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Posted: July 18
From: Li Tieguai

Good afternoon, everyone. Please excuse my change of name: this is Cho Hakkai.

I appear to have reappeared. Although I don't want to give undue hope to anyone who's recently lost a god or shinki, I'd like to announce that my classes will be continuing as usual.

To those who were living upstairs at the school the past few days, I expect you to help me clean up the mess. You know who you are.

[There are animal cracker crumbs everywhere.

And apart from that he's just not going to mention the events of last few days. At least he wasn't an actual child, but....]

Does anyone have an idea what might have caused it? I'm certain I felt something in the air for a few hours before it happened.

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Yes, I really am! I'm sorry to have worried you, Goten. You're welcome to come by the school for your classes, too, you know.

[And while the boy's there, he'll have to see if he can talk him into practicing some reading and writing as well. After his older admission, the preference for voice chat on the BBS reads a bit differently....]

It's okay Hakkai, 'cause you're back now so everything fine, right? It's weird that your name changed though. But you're still gonna do teaching and training and stuff so it's like you just went on vacation. Welcome back!

[Ah, but that last bit makes him blink]

Huh? You mean for Chi stuff? I don't wanna accidentally blow up your school.

We can go over by the wild part of the yard. The baseball team wants it cleared out for a playing field anyway, so if you blow something up, it'll be no problem!

And you should make sure you're studying reading and arithmetic, too. There's no reason to neglect your education.

I can clear it out easy!

[But just as soon as he's grinning about that, it dies. He doesn't know what arithmetic is, but if it's not some kind of food, he doesn't think he wants to know]

....You talked to a Gonou, huh?

Yes, I heard everything from him!

[From a certain point of view this is true.]

......

[Gonou why would you do this to him? Goten doesn't understand.]

...I'd rather train. I can read and stuff fine.

Indubitably! Your expertise exhibits no deficits that could require remediation by education.

[Please enjoy this sentence full of unnecessarily complicated kanji. What was that about reading fine again?]

. . . . .

[Have some audible silence as he just stares. He doesn't even know where to start with anything in that sentence. There's a reason he sticks to voice...]

Hakkai...

Edited 2017-05-26 17:23 (UTC)

I'll schedule your first lesson for Wednesday.

Huh?! B-but that's not fair!

[He was so happy to see you too!]

I have training with Izumo and stuff like that.

I can schedule it with him.

[This is important! He'd feel like a delinquent teacher if he let Goten get away with remaining uneducated.]

No, that's okay! That's okay! Really! We both train a lot together and uh, I donno if I have time for school stuff like that. It's okay, Hakkai, don't worry about it. Don't you have a bunch of other people to teach stuff too?

[Please don't get Izumo or Aymeric involved in this. Darn you Gonou]

[Too late.]

Oh, I'm sure it'll be no problem! Goten, fighting isn't all you need to know how to do, you realize.

[Hakkai, why are you doing this to him? You're suppose to be his friend!]

I know but reading isn't going to help me with ayakashi or anything.

[Let him pout, he'll get over it later]

Fighting is way more fun. I don't get why you and Gonou care so much about it...

What if you wanted to read about a new spell? Or how to make plans to fight a war?

Strength isn't everything!

I've learned three spells without reading and i donno about the plans for fighting a war.... I like fighting myself not telling other people what to do...

[That makes sense right? He's starting to get the feeling he's not going to get out of this. How do you argue against Hakkai?]

Even if you're the only one fighting, being able to make plans can help you to win a battle that you couldn't win if you ran in head-on.

[Goten goes quiet for a moment, thinking]

....How would you get around someone that can make it so you can't move?

Why don't we research that together?

[And not air any possible strategies out loud on the network. There are multiple answers for this.]

[Goten forgets how public these things are. How do you even make things private?]

How do you research that?

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[Suddenly, Mama Aditi is here, her voice soft and only slightly scolding.]

Learning new things is an important part of growing up, Goten. Reading will help you do that.

[Not what he was expecting. No Sharak, not you too! Don't team up with Hakkai on this...]

Sharak?

[FROWN]

But I learn new stuff everyday, just not from books...

Of course, and there's plenty you can't learn from books. [She's not a total nerd. Sorry, Hakkai.] But there's plenty you can learn from them.

Besides, if you learn with Hakkai, we can read together as well.

Are you going to learn at the school too, Sharak?

[He's curious about that but that second part does make him perk up a little bit]

You'll read to me and I can read to you, you mean?

[He perfers her doing the reading because surely Sharak is one of the best people to read stories but she probably has a lot of cool stories of her own]

[She has so many cool stories. So many. Let her tell you how she got these scars, Goten, off-screen and handwaved.]

If you'll read to me there, I'll go to the school. Maybe you can find something to teach me.

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