AN: IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!
Username: I'll try to keep this brief. The reason this chapter has taken so long to get out is because I could not for the life of me motivate myself to rewrite scenes in Kamiko's perspective using the first draft as a base. I'm an urge-based writer, so I can't just do that stuff on command, and I couldn't motivate myself to do it at all.
But since I didn't want the story to just up and die, I decided it'd be better to just discontinue my copy of the story and keep this one going. Because we're doing this, instead of all scenes with both Kamiko and Ira being in Ira's perspective on this account, the perspective will just go to whoever's perspective the scene is best served in. So now you will see scenes in both Kamiko's and Ira's perspective in this copy of the story.
That's about it. Read on, and… pray for Sapphia's group. They really need it.
Also, Kamiko's perspective is usually written in first person. You have been warned.
Timeless Awakening
School
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Ira's mind was on a constant loop. Every step was another word, and she was practically begging on her knees in her own mind for Sapphia to just ignore her for today. Just once… leave her alone.
Her mildly rushed steps were easily matched with Kamiko's calm strides, and the girl was really hoping the frantic war going on in her mind wasn't being shown on her face.
Because Kamiko was the exact reason why the war was raged in the first place.
She didn't want the girl to see her get bullied. Ira didn't want anyone to see that. She was willing to put up with it, but she didn't want anyone else getting dragged into it too.
Even if this girl was possibly a foot taller than herself, or just shy of it.
Ira knew for a fact that she personally stood at 5'4 in her bare feet. So, looking up at Kamiko walking so easily beside her quickened steps, she couldn't help but notice the startling difference in their heights.
The girl had to be at least six feet tall…
"I know I'm not the worst thing to look at in the world, but…" the girl began as she cast a glance back at Ira. "You're sending an awful lot of looks my way. You okay? You seem worried about something."
Ira tensed up, feeling her legs stiffen beneath her walking form as she clutched a little tighter at her bag.
She didn't mean to stare so much, and she couldn't help but feel a heavy pit falling in her stomach at being noticed like that.
"Sorry. And it's not that, you're just…" Ira kind of wanted to say it was the opposite. That the girl was easily stunning to look at, even at her age, but couldn't bring herself to even hint at it, "really tall."
Her voice trailed off at the end as she glanced back down, her shoulders squeezing into her body as she tucked her chin in. Kamiko really did tower over her, considering Ira's version of eyelevel veered straight into the girl's chest.
But she really didn't want to give away just how worried she was about taking Kamiko to school with her. She couldn't get into that right now.
"I'm just wondering how the school would take me bringing in a guest, is all," Ira lied, hoping her voice was as believable and even as it sounded.
Kamiko's gray eyes turned back to the sidewalk ahead of them as she hummed to herself. "Well… I will probably be transferring in soon, but I'm not too sure about Signal's policy regarding guests either. Been a while since I last visited the place. Worst case scenario, I have to wait until after school to check the facilities out, though. Not a huge deal."
Worst case scenario… That didn't actually sound all too bad. It avoided everyone inside, and waited for classes to finish. But Ira didn't want Kamiko to be forced to wait basically half a day doing nothing. "I think I'll be able to take you into my classes at least. I'd rather not have you waste that much time just waiting around for a tour."
One that probably wasn't even going to be that good, really. Ira knew the place well, but she wasn't expecting to be showing someone around it today.
"I doubt it'll come to that anyway. Though, for what it's worth," Kamiko surmised with a shrug, "I do know a few of the people who work there, so I doubt they'd be so cold-hearted as to make me sit outside all day."
Cold-hearted… Ira couldn't help but internally laugh a little at that. Some of the teachers knew about Ira's bullying problem, but didn't want to overstep their boundaries with Sapphia's parents and money.
She didn't blame them, they had low paying jobs with an intent to keep them.
Still, it really showed how many people were willing to give her the cold shoulder just for self-interest.
"You do?" Ira asked calmly in return, almost forgetting what Kamiko mentioned after the one set of words she pulled out of Kamiko's earlier response. But, it did raise curiosity though. "I… thought you were as young as I am. How come you know some of the faculty there?"
Kamiko smiled, gesturing to the horizon with her hand. "I'm a traveller, I've got connections with people all over the globe. Been that way for a while now, actually."
Ira smiled a little enviously at that, glancing at the horizon Kamiko pointed to for a moment before returning her gaze to the school in the distance.
They were taking the front way this time… because there wasn't any reason to take the back way.
"I guess I'm a bit of a traveller too," if she counted how many homes they've lived in, anyway. "But I also like to stay in one place for as long as I can. It's… nicer, that way. Homelier, too."
"I understand the sentiment," the blonde offered, nodding her head. But for a brief flash of a moment, Ira noticed her face darken. "Considering every place I've ever come to call a home… has been taken from me at some point. Eventually I just gave up on searching for one to have permanently."
"Yeah…" Ira spoke softly in return, wishing she could honestly say she couldn't relate to that. But it hit too far home to be able to lie believably in return to it. "I wish I didn't know the feeling…"
It wasn't long before the school's front doors came into view, Ira looking up just as they passed around the wall and through the open gate of the academy grounds.
"Ira!"
Aaaaaand, that was the voice Ira was dreading.
The girl ground to a stop at the gates as Kamiko slowed to a halt too, Ira's body tensing up and grabbing at the strap of her bag as three sets of footfalls ran her way.
Led by Sapphia.
"Where've you been?! School's about to start and none of us have the assignment done!" Sapphia's gaze fell into a pinpoint glare at Ira and her bag, the tresses of her platinum gold hair bouncing almost as angrily as she was running. "Why are you even so la-"
"I'm sorry, maybe I'm just tone deaf here," Kamiko cut her off, stepping in front of Ira to face Sapphia directly, making eye contact with her before continuing. "But I don't really see how any of that is her problem."
Those crystal blue eyes locking Ira up finally drew up to Kamiko as their owner and the two girls jogging behind her came to a stop.
This was the part Ira was dreading most.
"I-It's fine, Kamiko," Ira spoke up quietly from behind, fingers fidgeting with her shoulder strap still. "You don't have to get involved."
"Ignoring the fact you look like you've just walked off the street from a gang meet, I'll assume you're new here," Sapphia's voice came out now as well, and its haughty nature failed to even drop a single octave. "But you should know that little Ira is our problem."
Kamiko shrugged, and Ira's nerves were grinding together through her tensing body as she really hoped Sapphia wouldn't be set off.
"I dunno if you want to ignore that. What if I'm a wandering gang lord dropping in to say hello?" The chain threaded through Kamiko's belt loop rustled a little as she shifted her weight, further hiding Ira's frame behind herself. "Jokes aside… I guess that makes the three of you my problem, then."
Ira couldn't see Sapphia's reaction, but she knew for a fact she was getting annoyed...
"Somehow, I seriously doubt that. You look like you're just dressing the part, and forgive me for also ignoring this other fact, but you don't seem to have any aura in you either. So why are you still in my way?"
"Maybe. But there's a very simple reason for why mine isn't out right now…" Kamiko replied, her voice suddenly ten shades more condescending. "I don't need it… not against the likes of you three degenerates."
Ira winced at that. This… this was going to make things worse for her…
I couldn't stop smirking like the devil at the fact that my answer had stunned not just the queen bee, but her entire posse speechless for five whole seconds.
I recognized that to anyone who'd never seen me work before, such a statement would come across as shockingly arrogant, but I didn't really care. I just knew whatever reaction I eventually got would be priceless.
"You're… kidding me, right?" the platinum blonde girl, front and center, asked as soon as she got over herself.
My smirk deepened. "You can test it for yourself if you want. Haven't had a spar with another human in a while. I usually only tussle with Grimm."
"You think I'd actually fight you?" she asked, and I almost laughed. "I'm not going to re-prove the fact that auraless can't ever keep up with us. You're not worth the time, and I'm already late as it is."
"Do you not understand the situation yet?" I calmly replied, sighing before pointing behind me. "To get to her, you have to go through me. If you wanna pick on her, you don't have much of a choice here. But I assure you, even if you all took me on at once… the fight wouldn't even last a minute."
The redhead behind the center blonde suddenly stepped up, her shoulder appearing to - did I just see it slip through her friend's? This would be fun - before facing me and speaking in a condescending tone which made my earlier remark sound tame by comparison. "Don't bother, Sapphia. We'll put her in her place just fine on our own. Anya, summoning time."
The other girl, the only one that had yet to say anything, had teal tinted short hair obscuring her right eye. The girl stood there, staring rather apprehensively between her friend and myself. Feet shuffling slightly when called upon before tentatively taking a step forward.
The redhead then proceeded to walk right through me and remain there, almost as if she were trying to possess me. Wait a minute… I flexed my fingers on my left hand to find them meet a little more resistance than normal.
So her ability wasn't just to make herself completely intangible… she could freely adjust her tangibility and use the middle stages to bind people, couldn't she? Even better! "So you can adjust your tangibility, huh? Fun. Ira, step back for a second."
Ira stepped back without a word, and I could feel vibrations in the air which suggested that she'd shrunk into herself… for me to feel it so clearly, she must've been trembling. Poor girl… but she'd given me the distance I needed to make my next move.
I casually stepped right out of the redheaded step-child's semi-tangible body before staring her right in her russet eyes while she momentarily flailed about as if my action pulled her way off balance. While she was distracted by the fact that her bindings had no effect on me, I used the opportunity to raise my left hand and lightly flick her on the nose, just to show I could. And whaddya know? It connected without much trouble.
Pretty simple counter, all things considered.
"You're irrelevant, apparently," I told her with a shrug of my shoulders before walking right through her to face the other two.
Anya stepped forward, clearly next in line to get shown up as her hand lowered toward the ground and a glowing teal light emitted from her palm. I could feel the activation of her aura, but… well, it was nothing special.
A light matching the color of her illuminated hand appeared on the floor in the form of a hexagonal glyph before a wolf raised out of the stone pathway with a rumbling snarl. Oh, how adorable, she called on a pet to help her out!
The ghost-like wolf turned to its master awaiting an instruction and all she did was gesture my way with her head.
The familiar's gaze then fell back onto me, meeting my eyes with a stone-cold, predatorial glare before immediately lashing out with a leap.
Only to fall into my open arms as I started petting its back with one hand and scratching behind its ears with the other.
It didn't even get the chance to bite me before its rage had been fully quelled, and it was reduced to a pup in ecstacy in my arms, its tail wagging back and forth as clear proof.
"You poor thing, being forced to follow the orders of such a sorry specimen…" I cooed at it, the tamed beast barking in chipper affirmation. "How about you do me a favor instead? Go for the redhead behind me."
I released it from my grasp before stepping aside just in time to watch it leap forth, attempting to sink its jaw into the redhead's arm, only to phase right through it like I expected. I watched this cycle rinse and repeat for a few seconds before shrugging with a smile and turning away. Just like this, both of the queen bee's lackeys were rendered completely useless.
"So what now, Sapph?" I called out to the only relevant opponent left, my devilish smirk from earlier returning. "Still think using your aura makes you three better than me? Because at this point, I think the results speak for themselves."
"Oh, please, you have to be using some kind of trick or something to mess with them," the girl tried to counter. "Tricks can only get you so far. Even something like that can't get you moving anywhere near fast enough without aura to keep up with me."
Once again, my smirk widened. So hers was a speed build, huh…? She had no idea what she was getting herself into. "Try me, princess. See what happens."
Rather than respond to me with words, she apparently decided to let her actions do the talking instead, immediately closing in for a right hook right to my face.
Unfortunately for her, such speed was so trivial to me that she may as well have been moving at a snail's pace. I effortlessly sidestepped her punch before using my own right hand to come up from under her arm and lock it into place, proceeding to immediately do the same thing to her left arm with mine before she even had a chance to react. I purposely kept it loose to avoid hurting her, but… with my strength, she certainly wouldn't be breaking free of this hold on her own.
"See, princess?" I whispered into her ear, watching out of the corner of my eye as both her lackeys gawked at us. "I told you I didn't need aura against the likes of you. Try and break free all you want - the only way you're getting out of this hold is by yielding and leaving both myself and Ira alone for the day."
She struggled against my grasp to no avail for a full ten seconds before giving up and slumping into it. "H-How-"
Her disbelief seemed to root her words into a grumble before I caught her glancing to Ira behind us, the girl's trembling finally quieting down in favor of just staring in disbelief and uncertainty.
"We're all late anyway," my captee muttered, bringing her eyes away from my real princess.
I couldn't help but wink at Ira as she stared at me like that, the temptation to reassure her in all this too strong not to. And the reaction I got out of her was adorable, because the slightly parted mouth she left cutely hanging open quickly snapped shut and a trickle of a blush reddened her pale cheeks.
"Just let go of me already."
She said we were already late, but if that were the case, I'd have heard the bell that sounded off the beginning of class, even if it only happened inside the school… which meant that we at least had a few seconds before class started.
Easily enough time to get there without being late.
"Ira, what's your classroom number?" I asked as I let go of Sapphia and walked over to the questionee.
The eyes that were looking at me just moments ago were averted now, and she held her chin low enough to avoid glimpsing my face as I came to a stop just in front of her.
A tiny movement caught my attention as she turned her head slightly away, but I got the soft answer I was patiently waiting for.
"030."
Perfect, it was a number and location I recognized from when I met the current principal there… which meant that getting there would be a cinch.
Without warning, I grabbed Ira by the waist and lifted her off the ground, a startled squeak coming out of her as I held her close. "Hold on tight, okay? We'll be there in the blink of an eye."
The blush I noticed earlier quickly spread to the rest of her face and her neck, even reaching so far as her ears as I smiled at her.
And as soon as she moved her hands from her bag strap to loop tightly around my back, I immediately rushed into action. My surroundings became a blur as I rushed through the school's entrance in no time flat, weaving my way in between students hurrying to make it to class before the bell with minimal effort. In a matter of seconds, I set her down right in front of the class labeled 030 by the placard sticking out into the hall.
"There we go," I said, pointing up at the placard before walking up to the door. "Now we won't be late. Shame about Sapphia and her posse, though. They're SOL."
The girl stumbled once she was down. I was close enough to catch her in the event she actually fell, but she steadied herself and finally looked up to my eyes after avoiding them in the last few interactions.
She almost looked thankful and relieved, but I could tell there was still lingering worry in her.
Right. She still had no idea I was joining her class. Just that I was joining the school.
"I-I'll… clear it with the teacher," Ira got out, and I watched her take the tiniest of steps back once she noticed how close she still was to me. "You'll probably be able to sit with me in my classes today."
If only she knew… that it wouldn't just be today. "Thanks, I appreciate it."
"Think he'll agree?" Anoel asked, eyes watching the numbers tick by as they stood in Beacon's tower elevator. Her hand swung softly back and forth, fingers interlaced with her wife's beside her.
"I'm not sure…" Ly replied, distractedly watching the floor number rise. "I'd like to think so, but Ozpin's always had his ground rules. And it is a bit early for her."
"But if we can prove she's ready, he doesn't have any reason to say no," Anoel replied, bringing her eyes back down to glance at Lylac's face at they neared the top. "He practically already wants her to join as it is."
Ly hummed thoughtfully as her eyes strayed toward the doors. "Perhaps, but I can't help but think that he won't be entirely on board..."
"That's why we're here in person, isn't it?" Ano asked back, her hand taking a firmer grasp of Ly's own with reassuring fingers before following that gaze to the door. "To convince him?"
Ly's eyes turned to Ano's as a small, apprehensive smile crossed over her lips. "Yeah, that's the plan."
"Then let's pull it off," Anoel affirmed with a sure nod, the elevator coming to a slow halt in the next few moments.
In an almost dull silence, the golden doors dinged and drew open, Ano bringing her attention forward again as Ozpin's office came into view just through the opening.
He was at his desk, the same place he usually sat on workdays like this. So long as he wasn't getting into any mischief with his students, anyway.
"Ah, you said you'd be coming today," the silvered man spoke calmly. His gaze turned up to meet their own as he brushed aside a stack of papers with light fingers. "Come in. I'm not busy."
"Of course you're not," Anoel replied curtly, giving Ly another look before stepping into the dark-floored office, lightly tugging Ly with her. "You never are."
"I suppose," Ozpin returned, standing just as Anoel and Lylac reached his glass desk. "Though, I can be partial to prioritizing my time as well. Especially for guests like the two of you."
"Awe, come now, we've been friends for too long to just be 'guests'," Anoel said, a smirk crossing her face as she donned an insulted look. "Where's the usual coffee?"
"Brewing." Ozpin smiled back, regarding the two women with an air of familiarity. "It's nice of you to stop by, Anoel," he stated, bringing that look to Ly as well, "and Lylac."
"Good morning, Headmaster," Ly replied courteously, nodding her head with a light smile.
"I suppose it would be, if I wasn't spending long nights preparing for this coming semester," Ozpin replied.
For a moment, his young experienced eyes drew drowsy.
"First years predicted to be a handful this year, headmaster?" Anoel asked, her eyes drawing to Ly for a moment before nudging her wife toward one of the black chairs resting in front of Ozpin's desk.
Ly took a seat before watching her wife perch herself lightly on its armrest beside her. "Can't be as rough as admitting four affinity users and a cyborg."
Ozpin's small smile came back as he took his own seat, the smell of brewing coffee beans seeping into the air from beneath his desk.
Where he hid his coffee maker. A place always in arm's reach.
"You would be surprised," he returned evenly. The man glanced to the women sharing a chair for a moment before resting his arms on the glass in front of him, thinking nothing of it. "I've had my eyes on a particularly fast, yet still rather young individual. She's a prodigy. One with a kind heart."
"Something special about her?" Ano asked, though Ly nudged her leg to stop her from pressing for information. She couldn't help it, though.
"Records at Signal show her to bear silver eyes," Ozpin replied earnestly, an interest falling in his gaze as he locked eyes with Anoel again. "She's also the niece of an old friend of mine."
Anoel hummed lightly, Ly's hand starting to tighten around her own. She really wanted to ask more questions, but bit them back.
"Speaking of persons of interest," Ly interjected calmly, directing her firm gaze to Ozpin. "There's a reason why we've stopped by today."
Ano's chin dipped in a nod as the two watched Ozpin quirk a silver brow, his interest changing to regard them instead of his own thoughts.
"More than just a little small talk, anyway," Anoel tacked in, finally getting past the question lodged in her throat from earlier.
Ozpin's arms adjusted for a moment on the desk as he interlaced his fingers, bending his arms up to hide his lips behind their raised support.
Something he always did to hide his reactions. He always found it difficult hiding his intrigue…
"Would this be about the free admittance I've already given to your daughter?" he asked, eyes peering through unkempt silver bangs as he tilted his head forward.
"It is," Anoel replied, catching a small twinge in his cheek behind his hiding hands. The signs of a small smile. "We… think she'll be ready to attend this coming semester."
"She's not doing well at Signal…" Ly cut in abruptly, a small frown forming on her delicate brow. "We were discussing her options and… we think she'd progress better here, at Beacon."
A long few seconds ticked by as Ozpin stayed indifferent in front of them. And Anoel wasn't sure what she should make of what she was getting from him.
There was intrigue and excitement… but an underlying layer of worry and doubt, as well.
That was only natural, from him, though. Especially regarding Ira, and the rest of his student populous.
"I… suppose it wouldn't be an issue to advance her ahead by two years. However, despite the potential she has as a student," he slowly replied, his voice keeping an even tone to avoid betraying any internal conflicts in him, "she lacks control."
An immediate dejected look crossed Ano and Ly's faces as they traded glances, but Anoel came here to help with her daughter's problem at Signal. They both did.
They couldn't let it be easily turned dow-
"That being said," Ozpin continued, finally leaning his face away from his hands as he sat back in his seat. "If she can prove she has that control, then I see no problem with admitting her into my academy this year."
Ly was the first to snap her attention back to the headmaster, eyes shining a little as she smiled.
"She'll be ready," Anoel cut back in now too, a confident firmness in her voice. "It'll be something to look forward to, for her."
Ozpin's face kept its indifference, though, his eyes trading glances between the two women.
"There is, however, one other condition I'd like to be considered."
Ano and Ly quickly traded a mutually confused glance before turning back to face him. "And that is?"
The headmaster's look grew pensive for a moment before continuing. "Ira's cousin has been… to put it bluntly, and to quote the council, 'stealing real huntsman's jobs' across the board."
The evenly stated phrase caught the two women off guard, a final moment of intrigue crossing his face as he smirked.
"If you can convince her to join Beacon this year as well, it'll give her a 'real' huntress title," he finalized, his voice losing its professionalism for a moment as he broke his gaze away. "The council won't have much reason to complain, after that."
Ly was the first to respond, donning a smirk of her own. "When you say 'stealing real huntsman's jobs', what exactly do you mean?"
"To surmise the notice I received earlier this month," Ozpin responded. "She's too skilled and efficient to be a petite little sixteen-year-old girl."
"Seriously?" Anoel asked, smirking from her spot on Ly's chair. "They're complaining that a little girl's showing up their big boy huntsmen?"
"That is exactly the case," Ozpin confirmed, returning the smile.
Ly chuckled to herself lightly. "Oh just wait until she hears about this…"
"I believe it will apply some leverage to her decision. However, I doubt that would be all it takes to convince her to join," Ozpin replied, bringing his eyes back to Ly now. "She has her father's stubbornness."
"We can convince her," Anoel said, feeling a bit more confident than she was before. Getting that girl to join wasn't going to be too difficult. There was too much Arex in that girl not to be.
"Assuming we can find her," Ly commented to the side before turning her gaze to the window. "She's a vagrant one, so unless you'd happen to know where she is, Headmaster, it might prove a little difficult."
"I can tell you she's in the Kingdom," Ozpin informed, sparking Ly's attention again as the two women looked back to him. "Rumors are circulating that Grimm are ammassing on Sanus. That would no doubt draw her here, to the city."
"Well, she does live here too, albeit in two houses," Ly replied calmly. "She's bound to come back regardless."
"If she's in Vale, I can track her down," Anoel stated, keeping her voice as calm as her wife's as she pulled out her black scroll. It wouldn't be hard finding the girl through her network, considering how many jobs she takes up at a time. "Won't be long, either."
"Good. I believe we have a deal, then?" Ozpin asked, fully resting his arms on the desk as he looked to the both of their rising faces.
"We do," Anoel agreed, nodding her head in agreement with her wife's mirrored nod.
"Then if all goes well," Ozpin finalized, standing from his chair. "I'll be seeing both of them here come initiation."
Anoel's attention perked up as she stood, her hand finding its way back into Ly's to help her up at her side before bringing her eyes back to Ozpin. "That reminds me."
His attention turned to her, Anoel's smile lessening in wake of it as she dropped the playful octave she'd been using throughout the meeting.
"I have a few suggestions for initiation this year, if you wouldn't mind discussing them."
After another few seconds of silence, Ozpin rested his arms behind his back as he regarded her with a small spike of interest.
"What did you have in mind?"
Co-Author: A New Username
Co-Author: HydraFlow
Xera: Hopefully you don't mind the bit of first person for Kamiko. It's nothing too new, considering that's how Niro's written in Rogue Huntsman (assuming you read that). If you haven't read that, well, I restate my first sentence.
We'll try to use good judgment calls on which scenes are portrayed through who, and considering those will only take place when Ira and Kamiko are in the same scene, you don't have much to worry about.
We'll find a fitting way to trade that perspective back and forth.
On a side note, and to sum things up a little, Ira freaked out, Kamiko showed off, Ira freaked out again, Ano and Ly were sweettalked by Ozpin, and now you're all going to be introduced to a new character come next chapter.
Ira's cousin.
Username: One of my all time favorite OCs in fact.
Omake: Coup de Cousin
"To surmise the notice I received earlier this month," Ozpin responded. "She's too skilled and efficient to be a petite little sixteen-year-old girl. Her weapons are bigger and more developed than her body. And she, to also directly quote the council, 'doesn't even have a driver's license'."
Anoel was stunned, but smirking all the same from her spot on Ly's chair. "They're complaining that a little girl's showing up their big boy huntsmen with their big boy toys?"
"Not only that. Each member of the council has been trying to undercut Ira's cousin and her sources of missions by redirecting any real requests away from her immediate vicinity," Ozpin replied, returning the smile. "They say she's 'cheating' and hasn't been fulfilling the requests 'desirably'."
"And… that's actually being taken at face value?" Ly asked.
"Not at all. Riots have broken out across the coast, small girls have been seen putting on masks and breaking windows, and the council has been getting girly dolls with knives and toy guns mailed to them ever since an unnamed individual leaked that particular notice."
That time, Ano couldn't help but laugh a little at that. "Well, that doesn't sound so bad."
"I suppose not. But I believe the main thing the council's been focused on has been this particular girl's continued efficiency, despite their best efforts to sabotage her."
"That's just in her nature, though," Ly replied calmly. "To overcome obstacles."
"The issue with that is, with recent political movements and demand for adult rights for young girls hitting the streets enmasse, I'm afraid the council may take violent action," Ozpin clarified.
"You're afraid civilians will get hurt?" Ly asked.
"No…" Ozpin replied calmly. "I'm afraid someone may hire Ira's cousin to take the council down, and succeed."
"Oh…"
"I still want that girl in my school, by the way," Ozpin made sure to clarify again. "Coup or not."
