Remarks by Clarinet always had a tendency to come out fairly flat. It was how he always spoke on pretty much every topic imaginable. What surprised him the most in this situation, though, was not the fact that he had continued to speak in his usual manner when faced with such an unusual creature. Rather, it was the fact that Korin showed little to no emotion when he had said it.<br/><br/>To Clarinet's credit, by the way, Yajirobe did not look like someone who did the sort of training one might have expected here. There were two lessons that he could have benefited from, however. First was, of course that one should never underestimate anyone based on his or her appearance. That was a surefire way to get killed in a fight. The other lesson was that everyone had somewhere to start with training, and it was a great way to get in shape. Therefore, some people who were quiet experienced still had a ways to go with their physicality, yet were far beyond the capabilities of the commentator who thought this way.<br/><br/>"Ugly? Ugly! I will have you know that among my people my appearance is considered premier while yours would be absolutely repugnant!" After this it sounded like he had mumbled something about the problems with species that reproduce in a manner that involved the exchange of bodily fluids.<br/><br/>Once again to his credit, that did sound entirely gross to him. Still, he didn't want to bring it up too openly after what Kelvin had said to him and laughed at him about the time that they were in that ancient chamber.<br/><br/>"You are a guardian, but I have a hard time believing you are truly a god, Korin." Well, at least Clarinet's words were a bit more charitable than they might have been otherwise. He had planned to say something that involved comparing him to a cotton ball anyway.<br/><br/>"It seems like Kelvin here only recently started fairly serious training, and that was under me, Cotton Ball." He hadn't realized that he had thus consciously used the phrase to refer to Korin in turn. "Previously, he just more or less used something that was sort of his own fighting style. I have to admit that he was quite skilled at it, though he was every bit as unpolished as he was skilled truly."<br/><br/>More or less he felt he was speaking the truth with this. He respected Kelvin's abilities, but didn't think that either his nor his own were up to snuff for what was coming. Sure, Clarinet could come off as arrogant at times. He was often wooden and deadpanned. However, he did still have at least one realistic bone in his body. Well, that was if he had what most people would call bones anyway, considering that he was more or less a vegetable with slug parts.<br/><br/>Senzu beans, though, were precisely what they had both come here looking for. "My arm should heal itself over time. I can re-grow new limbs; are you sure you want me to waste one of these?" If nothing else, then he felt that at least training without them at first would serve to make him tougher and feel at least like he had worked up to deserve one before he actually did go so far as to take one.<br/><br/>Hearing Korin's statements made Clarinet apparently take some offense. No, he didn't mind the assessment that they wouldn't have been able to defeat this coming enemy. He was actually prepared to hear the other say that. It was a different part of the commentary that he had elected to view as so insulting in fact. "I am no lizard, my people are not descended from reptiles!"<br/><br/>Unlike the other, however, he soon found that he wasn't trying to get Sacred Water nor was he doing anything else with Korin or Takashira, at least not directly. Instead he was under the tutelage of none other than the individual that he had previously derided as fat.<br/><br/>Well, it looked like this was going to be interesting for what it was worth. Sighing a bit, he switched back into a fighting posture, not yet having actually consumed a Senzu bean. "I plan to take everything you have to throw at me and actually earn one of those beans!"<br/><br/>"So what, hearing that the beast thing you three have to fight is unbeatable is spurrin' you on or somethin'? I wish all you hot-head types would knock it off." Yajirobe's commentary was certainly less than inspiring as far as Clarinet was concerned.<br/><br/>Running a way that Clarinet would have thought was ridiculous, Yajirobe was soon coming at him with a sword. Underestimation was still his problem considering a gash appeared on him that caused lavender-colored blood to spill forth out of him.<br/><br/>"See, you shouldn't think I'm such a dork after all!"<br/><br/>"I still think you're a dork, but I'm going to do all this wearing weighted clothes!"<br/><br/>Yajirobe groaned a bit considering that everyone here seemed to be conspiring to make him look like he was anything but hardworking. Even if he was skilled, laziness really was a large portion of his personality. Therefore, he was at least right in this assessment of how he came off. It could appear as rather awkward even if he was beating up on Clarinet. The Namekian was, of course, far more dedicated than he was. That made him look all the worse at the end of the day.<br/><br/>"Uggh, I'm gonna get you for all-a this!"<br/><br/>"I wanna see you try!"<br/><br/>For a group of people who were being threatened by an ancient unfeeling evil, they were all certainly not acting like a group of people who were being threatened by an ancient unfeeling evil. Clarinet was going to quickly learn that was really just sort of the way that they did things on this planet. It wasn't at all how he did things though.