Kyuden Shika

"Oh, your ideal spouse will definitely go through a difficult first year of marriage. But after that, maybe they will have kicked your butt enough time for some of the skills you need to learn to make their way into your brain.

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Okay, I can't find a situation where you'll have to ikebana for your life. But archery, hand-to-hand, dueling, all skills where a token level of practice could save your life."

"And yet we never had an event about lying to your superior officer about why his pony has been painted blue, or where his tent went..."

"Oh, pretty sure this one was the very first one. 'Present your genealogy in a way that's technically true but very much avoiding the inconvenient parts of that truth'."

"Nah, my family history is so boring, the hard part for me there was staying awake..."