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Akaba Reiji ordered him along. He claimed that the Kid is essential to the war.

[Shun still doesn't buy it, but just the thought of that conversation makes his hands clench.]

Dragging along a traumatized kid that young, who's incapable of making decisions of his own in any sense... I don't know what he was thinking.

[Shun doesn't want to know and he doesn't approve of it either way. He is done with Akaba and his Lancers.]

"Create a self." That's what Reira said his brother wanted him to do. Something about how "duelists carve the future."

I knew he manipulated Yuya onto his team, but to do that to his own brother?

I don't know what the hell Akaba did... though his mother might have been involved. The Kid seems to fear her.

[He frowns, thinking back to that second conversation with Reira, hands curling as he remembers the one thing he had gotten out of that, the truth that he hasn't shared with anyone yet... if only because it never really came up.]

He's seen war before though. There is no doubt about it.

[ The message takes her by surprise, and she balks back from her device. She starts to type, how do you know, how can you be sure, but something like that... Kurosaki and Yuto both would recognize that in a child's face. It must be true. But... ]

I believe you, but how can that be possible? Everything had been peaceful for as long as I've lived there.

[Shun snorts to himself, Yuto's words from that night echoing in his mind... many things happen in places unseen. Sometimes peace is more illusion than reality... it had been, in Standard. Maiami may not have been at war before their arrival there, and it isn't now – not really.

They haven't seen war there, not like Heartland has... but the preparations for it are in place. The creation of the Lance Defense Soldiers was long planned and Soldiers don't just defend anything... but those are thoughts he'll keep to himself. Maiami is the home that she longs for, the home that Hiiragi misses so dearly... and that, Shun understands too.]

I don't know. With Akaba gone, the only way to find out is to ask the Kid.

[And Shun isn't about to. Even if Akaba was still here, the chances of getting answers on anything out of him... It's not longer his problem.]

We wouldn't have found out anything from Akaba even if he were still here. The only things he's good at are dueling, hiding the truth, and deluding himself.

[ Harsh. ]

[Harsh, but true – and so maybe her furious words tug at the corners of his lips, the tiniest of laughs escaping him.]

Sounds spot on.

I'm STILL mad he ran off with his tail between his legs before I could have punched him in the gut.

[ Couldn't go for the face
too damn tall. ]

[...Things that Shun would possibly consider paying money to see. Though that makes him wonder.]

What do you know about punching people?

[The question is more from a place of curiosity rather than judgment... he's never considered to ask how versed she is in physical fighting, had mostly assumed that she wasn't. Considering what place they are stuck in, maybe he should have asked this sooner already.]

I saw what makes you go down.

[ So, not as much as she thinks. What, like it's hard to punch someone? ]

[Yuzu plz.]

Just seeing that is useless. It won't connect, if you don't know where and how to hit without breaking your own hand or telegraphing the move like an idiot.

[...Is he thinking of any specific idiot who tried to punch Akaba and failed? Yes, maybe.]

[After a moment, she'll get a second text.]

I'll teach you.

You'll teach me how to punch people.

[ Is she reading this right? ]

Yes.

[How exactly can you even misread this?]

[ It's not an offer she expected she can't not question it. ]

Okay.

[ Maybe in the future she will need to punch a dude? Like if the Fog God decides that they really do need to see that fourth boy with Yuya's face again. ]

[Let's be real, even if that Academia bastard or Akaba never show their faces again, you can never go wrong with knowing how to punch people.]

We'll start once I've found a location.

[Because just thinking about it off hand, Shun can't remember any place that really lends itself for this kind of thing. But hey, that just means he'll have something new to spend his afternoons on from now on.]

Alright.

[ Gonna continue to stew in frustration about Reiji Akaba for a while though. That guy. ]

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