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Chapter 334 - Incline 13: Oddity Student Larishazza

"One, two! One, two! One two three!" I sang as I balanced myself along a rope that I had attached to two buildings.

"Get down from there!" Tiya called out from down below. Her words caught me off-guard and I nearly fell. But, my feet hooked onto the rope and I was left smiling down at her.

"Make me." I taunted with a giggle before the rope suddenly snapped like glass.

"Owie..." I cried as I rubbed my head. Yet, I would soon start to laugh.

"Just to make sure, how's your head?" Tiya asked as she walked over with a misty hand.

"It's fine." I answered with a bird-faced pout before a dismissive aura went over my sister.

"Alright, good."

"Hey! You nearly gave me a lump on the rump and that is all you have to say for yourself!?"

"You fell on your head." Tiya scoffed back to me. And I could only pout even more with a louder groan.

"That's not the point!" I say as I stamp my foot down. Only to then break out into a confined state of dance.

"No, but this has a point." my sister commented with a smile before she started to jab at me with a stick.

"Hey!" I yelp out as I nimbly dodge each thrust from the stick. And, as I was dancing around it, she tried to add ice to her relentless assault. But, I was able to avoid that as well until I came to a stop. From then on out, I cautiously watched her as she threw the stick between her hands.

"So how come you haven't been preparing for the thingie."

"Because the thingie is going to be hard to practise for." I answer with a relaxed shrug before I weave under the thrown stick.

"And how will it be hard, exactly?"

"Well," I started as I kicked up some water to block her ice, "there's a lot of people in the thingie, so I will have no idea what to expect."

Her hand starts to idly wave about, "Then go and practise with people from the other Houses, then?" she says, but her spell did not go unnoticed.

"I can't do that, I'd get distracted." I tell her as I formed a barricade and kicked it away. The resulting blast of my magic hitting hers caused a mild air blast.

"It doesn't take much to distract you." she incorrectly reminds me before I somersault over a piece of ice she had sent wide. And, upon landing, I made a big show of it.

"Tada!" I let out with one hand placed on my chest while the other lanced out to the sky.

"Again, not much."

"Ah!" I squeal when an ice cube suddenly formed under my clothes. But, in a show of stubborn defiance, I waited for it to melt. I stood my ground until I started to fidget due to the cold.

"Larishazza, this isn't a game." Tiyanat reminded me as she moved to sit down next to me once I had handled the ice cube.

"I know, I'm not stupid." I reminded her in turn with dramatic flair.

"You are quite often stupid." she tells me as if there was no wiggle room to argue.

"Everyone is stupid on occasion." I say with a shrug as I try to brush it off.

"And for you, that occasion is every occasion." she speaks before her head thudded into the air near me.

"Meanie..." I groaned in response as I put my hand against my cheek. Resting the elbow down below on my leg before I looked off into the distance.

"But, if you don't mind me asking, Larishazza, why are you doing this?" my sister asks with a serious tone. One that I probably had to respect if I went by how she was looking at me.

"Because it looks fun." I lied for no real reason. It's not like the truth was going to cause issues.

"You hate fighting, Larishazza. Despite you somehow knowing how to." Tiyanat points out, my lie clearly having flown right by her.

"I wanted to keep an eye on Nin." I tell her with a sigh as I uncrossed my legs and leaned back onto my palms. There wasn't anything behind me, so I had made some platforms to rest on with my magic.

"You like to keep an eye on him, don't you?" she asks me with a smile and an obvious intent. But, I was not going to fall for her ploy as I just did not feel that way about him. Despite a certain item likely trying to influence me into doing so. Yet, I was not so arrogant as to say I was just more mentally disciplined when compared to the others.

I was very much not...

"When I first found Nin, I found him weeping in the lowest floor of our dorm. He might be big and strong, but, he's very delicate up here." I tell her before I tapped a bubble I had created. Despite how simple it was, it was hard to make bubbles. I had to make a thin layer of water and trap lots of air, something I could not control.

But, then she jabbed at it with an icicle that snapped against it, "Yes, but, he's clearly grown since then, thanks to you."

"Stop it..." I mumbled with a blush as I let my pride get the better of me for a moment.

My sister then huffed a laugh when she saw my face, "You've done quite well with him, haven't you?"

Yet, that made my face return to normal, "I don't know." I admitted as I started to think about recent issues. Not so close to when we got back, but, all the way before we even got to Vadei's home. I was never able to get anything done about that, Nin's just been keeping it inside of him all this time...

"Well, if you don't think you have done well yet, then, I believe that you will." Tiyanat says before she puts her hand on my head. I was then pulled down into a hug that I quickly returned.

"Ye." I squeaked out as I melted in the affection from my sister.