77: Childhood Mayhem

"Thank you for coming to visit me, Shinonono-san, Cloud-san" - said Cecilia with a small smile - "You're the first ones to come..."

"You don't have to thank us, we're friends, or at least that's what I want to believe" - Houki replied while shaking her head.

"Friends... that sounds good..." - Cecilia murmured as she gave them a beautiful smile - "Thank you..."

"Are you sure you're okay?" - Cloud asked with a frown. "Yeah, I just need a little break..." - Cecilia replied with a forced smile, something the two teenagers who had come to see her noticed.

"I understand, I promise we'll do our best to help you" - Cloud said firmly. Cecilia smiled again, though this time it was a sincerer smile.

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"IS Academy! Huang Ling Ying is here!" - exclaimed a pretty girl of below average height. She had her hair combed into a double ponytail with two yellow ribbons, her beautiful green eyes were observing everything curiously while a sharp fang showed every time she laughed - "We'll be together soon, Ichika!"

"Miss, you can't shout at the entrance of the Academy" - said a woman with glasses while frowning - "You're disturbing the public order"

"I'm sorry!" - exclaimed the girl named Huang Ling Yin as she cried comically, after all, not even 5 minutes had passed since her arrival at the academy, and she was already in trouble.

"Come, follow me to the teacher's lounge, so they can give you the information about your class, Miss Huang" - said the woman with glasses with a professional tone.

"Ok, thank you very much" - Huang Ling Yin replied with a small smile as she walked behind the instructor, praying that she would be put in the same class as her childhood friend.

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"Don't you have a feeling that something really crazy is about to happen?" - Cloud asked as he looked at the beautiful brown-haired girl walking beside him.

A new day had arrived at the academy, time Cloud and Houki were walking to the infirmary to pick up Cecilia, who had been discharged after the nurse detected nothing unusual about her.

"Hmm, now that you mention it, I felt a shiver run down my back, and that almost always happens when my sister comes to see me" - replied Houki with a pale face.

"Is Tabane coming?" - Cloud asked with mild interest.

"I don't think so" - replied Houki while thinking carefully - "She always informs me before she comes, unless it's a very special surprise, for example for my birthday."

"Oh, that makes sense" - Cloud nodded as he decided better not to think about the subject anymore, although something told him that things were about to get a lot more chaotic.

"Sorry for the delay, Cloud-san, Houki-san" - Cecilia said with a small smile - "And again, I thank you for coming to pick me up."

"Seriously, you have to stop thanking us for something so simple" - Houki said as she gave her a blank look - "We are friends, Cecilia-san, and rivals as well"

Cecilia blushed as she gave a discreet glance to Cloud, who simply decided to ignore the two girls' conversation.

The trio quickly walked towards the classroom, only to find Maya at the podium, looking at her students who seemed to be happy, or at least that was the case for all but Ichika, who wore a darkened look on his face.

The black-haired young man had been looking for Cloud and Houki all day, but hadn't managed to find them.

"Good morning, my beautiful students, today Orimura sensei will not be with us because she is a bit busy" - Maya said with a smile as she watched Cloud, Houki and Cecilia enter the classroom - "It's good to see that you were not late, although I still ask you to please go to your seats."

After seeing the trio sit down, she prepared to start classes, only to hear the door burst open, revealing a pretty brown-haired girl - "Sorry for the intrusion!"

"Rin?!" - Ichika exclaimed in surprise at the sight of the girl, and in the process making her forget that she still had to talk to Cloud and Cecilia to apologize.

"Ichika!" - Rin exclaimed excitedly as she ran to the boy - "You haven't changed a bit after all these years!"

"You haven't either, Rin" - replied Ichika as he nodded in her direction - "I recognized you right away."

Rin unconsciously looked down at her underdeveloped chest, as a 'cute and kind' smile appeared on her face - "What are you trying to say, Ichika ~?"

"That you look just as I remember" - Ichika replied with an honest smile. "Oh, that's a bad answer" - thought the girls as they felt the unknown girl's anger start to boil over.

Houki simply facepalmed at how her childhood friend was more of an idiot than she thought. It was obvious that this girl had a serious complex with her body, and Ichika was constantly remarking that she hadn't changed physically during all these years of absence.

"I-chi-ka~" - Rin muttered as she punched her childhood friend hard in the stomach - "BAKAAAAAAAAAAA ~!"

"Ugh..." - Ichika let out a groan of pain as Cloud started laughing uncontrollably, more when the unknown girl started punching him in the face.

"Shouldn't we help him?" - Houki asked while raising an eyebrow - "We're his friends despite what an idiot he is."

"Not yet" - replied Cloud calmly - "Hit him on the other cheek to make it symmetrical!"

"You're not helping, Cloud!" - Ichika shouted in pain.

"Give him five minutes" - said Cloud as he shrugged his shoulders. He had noticed that the boy wanted to talk to him and Cecilia, which showed that he had calmed down enough to try to apologize, though that didn't mean Cloud would forgive him so easily.

"Miss... this isn't your class..." - Maya said with a frown on her face as she displayed a serious and firm attitude, one that didn't fit her very kind and bubbly personality, though it made her that much more terrifying to the students in her class, as well as to Rin, who was shaking.

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"Thanks for the help..." - Ichika said with hostility as he looked at his blond friend, who was eating without paying attention to him.

"You deserved it after everything you said" - Cloud replied simply - "Honestly, I'm only talking to you because I'm mature enough to understand how you felt, however, that doesn't stop me from being annoyed with you..."

"How many more times will I have to apologize before you forgive me?" - Ichika asked with a frown.

"As many times as I think it takes" - Cloud replied simply. "I thought you were more mature" - Ichika snorted as he looked at his friend.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I can't act like a jerk from time to time, now keep apologizing" - Cloud said with a huge grin.

Houki for her part, was happy to see that her two friends were going back to how they were before Ichika entered his emo phase.

Cecilia was silent and honestly a bit uncomfortable because she was still nervous around the boy who almost killed her, something Ichika noticed despite his low emotional intelligence - "I'm sorry."

"Oh, don't apologize, I understand it's an accident" - Cecilia replied while moving her hands erratically.

"Sorry for interrupting" - Rin said as she walked in the direction of the group table - "Hello, my name is Huang Ling Yin, but you can call me Rin, and I'm Ichika's childhood friend, it's a pleasure to meet you, he told me a little about you"

"My name is Houki Shinonono, and this is Cloud Strife" - Houki replied with a friendly smile - "This is Cecilia Alcott"

"The perfect soldier, the younger sister of the genius behind the [IS], and finally one of the possible new representatives of England" - Rin said as she looked at the three people in front of her - "It's a pleasure, especially as a possible representative of China, as well as representative of class 1-B"

"And are you strong?" - Cloud asked with slight interest.

"We can check in the practice arena, although I can assure you that I am stronger than the lady from England" - Rin replied firmly.

"Excuse me?" - Cecilia said with a frown - "I disagree, I am stronger than you."

"As I told the ultimate soldier, we can check it out on the practice field, not to mention that this is something I was looking forward to, facing someone who is on my level" - Rin said with a toothy smile, after all, she wasn't lying. Facing other national representative candidates was the goal they had, and thus demonstrate the military power of their nations.

"Anyway, it's nice to meet you" - Rin said, though she quickly noticed a small detail about her two new acquaintances, and it was one that was easily noticeable to anyone who saw them.

"Their breasts are huge..." - Rin thought with a frown. She wasn't jealous, nope, not at all.

"Is something wrong with our breasts?" - Houki asked as she raised an eyebrow, after all, she could feel how the new girl's gaze seemed to be drilling Cecilia's boobs and her own.

"N-No, it's nothing" - Rin answered as she coughed to change the subject, although inside she was thinking about how to ask these two girls about how they made their breasts grow so big.

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Honestly, I don't know if this is affecting the previous chapters, but I was checking my drafts, and they were all now in one paragraph, and if so, then I apologize, but it's not my fault, currently I don't have the time to be checking them one by one, not when I have more than 3k chapters to check if I count the finished stories, again I apologize if there are some mistakes, but in this case it's not my fault