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[IamanElfCollaborator]

With that settled, Minato cracks his knuckles to flex his fingers a little more, takes a few practice swings up to the tree like it were just a golf ball on a cue, and smashes it as hard as he can with the sword.

[Empiricist]

Minato
The tree offers no resistance, shattering as if it were made of glass and dissolving into nothingness. The leylines crackle and fail, the field dissipates to naught. You hear Shou clapping.

[Powder Miner]

Faith didn't really have much of anything to offer to that whole debacle but a confused sound... well, until a few moments later when realization dawned on her face. "Oh, uh... I... interfered in another training exercise, huh..."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato slings his sword back over his shoulder with a smirk.
"A few guns and a forcefield? That's nothing."

[Powder Miner]

Later:
Faith sat at a table in a room in the dining room of her bungalow -- having checked everywhere in the place but Yuki's room, which she didn't feel right just barging into, and having knocked on that door, she was fairly confident that Yuki wasn't there to overhear. Faith sighed, and looked at the people at the table -- Sol and Luna, and Minato. After a few more moments of awkward silence, Faith moved her fingers to her comm, sighed again more quietly, and spoke. "Um, Winter, Enn... m... maybe you should listen to this too. If it was relevant now, it might be relevant later, especially with Fleur's stuff..."

She looked down at the table for a few moments, watching herself tap it nervously with one finger, then the other, then the one, then the other over and over again. This really sucked to talk about. It really really sucked to talk about. But if this sort of thing with those porn tablets was gonna keep happening, she had to talk about it. And Minato especially deserved to know -- she'd keep him after she sent the others to talk to him about it more, probably. "Um, so, right... the reason I grabbed you all to talk with is that I really, really do not want to use those hentai tome things, and... I've got reasons why, and maybe I... maybe I need to talk about them some if this is going to be a problem." She reached over and squeezed Minato's hand with one of hers -- aside from deserving to know, he'd provide some comfort, which she might need.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Minato frowned. He knew this was coming.
"....well, uh...I'm here, if you need me."

[Empiricist]

Faith and Minato
Well, maybe it would help a bit if the peoople you're facing at least smiled a little, or blinked, or did anything except stare into eye withs with those empty gazes of theirs as they continued teetering over a springboard right into the depths of the uncanny valley, but nope, no reaction, no even idle movement.
"Very well. If it helps, we can arrange for counselling services and the like, you won't have to discuss any of it with us if you don't want to."
"Sol, Luna, what are the contingencies?"
"We can continue with the metamagical or spirit injection as planned, albeit without the texts, this will yield poorer results than before but it can be done, alternatively, Miss Tatsumaki has demonstrated she is capable of wielding both aspects of her magic at once, and without entering a fully negative state. We can try to use this to focus on curses, we cannot guarantee she will be able to develop her energy manipulation skills much, but she will at least be able to curse her foes."

[Empiricist]

Sometime earlier
Ren leans over behind you, peering through the view glass into the contents of the box. Through the glass you can see that the cylinder had broken, broken in its thicker end, the gossamer thin film on the other side untouched. Glass has scattered out into the box, the direction was outward, but that should be obvious - there was no air outside the cylinder, at least not until you breached it. This was the second test. In the first, the cylinder too held a vacuum; you couldn't break it.
"Miss Fuuri, we believe your magic is that of enhancement. Enhancement of quantity, enhancement of movement. By amplifying movement in one direction, you make directed movement arise from atomic vibrations. By enhancing the quantity of the air you can create regions of high pressure, producing blasts of air even when it is thin, though this amplification is transient. In short, you are compatible with other forms of elemental manipulation, we suggest picking something common or easily produced. Miss Hamilton, we leave the training and the lobotomy to you."
"Sure! Wait, lobotomy?"
"Joking, joking."
"We'll take our leave now."
And with that they leave.

[Powder Miner]

Faith blinked. Well, that... was a surprisingly easy solution. ”...oh. Okay. I, uh, thought that they’d make me do it I guess. Um, I don’t think I’m really interested in cursing people, soooo... I guess I’ll go with one of the energy manipulation things.” Well, if she didn’t have to tell these two her personal details she was happy with that. She’d tell Minato anyway, though, she resolved.

[Empiricist]

Faith and Minato
"This isn't our first rodeo so to speak, and forcing a matter never goes well."
"If it um, makes you feel any better, at least you're not a 6'5'' musclebound man who needs to be passed off as a little girl to avoid an arranged marriage."

"But your expressions reads 'I want to curse people, every night I stay awake thinking of making my enemies cover and waste away before their very eyes'. 'Aaaargh. Aaaargh. It hurts. Help me. Someone save me from Miss Tatsumaki's terrible curse. Truly I will rue the day I so insolently crossed her.' Like that."

Uh... what?

"Anyways, the question then is, what path will you choose? With metamagic you will learn how to control spells and energy directly, it has high potential precision but will require you to divide your attention and maintain focus. With spirit injection you will imbue entities with a semblance of life, it is more autonomous but more lacking in direct finesse, more advanced spells will require a degree of empathy."

[Powder Miner]

Faith paused at Enn's words, an eyebrow raised and her mouth open -- they really dealt with all sorts of things, didn't they...? "Well, uh," she stared at the twins as they proceeded to... what even were they doing, it didn't even feel like making fun of her, but was it? "Um," and then they actually started talking about reasonable things. "W-well, I think I will want to go for the metamagic, then. Directly giving things life sounds... like, uh, something I don't necessarily want to be getting involved with. I am already involved with an ACTUAL ALIEN WMD PROGRAM holy shit I'm actually involved with an alien WMD program why is that hitting me again just now, but, uh, well, the point is that that's probably enough ethical grey zone for a long time."

[Empiricist]

Faith and Minato
The twins nod in unison.
"We can start tomorrow."

"You'll get used to it, turns getting raised by an Aramitama can make you a tad eccentric."
Guessing this is just to you two and not the twins themselves, though honestly, you can't really imagine them reacting much even if they heard it.

[Powder Miner]

"Rrrright. Um... I guess that's all the business I have with you done, then." Faith was a little bit stunned, to tell the truth -- she'd expected things to be drawn out and kind of terrible with these two, but with Winter and Enn having handily averted that, Faith's entire plan for what to do had faltered and died too. "Uh, well..." She sighed. "I want you to stay behind, Minato, and for you two to check out, then, Winter, Enn. I... should tell you some things, Minato. For our relationship, it's... going to be important, going forward."

[IamanElfCollaborator]

"Right....okay."

[Chevaleresse]

Noriko elected not to respond to the... interesting form of humor the twins seemed to wield. Not that she had expected anything approaching a normal sense of humor at all from them, though if anything she'd expected no sense of humor whatsoever. She put them from her mind for the time being and turned to Ren. "You know, I don't think I ever would have guessed it worked like that." She shrugged. It felt like an overly elaborate way to make wind, but if that made it useful for other stuff she wasn't about to complain. "So, what's next on the ticket?"