"Will, Will, Will!"

"I heard you the first time."

"It been two weeks and people are still talking about your duel."

"I'm sure that they will get bored of it soon enough or something else will happen and everyone will be talking about that."

"Anyway can I copy your homework?"

"I haven't finished it yet, I started on the bus but I just do the rest in class."

"Did you do the maths I couldn't understand it?"

"That was easy, just don't copy this bit where I explained that the teacher has made a mistake on the question because he will know that you copied mine."

"You answer all of them I could only figure out these one."

"Well you got that one wrong already but I think a lot of people make that mistake. You know that I do self study during class but when I listen to him teaching you lot he actually makes lots of mistakes."

"How did you get so good at math?"

"How? Ha my dad made me study this stuff when I was six."

"What about the Geography homework?"

"Haven't done it yet. I'm just about to write it now."

"Can I copy it later then?"

"I will write a different version for you to copy, but I'm not going to make it as detailed as my own copy."

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"Anyway Bugga what are you going to do during the exams if you can't even do the homework?"

"I don't know probably fail them!"

"Well if you work on your magic maybe you can get a job hunting giant rats!"

"Rats are nasty I can't go anywhere near them."

"What I hear it pays good money killing rats and there are loads of them so you will have a job for life."

"Why would I want to kill rats for all my life."

"My dad keeps telling me I should hunt rats because I will never starve then. He is always telling me that I got to get a good job."

"But rats are nasty."

"Exactly that's why they pay you to kill them. I killed loads during the holidays, they even said that I should get a job there when I leave school."

"So you're going to be a giant rat hunter then?"

"Me of course not. I'm going to be hunting proper monsters. I'm just telling you cause I don't see you fighting anything bigger than a rat and you can barely count to 10."

"I can count to 10!"

"Last week you missed the number 7 and went straight from 6 to 8."

"I got distracted!"

"Well anyway what are you going to do then get a job in a supermarket?"

"I don't know."

"Well magic exams and magic duels are coming up if you do well maybe you will get scouted by a party of hunters who are looking for apprentices."

"That's what I'm planning on doing."

"But magic is really hard!"

"Just write down the chant and keep repeating it till you can use it without thinking."

"You don't even chant."

"I don't need to chant but I totally wrote them down and just read them when I needed to use them. Then I just said this is so annoying and started making them shorter and shorter till I didn't need to say anything."

"That still seems weird to me. No one else shortens chants."

"Well my dad made me learn them when I was seven."

"How do you learn to chant when you are seven?"

"I don't know why nobody else started learning to chant when they were seven. I mean seriously some people didn't even know what chanting was when they started going to this dumb school. What did you even learn at primary school?"

"I mostly just remember playing football all the time."

"Then how are you so bad at football then? Even I'm better at football than you."

"I'm not that bad at football."

"You and me are always the last two to get picked on the teams in gym class."

"I'm definitely better than you."

"Yeah okay anyway you better start practicing your magic or you will look really stupid in the magic duels."