outdistanced | turbo heaven 🌼 chrono

It's extracurricular. You have to have the time and money for it.

[ rich people things... ]

My friend and her girlfriend [ "are they not both your friends chrono" no ] are idols - performers, and I got roped into helpin' em once. An' there's Shion's parties, where he complains when I step on his feet. So that's my whole experience.

...So it's another "privilege."

[ he's been told by a couple of people already that tower norms are pretty much only for rich people so this tracks but it's still a bit of a culture shock. ]

Of course you wouldn't be that good at it if you weren't ever taught. Maybe this Shion guy should've thought about that before making you dance.

The formal lessons are, kinda. But there's plenty of hobby dancers who learn on their own, and some people who are just talented.

[ he makes an exasperated face, but the emotion is traitorously fond. ]

No, he's one hundred percent doing it on purpose to watch me suffer. He's just like that.

So all your talent went to card games.

[ he sees. kinda funny to watch someone else be the tsundere for once though. ]

You wouldn't do the same if your positions were reversed?

Nice of you to assume it was talent and not luck.

[ doesn't even need to contemplate this one. we're proving the question of the week here. ]

Oh, for sure. Kinda do already. Tryin' to watch a guy with a chauffeur buy a peasant subway ticket is hilarious.

A little of both, maybe.

[ anyway. penny can hold into the mirror for now, he'll toss the chocolate coins at chrono.

but also the vibes just turn to ?¿? ]

...I'll have to take your word for it.

[ what the fuck's a chauffeur or a subway ]

[ pff. --oh. catches them, mostly smoothly, with a puzzled look.

ah right. clarification! he's genuinely happy to do so. ]

The guy's got a private driver. When he had to take public transport, the train with us, it took him twenty minutes to work out how to buy a ticket even with us helpin' him.

[ he's not going to keep everything himself!! ]

Like, someone that drives his own train? [ he knows what a train is thanks to heaven! ] Getting a ticket can't be that hard, can it?

Nah, expensive car. It's totally private transport. A ticket's really not that hard, it should take about thirty seconds max.

[ speaking of trains!! station. ]

But yeah. Dancing. You seem like the type who would be good at it anyway, so it's not surprising.

[ he does not know what a car is but he's getting self-conscious about asking questions again. ]

I guess it's different if you're not used to it.

[ cannot say with confidence that it wouldn't take him an embarrassingly long time either. thank god they don't need to buy tickets here. ]

Just because I grew up with it?

[ he'd usually put a hand on his shoulder to encourage him to Stop That but they're gross right now... hm. ]

I can show you in the cloud cave sometime, if you want. I showed Maomao was a plane was there, too.

[ egh wait he doesn't want to explain this reasoning. sighs. ]

Well, that, yeah. And because you're tall, and the running means you have to move well anyway, right?

...I haven't seen an airplane before, either. [ thoughtfully. ] Sure. When we're not covered in sugar.

I'm not that much taller than you. [ maybe he just has tall energy? i wish i knew how tall he was actually shakes vel please give me stats

can't deny the running thing, though. ] Dance lessons started before I really got into running, but yeah, I guess I do.

[ nods. correct priorities.

chrono just shrugs. taller than him is "tall", even if he's just painfully average in height. but laurence kind of does have tall energy?? who knows ]

Right, it just kinda fits. I dunno, learning properly might not be so bad. It'd probably help with physical training to know how to move better.

[ shrugs. ]

If you try some of the tougher ones, maybe - those really need good coordination. Depends on what you're training for.

Space stuff.

[ he still feels sort of vulnerable, having talked about that. very few people took his goals seriously. ]

Physical training's the one bit of all that I can do without too many problems already.

You need physical training for that?

Oh yeah, absolutely. Gotta be in shape given all the weird shit your body's gonna have to deal with. Lack of gravity, artificial atmosphere, quick movement in emergencies... stuff like that.

Wow. Okay. Space travel sounds harder than I realized.

Yeah, man, it's not easy at all. But that part's kinda fun, so it's fine.

[ train's here. please let's go and get clean. ]

Why'd you decide to start running?

It'll just make it feel better once you get there.

[ that's how laurence felt when he first summoned a portal leading outside the tower. ]

Oh, that's nothing special. [ it's not like trying to reunite with a friend or anything. ] The Tower has a big race every year for everyone under twenty-one. I wanted to give it a shot, so I started running and I just liked it.

Hope so. And hey, it's useful outside of that, anyway. Being strong and stable. [ ... ] Should probably be keepin' up with it better here, but...

[ he's been depressed sooo

oh it's not like that is it laurence. uh huh. well we don't have to bring up iris and that race again but he's definitely not forgotten about it. ]

Good enough reason as any. Probably really a fortunate choice, if you're makin' portals, right? Get through 'em faster.

Probably. But we don't have a gym or anything here, so it's harder. I kind of miss it, too. [ jock life...

ALSO STOP IT REALLY WASN'T ABOUT IRIS THIS TIME!! sometimes you really just like to run. ]

Mm, definitely. It's actually helped me a couple of times already - they had me practice by going out into some back alleys in Seattle? I came really close to getting caught by spawncampers a few times.

Wonder if that's something we could request. Sanada does training, too, right? It'd be useful.

[ jock life...!!

HEH ]

--hey, what the hell. Surely there's safer ways to get you to train?

I think he's been training with Marcoh? I don't think the angels control the locations, but maybe we could order some equipment if we really want it.

[ shrugs...? ]

Using my power is already dangerous. It's not like it matters now.

Guess getting a decent rope and some weights wouldn't be that hard.

[ just gives him an entirely flat look. ]

Unbelievable. You are such a hypocrite. Why wouldn't it matter?

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