[Kurata Yakeru]

Cooking garbage, maybe. That name was awful. Whatever. She seemed like she was ignoring him anyways, at least until she suddenly propped up at him not gauging his speed. Jumping them and being careful- Okay, maybe he could have been more careful, but then he wasn't sure what kind of tricks she might throw at him. He sort of went on the offense hoping he could get a quick hit in, with offence instead of defense, but that wasn't looking like it was going to be a thing against an opponent this superior.

Still, her note on the town not being worth dying for gave him a raise of the eyebrow. A high raise, at that, when she glanced behind her. She gave some advice again, telling him about how he could get in close with punches and kicks- But she was right on the ranged department. Maybe Ninjutsu. That was always a safe one, right?

Yako stepped forward and gave her gentle punch on the shoulder regardless. Mostly for that anti-patriotic retoric.

"Sheesh. No wonder you wanted to talk in here. You're right though, I think. I can certainly work with that." What was an animal without proper control and restraint?

Easy prey.

[Sagarafuji Ririko]

In all honesty, Ririko was tempted to tell the kid to just drop out. He had no clan pressuring him to succeed them and their techniques, and Yako didn't have any kind of special knack or talent, as far as she could tell.

Just another kid who thought becoming a soldier was a good idea. Another idiot like her.

Which is why she bit her tongue. She knew the advice would be rejected. Better to just give him what he needed to keep himself alive. Ririko gave a resigned smile to the light punch on the shoulder.
"Last thing I need is to be raked over the coals this week. So keep everything on the down-low, right? Right." It honestly wouldn't be the end of the world if Yako spilled it, but... it was a headache she didn't need.

But she'd rather people think she was disloyal, as opposed to someone who tried to seduce kids. That still made her feel sick. "Anytime you wanna test out somethin' 'gainst someone better than your fellow students, y'know where I am Yakoko. Just don't interrupt naptime." Ririko waved him off, to let him recover and scheme, and set about cleaning up her puppet and instrument.