Finish up dinner.

With food eaten and the prior strangeness behind you, it's time to move on. People whisper about what happened. It's clear that people find her to be sexy, and that it was cathartic to see her in a **** state, but people seem too nervous to speak it loudly enough for the wrong person to hear. If this were a regular student, surely the dining hall would have erupted into laughter.

You and Eva stand up. She looks to where the chaos previously occurred and shivers.

"Was that... wild magic again?" she whispers.

"Half of it," you reply, though make sure to keep your voice down.

Speaking of which, you gotta be careful. You did that right in front of everybody. Unless you want to be caught again, and if you are, I'll be blamed too you know.

When you turn to walk away, you nearly step right into somebody behind you. "Watch where you're--" you start to say, though you cut yourself off in surprise by the appearance of Larsith. He's standing there with his arms crossed.

"Warren," he says. "I hope you didn't forget."

"Stop being a bully. He already said he'd kick your butt," Eva butts in.

"I don't need a little rabbit calling me names. Let the adults speak."

"You--!"

You shoot a glare at the boy. "I said I'd fight, and of course I will. I was just heading that way now. Hopefully you won't be late."

"Naturally I won't be." He huffs, turns around, and marches away.

Once out of earshot, Rodney peeks behind you. "You're... fighting Larsith?" he whispers.

"Yeah," you reply. "Pretty soon here. I should get going."

"At least get changed first. Duels never happen in-uniform. Classes are done for the day."

"Thanks for the tip. You ready, Eva?"

She nods. "I think so."

"Then let's get going. We'll get dressed and meet his guy at the sparring grounds. The sooner we deal with this, the sooner we can get back to the actual reason we came here." And the sooner I can relax. I know I've gotten stronger, but it's stressful having people always trying to kill me. Why can't I just have a peaceful life with a bunch of cute girls? A lot of the time, it's actually the girls' fault why my life isn't peaceful... Well, all I can hope is this guy wasn't pulling his punches when he first attacked me.

"That's a really cowardly dream."

I was thinking that loudly?!