"You're going to school so early, it's not even light yet..."
It was just after dawn at 5 a.m. Eleazar, who was called up, yawned and looked sickly.
Fintan, standing outside the door, had a similarly black eye.
None of the three of them got any rest last night.
The reason for this was in the [Meditation], and it had been verified that this small manor had been confirmed to only be able to hold a maximum of three Transcendents.
After tossing and turning all night, they had managed to find their undisturbed positions, but the sky was already glowing.
This was just getting into the swing of things, and then I was called up.
It was strange, I had been so distracted in my old home that it was difficult to get into a meditative state, but as soon as I came over here, I was inexplicably at ease.
Eleazar's face was full of thought.
Fintan looked at him with a whine, "I told you this is what living in the suburbs is like, you have to get up at the crack of dawn."
"Breakfast!"
Finnian's classmates, who had gotten up even earlier than them, had already made breakfast.
Eating a slightly poisoned apple pie, Eleazar looked at the two men who were filling their lunchboxes.
"You guys even prepare your lunch?"
"Yeah!" Finnian stuffed his brother's lunchbox to the brim.
"You can get $500 back in tuition if you bring your meals!"
Swallowing the food in his mouth, Eleazar craned his head to look at his Fintan classmate, who had a blank face.
"Too bad I can't take the crops I grow and sell them~"
Filling her lunchbox, Finnian's classmate took a seat at the table and picked up her share of the apple pie, her tone filled with regret.
"..."
After breakfast, the three of them stepped into the dawn's morning sunlight to rush to school.
Eleazar, who knew the two couldn't afford to ride in the car, accompanied them the whole way.
...
2 hours later, came to the school gates.
Eleazar secretly decides to sort out the house in Bacchus today and move out of Knights Manor immediately.
In front of the school, students walk in pairs, talking and laughing about their vacations.
A light-footed silhouette strides past the people, her long pitch-black hair that hangs down to her waist flowing in the morning breeze, and a pair of scarlet eyes written with curiosity on her innocent face like an angel's, filled with indescribable charm.
Eleazar, who was talking to the two men, glanced at the figure inadvertently, and his mind was suddenly struck.
[... It's the cutest.
[... The best in the world!
[... You're the favorite!!!]
Eleazar stood lost in thought for a long time.
The two brothers took a few steps before realizing that he wasn't following, and Fintan followed his vacant gaze to find that it was a member of the bully duo: fellow Evelea!
"You guys... Aren't you going to go over and say hello?"
Fintan looked a little hesitantly at the two men who were strangers.
"Ah, what's wrong?" Eleazar snapped back in a bit of a trance.
Finnian pulled his brother in a hurry.
The knight who was about to say something woke up and quickly looked away.
"Nothing, let's go, it's time for class."
"Oh... Well..."
Eleazar walked towards the classroom in a bit of a trance.
The two brothers watched his back in silence.
"Brother, don't just meddle in other people's feelings, oh, don't be the kind of fool who helps a friend finish a bad sentence, only to have them make up the next day and end up being despised by others."
"I'm not going to be that kind of clown!" Fintan gave his brother a no-nonsense look.
After the two parted, he thought silently.
"Guess he chose a childhood friend, huh... I wonder if he told his girlfriend about his identity."
...
In the classroom, Eleazar was somewhat distracted as she finished her morning lesson.
"Am I... hit with some kind of curse?"
Then at noon in the dining hall, he found the warlock trying to get help.
But that obstructionist Lingyin was sitting next to Fina, making it impossible to say what he wanted to ask.
"Nana, are you free after class?"
Fina looked up, her green eyes unmistakably calm.
"There's a more important matter to take care of, and also, you focus a little bit, get your career going before you think about anything else."
"Huh, how come you guys are getting so deep in your speech huh?"
Lingyin kept craning his head to look at the two.
Seeing that the warlock had no time to puzzle himself out, Eleazar had to swallow his questions back down.
After getting all of the day's lessons out of the way, he went to the department store and purchased a large amount of necessities before joining the van and heading out to the Hundred Fruit Garden.
...
In the evening, at the bottom of the new liberal arts building, Fina squatted down to the witch who had been in class all day and had a wan, unhappy look about her.
The warlock carried his hands in an airy manner and followed the man out until he reached the school gates.
Scurrying east and west, burrowing in and out of intricate alleyways, Evelea turned back with a dry smile after realizing she couldn't shake the man behind her.
"Fina-san, let me explain, that was an accident yesterday ..."
"Witch..."
Fina looks at the droopy guy and tries to say the word, but realizes that she doesn't respond at all.
It seems that she can't wake her up on her own.
And since he hadn't finished digesting the Cursed Pathway magic potion yet, it seemed that this matter would have to be put down for now.
Just as Fina was thinking, Evelea looked up and suggested:
"Tell you what, you buy me dinner now, I'll be there for the date!"
Fina burst out laughing in exasperation.
Is there such a cheeky person in this world?
"No, you're the one who invited me to dinner because you missed your appointment yesterday."
"Huh!?"
Evelea collapsed, "I don't have any money, my boss hasn't paid me yet, so how about... Owe it first?"
Fina looked at her quizzically, "What boss?"
"The boss I work for~"
"What's the job?"
Fina then followed her to the Black Rose Tavern.
"Welcome... I'm sorry, ma'am, but we don't open until dark!"
"I'm a friend of Evelea's, just here to hang out with her."
The waiter and the bartender looked at each other for a moment and had no choice but to serve a glass of low-fruit punch.
Then finding an opening, he grabbed the innocent-looking soothsayer and asked viciously:
"Why do you just bring people here!"
"My classmates had to come and see it, worrying if I was doing some immodest work~"
"Well then, you're going to do the dishes right now!"
The waiter threw in plastic gloves and an apron.
"I'll be damned!" Evelea backhanded the overalls and threw them back.
"It's not even work time yet!"
The waiter was furious.
"When big sister comes back, I'll see what she'll do to you!"
"Che~"
While those two were arguing, Fina raised her glass to shield her eyes and turned on a momentary...
The three people in front of them all emitted a spiritual glow, while the bartender and the waiter both emitted the rhythms of transcendental props.
This was a newly built Transcendent stronghold that hadn't been around for long, clearly afraid of being discovered by the officials, but wearing Transcendent props on their bodies, a contradictory style that looked like it came from Loran.
The reason is nothing more than losing a fight over there, and it's always unlikely that they're here to be spies.
And the magical girl who could play with the power of fate at will was reduced to working in a place like this washing dishes.
Fina was inexplicably amused, then began to grow angry.