He came charging at me with his spear in hand screaming as if to try and scare me off. I simply grinned. His spear almost touched my neck when a piercing scream filled the air. "STOP!" the strike was shifted mid air and just barely grazed me. The wound instantly healed, and the guard almost chocked in shock as he felt a stinging pain in his neck where blood should be spilling from mine.
"That's not a man you can kill." Standing at the door to the house was the club vice president. She was wearing a fairly thin white dress with a shawl over her shoulders. Her feet were bare and her long straight black hair that reached down to her ankles was gently brushed by the breeze in front of the door. "I invited him, let him in."
The guard was baffled, and I smiled at him. "Better luck next time" I said gently patting his shoulder as I passed him by. "You'd best hope not to anger me or reflected damage will be the least of your concerns." I walked into the house with the vice president the twins were inside already wearing PJs for some reason and we walked into her bedroom which looked more like a lobby with a bed in it. There was a table bookshelf and a bench that had its own magic circle set on it with several components strewn in and around the bench area.
When we arrived, a small bell was rung, and a maid entered the room. "Need anything miss?"
"More tea and sweets, some guests have arrived." The maid gave a slight bow and after leaving the room the vice president slumped back in her chair. "Why'd you have to show up after I changed? Now I have to get dressed again… ugh."
"Well, isn't this surprising, I never would have guessed you were a rich girl."
"Really it's not like I hide it." As she spoke, she drank her tea sloppily and ate a biscuit, crumbs falling allover her face and clean white dress. "Do we have to go now? I really wanted to do nothing today."
"We only have to be there for a moment. After that I can return freely." I teleported away before teleporting back to show her. "See?"
"Well, that's all well and good but I have an image to maintain." She slurped her tea spilling a bit on herself and revealing that she wore nothing under this thin white cloth… though it doesn't seem like she's noticed. "Right… like I'll believe that."
"I can be as fancy as I want to be when I want to be."
"I'll believe it when I see it." I gestured to her dress with my eyes. She looked down and her face turned red for a split second before she threw her shawl over herself and turned away. "That wasn't on purpose."
"It's like you don't even know why etiquette is important."
"Like you can do better." Her face was still red. The maid returned and poured we three a cup of tea each respectfully. I quickly but cleanly raised the teacup and saucer up to my mouth and drank with all the grace I knew how to. The twins mimicked me and the maid seeing us drink tea said in a jesting manner, "my, my are you three the tutors the master of the house has hired to reteach the young lady how to act in the presence of honoured guests?"
We shared a laugh at her expense and the maid began dragging her to a partitioning screen in the corner of the room, "come, come we can't let our guests see you in such a sorry state as this, now can we?"
The moment we saw her get dragged back there her evening dress was removed and tossed over the top of the screen and a different set of clothes was removed from the top and after the sounds of rustling fabric had stopped, she re-emerged with her maid in toe. She was now wearing something that could be taken out in public if she wanted to but from the red in her face, I think it'll be a minute before she's ready to go anywhere.
She unceremoniously plopped herself back down in her seat with her face in her hands. "This is so humiliating"
"Perhaps next time you won't make a fool of yourself Infront of your guests. There is a man in your presence too, so it'd be best you not show him anything before confirming whether or not he's worthy of admitting into the family."
"As if I'd ever even considered that! He's a necromancer!" she seemed to want to turn her embarrassment into rage, but I deflected it.
"Has the young miss ever invited a man besides me into her room?"
"No, not even that president boy she brings over on occasions has been here."
"Well, how about that?" I looked over to her as her face grew redder and redder. She groaned in defeat and I simply smiled and laughed it off. After a bit of time and tea she calmed down and though she was still a bit cross with me she took me over to the magic academy where we'd be meeting with her teacher acquaintance later this week.
As we four walked around looking at the sights to be seen and so on we were stopped by a security guard who asked who we were and how we got here. A lie quickly formed in my mind and I had one of the twins say it before the vice president could give away that we were wandering the grounds without permission. "We were invited to attend a lecture in three days and wanted to tour the grounds before we'd need to arrive, there's no point being here if we get lost on the day we were invited."
"That's all well and good but I didn't receive prior notice you'd be wandering the halls so close to nightfall."
"We arrived a bit late, we only just got into town."
"Is that so."
The guard wasn't falling for it but as we spoke someone came to vouch for us. "It's ok, I know this one." I heard a familiar voice behind me. "Oh, my apologies."
I turned around and saw a very familiar face. "It's good to see you again."
"Hello grandfather, how have you been?"
"Surprisingly few students want to attend my necromancy lectures and the school wants to cut my funding how about you."
"My parents and I are being hunted by assassins and I was wondering if I could get admitted into school early to get away from them."
"Really?"
"Well, I'd rather not attend higher education if I can help it. But if it hides us and employs us it'll be fine."
"Depending on your aptitude you might be able to attend as you are."
"I've been learning how to see the weave as you taught me so using magic doesn't fatigue me like it used to but it still strains me if I use too much."
"How much is too much nowadays."
"I think I could cast 20 passive spells a day max before collapsing, though that's just an estimate."
"Impressive, not many people even know 20 passive spells, how about active spells?"
"I haven't found an upper limit yet, but I also haven't had an opportunity to push the limit recently."
"Fair enough."
My grandfather and I spent the majority of the rest of the tour talking catching up and generally passing the time. I think the twins saw the Vice president back home at some point because I was left speaking to my grandfather by the end of the night.
"So were any of those girls your future wife?"
I scoffed, "Them? No. the one for me is waiting back home. I even have a house with her already."
"It'd be best you make it official then. If you don't get married someone else might snatch her up and take her before you can make absolutely sure no one else takes her from you."
"I'd like to but as close as we are I'm afraid what might happen if she says no."
"Son allow me to let you in on a little secret ok. If you know a girl well enough and you know she doesn't want to leave you, she's seen you at your best and seen you at your worst that girl isn't going anywhere and just waiting for you to seal the deal. So you best get her that ring or she's going to think you've run off with three pretty young things to mess around behind her back."
"I'll keep that in mind."
"If you really care you'll make sure she sticks around right."
I nod. After bidding farewell, I went home and saw my girlfriend waiting in bed angrily sitting up and staring at me. "Where were you today?"
"Hiding from assassins mostly."
She said the charm for telling lies. "Did you go see the magic club president today?"
"Yes, she knows someone who can teach me transmutation magic." With my explanation, it seems as though her expression is softening. "Did you or did you not see her naked?" she repeated the charm.
"I did but it wasn't by choice."
"What does that mean?" she seems angry again.
"I asked one of the twins to take me over to her house because she invited me over today to go to the academy once so we could go freely with my teleportation without me having to take her there every time I go to learn transmutation. The twin sent us directly into her room as she was changing. Seeing her naked was not my fault."
"How was it not your fault if you didn't call ahead first?"
"Because I was expecting her to bring me to her door, not into her room. is someone else's room the first place you take someone when you go to their house?"
"Well… no that's not the normal thing to do"
"Then it wasn't my fault" she shifted from anger to confusion. "Then why did the twins tell me you ordered them to take you to stare at her naked?"
I summoned them both to my sides. "Master, have you finally called us to your bed?"
"Tell the truth." I saw them begin to suffer as the marks of their contract began to compel them to obey my orders. "We were just playing a little prank to get him to ourselves tonight."
"We thought if you got mad at the very least he'd be sleeping on the couch and we could share our warmth with him tonight."
Their words while releasing them from the compulsion of their contract set the glare that was previously set on me, on them. They seemed a bit scared and when I saw one reach for her teleportation pendant I said. "I forbid you to leave." And they were stuck afraid of the gaze of the girl who bested a dragon.
"Feel free to punish these girls however you like honey, I'll be getting some rest. today's been fairly stressful." She smiled and the twins began cowering in fear in the corner of the room. It's fun being the master of the house.