[Freja Helt]

''Okay, so you throw the line like this.'' Freja had handed her fishing rod to Rin. She had asked her to come down to the bay with her, since it was always more fun to practice while you were also simultaneously hanging out with someone else. Besides, part of it was also a safety thing. If at least one of her friends were here, that meant there was less of a chance of weird things happening to her like the last time she came into the city alone. Standing by the water, with her bat in hand, Freja swung it at the ocean like she was throwing out a fishing rod line. She repeated the motion a few times for Rin, first slowly, then increasing in speed. ''Like that!''

The reason Freja had picked up on how to throw a fishing rod was because it was a prototype for her upgraded bat weapon that was still being made. As far as she knew, Rin wasn't really looking to train with a fishing rod or anything like that, but she figured it might be fun to learn how to throw a line. ''Don't really expect to catch anything, though.'' She shrugged, ''It usually takes a while, sometimes hours where you're just waiting.''

Rin

[Rin]

Listening and watching intently, Rin gave a slow and hesitant nod before nodding a second time with a little more certainty. "I think I get it." She hoped she did at least. Watching it seemed simple enough but she imaged the actual physical action took a bit of practice to get down. Fortunately, it was just her and Freja around and while it was true she wasn't exactly trying to learn how to use this stuff... who knew when it might come in handy? Besides, Freja had been kind enough to ask her to come along and the least she could do was try to be a good friend and share a hobby with her.

She maybe also still felt bad about getting body-controlled that one time and being forced to attack each other, but she didn't bring it up - that'd just make Freja feel like she was guilt tripping Rin or something when that absolutely wasn't the case. The brunette just had a lot of thoughts going around in her head all the time and past mistakes and embarrassments often jumped out all hey-remember-that-time at her a lot.

More importantly, casting her line like she had been shown with maybe a little more caution than necessary Rin kept her attention on where the line disappeared under the water while asking: "Have you gone fishing a lot, Freja-san? I've heard about the sitting there for hours thing before in, uh... well movies and books and stuff I guess. But it always seemed kind of... peaceful, and then suddenly surprising and exciting when you do hook something out of nowhere?"

She had no idea if that was an accurate representation of fishing or not, but it was the best she could draw on. Unnoticed by Rin and likely Freja as well, a good distance away a strange man was walking back and forth along the edges of the water - focused intently on the water as if they were searching for something. Every now and then the the man would stop in a spot before searching, visiting the same spots over and over again for what had to have been at least an hour. For her part, Rin was just chatting with Freja during that time about this and that - asking about UAU, life, anything that seemed like something Freja would enjoy talking about.

All of a sudden though she felt a tug on the line, giving a startled gasp and nearly fumbling the rod into the water entirely as she cut herself off mid-sentence to try and reel it in. "I got something! Am I reeling it right?" She asked for advice, panicking and not wanting to mess up her first catch. When it finally lifted out of the water she was half expecting a boot or something embarrassing like that.

Instead it was a severed head, staring right at her.

Freja Helt