"I don't want to go through that again..." LilyBlizz said, shuddering a little. 

Her body still felt stiff for being tied up for so long with a bunch of ropes and her ears... Oh man, her ears... The sound waves she was hearing now were all fuzzy and numb, causing her to feel completely uncomfortable to the silence.

"Hahaha, I can see that very well!" UnlikelyKing laughed cheekily.

Her voice was crystal clear unlike the silence that was taking over her friend's room whenever they went quiet. It really just pierced through LlilyBlizz's auditory tube and to her ear drums sharply due to the fact that her ears were still recovering from the constant lecture that came from Ryoma and Xander.

"What's next on the list..? It's your turn to prank, King.." she said, shivering a bit more. "My body feels all numb and my ears are about to fall off..."

Giggling, UnlikelyKing looked at the list for the next task they wanted to do. LilyBlizz tiredly plopped onto her futon, her face first into the pillow, and blindly looked for her bottled water. UnlikelyKing pushed it over to her without looking and rolled up the list again before stashing it back into the belt of her kimono.

"I am to try to catch anyone in a net trap," she said, giggling a bit. "Minus Setsuna. How exciting..!"

Apparently, her giggle was a sign that she was unfazed by the thought of any form of possibilities that could happen to her, to anyone really. The girls and everyone in the astral barrier were trained to create a trap for hunting since they all took turns on the job to gather their resources, so this wasn't going to be much of a trouble for UnlikelyKing. The only thing she needed to worry was who was going to step into it.

"I'll let you rest before I start our next task on the list.." said UnlikelyKing as she gave LilyBlizz a pat.

The girl nodded and sighed as she rested up her body after running so hard to get away from the two most craziest, or so she thought, retainers she could ever be chased by. It was a tiring feat, but she made it. She somehow survived.

"King..... Did I pass....?" LilyBlizz asked.

"Yes, you did. One stupendous point for you, Lily," she laughed.

"Oh thank the gods..."

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After about an hour of resting and snacking on some fruits, the girls set out once more to start on their second attack. Hopefully, no one was going to have their weapons with them when they get caught. It'll be quite dangerous if they did and results wouldn't be as smooth as the girls wanted it to be.  First and foremost, building a net.

"If Setsuna comes by, you'll have to keep her away," LilyBlizz told her friend.

UnlikelyKing nodded as she focused on building her net trap, swiftly knotting up the ropes together to create the stiff net she wanted to build. She then buried it under some dirt and pink petals to conceal it and prevent it from being seen by the eyes of anyone else before slinging a rope onto a tree branch to tie it off elsewhere.

"Hope for the best, Lily... Hope for the best..." UnlikelyKing said as she took out the scroll and handed it over.

"Oh, and make sure you don't get caught or it'll be considered a fail," LilyBlizz told her, accepting the scroll and putting it in her own belt.

"Alright."

The girls nodded as they went off to hide, LilyBlizz climbing up a different tree to sit on and watch while UnlikelyKing headed off to a nearby building to sit in. It was boring just sitting there and watching nothing happen for the past few minutes; really, none of the soldiers actually passed by the trap UnlikelyKing had created. Well, not just yet... 

LilyBlizz was bored out of her mind as well while she continued to stare at the ground that had UnlikelyKing's trap hidden around the area. Eventually, she started to hum to herself quietly, quiet enough so that nobody heard her even if they were right underneath her tree. Fiddling around with her kimono's giant sleeves, she began to think who the victim was going to be.

UnlikelyKing, on the otherhand, began to mindlessly play with a lock of her hair, twirling it around her index finger and passing it to her middle finger. With her thumb, she'd split the lock in two before using her middle finger to grabbed it and twirl it around her index finger again. Her sleeves were held down by her other hand at the crook of her elbow.

This sucked... More than it should have-- to say the least. The sun was slowly sinking back into the horizon, the colors of orange, yellow, and some hint of purple and blue decorated the sky just like how paint would decorate a canvas when blended on neatly. Just now, the two girls caught sight of the fluttering cherry blossom petals flowing across their views even though it has been there when they sat wherever they were. More and more people began to pass by their traps without knowing it and their little-to-no anticipations began to grow.

"Oooh, who's going to get caught in this trap...??" UnlikelyKing said to herself. 

LilyBlizz, by now, had completely stopped humming as well as playing with her sleeves to watch the soldiers come and go until the lucky one set foot into UnlikelyKing's brilliant trap. It was almost dinner time which explained why there were suddenly increasingly high numbers of people walking past the area.

'Come on.... Someone....' UnlikelyKing chanted in her head repetitiously. 'Someone... someone...'

Eventually, the trapped activated. Who was it? Why it was the lucky Xander, of course! Oh dear.. The man was now hung in a net with his left leg and arms sticking out uncomfortably between the holes of the nets UnlikelyKing created. Maybe the holes were too big? 

"......... Lily...!!!!!" he scowled.

'Oh come on...!!' LilyBlizz hissed leaving the area unseen.

UnlikelyKing stifled a laugh and pretended that she wasn't even a part of the scheme, but truly did she feel guilty for doing this and having her friend act as bait just added to it. Now the question was: How does she get Xander out of there without getting caught? UnlikelyKing thought for a bit until she remembered one thing: magic.

"Any useful tomes around here......?" she asked outloud, looking around the building. 

Fortunately enough, the building was the storage room also known as their convoy. She began searching for any scroll or tome she barely used so that Xander doesn't catch her after he was set free from her trap. He was probably going to look for LilyBlizz after all.

"I'm sorry, Lily...!" Unlikely apologized to herself as if her friend was nearby to accept the apology. 

Quickly, she ran off to an area free of trees yet hidden from Xander's sight to use the wind tome she now had in her hand. The High Prince of Nohr was busy struggling to get himself out of the trap without any help at the moment. 

"Thank the gods he doesn't have a weapon on himself right now," UnlikelyKing said, taking aim at the sturdy rope that held the net trap in place.

Quickly, the girl casted a wind, stripping the ropes from most of its waxed up strings that kept its perfect cylindrical structure. Xander caught sight of it and looked around to see who it was that casted the spell, but spotted no one in sight. UnlikelyKing was quick enough to hide herself from him, hoping for the best.

"Hm..." he hummed.

But before he knew it, the rope gave way and snapped due to his weight, causing him to drop into the dirt and petals.

"W-WHOA!" he hollered, grunting when he made contact with the ground.

Wincing a little, the prince stood up and brushed himself off free from dirt that clung to his clothes, walking away as if nothing happened. He probably thought if he played it cool, no one would know what he got himself into nor would he even embarrass himself.

"Jeez, he's stern.." UnlikelyKing commented.

All she needed to do was to walk around as if nothing had happened and get away with it. It wasn't going to be that terribly hard since Xander had his mind and eyes set on LilyBlizz in the meantime. Who knows what kind of trouble the archer was going to get herself into this time even though it wasn't too much of her fault.

"I'll just.... go the opposite direction of where Lily is now...." she told herself quietly, slipping away from her hiding spot. "I should see her after the lecture is over or something."

And so, the mage went off to take a walk around the area and chat up with some of the passing soldiers. She didn't even bother cleaning up the trap just yet since her time to conceal her scheme was now. She didn't want to fail the task at hand just yet. Not now. 

"Oh how I feel so bad to do this.." she told herself, looking around for Xander.

The mage continued to wait until the number of bodies that kept walking by diminished and that the First Prince of Nohr was nowhere to be found before she headed back to the trap, ridding it somewhat forever. UnlikelyKing swiftly took the net trap back to convoy and loosened all the knots she created on the ropes before she grabbed a fire tome to burn the cut ends she made earlier together for reusing.

"There... Hopefully no one knows what had happened just now was because of me.." she told herself as she left. "I'm hungry.... It's almost dinner yet Lily is still nowhere around me..."

Extra:

LilyBlizz was just walking around casually as if she was an innocent girl minding her own business at the moment. Secretly, the girl pulled out the scroll as well as her trusty quill and wrote down UnlikelyKing's name next to the second task they jotted down the night before in the same fashion UnlikelyKing had done for the first one. She was hoping that nothing was going to come get her as she stashed the list and writing tool away again. She hoped too soon.

"LILY!!!!!!!!!!" Xander exclaimed loudly, running up to her from behind.

The girl looked over at him and paled at the sight, turning back to high-tail it out of there. His stern, cold-stoned face was scaring her terribly especially when he was suddenly running after her at full speed like a runaway locomotive train. Heck, he was even leaving dust behind as he sprinted like mad.

"A-aAaaAaAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" the girl screamed, running away from the blond prince. "WHY ARE YOU CHASING AFTER ME ALL OF A SUDDEN?!?!?!??!!"

"YOU KNOW WHY I AM!!" he claimed, trying to catch up to the tiny girl.

"I DON'T!!!!!"

She quickly took out the scroll and fumbled around with her instrument before jotting down something.

"Holy CRAP!!! NOODLES IS GOING NOODLES!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, her voice completely high pitched. "PASS! IT'S A PASS!!!!!! KINGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"LILY, GET BACK HERE!!!!" the prince hollered again.

Apparently, her friend was nowhere near her at the moment, so she did not hear her cry for backup. Tears were pricking the corners of her eyes once again as she ran for sweet dear life, her legs carrying her as far as she could see. Thank goodness the kimono was loose enough for her to run in or she would've tripped as well as get caught immediately.

"HALT, DAMN IT!!!! LILY!!!" the Nohrian prince exclaimed.

"MY LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" LilyBlizz sobbed as she continued to run away. "I SEE IT FLASHING BEFORE ME!!!!!!"

Xander wasn't going to back down anytime soon. LilyBlizz knew she was going to get in trouble either way, but kept running anyways, passing by Laslow without knowing it.

"I'M INNOCENT, I SWEAR!!!!!!!" the archer hollered.

Xander swiftly grabbed his retainer and forced him to run with him, earning a confused look from the mercenary who followed along.

"Get that troubling archer for me, will you?" Xander ordered.

"U-uh-- Yes, sir..!" he swiftly answered, running ahead.

Again, the girl was caught, just hanging onto Laslow's arm that trapped her from escape. There goes another lecture from the prince...

××××

LilyBlizz             Pass: 1          Fail: 0

UnlikelyKing     Pass: 1          Fail: 0

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