Viral frowned at Vegeta’s revelation, not exactly finding it encouraging, “You make it sound as if it is a good thing that happened…” Everything was completely discouraging for him to experience and he was not seeing how anything he was going through was better than what lay ahead for him, his only hope that he could last long enough before his body gave up. Despite how he looked everything was painful so hope was dwindling by a lot now. Anything positive was feeling distant and while Vegeta was trying hard to bring that forward it just wasn’t happening for him mentally, his mind feeling damaged and unable to accept the positivity, “He wanted to use a warrior’s weapon to show off…not even looking at it until then. You say it was pride, but he didn’t seem to want or care for it other than as a tool for his own personality boost”. Letting out a sigh he rubbed his face, exhausted already just from trying to sit up. He needed to wait until his energy recovered before starting heated discussions. Laying back down again he grumbled, trying to shift his head, “I hate this…”

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The whole time Vegeta had been trying to figure everything out there wasn’t much for Viral to do, even if he did want to. He wanted to do a lot of things like train or fight, but he was left hiding away in his room a lot of the time or elsewhere by his own desire. There was little for him to do even if it was all available to him still; he just didn’t want to do it. Watching as Vegeta could only grow confused over an answer his eyes soon strayed away from him, his paw going to his head and slowly rubbing it. He wouldn’t be able to find the answer either, he knew that much, but it still didn’t annoy him that there was nothing that was coming up yet. It all seemed fruitless. There was little point on getting angry at Vegeta for not finding anything yet, especially when he was the only one who could help him, “Training? No…I have not”, he spoke, grumbling lowly, “It’s nothing to do with the fact that I have not had you around, but rather…everything else. Anything I do could make it worse…so I’m back to square one until you fix it”.

Shu didn’t mean to make a mess at dinner or to make everybody else really messy, but he tried hard to get on with Haku and in the end it wasn’t going to work. It was Haku’s fault he was set off and made a mess, but that was all in the past and he just wanted to move on and see what else he could do to take his mind off it and get on with what he needed to do. He didn’t need to be around Haku, it was Takeshi who wanted to be around Haku and make friends with him. For now he was going to have time with Takeshi, but it wasn’t exactly something he was looking forward to doing. Staring up at Takeshi he tapped his fingers together, finding it a little daunting what he needed to do, “Huh…? You mean make me angry on purpose…? I-I don’t know…” he spoke, looking down, “What if I can’t? How is this the best place to try that…? Shouldn’t Yumi help me too…?”