I woke up from my sleep. The light of the rising sun shone in our room. I saw Kevin and Ira were still asleep.
(Tomorrow you'll know the answer) I still don't know what that means. Tired of having nothing to do, I tried to go out for a walk.
"Where are you going?" Ira who was still in lying in the bed asked me suspiciously.
"Just go to the market"
"I'm coming. I can't let you escape" Ira who was still empty got up from her bed. She'd better stay in bed. But because he forceful then I can only let her following me. We left with leaving Kevin in the room alone. He was enough to be aware of the danger even though he was sleeping.
The city streets are very crowded. The sun had just risen. Merchants have already sold their goods in the market. I tried to look at the stalls scattered almost along the road.
I approached a baker at side of the road. While looking at the bread he was selling, I want to ask Ira. "Ira do you want some bread for breakfast?"
Ira is not in the mood. Her face was still dull. I immediately bought the bread without thinking. It would be a matter if she didn't eat.
When I was trying to buy it a woman with glasses accidentally bumped into me and made the bread I just bought fell wasted.
"I'm sorry. I was in hurry!" The woman clap the both of her hands and lowered her head.
"I will replace it but my money is still left in my school"
School? Is she a teacher? She looks old to become a student.
"Then we will follow you to your school" Ira forced the woman to compensate with a straight face.
"Okay fine! My school is there. Follow me"
We follow the woman and arrived at the school gate. A large school that takes up half of the capital. Batu Tujuh Academy. An academy that has extraordinary equipment. But I didn't expect it to be this wide.
"What a bad day for me....Today I woke up late and now I have to pay for other people's belongings..." This woman complained constantly.
Someone appear in across the gate. Ira's face that was dull was suddenly shocked. I realized what she saw. I was surprised to see it. That guy what is he doing here? The woman saw what was beyond the gate and waved her hand. The person behind the gate immediately avoided where we were standing.
"Why is Kuri suddenly avoiding me? Does he hate me? And I'll be fired for being late?!"
She misunderstood Kuri reactions.
"Hurry up aunty we don't have much time now?" Ira crossed her arms. He was getting impatient.
The woman just smiled annoyed and took her things from inside the school. When she came out, she was carrying a large bag full of bread.
"This is for you." The woman handed Ira the bag of bread which was more than she had dropped.
"Is it okay this is more than you dropped?"
"It's okay. I was the one who was careless that time"
"By the way, are you a student here?" I've been curious ever since.
"I'm a teacher you know!"
"But why did aunt come late?" I changed her name to aunt because I made sure of it."Um... Don't you two know how to respect a woman's age. Especially you cute girl"
"Don't worry you're older than me so I'll still call you aunty" Ira mocked that woman with her flat expression.
"Call me Raisha, Miss Raisha! UNDERSTAND?!"
"......" We were both silent.
"Why are you silent?!" She cast wind magic from his hand. Ira immediately covered her eyes with both hands.
"I can't believe someone as careless as you can become a teacher"
"Want to try to get hit by this magic?"
The magic is strong yet full of holes. The wind that is made to go around it is not perfect.
I stopped Raisha's magic by thrusting my knife into her magic core. The violent wind she created disappeared in an instant. Raisha could only be silent in disbelief.
"Your magic still has a lot of holes" I said as I put my knife back into its scabbard.
"How could that be?"
Ira clap my back ask to leave Raisha. Both of us tried to leave her but she stopped us.
"Please! Whoever you are. But teach me how to become a strong mage like you" She beg with clapping both of her hand.
"Hey...I can't cast magic. I can only destroy it"
"But that-"
"I told you!...All kinds of magic have a hole and a core. If the core get touch with a sharp object through the hole in the magic then the magic will be destroyed"
"Then please make me your teacher!" She change her request.
Why even ask to be a teacher? Raisha bowed her body to beg me.
Ira saw me. "Let Kevin judge." She give a solution for us.
"Okay fine. But why are you so insisting?" Raisha returned her body to its original position.
"A teacher of this school must have one personal student. And I'm the only one who hasn't. After I saw your knowledge of magic you are the most suitable candidate for me". I can't seem to ignore it. Well...I'm lucky too.
I took her back to the tavern and let Kevin finish.
But, Raisha should be teaching at the school now? I tried to ask her.
"Shouldn't you be teaching at the academy?"
"I can't go back until I get a personal student" She made a disappointed and depressed face. I better keep quiet.
On the way back to the tavern. People gathered on the side of the road. We who saw it approach the crowd. A dead body lying on the ground. He is Kuri.
The three of us were shocked. Ira, who had been flat, immediately gave a shocked expression. How did he suddenly die? Even though we still saw him at school.
We paled and continued our journey. Ira's face was between joy and disbelief. But, Raisha's face is very sad.