"If it ended with aptitude I'd have tested higher than where I was. As it is, the others on the science camp trip with me weren't... all the highest scoring students, I think. We came from different schools all over the country though, so they all at least had some aptitude... or were forced by their parents to go." He can't imagine Anko going on that trip without being forced.

"A laser? In this place?" He'd suspected most of the technology would be basic, but a laser is intriguing. "Maybe one will wash up on shore some day... things keep showing up there, right?" It's not impossible. "Though most card catalogues I know of are digital these days."