"Well, I can least confirm it won't be from tickling." He replied looking pointedly at her armor. "Though I suppose you're right I could if I really had the urge too."

"I am tickle proof...largely, the sharper the elbows the less one tends to be tickled."
At his confirmation she looked very satisfied
"I knew you could! You would find some cunning tricksy way to do it too."

"Probably so." He agreed with a nod. "By all accounts I am quite tricky after all."

"Before you knew it there would be spectator stands and everything."

"Mmmmhm, someone would be selling tickets."
Tutting
"But only true practitioners can appreciate the art, everyone else just sees a splash fight."

"I suppose in that way it's a lot like wrestling. The type that we all got tickets too here." He explained. "To most its just a couple of ladies throwing each other around the ring. To fans its much more then that."

“Yes... I confess. To me it was like a very strange play but with chokeslams. Not unpleasant but... different. I can see why it is a crab speciality.”

"Yeah, I would of liked if the winner wasn't so obvious, but you can't have any really important matches out in the sticks." He smiled slightly. "I did get to meet one of the wrestlers though, and she was nice."

A curious frown
“If I recall they weren’t in attractive either.... oh no, I’m becoming that friend in the romance stories who spend all their time trying to arrange other peoples’ marriages.”

"Hiruma-san was pretty cute." Hayato offered with a chuckle. "But also very much a Crab, though I do suppose I could introduce you."

"Then you won't have to worry about being a character in a romance novel."

“Hmmm... she wasn’t... you know.”
Shoan makes a wavy motion with one hand
“Some of the Crab here have been... different.”

"Honestly? She was nice, a bit sweet even. It would if been nice to be able to get to know her better." He paused a moment, before adding. "Not like most of the other Crab here."

"Well, unless that wavy hand was asking about her curves, in which case I'd say those were nice too."

“... it was at most 15% about the curves. It’s never all about the curves. Nice and sweet? That does sound pleasant... nice and sweet and curvy? Even better.”

"Yeah, we only had a short talk but she was my favorite of the crab here." It was kind of a shame that she wasn't here for the miai at all. "Still around town though, from the last I heard. Wanted to spend a bit of time relaxing and taking in the sights in the time she had."

“Huh, I should keep an eye out... not that I’d have much interesting to offer. But I prefer friendly wrestlers to crazed mushroom monsters.”

"Crazed mushroom monsters?" He asked raising an eyebrow. That didn't sound like what one usually called dinosaurs. At least not the last he checked.

“Well I mean, I haven’t personally seen any, but are you telling me you don’t think this planet has crazed mushroom monsters?”

"Well, I wouldn't doubt that it has something like it." Hayato observed thoughtfully.

"All these spores, some of them just attach to things and feed off them parasitically. Probably makes them crazy along the way, then they start attacking random things."

“...I fee like there are a lot of samurai who should go see a doctor. These sports would explain everything.”

"You know you're right... A good check up would probably do a lot of us some good." Hayato repleid with a soft chuckle. "At the least it might get a few to consider what they're doing."

"...You know those diagrams they would show in the dojo of how just one samurai with a....condition could spread it to hundreds of others if people acted innapropriately? Asakze might look like that web."