8.
So he decided to visit her, for the first time in a while. At least today he had the excuse of taking her home and her insisting he come along. As she did sometimes. Which was strange in its own way.
"The chiefs are making me go to magic school." She said this in a voice of utter distaste. "They're making Nee-san teach."
Koh would have stopped dead if that hadn't just clicked the world into place in the most annoying way for him. "Why? She's sixteen. You're eleven."
"According to Glare," She paused as delicately as she could muster so he could wince. Koh couldn't explain what Glare had done, had just… let happen, would have done, had been waiting for an opportunity to do, after doing all he had to get Koh free from his own life. He couldn't think about it. "It's because of two things: they're desperate for a full staff and time travel shenanigans."
Koh did stop this time. "What the shit."
Yuki shrugged. "It's weird right? But no one else has the free time now, seeing as they've gotta catch up after all those unfilled missions. And I dunno much about the time travel, but considering how this place is floating it seems legit."
"... Uh huh." That put a damper on things.
"Yep." She turned her head back in his direction (which never bothered him like it bothered most of the Night Claw he came across. She'd always been blind to him.) and grinned. "So whatever you've gotta say, Coach, better make it quick."
… "You little shit," he finally managed to say.
She laughed.
