Tamaki seemed almost to feed on Himawari's excitement, or at least the two bounced off of each other with the story well. Not quite the same as entertaining their clients, but then--he wasn't being the princely host right then. Just much of that role often had overlap with 'Tamaki' as well as the Host-Club President.
"Whether it's a construct of this challenge, like a 'program' or not, it's probably here to keep us more goal-oriented than just pure reward is, or satisfaction alone. If this were a true Challenge, there'd be opposition of some kind beyond just the maze itself--so the Minotaur is likely the stand-in for that." Trunks ventured, getting through his second plate at least before he stopped.
Tamaki looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding. "That would make sense, since this is also supposed to be less of a combative test zone than the Field you mentioned before. Our hosts have also mentioned how the opposition is not...creative. It's not exactly creative to suppose that if you can't beat someone physically, you try to beat them mentally. It's been a very recent cultural shift away from the renaissance man or gentlemanly-noble archetypes, where one was expected to be both scholarly AND physically inclined." Tamaki WAS a junior in an elite private school, and he smiled at the end of that. "Research for the host club often requires much reading, although I am often blind and woefully under-prepared for commoner culture such as dear Haruhi-kun has experienced."
Commoner culture? On the tip of Trunks' tongue to ask, before a slight head shake. "On my version of Earth, there are animal-people..that is, animals that are sentient intelligent human-like, except y'know, an animal. One of mom's old traveling companions was a pig, for example. He was a pervert, but wore clothes and walked on two legs, and everything. I'd have expected something like that, if you'd told me we'd be facing a man-bull."
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"Whether it's a construct of this challenge, like a 'program' or not, it's probably here to keep us more goal-oriented than just pure reward is, or satisfaction alone. If this were a true Challenge, there'd be opposition of some kind beyond just the maze itself--so the Minotaur is likely the stand-in for that." Trunks ventured, getting through his second plate at least before he stopped.
Tamaki looked thoughtful for a moment before nodding. "That would make sense, since this is also supposed to be less of a combative test zone than the Field you mentioned before. Our hosts have also mentioned how the opposition is not...creative. It's not exactly creative to suppose that if you can't beat someone physically, you try to beat them mentally. It's been a very recent cultural shift away from the renaissance man or gentlemanly-noble archetypes, where one was expected to be both scholarly AND physically inclined." Tamaki WAS a junior in an elite private school, and he smiled at the end of that. "Research for the host club often requires much reading, although I am often blind and woefully under-prepared for commoner culture such as dear Haruhi-kun has experienced."
Commoner culture? On the tip of Trunks' tongue to ask, before a slight head shake. "On my version of Earth, there are animal-people..that is, animals that are sentient intelligent human-like, except y'know, an animal. One of mom's old traveling companions was a pig, for example. He was a pervert, but wore clothes and walked on two legs, and everything. I'd have expected something like that, if you'd told me we'd be facing a man-bull."