Hijikata looked him over, but didn't say anything until they were outside the training room.

"In a sense." He tried to think for a moment about how to approach it -- after all, it wasn't as if Alric had broken any rules, or gotten anyone hurt. As little as he wanted to be unkind, directness had always been

"Your form is fine. But this is training -- you need to keep a cool head now, or you won't be able to when you really need to."