<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ac/Taro03.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Taro Ikeda (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12730054#msg12730054)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Behind the class building<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Midday<br/><strong>With:</strong>Megumi, anyone<br/><hr/><strong>"Two years? Sounds real serious."</strong><br/><br/>Taro knew about Walcrest. He had always taken his martial arts training serious from an early age, even if he had not attended many tournaments. In his early years of middle school he had too often gotten into trouble, had been excluded from the tournament teams for one disciplinary problem or another. And after his 'gap year' he had trained mostly to improve his skills in the later years of middle school. Competitions had seemed less important to him after returning to Japan. It was only now, at Denai, that he had begun to enter school tournaments again, mostly to put his skill in the services of his school club.<br/><br/><strong>"I know abut Walcrest. Do they take in paranormal students too, these days? You could probably have gone back there, now that schools are being integrated - if the offer high school classes too?"</strong>It was only then, thinking about Megumi's time away from school again, that he realized what had slipped his tongue a moment earlier.<br/><br/><strong>"Oh, and I didn't mean to pry, please don't get me wrong."</strong>He gnawed on his lower lip and drew in a breath with a small sucking sound.<strong>"About your health, I mean. When I said it sounded serious. Just thinking out loud."</strong><br/><br/>Taro harrumphed, chuckled.<strong>"And here I was, thinking I was an old hand dealing with paranormals. Guess there are still things I need to get used to, after all."</strong>