After a few seconds the colour green and blue started to shine. I felt relieved. At least I'm not trash.
The less elements you are able to control, the better because your control would be concentrated and the other attributes won't interfere with the other elements.
Those who are considered trash are those who are attributed to all four. Although that is very rare when it comes to aristocrats. If you can contro three, you can be considered an average, commoner-wise. But if youre an aristocrat, the average is having two elements you're attributed with.
My face brimmed with a smile. I looked at Esther who has her hands in a thumbs up.
I was so worried that I would have three, or even worse, four. After all, last time, I accidentaly lit one of the bushes on fire back home. Thank the heavens I only have two.
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In another school in the capital, a young man with blonde hair and blue eyes stood among the students. He kept looking around while the principal of the school is giving a speech, when a hand suddenly hooked on his neck. The person hanging on him chuckled and a hand ruffled his hair.
" Is thatchu your highness?" When the blonde young man heard the man's voice, his brows furrowed.
"What are you doing here Cedric." He turned around and saw another person." And you too, Gabe."
" Well, we heard of the matter from 'His Majesty' and decided that since we're brothers, it's normal for us to share the burden. Amirayt, Gabe?"
The young man with brown hair and black eyes nodded. While Cedric has red hair and green eyes. Both have plenty of acne on their faces and both their skin are more on the dark side.
"Why are both of you... ugly." The blonde man asked with disgust clear on his blue eyes.
"Well, excuse me, fellow commoner, Albert. It's because it would be totally weird if our hair colour is different from our attributes! And without these acne and dark skin illusion, we would be found out this very first day!" The young man, Cedric retorted after the insult. " And what's more, we have only one attribute. Now that I think about it, your hair is yellow-"
"Blonde!" Albert corrected his friend.
Cedric stared at Albert before once again speaking. "Blonde, are you perhaps planning on having more than an attribute?"
Albert nodded pulled the man with few words, Gabe, in between them.
"Here, talk to the wall." He then turned around and pretended to listen to the speech.
When a person only has an attribute, it's more likely that their hair would be the same colour as their attribute. While those with more than one would have a different ones. Not all are the same.
After that, they also proceeded with the next thing. All new students one by one went up to the glass ball and held it. As usual, Gabe had earth while Cedric got fire. Albert had one and it's wind.
"You said you'll have two!" The talkative Cedric blurted out after his friend walked over to them.
"I didn't say anything."
" You nodded!" Cedric pointed at Albert with an accusing glare but the glare was returned with ten times the intensity.
" I didn't SAY anything about having two." Smirking, Albert left with Gabe. It took a few second before Cedric became clear headed and ran after them.
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It has already been a few weeks since they enrolled and Esther's relationship with Beatrix became much more deeper and closer.
Both are having a picnic under a tree.
"So, the reason why you came here is because you don't want to get married?" Beatrix asked her friend and Esther shyly nodded in assent. " Why?"
Her friend glared at her with those sharp watery eyes.
" What do you mean why!" She 'humph' ed and looked away. Her cheeks became red from anger." It's because they're trying to marry me to a guy whose wife died and have two kids! A married man with offsprings, Beatrix, offsprings!"
She looked at Beatrix while tears were threatening to fall out. Beatrix opened then closed her mouth, unable to say any comfortings words. She has never been good at words so she decided to keep silent.
"But then, mother pleaded father to cancel it. We were able to drag it till a few months ago and father agreed to cancel it. It did got canceled, but the Marquis..."
Beatrix hugged her friend and forcefed some cookies to her. Both of them kept quit but after a few minutes, Esther started laughing. Beatrix was bewildered but joined her friend in her lunacy.
While laughing, they heard a cough from beside the tree. Both turned back to see who it is and found a young man with green hair and green eyes.
"Watchu want?" Esther showed a terrible attitute to the person. She thought that the young man would be some creepy dude trying to befriend them for malicious reasons.
" Right! Whatever it is, the answer is no." Beatrix was never fond of men and upon listening to her friend's story, it turned to despise. She glared at the guy who still has a smile plasteres on his face. This made Beatrix's attitude even worse. Such a fake smile.
The young man finally spoke with a calm and soft voice." Pardon my rudeness, I just wanted to inform both of you ladies that the class will start soon. The bell rang a minute ago." His smile never left his face.
Both Beatrix and Esther looked around and the three of them are the only ones outside except for those who are in the wide field trying out their magic.
Both of the ladies blushed. They took their food, pushed them in the bag, took the cloth that they sat at them scurried away, ashamed.
" I'm..." both Esther and Beatrix are already far away so the person wasn't able to finsih his introduction.