21.2 A Brief Respite

I've taught her things nobody should be able to replicate so long as they were of this world. Methods of problem-solving like the scientific method, the unique way of thinking well beyond the realm of current possibility, and even small little tricks in studying that I developed back in the day. Everything single lifehack that I could teach, I had already instilled into her. That I was sure.

"W-What?"

I stood up from the small rock that I was sitting on in favor of leveling myself to my not-so-little sister, raising my hand up to rub her hair in the way that I always did. "If I ever died, you're gonna have to be the one to hold the fort, no?"

"Why are you telling me all this?" Lise asked, confusion clear in her tone. "Don't talk like you're going to leave me! Us!"