[Voice]

[justicereigns]

All Shepherds, meet on deck for tea time and discussions.

Keimi check in as soon as you can.

And yes, we're getting low on coffee, and cigars. I'll survive, [No, he won't.] but I still refuse to switch to tea.

For all you pirates out there, what did you lot do before you came here? Occupations, careers, whatever. I need to know what freedom you're fighting for, let's just say.

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[justicereigns]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the term. Boarding school?

What kind of demands were there?

[unlikelyfarmhand]

It means that at the school they had a dormitory for the students to sleep there. I didn't go home at the end of the day.

Well, our physical education program is pretty remarkably impossible, or so I thought at first. On the first day we ran a 20km circuit around the perimeter of the school. We wake up very early, I get up every morning at four am, so I can look after the horses for my club, and then sometimes the cows or the pigs based on if it's my turn on the rotation. Many of our courses include practicums, and everyone is required to be in an after school club, all of which are some kind of sporting event. I joined the equestrian club, so after school I also take care of the horses as well as ride my designated horse, Chestnut.

[justicereigns]

Isn't that normal? I wouldn't even know how it'd be possible to ship people back anywhere from the academy.

I see. There aren't many horses in my world, but Maribelle seems pretty fond of them. Did you always want to work with horses?

[unlikelyfarmhand]

Not at all. Most people go to a high school near their homes so they can stay with their family, but I didn't want to stay with my family, so it was better to pick a boarding school.

I never thought about working in agriculture. I went because I was running away from home. Even now, as much as I like Chestnut, I'm not sure I'd want to work with horses. I don't know what I want to do.

[justicereigns]

Are there really that many schools in your world?

Well, what have you been doing in this world?

[unlikelyfarmhand]

Tons of schools. In Sapporo, where my family is, there are a lot of high schools, but out in Hokkaido where my school is, it's one of two, I think.

I just got here not that long ago, but Captain Strider invited me to be his cook. I'm doing okay, I think. No one's gotten sick or anything. I'd like to find some recipe books so we could make more interesting food though. Some people must be getting sick of rice by now.

[justicereigns]

Interesting. My world only has a few and usually just for the very elite or wealthy. The marine academy is one of the only ones that anyone can enter.

Maybe you can ask the other sea cooks on the journal for recipe ideas? [That's as close as Smoker will ever come to suggesting that he should ask Sanji or someone with a vast knowledge of such things. Especially given pirates.]

[unlikelyfarmhand]

That's a really good idea!

All children in Japan go to school until their third year of middle school, but high school is optional. My parents intend for me to go to university, so of course I'm in high school now, it's near the end of my first year.

[justicereigns]

Is it?

Your world sounds really academic.

[unlikelyfarmhand]

I suppose overall it must be in comparison to a world with few schools. I can't say if it's a bad thing or not. My world is a lot more modernized than the place we're in now.

[justicereigns]

Is it?

Hm. I'm just glad it's not too advanced from my world here. But it must be difficult for people who don't know anything about sailing.

[unlikelyfarmhand]

I know nothing about sailing. I'm trying to learn as much as I can though. It's very different to be on a boat all the time, I think sometimes I'm feeling a little sea sick.

[justicereigns]

Have you tried seaweed?

Supposedly the salt helps you get used to it.

[Smoker wouldn't know though, he can't think of anyone he knows who gets seasick.]

[unlikelyfarmhand]

I'm not sure they make toasted seaweed here, and I'm not sure how to make it. Perhaps I could look into that. I miss having it, it's quite good.

[justicereigns]

You don't toast it, you eat it with sushi.