Leaning back in his office chair, Alister the creator of magic, let out a yawn.

With the start of the new school year only two weeks away, he had just finished off the last of the paperwork he needed to do before everything got started.

However, he was all too aware this wasn’t where his work was gonna end since not only was he the principal of the school, but he was also a member of the wizardly Six. Meaning that while the schoolwork was all done, he still had all the things he needed to do as a member of that group.

Thus, rather than being glad his work was over, he let out a sad sigh before getting up from his chair and preparing to leave the room.

The group's next meeting was set to be in a couple of hours, so he still had time before that needed to be done. Even so, it didn’t hurt to prepare himself for what was to come.

“If I remember correctly, the next thing we’ll be discussing is how to track down all the stuff that’s been going missing across the kingdom over the last few months. I just hope whatever it is will be entertaining. I’m sick of doing nothing but paperwork,” Alister mumbled.

Looking out his window, Alister’s eyes scanned the school grounds below him.

Since most of the students were away on vacation right now, only a few still remained. Those being the students who had nowhere to go.

Alister noticed a kid here and there moving around the school, reminding him that even though school is out, that doesn’t mean some people won’t stick around.

Continuing to look at the school grounds, Alister only stopped when he heard a knock on his door.

“Come in,” he said. Trying to get into principal mode.

Opening the door, Alister found himself intrigued when someone he hadn’t expected stepped into the room.

“Ah. Student Council President Haiko. What brings you to my office?”

Haiko, a girl with long straight white hair and a consistently blank expression walked into the room.

While being the student council president of the school, Haiko was also one of the love interests in Medival Fantasy. The game Axel had been playing before he first entered this world.

Known as the cold princess among the games community, Haiko was someone who looked out for the student body and tried her best to recruit skilled personnel as well as improve the school for a better learning experience. Something she took great pride in creating. Though, it wasn’t exactly showing on her face due to her past.

In response to Alister’s question, Haiko handed him a paper.

“I’d like you to approve these forms for me. I want to make an announcement before school fully get’s started, but I can’t do it without you giving me permission.”

Silently sighing at the extra paperwork, Alister scanned what was on the sheet. And the more he read, the more he was intrigued.

“So everything is in order now, huh? And are you sure they’ll cooperate?”

Haiko shrugged her shoulders.

“I don’t know. All I can do is try my best. But if they say no, then that’ll be the end of that.”

“I see. Well, I can’t say I really like that mindset, but I respect your decision.”

Alister was used to pushing people until he got what he wanted. So simply giving up at the starting line like what Haiko was saying really didn’t sit right with him.

Even so, he was curious to see exactly what would happen with this turn of events. Thus, he signed the papers and looked at Haiko.

“Alright. You’re all good to go. Just give me some time to prepare the last few things and once I’m done, I’ll let you know.”

“I appreciate your help with this Principal Alister.”

“Of course. It’s the least I can do if it means helping the students at my school grow.”

“I’m glad you see it that way. Well then, I must be off now. Goodbye, Principal Alister.”

“Goodbye Haiko. I hope your efforts bear fruit.”

So, with a small bow, Haiko left the room.

Once she was gone, Alister thought about the paper he had just read.

“Seems she’s pretty intent on making this happen. Even so, determination can only get you so far when it comes to asking others for their help. Even so, I wish her the best of luck.”

After saying that, Alister left the room to walk around the school until it was time to meet with the others.

Roaming around the school, Alister noticed some students who were fighting it out with magic. They seemed to be having a duel of sorts where they tried seeing who fell first.

Silently cheering them on, Alister stuck his hands in his pockets and went over to the cafeteria.

“Ah. Hello there Principal Alister,” said a lunch lady who happily greeted Alister with a smile.

“Hey there Lizzie. Do you have some food I could snack on? I’m feeling a bit hungry.”

“Of course! Would you like an egg bagel or a hambugu?”

“I’ll take the egg bagel today.”

“Coming right up!”

Heading to the back, the lunch lady came out a few minutes later and handed Alister a hot and ready egg bagel.

“I heated it back up so enjoy it before it gets cold.”

“Right. I will. Thanks, Lizzie.”

Waving the lunch lady goodbye, Alister took the bagel and formed a small stone plate that he placed the bagel on before letting the plate float next to him.

Taking the bagel off for a second, he bit into it. Enjoying the delicious flavor before putting it back on the plate.

“Haaah. what a pleasant day,” Alister muttered as he walked out into one of the school's many yards and took in the breeze blowing past him.

It was peaceful times like this that reminded him just how nice life could be.

Sitting down on a bench, Alister started to get comfortable when something suddenly echoed in his ear.

“Headmaster Alister, could you help me with something?”

He recognized that voice. It was Durio. Another member of the Wizardly Six.

He was using the special magic communication system Alister had created so they the Wizardly Six could easily talk with each other if needed.

“Depends. What do you need help with?”

“Well you see, I’m currently away from my home at the moment and learned that bandits seem to be sneaking around inside. So if you could take care of them I’d appreciate that.”

“You want me to do something as boring as stop bandits?”

Alister was enjoying the peace fine enough, but fighting bandits wasn’t exactly something he was that thrilled about doing.

“I know it doesn’t seem that fun, but if you do this, I’ll be sure to make good on that thing you asked me.”

“Hm? You mean about letting your daughter come to my school!? Really!?”

“Y-Yeah.”

“But is this really a big enough deal for you to change your mind?”

Durio let out a sigh.

“I know it sounds a bit drastic, but I wanna impress my third wife when I bring her back to my home, so I want those guys cleared out before they steal anything.”

“Even though you live in such a cheap mansion? I mean you could easily buy a better one instead of asking me to take care of this. Maybe then she’d be even more impressed.”

“Look, she’s a commoner and since I’m sure even a cheap mansion would impress her, I’d rather not waste money on getting a new place.”

“Always the cheapskate, aren’t you?”

“Can you just take care of it?”

Durio completely ignored Alisters comment and tried to move things along.

Thinking over for a second, Alister gave his response.

“Sure. How many bandits need to be taken care of?”

“About two hundred. How long do you think that’ll take?”

“If I were to estimate, I’d say about twenty minutes. That sound good to you.”

“S-Sure. Just be sure to clean the place up once you’re done making a mess.”

“Got it. Well then, I’ll call you back when I’m done.”

“Sounds good. Talk to you soon headmaster.”

“Yeah. Talk to you soon.”

Ending their communication, Alister stretched out his arms.

He knew this would just be a boring job, but having the chance of bringing that prodigy of Durio’s into the school, he couldn’t pass this up. That much he was certain of.

Thus, he got up from the bench, quickly chowed down the last of his egg bagel, and started casting a spell with a strange purple circle appearing below him.

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Moments later, he vanished from sight.

Appearing in the sky, Alister looked down to see what Durio said was in fact true.

As of right now, two or so hundred bandits were trying to sneak into his house and steal his stash of money.

It made sense why they’d want to.

With how much of a cheapskate Durio was, it was pretty obvious he’d have a ton of money hidden away somewhere. Whether that be in his home or somewhere else nobody knew. Still, it was worth the risk to come here just in case.

Although, a part of Alister doubted they knew this was Durio’s house.

They probably figured it was some rich nobles humble abode and decided to raid it for rare stuff. Having no clue it was the home of a member of the Wizardly Six.

“Now then, how should I do this?” muttered Alister.

“It’d be easy enough to just teleport them outside and make them fall to their deaths, but I want something with more pazazz. Hm…Oh! I got it!”

Coming up with an idea, Alister spotted where one of the bandits was on lookout duty and landed in front of them.

Ah-! We got a-Mrph!”

Before the guard could say anything, Alister knocked him to the ground and cast a sleeping spell. Knocking the bandit out.

After that, he cast a spell to block him from the other bandit's sight and started putting on the unconscious bandit's outfit.

Then, after getting a look at his enemy's face, Alister cast a spell that made him look just like the guy he took out.

Pulling a mirror from what seemed like out of nowhere, Alister looked himself over for a second.

“Oops! I missed a spot,” he said placing a mole that was slightly hidden by the end of his bandit's mask.

“A bandit companion going rogue and killing all his teammates. Now that’s much more interesting!”

In order to make sure the guy’s body wouldn’t be found, Alister sunk the bandit into the ground leaving only a small hole for some air.

“Now then, let’s enjoy this!”

As he said that, Alister started walking toward the building. Ready to have a bit of fun.

Looking through the place, the leader of the bandits growled in anger.

He had hoped they could find treasure within this nobleman's house. However, everything here wasn’t worth more than ten or twenty silvr. Whoever the guy that lived here was, he seemed to be a cheapskate.

Still, money was money. Thus, while he was annoyed at these results, the bandit started stashing things into a bag on his back.

It was while he was doing this, that something unexpected happened.

“Boss! Boss!”

Hearing someone's voice, the bandit leader turned to one of his lackeys who was running up to him. Practically out of breath as she stopped in front of the leader.

“What is it?”

“I-It’s Jeff! He’s gone rogue and he’s killing everyone!”

“Huh!?”

Jeff, someone the bandit leader knew to be a pretty tame guy that stood on lookout most of the time, was going rogue?

“Explain! What do mean by that!”

“I-It happened out of nowhere! One moment things seemed fine but then Jeff came and started casting fire magic at everyone. It was like he felt no sympathy at all for his comrades!”

This all sounded impossible to believe.

“Take me to him right now! I need to see this for myself!”

“Right away Boss!”

He didn’t understand what was happening, or why Jeff had started killing everyone. Even so, he needed to get to the bottom of things.

Thus, he followed his bandit companion toward the center of the commotion.

“There he is!” shouted the bandit as she pointed at the man she thought was Jeff.

Looking toward where the bandit was pointing, the bandit leader couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

Jeff stood there with a flaming ball of fire in his hand. Casually throwing it at someone the leader thought Jeff was close to and watching the man burn away until he was nothing but ashes.

Growling in anger, the bandit leader grabbed the sword at his hip and pulled it out of his scabbard.

“Dammit Jeff. I don’t know how you got so powerful with fire magic, but that ends right here and now!”

Turning toward the bandit leader, Alister, who had disguised himself as Jeff, looked at his opponent.

“So the leader shows his face, huh?” muttered Alister who turned to his next enemy.

It had been about fifteen minutes since Alister started and he’d only managed to clean out around a hundred and ten bandits. Meaning he’d need to speed things along if he wanted to wrap this up in the twenty-minute timeframe he gave Durio.

Thus, even though it was boring, he knew what he had to do. But before that, he figured a minute with the boss wouldn’t hurt.

“Raaah!”

Charging at Alister, the boss attempted to slice his head clean off.

However, Alister easily dodged it and turned his hand into a fist.

“Iron Smash,” Alister whispered as his arm turned strong as iron before slamming into the boss’s stomach.

“Gawk!”

The boss was sent flying backward into the wall. Leaving cracks in the design's exterior.

“Crap! Now I’m gonna have to patch that up. Damn it. And here I was thinking taking care of bandits was all I’d have to do.”

The boss couldn’t hear what Alister was saying at all since he was too busy forcing himself onto his feet.

“W-Where the hell did Jeff get that kind of strength!?” the boss thought as he staggered while attempting to stand up.

That blow was enough to break a few bones in his body. Something he never once considered Jeff was able to do.

Not giving him a second to think, Alister appeared in front of the boss and hit him with another attack. Breaking the wall completely. All while muttering how since it was already broken, he might as well keep going.

Feeling his body being absolutely battered, the bandit leader coughed up some blood.

“Boss!” shouted the bandit who’d brought him here.

“Haah. I guess there needs to be at least one witness among these guys, otherwise they might come back,” muttered Alister as he cast a sleeping spell. Knocking the bandit out in an instant.

“Bonnet!” the boss tried to shout out only for more blood to fall from his mouth.

“Hm. I guess you know her. Oh well. That doesn’t really matter right now.”

Turning to the bandit leader, cracking his knuckles in intimidation.

“Look, I don’t have much time left. Sorry bout this, but I’m gonna have to finish you off real quick.”

“H-Huh!?”

“Those words sounded way too casual for someone like Jeff. That means this guy's a fake!”

Despite reaching that conclusion in his head, it didn’t matter anymore. Since as the bandit leader laid there, Alister held out his hand and a cold black circle appeared in front of the bandit leader.

“Mini Black Hole.”

As Alister said those words, a small charcoal-colored ball appeared in front of him. Sucking up the bandit leader and erasing any trace of him from existence.

“Alright. With that done, I guess I should finish things up with the rest of them,” Alister said aloud before teleporting out of the mansion.

Looking down below, the whole place was in a massive panic. And everyone was starting to run away.

“Blah blah don’t think you’ll get away so easily or whatever,” mumbled Alister. Uninterested in all this.

And then, Alister simply held out his hand and in an instant, all the remaining bandits appeared in the air next to him before all falling to their deaths. Screaming the entire way down.

“Man. Who would’ve guessed pretending to be the enemy would be so time-consuming? I’m definitely gonna avoid doing that again. Plus, I can’t explain why, but the whole thing just feels…wrong. Like, extremely messed up.”

Realizing just how screwed up this whole plan ended up being, Alister fixed up the house before returning to the school.

“So it’s all taken care of?” asked Durio.

“Pretty much yeah. However, I did leave two of them alive so I could create a fun story that should keep other bandits away. Is that fine with you?”

“Yeah. That’s no problem. I’m just glad everything went as planned. And just like you promised, it only took twenty minutes.”

“I aim to please.”

“Well then, I’ll talk to you at the meeting later headmaster. Goodbye for now.”

“Yeah. Talk to you later.”

After saying that, Alister heard Durio end communication on the other end.

Having made it back to his office, Alister sat down in his chair and looked out at the school below.

He was fond of this school and the people it created. Even if there were still cracks to be filled up.

That was why, even if it took time, he’d never hesitate to help out a student. Even those who worked alongside him now like Durio.

That also includes a particular boy with greyish-white hair and crimson-red eyes. A boy with a particular strange book that always stayed on the belt at his waist. Someone that Alister found quite intriguing and couldn’t wait to learn more about.

“Achoo!”

I let out a loud sneeze as I sat up in bed.

It was far too early to get up, but thanks to that sneeze, I was wide awake.

Stretching out my arms, I got up and looked out at the sky from my window.

The sun was just coming up over the horizon. Making it clear it was still pretty dang early.

Letting out a sigh, I rubbed my eyes.

“Guess it’s time to get moving for the day,” I muttered before slipping on some casual clothes.

“So what are we gonna do today?” asked Nia from within the grimoire.

“At this point, I don’t know.”

There was only two weeks left until school started back up again, but despite there still being time left beforehand, I couldn’t really think of how else to pass time until we were supposed to head back. Especially with how Xara was here and wanted to spend as much time with me as possible.

“Hm. How about you and Xara go out and visit that Matsuri Empire place?”

“I’d rather avoid that place for the time being, personally.”

Last time wasn’t exactly the best for me, so until I felt like I could handle it, I’d rather put off visiting again.

“In that case, why not just go on a date? You two have been hanging out a lot, but never really gone on an actual date.”

Thinking it over, that was actually a pretty good idea.

“Good thinking Nia. It’s true we’ve been hanging out for a while, but we still haven’t gone a date since…well..since the school year I guess.”

“All the more reason! Go on and ask her about it already!”

“Right!”

“A date!? Really!?”

“Yeah. I figured it’d be nice to go on an actual date instead of just hanging out. What do you think?”

“I’d love to!”

I was caught off guard when Axel, who normally was fine with anything, actually asked me to go out on a date with him. I was ecstatic.

“Just let me get myself ready!”

“O-Ok!”

Quickly chomping down the rest of my food, I dashed out of the cafeteria and hurried toward the guest room Axel had let me borrow.

Rushing inside, I immediately opened up my bag and started digging through my stuff.

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As I did so, I suddenly heard the sound of glass and turned to look at one of the back pockets of my bag. When I opened it up, I was caught off guard when I saw what was inside.

It was a pink liquid that gave off a nice aroma with its effects only being held back by the bottle itself.

“T-This is the aphrodisiac I was trying to leave at home!”

I thought I’d convinced my mom to let me leave it behind. Did she sneak it in when I wasn’t looking? But I double-checked before I left. When did she have the time to do that?

Well, I guess it didn’t matter since it was here now.

Looking at the aphrodisiac, I was reminded of that whole dragon marriage ceremony thing.

I was used to that sort of thing thanks to my parents, but it was still fascinating to see. Even if I haven’t actually experienced it myself.

And as my mind drifted to that, it eventually led to me thinking about what would happen if Axel and I tried something like that. And when my thoughts drifted there, I couldn’t help but blush.

I mean, I wasn’t opposed, but perhaps waiting until we graduated would be the best choice. Though, if Axel was interested…

“N-No! I can’t think indecent thoughts right now! I need to focus on my date with Axel!”

As I thought about those words, I finished digging through my bag and found a dress I liked.

Putting it on, I looked at myself in the mirror. Smiling.

After that, I packed a small purse with some things I figured I might need and once I was positive I was good to go, I stepped out of the room. Ready for the date ahead of me.