10th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action/Voice

[flamesofanger]

[Filtered from Selphie | You can probably hack this by just sneezing]How many of you have gone to school? I don't mean studying about something specific like magic to be a sorcerer or however that's done. I mean a general school, with several classes and a lot of hours sitting on a desk doing nothing but listening to the teacher. Do that type of

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[intangible_girl]

Schools like that certainly exist in my world, but I never went to one.

[flamesofanger]

[That makes two, him and this girl.]

Have you ever thought of not going to them as a bad thing?

[intangible_girl]

Well, I always wished I could go. But I... couldn't. So my father taught me at home, and I studied a lot on my own.

I did go to a year of college, before I came here, but that was graduate work, so it was mostly doing research instead of listening to a teacher all day.

So to answer your question... sort of?

[flamesofanger]

Hn, I see. That's not exactly what I meant, you weren't able to go to the school physically but you still studied those things with your father and on your own. I meant to ask more in a manner of never going to a school or attending that kind of studies.

[So the count drops back to one.]

[intangible_girl]

[One is the loneliest... I'll shut up now.]

Ah. Well, then, yes? I suppose? In my country it's actually technically illegal not to go to school. But plenty of people don't anyway, or leave early. They almost always have a much harder time of it than people who stayed in school. So it's better to get as much education as you can.

[She pauses, and then adds generously,] It might be different in your world, though.

[flamesofanger]

[Ikki hums.]

I'm not sure if it's different or not. I had to go to class while I was at the orphanage but after I was taken from there we had to focus on other things. No one ever said anything against it anyway, but then again, not many people would care about a bunch of orphans.

[If they did, there would have been a lot of questions regarding where they were sent or what happened with all the ones who didn't survive.]

[intangible_girl]

It's always better to learn things than not, I think. There's a school here, I'm told. [It's just a piece of information she's offering. Nothing more. Definitely not.]

[flamesofanger]

[Ikki sighs.]

Yeah, I've been told about it. But I don't entirely see the point of it, not regarding me at least. I'm not going to debate about if little kids should go or not, that's their own problem.

[intangible_girl]

Well, for one thing, it's something to do. I don't get the impression there's a lot of other things to occupy yourself with here.

[flamesofanger]

[That's true. And it's partially why he's asking. Not that he has problems filling time, he's fine with meditating and all.

But a whole year without having to go to fight for Athena it's starting to be frustrating.]

Hn, still sitting in a room for hours while listening to someone talk and talk isn't really what I would consider as "something to do".

[intangible_girl]

It depends on the teacher. A good one can make even a long lecture interesting.

[flamesofanger]

Good teachers seem to be able to do anything.

[Ikki snorts. He doesn't mean to mock her words but he has heard similar things before, even the train to be a Saint was supposed to be "not so bad" with a good teacher.]

There must be few of them, I've never seen one.

[intangible_girl]

I suppose I can't speak for the teachers here. I don't know anything about them.

[flamesofanger]

That makes two of us. How long have you been here, actually?

[intangible_girl]

Six days.

[flamesofanger]

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I would have been surprised if you had known the teachers of this place already.

[Who would care about school in that span of time? Honestly he has been here a year and he only barely is starting to think about it now.]