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[color=pink][h3]Mamoru Akasha[/h3][/color][/center]

Mamoru considered a close combat weapon for Reina. True, with her gravity powers pretty much anything she could pick up will become a weapon, so perhaps there was no need to specialize in a particular one. Melee weapons are always important too, after all when the enemy is in your face it’ll be far easier to just smack them then it would be to lob a rock at their face. [color=pink]”True, true. With your kind of power it wouldn’t be hard for you to fight at long range, and even if they’re in your face you could probably use your quirk to keep them away too.’[/color] Reina, Yoshiro, and Mamoru seemed to be in agreement that Reina would need some sort of a melee weapon. Reina wanted to use a blade, and while knives always had their uses Mamoru figured Reina would need something with a bit more mass.

[color=pink]”Hmm… Knives are good, like a tanto or something. But they’re not going to be easy to learn if you’re a beginner. Unless you’re supernaturally talented, you’ll still be a novice even if you train the entire time we’re at Komei. But! If you want to keep using Japanese weapons, I was reading about another that could be useful to you!”[/color] Mamoru reached behind her and took out the tonfa, though it wasn’t quite what she intended. She fiddled with the handle until the shorter, perpendicular handle was parallel with the bigger business end.

[color=pink]”It’s a jutte! Well, kinda. Technically it’s a tonfa converted into a jutte but well… Anyways. Old Edo palace guards would use weapons like these since swords were forbidden around the emperor or something. It has a tapered point for piercing attacks, in case you need to shank someone or pin their collar to the wall. But it also has a prong that could be used to snare clothes, jab into someone’s mouth or nose, or even catch blades if you’re good enough. I like my tonfa jutte myself, but I think I saw another version in the armory that had a dagger hidden in it in case you need to cut someone.”[/color]

Mamoru didn’t have much need for the more defensive purposes of a jutte, since she had a shield that could block, parry, and trap blades much better than a weapon could. Speaking of her shield Mamoru took a step back and manifested her Aegis to her hand, allowing Yoshiro and Reina to see it up close. [color=pink]”Watching you fight, you might be better off with a nice sized shield though. I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again, if you had found my shield when you were at the truck, we’d probably have lost Point C. And while I can’t give you my shield, I certainly know how to use it. Most people wouldn’t think a shield is a good weapon but that’s just because they’ve never used a shield. Have a jutte or a knife in your other hand and when you baddie is reeling from his face smashing, poke em in the guts!”[/color] Mamoru offered the shield to Reina to try. It did certainly feel heavy, about ten pounds, and large enough to cover the entirety of Reina’s torso from her chin and down to her hips.

[color=pink]”You’ll probably need a lighter one though. Bucklers are just as good, better for punching and parrying. You just gotta be fast enough to use them. A tower shield is way bigger, and depending on what it’s made it, maybe weighs half as much as you do. But if you could use your gravity powers on your shield then how much it weighs probably wouldn’t matter to you. Heck with your powers you could swing around a thirty pound shield like a whiffle bat.”[/color] Mamoru only had a vague idea of what Reina’s powers were capable of. Something about gravity and lifting things around. She figured that Reina could use her same powers to sort of negate the weight and thus the cumbersome useage of heavier objects as weapons.

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[color=firebrick][h3]Donny Yang[/h3][/color][/center]

As Donny was finishing up the nori cutting Hakura came back with the fillings. She wanted tuna mayo, simple enough. Hakura came back with a whole carton of eggs though, when Donny was probably only going to make six at most. [color=firebrick]”Thanks Hakura. Looks like I’ll be eating well today.”[/color] Donny went to wash his hands before he filled up a small pot with cold water. Then he set the pot on an oven and let it heat up over medium heat. Donny would check back in about ten minutes, just a few minutes before he’ll flip the rice, to see if the eggs are boiled before he peels them.

Donny decided that he’ll boil twelve quail eggs for his onigiri. While twelve eggs might’ve seemed like a lot, with quail eggs it was more like six or seven eggs equivalent. And Donny was almost certain he was going to be the only one eating them anyways, and he had no problems consuming a fast amount of fatty, high cholesterol foods. As for the tuna mayo Donny looked over to Hakura. While he could make it himself, he wanted to make sure she was doing more than just fetching things for him. [color=firebrick]’Tuna mayo is pretty simple. Mix tuna, mayo, and whatever spices you want. Make it chunky, make it thin, whichever.”[/color] Donny got Hakura a nice sized bowl, some smaller bowls, and a wooden spoon, all which he had cleaned before handing it to her. [color=firebrick]”Admittedly I’ve never used tuna that’s never been in a can, so I can’t say for certain how it’ll taste or what the texture would be like. But we’re here to learn, yeah? Let’s make two batches of the stuff and see how it turns out.”[/color]

Donny got himself a clean bowl and spoon to make the tuna mayo filling with. He took a nice fatty party of the meat that Hakura brought, washed it thoroughly, and started breaking it up into chunks in the bowl. However he didn’t make the pieces too thin as he linked chunky tuna. Half the part of enjoying fish was it’s texture. He also garnished in some black pepper, sea salt, and some lemon zest that Hakura had for some reason brought over. He wasn’t sure how the lemon zest would taste, but this was the perfect opportunity to discover. [color=firebrick]”So, your dad makes onigiri? Did he teach you how to cook anything else?”[/color]

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