[b]NAGASE ERI[/b]

[color=a36209]"Oh, awesome."[/color]

I honestly couldn't have known on my own. High tech stuff is usually pretty fragile, after all— Just one little knock on it in the wrong way and the whole thing stalls out.

Or, maybe that's just our computer. The thing is probably as old as I am...

Still, considering it was designed to house superpowered teenagers wielding dangerous weaponry, I guessed that it kind of had to be able to take a licking and keep ticking, as my father would put it. So it shouldn't have come to much of a surprise in the end. Certainly less so than the situation that caused the gash.

Which reminds me:

[color=a36209]"Hey, Matsuoka-kun."[/color] I start, looking at the kid as he's currently being physically brought down to Hoshino-sensei's level. [color=a36209]"Would you like to train with me, since we both stuck around? May as well get to know eachother, bein' basically from the same town and all..."[/color] 

My accent may have gotten a touch stronger there, but it's hard to read your own voice. I usually pay more attention to the content of what I'm saying than that anyway.

It's really the more important bit, anyway. We both could probably use a friend to bounce ideas off of and spar with and all that.

...

[i]'And all that...'[/i]

Man, I'm gonna need to get [i]a lot[/i] more serious than this, aren't I?