>>5645741>"Hey Kaede!- Kristoff, I'm well you're there. Got materials for you. Catch this!"
The girl throws the fusion core toward the boy
"Careful with that, it can explode quite violently"
Kaede manage to hide her grin while Kristoff strugle to catch the cubes with evident panic, his infatuation preventing him to give the deserved earfull.
"Also, take that."
Kaede dumps the cyborg plating on the boy.
"Really hard stuff. Well, good luck sorting that out."
Kaede walks in, locks her door, leaving the dumbfounded boys with full arms of material.
"Nothing like practice..."
The warm machines busy in her tummy, Kaede grabs a blade.
Is she really doing that? Blade and arm, is Emo her identity now? Well, at least let's embrace it all the way down. That way, it becomes ironical and not edgy for the sake of it.
>Perk : Battlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1jrfzDg_ZI>87 : it works!The blade bites in her arm (Remember Kaede, cross the road for attention, all the way down for real results, which are not what is expected right now).
The scratch is not too deep. Before blood seeps, Kaede applies auras and maintain them. Observing the wound for a couple of hours before going to bed, Kaede knows it will leave at most a small pink mark tomorrow, most probably it will be gone.
Kaede can't help but wonder how Yamakuza is still laced with scars. She fades to sleep.
Kaede dreams of a small cactus crushed by a ugly-faced camel.
>The cactus keeps coming back together and regrowing bigger, to be crushed again and again, until the cactus is not steppable anymore.>The cactus is picked and put in a planter by a gardener, regrowing alongside other succulentes>The cactus was not crushed-never was. Granted, it was hurt, but it withstanded the blow. 