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A wry smirk, and Izzy adds, "It's a common joke for the streamers I follow to look at their viewer data, see 1 viewer from Frypan, and then they give me a quick shout-out."
Peppa grins in response to her cousin moving to a lighter topic. "Heh, that's pretty cool!"
Izumi shakes her head. "It doesn't feel cool when it happens. Whenever they do it, it's a reminder that I'm the only one in my country who has access to my comforts."
Peppa cringes some more. "Ehhh, maybe you can fix that? Make life comfier for everyone?"
"That's what I'm trying to do," Izumi says. "I need to learn a whole lot though, so I can tackle these problems better."
Peppa tries to encourage and discourage her cousin all at once, "But you don't need to stress yourself that much, you're only 16. You have time. Like, for real, Videl is 20 and she's still in high school!"
Izumi frowns. "There's something that stinks about that, but she was born in 756 and she was in the freshman courses two years ago."
"I think she was held back a few years from all the traveling her parents did for bouts and shows."
"Hm, her parents are performers," Izzy says, looking off in the distance. "Probably good at what they do, to have something to show for it. Wish my parents had something like that."
"Hey, I'm a huge fan of what your parents produced!" Peppa cheers, pointing at her cousin.
"Har. Hope I can live up to the hype." She smirks, then looks back down at her work. She clicks her tongue. "rrrrgh, can't even focus on this."
"Ooh... sorry cuz. I can quiet down." Actually, she's surprised the nurse hasn't thrown them out for all the whispering. <span class="mu-i">"This work better? Unless it's too distracting?"</span>
Izumi pinches her nose. <span class="mu-i">"...it's not your fault, talking with you is fun. Just, can't really mix fun and studying."</span>
<span class="mu-i">"Can't you? Like, mix the two, a little? Try to make it a game?"</span>
She sighs. <span class="mu-i">"It's work. I don't enjoy shoving this info into my brain, no matter how how gifted a child Mamá says I am, nor how much more evolved Papito keeps saying my Tuffle Brain is."</span> She swipes a hand down her shirt, and pouts. <span class="mu-i">"Where are my gifts, Mamá?"</span>
"Pfft!" Peppa stifles the giggle, and asks, <span class="mu-i">"Uncle says that too? Thought it was just my mom."</span>
So the two of them got information downloaded into their toddler brains like "whoa," then they got some GEDs, and finally their good rich buddy Bulma Briefs bankrolled them some university programs. And yet, both of them insisted on enrolling their own children into public education, despite how 'advanced' their own learning was. Funny, that.
Izzy rolls her eyes. <span class="mu-i">"I think they just want to convince us they had something to pass down besides shortness. Which I managed to dodge, thankfully."</span>
Peppa gives the stink-eye. <span class="mu-i">"Yes, being short is such a loathsome state, how dreadful an existence I lead."</span>
