“You wanna hang out this Suhnday?” I asked Xaa while using this world's version of Sunday while she stood outside my door.

“Y-Yeah! I figured since we didn’t have any school, we could try and hang out around town. What do you think?”

I put my hand to my chin.

“Is Riko coming?”

Xara immediately shook her head.

“I don’t plan to talk with him for a while.”

Interesting. I guess she’s taking what I said before as a chance to grow. Or at least, I think so, but something about her coming here puts me off a bit.

“So what do you say?” asked Xara.

Thinking it over, I shrugged.

“Sure. I don’t have anything to do that day.”

“Really!? Yes!”

Well, she sounded ecstatic.

“Then I’ll see you Suhnday!”

After that, with a wave of her hand, Xara ran off toward the stairs leading out of the boy's dorm.

“...Wait a minute. She didn’t even tell me what time we were supposed to meet. Or where we were supposed to find each other,” I realized after Xara had already left.

Thankfully, Xara came back a bit later to explain the details. We agreed to meet in the middle of the town below the school since there was a park where we could hang out.

The time would be around ten in the morning and she asked me to wear some casual clothes so as to not draw attention. Not that I had any fancy clothes to wear in the first place.

“So you’ll be out for the day tomorrow Master?” Sirin asked me as she floated by my head.

“Yeah. I’ll be hanging out with Xara.”

“Curious. Will anyone else be joining you?”

“I dunno. From the way she asked, it doesn’t sound like it.”

“I see. Then is it safe to assume this will be what people call a date?”

I shook my head.

“Nah. Her being one of the heroines, I highly doubt she’d do something like that while she has the M-I mean Riko. This is probably just thanks for helping her during the trip.”

“I’m confused. What do you mean when you call her a heroine?”

“It’s not important. Anyways, how’re the repairs going?”

“They are almost complete. This should only take a few more minutes.”

Teleporting back to my island, I laid back in the chair that I’d been sitting in before Sirin told me about Xara coming to my dorm room.

Once I was seated, I waited patiently for Sirin to finish fixing the rest of my hand.

After all, I needed to get it repaired after I chopped it off during the battle in the forest. Honestly, I didn’t know why it’d taken me so long to get it fixed.

A few minutes later, it was done.

I moved my hand a couple of times to make sure it was in working condition before stretching out my arms. It moved fine enough, but my body was kinda stiff after having sat down for so long.

Picking up my grimoire from a nearby table, I reattached it to my belt and left my island.

“That place really is huge. Say, would ever consider trying to start a town on that island?”

Nia appeared next to me just as I arrived back in my dorm room. I shrugged in response.

“I dunno. I haven’t really thought much about it. And with how many things have been happening lately, I doubt I could pull off such a feat.”

Though I’d be lying if I said the idea never crossed my mind. There was a lot of space on the island after all. So it wouldn't be out of the question to look into trying something like town building in the future.

Hearing the chirping of birds, I was dragged away from such thoughts for a moment as I glanced out the window which was shining light into my room. If I were to guess the time, I’d say it was around the middle of the day.

“Is that so? It sure doesn’t feel like much has happened.”

“Really? This coming from the person who’s been chilling out in that grimoire pretty much the entire time.”

“Wha-!? That’s not true!!”

Wow. She got mad easily. Actually, now that I think about it, Nia’s been acting completely different ever since the trip.

She mentioned it was because she’d finally accepted her future with me, but was that really why she had such a sudden shift in attitude?

Deciding not to think about it any further, I let out a yawn and began leaving the room.

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Nia, still upset, returned to the grimoire with a huff and I made my way to the school building.

What was I doing there? Nothing in particular. I just figured I had nothing better to do.

Tomorrow would be here soon enough so I might as well pass the time somehow.

Walking through the halls, I noticed a teacher go into the teacher's lounge. As it was no concern of mine, I began walking by.

“Ah. Are you Axel Savoncho?”

Hearing my name, I turned around to see the teacher I noticed just now was calling out to me.

“Uh…Yeah. What do you need?”

The teacher walked over to me and held out her hand.

“My name’s Maria Rashion. I’m the one behind the classes for future squires.”

“Future squires?”

“Yes. It’s a part of the school dedicated to growing future students that are too young to enter the school officially.”

“I..see.”

Was that a thing in the game? I didn’t remember anything about squire classes.

“Well, we refer to them as squires, but they're actually just children who wish to get an early start on their education.”

“That makes sense I guess.”

“However, in order for these kids to be admitted, they first have to serve under someone. Someone that could act like a tutor who teaches them the ropes.”

“Uh…Okay.”

For some reason, I didn’t like where this conversation was going.

“With all that explained, I’d like to discuss having you take on a sq-”

“Not interested.”

“Huh?”

“If this is about me taking one of those kids under my wing, I’m not interested. I can barely take care of myself much less a squire or whatever these kids are called. Thanks but no thanks.”

With that, I waved the teacher goodbye and went on my way.

“Ah…Wait a minute!”

She began to give chase. Geez.

Pushing wind magic into my feet, I dashed down the halls, and soon enough, she vanished from my sight.

With a sigh, I slipped my hands into my pockets and left the school.

“A squire. Like I could handle that,” I muttered. Figuring I didn't need to think about that exchange any further.

After that, the day went on without much else occurring. And as night came, I found myself thinking about tomorrow. I didn’t know what would happen, but I was sure it’d be interesting.

As I groggily got up the next morning, I looked outside. Turning my head to the sky, I think I still had two hours left before I had to meet up with Xara.

So, seeing as I had time, I hopped into the shower.

And once I was done, I dried myself off before putting on a black T-shirt and some grey pants.

Deciding to bring a bag, I grabbed my old adventuring one and started cleaning it out.

“Hm? That item I bought is gone.”

The item I was referring to was the thing I’d purchased before that gave me the chance to use magic within a magic-blocking barrier. Come to think of it, didn’t I bring that thing along with me when I got trapped in the school dungeon? I wonder what happened to it.

Well, whatever. No use complaining about it now.

Once I made sure my bag was prepped, I slung it over my shoulder.

Checking the clock, I saw I still had an hour and a half left. Guess I needed to pass time some other way.

In the end, I picked up a book and read through it for an hour. There wasn’t much left to read so it was no surprise I finished it with time to spare.

“There’s still half an hour before we have to meet up. Guess I’ll head down there early.”

Putting the finished book down, I left the room and began making my way to the town below.

“What’re you doing here so early Xara?”

I arrived in the middle of town. And to my surprise, Xara was already standing there.

“Oh, not at all. I just got here.”

“...Huh?”

I blinked in confusion as Xara’s face went red from embarrassment.

“Oh! Sorry! I just expected you to say something else!”

“Er…Right.”

It seemed Xara was nervous for some reason. Weird. Riko isn’t around so what could she possibly be nervous about?

“Well moving past that, I guess we both got here pretty early,” I said.

“Hm?”

Xara gave me a confused look before glancing up at a nearby clock.

“Oh. You’re right. Why are you here so early?”

“I just didn’t have much else to do so I decided to come here a little earlier than planned. You?”

Xara immediately tensed up.

“Uh…S-Same as you!”

“I see.”

Guess we were thinking the same thing.

“Sooo…What now?”

Hearing my question, Xara calmed down and thought it over for a moment.

“Uh…How about we just get things started? This is all for fun after all.”

I shrugged.

“That’s fine with me. Although, I am curious about something.”

“Hm? What is it?”

“Will there be anyone joining us? You never really specified? Like, I know you mentioned it, but is Riko really not joining us?”

Figuring it wouldn’t hurt to ask, I decided to get something on my mind cleared up. Upon doing so, however…

“Why would Riko need to be here!? Do you want him here or something!?”

“S-Sorry. I was just checking.”

Xara completely flipped out. What about that question made her so mad? I thought she would’ve loved to bring the MC along.

Clearing her throat, Xara answered my question.

“We’re not being joined by anyone. It’ll just be me and you today.”

“Ah. I see.”

It looks like it really would be just the two of us. In other words, this could be called a date.

“Well, let’s get going then. Where do you wanna go first?” I asked.

Happy I didn’t complain, a smile formed on Xara’s face as if all the anger from before had completely vanished.

“Could we check out some food stalls? I was so excited this morning that I forgot to eat.”

“Hm? Was the idea of hanging out with me really that exciting?”

“Of course!”

“Uh...Cool. Well then let’s go check out some food stalls then.

“Yeah!”

And that’s how our time out together began.

Little did I know at the time, just how big of a situation this would turn out to be.