Hell yeah, design competition tiem.

Summary:

Farran explains to Kiri and Elle that the name of their fighting style, “Double Arts”, suits them since they’re using a hand-to-hand combat style, akin to that of “Martial Arts”. That ends the day’s lesson, and they’ll continue tomorrow when Farran is going to run them ragged dancing for the whole day. While dancing the next day, Farran notices just how much the two have improved; Elle mentions that she has taken some dance lessons herself and she’s glad to see that there’s finally something that Kiri isn’t ZOMG AMAZING at that she can do. This sparks a little competitiveness in Kiri and he swears to become better han her by the end of the day. Farran continues to muse on the fact that they’re improving faster than he anticipated while they practice. Elle’s getting hot in her Sister uniform so Kiri says that he’ll buy or make something else for her from scratch. Farran overhears this and he decides they should buy some new material and design the outfits themselves; its less about fashion and more about the fact they need to have as much exposed skin as possible to maintain contact, as well as be mobile. Unfortunately, Sui’s taking part as well and to her exposed skin means…

COVER THE CHILDREN’S EYES!

Of course, Elle objects to this, due to the fact it’s just plain stupid. Kiri’s desgin isn’t much better though.

P.I.M.P

They fight for a while, but settle on Elle’s design which pwns both Kiri and Sui’s. At first she’s embarrassed about wearing it, but then Sui reminds her of the… alternatives… and she’s golden. After some choking of Kiri by Sui, the next day the two emerge in their new uniforms…

Awesome.

Though Kiri hasn’t really changed his own as it’s already suitable for fighting and his mom made it for him (ahhh motherly love). Kiri finally asks Farran a question that’s been bothering him; why does he not fight to protect anyone? Farran’s reluctant to answer at all, but Kiri’s persistence manages to get a small piece of information. He made a promise to someone…

He believes he should never break that rule no matter what. Kiri asks him what would happen if he does so, and Farran says he would pay for it in more ways than one. Meanwhile, outside the city…

Thoughts:

Trading plot advancement for lulz and a little character developement is fine too. Nothing much really happened this time around, but that’s to be expected really. I do think that Elle looks great in the new uniform now, it just screams “Battle-Ready”. The details of Farran’s vow never to fight to protect someone (or rather, lack of details) makes me think that there’s probably an actual curse/misfortune that’ll occur if he breaks it, rather than him just being stubborn, and it’ll be nice to find out a little bit more about that.

I’m thinking the grave might be that of someone with the Flare ability, most likely a former member of the Gazelle. This is pure theorisation at this point though, plus the fact most organisations tend to lean towards having twelve head members for some reason (at least in my opinion) and the Gazelles only have eleven.

OH GOD, EMBARRASSED ELLE IS CUUUUUUUTE!