"Hm, interesting. I suppose there might be parallels to be drawn, but I'd have to ask more questions." Shizuka said. She knew their own Tower to presently be in possession of two more than reasonable power sources. Such might be standard and their simply wasn't the proper explanation of the final power yet. It was something to lock away in her head for later. But it seemed that there was a bit of a turn in this conversation, as her brother went on to say that there was something he should explain to her before anyone else. And he wished to do this, by participating in a parts war. "Yare yare. Don't make it sound so serious, explain what you like however you like. I've seen some strange things in the last few weeks." she said thinking about it from a logical standpoint. "Well, today is meeting day for our team so we get a lot of individual challenges from people in the early part of the day wanting to try and overtake us before, we do our extra recruitment. I have one up before I'm supposed to be anywhere else. You can have that one if you like. It won't count for your READ level or for you as an official rider since you don't have a chip or at least a standard pair of functional ATs... but if you are just trying to show me something else it shouldn't matter much." she said seeming to have no problem with the idea of her brother taking on such a challenge.
"Eh, they might not believe you plan to take them though, without at least a pair of ATs most people will think you will be slaughtered. Proper wind manipulators are kind of rare though so it should be a shock to them. But you don't really know about the Parts Wars yet... Let me tell you about the racing classes while we walk so you can decide." she said motioning to her brother to follow. "F-class is Dash, it's a straight race, from start to finish. E-class is Hurdles, it is about obstacle avoidance but still a straight race to the finish by any means. D-class is Cube, it's a closed in space one on one battle. Last man standing kind of deal. C-class is Air. It uses randomly generated platforms... last man standing wins." she mentioned.
She'd lead him further into the Shopping arcade and down some dark steps which seemed to lead to nowhere. She skipped the final forms because this place wasn't suited to any of those. But once they reached the bottom there would be a single sticker on the wall, the Rose Cross, and right atop it, some skull shaped nonsense of their challenger. A group of five 20 somethings with helmets on would be seen circling the tracks seeming to be waiting for the defenders of this place. "Oh boys they sent a different general, they must be scared. No one has seen the fanged one in weeks... their ranks are weakening. We strike now!" The leader spoke up seeming to be excited by the prospect, among the things that happened next, was the chant 'Strike now.' which made Shizuka rub her ears for a couple of seconds. After she simply placed a hand on her hip and shook her head. This kind of drivel was way too common in the last month or so, with the new parts war on the horizon many thought to make an example by claiming territories held by the last winning team. It was apparently some sort of statement about how much better they were now by comparison. "Yare yare, this lot is far too noisy. Shiro-chan, what kind of race would you like? It's our turf so it's our choice." she said looking to her younger brother on the assumption he'd followed.