Callista smiled at Ivan when they got back to the Ironclad Yard with both of them fully dry from earlier's situation. "So what are we going to get next?" he asked so she checked the book

"We need to get a part of the fiery clouds" she said making Ivan groan "But aren't those found in the highest part of the skies?" he complained.

"You're right. How will we be able to get up there?" she wondered and looked up at the sky. "Ah!" she exclaimed and looked at Ivan who was leaning tiredly on a tree

"Let's use magic to get up there" she suggested so Ivan scratched his neck "Do we need to? You don't know how windy it is up there" he said, obviously not happy at what their about to do.

"It's a much better option rather than to fail Witchcrafts. Didn't you say you wanted to pass this subject?" she asked back so Ivan squinted his eyes.

"But it's annoying up there" he whined and even pointed to the sky "I can go there myself if you really don't want to" she assured and cast a magic spell below her feet as an arcane circle appeared.

"W-Wait, Callista" Ivan stopped her with cold sweat when he moved so that he could followed her, they were suddenly moved up into the sky with the magic circle as their ground.

The strong wind slapped their faces so much that Callista had to tie her hair to make things easier "It is windy up here like you said, Ivan" she said and took a jar in her shoulder bag but then noticed that it was too quiet.

"Ivan?" she called out and turned behind her to see him sitting down with trembling feet.

Callista didn't know what to say with what she was currently witnessing "Ivan" she called but Ivan stubbornly avoided her gaze "W-What?" he answered as she blinked.

"Don't tell me the reason why you stubbornly didn't want to be here because you're afraid of heights?" she asked and Ivan quickly glared at her and scoffed.

"Who's afraid of what? Ha! You're becoming delusional, Callista" he huffed and was about to carefully stand up when the wind struck them that nearly made them stumble making Ivan sit back down contradicting his earlier words.

"S-So what if I'm afraid, huh!? Got a problem with that!?" he literally yelled at her and Callista could only shake her head "Of course not Ivan" she chuckles "I'll make this quick" she said and opened the jar and leaned in to take a piece of the cloud.

"Hey! Hey! You might fall!" he panicked "You should worry about yourself more" she said and closed the jar before the cloud could fly away.

"What did you say- Ahhh!" Ivan shouted in fear when they quickly moved down again like an elevator.

Callista studied the cloud in the jar before thrusting it back inside the bag "Great! Just two things left" she chirped and looked at Ivan who momentarily vomited.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry, if I knew I wouldn't have forced you like that. Why did you follow me when your scared?" she worriedly asked "Why should I not?" he asked back and wiped his lips "Why are you so afraid though?" she asked and Ivan's expression became grim.

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"I lost my brother there" Callista pursed her lips at his answer "Oh...sorry" she quickly said and avoided eye contact as the atmosphere became uncomfortable.

"How about you? Why are you afraid of the water?" he asked back, his expression changing back. The memory flashed back by his question before smiling at him.

"I drowned when I was a child" she said and turned her back on him "Next up is a petal of a Letisian flower" she said "What? Don't those grow in high mountains? How can we get that!?" Ivan complained again.

"We can use magic again as we did earlier" she suggested and Ivan was obviously against it "Hell no!" he exclaimed "Then let's begin the hike" she said with a smile, completely ignoring him.

They started hiking up just to search for a flower that normally grows in high places.

Callista's ears were bleeding by Ivan's nonstop complaints about how his feet were tired and he was hungry, she decided to just ignore it.

She stopped in her tracks when her attention caught a flower upon a hill. "Ivan, there" she said and pointed in it's direction "Finally" he groaned and quickly ran towards it and Callista followed.

Callista stared up and so did Ivan "How do we get it though?" she asked in confusion, Ivan studied the position of the flower and licked his lips.

"I think we can struck it to let it fall" he said and pointed his palm at the direction of the flower "Won't that be dangerous?" Callista worriedly asked.

"It'll be fine but you should be careful about the rocks" he said so Callista looked at her feet when a pebble dropped "Be careful not to cause a landfall" she reminded.

Ivan prepared himself as lightning flickered on his fingers, he used his finger to struck a weak lightning.

"How about you try a little stronger?" Callista said which made Ivan purse his lips "This is a lot harder than expected" he sighed.

Ivan concentrated really hard and flicked his finger but it seems like he let out too strongly than the hill began to break.

"Callista!" Ivan shouted for her when he noticed it was about to fall on top of her, she quickly looked up and saw a huge boulder about to fall towards her.

With a little difficulty, she managed to cast a spell as an arcane circle appeared on her palms which made the boulder turn to sand "Are you okay? Did you get hurt?" Ivan worriedly asked so she smiled at him.

"I'm okay" she answered "I'm really sorry! I should be more careful!" Ivan groaned "It's alright Ivan. Fortunately, you didn't struck the flower" she pointed at the flower which was still in it's place.

Ivan chewed on his lip as if he was contemplating "Alright, I think I can do it now" Callista smiled and looked up when she heard his confidence.

Ivan took a deep breath before flicking his finger to struck a not too weak, nor too strong lightning so that he could uproot the flower. He successfully caught it gently and gave it to her.

"Are we finished now?" he asked while stretching his arms "Nope, we still need one more but it will be hard, we need a tear of sadness" she said

"Tear of sadness? We have to take tears that were caused by sadness?" he asked so Callista nodded before silence embraced them. They both didn't know how to get it "Can you cry right now?" Callista asked so Ivan shook his head.

"How about you?" Ivan asked back so she shook her head "I don't feel like crying right now" silence once again became present.

"Ah! I have an idea!" Ivan exclaimed so Callista's eyes sparkled.

"Really? What?" she asked so Ivan smirked "Just follow me" he said and pulled her.

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When Ivan said that he had an idea, she wasn't expecting this "Ivan, just what kind of bullshit are you doing?" she said as she watched how Ivan told stories to a group of children from the Elementary School department of the Academy.

"Poor Fairy!" the little girl cried as Ivan continued his drama. It didn't last long when Ivan came back with a bottle with tears "You used the children?" she widened her eyes at him in disbelief so Ivan shrugged with a grin.

"What? Don't look at me like that! At least we got the ingredients" he said so she elbowed him in the stomach.

"But I didn't say anything about making children cry. What was that shit about the fairy?" she said "What do you mean shit? I am highly offended Callista." he said and held his chest as if he was stabbed.

"Don't ask me though. I just let out everything that came to mind" Ivan shrugged which made her chuckle "What's up with that?" her shoulders shook from laughter.