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"Cyno, no." Collei glared at the General Mahamatra with all the fury she can muster, her plate of food forgotten, and it hasn't even been finished halfway yet.
Tighnari was more or less the same as her, his eye twitching and his teeth gritted together, his silent message clear to only her apparently.
"Which slime would be the hardest to take care of?" Cyno carried on anyway. His face had no grin, but she can tell that he was probably laughing on the inside. "Geo slimes, because of their hard shells."
Collei smacked a hand onto her face, groaning. Why did she invite him to dinner again? She knew exactly what was coming and she still did it.
Oh yeah, she remembered now. It's because she's an idiot apparently.
"Why are you like this?" Tighnari shared her thought process as he buried his face in his arms. "This is supposed to be an ordinary dinner, not a comedy show."
"Not working for either of you?" Cyno's brow was raised, his stoic face never wavering the slightest bit.
"No." Collei glared again at him. "And I prefer to keep it that way. Remember, no jokes at the dinner table."
"I just came up with a new joke though." At this point, she was convinced that he was doing this just to mess with them. Or he was so dense that he can't see that both of them were suffering. Probably a combination of both.
As Cyno was opening his mouth to speak about this joke, something small and flying wandered into the hut like it couldn't have a care in the world.
A cicin. Collei hated those little creatures, interrupting her sleep when she needed it the most, both during and after her Akademiya days.
It was swarming towards Cyno, and it got so close that it made that annoying BZTT sound in his ears.
"Fuck." Cyno let that word slip from his mouth as he smacked the annoying creature away.
Collei gasped. A little too dramatically, but she didn't care at the moment.
He swore around her student. Her practical little brother.
She stood up from her seat and immediately went over to Tighnari, hands over his ears and seemingly forgetting about his supernatural hearing even with the medicine she gave him.
"Collei what-"
She gasped again, and began to drag him out of the hut by the ears, a confused Tighnari didn't know what was wrong with her, and an equally confused but shell shocked Cyno was watching her movements the whole time.
Hiding Tighnari behind her, she gasped yet again when stepping out of the hut, her face looking as if she had experienced the world's worst shock.
Collei turned around, giving Cyno the opportunity to sneak outside and hopefully avoid her wrath. When this happened.
"Fuck." That word that left Tighnari was all that was needed to seal his fate.
Collei's eye twitched. Once. And then twice as she turned around to face Cyno, who definitely knew that he was in trouble judging by the look on his face. There was no escape from a big sister's rage if you somehow influenced her brother to say impure words.
"CYNO!"
And that was how the entirety of Gandharva Ville witnessed a Forest Watcher chase the General Mahamatra himself around the area for a good five minutes straight, her boomerang in one hand, waiting to strike him on the head with it, and Cuilein Anbar tucked under her arm, the doll's face looking ready to murder him itself.
Tighnari was left on the wooden bridge, and can only watch in cluelessness and confusion as two of his closest friends run around the village like maniacs.
"All I did was swear."