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Even though she had made it through her 'interview' she still had to go to Star-Set. It almost came as a relief to her to meet up with her instructors. After the last couple of days, she could use the structure. On the other hand, ever since getting the job at Night Rabbit (as she's grown to call it) Aoko has been incorporating dancing and aerial silks to her acrobatics. While she was still on rudimentary moves and boring poses (it had only been a couple of days since meeting Haido-san), she could already feel there was something missing. Her body grew stronger everyday but she could feel that initial interest waning. The moves no longer provided her body with a distraction from her constant stream of doubts. She would often find herself circling back to practicing her sleight-of-hand, or flexibility.

'If only I could combine it together somehow.' She thought defeatedly. She was at a stoplight waiting to walk across to the gym when she saw it.

Two girls were playing outside the gym doors. One was jumping rope and the other was hula-hooping. Aoko stared at the girls playing and wondered. 'Can I do something like that?'

Aoko passed the girls and entered the gym, temporarily banning the thought of play from her mind. Right now she needed to focus on building up the muscle. Today she was continuing with her new offensive learning, as well as advancing her free-running lessons to include the stylized acrobatics she had been building up. She needed to concentrate.

Hours later Aoko came skipping out of the gym feeling better than she had since joining. Her lessons were going well and according to Yamada-san her stamina had gotten better. She could now do acrobatics for 45 minutes straight with no rest. She truly had come a long way but it was clear to Aoko that she still had more work to do. Her acrobatics were correct and strong but her confidence was still lacking and this resulted in her landings not having the powerful impact it should. Overall she was not as sore as she had been and was pretty proud of herself. She couldn't wait for her skeleton crew training the following night.

Friday Night: 11:45pm