113: Powerful Ring Toss

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113: Powerful Ring Toss Over the course of a couple minutes, the crowd dispersed. As the sound of footsteps filled the air once more, murmurs continued to spread, most, however, leaned into the ear of those nearest to them to lament something along the lines of how “Class Zero gets treated so well by the guests.” Their slight envy with nowhere to go but their hearts as they watched both Nyssa and Celeste receive affection that they never did. Unlike Angelica and Roxanne, who had been very aware of the murmurs—but paid them no mind—Celeste and Nyssa finished up the conversation none the wiser, waving goodbye with happy smiles and heading back into the festival hand-in-hand. With Roxanne resting her head on her shoulder, Angelica played with her girlfriend’s hair while keeping her eyes on Nyssa and Celeste’s retreating figures. “How nice it is to be young. I... kind of miss it.” “Do you really think so, though? You were the student council president, a full-time student, and worked a job. You had no time at all,” Roxanne retorted, elbowing Angelica in the side. “I would know, you didn’t spend any time with me after we started dating.” “Yeah... but now that I’m an adult, I’m just as busy, if not more. I just didn’t know how to manage my time as well in the past,” Angelica looked down at her hand, twirling her phone with it. “I miss it the most because even when we were so busy, we could at least work while sitting across from each other, and sleep in the same room at night.” @@@@ “Mn, I get that,” Roxanne closed her eyes as her gaze wandered downward and a sigh left her lips. “I’ll try and spend more time at home as well, okay?” “You’re just too competent though, the government wants you too much,” Angelica teased before fixing her expression. “Open your eyes my dear, there are some more students coming.” --- “I want to find one of Roxanne’s guildmates, Gideon,” Nyssa’s eyes reignited once they finished eating lunch. “If we don’t have anything else to do, I’d like to... but I’m also fine with doing other stuff first.” “Then mind if we do the ring tossing booth first? It’s right up ahead,” Celeste pointed forward, an excited smile dancing across her face. “I’m also fine with finding Gideon first, though. Up to you.” “No, no it’s fine, let’s go do some ring tossing,” Nyssa ushered Celeste forward. They wove through the crowd, and, once they made contact with the man running the booth, they came to a stop by the booth’s edge. I haven’t remembered that for years, why now... Nyssa stared at her hands, mystified as to why her father’s words had come back to haunt her years after she had familiarized herself with transformation. “Nyssa! I’ll make you proud!” Celeste hyped herself up, snapping Nyssa out of her trance. Her hair transformed and her eyes began to shine as she began emanating a starry glow. “Watch this!” In one clean motion, the ring went blasting forward. It shot out wind currents in its wake, blowing back both Nyssa, and the booth owner’s hair. “And a second!” Celeste whirled around sending the fifth and final ring right behind the first. “When encountering trouble, underhanded tricks, or otherwise, just blast through it with unrelenting force. That’s what I learned from Ryker.” ... Celeste’s show of force, though, ended up blowing the booth’s entire cloth roof off, only leaving behind the booth’s wooden frame as the man behind the booth’s counter clutched the rest of the rings against his chest. The two rings, though, sat snug on the centermost hook, signifying two prizes of the highest level. “Maybe... Maybe I went a little overboard,” Celeste paused, looking over to Nyssa. Nyssa, who could only muster a wry smile, inched closer to Celeste as the surrounding students began congregating around them. “Let’s get going,” Celeste coughed, rushing forward and grabbing two of the prizes off the booth’s table. Sticking next to Nyssa, she pushed through the crowd as another round of murmurs began to spread about them and their antics. “My reputation is never recovering from this... I don’t want to be known as Ryker 2.0...” “You’ll be fine, you’ll be fine,” Nyssa comforted. “Though I didn’t expect for us to be popular... they’re always murmuring about us.” “... Yeah, you’ll get used to it,” Celeste swept her hair back with a half-happy, half-sad smile. “Nothing is that private, they’ll find out all your secrets soon enough.”

113: Powerful Ring Toss

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