I spent the 3 days before the start of the classes together with Emilia, Andrew and Mark. It’s cause I didn’t have anything else to besides that. Reading in my room was lonely and according to Emilia, the library was still prohibited. She said that it’ll open officially once the school starts. Also, whenever I eat in the canteen, Emilia would refrain from eating with me cause she was a servant. But for lunch where it was only me, Andrew and Mark, she would eat together me. It seems she’s really fussy about my image to others.

During those times, I discovered a lot about them. Like how Andrew and Mark grew up from the same village. Mark told me that the reason why he enrolled to Farlingstad Magic Academy was because of Andrew.  I wanted to ask him why, but when I saw the sparkles on his eyes during that time greatly discouraged me. It felt like the answers he would tell me wouldn’t fit a day.

For Emilia, I discovered that she grew up from in an orphanage. She was told by the people who ran the orphanage to go to a school because she was really talented and smart. Since she was like me, a seven year old kid, the people in the orphanage took care of all the papers and procedures necessary to enroll to a school. All she did was to take an exam and was tested for any magical talent. Although her knowledge was great, it seems that her magical talent was even lesser than mine. So she was placed in the general studies.

Andrew then supplemented me that the person who tested me at the gate was in fact, the Principal of this school. When I heard what he said, my thoughts about this place being the game world were blown away. It’s because in the game, the principal of the school wore expensive robes and was quite young. The two were very different to one another.

Today, I along with Emilia was walking down a covered path leading to the great hall. Similar to the first day, I was woken up really early and because of that, the pathway was empty. When we arrived to the great hall, I was awed by the scene that was burned into my eyes.

The place was really vast and various banners hung on the walls of the hall. The seats numbered by the thousands and were arranged in a semicircular formation that slowly rose up a step higher the farther. On top of the stage were hundreds of luxurious seats were line, hung the four banners of the great families, which was kinda expected.

The place we chose was the most inconspicuous spot, a pair of seats at the back of the top right corner of the hall. Since we didn’t have anything else to do, I started chatting with Emilia. By the way, she was wearing the same clothes as me making me feel a bit closer to her. The only difference between our clothes was the lack of the clover design though.

“Nee, Emilia, are you curious of what they’ll teach us?”

“I’d be lying if I say that I wasn’t.”

“Then, can you tell me what you expect?”

“Hmm… I think they’ll teach us how to read and write.”

Hearing her answer, I then remembered how seven year old kids were taught in my memories. They would only be taught about the basics of writing, reading and math. I became worried what I would do if I were to spend my time like that.

“Then… during the afternoon? Do you have any idea what our schedule will be?”

“I think we’ll be free to do anything in afternoon. Since we don’t have any classes for magic unlike the elites.”

I breathed a sigh of relief the moment she told me that. Emilia then knitted her eyebrows and faced me with a worried expression.

“Umm… is there something wrong. Miss Lumina?”

“N-nothing… nothing’s wrong. I was just thinking of something.”

I became flustered by her question and panicked while I moved my hands in an attempt to hide my face.

“… something?”

“I was just thinking if it’d be good if the afternoon was free and all.”

“Do you have any plans in the afternoon? I think Mark and Andrew won’t be in the stables at that time, Miss Lumina. Since they’re older, I think they’ll finish their lessons late in the afternoon.”

“Ahh, well, I was thinking of something else.”

“Something else?”

Emilia tilted her head to the side as she asked me that question. It seemed that my habit of tilting my head infected her.

“Well, since the library will be open after this, wouldn’t it be great if we’d read some books there?”

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When she heard my answer, she became crestfallen and depressed. I wondered why she became like that and when I was about to ask her what was wrong, I heard her mutter something in a muffled voice.

“Umm… the classes haven’t started… so I don’t know how to read.”

I became surprised by her and grabbed her soft cheeks with my hands. I then made her look at me in the eyes and with a big smile, I told, “Is that all? Don’t worry, I’ll teach you!”

Her eyes widened at my words while her small mouth opened and closed at a very fast rate. Seeing this, I quickly supplemented what I said.

“You have no right to refuse. Since you’re the servant assigned to me by the school. You’ll have to spend your time following me right? And wouldn’t it be boring not doing anything while I read books?”

“… yes.”

“Then, there’s nothing wrong with me teaching you!”

(I’ll also use this chance to review everything from Math to Algebra, Basic Science to Physics and others ways to use magic. It’d be bad if I become stupid because the lessons I’m gonna receive was on the same level as kindergartner.)

We continued to talk for a while and without us knowing, students started to gather in the great hall. The way how we were separated was quite clear though. Students that wore the uniform for the Elite Magic Students sat near the front along with their respective groups. While we the students of the general studies were seated at the back.

I became amused at the scene and started staring at them. It was right then that I discovered a familiar-looking witch’s hat following a boy that felt as if I had seen him somewhere. Narrowing my eyes, I focused on them and found out that the person with the witch’s hat was in fact, Eclara. She was the one who taught me magic two years ago.

“Isn’t she supposed to be travelling to search for a master?”

I muttered under my breath. I then switched my focus towards the seven year old boy who Eclara was following. I concluded the he must’ve been the master she had been searching for. He had blond hair with fiery red eyes. On his uniform were red stripes. Since he looked familiar, I tried my best to remember him but failed.

Moments later, three more people walked inside. Each of them were respectively followed by their own servants. What's more all of them looked to be around seven years old. I then thought that maybe this gathering were only for those new students like me.

The six of them walked in pairs and each pair wore the same colored stripes. Not one pair of people had the same colored stripes as the other pairs.

Though it bothered me why they seemed familiar, I tried to remember what the people in the game looked like. But because the last time I played that game was seven years ago, back when I was still alive in my previous life, my memories where quite hazy. I think I might remember them if I heard their name, but because they were part of the elites, our paths may never cross.

After 30 minutes had passed, the entire great hall was filled to the brim with students. A loud noise suddenly erupted stopping the whispers and murmurs of the students. In that moment, a group of people who wore expensive robes, dresses, gowns, and suits walked along the stage and sat on the chairs.

The person who was last to arrive walked towards the podium at the center of the stage.

He was the very same person who I met the gate, but unlike then, he was wearing a very expensive looking robe that had intricate designs. It was even laced with gold and silver along its edges.

Once he arrived at the podium, he moved his gaze throughout the stadium and with a deep breath, he started his speech.

“Young students from the various parts of the kingdom, I welcome you here to the Farlingstad Magic Academy…”

I felt that this speech was gonna be a really long and boring one, so I told Emilia to wake me up once it was done. And she accepted my request with a wry smile on her face.

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