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[selfconcept]

Congratulations! You survived the first week of Personal Enrichment Class! Or at least, your body did if you feel like astral projecting. It's time to mingle with your fellow students after the Saturday lesson. Maybe get revenge. Or maybe you're going to your room right away. Either way, it's free time! Let loose. Go wild.

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[herlocksholmes]

[Sholmes pretty much shoves Phantom's hand away -- wow, you could have asked, Sholmes -- and sticks his own into the mechanisms of the bomb, pushing away a couple connections. Those were the ones that would cause a shock to happen. Usually he would be more than fine with experiencing it, it would hardly be the first time he gets shocked!

But there's Shin to consider. His pain-sharing with Shin does a lot to curb Sholmes' willingness to take risks that may harm himself, really]

Now, gaze upon me cutting the wrong wires while disabling this bomb.

[He says that and randomly takes the green and red wires, pulling and ripping it apart with a hand. It takes just a couple seconds for the wires to appear back, growing almost instantly, in the blink of an eye]

Fascinating, indeed.

[exofractured]

[This man is so rude. Phantom spares a moment for an irritated look, but Science Happening takes priority.]

Indeed. If they could do this on a larger scale, I doubt there would be need for the rule on tampering with school property. I wonder what the limitations are?

[Would they always grow back in the correct configuration? What if he destroyed more at once? Could the system run out of energy to do that? Hm.]

[herlocksholmes]

Bigger elements would need more energy and more resources. Destroying half of this building would be different than restoring a few thin wires.

[Sholmes apparently went for the far extreme of destruction instead of, like, breaking the couch or something]

There must be a size limitation.

[That's his theory, at least. Too bad it can't be tested without breaking rules flagrantly!]

[exofractured]

Naturally. It's a question of where it draws energy from. If we remove the power source from this, would that cease the regeneration, or is it something less obvious?

[Phantom twitches like he wants to poke things again. On the other hand, if Sholmes shoves his hand away one more time, he may have to bite him. He's debating the energy investment here.]

[herlocksholmes]

[Get your own fake bomb, Phantom, Sholmes will bite you too]

Less obvious, most likely! This would have been a mediocre test if the bomb could be tampered with by taking out of it any part of it!

[Or maybe it would have exploded, making it an automatic loss]

[exofractured]

[Next time, on the two oldest non-immortal adults in this school just gnawing on each other-]

Perhaps. Although surely our instructor would have chosen to grade such an action as a failure, given the intent of the exercise. And opening the bomb would have taken longer than solving those childish puzzles.

[Says man who was absolutely not slightly panicking during the exercise, nope.]

[herlocksholmes]

Failing and trying would have made any daring soul the pariah of the team, too. Mr. Mizumori reacted badly when he thought I had cut the wrong wire. Imagine what would have been his reaction if I had tried to open the bomb and instead blasted all us away!

[As usual Sholmes had been doing shenanigans while doing his tasks right, and as a reward Tamamori snatched his hat and smacked him with it. Sholmes found it absolutely hilarious]

[exofractured]

[Phantom is making a mental note to immediately remove Sholmes as a factor should they ever unfortunately be grouped together.]

Considering the shocks they threatened us with for such careless mistakes, I very much doubt any of your teammates would have allowed you to get that far.

[herlocksholmes]

[Learn to live, Phantom, embrace the shenanigans]

I would have convinced Ms. Lorelei their futile attempts to put a stop to me proved their capacity to use teamwork, even if they ultimately failed to prevent me from doing anything. It would have counted as a success.

[Someone sounds like he has a lot of faith in his capacity to appeal at people]

[exofractured]

[Just. Staring. In absolute patent disbelief.]

...And if you failed to do that, and the result was - what was it, again? Death? Grievous injury? Mental trauma?

[No shenanigans this man is a menace.]

[herlocksholmes]

I have full confidence in what I can and can't do. No step I take can end poorly, especially if I factor other people being in peril.

[Which holds true for the most part, except when he doesn't deactivate timebombs until he's done fooling around, the jackass.

Still, he steps aside, his voice taking a bit of a more serious tone than usual]

Which is why I didn't actually even try to do such a thing. Were I the only one in danger, I wouldn't have hesitated, but I cannot risk anything when I have Mr. Nouzen to consider. The others being in proximity would have been an issue too.

[Sholmes nudges the false bomb]

I haven't even attempted to manipulate the glitter containers while you're standing right there, have I?

[Point he makes to prove that despite everything he does have reservations about getting people involved if he can avoid it. Caveat being if, because if he has to, he's going to scheme, lie and manipulate friends and strangers alike for his own plans without hesitation]

[exofractured]

I suppose you have at least that measure of restraint.

[Which is good, because exciting engineering toy or not, if Sholmes touched those glitter containers again Phantom would be out of here faster than a cat sighting a cucumber.]

Their system working as they intended, I'm sure. Even a truly reckless person still has the burden of their partner, which provides teams an incentive to keep an eye on each other.

[Well, it's good to know Sholmes isn't entirely a menace, anyway.]

[herlocksholmes]

True enough! Our esteemed instructor set the teams on purpose, with no randomness. I maintain the theory this was meant to curb a few tendencies, among them the possibility a few here would readily inconvenience their enemy if they could.

[Rideaux and Kresnik comes to mind, but they're not the only ones. Phantom and Marcus are another pair that, in his opinion, are prevented from being worse thanks to Lorelei's pairing, haha]

[exofractured]

[Possibly Phantom asking Florence during the orientation if murdering Marcus was against the rules was not his most subtle move. In his defense, it was a Very Bad Day.]

That is the nature of the intended "improvement," after all. She went through some trouble to avoid some of the more obvious possible disruptions to this class.

[Short of, well, maybe not bringing in people who want each other dead.]