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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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"I..." He would have said no, categorically, but he sighed. "I'm not opposed to that, I think. It would be fine, if there was someone I wanted to kiss, sure."

He found Xue Yang's interest to be a bit strange, but he supposed it was fair if he didn't really know what Senku was talking about.

He finds that perhaps even more interesting then anything else. So he isn't opposed to intimate connections with people, he simply doesn't want to go too physical.

"Is your feelings on this kind of thing because of the time you lived through?" In a way this is interesting to him because it is such a different thought process then any he has ever encountered before. Sex in his world is hardly something anyone is ashamed to take part in and certainly isn't a conversation worth being embarrassed about. The people he has been around have been quite shameless.

"That's really more of a sociology question which, ugh, soft sciences." Senku complained. "Not my area of interest."

He would however, give some thought to the question. "I don't think so. I think I'm still a statistical anomaly. Based on the observation of my peers, which granted at fifteen and sixteen they were at the height of puberty and this kind of thing was what they focused on, I'm an outlier. It doesn't really bother me, so much." At least, it didn't.

"Typically, probably, times haven't changed that much. People still concerned themselves with who liked who and how to get this person's attention. My best friend is very much like that. I can't possibly hear another story about how great his future girlfriend is, I just can't." He groaned.

"At the moment however, if anyone's engaging in that kind of thing with any level of seriousness I'm not aware of it, but we're kind of running around in survival mode."

"In our world, families created arranged marriages between people who never met to increase the power of their families. Liking someone didn't often come into play. And in some cases the leaders of sects would have multiple families. Love, lust, and the like were hardly anything to be embarrassed or bothered by."

Xue Yang picks up one of his blades and a cloth to start cleaning it to remove any remnants of the talisman. "Perhaps the irritation of your friend's constant praises of her is part of why you have no interest in it yourself."

"The village is kind of like that. I became the chief through winning a bout, if you can believe that, I wasn't supposed to win, but Chrome couldn't get up." He sighed.

"Part of that involved marrying the priestess." Senku hummed. "Which lasted as long as it wasn't inconvenient to me, so less than five minutes." He smirked. "There's nothing more to marriage there than essentially declaring it." It was quite the story, really, but there it was, he was a divorcé on top of other strange things.

"It's more fundamental than that. You look at someone and you can tell if you're attracted to them or not. I'm just not."

"It's probably because you have so many other things on your mind to be distracted by. Feelings simply get in the way." Xue Yang has always seen that feelings were a hindrance. He prefers to keep himself clear of such things so that he can kill whomever he wants to or needs to. But now he is finding that his time in Yi City opened up feelings he wasn't expecting to have nor did he want.

"I can't argue with that, they certainly do and sometimes I wish I could be rid of them, but unfortunately that isn't how humans work, even me." Senku hummed and sighed.

"And you're not wrong, I have a million things going on I have to keep track of, and that's likely an underestimation." Senku snorted softly.

"I don't think it would change if I didn't, but I'll concede I can't possibly know if it would change in the future."

"Things on this train might change a lot about us over time." He knows for himself that this is already true. He hasn't killed anyone in weeks and that is pretty good for him.

"I'll be interested in seeing if this part of you changes if you are here for any length of time." Xue Yang's smirk is a bit more playful, as if challenging Senku to avoid letting the train change him.

"I think you're gonna be really disappointed, I'm not the kind of person who changes easily." Senku commented, because he certainly didn't think he did, but actually he'd changed a lot in the past few years.

"We will see. I didn't think I was capable of change either but it seems a shift has been happening."

Not that he can be sure it will gain him anything but it is worth seeing if it does.

"It's not terrible I guess, I mean I've probably already changed a lot from how I used to be before our world ended and everything, but I don't know what this experience will do to me." Senku mused. "I'm not a psychology person, ask the Mentalist."

"I think change is inevitable when the circumstances we find ourselves in changes. It's just the degree of change is uncertain. Whether it is a lot or barely noticeable."

He shrugs. Not being particularly fond of such things or discussions himself.

"I guess I can't argue with that, but humans are adaptable, it's one of the greatest advantages our species has." Senku informed him, even if he wasn't sure he personally could be called such.

"It is. So we will see how we all continue to adapt to what the train tosses at us."

Because that is the key to their lives right now.

"I'm not overly worried about that fundamentally, I mean." Senku paused. "I'm pretty good at thinking on my feet, but then again I think you've been here longer than me, since I've only been on one mission, I might not have a full set of data points yet to make that determination."

Senku huffed. "The only thing the train is giving me, is boredom."

Xue Yang's time on the train has been anything but boring. But he also finds interest in things that are quite different from most. Plus he has had some rather unfortunate occurrences that have forced him into changing a bit of who he is.

"Every mission is different. Adapting to them can be difficult. Which is why I wanted this." He waves his hand towards the swords and talismans.

"Being able to adapt with a weapon that is useful for any kind of situation is what I need to be able to succeed." Which means his boredom had been alleviated because he gets this puzzle to figure out. "I cannot argue that the time between missions can be boring."

The same could be said for Senku, in his own way, but the way his mind raced made it difficult for him to keep busy with the resources at his disposal. He was much better with long term projects and back breaking work.

"I'll get the experience over time to know if I will find it challenging or not." He hummed slightly, tilting his head in Xue Yang's direction.

"I guess it's good to be able to defend yourself." Senku certainly couldn't, he relied on his quick wit and his combined words with Gen to keep them safe.

"At home I get up in the morning and work until bed time, and here all I'm doing is sitting around."

"You should just create your own entertainment then." Xue Yang certainly did that when he killed A-Qing on the train. Not that he particularly enjoyed the excitement that came after that.

"I have no interest in taking part of most group activities but there have been things that the other passengers have done in their spare time to keep their interests engaged."

Xue Yang by habit prefers to avoid large crowds.

"I study the things I pick up, and I've done a bit of cooking, you know that since you had the ramen and I've done a project for Roland, but apart from that." He sighed. It was mildly vexing.

He didn't like large crowds. "Sometimes I wander around and watch people do their training with weapons, like yours." Senku answered, not that he was desperate enough to try anything like that.

"Is there anything the train needs that you think you could build?" It's not like the train has everything that everyone could want and Senku knows at least some building skills. If there was something long term he could work on then it might alleviate his boredom.

"I mean, sure. It would be nice to have more storage space in the sleeper carriages, or even shelving in the halls or something, we need more books but I can't just whip that out of nothing - oh, and the communication system we have that we rely on but the train might be listening on? That seems like a poor substitute for something we could do ourselves." Senku listed. "And Roland's asked us to come up with some signals in case the language translation doesn't work again."

He just had a lot of energy, and little to build with. "If I had a forge, I'd probably never leave it."

"Doesn't sound like you have much reason for being bored." He already has plenty of projects to be figuring out.

He chuckled. "My mind is very active, I'll give it that, but I've got nothing to build with. That's why being on the train sucks the worst. I can't go anywhere and I can't get anything to do things with."

"And you can't just request the materials to create your own forge?" He's nearly burning down the training area, certainly a forge wouldn't be that frowned upon.

"I'd be somewhat concerned about the heat generated from the forge and the lack of ventilation." Senku hummed. "Last thing we need is everyone asphyxiating. I can't imagine that'll win me popularity points."

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