"Wow, there really is nothing to do today, is there?" Fion sighed as he left the local Bureau in Cykes. After running through drills on his own, Fion found that there was nothing wrong with his scimitar that he could tell, aside from an odd feeling that it was somehow off-balance. But it had held up well when he parried blows from Richard's massive claymore, so it was still functional for combat. He'd gone to the Bureau right after, but all of the jobs available today had been either pitifully easy or didn't pay enough for the amount of effort he would have to put out. 

Well, if he couldn't murder things for profit, then he'd have to socialize with people. He could always go see Riley, but after his little heart-to-heart with Darius where the bastard had gotten him drunk and then wringed out a confession about his feelings, Fion really didn't want to confront that particular issue for the moment. Eh, he hadn't seen Araki in a while. Might as well check in on the crystala and see how he was doing. In all honesty, he probably should've done this earlier, but Riley kept asking him for training and she had the overwhelming edge against Araki of actually being cute. 

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A quick inquiry with Richard back at the estate revealed that Dean Courtright had enrolled Araki into [i]kindergarten[/i], of all things. Naturally, now he just had to check in on Araki, if only just to watch this lunacy. Some amount of magically-enhanced roof hopping later, Fion found himself checking the windows of each classroom at the academy Araki was enrolled in, leaping from ledge to ledge since walking in like a normal person would take too long. As luck would have it, it only took three windows before Fion found a room in which a number of toddlers were crowded around and marveling at the crystala. Fion jimmied open the window with a piece of wire and popped the window open, snickering loudly at Araki's predicament.

"Oh, wow. I didn't believe it when Richard told me, but it's actually true. Dean Courtright actually put you in a damn kindergarten! You know, this just made my day. How've you been holding up, Araki?"