"The girls turned so red when they were exposed, they looked cute," Ren murmured, gazing out the window to hide his own blush.
Yang laughed when he noticed Ren's discomfort, his Stone Behemoth patterns briefly manifesting around his arms. "Remembering something pleasant?"
Ren choked on his own saliva, and Lin rescued him from further teasing by smoothly changing the subject.
"So, how much have you raised this semester with your unorthodox methods?" she asked, her tone casual but her eyes sharp with genuine curiosity.
Ren couldn't help smiling when thinking about his bank account. The Academy had officially recognized another 20 of his proven methods for Bronze 1 and 15 for Bronze 2, paying him 100,000 and 200,000 crystals respectively for each one. At Selphira's insistence, these payments had been doubled, resulting in a total of 10 million.
