This was not an exercise to humiliate Viral, not in the slightest. Aito wished to experience his power now that he'd recovered, and from that determine if Viral was prepared to enter the battlefield or not. Of course they would appraise his mental state before letting him go too, but if he showed he could handle and deal the pain then he'd be in better standing. "I'm only striking what's left open, nothing more. Keep your guard up and I can't strike as often," the doctor shot back, jumping backwards to avoid a low strike from Viral. When the flurry of punches began he stood his ground, moving at incredible speeds and waving in and out of the blows, though not countering with his own. When one punch went high and off to the right he took advantage, trying to grab Viral's arm and pull him up and over his shoulder, intending to flip him if it worked. "Your attacks are without reason or thought, relax and consider what you're doing. If you think about it you'll land more strikes."

"Oh you won't break it, I'm sure you won't. We'll just be extra careful until you're more comfortable with it, okay?" Yumi asked with a smile, grabbing up a small green fruit and turning it over in her palms. Stifling a laugh when Shu missed her hint she bit into the fruit curiously, surprised to find it tasted something like a peach though it had a consistency like a hard apple. "Well I'd teach you of course, who else? Viral and T'charrl use swords, and a staff isn't the same as a sword. If you try treating them the same then it'll be really awkward," she explained, taking another big bite before wiping her mouth off on her sleeve, "You might get more presents soon, you never know! But in the meantime let's make good use of the one you got, right?" Hint for Takeshi there, though they could all do with getting Shu a gift or two. Goodness knows there were plenty of birthdays that were needed to be made up for, nevermind everything else they might not be considering. Come to think of it too shouldn't they be giving T'charrl some gifts as well? She'd have to run all of that by Vegeta and his parents later, see if maybe they could organize something.

"I was gonna teach him you know, I just... Never got around to it," Takeshi said halfheartedly with a frown as he itched at his nose, "But yeah, I mean a staff can't be all that hard to learn. Easy to pick up but hard to master, that sort of thing." It would do Shu some good to be busy and get his mind off stuff, and it was nice that he might finally be getting to use the staff. Kind of sucked that he'd never gotten around to helping his brother learn, even if he really hadn't a clue on how to use a staff himself. Seeing as Shu was more than happy to learn from Yumi however he figured he was off the hook here. Now, what to do with himself? Maybe while Shu was learning his staff he'd keep training with Krom, since it wasn't like Viral would be up for sword training any time soon. Training with the Elite it was, never thought he'd be willingly doing that. "Hey T'charrl... You were doing lessons with Vegeta before, right? You know, reading and writing and all that," Takeshi began thoughtfully, smiling as he glanced across to his friend, "What do you think about helping Shu learn a bit. Now that you know some."