Nathan just brushed off Reala's insult with a sigh "eh, it's fine; I'm used to people hating me on principle. If anything, I find her blatant hostility kind of nice; it's something familiar for me." It also helped that he felt she was pretty bad at insulting people, he had heard far worse verbal barbs in his life. However, his attention was quickly caught when the teacher did something very familiar to him '[i]what the hell!? Did...did he just do what I think he did? I thought that was my trick. Are you telling me that it's something that lots of people know how to do? That's...disappointing[/i]' So a trick that he had developed in a moment of sheer desperation was in fact, not unique. That was a blow to his already fragile ego. Although, there wasn't any imminent danger, so at least there was that.