☆ ㅤgym

@★ mint phonpawiworakun yuqi nodded slowly in understanding. she supposed what mint had said was true, so she let herself be comforted with the fact that she was not wasting mint's time with helping her train. she did not usually practice with other people despite her friendliness. other students were quite afraid to ask her to train with them, and she rarely asked someone to accompany her with her after school activities. now that she thought about it, she did not really have anyone whom she would consider as a close friend. well, no matter. she was fine with being like this.

she nodded once again at the other's clarification. as someone who had mostly relied on the strength of her quirk, which did not actually require much physical strength from her, yuqi had wanted the capability to be able to fight on her own ground without the help of her quirk. if she had been faced with a situation wherein she could not use her quirk, she wanted to still be able to defeat the enemy with just her bare hands. her eyes lit up at mint's suggestion. "sounds good!" she agreed, jogging closer to the smaller girl. "should i try using both hands alternatively?" she asked. she was ambidextrous, so both hands were equal in terms of power and control. she had played volleyball before, but not serious enough for her to actually try and be a varsity of it — mostly because she was too focused on becoming a hero that she did not join any clubs that she thought would not be of much use to her.

@★ song yuqi A relieved smile came across Mint's face and she allowed herself to fully relax. There was still some guilt there though, so a tiny pout settled on her lips. "Still, I should have been on time if not early," she stated, stubbornly crossing her arms. Her arms almost immediately unfolded to wave in denial as Yuqi voiced her concerns. "Don't worry about that, it's perfectly fine!" she said, hoping to ease the other girl's worry. "If I wasn't here, I'd just be practicing, so it's basically the same thing." As she finished her explanation, she knelt down to tighten her shoelaces as they'd come lose in the run. Once she was done, she stood upright again and brushed some nonexistent dirt from her knees.

"Okay, so you wanted help with strength training, right?" she asked, just to clarify. Since it was mostly rhetoric, she just continued talking while crossing to the gym to get to the storage closet. "I was thinking we could do something fun!" she spoke at a louder volume until she resurfaced from the closet, pushing the basket of volleyballs out. "Any ol' trainer can have you doing push ups and lifting weights or whatever, but none of that's fun, y'know? You can get an awesome arm workout by serving and if you've got a target, you'll unconsciously work on how much or how little power you need to apply." Ending her set up, she picked out a volleyball and tossed it back and forth between her hands. "Sound good?"

@★ mint phonpawiworakun mint's footsteps from the outside reached yuqi's ears first before the doors opened, and the chinese student turned her whole body to face the entrance, a radiant beam plastered on her lips. yuqi took this as a chance to quickly observe the other's appearance. mint seemed a bit breathless, though it was not as obvious as others would think. she wondered if mint had come from her combat classes. as the smaller girl's roommate, yuqi had taken it as her duty to know mint's schedule, even if it was not exact. that way, she would not have to worry about the other every single time mint had gone out later than she expected.

she shook her head, clasping her hands together in her front. "don't worry about it, mint! you weren't really that late!" her head tilted to the side slightly as her bubbly expression morphed into one of worry, the corners of her lips curling down into a small frown. "are you sure that it's okay to ask for your time like this, though? i know your schedule is usually filled... and i know that i'm adding more to your already full schedule." of course she would love to improve her strength, and someone helping her would make it easier, but she did not want to become a burden to someone else. at the very least, she would rather not burden anyone with her incompetency. "you can still say no if you really can't do this, you know?"

@★ song yuqi Time management was definitely one of Mint's weakest skills. It wasn't that she wasn't organized or that she didn't keep a schedule or anything like that. She just lost track of time really easily, making the first two merits completely obsolete. Throw a new task into her daily schedule and you could almost always guarantee that getting to it would be a bit of a struggle. Today was no different and she remembered that she'd agreed to help Yuqi train about ten minutes before their scheduled meeting time. Looking at her watch, she let out a surprised yell, effectively startling her Muay Thai coach as he was getting a drink of water. Apologizing for both the scare and for leaving so abruptly, she gathered her things and bowed a few times before running out of the studio.

On foot, she could get back to Yeongwoong in 20 minutes; running, she could probably make it in 10. She'd bit a bit tired upon arrival, but she was banking on Yuqi still needing to warm up - a step she could skip since this would essentially be her cool down. Things had a funny way of working out.

She made it to the school gym with roughly five minutes against her. It was a new record since she usually showed up 15 or more minutes late to things, so she considered this a major win. She took a beat to just stand outside the door and get her breathing in check since she didn't want too tear through the doors heaving like some sitcom cliche. Pushing open one of the double doors, she scanned the area for her roommate and spotted her almost immediately. It seemed they were the only ones in today. "Yuqi!" she greeted with a grin, dropping her bag off in the bleachers and crossing the large room to where the other girl was. "Sorry I'm late!"

@★ mint phonpawiworakun yuqi had always been the hardworking type - the type that would go beyond their limits to improve themselves. despite being one of the most promising heroes in her year and generation, she knew that she still had a lot of things to work on - her raw strength, for one. she might not be the weakest out of the people out there, but she definitely was not one of the strongest when it came to things that required physical strength. there was only one way to improve that, and that was to train, of course. so it would not be a surprise to see the chinese student at the gymnasium even after classes, in her pe clothes, stretching her limbs. she usually trained alone after school, since many would prefer to simply go back to their dorms and rest, but she felt restless even when she tried to relax, so she decided to train by herself.

but this time, she was not alone.

she had asked mint earlier to help her with increasing her physical strength, so she would not have to rely on her quirk as much as she did then. who else should she have asked for something regarding strength? mint was by far the strongest in her year level in regards to that aspect because of her passive quirk, and yuqi figured that she would learn a lot from the fellow classmate. yuqi was sat down on the floor, legs open as she reached for her toes. she easily held onto her toes, and she straightened her posture with a beam. "did it again!" she said, pumping her fists up in the air, before she stood up, stretching her back this time. now... she was just waiting for mint to arrive at the gym. yuqi really hoped that she was not taking too much of the girl's time, even though they were roommates.