Five Hours at Red Bear's (Part II)

Along a constricted hallway, Akira proceeded at a slow pace with Ai clinging to her arm, the path gloomily lit by chi-infused engraved tributaries in the walls, streaming forth from their sources in the "powered on" safe room. 

She was in the company of three [Nameless Acolytes], all of them below [Level 10]. Whereas Akira had attained [Level 14] from her time spent at the monastery. Made doable through a combination of taking her training mildly seriously, and countless hours of cultivating with Kiki every evening, while her classmates attended the group sessions.

She imagined there was some science—the likes of which Vash would be far more interested in—to explain how cultivating with a single partner could somehow outshine a group affair. However, her mind was stuck on other things right now.

She was dreading what the future might still hold, even more so than the present. Because of her current affliction with what Kiki had referred to as "NTR"