A Cool Breeze through Orchids [Ryouko, Lerna]

Lerna nodded slowly as she took a moment to consider such a thing. She had imagined that was probably the case. Thinking back to the Mod soul She'd met, her jaw briefly tightened before she smiled and gave a light chuckle in response to Ryouko's question. "Ah, you mean academically? Hm, I guess I never really thought of that. I guess Medicine and Biology if I really thought about it." she murmured. Truth be told, she had not really MEANT to learn a lot about it. But her endeavors with humans and her gigai had led to some ...situations where familiarity with the human body had been beneficial. Not to mention some ...activities with some of the gangs lent benefit to having a bit of medical knowledge. Though, frankly, it'd been years since she'd really gotten into that. She wondered if she still had it in her or not.

But it did bring up something. She was fairly smart, but she hadn't really put in a lot of work to cultivate that. She was usually on the side of adaptability, even in fights she kinda pushed such things as higher thought to the side outside of just responding to something unusual. Ripping into things was kindof her norm. But a lot of things took more than just being smart, hell she still struggled with Hakuda and just general Martial Arts thanks to how out of sync she felt with a human form. It might be something she'd need to speak with some of the representatives at the Academy about. But still, it certainly was nice to talk to someone in the division itself, there was a bit less......patronization.

"What's your specialty? If you don't mind me asking."

Lerna perked up slightly, clear surprise when she actually heard what the woman's general purpose was in the third division. She'd certainly had a lot of ideas, but it was so.... mundane. She DID just forget that a lot of Third Division probably WASN'T a bunch of nerd scientists. Those exists, absolutely, but there WERE probably just a bunch of them who just performed that kind of task. She smiled and gave a soft chuckle. "I didn't even think of that. I guess you probably have a pretty important job then. I do some of that down on earth actually. It seems simple, but things go to shit real fast when it suddenly stops." She chuckled, thinking back to a few bouts of aggressive widespread confusion when something just stopped working and nobody knew why. Sometimes because she intended that to be the case~

Ah memories.

Even so, she gave a sheepish glance to Ryouko. "Thanks for giving me a bit of your time bye the way. I appreciate you taking the time to talk about all this stuff." She added, holding her hand out and offering a handshake to the smaller woman.

Lerna paused as she noted the sudden mumbling and trailing from the woman. Had she upset her? Even more seeing the girl just giving a meek little bow to her. Shit, she thought she'd been doing the whole polite shinigami thing right, had she slipped up and done it wrong? She relied so much on just practice that she wasn't actually sure how to respond to this. Sure, a friend? She could do her best to be supportive, but this woman was a stranger, how do you handle a stranger that's clearly bummed out? She missed the days when she could just eat Ryouko and not have to deal with these social issues. Ah well.

"Ahah...uh...right. Anyway, thank you again for your time. I actually have to go getting to class. But I'd like to thank you properly sometime! Maybe we can get lunch or something." She posed, but didn't push the subject if Ryouko didn't seem into it, she DID actually need to get to class in a bit.