Korinna X Yang: A Complete Package
Korinna: Thanks for inviting me out for Yang time!
Yang: No sweat! You've been nice enough to help us out whenever we need it, so Ruby figured we should all get together sometime! RWBY, JNPR, and KIEM.
Korinna: Awww. That's so sweet.
Yang: No. Syrup is sweet. This is spicy.
Korinna: Not to me really. I can handle this kind of food pretty well. By the way, how's Marth holding up.
Yang: In a nutshell, better than I expected. I don't know exactly what Eir's deal is when she asked me to play tutor to a guy that could pretty much handle himself in the heat of hand-to-hand.
Korinna: *smirks* Well then. Are you doing anything often in these spars? Any techniques you've been whipping out frequently to deal with him. Marth likes to skitter around the battlefield y'know. Play mind games with his opponents, put the pressure on them. He flexes. And it hurts.
Yang: *pondering* Well…I have been using the Yang Meteor a lot. It's kind of like when I jump into the air and smack the ground, but I only use it once I get enough of a good pounding. Then my Semblance kicks in.
Korinna: Ah I see. *smiles knowingly* Looks like Eir played you.
Yang: What?
Korinna: She played you, and you played along. Right where she wants you.
Yang: Uh, she wants me to beat the stuffing out of your team leader?
Korinna: No silly! She wants you to use that Yang Meteor thing.
Yang: Why would she be interested in that?
Korinna: Yang! She's the Thunder Tactician. Her powers of strategizing exceed even that of Atlas' General Ironwood. Whatever she's planning for Marth, it involves taking a few hits from those gauntlets of yours.
Yang: *face widens in understanding* Damn. I knew that girl's got serious game, but…
Korinna: *grins proudly* That's my sister for you. Her tactics are so precise it's almost like she can see into the future! Never ceases to amaze me.
Yang: Does this also have to with Vytal?
Korinna: Yup. For all her cunning, Eir likes to sink her teeth into a real challenge, something Marth came up with the moment we all locked eyes in Emerald Forest. Must've been one brain-twister of a task too, because she's normally not this on edge, but you should see the state of her side of Team KEIM's room! I've never seen her make a paper tower that high with tons of strategy drafts.
Yang: *smirks* I know that look on your face.
Korinna: Huh? What look?
Yang; I make it all the time nowadays too. Every time I see Ruby walking in front of us. I've also seen Ike crack it once in a while. *folds arms behind her head* It feels like it was just yesterday she was always running up to hide behind me, now, I'm finding myself looking to her for direction. Makes everything I've done up until this point worth it.
Korinna: Huh, who knew Yang Xiao Long was secretly a mother hen under all that shining-sun bravado?
Yang: *leans in close to Korinna* I'm the complete package babe. Beauty, brains, and brawn. *winks*
Uh...okay. Didn't Yang swings both ways. Oh well. It's the 21st century, so anything goes. Not much to say for this one actually. This is one of those small, slice-of-life inserts that ties in to the main plot, with the small of inquiry of Eir's interest in Yang's combat style suddenly as clear as a summer ocean.
On a smaller note? Where's Team JNPR? They've been sidelined for twelve chapters now, and are they as affiliated with Team KEIM as Team RWBY as these supports suggest they are? That question is actually going to be answered in the next two chapters, a little arc about a little Arc that could.