My name is Dadrian, twenty five years old, due to my great achievements in the military a few years back, I was promoted to the rank of marshal. Beside me is my beautiful general, Natasha.

Natasha always wear a stern expression and is very serious about her work. She is strict with herself and others around her. Because of her unwelcoming personality, she has a secret nickname among the ranks, the Female Tiger.

Believe it or not, this “Female Tiger” actually has a soft side. Though she might act cold and uncaring to those around her, she is actually very kind-hearted and always look out for the others. I fell in love with this side of hers, but alas… every time I tried to make an advance, she’d brush me off like nothing had happened. I wonder if I’m not being straightforward enough or she’s doing it on purpose……

Today, Natasha and I have been summoned to Tristanian Magic Academy by the headmaster. Apparently, he had a request for us. It seems to be that time of the year after all.

After we took a turn at a corner, we saw a girl crouching on the ground with her face covered. Natasha and I looked at each other in dismay. Though Natasha had the usual stern expression on her face, I could tell that she was concerned about the girl by looking into her eyes.

Therefore, as a man, I should take the initiative. I approached the girl and leaned on one knee to match my height with hers, then I asked with the most heartwarming voice I could muster, “Miss, is everything alright?”

The girl spread out her fingers and looked at me via the gaps of her fingers. After she heaved what seemed like a sigh of relief, she finally revealed her face and asked, “Um… actually… I’m kinda lost… Do you know the way to the shopping district?”

“The shopping district?” I frowned a little and turned my head around to look at Natasha. She was holding her chin as if she was deep in thought.

After a few seconds later, she lifted her head up and said, “The shopping district is it? Very well, we can take you there. Our destination is along the way.”

I felt relieved after hearing her answer, since our destination is… actually on the opposite side of the shopping district. I smiled at her meaningfully, and she just turned her head to the side while letting out a “Hmph!”

Hey, hey, if you do that, you will scare the girl. While I was thinking that, I turned my head to look at the girl. See? Her body is getting stiff.

Sigh… I guess it is my job as the superior to put the girl at ease. With that thinking, I tried talking to the girl, “Don’t worry about her. She may look like a man-eating tiger, but she’s actually… Ouch-!”

Before I could finish my sentence, Natasha drive a karate-chop onto my head and retorted, “W-Who are you calling a man-eating tiger?!”

“N-Natasha, if you keep doing that, you’ll scare the girl…” I stood up from the ground immediately and whispered to Natasha, “See? She’s even quivering now. How are we supposed to fix this?”

“Ah…” Natasha let out a surprised voice as if she had just realized, then she muttered in a low voice, “S-Sorry… I didn’t realize you were trying to lighten up the mood.”

I scratched my head and said, “Sigh… Natasha, I’ve always told you that you need to brush up your interpersonal skills. You’ve always been awkward around people and tend to make things worst. Remember that time when you were trying to help a lost child? She was crying the whole time and you were mistaken as a kidnapper. That was truly a disaster, you were even taken to the guard station and I had to go and bail you out.”

“I-I’m embarrassed.” Natasha was flushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.

“Pfft-hahahaha. You guys sure are good friends.” Look like the comedic act worked. I purposely spoke in a voice that she could hear to ease up the tension between us.

“Mhm! We sure are! She might not look like it, but Natasha’s a kind person. Let’s get along, alright?” I leaned over and extended a hand towards the girl. “Come on, we’ll take you to the shopping district along the way.”

“Y-Yes! Thank you very much!” She smiled for the first time and grabbed my hand. I pulled her up from the ground and we walked towards the shopping district together, getting further away from the headmaster’s office.

On the way, I got beside Natasha and whispered in a voice that only the two of us could hear, “Tsk, tsk, tsk… Our destination is along the way huh? You’re so dishonest.”

“M-Mind your own business!” Natasha muttered under her breath and pushed me away.

Looking at our exchange, the girl following behind us is giggling. I’m glad, I don’t know what happened to make her crouch in a place like that, but at least she seems to feel much better now.

With that thought, we arrived at the shopping district uneventfully. The girl walked in front of us and suddenly make a bow to express her gratitude, “T-Thank you very much for taking me all the way here.”

Out of the corner of my eyes, I could see Natasha blushing slightly. She abruptly turned her head to the side and let out a “Hmph!”

I scratched my head awkwardly and whispered beside the girl’s ear, “D-Don’t let it get to you, she’s just trying to hide her embarrassment.”

“T-That’s enough, Marshal! We’re going now!” Before I could say anything else, Natasha dragged me away by the collar.

The girl was looking at us with a forced smile while waving her hand. Speaking of which, I’ve been calling her “the girl” all along. We hadn’t really introduced ourselves yet have we? Oh well… it’s not like we will meet her again.

After we departed from the shopping district, for some reason, I could hear a lot of noise coming from that direction. I wonder if they have some event going on…

Author’s Note:

This chapter is dedicated to Dadrian. Thank you once again for your support.

1. N/a

With my renewed determination, I stepped out of the washroom and make my way towards the lingerie store, but a new problem arises as soon as I stepped out of the washroom……

Kacha! Creak…

As soon as I unlocked the door of the private room and pushed it open, I saw a few male students jumping back and sticking close to the wall with their rear. I don’t know why they look so surprised, I looked around the washroom for a while and don’t see anything particular, so I just ignored them and walked out of the washroom as if nothing had happened.

Since I was a man in my previous life, and it haven’t really sink into me yet that I am a girl now, I don’t find anything strange with the current situation. But if I am to think back to this situation later on, I will definitely be so embarrassed that I wish I could just bury my head in the sand like the Ostrich.

After I left the washroom, I stood in front of the entrance for a while and muttered to myself, “Now then… This is a problem… I don’t know where is the lingerie store…”

Meanwhile, the male students were whispering among themselves in the washroom;

“W-What was that girl doing in the male washroom?”

“D-Did she get dragged in here by that playboy?”

“Speaking of which, I heard that playboy had slept with at least hundred girls in this academy.”

“Ah… I heard that he tried to lay his hands on Sheena once and got severely punished by Angie.”

“Seriously? Angie is scary when you get on her bad side……” At this point, all the male students nodded their heads silently in sync.

“By the way, I heard a rumor that his next targets will be the transfer students.”

……

While I was walking around at random, I looked left and right frantically. I wanted to ask for location, but I might expose myself if I were to ask the girls. And it’s very embarrassing to ask the guys, so I’m stuck walking around in circles.

Just at this time, a guy who happened to pass by saw my frantic self, so he approached and asked, “Um… miss, is something troubling you?”

I was surprised when he suddenly talked to me, so I couldn’t form a proper sentence, “Ah! Uhm… You see… I was… kind of… um… looking… for a place…”

“Ah…!” All of a sudden, the guy let out a cry as if he had realized something, “Could you be the rumored transfer student?”

“Eh?! N-n-no—! I’m not t-t-the transfer student! It, it’s just, uhm…” When he said that out loud, I panicked and tried to find an excuse.

However, he just laughed and said, “Hahaha! Don’t worry about it. You said you were looking for a place? I can take you there! Where are you going?”

“Ah… uhm… it’s a little…” Before I could finish my sentence, that guy suddenly grabbed my hand and lifted it up. Then he caressed my arm with his other hand.

My god! Is all the aristocratic men like this? First it was Albert, and now this guy! Geez! Don’t they know the thing called personal space? Hello~?

“Heh… a lizardkin huh? It’s my first time seeing one in person. You have a smooth and beautiful skin.” That guy said something that sounded like a pick-up lines as he caressed my arm. This might have worked on your average girls, but for me, I only feel goosebumps breaking out all over my body.

I quickly pulled my hand back and laughed awkwardly, “A-hahaha-! Y-You know what? I think I will be able to find that place by myself after all. T-Thanks for the offer though!”

I turned around and ran away as soon as I finished my sentence. While that guy was looking at my back figure, he licked his lips and said, “I’m going to enjoy this hunt to my heart’s content.”

……

After I took a turn at a corner, I leaned on the wall with my back. “Huff… Huff… Huff…” I took a few deep breaths while putting my right hand over my chest. Then I slid onto the ground and said, “T-That was scarrrry! I thought he’d eat me alive!”

I poked my head out of the corner to take a peek. Seeing that the playboy was no longer there, I heaved a sigh and said, “Phew… He’s gone. If I had gone with him, no doubt he will take me to an unassuming place and do this or that…”

While thinking thus far, my cheeks turned bright red. I could literally feel steam escaping from my head as I covered my face with both hands.

As I was fidgeting around, a handsome looking man in military uniform just happened to walk into this corridor. Beside him was a beautiful female general with a rather stern face.

When they noticed me, the important looking officer approached me and leaned on one knee before he asked, “Miss, is everything alright?”

Hearing his voice, I spread out the fingers they were covering my eyes and peeked at the two through the gaps of the fingers. Judging from their military uniforms, they didn’t seem to be students of this academy, I felt relieved and let out a breath.

The important looking officer had blond hair and blue eyes. He had a handsome face and skinny build, the type that’s popular with the girls. His smile was heartwarming, and to be completely honest, he didn’t look that strong. However, this is a fantasy world, so it is impossible to judge his true strength based on outer appearance alone.

On the other hand, the female officer gave off a completely opposite feeling. She had beautiful light blue hair that flowed down to her waist like waterfall. Her blue eyes were so sharp that it felt like it could pierce through your body. Moreover, her stern expression made her seem unapproachable.

Maybe I can ask them to show me the way. With that thought, I opened my mouth to ask, “Um… actually… I’m kinda lost… Do you know the way to the shopping district?”

Author’s Note:

This chapter is dedicated to Dadrian. Thank you once again for your support.

1. N/a

After that, I hung my head down to look at my body, with both arms holding out. Then I looked back and forth between myself, the crowd of girls, and the entrance.

After repeating that motion for a few times, I suddenly got a brilliant idea, “That’s it!!”

Immediately after I thought of that idea, I didn’t dare tarry a moment longer. My feet started to move by itself, as if I was driven forward by an indescribable force.

Before I knew it, I was already running towards the crowd of girls at my top speed, but I didn’t have a hint of hesitation in my eyes. The girls who saw me running towards them were stupefied, they couldn’t help but stop in their tracks.

Because it was so sudden, the girls in front were pushed by the ones in the back and tripped over their own two feet. It turned pretty chaotic soon after. Though that was out of my expectation, it was a favorable condition. All’s well that ends well I guess.

I continued to run and eventually, I jumped over the girls who fell onto the ground and dashed into the crowd of girls. The girls who had seen my transformation hastily shouted, “That lizardkin is her! Don’t let her get away!!”

When some of the girls at the back heard it, they tried to grab me frantically as I ran past them, but their hands slipped off the smooth surface of my skin. Wee~ This went just as expected! Viva la lizardkin! Long live the reptile!

As I rejoiced, I slipped past the crowd of girls like a slippery snake, none was able to stop me in my tracks. Hehehe, get it? Slipped past them like a slippery snake.

……Actually, please forget that failed attempt of a pun. You heard nothing, you see nothing, alright?

After I slipped past the girls in the front, it was a cinch to get past the rest of the girls. The information that I had transformed into the lizardkin did not get passed to the back yet due to all the commotion that was taking place.

After I break away from the crowd of girls, I immediately ran towards the barricade of girls in front of the entrance. As soon as I got in front of the barricade, I leaned on my knees to catch my breath, “Huff… Huff… Huff…”

One of the girls approached me and asked, “Hey, what’s wrong? You look worn out.” They obviously didn’t know I had transformed into the lizardkin yet, this is my chance!

I lifted my left hand up from the knee and pointed at the main gate, then I reported, “She… She ran towards the main gate during all the commotion!”

“What?! Is that true?” When the other girls heard the report, they crowded around me and kept storming me with one question after another, but all of them amounted to the same question, “How did it happen?”

I immediately came up with something and told them half the truth, “W-When we were chasing her, she suddenly used a transformation magic, then she rushed into the crowd and caught everyone surprised. During all the commotion, I saw her running towards the main gate, but… I couldn’t pacify the situation.”

“Tsk…!” One of the girls, who seemed like the leader, clicked her tongue before she continued, “She’s more crafty than we thought. Change of plan! The three of you, go and pacify the situation. The rest of you, come with me!”

Before they left, the girl who issued the command cast a sidelong glance at me and expressed her gratitude. I felt kind of bad for lying to her after receiving such a heartfelt gratitude, but this is for the sake of survival, please forgive me!

With that, I successfully infiltrated the building. Now then, it’s time to search for the lingerie store. But just when I was about to enter the building, I heard the girls whispering;

“By the way, who is that? I’ve never seen her around before.”

“…Who knows? A new student perhaps? She wasn’t wearing the school uniform.”

“New student? At this time of the year?”

“Ah! Could she be the rumored transfer student? I heard there was another one other than Miss Sheena’s familiar.”

……

I couldn’t hear their voices clearly anymore as they got further away, but now that they mentioned it, my uniform does make me stand out huh… I should do something about it first.

After thinking that far, I immediately went to the closest washroom I could find. After making sure the door to the private room was tightly secured, I asked Sylvidia via our spiritual link, “By the way Sylvidia, can you somehow alter the outfit and make it look like the school uniform?”

Sylvidia replied with a melodious tone, “Easily done~ ♪”

With that said, my outfit suddenly glowed for a moment and transformed into a school uniform tailored for the lizardkin.

Just at this time, the self-proclaimed Saint Demon, Wyllie Wisp, materialized out of thin air and appeared in front of me. She snickered and said, “Fufufu… You sure are gullible~ Master, a word of advice, you shouldn’t trust what anyone said to you so easily.”

“Eh? What do you mean?” I tilted my head in obvious confusion and asked Wyllie Wisp.

“Fufufu~ Nothing~ ♪” Instead of answering my question, she snickered one more time and faded away. As always, she comes and goes without warning like the ghost she is, it’s kind of scary.

While I was wondering what was going on, I could hear Sylvidia heaving a sigh of relief, “Phew~”

Just now, in that brief moment of time, Sylvidia and Wyllie Wisp were having a talk via telepathy, but that was something that I’ll never come to know.

Now then, there’s no time to waste, it is only a matter of time before the girls figured out the information I gave them was fake. Quite a few people had seen me in this form too, they’ll probably recognize me once I run into them.

I’ve considered deactivating the current transformation and change into a different form too, but I scratched that idea in the end. Lizardkin is the best form to use indoor, it proved to be very effective against the crowd of girls earlier. If the girls crowded on the narrow hallway, I wouldn’t be able to slip past them with any other form. That’s why I decided to stick with this, taking fully into account that I will be discovered.

With my renewed determination, I stepped out of the washroom and make my way towards the lingerie store, but a new problem arises as soon as I stepped out of the washroom……

Author’s Note:

Now then… what do you think could happen? Huehuehue… Stay tuned for the next chapter!

1. N/a

As I run with every fiber of my being, I could hear Angie shouting from behind, “If you can make it to the lingerie store before sundown, you’ll have considered passed the first training. Good luck~ ♪”. With that said, Angie turned around and left for the lingerie store ahead of time.

“Oniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!” I literally shouted oni, which means demon in Japanese. Everyone couldn’t understand the meaning of that word, but since Angie was actually a Japanese and she had spent her childhood in the old world along with Sheena’s family, she know full well the meaning of that word.

Angie turned around and looked at me doubtfully, but she didn’t think too much of it and left the scene.

“Huff! Huff! Huff! Damn it… Where did these girls get so much energy from?!” No matter how much I run, I just couldn’t shake off the girls. And due to the fact that this body had been in coma for more than a decade, it actually didn’t have that much stamina, so I ran out of breath quite quickly.

“Hieeeee! The girls are getting closer!” However, when I saw the girls getting closer, burst of energy suddenly surged up within my body from who knows where. I managed to increase my speed and pulled some distance between us, but that only lasted for a few seconds.

“Huff…… Huff…… Out of… breath… I can’t… do it… anymore…” As my speed was getting slower, the girls were getting closer with each passing seconds.

“Think Silva, think! How can I get myself out of this sticky situation? This is the time to make use of human’s wisdom!” I keep wracking my brain to come up with one idea after another, “Ah… What to do, what to do… damn this open field, no matter where I run, they always catch up to me.”

Just when that thought crossed my mind, I immediately came up with what I thought was a nice idea, “…Wait! That’s it! If I go indoor, they shouldn’t be able to find me that easily!”

However, when I turned my head to look at the entrance to the buildings, I could see a row of girls standing in front of the door. “Nooooooooooo~! This can’t be!! They already anticipated this and blocked the entrance?!”

I was in despair, everything felt so hopeless. “Is there no god in this world?!” I felt even more hopeless as the girls were getting closer by the minute. Just when I was about to lose all hope and give in to the cruel fate that awaits me, Sylvidia’s voice resounded in my mind like an angel’s, “Why don’t you just take off to the sky~?”

When I heard her voice, I stared blankly at the sky for a moment, then it suddenly hit me, “That’s right!! The sky!! Hahaha, I can just fly into the sky!!”

I could finally see a glimmer of hope as I pulled the ⌈Blank Slate⌋ out of my pocket. I raised the blank card high into the sky with one hand, and before I knew it, the image of the Abyss Beast appeared on the surface of the pure white card.

“Implicatus!” I shouted the activation word as soon as the Blank Slate had turned into the Abyss Beast Magic Card, or what I’d like to call ⌈Slate 1⌋. Soon after, my body glowed for a moment, wings sprouted out from my back, then I jumped off the ground and took off to the sky. Or that was what I imagined would happen. Contrary to my expectation, the sky seem further than ever and I fell face first onto the ground.

“Pugyah!” I let out an awkward and unladylike sound as my face hits the ground. I got up hastily and held my nose with both hands, “Ow! That hurts~!”

After rubbing my nose for a while to ease the pain, I tilted my head in doubt, “What just happened? How come I didn’t take off?”

As I turned my head around to look at the back, I noticed that the wings that were supposed to be there, weren’t there. “Eh? Where did the wings go? Why aren’t the wings here?!” I couldn’t believe my eyes, so I tried touching all over my back to feel for the wings. But what weren’t there just weren’t there.

Just when I was about to fall into despair, I noticed something strange on my arms, “Eh? What are these scaly things on my arms? They look so disgusting…”

I noticed there were scales on my arms, I looked at them with pure disgust. To be honest, I’ve always been bad with reptiles, amphibians, and insects, so that was merely an unconditioned response.

In the end, I steeled myself to touch the scales on my arm. The smooth surface of the scales caught me by surprise, it felt surprisingly nice to the touch; smooth and slippery. My face slackened as I thoroughly enjoyed stroking the scales before I knew it. I might get addicted to this, maybe reptiles are not that bad after all.

“It seems like you’ve transformed into a lizardkin this time around.” Sylvidia suddenly announced the result of the transformation when I was lost in my own world.

“Aha-ha-ha…” I laughed awkwardly and continued, “That seems to be the case… but I wanted to transform into the birdkin though, how come I transformed into a lizardkin instead?”

“Imagination and desire!” Sylvidia just said these two words before she continued to explain, “Imagination plays a major role in magic. Without a clear image of the spell you are going to cast, you will not be able to control it properly. Desire also has a big role in shaping your magic; what do you desire the most when you are casting the spell, what do you wish to accomplish, that kind of thing.”

“What do… I wish to accomplish……” While repeating those words, I looked at the crowd of girls that were about to catch up to me any moment now, and then at the row of girls standing in front of the building entrance.

After that, I hung my head down to look at my body, with both arms holding out. ⌈¹⌋ Then I looked back and forth between myself, the crowd of girls, and the entrance.

After repeating that motion for a few times, I suddenly got a brilliant idea, “That’s it!!”

Author’s Note:

Uhm… There’s not so much dodging now is there? >w<

After that little incident, we went to the cafeteria and ate to our heart’s content.

As always, the meal was very luxurious, it was truly a meal fitting for the aristocrat. I feel so lucky to be able to enjoy such luxurious meal for free everyday.

As for Zain and the other familiars, they went to the barn to get their food. When I go over there to take a peek later, I found that they truly lived the life of a king.

All the other familiars in the barn were offering a portion of their food to Zain’s group, or more specifically, to little Futaba. It seems like Zain had already secured his position as the boss of the barn with the giant penguin gone.

Since they seemed to be doing well, I ate the portion of food which I originally intended to give to Zain and the others. It’s definitely not because I’m a glutton alright? Nuh-uh, definitely not…

Now then… It’s finally the time we’ve all been waiting for, to the lingerie store we go~! Or so I thought, but on the way to the lingerie store, we were stopped by Sheena’s personal maid, Angie.

“Miss Sheena, please wait a moment!” Angie suddenly ran towards us from behind.

We turned around and saw her figure as she ran over here, Sheena started by asking, “Oh my… What’s the matter, Angie?”

“Huff~ Huff~ Huff~” After taking a few deep breath, Angie stood straight and cast a quick glance at me, I could feel a hint of malice behind those glance. Then she looked at Sheena and said, “Miss Sheena, I heard you’re going to get a few sets of lingerie for Miss Sylvia, is that correct?”

“That… is indeed true… but where did you heard something like that from?” Sheena looked at Angie doubtfully.

Angie got this information from Sheena’s fan club, but of course she couldn’t tell her the truth, she cleared her throat a few times awkwardly and said, “I-In any case, as your head maid, it is my responsibility to take care of any miscellaneous job. Miss Sheena, with all due respect, your responsibility as a student is to study, don’t you have an afternoon session with Professor Naoki later? You can leave Miss Sylvia to me. I will take care of her need in your stead.”

“Mu…” Sheena puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction, but since she couldn’t find any words to retort, she answered “Fine!” reluctantly and left me behind with Angie.

Angie put on a refreshing smile and waved at Sheena as she left, then when she turned around to face me, her smile distorted as she said, “Now then……”

“Hieeeee……! M-Miss Angel… Y-Your face is…” Before I could finish my sentence, Angie asked with a rather scary smile, “Oh? What was that about my face? Fufufufufufufu…”

Without thinking at all, I tried to turn around and run, but because I was too frantic, I tripped on my own legs. When I turned around and saw Angie holding a stick, I involuntarily shouted, “Mommy!”

She was holding the stick with one hand and smacked the palm of her other hand with the stick at a fixed interval.

“Smack! Smack! Smack!”

Before I knew it, I found myself kneeling on the ground, listening to Angie’s sermon;

“As Miss Sheena’s retainer, you seem to have forgotten your position… Know your place! You are over-reliant on Miss Sheena’s kindness! I’m going to whip you into shape. Prepare youself, from now on, whenever you’re not having a class, you will report to me. Is that understood?”

“Y-Yes……” I answered weakly, but Angie seemed to be dissatisfied with that answer, she lowered her upper body and brought her scary face closer as she raised her voice, “Is That Un-der-Stood?!”

“Y-YES MA’AM!” I straightened my back while still kneeling on the ground and saluted like a soldier.

“Very well… then let’s start our training now.” Angie nodded in satisfaction and smacked the palm of her hand with the stick.

“Eh? A-Aren’t we going to the lingerie store first?” I immediately raised my concern to Angie, but…… she just revealed a wicked smile and said, “Oh, that… Well, only if you can pass my training before the lingerie store closed.”

And with that signal, a crowd of girls walked out from the shadows. One of the girl got beside Angie and whispered, “Vice President, will you really give us Miss Sheena’s used underwear if we can catch her within the time limit?”

Due to my attentive ears, I clearly heard everything she was saying, my mind blanked out for a moment, because of the word “underwear”, I completely neglected the following words, all I could think of at the time was, “Perverts! They’re all perverts!!”

Angie whispered back, “Don’t worry, I always keep my words. Miss Sheena will not suspect anything.”

Then she looked at me meaningfully and said, “Miss Sylvia, I heard you’ve developed a gynophobia right? That’s no good~ As Miss Sheena’s attendant, having an abnormal fear of woman is bad~ Therefore, I’ve arranged a special training for you~ ♪”

When I heard her words, my face immediately turned pale, so pale that you’d think I was sick, I immediately fell back and cursed, “Hieee……! L-Lord Angel, a-are you a demon? You are a demon right?!”

Since I was kneeling on the ground the whole time, my legs had fallen asleep, I tried to stand up but fell on my butt, so I slid backwards with my butt rubbing against the ground.

Without any unnecessary words, Angie just smacked the stick on her palm and said, “Catch her!”

“Hieeeee!!!!” I immediately turned my body around and kicked off the ground, dashing forward like no tomorrow. Following that, the crowd of girls immediately chased after me.

“S-Stay away from me~~~!” I knew I was only wasting my breath, but those words involuntarily escaped from my mouth. No matter how much I shout, the numbers never decreased. On the contrary, due to my scream, I attracted even more attention.

In my mind, I was apologizing to all the male protagonist who was in the same situation as me. I laughed at their misfortunate when I saw they were being chased by the masses. I never thought something like this would happen to me. Now I finally understand how desperate they feel when they were being chased. I promise I will be a good boy girl from now on, I promise I will never laugh at people’s misfortune anymore, so please, just spare me from this~~~ Lord Jesus, Lord Buddha, if you truly exist, please bestow a miracle upon this miserable self~~~

Author’s Note:

Uh…… That… just took an unexpected turn, but… the dodging galore is finally coming up soon? XD

Though it’s a little different from how I imagined it at first, but oh wells…

1. N/a

“Mumble, mumble, mumble…” As the crowds were getting noisier by the minutes, we left the courtyard and arrived at an unassuming place to continue our conversation.

“So… What happened? Why did you pick a fight with… this giant penguin.” I asked Zain with a commanding voice. All of these troubles were clearly started by Zain.

Zain just shrugged his shoulders and shook his head twice, then he said, “It’s nothing much really… I just challenged him to a match for supremacy.”

“Screech! Screech, screech, screech!!” The penguin was pointing at Zain and kept waving its flipper up and down while it was screeching, as if it was trying to reprimand Zain for his wrongdoings.

“Uwa… This penguin is really too humane, I really wanted to go and check if there’s any zipper at the penguin’s back…” I thought of something like that while seeing the penguin’s action.

Since Lenis was spiritually linked to the penguin, she was able to understand the penguin, so translated for us. Apparently, the penguin was saying that Zain was using dirty tricks.

Zain snickered in response, “Heh! Do you think in a real life and death fight, being upright and honorable will save you?” When Zain was saying that, he had a bloodthirst in his eyes, he had obviously went through a lot of life and death situation in order to get to this point today. That was a temperament only found in someone who had seen death once.

Recalling the time when I died in the car accident, I shivered at the thought of it, all I know is, I don’t want to die again for the second time.

But for now, I shook off that feeling and teased Zain, “So? You played dirty in a duel you started and you still end up losing? How lame~”

“H-hey! That was not my fault alright?! Who knows that big fat penguin would suddenly explode!” Zain lost his composure when I teased him as such.

“Exploded?” Everyone in the place tilted their head simultaneously.

“That’s right, his entire body turned bright red, and he just literally exploded, destroying more than half of the barn in the process!” What Zain told us was incomprehensible, all of us just mechanically turned our head to face the giant penguin at the same time.

When we looked at the penguin, it was blushing and fluttered about, as if it was embarrassed. Oh my god! This penguin is really too humane! It somehow appeared a little bashful and cute, it makes me want to jump over there and hug it immediately!

Even Lenis was looking at the penguin in shock. Wait what? Why is Lenis looking at the penguin like that? Aren’t they supposed to be in a master-familiar relationship? But if I think about it carefully, the familiar summoning ceremony only took place a few days ago, so I guess they haven’t been acquainted for that long yet…

After that, Lenis suddenly shouted “Basile!” excitedly, and jumped into its embrace, then she lifted her head to look at the penguin’s face and said, “I always knew you were uncommon, but for you to actually possess this much firepower. We might even stand a chance against Irina’s familiar in the familiar showdown this coming month!”

“Wait… What? What Familiar Showdown? I’ve never heard of it before.” Hearing Lenis’ words, I couldn’t help but step forward to ask. Since it was a “familiar showdown”, it obviously had something to do with “familiars” and “battle”, and since I am a familiar, I am not completely uninvolved.

“Ah… That’s right, I haven’t told you yet…” Sheena suddenly recalled about the event and explained briefly, “Exactly one month after the summoning ceremony, our familiars will be put to a test of strength against one another. It’s one of the most popular annual event in Tristain.”

Hearing this, Zain stepped forward and asked, “Since it is a battle between familiars, may I join too?”

“Ah… That should be fine. Although it is rare for a first year to have a familiar, so most of the participants are second year and third year students.” Albert answered the question, and then it was continued by Sheena, “That’s right, last year, the only first year participant was Irina, and she is the reigning champion too!”

“Eh? What?! A first year student was the reigning champion?! Just what kind of monstrous familiar did she possess?!” I couldn’t help but feel anxious. After all, if I am to enter this competition, I have to face that monster eventually, maybe I should lose in the preliminary round on purpose… but if Sheena knew this, she would probably kill me.

“V!” Irina just said a single word as usual and stretched her hand forward with a victory sign.

“B-by the way… You don’t suppose Irina is living in the same dorm as us right…?” I turned my head to Sheena and asked awkwardly.

“No way~ Irina and Liliana is living in the blue dorm, the Livyatan. Lenis and Albert is living in the red dorm, the Dragonblood. Felpurr is living in the green dorm, the Slytherin.” Sheena finished by announcing the dorm color everyone here was living in, all except for Lou, since she didn’t know where she was staying at either.

Then it was followed up by Albert, “Regardless of dorm color, this is an individual battle, so everyone will be put up against each other regardless of dorms. The points will be given based on your performance in the battle.”

“Heh… Sounds interesting, count me in!” Zain was getting all excited by himself, while I was feeling desperate, I shouted in my mind, “Zain~~~ Please stop adding more fuel to the fire! I want out! Hukhukhuk…”

Then, just at this time, Lou suddenly crawled out from the shadows and said timidly, “U-um… D-Does that mean… I can p-participate too?!”

“Nyahahaha~ Of course you can, you are officially a student of Tristanian Magic Academy for now. Since you are originally from Mysteria Summoning Academy, I expect we might have a dark horse in this year’s tournament, nyahahaha!” Felpurr suddenly hugged Lou from behind and said cheerilly. She’s a… free soul as always huh?

The other blonde-haired girl who had remained quiet all this time suddenly stepped forward and nodded at Lou once, then she said, “I’ll be expecting a good fight from you.”

“E-Ehhhhhhhh?!” With that, Lou felt regretful for stepping forward to ask such a silly question, now a huge expectation had been laid on her, and she had to somehow live up to their expectations.

Author’s Note:

Hoh boy… there’s a competition coming up! Anyone getting fired up for this?

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After Lenis called out to “Basile”, she immediately rushed over there. Strangely, instead of going towards the black-skinned man, Lenis was heading towards the penguin.

As Lenis got closer, the penguin got more frantic and kept waving its… flippers around, as if it was saying, “This is not my fault, it was that black guy over there who came and challenged me.”

The penguin was full of intelligence, its action was very humane. One couldn’t help but wonder if there is a human under those thick and bulky “penguin suit”, but its screeching immediately dispelled that thought, no human could make a sound like that. It was a genuine penguin cry. ⌈¹⌋

When Lenis got in front of the penguin, she called out, “Basile! Didn’t I warn you not to get into any more fights without my permission? Remember what you did at the barn last night? All the magic beasts are now scared of you, because of that you can no longer stay in the barn!”

“What?! You mean that penguin is Basile?! T-Then who is that black-skinned man over there?” It seemed like I was the only one surprised by this sudden change of event, and I was so sure that black-skinned man was the one called Basile too. Everyone here already knew Lenis’ familiar was that giant penguin.

“What happened last night? Did something happened at the barn?” Hearing Lenis’ words, Sheena stepped forward to ask, ignoring my question.

“Listen to this Sheena!” Lenis turned around and talked to Sheena as if complaining, “Yesterday, because the black goblin had unknowingly occupied Basile’s favorite spot, it flipped out and beat every magic beasts in the barn black and blue. Because of that, Basile was chased out by the barn owner.”

Lenis stopped for a while to catch her breath, then she let out a sigh and said, “Haa… I wonder why is it so hot-headed, it must have lived the life of a king before, it’s kind of hard to put it under control with that proud and haughty attitude. I had to look for a new place for it to stay last night because of what happened at the barn last night.”

“Wait… It beat every magic beasts in the barn black and blue? When I go to the barn last night, every magic beasts looked fine to me though.” Sheena tilted her head and poked her right cheek with the index finger.

“Arf…” Just at this time, the black-skinned man walked over with the little fox in his arm, then he said, “It was this little critter who healed everyone in the barn.”

(Ah… so that’s why that “Lion King” scene took place in the barn last night?) I thought to myself while feeling convinced.

“Futaba!” Sheena shouted when she saw the little fox, she tried to hug it but little Futaba quickly broke free from the black-skinned man’s embrace and jumped onto his head.

Sheena puffed her cheeks at this, she thought to herself, “Mu… why is both of my familiar like this? All I want is to cuddle them…”

Then, the million dollar question had finally been asked by Albert, “Um… by the way, who are you? Are you perhaps the new barn owner?”

“Ah… um… How should I break this to you…” The black-skinned man was hesitant to answer, or more like… he doesn’t know how to answer. This made everyone suspicious of him, but somehow or the other, I had this feeling of deja vu, it felt as if I have met this guy before.

However, no matter how much I think about it, I just couldn’t relate it to anyone I have met before, I mean… it is impossible for this kind of person to exist in the old world and furthermore, I had only been in this world for a few days at best.

Then I suddenly thought of the wildest possibility ever, “Could he be a reincarnated person?! I mean… since I had been reborned as a spirit, it’s not totally out of the question…”

Just at this time, the two goblins, Fiore and Giga, got beside the black-skinned man, I couldn’t see the shadow of Zain anywhere, but due to our spiritual link, I can somehow sense that he is closeby. In fact, he is very close to the other two goblins, I doubtfully looked behind the black-skinned man, and I still couldn’t see the shadow of Zain.

When the black-skinned man finally decided to open his mouth to speak, I suddenly realized something and shouted before he could say anything, “AHHHH!!! Could you be… Zain?!”

“Heh… Took you long enough.” The black-skinned man, Zain, scratched his head proudly and continued, “That’s right, I am Zain. It seems like I have evolved into a rare variation of hobgoblin last night.”

My jaw dropped in surprise, I mean… I have heard of this evolution thing before, but knowing about it and seeing it with your own eyes are two different things. The change in physique is really too much, and in such a short time too!

It seemed like I wasn’t the only one surprised by this though, Lenis, Irina, Sheena, Albert, and the others who heard about this had gaping mouth. There were too surprised to even speak, monster evolution is a very rare event even in this world. Generally speaking, most monsters would born and die as their original species, evolution only occur once in every hundred years. We are very lucky to have observed this miracle with our very eyes.

The reason why goblin and the likes were stripped off their title as demi-humans and were classified as monsters is because of their ability to evolve. This is a characteristic that is only found in monsters. Therefore, to this very day, the goblins, hobgoblins, ogre, lizardman, and other such demi-humans are still classified as monsters and are hunted down for subjugation request on a daily basis.

By the way, it was Sylvidia who told me about this classification thing. There’s no way I would know something like this.

“In-… Increadible! Marvelous! This is a miracle! I never thought I’d see it with my own eyes, it is really true that the monsters can evolve into a higher species! Hahahahaha!” Albert was overjoyed.

The other students were also excited by this event, I was left confused, “Why are they so excited over this?” I couldn’t help but ponder by myself, until I hear what the students were saying;

“Then, that means… if we work hard…”

“That’s right… our familiar might be able to evolve too!”

“Alright! I’m going to work harder, not only on magic, but on strengthening my familiar too!”

Just saying, the fact that the monsters can evolve is already a well-known fact and it is the foundation of the Mysteria Summoning Academy, but since their summons are all high breed monsters, they never thought they could compete with them in familiar battle.

But now, a goblin, supposedly the weakest class of monster in Halkeginia, had just successfully evolved in front of their eyes. They couldn’t help but feel hopeful that their familiar might evolve one day too.

After the class session is over, everyone except Lancelot swarmed around us, most of their questions are directed at the new transfer student.

Felpurr, the catgirl, opened her mouth to ask, “Hey~ Hey~ How’s it feel to use void magic, nya?”

“Eh? Ah… um… I don’t know… At first, I feel frantic… since I couldn’t use any of the spells I learned before, I was truly panicked, but when I learned that the power of void had awakened in me, I was overjoyed…” The new transfer student answered briefly according to her experience.

Professor Naoki had mentioned this during the session earlier, when void mages are using magic, the four elements will be fused together automatically, so that means they won’t be able to use basic elemental spell anymore, talk about inconvenience. I guess this is what they call great power comes at a great price huh?

I confirmed this with Sylvidia earlier, she told me this happened only because the Void Mage in this world relied on an artificial source to change their souls forcefully, this power was normally gifted to four person at birth by the goddesses of this world. It is very rare for teenage and adult to receive this blessing.

As I am a soul mutation, I can achieve void power naturally so this restriction won’t apply to me, however… that all depends on my hard work. Since Sylvidia was the emissary of the goddess before, she must have known more secrets than any ordinary people, so I took her word for it.

“Hey, Sylvia~ Let’s go get our lunch~!” Sheena tried to hug me from behind, but I suddenly turned to the side and stood up, thus Sheena hugged the thin air.

When I turned around to face Sheena and said, “Sure! Let’s go!”
I caught Sheena in that awkward position, I couldn’t help but ask, “Uh… What are you doing?”

Sheena stood straight immediately and replied, “Oh uh… this is… you know… a-an exercise!” As she said that, Sheena kept repeating that awkward motion. If this was in an anime, I’m sure they’d be a sweatdrop on my forehead by now.

“Ah… Good idea, we should all go get our lunch together~” Lenis suddenly walked over here while pulling the new transfer student.

“Nn… Lunch.” Irina was her usual self, she just spoke in short sentence and pointed at the door.

“What? What? You girls are going to get lunch? Count me and Liliana in too, nya~” Felpurr joined our group with her casual demeanor, she was clinging on the other blonde-haired girl like a glue to prevent her from escaping.

“F-Felpurr! Unhand me at once!” The blonde-haired girl retaliated unhappily as she was caught.

“No way~ You will run away again once I unhand you, nya~” Felpurr tightened her grip on the blonde-haired girl, and then she explained to us, “Sorry about that nya~ You see… Liliana is a shy girl, that’s why she don’t have many friends, let’s all be good friends, alwright?”

Liliana, the blonde-haired girl, blushed and looked the other way, then she muttered under her breath, “M-Mind your own business… I don’t need any other friends…”

And with that, the group finally left the classroom and while we’re walking on the hallway, we attracted a lot of attention, or more like… we attracted TOO MUCH attention.

“Kya!! Look over there! All the girls in the special class are gathered together!”

“Did something happen? It is rare for them to have a gathering like this.”

“I hear there are transfer students admitted to the special class today.”

“Is that girl beside Miss Sheena the new transfer student?”

“Wait… Who is that shorty? Why is she following them? Could it be?!”

And so on and so forth… It was very noisy on the hallway. I’m still not used to be the center of attention, I cling to Sheena involuntarily and hide my face behind her shadow.

Unknowingly, that sight was seen by Angie, she was looking down so her face was hidden by her hair, but surely, she had a pretty grim expression. She even laughed maniacally from time to time, causing the students not dare to get near her.

When we walked past a certain hallway, we noticed a huge crowd in the courtyard, and all of a sudden, there was a huge boom!

“W-What? What is going on?” Albert shouted and jumped out from the window immediately.

“Ah… Wait for me!” Sheena followed closely behind.

Since the other girls were also curious, they also jumped out from the window after Sheena.

When we got to the courtyard, the crowd separated and opened a path for us immediately. What we saw in front of us was a rather shocking scene.

There was… a penguin! Not just any penguin, it was a giant penguin about three meter tall! And that was not all, the giant penguin was wearing a really thick cloak and its right arm was cladded in flame!

I couldn’t help but wonder, is the penguin in this world different from the one in our world? Could it be that the penguin here is afraid of cold weather instead? It should be spring right now, and yet, the penguin is wearing such a thick clothing! And its arm is even burning! Isn’t that hot? As expected of a fantasy world, you never fail to impress!

With a wave of its hand, the flame died out and the penguin screeched a few times, as if it was saying, “Hah! The flame won’t work on me, you maggots!” The penguin had a rather proud demeanor as it was screeching.

In front of the penguin was a man with black skin, it was unlike the black pigment a normal human skin could possess, the skin was pitch-black and shiny. The man had a rather… well, I can’t say handsome, but he’s not bad looking either. More so than that, he had a really wild expression, as if he was a hungry beast.

That black-skinned man was about 1.75 meter tall and on the surface, he looked pretty skinny, but he was rather well built. His muscles were buldging, and he had an awesome six pack abs. His shoulder length hair was white in contrast to his black skin, which made a perfect pair.

That kind of man was currently having a confrontation with the penguin. He opened his mouth and exclaimed loudly, “Hah! You big fat penguin, I may have lost to you yesterday, but I will definitely win today!”

“B-Basile? What are you doing?!” Lenis suddenly shouted in surprise.

Hearing her voice, both the penguin and black-skinned man looked over here. Both of their face had a huge change when they saw us. More than shock and fear, it felt like they were more concerned about how to explain the situation.

The black-skinned man, probably the one Lenis called as Basile, I can understand his concern, but for the penguin to act like this too, that I failed to understand.

Author’s Note:

Mwehehehe… who do you think is the black-skinned man and the giant penguin? Stay tuned for the next chapter!

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As I was learning about the difference between commoner and noble from Professor Naoki, the headmaster suddenly announced the most shocking news of the day;

“Alright, alright, that’s enough question for the day. I know you are all curious about the new transfer student here, but you can save those questions for later. The main reason why she had been transferred to Tristanian Magic Academy was because she had awakened to the power of……Void Magic!”

Professor Colbert exclaimed with a loud voice, it was clear that he was very excited from his tone of voice. Everyone in the class, including me and Professor Naoki, widened our eyes in shock and looked at the new transfer student.

(Wait… What? Void Magic? Eh? Isn’t that supposed to be a legendary class magic?)

My mind was in disarray when I heard the term “Void Magic”. And as expected, I wasn’t the only one confounded by this shocking news, the class soon turned into a clamor. I noticed at the corner of my eyes that even Professor Naoki was surprised, I guess she was not told about this beforehand.

The reason Professor Naoki seemed concerned earlier was probably because of this, or there might be some other profound reason.

“Clatter! Clatter!”

Someone in the class stood up abruptly and caused the chair to drag against the floor. That person was none other than Albert, he opened his mouth to speak as soon as he got up from the chair, “Headmaster! Is what you’re saying the truth?!”

Professor Colbert clearly understood where Albert was going, he nodded his head gravely. Seeing that indication, Albert slumped onto his chair heavily, then he said in a barely audible voice, “Then… That means Lady Josette is…”

Albert had a really dark expression, he was unable to finish the words, in fear that it might really come true. Sheena, who was sitting beside Albert, tapped his shoulder lightly to comfort him.

After a long time later, the commotion finally calmed down and the class was about to start. Professor Colbert left the room, leaving Professor Naoki to take care of the class session. Me and the other transfer student were seated at the empty seats at the back.

Normally, I hate sitting at the back of the class, since I had bad eyesight and hearing, but despite that, I was always forced to sit at the back due to my height. But now, things are different, I have this eyesight that was as keen as the hawk’s and this ear that was as sharp as the bat’s, I have no qualms about sitting at the back anymore.

After we are seated, Professor Naoki started with a rollcall, just like any other class.

“Sheena.”
“Present.”
“Albert.”
“Present.”
……

After the rollcoll, Professor Naoki concluded, “So… the only one absent today is Oben Caglayan. Very well…”

“Flip!”

Professor Naoki closed the attendance book in her hand with a flip, then she started, “Since we have a Void Mage joining us today, let me start by briefly explaining the basics.”

According to Professor Naoki, since the commoner mage are only able to use single element in most cases, it is only natural for them to focus on one main element, but that’s not the case for void mage. Just like the noble mage, the void mage’s specialty is fusion magic.

Fusion magic only works best if used with magics of different elements on the same level, if for example; your fire magic is rank 3, while your water element is rank 2, the effect will be less effective than when you fuse rank 2 magics of different elements.

That’s why, most noble mage stopped advancing from Rank 3 and solely focuses on fusion magic. After all, fusion magic is already hard in itself, it is impossible for them for focus on two things at once. If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

First, Mages that can fuse up to two different elements are called “Line Mage”. By fusing two different elemental magics of the same rank, one can achieve 1.5 times the power.

Next, Mages that can fuse up to three different elements are called “Triangle Mage”. By fusing three different elemental magics of the same rank, they can achieve 4 times the power.

And lastly, Mages that can fuse all four elements are called “Square Mage”. They can achieve up to 8 times the power by fusing four different elemental magics. With that much increase in power, it is no wonder they gave up focusing solely on their most proficient element.

Just think about it, if they can fuse four Rank 3 elemental magics, they can effectively achieve power up to Rank 24! They can become more than twice as powerful as Transcendence! But of course, that’s not how it really works. From Rank 3 to Rank 7, and from Rank 7 to Rank 9, there’s a huge jump in power. So realistically speaking, by fusing four Rank 3 elemental magics, their power just barely touched upon Rank 7.

And it is mainly because of this roadblock that most people were unable to make a breakthrough to Rank 4. That’s why they chose to stay at Rank 3 and focus on fusion magic. But the commoner mages are not so lucky, they cannot use fusion magic so they had no choice but to break through that roadblock.

The only difference between void mage and noble mage is that the four elements are fused to the very core. When four elements completely fused as one, they become greyish; for now, the researchers are calling that as grey matter.

When I heard of this grey matter, I immediately linked it with the Grandmist Energy as dictated in Coiling Dragon, if that grey matter is really the Grandmist Energy, then calling void magic as the creation magic is not an exaggeration.

After all, it is said that the entire universe was made of this Grandmist Energy. The metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and wind were made out of this energy.

After the lengthy lecture by Professor Naoki was finally over, it was already time for lunch. My first priority is to go to the lingerie store to get myself a bra! After listening to what Sheena said this early morning, I’ve been self-conscious and my breasts felt quirky for the entire morning.

We will go there immediately after eating our fill, but… something unexpected happens on our way to the cafeteria…

Author’s Note:

Hoh god… I’m beat… I didn’t manage to fall asleep the entire night!

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“Miss Lou, it is a great honor to have you join us at Tristanian Magic Academy. I vow in the name of the headmaster that we will definitely help you nurture your newfound power. We have the best facilities here in Tristanian Magic Academy, I’m sure they will help you tremendously.”

In the headmaster’s office, a middle aged uncle was receiving me with warm welcome. My name is Lou, 15 years old, just about a month ago, I was called a dunce, a good-for-nothing, a chibi, and all sorts of negative nicknames.

I was a student at the prestigeous Mysteria Summoning Academy, I did not know how someone untalented like me wounded up at such a prestigeous school. At that time, I was just taking a stroll in the forest, when all of a sudden, I was attacked by a bear. During the most critical moment, I heard a voice in my head. In response to my desperate cries, a tiny butterfly came out of thin air and saved me from the crisis. That butterfly was later given the name; Anya.

That was also the fateful day I met sis-Anne, she happened to catch sight of me when I summoned Anya, it was her who told me that I had talent to become a summoner and invited me to Mysteria Summoning Academy. I was moved by her words so I decided to take the entrance exam, I was accepted only because I already have a familiar and the recommendation letter from sis-Anne, I was just lucky, I knew that all too well after I entered the academy, that I have no talent.

That’s why, when I heard that we can get extraordinary power if we can make it to the abyss of the dungeon, I sneaked out of the academy and entered the dungeon. I was very desperate, I almost lost my life in the dungeon, I am only alive now all thanks to sis-Anne.

In the dungeon, we encountered a demon who was buried under the rocks, she seemed so pitiful so we helped her. In return for sparing her life, the demon gave me this power. Since Tristanian Academy is more specialized in magic, the headmaster had to make the decision to transfer me to Tristanian Magic Academy in order to nurture this power. I swear I will definitely master this power and become stronger. I will definitely repay sis-Anne’s kindness.

With those in mind, I steeled my resolve and clenched my fists. After the middle aged uncle was done with his lengthy speech, he led me to the classroom, I was so nervous when I entered the classroom, my body stiffened involuntarily, I even stuttered during my introduction. Uuu… How embarrassing!

When I lifted my body from that awkward bow, I saw a beautiful older sister in front of me, she had a kind smile when she said to “get along from now on” in a low voice. She kind of reminds me of sis-Anne.

I was mesmerized by her beauty so my reply came a little slow. I think I blushed a little, my cheeks felt a little hot, hauuu… I hope she won’t think I’m weird…

After that, the middle aged uncle briefly introduced myself and the entire class burst into a clamor. Then all of a sudden, I heard a loud bang that came from the side. When I turned my head over there to look, I saw a girl about my age standing on an elevated stand in front of the teacher’s desk. I wonder if she’s the class representative…

“Wait, she’s around my age right? What’s with those huge racks…” When that thought crossed my mind, I involuntarily put my hands in front of my flat chest.

When the kind sister from earlier was talking to the little girl with huge racks, one of the students suddenly raised his hand, he had purple hair and a very handsome face, for some reason, I felt like I had seen him before, even though this should be our first meeting.

The middle aged uncle suddenly raised his voice and said, “Yes, Prince Albert, is there anything you’d like to inquire?”

“E-Eh?! P-P-P-P-Prince?! You mean he is the prince?!” I didn’t shout that out loud, but my mind was in a fluster, I mean… when I think about it carefully, that purple hair does have resemblance to the current queen, and that face… that face… Hauuu…

I didn’t hear what the prince asked nor the rest of the commotion later since my mind was completely filled with thoughts of being in the same class as the prince. By the time when I regained the clarity of my mind, I heard the middle aged uncle say;

“Alright, alright, that’s enough question for the day. I know you are all curious about the new transfer student here, but you can save those questions for later. The main reason why she had been transferred to Tristanian Magic Academy was because she had awakened to the power of…… Void Magic!”

The middle aged uncle was very excited when he announced my power to the class, and as expected, the entire class burst into a huge clamor, even the kind looking sister and the little girl with big racks had a surprised look on their face.

I mean… this is the legendary Void Magic after all, who wouldn’t be surprised? When the demon gave me the amethyst stone and told me to make a blood pact with it, I was really reluctant at first, but I’m glad I did it.

This is the power that is only granted to four people per era. If I have gained this power, that means one of the Void Mage that came before me must be dead. I don’t know who that person was, but I will become stronger and make this power mine.

If the power I gained was some other magic, the headmaster of Mysteria wouldn’t even consider transferring me to Tristanian Magic Academy. This is the alma mater of the strongest Void Mage in the current age after all, this is the best place to nurture this Void Magic of mine.

Author’s Note:

I know some people is not happy with the cliffhanger in the previous chapter. I don’t like cliffhanger too, but once you are an author, you will come to realize; Cliffhanger is the author’s best friend.

If you can’t build up suspense and mysteries, the reader will lose interest fast and you’ll have failed as an author. It is only because of those cliffhangers that make the readers come back for more.

Thank you for understanding~

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The other transfer student followed Professor Colbert into the room, her movements are quite stiff. For a moment, I wondered if I looked like that just now.

When Professor Colbert stopped in front of the teacher’s desk and turned around to face the students, the transfer student also did the same, she stood there with both arms perfectly straight at her sides.

I can see that she’s quite nervous, and I don’t blame her for it. I mean, I was in the same boat just a moment ago, so I understand how she feels, sort of. It doesn’t feel comfortable having all eyes focusing on you, all the more when they are staring at you with deadpan eyes.

Just at this time, Professor Colbert finally raised his voice and said, “As you’ve heard from your homeroom teacher, this young lady beside me is the other transfer student!”

Lancelot, the proud-looking guy, suddenly stood up and raised an inquiry, “Headmaster! Forgive my rudeness for asking, Sheena’s familiar, I understand, but on what basis does this young girl who’s not even 16 gets enrolled in the special class? Moreover, how did she even get enrolled in Tristanian Magic Academy? She looks like a plebeian no matter how you look at her!”

Professor Colbert raised his hand and waved it up and down to hint Lancelot to sit down, “Now, now, Lancelot, don’t get impatient, that’s why I am here. I will explain the reason why she’s here shortly. But first… let have our transfer student introduce herself.”

With that cue from Professor Colbert, the transfer student suddenly jolted for a moment, then she did a perfect ninety degree bow, with both arms still sticking to her sides. After that, she raised her voice to introduce herself, “N-n-n-nice to meet you! M-my name is Lou!”

“Tsk! Another commoner as expected…” Lancelot clicked his tongue and complained in a barely audible voice, then he looked at Professor Colbert for an explanation.

When the transfer student lifted her upper body, I turned around and leaned sideways to bring my face close to hers, then I said in a low voice, “Let’s get along from now on.”

I had a bright smile on my face, I could hardly restrain the smile, by no means was I smiling because I took joy in other people’s misfortune alright? I was smiling because uh…… I thought we could be good friends.

In the transfer student’s eyes though, I looked like a kind big sister figure, she blushed a little and said in a fluster, “U-um… same here!”

“Ahem…” Just at this time, Professor Colbert suddenly cleared his throat and raised his voice, “You see… Miss Luo here is a transfer student from Mysteria Academy.”

As soon as Professor Colbert said that, the class raised a commotion;

“What? That shrimp was from Mysteria?” The blonde-haired girl who had remained silent all along finally opened her mouth.

“Nyayaya! She must be pretty good if she’s from Mysteria.” The cat girl said cheerily.

“Mysteria is our rival school, why would they send one of their own over here? Unless…” Albert was muttering to himself.

Professor Naoki suddenly slammed the table and shouted, “Silence! The headmaster is still talking!”

“Thank you, Miss Naoki.” Professor Colbert turned his head to face Professor Naoki and bowed slightly to express his gratitude, then he continued to explain, “As you all have guessed, Miss Lou has talent in summoning magic, which is why she was scouted by Mysteria Academy, despite being a commoner. But recently, she has awakened to a new power. In order to nurture that power, she has been transferred to Tristanian Magic Academy.”

Since I look confused, Professor Naoki explained to me, “Tristanian Magic Academy and Mysteria Summoning Academy are rival schools. Normally, these schools only accept noble-born students, but recently, they’ve started accepting commoners with extraordinary talent.”

Professor Naoki stopped explaining until here and asked me, “Do you know the differences between commoner and noble?”

Obviously, since I only came to this world a few days ago, I didn’t know anything about this world, so I just shook my head and answered briefly with a ‘no’.

Professor Naoki smiled and explained to me while the students were storming Professor Colbert with various questions, “You see, the biggest difference between a commoner and a noble is their aptitude with magic. Most aristocrats are born with aptitude with all four basic elements, which is why they have a bigger mana tank. Because of that, nobles are able to cast magic without the help of magic tools.

As for the commoners, they usually only have aptitude with one basic element at most, which is why they cannot cast magic without the help of magic tools, they just don’t have enough innate mana to gather the elemental essence. Occasionally, there would be a few mages among the commoners that have aptitude with two elements, they are commonly known as Dual Mage. To date, we haven’t seen a commoner with more than two elemental aptitude.”

I see… so that’s what the magic staves are for. If I have to take a wild guess, I reckon it was thanks to the emergence of the dungeon and the magic beasts within, because according to my memory, the commoners weren’t able to use magic at all in the anime adaptation of this world.

The crystals on the magic staves were most likely the magic core found in the magic beast’s body, it was probably thanks to the magic core that the commoners were finally able to use magic.

I guess the dungeon has turned into an important source of income over the past few decades. I mean, just look at the guild card, it was also made with the materials found in the dungeons.

If what Professor Naoki said was true, then I guess everyone in this Magic Academy is an elite in their own rights. What about the special class then? I guess they are the cream of the crop, they are the elite amongst the elite! Now the small number of students in this class finally make sense.

Just at this time, Professor Colbert finally announced the most shocking news of the day;

“Alright, alright, that’s enough question for the day. I know you are all curious about the new transfer student here, but you can save those questions for later. The main reason why she had been transferred to Tristanian Magic Academy was because she had awakened to the power of……”

To be continued……

Author’s Note:

Hehehe~ What do you think is Lou’s new power?

1. N/a

Right now, I am standing in front of the faculty room, since I’ve been told to come here first thing in the morning to report to Professor Naoki.

“Knock! Knock!”

I knocked the door nervously and pushed it open slowly, then I poked my head into the room. “Pardon my intrusion……” I said that in a barely audible voice as I entered the room.

When the Professors in the faculty room noticed me, one of them approached and asks, “What business do you have in the faculty room?”

That professor had a gentle smile and a handsome face, he looked to be in his early twenties, quite young to be a professor at this prestigious academy, he must be quite accomplished. He seemed like the type that would be popular among the female students.

To that kind of professor who had a beaming smile, I answered honestly, “Ah… um… Professor Naoki asked me to find her in the faculty room this morning.”

“Professor Naoki?” That handsome professor had a doubtful expression for a moment, then his face suddenly brightened up, “Ah… You must be that new transfer student everyone was talking about. Come on in, Professor Naoki’s seat is at that corner, you’ll be able to find her there.” As he said that, the handsome professor used his index finger to point to one corner of the room.

After thanking him, I walked over to that corner and found Professor Naoki furrowing her eyebrows, she seemed to be pondering about something very seriously.

“Um… Professor Naoki?” When she heard my voice, Professor Naoki lifted her head and saw me leaning sideways.

“Ah… You’re finally here?” Professor Naoki muttered and stood up from the chair, then she walked past me and said, “Come, I’ll show you to the homeroom.”

Just like that, I followed Professor Naoki to the homeroom. As Professor Naoki entered the room, she told me to remain outside and wait for the cue.

All eyes were focused on Professor Naoki as she walked towards the teacher’s desk. Professor Naoki stood on a stand to elevate herself, she is short after all, then she raised her voice and said, “Good morning students. As I announced yesterday, new transfer students will be joining us today. I am glad most of you can make it to the homeroom this morning.”

Just at this time, a proud-looking guy let out a snort, “Hmph! I bet it’s just Sheena’s familiar anyway. This better be worth our time.”

“Oh my~ How curious, even the arrogant Lancelot is here today, I bet it’s going to rain tonight.” Sheena teased the proud-looking guy on purpose, it seemed like they’re on bad term.

The proud-looking guy called Lancelot did not take a bait and ignored Sheena’s obvious provocation. Professor Naoki let out a breath and said, “Sigh… It is as you all have suspected, one of the transfer student is indeed Sheena’s familiar.”

“You said one of the transfer student? That means there’s another transfer student in the special class other than Sheena’s familiar?” One of the students asked what was weighing on everyone’s mind.

“Yes, she is currently having a briefing with the headmaster. I suspect she will be here shortly. Meanwhile, allow me to introduce the new student you’re all already familiar with. Come on in.” With that cue from Professor Naoki, I walked into the room with stiff movements.

I could hear the students clamoring as I entered the room;

“What?! Two transfer students on the same day?”
“This is… quite a rare event…”
“If she can make it to the special class, then there must be something noteworthy about her…”

After casting a quick glance at the entire room, I could more or less guess the reason they were surprised. Because…… there were only seven people in the class! Four of which I already acquainted with. And this was supposed to be “most of them”?! No wonder they were surprised to have two new students who suddenly joined their ranks. Even I was surprised, but for a different reason.

I guess this was not a “special” class just for show, every students in this class must be a top elite in their own rights. Among the acquaintances I knew, there were Sheena, Albert, Irina, and Lenis. The other three were the proud-looking guy, and two blonde-haired girl. One of the blonde-haired girl had cat eats and tail, just looking at her, I could totally understand Sheena’s impulse to pull me into her embrace when I was in the cat-form. I mean, she’s just too damn cute, it’s irresistible!

However, for Albert to be in this class too, I admit I was slightly surprised. I never thought he was special-class quality, my evaluation of him just skyrocketed. Initially, I thought he was just a good-for-nothing playboy, but he turned out to be quite a likable guy, I guess you really can’t judge a book by its cover.

As I walked into the classroom, Sheena was waving at me with a beaming smile, so I just waved back at her awkwardly. Albert just nodded his head when I glanced at him. Lenis was waving with both hands in front of her and Irina just revealed a slight smile when I swept my eyes past them. The two blonde-haired girl didn’t have any particular reaction, but the proud-looking guy had a clearly irritated expression.

As I got beside the teacher’s desk, I tried to copy Albert’s elegant gesture from yesterday; from when he was still crossdressing. I pulled the hem of my skirt and performed a rather awkward curtsy. Then I introduced myself with stuttering voice, “M-my name is Sylvia! It’s n-n-nice to meet cu-!” I bit my tongue at the end of the sentence and let out a groan.

“Pfft-!” I could hear a faint restrained laughter with my attentive ears, it obviously came from Sheena. Nobody else found this funny, I guess it must be their temperament as a noble. In normal classes, most students would already burst into laughter at this failed introduction attempt.

I could hear Lenis admonishing Sheena in a barely audible voice, “Hey Sheena, it’s rude to laugh at others like this…”

“Hehehe… Sorry~ I just couldn’t help it……” Sheena was trying her best to restrain her laughter, I could see her wiping the tears that welled up at the corner of her eyes.

“Mu… was my action really that funny? Did she really have to laugh until her tears well up?” I puffed my cheeks in displeasure as these thoughts crossed my mind.

*Clatter! Clatter!*

Just at this time, the sound of a chair being pushed could be heard, then followed by a cheerful voice, “Nyahaha~ You are interesting! My name is Felpurr, nice to meet cu~!” The blonde-haired catgirl winked and performed a quick salutation as she introduced herself.

“Tsk! So she’s just a plebeian.” The proud-looking guy muttered something under his breath. In the world of Halkeginia, only aristocrats possess a second name, those without one are commoners, this is the common knowledge in this world.

*Knock! Knock!*

Suddenly, the sound of someone knocking the door could be heard. Soon after, entered Professor Colbert and the second transfer student in question.

That transfer student had a rather childish appearance, her height was approximately 1.4 meter, she had a flat-chest which was normal for her age, her blonde hair extended up to her waist, and it was trimmed in short bang style. Her pair of big eyes were as clear as the blue sky, paired together with her flushed cheeks, her small nose, and pink lips, she looked exceedingly charming.

What was most peculiar about this transfer student was her hat, it was a blue hat with big fluffy ears at the both sides of the hat. It looked strangely cute, especially when it was worn by her.

Author’s Note:

Hehehe~ Who do you think the other transfer student is? I bet most of you can guess who is it already with these much hint. 😉 😉

And in regards to the dodging galore… it seems like I failed again 🙁

But I swear, I will bring that fleeting dream into reality one of these days! I’m all fired up! Or not…

1. N/a

“What are the chances of someone grabbing my breasts anyway, hahahahaha.” While I was raising a flag by saying some cliche line like this, Sheena seemed to be lost in her own little world.

When I saw Sheena like that, I extended my right hand involuntarily and said, “Why are you daydreaming? Let’s go to the dining hall already. I’m starved.”

When Sheena saw me extend a hand to her voluntarily, all the negative thoughts were washed down the drain. She beamed a smile so brilliant that I couldn’t look at her directly.

She immediately grabbed my hand and clung onto my arm. My body shivered for a moment when her breasts touched my arm, but I didn’t think too much of it and enjoyed the soft sensation.

“Oh Angie, thanks for preparing the bathtub, we’ll be off to the dining hall now.” Angie who was still standing in front of the door immediately bowed respectfully and moved aside.

I also expressed my thanks to Angie, but I heard a click of the tongue before she raised her head and said with a forced smile, “I’m glad to be of service.” The sound of the clicking tongue was faintly discernible, I was only able to hear it thanks to the elven ears. And the forced smile seemed so natural I don’t think anyone would have noticed, but for some reason, I could feel malice directed at me.

I wondered what did I do to deserve this kind of treatment from her, could it be because she was made to carry the bathtub due to my problem? Maybe I should apologize to her later… While I was thinking something like this, I was dragged by Sheena out of the room and made our way to the dining hall.

“How dare you drive Miss Sheena out of her room last night, how dare you be so clingy with Miss Sheena, how dare you take Miss Sheena away from me…” These thoughts flooded Angie’s mind, she was gripping the broomstick with both hands while sending death glare at me. I could feel a chill down my spine as we made our way to the other end of the corridor.

In the end, when we were making our way down the stairs, I could hear a “snapping” sound. Apparently, the broomstick that Angie was holding got snapped in half. You could easily imagine just how much brute strength she possessed despite her frail figure.

***

When we arrived at the lobby, all the girls from yesterday lined up in front of me and apologized for what happened last night, not that I remember all of them anyway.

I hid behind Sheena with my head peeking out, I told them not to mind about it with a timid voice. When the boys saw the commotion over here, they came over to pry information out of the girls. Fortunately, the girls were considerate enough not to say anything, otherwise I would die in shame.

By the way, I should have mentioned this much earlier, the boys and girls live in the same dorm building. The girls to the right, the boys to the left, the boys are forbidden to go to the girl’s side and vice versa. This lobby is the only area in the dorm where the boys and girls can mingle together.

The dining hall seems to be located at the main building of the academy. That is the biggest building at the center of the academy, and also the place where all the facilities are located, including our classroom.

The five towers at the perimeter of the academy are the dorms. Apparently, each dorm also served as a group. The tower with the red roof housed the Dragonblood, the one with yellow roof housed the Gryffindor, the one with blue roof housed the Livyatan, the one with green roof housed the Slytherin, and lastly the one with white roof housed the Angelwing. These groups will be duking it out for supremacy at every school event.

Apparently, we’re at the Angelwing group. I have a bad feeling that my bird form will become the mascot of this group, but I just discarded that feeling at the back of my head.

After having a luxurious meal at the dining hall, it is finally time to head to the homeroom. It seems like the homeroom will be a joint session between all the students in the special class, that means I will be in the same class as Sheena and the other senior students. But of course, before I went to the homeroom, I had to report to the faculty, so we separated halfway.

Sheena went to the homeroom first after dropping me in front of the faculty room. From what Professor Colbert told me yesterday, it seems like attending the homeroom is only mandatory once a month, so I might not be able to meet all the special class students at once. It is also not necessary to attend to all the classes we signed up for, as long as we can produce the desired results. These privileges are only give to special class students though.

According to the timetable given to me last night, I have chosen four standard classes all on different days. By no means did I choose them only because I don’t want to take more than two classes on the same day, okay? I am truly interested in those classes, the first class I chose was the Elementary Magic Class, the second one was the Alchemy Class, the third one was the Apothecary Class as recommended by Sylvidia, and the last one was the History Class.

The Elementary Magic Class was as the name suggest, it’s where we’ll learn the basics of magic. As for the Alchemy Class, it’s where we learn about the properties of different items and what would happen if we were to fuse them together. The Apothecary Class was almost the same, but there was one major difference; In Alchemy Class, we have various tools to help us fuse the items, but in Apothecary Class, we have to use our own spiritual power to manage the fusion process. Depending on our skills, the item may turn out better or worst.

Only those who have affinity with fire and wood magic would be able to perform this kind of high level fusion process, it’s kind of similar to how the alchemy in “Battle Through the Heavens” work. When Sylvidia told me to take the Apothecary Class, I was a bit doubtful at first, since I don’t have affinity with wood element, but this was what Sylvidia told me;

“All the elves have natural affinity with nature, it would be weird if you don’t have affinity with wood element. The only reason it didn’t show up in the Guild Card is probably because your soul is more dominant, so it didn’t show the affinity with wood and light element. Just give or take a few days and you’ll probably feel the differences.”

Apparently, the reason Sylvidia recommended the Apothecary class was because it required precise control of one’s spiritual power. That was the main reason which convinced me, there’s so many things I can do if I can control my spiritual power precisely; Like levitating light objects, fusing magics of different elements, changing the density and trajectory of my magic, the soul transmission taught by Sylvidia, the Magic Perception, and so much more……

And lastly, the reason why I chose history class despite my lack of interest in the history of my own world was because this is a fantasy world! If I think of history as reading story book, it might be surprisingly fun. What’s more, the main reason which drove me to pick history class was because of what Sheena said to me before;

“The true history of Halkegenia is much darker than the novel-adaptation in the old world.”

Author’s Note:

The DODGING GALORE……! Will have to wait for the next chapter I suppose?

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“Amanda, I love you! Please go out with me!” A youngster suddenly confessed to a girl.

The girl had a troubled expression as she said, “I’m sorry… I can’t go out with you.”

The youngster was downhearted, but he still mustered his courage and asked, “Why? Is there… someone else you like?”

The girl looked at the youngster from bottom to up, then she said, “Because… We’re both girls, that’s why I can’t go out with you. I’m sorry Silva, but this is good bye…” As she said that, the girl turned around and walked away.

“Eh…? W-what are you talking about? I’m a…” When the youngster was about to said he was a man, he pounded his chest and noticed something was out of place, because there was a… soft sensation.

When the youngster finally noticed his figure, he couldn’t help but cry out loud, “EHHH?!?! W-what is going on?! This… This isn’t my body-! This isn’t me!” The youngster stretched his hand forward and ran after the girl, “Ah… Wait… Amanda… Please wait! I can explain!”

The youngster keeps running, but the figure of the girl just keeps getting smaller and smaller. The youngster was unable to catch up to the girl no matter how fast he ran.

“Amanda… Wait-!” Just at this time, I suddenly jolted awake from the dream.

*Bong!*

Due to my sudden movement, my head bumped into something as I raised my upper body from the bed.

“Ow… That hurts!” I covered my stinging forehead with both hands. Just when I was wondering what I bumped into, I heard a groaning sound coming from the side of the bed.

When I turned my head to the side, I saw Sheena courching on the ground with both hands covering her forehead. Needless to ask, I probably bumped into Sheena’s forehead.

The situation turned awkward for a moment, but just when I was about to apologize for what happened last night, Sheena suddenly jumped up and asked, “So~ Who is this Amanda?”

“Eh?! H-how do you know that name?” I was surprised when Sheena suddenly mentioned the name of my secret crush.

“Oh, I heard that name from your dream talk. You were like: Kya~ Amanda~ Don’t go-! I love you~!” Sheena was obviously trying to tease me and I fell for it again, “I didn’t scream like that, don’t make things up!”

Sheena covered her mouth with one hand and had a gleeful smile, “Fufufu… You fell for that~”

The moment I realized that I had been tricked by Sheena, it was already too late, I wouldn’t be able to deceive her anymore. I grinded my teeth and raised my voice, “Gunununu… You tricked me-!”

“So? Who is this Amanda? Was she your girlfriend?” Sheena suddenly brought her face really close to mine and asked.

I turned my face away with a whisk and answered very briefly, “No… Nothing of the sort… It was just a one-sided crush…”

The awkward situation between us was immediately dissolved by Sheena just like that. And here I was getting worried how should I face her when morning comes around, seems like it was a needless worry.

“Anyways, you should get ready soon, we will take our breakfast at the dining hall later.” Sheena suddenly changed the topic and urged me to hurry up.

After washing my face and taking a quick soak in the bathtub prepared by Sheena at the corner of the room, I changed into my usual one piece dress. When I was putting on my one piece dress, Sheena suddenly noticed something. I was not wearing a bra. After what I went through last night, I’m not really ashamed to see a female body nor being seen by other girls anymore. However, going to the public bath still proved to be a challenge for me, so I am eternally grateful to Sheena for preparing a bathtub in her private room.

It was nothing fancy though, it’s just a round wooden bathtub, but for some reason, this bathtub seemed so familiar, I had a sense of deja vu when I first laid eyes on this bathtub. I wondered where had I seen it before…

After putting on my one piece dress, Sheena stealthily approached me from behind and tried to grab my breasts. She was going to use this chance to warn me the disadvantage of not using a bra, but the moment she tried to touch me, my body reacted by itself and sidestepped.

Unbeknown to the situation, I turned around and saw Sheena right behind me, I tilted my head and asked, “Sheena, is something the matter?”

Sheena retracted her hands immediately and said in a fluster, “Uh… um… you know… Y-you should wear a bra you know? Don’t you feel uncomfortable when doing intense exercise?”

When I heard Sheena said that, I recalled what happened yesterday, it does feel slightly uncomfortable when my nipples rubbed against the shirt. While I was lost in thoughts, Sheena tried to grab my breasts again from the front. However, I took a step back unknowingly and avoided Sheena’s assault.

When I returned to my senses and saw Sheena with both hands stretched forward, I tilted my head again and asked, “What are you doing?”

“Oh um… nothing, ha- ha- ha- ha…” Sheena’s fingers wriggled for a moment before she retracted her hands, then she said, “I was just trying to warn you, if you don’t put on a bra and somebody was to grab your breasts… Well, you can imagine the rest…”

Recalling the electrifying sensation from last night, I shivered involuntarily and covered my breasts with both arms. Then I shouted loudly, “A bra! That’s right… a bra! We should go get one immediately!”

After I said that, I immediately rushed towards the door. Sheena tried to grab my hand to stop me, but my hand moved abruptly so she didn’t manage to grab it. When I opened the door, Angie was standing right there, she was in a position that seemed like she was about to knock on the door.

Just at this time, Sheena heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Sylvia… I know you are enthusiastic to try on a bra, but we should leave that for later, the classes are about to start.”

When Sheena tried to grab my hand to pull me along to the dining hall, I moved my hand to my chin and said, “Oh… Is that so… I guess the bra can wait until lunch break or after school. What are the chances of someone grabbing my breasts anyway, hahahahaha.” That was most likely a flag, but the ignorant me totally didn’t notice.

Sheena on the other hand was a little dumbfounded, she didn’t understand how she could miss me four times in a row. “It can’t be a coincidence, she must be deliberately avoiding me…” When she thought of something like this, Sheena felt a little sad. “Moreover, she didn’t even retort to my remarks, could she really be that enthusiastic to try on a bra?!”

“Hrm…” Just at this time, Sylvidia thought to herself, “It seems like my Master had been using Magic Perception unconsciously to dodge anything that get close to her…”

1. N/a

“Girls are scary- Girls are scary- Girls are scary…” Right now, I am cowering on the bed with blanket covering my entire body, only my face was visible from the outside.

How did something like this happen? Well, it all happened approximately half an hour ago. That was when my flowery image of the girls was completely shattered. Now I finally understand what Sheena meant when she said I was more girlish than any girls she know.

Perhaps it was in search of the perfect girl in my fantasy that prompted me to act that way, or perhaps it was something else at work. It’s possible that Sheena had already seen through me, that’s why she was teasing me so much.

Let’s turn time back a little and find out what’s going on, it all started with that single sentence from Sheena;

“Of course we’re going to the Public Bath~!” With that, Sheena dropped the bomb with an impish smile.

……

I stared at Sheena with a blank expression for a while, my puny brain couldn’t process what she was just saying in a timely manner. After seeing my blank expression, Sheena repeated the keywords to the letter, “The pu-blic bath~!”

It seemed like I didn’t mishear after all, I finally couldn’t hold it back anymore and let out a scream so loud that it resounded within the entire dorm, “EHHHHHHH?!?! P-p-p-p-public bath?!?! S-sheena, i-it’s still too early for that! I’m not mentally prepared yet!”

“Mentally prepared or not, you have no choice but to go, unless you want to take an open air bath in the lake? There’s no such things as a private bathroom in the community dorm you know~?” Just when I was about to suggest a private bath, Sheena blocked off my escape route.

Indeed, I couldn’t find anything resembling that of a private bathroom when I surveyed the entire room with my eyes. All I could see was a canopied queen-sized bed, a beautifully decorated wardrobe, a round table and a few chairs, a full length mirror attached to the wall, and other girlish decoration. There was no door that leads to the illusory bathroom.

“What? What? Is something going on here?” Before I knew it, most of the girls in the dorm had already gathered outside of the room, they were probably attracted here by my scream earlier.

Right at this moment, for some reason, Sheena’s smiling expression seemed so scary that it sent a chill down my spine. I have a really bad feeling about this. Fortunately, I am still in the bird form, I can probably escape by flying out from the windows.

But Sheena was one step ahead of me, before I had to chance to turn around and run, she already called out to the girls.

“Girls~” Before she continued, Sheena placed her left palm on her cheek, and used the right arm to support the elbow, “It seems like this is Sylvia’s first time taking a public bath, please treat her kindly, okay~?”

I could feel my whole body shivering for an instant, just when I was about to turn around, Sheena shouted, “Don’t let her escape!”

With that, all the girls rushed into the room like stampeding horses and grabbed me from all directions. Then they dragged me to the public bath with insurmountable forces. I tried to struggle but to no avail, I was completely outnumbered.

“Nooooooooooooooooooooooo~~~!” As I was getting dragged away, I screamed at the top of my lungs. But of course, nobody came to save me.

That was how I was dragged to the flower garden forbidden to men for the first time. I was stripped of my dress, surrounded by pudding armies at all sides, and was fondled all over by the girls, I couldn’t even think straight for a millisecond.

That’s how it leads to the current situation. “Sorry… Sorry… I’m so sorry…” In my mind, I kept apologizing to all the protagonist that had been through the same situation as me. Although it was an enjoyable read in manga and novels, when it happened to you in reality, it’s nothing short of a nightmare.

Seeing me like this, Sheena felt a bit rueful, she tried to apologize, “S-sylvia… I’m sorry okay? It seems like I overdid it this time.”

When she tried to approach me, I slapped her hand away by reflex and shouted with fearful voice, “Hieee-! Stay away from me!”

Sheena backed away and rubbed the back of her hand, she looked at me with a sorrowful expression and said, “I’m really sorry, okay? I will never do it again……”

Then she turned around and walked towards the door, before she opened it, she said without looking back, “I’ll leave you alone for tonight, please get some sleep soon.”

*Creak... Bang!*

After that, she opened the door and left the room. The girls who were waiting outside of the room asked, “How is she doing?” as soon as Sheena closed the door behind of her.

Sheena just shook her head and said in a low voice, “Not good… It seems like she has developed gynophobia .”

Her voice was low, but it clearly resounded within the ears of everyone present. With my attentive ears, I was able to catch what Sheena was saying, I also heard all the girls apologizing for overdoing it.

Although I feel bad for them, and know that they don’t have bad intention, I really wanted to have some time alone now. Too many things have happened during these past few days; I found myself in a foreign world, in a foreign body, and surrounded by people I don’t know. I seriously needed some time alone for all of these to sink in.

I know Sheena was probably trying to reward me in her own way, she probably thought I would enjoy being surrounded by naked girls. But the truth is, I’m not comfortable with the crowds, and I hate the sensation of being touched even more.

That electrifying feeling that runs through your spine when getting touched feels really uncomfortable. It feels a thousand times worst when dozen of girls were touching you all over the place. Although it was truly a sight for sore eyes, it was not a pleasant experience. I do not wish to go through that again with every fibre of my being.

Instead of fear of girls, I think I might have developed a fear of being touched. And this marked the beginning of how I received the nickname: Sylvia the Untouchable.

Author’s Note:

Well… damn, I don’t know what was I writing anymore when gynophobia was brought up in the midway. How is Sylvia going to overcome her phobia now… XD

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