“Miss Lumina, Please wake up… the ceremony’s over.”

I felt somebody shaking my body. Feeling a bit angry, I opened my eyes and saw Emilia looking at me with a worried face. Remembering that it was me who asked her to wake me up, I started rubbing my eyes.

“Is it over?”

“Yes.”

I covered my mouth while making a small yawn.

“What’s next?”

As I was asking her, I surveyed the surrounding and found that we were the last ones in the great hall.

“We need to hurry up or else we’ll be left behind! They’ve already started the tour.”

“Really? Let’s go then!”

I quickly stood up from my seat and walked towards the exit. Emilia also followed me. She was emitting quite an anxious atmosphere.

(Well, I guess it was my fault for sleeping. I probably need to apologize to her later.)

I entertained that thought while I slowly hastened my steps.

A few minutes later, we managed to catch up to a line of students. While breathing hard, I glanced towards Emilia and found her squatting on the floor. I made a wry smile and reached my hand out to her. She made a slight pouting face as she accepted my help.

“It was your fault to begin with.”

Although her voice was quite faint, I still managed to hear what she said. Since I couldn’t refute her, I made a dry laugh in response.

***

The tour finished and right now, we were heading back towards the dormitory.

“Though we still couldn’t use most of them, aren’t the facilities quite large and expensive?”

I spoke to Emilia who was walking besides me with a tinge of jealousy. After seeing all those things, who wouldn’t?

At the beginning of our tour, I was quite happy cause the facilities where we, the general studies students had access to, were quite luxurious. First was the giant library that contained more than 10,000 books and had a very soothing and calming environment. Next was the classy school park in the middle located at the back of the school. Lastly was the open café which had lots of sweets on the menu.

On the second part of our tour, my mood started rolling down a steep slope. The extravagance of the elites was really over the top. First was the field located at the center of the school. It was placed which was solely made for practicing offensive magic.

Next was the Great Magic Hall which was the entire right wing of the school. Though we were barred to even tour inside, I managed to catch some glimpses and found out that it was just another café. It had a more classy and luxurious atmosphere than the café we could enter.

I bet the cakes and biscuits there are really delicious. I even saw a four layered chocolate from the window! There wasn’t any wedding that was held, but they still had that! I became overcome with jealousy the moment I saw that cake.

As I reminisced what had happened on the tour, I started to frown. Emilia felt my mood becoming worse, started panicking.

“I think those things were just right for them. They are elites and can use more power magic than us.”

“So it comes down to talent, huh… Then, let’s try beating them in academics Emilia!”

I clenched my fist hard and faced Emilia. She stopped walking and her expression was frozen solid. I became a bit mischievous and poked one of her cheeks. She quickly backed away from me when my finger was about to touch her cheek and with a nervous expression she said, “Won’t we get scolded if we do better than them?”

The frown on my face became deeper.

“It’d be the opposite. They’d praise us instead if we do well.”

“Eh? Why?”

Question marks started floating on top of Emilia when she heard my answer.

“We’re students, so it’s our duty to study and if we’re really good at studying, then our results would become excellent.”

“Really?”

“Yep, really, so come to my room later tonight and bring 30 sheets of paper, a feather pen, and some ink.”

She suddenly became pale and asked me, “That many sheets? Why?”

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“Cause I won’t be teaching you one subject. Other than reading and writing, I’ll also teach you Math and science! We're gonna do this every afternoon till night starting today!”

“Eh?”

“Our goal for now is to make those elites regret not sharing any of their chocolate cake to us!”

“Eh?”

I then grabbed Emilia’s hands and hastily headed back towards the dormitory.

That night, I drilled the basics of writing, reading and some math into her. Though she managed to learn quite fast, her head started hurting when I introduced mathematics to her. So I gave up on teaching her science.

***

Even though I slept quite late last night, I still managed to wake up early. I ate my breakfast and along with Emilia, we groggily walked towards our classroom. Though we weren’t classmates since the population of us general studies student’s wasn’t that high, the building where our classes would be held was the same.

According to her, the number of students who were enrolled in the magic classes was roughly 2,300 while those who were enrolled in the general studies were 800. Furthermore, the 2,300 magic students were divided into four groups. Each student either belonged to red, blue, yellow, and green. Unlike us general studies which didn’t have any groups. In fact, we don’t even have a leader.

We arrived at the school building and separated near the stairways. Since I was a noble, my classroom was on the second floor while Emilia’s was on the first floor.

I opened the door of my classroom and was shocked to see that it was quite classy. The wooden chairs had a cushion and the desk was quite wide for a single student. The deep blue curtain that covered the windows to the paintings that hung on the walls made me doubt if this really was a place where first graders like me should learn.

While I was still a bit nervous, I entered the classroom and chose the seat farthest from the blackboard. Since Emilia was from a different class, I opened the bag I carried and took out some sheets of paper and started writing on it using a feather pen.

I was writing all the things that were related to science that I could remember. Starting from the basics of the four states of matter to elementary physics.

I continued writing and before I knew it, the classroom was already filled and the teacher had already entered. The number of students inside was 40, including me. The teacher looked quite dull and old which made me lose interest, but because he was the one in-charge, I still listened to him.

He had us do some introductions to one another. One by one, the students gave their names and expectations to the teacher. When it was finally my turn, I stood up from my chair and made a slight bow.

“Good morning classmates, my name is Lumina Chis Chem. The only daughter of a low ranking noble, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”

When I finished my introductions, I returned to my seat. The entire classroom became abuzz with mutters and whispers.

“How long has she been there?”

“I didn’t notice her at all!”

“She’s quite beautiful, why didn’t I see her during breakfasts?”

I became slightly depressed when I heard their whispers.

(Is my presence that thin? I was the first one to arrive! Why didn’t any of them notice me?)

The teacher clapped his hands to gather our attention and said that he was gonna begin the class. Since I already knew what he was gonna teach, I restarted what I was writing and stopped listening to him.

Sometimes, he would make me recite the numbers, the alphabets or had me read a book in front of my classmates to serve as a lesson for not listening to him. But because I already knew all of those things, I was able to answer him fluently and without me knowing it, our morning classes were finished.

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