"I have a twin brother?"
Noir touched my shoulder. He was cold. He looks like he was terrified. Noir told me, "Don't freak out. There's a very good explanation why I tried to hide it from you. Please don't be mad if you remember it immediately."
"Why would I be mad?" I was puzzled. Did something happened between us? "Is that the reason why you never looked for me?"
"Nope, but I tried to search you. Really! I tried to search for you six years until I found your location just this morning," reasoned Noir.
"He did," interrupted Lucas. "Master has been bugging me for six years about you, actually."
"Master? Who's that? Is he the one who adopted you, Noir?" I questioned him and Lucy glared at Lucas along with my twin.
"Shut up, Lucas. None of this is your concern." Noir snapped.
Lucas scoffed. "Oh yeah, it is. I was the reason she doesn't remember things."
"What did you say?!" Both Lucas and I said at the same time with a feeling of sudden rage circling around our hearts. I couldn't help but feel that Lucas was really right. What did happen that night? How come I lost my memories? I want to know everything.
Before Lucas moved his lips to speak, Ms. Perida came through a portal and announced something. "Go back to your seats. I have an announcement from the Papillon Council."
Everyone followed her instructions. I sat straight with my eyes on my teacher but my mind floating off to another world full of curiousity. I found myself asking a thousand questions about who am I? And who is Noir? How in the past do I know Lucas and Lucy? And who is Master?
Apparently, I see mine and my twin's similarities. We do have the same face. Check! His hair is darkish brown, but I have red hair. Yet, both of us possesses blue diamond eyes. Our magic is close to similar too. So, how can we not be twins? I didn't thought of that deeply until today. I was only focused on getting to a much higher class than Vivian's to truly prove that I had grown stronger since the night when the Papillons found me.
That night was on the twelfth of December. When they took me in as one of the Papillons and became Vivian's sister, I couldn't control my Luck magic. Fortunately, Father thought me along with his other friends. For six years I have trained inside the mansion of the family. I haven't seen this outside world since a week before Father and Mother enrolled me at their university. I suddenly thought that maybe that's the reason why Noir hasn't found me. Maybe it's because of my hiding self inside the mansion.
"Ro Papillon, you will be grouped with Noir Spectrum. I suggest you both work on your trainings now and work as a team." Ms. Perida reported. She left the room again as soon as she finished speaking.
Out of reflex when hearing my name, I agreed to watch the old lady said in front of the class without knowing what I will actually do. What will I really do? Argh! Ro, this is what you get for not listening to what's happening in the present!
"Uhh, Wis?" I started. "What did Ms. Perida said again?"
The small girl laughed at me. "I suspected you weren't really listening. Not after hearing about your brother."
She's smart. No wonder she got to this high level. I remarked, "That's one thing."
"So," she uttered a word before clearing her throat. "As you were asking, every year when the examinations for newbie's start, a festival begins the next day for three consecutive days."
Kurt joined in our conversation. "At this festival, all new and old students get to enjoy fun times their first days of the school with many competitions between levels."
"Kurt? Why are you butting in? I was the one who was supposed to tell her about that!" whined Wis.
I ignored her and doubted the 'competitions between levels'. I questioned him, "Isn't that... A little bit... I don't know... Not right?"
"Oh, you meant the competitions? It's fair alright. Our class gets the lowest rank everytime this happens," Lucy mentioned while walking towards us.
"Lowest? How's that possible?" Noir jumped in too. "Aren't we like... The second strongest class around the campus? Or is it third?"
"That's correct. Yet, we don't participate in those competitions. Level 8 gets second since the daughter of the Papillon entered their class. Then, the first as always is 19 while lastly is 9." Kurt added.
"But, why?" I asked them. They say it's fun but they never join in? How fun do they have every year? Most importantly, Level 8 got second with Vivian?! How is that even possible? I thought the Levels 17 and higher are so powerful? Why won't they participate? "And my sister beat you guys?!"
"Sister?" Noir suddenly was confused, as so the others.
I explained, "I was adopted by the Papillons so it was legal for me to become an adoptive sister to Vivian. However, I never really got the chance to be really much of a sister since she hated me."
Noir shrugged it off. He must've not have minded the whole thing. I think that he is thinking that the most important thing is that we are now together. Which makes me wonder one last thing... Who are our parents? With so many questions in my mind, I hardly hear the argument between my classmates until someone called out my name.
"Ro," began Lucy. "Were you listening?"
"Oh, what is it again?" I asked them.
"The answer to your question: Ms. Perida didn't approve of the decision of the Council last time about the competition between levels. Now, we follow her choice that we don't participate in order for the lower levels to have more chance at winning," Lucy pointed out.
"I see. Then, tell me about the training we should do. What did she said earlier?" I inquired.
"It's about the opening show of the newbies to present their magic in front of the Papillon Council. And that includes your adoptive father, Ro," Noir told.
Wis advised, "You should both do your borrowing magic thingy like Lucas mentioned. We want to see it with our own eyes plus you will both impress the Council."
"What will happen if we impress them?" a question from Noir.
Kurt replied, "Butterflies. If you collect many of them until the Boule de Papillon, you might have a chance to end up as the king or queen of the night."
"Like a prom?" I raised my eyebrow.
"Yes, but if you get to be king or queen, you graduate already or you can leave the city." Wis clapped her hands thrice.
"That's even possible? I really want to discover what is out of Prince City. What's behind the boundaries!" I squealed.
"We have to win first. You are not getting anywhere without me," Noir smirked.
"Of course. This is my first time since amnesia that I felt not alone anymore." I smiled at him.
And this is the first time since December 12 that I felt like a real sibling, a friend, and a treasure to everyone else.
"Before both of you train, I would like to request my stubborn little brother to train you because he has a longer experience of this university longer than you. Additionally, he is the only one who skips classes so there's really no need for him here.," Lucy suggested as he looked around the room for Lucas.
"Lucas?" called out Wis, Kurt, and Noir.
"He's not here," I stated slowly.
Lucy groaned, "Where is he?!"
Lucas was not in the room. We didn't even sensed someone exerting magic inside the room or out. I really feel like I know him well enough to know where he exactly is. My heart tells me that I should look for him but my mind tells me to train with Noir since I don't know him that much. But I do! Argh! Mind and heart, please cooperate for once!
I suddenly stated out loud, "I think I know where he is right now."