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Rest and Relaxation. [totally open]

After Lirath, Hoshi was feeling drained - physically, mentally, and a little bit emotionally, too. Honestly, the only thing that was keeping her standing was her spirit at this point and perhaps some pain that had dulled by now. However, one she got her bike parked, walked inside and trudged up the stairs, she walked over to the bed and crashed on it.

She was used to being thrashed around in a beyblade match, sure, but the fight she took part in wasn't just a simple match that she could just get over quickly. She had a feeling it'd take time and she was perfectly willing to just kick back for a bit and recover.

... Though, the pink elephant in the room was hard to ignore. And so, she turned over a bit, holding back her wince to glance at it.

"...Hey. What's up with the huge chunk of stuff in the room?"

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"Moving things around," replied Philip, waist-deep in things as he was bent over a large box.

"Need my help?" Even if she was dead on her feet, she still had the drive to help others.

"I should be okay." replied Philip. "Go ahead and sit down if there's room."

"Don't need to tell me twice," replied Hoshi with a little chuckle behind it. She was already making herself comfortable on the bed, not wanting to get up from it just yet.

Still, whatever the item was that Philip had to reorganize everything (and when she just got done putting all the books away, too) made her curious.

There's a light creak as the door opens, and Shoutarou steps through. He's tired. He even looks tired. His hat looks tired. Guess who has two thumbs and is already trying to patrol again? This guy!

Clearly, when he met Dean, he took the example set by the overworked man to heart.

Once he hangs up his hat, Shoutarou looks at what Philip is doing, and raises a brow. "...Philip, what're you up to?"

"Organizing," replied Philip, moving the big pink elephant to the side. Putting it down. Considering it. Moving it to the other side. Considering it again...

"Just pick a spot and leave it there," Ren grumbled. He was just as bad off as the others, if not worse. His right leg was resting across a couple of chairs, and a pair of crutches they'd managed to find somewhere in the clutter was set within reach. He'd just gotten out of surgery not long ago to repair his ACL, and between pain and exhaustion, he was irritable.

Shrugging, he pulled up the Pink Elephant and set it atop Hoshi's head.

"Seems like I've got a bit of things to explain," said Philip as Mikku regarded the group from the top of the book case.

"Yeah," Shoutarou answered, dropping down into one of the chairs by the door. "Like where the heck did you get that thing?" His tone's more curious and teasing than annoyed.

"Buy 100 books, get the pink elephant for free," replied Philip. "I managed to get it at 10% the price."

"... Eh? Ah... Thank you!" The pink elephant plush was very accepted and she couldn't help but smile at it and even cling to it a bit.

"What kind of things do you have to explain, Philip?"

"Research. Research doing various researching... things." The last was said with a fluttery motion of his fingers as he went over to a nearby shelf and pulling out a sheet of notes several pages thick. "I've been working on... a couple of pet projects lately."

Hoshi glanced at Philip with confusion. She never took him to be the type to act all... weird-like. And she had gotten used to his oddities.

She withheld her concern for now and sat up a bit. "What kind of projects are those?"

Erratic is the key word here. But he seemed to be multitasking a lot of stuff and acting like a bundle of energy. "Ah, well that's the thing. Before Lirath, I came across my mother's research."

"Fumine, right? What kind of research is it?" Hoshi asked, leaning forward a bit in interest.

This erraticness was new to Shoutarou as well. He had started to just take it as a way Philip may have changed in his time on the ship without Shoutarou there - and a result of not having been around him in a year, but once Fumine was brought up, Shoutarou's face grew serious.

"Gaia Memories..." he answered Hoshi's question. "What have you been doing, Philip?"

"I've... been making some," said Philip, his hands busy with putting one of them together, the parts all over the place on the small desk. "You saw what I gave to Ren, the Odin Memory."

"What Memories have you made, other than Odin, Phiilip?"

She was still genuinely curious about why she was given the Nazca Memories, as well as the adapter. So, then, maybe... "--Also, I've been wanting to ask you about that, Philip. When I was able to transform into Nazca's Level 2 form, I was given two Memories after the first fight. As well as this--" she paused to bring out the adapter and showed it to Philip.

"You don't think your mother made these, do you?"

"Knight, another Odin, Knight Survive," listed off Philip. "They're not quite done yet but I wanted to give Ren a second option."

He nodded at Hoshi's question. "That is my mothers work. The Gaia Memory Enhancer, and two individual memories for Nazca 2 and 3."

Shoutarou leans back in his chair, one hand resting in a loose fist in front of his mouth. To say he dislikes the idea is a bit of an understatement.

"You're not putting the toxin in, are you?"

Philip shook his head. "I've been working on the filter for some time now. The new T3 types should be toxin free, but the power is considerable in each of the Gaia Memories. So far, I've only been able to get a few uses out of each memory before it breaks."

Ren hated this just as much as the others, and he liked Philip's nervous energy even less. If he'd known what he was up to with the Odin Memory and the rest, he wouldn't have taken it. He'd have fought without any powers whatsoever.

Bluntly, he asked, "How are you testing these? By jamming them into yourself and seeing if they work?"

Philip shook his head as he produced a second item, a Lost Driver but it was dull, black in color. "I've been working on a prototype lost driver. It's not finished, but it's enough to create a Rider form."

"So... Is she protecting me like you're doing the same?" Hoshi asked while glancing at the adapter. If it was able to give her the pinch she needed, then she'd keep it on her person.

Then, she fell into a sort of quiet lull while weighing her options. When she finally spoke, she let out a little sigh. "Are you going to create more Riders like you did with me or are we going to have dopants running rampant?" She hoped it was the former and not the latter in this situation.

"I honestly can't say, but there's a lot of secrets out here," replied Philip.

"I'm looking to reinforce the Riders, instead of making new ones," said Philip. "Better fine tune our respective powers than increase our numbers."

If Ren could have gotten up to hit Philip, he probably would have. Every part of this idea sounded stupid to him, and he could already see a million different ways it could backfire.

"Leave it alone," he said. "We've already had two disasters with mixing powers, between those kids and Odin. And I already saw how these things explode when they're put under too much stress."

"Are you sure? It's still in the testing phase," said Philip, not deterred yet. Well kinda.

"Well, wait -- I'm already a success as far as mixing powers go. I was able to withstand both Double's forms, including Xtreme for a brief time and now I'm able to work with the Nazca Memory. If there's anyone who knows how to do Gaia Memories the right way, it's Philip," Hoshi said, knowing that her faith in her partner and boyfriend wasn't misplaced.

"So, I say that we do it. As long as he's working on the Memories, we help him test it out to see what the big fuss is about. And, if it turns out to be a success, then it's just more firepower we have to help protect those on the ship and continue to survive in this war." With the way she was speaking, you'd have to wonder if she really was sixteen after all.

"Besides, Ren -- with your Vent cards, wouldn't it be better to have another power to fall back on should those decide to fail?"

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Shoutarou leaned an elbow on the chair, then put his head in that arm's hand. "While the intentions are good, I'm inclined to agree with Ren. The more of these things we have kicking around, the more potential trouble there could be." His gaze turns to Philip. "The last thing we need is a repeat of what Daido Katsumi caused - especially in a place like this full of competent combatants."

"...Kamen Rider Eternal? I trained against his Rider form in the Sensoriums before the fight," Hoshi commented.

"But the same mistake can't be made twice, right? We're knowledgeable enough to prevent it from happening again."

"We can, and we do," Ren pointed out bluntly. "If there's one lesson we should learn from this, it's not to do it."

"Well... at least let me work on the revamped belts?" asked Philip.

"Mm... I know it seems bad, but there's nothing saying that we can't at least try it once and see how it goes, right?" It was at times like these that she didn't like her optimism, but she had to at least give people a chance.

"Yeah, Eternal. He let loose a bunch of Gaia Memories in Fuuto - it could've turned out fairly bad, but thankfully it didn't, as the majority of them didn't get used, or wound up being used by people that weren't good fighters." He looks over at Hoshi, then sighs.

"What if someone with ill will gets ahold of them? Then they put people on this ship in danger. Not everyone who wakes up here is a good person." Shoutarou rubs his temples a bit. "Unlike Stacy's armory, we don't have those kind of security measures in place to prevent it from happening."

"I see..."

She went quiet for a minute or two, thinking on her options here before she abruptly stood up with her finger extended. "I got it! There's this place in the Masaki House, where I live on Stacy, that no one's allowed to go into except Sasami! So, with the Gaia Memories we have, we can ask her to put them in that room and therefore, those who have access to it - which is just one person - can continue to keep them protected so that they don't fall into the wrong hands!"

You may say "brain blast" at any time, guys.

"And what happens when someone finds out where they are?" Ren challenged. "And what about the T2s you already have? Are you just going to leave them there?"

He sighed in exasperation before turning to Shoutarou. "It's your choice, though. Even if I think it's a mistake to even be continuing this."

"Well, it's not like Sasami and I are the only ones who live in that place," Hoshi answered while she sat back down - that much excitement wasn't good for her right now. "There's plenty of other people in there, too, who can help protect them."

Then, at Ren's next question she thought about it and shook her head. "No. I'll keep them on my person. Someone would have to be pretty foolish to try to steal them from me under my very eyes."

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