Alicia was impressed and then decided to look at her first day rivals and enemies.

Harold appeared to be unarmed-- and his punches and kicks glowed with power, as he roared with rage and crushed the dummy in a berserk fury that made Alicia very uncomfortable.

Jeanette, for contrast, had a pair of daggers, and she seemed to be everywhere at once, flickering in and out of sight as she slashed at the dummy, even appearing in multiple places at once.  Yes, definitely the last, now-- four of her at once.

That was certainly worrying. Alicia got back to exercising until something came up or the end of class.

Class eventually ended, and everyone was tired and sweaty.

Alicia went to get a shower.

Soon classes were done, and they had some time before dinner.

"So, what do you guys want to do now?" Alicia asked.

"Well, we did talk about training," said Rosa.  "Are you up for that?"

"Sure, what do you want to do?" Alicia asked.

"We should do some conditioning, and maybe sparring," said Rosa.  "We need to be in good shape and ready to fight."

Alicia nodded.

"Okay, let's do it!"

"Okay, let's go take a good jog along those forest paths, over there!" said Rosa.  Luisa didn't look excited, but she complied.

Alicia started jogging.

There weren't a lot of people in gym right now; many appeared to be training on their own in various ways.

"So," said Luisa.  "Target practice?  Sparring?"

"Are you up for sparring?" Alicia asked.

"I guess so?" said Luisa, uncertainly.  "I'm more of a ranged fighter, most of the time..."

"Sure, but what happens when you're disarmed or in a tight area?" Alicia asked.

Luisa sighed.

"Yeah, that's fair," she said.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you," Alicia said.

"All right," said Luisa, stepping into a clear space.  "How are we gonna do this?"

"No weapons?" Alicia asked. "Go until someone says uncle?"

Luisa swallowed.

"...O-okay?" she said.

"I'll let you make the first move," Alicia said.

Luisa made a punch.  As punches went, there were worse, but it wasn't going to connect with Alicia unless she let it.

Alicia dodge it with a light dodge.

"You can do better."