Relic of the Future: Chapter 126

Surfacing with a laugh, he remembered briefly what his dad had done, turning in the water as Vernal's voice came howling down the tunnel. The girl came shooting out like a canon and he caught her hips with both hands and a wide grin.

There was a moment of shock. Vernal's eyes widened and her cheeks flushed bright red before, with a grin, Jaune kicked off the floor and tossed her into the air. Vernal shrieked in alarm and flailed her limbs before splashing down into the deeper part of the pool. She surfaced spluttering and angry, though his laughter soon had her smiling, unable to stop herself.

Emerald came firing out a moment later and he completed the same motion, snatching her up before she could fully slow down and hurling her back, technically both saving her from anyone else coming down, but more importantly giving her a long arch of weightless panic before she splashed back down like a bomb. People on the sides of the pool laughed and cheered, while one of those photographers who'd try to sell you overpriced pictures at the front gates gave him a thumbs up. If he could get shots of those two flailing around in the air like idiots, he might just buy.

"That was awesome!" Vernal crowed. "Again! Again!"

Him and his sisters had loved it when Nicholas did that, too. It'd been a game either at a park or even just the lake they visited. They'd line up on the shore and their father would show off his huntsman strength by hurling them into the water. Depending on whether he went overarm or underarm, you could get some serious air.

—Relic of the Future: Chapter 126