to experiment with his new swords and making up some new techniques. Experiments with fire and deadly weapons. Proceed with caution.
Warnings: Xue Yang may accidentally set something on fire.

Scenerio 1: Double blade
Xue Yang is currently seated in the center of the training carriage. Two swords on the ground in front of him, various tools whose soul purpose is for attempting to cut through steel and several pieces of paper that are very clearly talismans.

He picks up one of the swords and studies the hilt and handle, he then places it on the floor alongside the second one but going in the opposite direction. He becomes quite intent with taping the two together with what appears to be some sort of medical tape that he likely stole from the infirmary while no one was looking. Once he is content, he stands up and picks up the swords that are now stuck together to form one very long blade.

He tests the balance of it first and then starts to swing it around with the skill of someone who is very used to using a double ended blade. After a few moves he stops and looks at the connection.

"It's not strong enough with the tape..and also wouldn't be very quick to assemble when needed." Which is a problem when one is used to the sword simply transforming in his hand.

Scenerio 2: Talismans
Xue Yang picks up one of the blades and a talisman, moving a little bit away from the rest so that he doesn't accidentally light his entire set up on fire. He has two ideas to try and make this work and perhaps it won't work at all but he at least has to try.

He takes the talisman and with one swift motion, slides it along the blade as he attempts to transfer the fire onto the steel. The Talisman lights on fire but the blade does not and Xue Yang tosses it away quickly before he can burn himself. Failure one.

Next attempt he writes the talisman design right onto the blade. The fire lights up the sword and when he swings it as he normally would the fire doesn't appear to make things unwieldy, but it also doesn't go any further then the blade. Second attempt is marginally better then the first.

"Decent but not exactly what I'm hoping to achieve." Time to figure out plan three.

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"Well it's not particularly hard or anything, I mean, I'm getting a more modern machine to carbonate the water, he doesn't have to wait a full day like he does at home." Senku pointed out.

"Well. Yes. If it's for him, it should be what he likes."

Xue Yang just shakes his head.As much as he would like to understand people and their attachments, that kind of thing has just never worked out for him. Either he ends up beaten in a ditch, or they end up dead.

"Would he go to so much effort for you?"

"Undoubtedly." Senku responded easily without thinking of it. "He built me an observatory a couple of years ago."

"Because he wanted to or because you asked him to?" There is a bit of a difference between making one randomly by choice and making one because it was a task put out there to be done.

"Like I would ask for something like that." Senku shook his head. "No, he organized it as a surprise for my eighteenth birthday."

"And these kind of large scale gifts are normal where you are from?" Because that seems like an awful lot of effort and now they aren't just discussing gifts given simply because they are from the same world on a foreign train. They were giving each other gifts before that.

"There's not really a large scale anything where I come from, it was a pretty amazing gift." Senku admitted. They had been giving each other gifts beforehand.

"It's alright though, I paved him a road so he could transport things easier from the mine, when we got to that point, so I repaid the favour."

If giving gifts is how one shows their friendship then perhaps this is just another thing he has to learn about being a better person. He still isn't used to receiving gifts let alone giving them away. That would certainly show he had changed..

"This seems like a never ending cycle of gifts."

"Between us, I guess it is." Senku mused. It wasn't like he did that with anyone else but that was neither here nor there. "I don't mind. He's a lot less of a pain when he's comfortable, so I'd rather he be comfortable. We spend a lot of time together usually at home, since we live together. It's kind of strange not to be living together here, but usually we end up crashing together. He's so annoying when he thinks it's bed time and I don't want to sleep. He just annoys me until I let him drag me to bed." He grumbled just a little bit.

Okay now Xue Yang is just kind of staring at Senku like he is a moron. Xue Yang lived with Xingchen for three years and never once did he get dragged to bed. The only ones he has been dragged to bed with were not just..friends.

He clears his throat in amusement, "Your definition of friends sounds a lot like my definition of lovers."

Senku had the grace to look surprised by what he said and he blushed. "Ah, no, we're not." He shifted his weight from foot to foot a bit. "That wouldn't be accurate." He shook his head.

"Perhaps it should be." As if Xue Yang can possibly school anyone about love. "You practically talk like you want it to be. Or perhaps he does if he continues to drag you to his bed."

He sputtered a little bit. "No, that's not...it's not like that. There's no sexual contact involved." Senku cleared his throat. "It's platonic it's just..." He glanced away. "A-Anyway. I'm sure he doesn't."

"And you? Do you want it?" Because now Xue Yang is just curious. It's not like sexual contact is anything to be embarrassed about and he certainly isn't shy or afraid to ask.

"No!" He flushed and flailed a little, flustered. "That's...the problem. It doesn't matter if I like him or not." He just wasn't fundamentally interested in much physical contact. If he did, by chance, like Gen, that wouldn't change.

"You simply don't want to have sex?" What is this guy..twelve? Regardless, Xue Yang is rather enjoying the reactions he is getting out of Senku. Messing with people has always been one of his favorite activities and it has been quite awhile since he has been able to get this kind of a reaction.

"How do you know that he doesn't?"

"I'm not interested in it." Senku answered, correcting him. "It's different, but no less inconvenient, or perhaps very convenient, depending on your perception."

He cleared his throat. "Because why would he?"

"Perhaps you would be if you experienced it." Xue Yang rests his hands on the floor behind him as he considers that question.

"Why wouldn't he? You live together, he drags you to bed..perhaps the gifts are also his way to get your attention because he wants to."

"I highly doubt it." He wasn't going to argue with Xue Yang about his lack of interest in sex, it wasn't a secret because people tried to flirt with him a lot more than he liked, but he wasn't going to debate it really.

"I mean..." He looked a little flustered. "Maybe he just does those things, because we live together. We live together because...well at first we were outsiders in the village, but now, I don't know, we're just used to it?" That was a thing right?

"If he did want it and you have no interest in it, what would you do? Is it not cruel to him to continue as you are doing?"

Xue Yang knows much about cruelty and a little about how a heart feels after it has been rejected. Even though in his case, the person also never knew how he felt and in a way..neither had he until it was too late.

He groaned a little bit. "I don't...I don't know. This is why it's just easier not to like anyone."

It was a good philosophy and it served him well, until he met Gen which had completely derailed that.

"I'm pretty sure he's aware, that I'm not interested in sex. It's not that much of a secret." He sighed. "More than zero people have tried to entice me, and he was there, so it's not like..."

"It would be much easier if I didn't like him at all." He admitted. Except that he did, and that was the problem.

"I don't think we have any control who we like or the level of it. If we did I would have chosen to continue hating the daozhang." But instead everything changed and made his life significantly more complicated.

"I'll just have to ask him myself and see what he says." Mostly because now he is curious and isn't afraid to do it and even if Senku does ask, he would still want to know.

"I'm painfully aware of that at this point." Senku groaned. "Please don't ask him. Just...just leave it." He is planning on doing exactly nothing about this problem, except ignoring it and hoping it goes away.

Xue Yang doesn't make any promises. "It's amusing to see you uncomfortable with such a thing."

Senku responded by rolling his eyes. "I'm glad you're finding it amusing."

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