Mamoru finally came back! I was really getting worried. He looked really tired when he met me in the student lobby last night. He said that during the weekend he would be off duty, so we could go and finish the basics of my training. "Off duty" ... does that mean there really is a war going on? I don't want to think about that right now.
He did tell me that he was assigned with a team of younger hunters that had just graduated from the academy here. "They're good kids, and they all have their strong points...I'd like to see if I could get you out there though Shinobu" he told me.
"What do you need a team for though? What are you up to?"
"I can't tell you the full details now...maybe when I can trust you a bit more...but we're moving in teams and using the new C.A.R.D. combat system. It's a new technology developed by the government, which takes raw photon energy from...say...a sabre and compresses it into a photon card."
That confused me all right, but he went ahead and showed me one of the cards. "Here...you don't have the equipment on you to bring out the power of the card, so I guess you can have this one. And please don't show it to any of your friends."
"Wow a Rappie!"
I guess he somehow knew that my favorite animal was a Rappie. The card itself is really thin and metallic, and it has all kinds of numbers and parameters on it. I really don't get it . Anyway, Mamoru told me that I couldn't show anyone at all, not even you, so I'll just scan the cool image of the Rappie that's on the card. I'm kind of hurt that he doesn't trust me that much, but maybe I'll gain that eventually. I wouldn't want to cost him his job or anything Even if my friends saw it, they'd just think it was a silly kid's card game anyway.
"We don't use beasts ourselves in combat though, I confiscated that from one of our enemies. Somehow they had used our same technology to compress the photon energy of animals rather than weapons and items."
I'm still confused...
Anyway, I think we're going to train some in the morning. I told him about the weird HUcast, but he didn't have much to say about it. "Yeah, I sent him, and paid him...we probably wont hear from him again. I know him a bit from the past, but you shouldn't concern yourself too much with it" he said.
I'm excited about going down into the caves again, and maybe I'll get to see what was at the end there with Mamoru. I still have a lot of questions for him, and I'm building up my courage to ask him. Momma still wont talk about Presea to me, and I really want to know everything about my instructor. I don't know why...maybe I just want to be Mamoru's friend. There's something about him...something mysterious...it makes him seem sad and lonely. When I get the courage, I'll ask about Presea sometime.
Well, I've got to run now, I'm going to try and compress the photon energy of my DB Saber a bit for tomorrow for a sharper edge.
Until then,
Shinobu