The scifi setting

Rio looked at the girl beside him and said "Is this how you greet your friends now? No wonder no one visits you once they leave the academy."

Hearing his words and that amusing laugh, The girl increased her strength around his neck, just trying to choke him. "You little, it seems you really did grow up a little huh. Now you're even talking back to me."

Rio placed his hand on her stomach and released a wave of mana, blasting her in the air. "I can even beat you up now. Why won't I dare."

"You, good very good." The girl said as she stood on a metal platform in the air, and looked at him aggrievedly. "I'll blast out pain receptors again, see how you come crying to me then." She said, as she jumped down the platform.

"Do that, and I'll tell your grandpa, that you're the one who scrapped _ "