Today, I was riding a carriage to go to a certain place. A person with pink hair sat in front of me, her name was Mary Faustina.  She’s my childhood friend and comrade. The two of us serve the same master. Our master isthe reason why everybody in our family had stopped insulting us. Even though our master was a person who couldn’t cast a spell that’s beyond the basic tier, she refused to accept that reality and sacrificed her childhood to find a way to overcome the wall. After five years, she discovered a new magic system.

What’s more, she even shared it to us and stopped our days of despair as a result. I, along with my five friends, are indebted to her for giving us that power. As such, we wanted to serve her until the day we draw our last breath. It was the least I could do to repay her.

I closed my eyes and remembered how I became her servant.

In the past, our families belonged to different factions and that she was like me, a reject of our households. We were scorned by our servants and relatives because we couldn’t fulfill their expectations of serving the heirs of the four families.

The two of us met in Farlingstad Magic Academy. There, we experienced discrimination by those who were blessed. However, we also obtained friendship with people who experienced the almost the same things as me.

The first one I met was a girl who had two vertical rolls and Mary, who now sat in front of me. Next, I met up with three boys who, like us, also experienced unfortunate events in their own respective households. The six of us shared our experiences and strengthened our friendship with one another. We held no secrets with one another and would help our fellow classmates.

A certain day came when my friend, who had vertical rolls, met up with us with a really bright aura. She then started telling us about a person she came to admire. The things she told us were quite farfetched and were filled with her delusions.

As she continued to tell us about her, I moved my gaze towards that person and observed her. Her back was covered by her silky black hair. She sat on her chair with her back straight and was writing something even though class hasn’t even started.  The aura that girl permeated intimidated anyone that sat near her and when a person bumped into her while she was writing, she would glare at them with a really fierce gaze.

I really wondered what my friend saw in her, so I decided to observe her.

The results of my observation were quite shocking. During the entire morning, she didn’t listen nor look at our teacher as he taught us the day’s lesson. Even when a classmate, that sat beside her was having trouble regarding because of a question that a teacher gave her, she ignored her and continued writing in her notebook.

I concluded that she didn’t consider the class and her classmates’ problems interesting. As such, I decided to continue observing her.

On our fifth year, my friend, who had blonde hair that was tied into twin corkscrews, barged into my room. She had a really radiant expression on her face. I asked her why she came and she answered me that the person she admired wanted us to gather in the school field.

I thought for a while and accepted her invitation. It was because I didn’t really have anything else to do besides staying inside my room. Normally, at this time, we should be in our classroom. However, we now only had one teacher, because the others were forced out by the new principal.

When we arrived in the fields, I was quite surprised to see that the entire primary division gathered here. What’s more, when I looked in the back, I saw our only teacher observing us. Time continued to pass and as we waited for the arrival of that person, question marks filled my head.

Why does she want us to gather in the school field at this time?

Is she planning to do something?

What’s gonna happen after this?

In the end, I resigned myself and thought:

Well, no matter what she’s gonna do, it still won’t change anything. I’ll still be a useless reject who can’t even be useful to her family.

The moment she stepped up on stage, she gave a really incomprehensible announcement. She said that the school was gonna get destroyed. After her announcement, she had her servant cast magic in front of us.

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At first, I doubted whether the magic, she was gonna teach us, was real or not. It was because I had already given up on becoming a great magician. However, when I observed her servant, I discovered that she was also a general student and, what’s more, she was only a commoner. But she was able to use magic that went beyond basic spells.

Is this for real?

She discovered a new system of magic that doesn’t use our own internal mana. What’s more, she’s gonna teach us how to use it!

She’s been writing something on a piece of notebook every day.

And if my information is correct, she started doing that since the first day she had been enrolled in this school.

Don’t tell me… she hadn’t given up on becoming a magician and that she had been continuously researching how to become one since then!?

She even sacrificed her chances on making friends just because of that!

The moment I realized that she suddenly became really bright. I became really ashamed of myself.

Unlike me, who had given up on trying to achieve anything, she had persevered.

Unlike me, who became depressed because I couldn’t live up to my family’s expectation, she didn’t give up.

Unlike me, who caved in because of the jeers of the people around me, she had held her head high.

It was then that I had understood why my friend came to admire that person. She was a role model, a person who wouldn’t give up even if she was ridiculed by people around her because she was incompetent.

As she stood in front of us, telling us that she was gonna teach us how to use the magic she discovered. I tightly clenched my fists and made a resolve.

I… I wanna become like her!

First, I’m gonna change myself. I’ll stop thinking of giving up just because I’m incompetent.

I then noticed that my friends who were around me were walking towards her. The eyes that were once filled with self-loathing were now burning fiercely. I could tell that even if their families disowned them for serving an unknown individual, it wouldn’t matter to them.

Besides, no one besides our parents recognized us in our own households. So even if they disowned us, we would still live on. As long as we don’t give up hope, we can still find a way to become great.

Just like her.

And thus, I offered my undying loyalty to her. My master and role model… Lumina-sama.

“It seems like we have arrived.”

As I recounted our school life while we traveled in the carriage, the person who was sitting in front of me pulled me back.

“Yes. It seems like we have arrived at Lumina-sama’s home.”

I answered her with a wry smile.

“Then are you gonna show her the results of you research?”

“Yes, she gave us the chance to become mages. So, I really wanna improve this for her and our sakes.”

As I replied to her, I fixed my beret and materialized a comb to brush my hair.

“Then, let us surprise her with the things you have developed.”

She opened the carriage and got off the carriage.

“Oi! Long time no see!”

From outside, I heard the voice of one of my friends. She had a really big smile as she waved her hand at us. Because she was waving really energetically, her vertical rolls were swaying along with her chest. On her side, I saw a girl, with black hair and is wearing a dark-blue gothic lolita dress, sitting on a chair and sipping on a cup of tea.

Seeing her again, my excitement and impatience reached a critical point. But because I didn’t want to embarrass myself I calmed my emotions and headed towards her.

“We have arrived, Lumina-sama.”

“Un, it’s been a while, you two. Let’s talk about the things that happened in your homes with a cup of tea.”

““ Yes!””

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