After listening to the silver haired man’s endless bickering, I found out that I transferred here three days ago and that I pretty much isolated myself from the others. At first he didn’t care about a transfer student like me, but of course it all changed when I met him on the rooftop.
We were guided to the underground facilities of the school and just like us, other sections were also guided here. There were different rooms, but the one we entered was a wide room with different patterns carved on both the floor and the walls. When the students were gathered, we were all lined up and one by one we were called to the middle of the room.
From what I’ve heard, students are to summon their servants before the end of the first quarter. A servant is summoned and binded by a magical contract to serve a magician. They are creatures that come from either this world or other defined world associated with this one, like the beast world and spirit world.
To summon a servant, one has to put their mana in the object embedded on the stone pillar in the middle of the room. After putting enough mana, the pillar will transfer it to different worlds,and those that take a liking to the mana will then be summoned to this room.
There’s also a possibility of people failing to attract a servant, so the school does the servant summoning every quarter of the first year, and those who fail to summon a servant four consecutive times, would have to repeat the year, even if they’re at the top of their class.
Now, I’m simply accepting all facts about my surroundings, since doing the opposite will only make my head hurt. I came up with the conclusion that nothing’s impossible with magic, and since this place has magic, then fuck logic.
In front me is the annoying silver haired man, who was still bickering....ok, enough about him, just a bit more and it’s my turn to summon. How would I know how to use mana? I only learned the existence of magic a few hours ago you know. Sorry Alice, looks like you’ll fail the first servant summoning.
“I’m sure I’ll get a fire bird since I’m from the Edna family, so your defeat is already sealed.”
I can’t even summon, so yeah I’m sure to lose, but I don’t care. Whatever the result is, I’ll do what I want to do and that includes ignoring him.
It doesn’t look like it’s rare to fail on the first try, seeing as only a tenth of the students have succeeded so far. So I won’t look odd even if I fail.
When the silver haired man’s turn came, he surprised everyone in the room. He summoned a bird as big as a him that was covered in blue flames. The ones before him only summoned small animals, yet he summoned something like that. Even if I don’t know how this magic thing works, I’m sure that his servant is better than the others.
After seeing his servant, he looked at me with a triumphant face. “See? It’s a fire bird.”
I don’t care, just go somewhere faraway from me.
“Miss Leterwine, please go to the summoning pillar.” Said the man who was in charge of the line.
I walked and touched the shiny object embedded on the pillar. I don’t know what to do next, I’m just waiting for the teachers to say that I failed.
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I can’t breath “Kuh” I can’t move my body “Ack” Something’s ravaging my insides *cough* it’s painful....
“Something’s forcefully draining her mana!”
*kaboom*
What’s happening? *cough**cough* my whole body hurts....
“All students! Out of the room now!”
“Principal, her body’s starting to deteriorate.”
“Healers!”
“TRANSFER STUDENT!”
This feeling....I’m dying again. Heh, so it’s time to go back to my real body? That’s good, now I can go back to work and oogle on my boss.
I finally got my hands off the shiny object and fell to the ground. Before I hit the ground, someone caught my body, and after that I heard a girl’s voice. “Master”
My eyes slowly closed from fatigue and the last thing a saw was a girl with white hair and fluffy ears....
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“You monster!”
“M-mom why?” Why are you looking at me like that? Why do you hate me?
“Don’t call me mother, I don’t have a monster as a daughter.”
*slap*
“It hurts” Why are you hurting me?
*hic**hic* “Mom”
Wait! Please don’t leave me! I’ll do anything, please don’t disown me!
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I then opened my eyes and found myself on a bed, while breathing heavily and covered in sweat. What’s that dream all about?
After waking up in an unknown place, I looked around. I was in an ill-decorated room, and sleeping near me was a white haired girl. Huh? Are those ears real?
The girl near me had animal ears, is she cosplaying? I touched her ears to check and after a while, it responded by twitching.
“Master, you’re awake!” Said the girl who just woke up.
She then jumped to my bed and hugged me, but she used too much strength.
“Let me go, it hurts.” I tried to push her away, but she wouldn’t budge. Who is this girl? And why the hell is she calling me master?
“Master, I thought you’ll never wake up.” She said while crushing my chest with her head.
“I’ll really die if you keep on hugging me like this.”
“I DON’T WANT THAT!” The girl then stared at my face with a desperate look.
“Then release me already.”
She jumped away and sat on the floor, with her head resting on the bed. While staring at me she said. “Master, do you need food?”
Yeah, I’m hungry, but how did the topic suddenly change? Aren’t you gonna apologize to me for almost crushing me to death?
“Say kid, why are you calling me master?”
“Cause master is my master.”
That didn’t answer the question at all....
“Why are you here? And where am I?”
“I’m here because master is here.”
I somehow figured that she would say that, but what about my second question? You didn’t answer it!
“I’ll ask again, where am I?”
“Master’s home”
....if she’s not lying, then one of my problem is solved. I have a home, but why is she here? Is she perhaps my relative? “Are you my relative?”
“No, I’m master’s servant.”
Servant....AH! That’s right, I was in the middle of summoning a servant, then I suddenly felt excruciating pain. Wait, so she’s my servant? I actually summoned one without a knowledge in magic? And why does she look like a human? I thought only animal like creatures could be summoned.
*growl*
“Master is hungry, master must eat.” She then ran out of the room, letting me see her tail. At this point, I’m a bit used to seeing non-logical things....so is she a half-animal half-human creature? Beastgirl? Beast-kin?
After loud crashing sounds outside of the room, she came back with an egg. “Master should eat.”
Since I was hungry, I accepted it. But after I opened it, the inside of the egg fell to my bed....IT’S NOT BOILED? WHY DID YOU EVEN GIVE IT TO ME THEN?
Fueled by irritation, I dragged the girl out of the room. Just as expected from the sounds I heard before, it was a mess outside.
It was my home, so I had to clean it and by cleaning it I got the opportunity to look around. There were four rooms rooms in total, my room, the living room, the kitchen, and the washroom. I also found out that I’m in dorm inside the school grounds, by peeking outside the door, so I won’t get lost when I go to my class.
After cleaning everything, I cooked food for myself and the little girl, even though she’s irritating. If she’s my servant then she’ll always be with me right? Then I have to take care of her....
Luckily, there was a stove, so I could cook. The appliances in my home were outdated, but it’s still better than nothing. Oh, and they’re running by magic. How did I know? The wires of the appliances are connected to a glowing object, which was the same as the one in the servant summoning room.
While cooking egg on the kitchen, I slowly calmed down. Beside me was the little girl at the height of 120 cm to 122 cm, who was staring intently with her golden eyes, as I cooked. “Master, I also want hot food.”
“I know” You’re tail has been waving around the moment I started cooking so it was obvious. “I’ll cook your food too.”
This is gonna be troublesome, it would have been better to get a dog or a cat as a servant....
She then tugged my clothes. “Master, give me a name.”
“Couldn’t you wait until I finish cooking?”
“I want one now.”
Should I scold her? Ah, forget it, it’s just name so let’s give her one.
“Since you’re a girl, then what abou-“
“Master, I’m a boy!”
Huh?
She then pulled her pants down, letting me see a rod................”EEEEEH!?”