Anastasia waddled outside the room, together with the other noble children. The professor instructed them to go in their perspective classrooms.
"Aw, it seems like we won't be able to see each other that often, Sia." Seraphim clutched Anastasia's hand, looking innocently. Everybody knows how troublemaker she is.
"Is that Lady Seraphim?"
"My amicable days at the academy are now over!"
"How can the King accept her? She doesn't deserve it!"
"Indeed. Moreover, her steel magic isn't that superior at all."
"Shut up, she can hear you."
Seraphim glimpsed at the students and didn't pay scrutiny to them. Anastasia sees her as a young kid who craves attention. But she doesn't know that Seraphim is the one behind the potion.
"Let them be, Sera. What matters the most is that we got accepted! We're young yet we are already inside the academy." Anastasia tries to cheer her up, but deep inside Seraphim, she wants to slap every student that entices to clutter her.
"Indeed, I shall let them do as they please. Good luck on your first day, Sia."
The conversation of the two young ladies is personal, they left a vacancy because they wouldn't want the other students to hear them.
"I shall get going." They bowed at each other and went their separate ways.
Anastasia strode her way to the assigned classroom, which is located on the fifth floor. The academy has a uniform, she feels uncomfortable since it was her first time wearing one.
"Hi, mother. I can discern that you're uneasy at your academy uniform." Asi asserted, who summoned herself. Asi is the only spirit that can go in and out as she pleases. Even Anastasia sees her as a distinctive one.
"Hey, don't call me that. Starting from now on, they will recognize you as my spirit. Who knows what may happen if you keep calling me that." The students that pass through them can see Asi already.
"Pardon me, Majo Sia."
"Majo Sia?"
This is the first time that Anastasia heard of such language. She thought to herself that maybe, just like in her past life, every country has numerous languages.
"We, spirits have our languages. Majo means mother and Pajo is the father. I'll call you Majo Sia and my father Cassian, Pajo Sian."
"A-asi! stop it, will you? we may have summoned you accidentally but we're not your parents. Furthermore, I'm the only summoner! if you want, I'll be your mother but you don't have a father!" This made Anastasia hampered. She perpetuates the idea of it.
"Hmph, I hate you Majo!" Asi cried out and disappeared.
Anastasia only held her forehead, Asi is truly a child, too.
Meanwhile, Asi vacated to see Cassian, who is occupied practicing wind magic. He hasn't used it before that much because he can't control it. His mother is a well-known wind user.
"I can tell, Pajo Sian, you are a wind user. That means you have two magic attributes?"
Cassian didn't heed the words of Asi, who is a spirit. Just like Anastasia, he can also summon her whenever he wishes for. In short, they both share the same spirit. But, he didn't summon Asi.
"I want to conceal.. the validity that I'm Lady Anastasia's pet wolf. Can you help me, Asi?"
"Of course Pajo Sian! This adoring daughter of yours will never fail you."
Asi is a wood spirit, she can control both earth and wind. This will be a huge favor to Cassian. If he can comprehend to leverage his wind magic up, he can use it so that Anastasia will never find out who he is.
"Just so you know, it's not like I'm doing this for Lady Anastasia, alright? I just want to learn more about my second magic attribute."
Cassian's face has become instantly red, he was embarrassed by the fact that he's learning it just to hide from a girl.
"Alright, alright. But first things first, you need to learn the basics of this.." Asi rendered a small whirlwind at her palm. For a beginner, it might be hard. Especially that Cassian grew up using shape-shifting magic, or the curse that he grew up with.
"Let me try!" He opened his palms and consolidated his mana to it. A small gust appeared and he was happy that he tends to formulate one, even though it's not yet perfect.
"You're quite talented, pajo!" Asi's bright smile can warm everyone's day. She is glad that her master, whom she considered a fatherly figure seeks help from her.
"Sian would be fine, Asi."
"Then, I should call you father. We're alone, remember?"
"Don't forget, we are at the academy. Be cautious enough."
"Fine."
Asi, the wood spirit continued to teach Cassian. It was a benefit for him to be taught by a spirit. At this rate, he can be much stronger than any wind user.
"Pajo Sian, are you sure that you won't regret learning wind magic?"
"No, I'm not."
He remembers his mother, who died because of her magic. Cassian tried many ways to revive his deceased mother but it was too late.
He even resorted to black magic but in the end, he got a curse.
A curse that turns him into a wolf whenever he wants to. The thing is if he didn't get the dragon bone, he will be a wolf forever. He will be eaten by the curse.
"I see, it's beneficial for you, is it not? you can use two magic attributes. Only royals can do that."
Asi thinks that being a shapeshifter is his second magic attribute. The truth is, it's a curse.
"Anastasia can use two, even the prince of this kingdom can use it as well."
"You're one of them, pajo. Even though you're a noble, you can use two! I'm amazed."
"It doesn't matter. Teach me more of the tricks, Asi. I have classes but I'm afraid I have to skip it."
Cassian started to learn wind magic. While Anastasia, just got in her classroom. At their academy, there are no classrooms for the summoner. That's why she will be sharing a room with a few elemental user students.
"Nice to meet you, everyone. I'm Anastasia from the house of Castilla."
The students smiled at her, she is so lovely.
"Total of you are solely eleven pupils. Don't worry, Lady Anastasia. They may be your older siblings but the others are freshman, just like you."
"Sia!" Anastasius waved his hands in the air, ut caught Anastasia's hand and she quickly ran towards her brother.
"Brother Nate!"
* * * *
Baroness Aldreda is having a difficult moment. With Seraphim, it's a hard time for her. Even though she studied hard just to exceed Anastasia, there is stuff that she has neglected and yet to master.
"Since all of you are completed, Young master Jay Sherrington and Young lady Seraphim Silva will be joining you for the rest of the year."
Everyone at the alchemist class was surprised, Jay Sherrington, the Marquess' eldest child was picked. Seraphim's appearance was no revelation at them.
"It is such a surprise, I'm glad that young master Jay is with us."
"Indeed! It such remorse that young lady Seraphim is with us."
"No need to bother, young master, is the only one that matters."
Seraphim swiveled her eyes and slumped down at the farthest seat, away from her classmates. They are only twenty students and half of the girls students are filling the room.
"All of you are this year's alchemist freshman. We just commenced a few months and I hope all of you will look after the two."
Baroness Aldreda will make sure that Seraphim should seize her lessons more seriously, as she will personally educate her on the way of the academy and be more serious as alchemy. She noticed that the young lady has been momentous than before, but it can't change the mere fact that Anastasia is on a vastly elevated phase than her.
"Yes, Baroness."
Jay Sherrington waved at Seraphim, he seated next to her. Jay has always admired Seraphim and wants to be her friend.
"It was nice meeting you, young master Jay."
"No need to be so formal, Lady Seraphim."
Seeing Jay made Seraphim smile, maybe meeting him was a fate.
"I guess finding a pawn would be beneficial to me." She mumbled to herself and extended her hands in front of Jay.
"I wouldn't mind being your friend, Jay."