Rubber ducky, you're the one [Closed]

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Zouichi generally bathed at the Inn, where things were quiet and old men named Jiraiya were not kicking up fusses trying to check out the goods. Today, however, he thought it might be a good time to pay the bathhouse a visit, if only for a change of pace. Surely no one would be there at this hour.

Once he arrived, he shed his body armor, wrapped a towel around his waist, and set himself to finding a nice open bath. He sank into the water with a sigh, leaning against a marble wall and closing his eyes. SHODAN's attack was over, but its effect on the crew here would likely remain for quite some time. And who knew what other dangers lurked in waiting, ready for someone to press the wrong button or wander into the wrong area so they could be set loose on the ship?

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[encourage]

"Possibly, but look at numbers and intention. Training someone requires having people available for all the mistakes as well as the successes. There's a lot of both at first, and even after a while. Then in the end you have how many people trained to handle something, versus what demand?"

Actually, that might be a brilliant sort of realization.

"Like I said, I'll talk to Ronnae. I'd like to see it up and running." She hated how things fell to the wayside, even as she was guilty of being part of that problem.

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Zouichi's had been a general observation rather than a dying need to see people giving other people massages. But if Sakura was enthusiastic about it, well... maybe she'd enjoy getting her mind off other things. He leaned forward against the lip of the bath, resting his arms on the tile with a sigh. Ahh. If he thought about it, it was a little odd that he liked hot water this much. Maybe it was where he'd come from.

...he should really figure out a way to get out, though. Without it being more awkward. Somehow.

"Well... I should probably get going." WAY TO GO, SELF.

[encourage]

"Yeah, probably." Sakura came off as mostly neutral, if the phrasing was poor on her part. "I won't turn around," she pointed out. It was an effort at preserving some sense of moving modesty, and also to partly forget about the fact Zouichi was here.

Pressing against the wall as she did, it wasn't like she was easy to see, even if he were the sort to try. "Good... night, I guess."

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"Yeah. Take care of yourself." And then he was getting up out of the water and leaving and SUPER AWKWARD.