On the other side of the entrance there was beautiful fountain with pathways around the fountain branching with roads leading to the MagiTech Department and around the school allowing access to the entrances of the other Magic Departments.

Hiroshi walked through the fountain plaza and into the MagiTech Department’s building.

At the entrance of the MagiTech Department houses a shopping street where students from the Alchemy and MagiTech Department can apply to set up a store to sell their products that they made. Most of the stores were still closed as the school day has not started yet and only freshman who came early for the opening ceremony were present.

At the end of the long row of stores was doors which lead to an atrium where the school portion of the academy starts. Inside the atrium there were already cliques formed within the freshman students, some containing students from only 1 department while others were made of multiple departments. When Hiroshi walked into the atrium, silence quickly enveloped the area as the students look towards his direction. Some looked his way with curious glances, some looked at him with respect but immediately looked away as soon as their eyes met. However, there were some particular groups who directed looks filled with scorn and hatred towards him.

Feeling such gazes he walked towards a corner of the atrium and leaned his back against the wall. His eyes scanned through the groups of students, where he found a girl staring at him intently. As soon as their gazes met, the girl turned around flustered, and proceeded quickly towards the atrium’s exit in an awkward manner where she looked at him once more.

*Kya*

Feeling startled as she noticed his stare she immediately disappeared through the atrium’s doors.

‘.... Who was that?’

??? As he was thinking of what just happened with a pondering expression.

An arm suddenly wrapped around Hiroshi’s shoulder and a cheeky sounding voice spoke up.

“Heh heh *smirk* did you fall for her or something?”

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“Iya iya iya*, I don’t even know who she is.”

Hiroshi immediately became flustered and separated from the arm around him.

“Haha, I am just joking, don’t need to get so flustered.”

“Yo! My name is Enomoto Akira! Nice to meet you.”

He extends his hand as he gestured a handshake.

“Mines Akisada Hiroshi, Nice to meet you too.”

As Hiroshi looked at the uniform of Enomoto he realised that he also has the same type of uniform as him.

“You’re also an Asentas?”

“Sure does looks like it!”

Hiroshi was relieved to have met some friendly that was the same as him amongst all the stares given to him by the students.

“Enomoto-san can I ask you a question?”

“Don’t need to be so formal, just call me Akira.”

“Then you can just call me Hiroshi also.”

“Okay!”

“So then Akira, why were some students directing hateful gazes at us?”

“Oh...that huh? Well some people are jealous and find it unfair that we are able to use 6 different types of magic when they are only able to use one. While others just see us as monsters for being able to do so.”

“I see…”

“You don’t have to be so worried about it they won’t try to do anything to us as long we are on school grounds, as unauthorised duels among students is prohibited and can carry  heavy consequences if they were to do so.”

Time went by as Hiroshi and Akira started talking and the majority of freshmen students were beginning to enter the atrium in preparation for the opening ceremony.

“Looks like the crowd is starting to gather I think it’s time for us to go too.”

“Let’s go then.”

When Hiroshi was about to enter the auditorium through the door where students were entering from, he noticed Akira heading to another direction.

“Akira where are you going, isn’t the entrance here?”

“Ah, you didn’t know? We Asentas have a different entrance and sitting than the general student body.”

“Is that so? I didn’t know that.”

“Did you not read the mail they sent you together with the Arca?”

“Now that you mentioned it, I think there was something of that sort written there.”

“Now that’s settled let’s go.”

Walking out of the atrium, Akira followed by Hiroshi turned a corner and wound up in a empty hallway.

“We are here.”

“Here? I don’t see anything, it’s a dead end.”

“It is a dead end, for everyone but us.”

Revealing his Arca, Akira placed the bracelet onto an empty patch of wall causing a doorway appear on the wall in front of them.

“Go ahead and scan your Arca at the same spot I placed mine on in order to bypass the barrier placed on the elevator and enter. Only our Arca is authorised to enter and reveal the elevator and even if our Arca is stolen it is registered to the users Magic Waveform so it would not work for others. There are such entrances and elevators placed around the school so we can enter our exclusive area within the school compounds.”

“How do you even know so much about this?”

“HaHaHa, did you even read the letter they sent you? All the instructions and entrance locations are written on it.”

“Well I only just skimmed through it.”

Saying that Hiroshi scanned his Arca on the wall and entered the Elevator with Akira.

Iya iya iya* means No no no in English.