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[a_sin_for_him]

The new year certainly was pleasant, wasn't it? I think I enjoy this world's holidays.

[Lust's curled up in her living room on the couch, tucked under a blanket with a mug of cocoa and her 'gear propped up on the coffee table in front of her. Her recently hatched shiny Houndour is half across her lap.]

But now that the holiday has passed, I had a query for those who have formalized exercising routines. I've found myself needing to keep fit not simply for aesthetic reasons, but due to a professional need for peak physical condition. Flexibility, muscle strength, physical reaction time...

I've never had to work to keep up with those things before and the sooner I get some formal discipline in my routine, the better. I'd appreciate any advice or specific schools of practice that could be recommended.

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[Video]

[crouching_sin]

I see! Interesting. I imagine a circus would be a lot stranger here with Pokemon.

[Anyway.]

If you've got someone to help you, a simple way to start improving is to have someone hold a ruler above your hand and drop it. That way when you catch it, you can have a good way of measuring just how much you've improved. If you keep a record and do it a few times every day, you can start seeing a difference fairly quickly.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's quite the spectacle.

That's a very good idea, I'll have to try that.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

I'll have to check it out.

Ah - I don't believe I've caught your name. My name is Naoya.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

You should.

A pleasure. I'm Lust.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

[... He's heard weirder.]

Good to meet you. Have you been here long?

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

A bit more than half a year, if you consider that long.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Long enough to get settled, I suppose. I just got here about a week ago.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's an easy enough world to get settled into, I've found. Despite being vastly different than what I knew before.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

I can imagine. It seems somewhat... tame, despite the wild creatures.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's a very nice world. Fair, in many ways. And the wild creatures aren't near as wild as creatures I'm used to.

[She casts a glance at Amoz the Houndour dozing with his head in her lap.]

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Agreed. Not that you see many wild animals in the city, and I've lived in Tokyo for my whole life.

[This one, at least. He looks down at his Spiritomb, who just looks up at him curiously.]

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

I used to work with wild animals, sometimes. In the fields of science.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Oh? You're a scientist? What sort of science did you focus on?

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

[That's a bit of a loaded question, and Lust chooses her words very carefully.]

Life sciences and biology. Though I have an education that covers a range from horticulture to metallurgy.

[Chimera experimentation and soul-binding entirely counted as biology and life sciences.]

It's nothing I've continued to pursue here. I prefer being a circus acrobat.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

[He wouldn't disagree with that, honestly. He has a feeling there's more to it than what she's saying, but he has no reason to push right now.]

It does seem like it would be difficult and very expensive to pursue things like that here. I have a fairly wide-ranging education, myself, though I've been focusing on technology in recent years.

... But changing your focus isn't a bad thing. It helps keep your mind from getting bored, after all. And you can always go back to learning.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

I never stop learning - there's simply new things to be learned now. More new things than I think anyone could learn in a lifetime.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

More than a hundred lifetimes. Humans just keep discovering more and more new things, and new ways to apply old knowledge.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

[She notes the particular terminology. She doesn't know if it's a veiled question or not, but responds as though it is.]

They do, don't they?

[It's subtle, but she always picks up when someone refers to humanity as something they're apart from. It's the easiest way to find others in her same situation - human looking but not human identifying.]

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

It's fascinating to watch, especially now that the world - or at least my world - is more connected.

[Strange. There's something about her responses... maybe she's not human. There are some demons who look human, after all.]

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh? How do you mean?

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Well... networks such as these in my world have connected so many people. People have started to speak a common language again - maybe not in words, but in terms of being able to relate to people they would have never seen before. This starts to increase the speed of the transmission of ideas, and so technology can be developed much faster.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh. My world doesn't have anything like this, we use telephones and telegrams.

But where I come from really doesn't need any rapid technological advancement, they'd just use it to blow the rest of the world up.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Heh. People will do that with whatever technology they have. It's been done before in my world, and it'll likely happen again.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

I suppose. But there are factors that effect whether a people are simple eager to advance or eager to conquer.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

True. And there are sometimes people who want to force humanity one way or another, and who have the power to do so. Whether they choose the correct path or not is the real question.