(Ilua's POV)

Colbert said to me to wait until late evening, that's when the classes are ver. So that's what i'll do. I walk out from the central tower from the academy. The academy is composed like this:

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Or at least it's what colbert told me. I walk on the vast space where the servant's quarters are. There shouldn't be anyone around here for now, so i will use this chance to change my clothes to something that doens't look's like old clothes. I use my magical mist to surround my body and change my clothes in a blink of eye.

When the mist vanishes, it reveals my black leather long overcoat that almost reaches my ankles, My blood-red shirt, my black, heavy pants with a belt on my waist. Also, there's a secon belt hanging on my waist, yhis one goes over the overcoat. I use it to put swords on it. I'm also using heavy, black leather boots.

Of course, my clothes aren't normal. The leather is actually the skin of an everlasting dragon that i slew on the war that the giants and the humans wagend against the fragons, where we ended the Age of Ancients. I regreted my actions later, and i remember that i hid a everlasting dragon, probably the last of his species, in a hollow tree in Ash Lake...

Anyway, my shirt is made from the silk from a rare fire demon, so it's very strong and has hight fire resistence. Also, it nulls any kind of heat weaker than fire that comes in my way. That means that even under the strong sun, i'm feeling a pleasant cold. Then, i take a simple knife from my inventory and grab my hair.

It's time to cut it. But as soon as i touched the bladde on my hair, someone said.

(girl): "Please wait! Don't do that!"

I lowered the kinfe and turned back. Then, i saw two very bounci- i mean, i saw a girl around 1,60 coming on my direction, she has black hair that goes a bit beyond her neck, her eyes are black as her hair. She has pale white skin, with big breasts... around 80 centimeters? Or a bit bigger?

She's pretty, and her eyes are a bit sharp at the edges, with long eyelashes. Is she from the eastern lands? No, this is another world, there should be someone with that characteristics around. She's dressed in a perfect maid dress, full of frills and the white appron.

(girl): "What do you think you're doing?"

(Ilua): "Cuting my hair?"

I asked a bit confuse. Why did she stopped me?

(girl): "You can't do that! It will ruin your hair!"

Oh, so that's the problem? Well, that's unusual.

(Ilua): "Well, can you cut it for me then? Please?"

She looked at me surprised for a moment before giving a cute smile and answer:

(girl): "Sure! No probçem! I will only need to fetch a scissor, can you wait here?"

(Ilua): "Sure. The name is Ilua, by the way."

(Siesta): "Oh! Mine is Siesta, nice to meet you!"

She smiled, before dashing back to the srvant's building. What a simpatic girl, i like her. She seems to be a nice person. As i sit on the ground, my mind wander a bit to the past. Then, i remeber some unpleasant memories from the past. Ugh, i should really get over the fights from the past.

I remeber the words from the woman that i believe that was my sister. "Die as a hero, or live long enought to destroy everything with your own hands."

Her words never were so right. Everything that i built fell over itself after some time. There were many moments that i wished to die. Simply vanish, or go hollow, lose my mind and become a mad, walking corpse, like the others. From inside my clothes, i take a pendant that it's on a chain around my neck.

This is nothing but a simple pendant, with no effect, power whatsover. Well, it had a pretty important over me. No magic or curse, just a simple gift, given to me from my wife, the mother of my child. They're both dead now, and i barely can remeber their faces anymore.

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Now that i think about it, i still remeber her voice. "When you begin to lose yourself in the dark, remeber my voice, guiding you back to the light."

She said as she puted the pendant around my neck. The chain long enought to if fall beyond the middle of my chest. I never took it off, not a single moment. This was my foothold, what nailed me as the human i am. I release the pendant, feeling it hit my chest. Only then i notice the lonely tear that's running down on my face.

I clean it with my sleeve and look back, where i see Siesta coming in my direction with a scissor and a comb on her hands.

(Siesta): "I'm sorry for the wait!"

(Ilua): "No problem. Oh, please, can you let it around my shoulders?"

(Siesta): "Sure!"

Then, she kneeled behind me and began to lightly comb my hair ahnd then cut my hair with the scissor. It took around twenty minutes, but it ended well, like this:

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(I could only find this image, that's the closest from what i imagned. All right of the image owned by it's creators.)

I liked it, altought the bangs on ly left side were a bit of a boter, but nothing that i can't get used to. We got up.

(Ilua): "Thank you, Siesta, you hepled me a lot."

(Siesta): "No problem! Well then, i will gather the hair and dispose it, it' alright for you?"

(Ilua): "Please, let me clean it, it's the minimum that i can do for you after all."

Then, i lighly waved my hand in the direction of the absurd amount of hair on the ground. It began to burn immediately as i ordered the flames to burn it. Siesta jumped in surprise, wich surprised me, making me jump in surprise. She then looked shecked at me, before kneeling on the ground while making her head touch the ground. Wait, what?!

(Ilua): "Siesta?!"

(Siesta): "I'm sorry for my rudeness Master Ilua! Please, forgive the behavior of this lowly servant!"

(Ilua): "What the hell are you talking about?!"

(Siesta): "It's obvious that Master Ilua is a great noble, to be able to use magic without a chant!"

(Ilua): "What noble! I'm not one! I'm a commoner!"

She then raised her head, looking at me confused.

(Siesta): "Eh? A commoner?"

(Ilua): "Yeah, i don't have a title or anything like that, you know? I'm a simple person."

(Siesta): "For a commoner to be able to use magic... how rare..."

She says as she gets up. Looks like she calmed down.

(Ilua): "Is that rare for a commoner to use magic?"

(Siesta): "Well, almost all the magic lineages are magic users. It's rare for someone outside a magical lineage be able to use magic."

(Ilua): "So that makes the students here..."

She tilted her head, looking at me confused for a moment.

(Siesta): "All nobles. Ilua, are you from outside?"

(Ilua): "Yeah, just got here today. I'm lacking some common sense, so i will be counting on you, ok, Siesta?"

She smiled gently to me.

(Siesta): "Sure, Ilua!"