Aleta walks hunched like an old person with dark eye bags, pulling someone forcefully. The way she looks at others, her walk, and the scent of her fragrant spices make everyone afraid. Students who accidentally encounter her are terrified, some even scream.
Passing by Cyka, Poecita, and Waify, who were previously scared, they are surprised to see Rozer being pulled by her.
"You there! Where have you been?" Poetica shouts.
Rozer, too scared to comment, just hopes Poetica will help him out of this situation. It's the first time Rozer feels powerless against someone except his parents.
Poetica tries to chase and shout to stop, while Cyka and Waify follow them from behind. Despite their attempts to block, Aleta charges through them, almost like a winter wolf clearing a path in the middle of a snow-covered sea.
Arriving at the alchemy magic laboratory, Rozer is unpleasantly thrown inside. Then Aleta welcomes him with her sly smile.
"Welcome to the realm of darkness."
As she said, the place is quite dark, illuminated only by some glowing liquids of different colors in potion bottles on various tables and corners. The room's walls are adorned with spice racks and various materials for magical rituals, such as dried parts of a cemani chicken, animal skull heads, wilted bunches of flowers, and more.
The place is stuffy, and the pungent smell of mixed aromas from all the ingredients makes Poetica and Waify feeling nauseous, while Cyka, who is familiar with the place, covers his nose before entering.
"What is this place, a garbage dump?"
"It's so smelly here."
These are comments from ordinary people. Aleta is used to hearing that and denies them, "Tsk...tsk...tsk... This place is where magic happens. Open your noses wide; it's the fragrance of spices and night-blooming flowers. Well... a little smell of chicken carcass." she explains.
They remove their hands from their noses and sniff in all directions. They then confirm Aleta's statement. Slowly, they enter the room, which has only two ventilations.
Rozer tries to remember all the details of the room, while Aleta calls her two friends in the corner of the room who are experimenting to create a new potion.
Dropping a few drops of red liquid into a green bottle, their concentration is disrupted by continuous calls, causing the bottle to explode due to too much red liquid.
"... Aleta! What's going on? Look at what you've done; now everything is ruined!"
Another student adds while cleaning green liquid stains from his clothes, "That's right, Aleta, every time... every time... always causing a commotion."
"Never mind, it can be made again later. Look at what I brought... Ta-da!" Aleta comments while lifting Rozer like a pet.
The two female students are enchanted by Rozer, stroking his head and pinching his cheeks.
"Rozer... You came here... Yoshi...yoshi..."
"So cute..."
Poetica and Waify feel jealous, puffing up their cheeks.
"He will join us!" Aleta declares.
Rozer, Poetica, and Waify are surprised by Aleta's statement, while the two other female students are happy and introduce themselves.
"Welcome, Rozer! I'm Haven, nice to meet you!" says the long-brown-haired girl, wearing a wizard vocational academy robe. She is shorter than girls her age.
"I'm Kees, from now on, I will guide you," says the long-haired blonde girl, said the girl with long blonde hair, her appearance was similar to Aleta but taller, wearing a black uniform of the wizard vocational academy.
Rozer denies Aleta's statement, "I never said I wanted to join you." he says.
Aleta, Haven, and Kees tease Rozer by touching his head and face with their gentle hands.
"Don't say that,"
"That's right... We won't bite you,"
"Don't leave us, please,"
Poetica, fed up with them, approaches and says, "You all! Stop it! Don't tease him!" she shouts.
Those who don't know Poetica ask Rozer, "Who is she? Your friend?"
Rozer just stares and looks at Poetica, "That's right, he's my friend; don't tease her more than this." says Poetica.
Aleta puts down Rozer and says, "... For a basic academy student, you already have a girlfriend, as your senior, I feel surpassed." she says while wiping a few tears.
"You're more mature than us, Rozer." says Haven, touched by Rozer's achievement. Kees feels the same way.
"Didn't you hear me?!" Poetica denies that statement with stomping his feet at floor, while Waify chuckles at their misunderstanding.
Curious about this place, Cyka tries to take a book with a goat leather cover, "You there, don't try to open that book. It contains cursed spirits." Aleta shouts, stopping Cyka, then steps back a few steps.
Aleta leads Rozer further into the room, passing stone tables with books, potion bottles, and other materials. They head to a corner of the room where there are several rows of magic circles at floor near the stone wall.
"Look at the masterpiece I've created. From over there, there's a spell to make you invisible; next to it is a spell to make you glow, then a spell to ignite your spirit, and the newest one, I'll show it to you later." Aleta says.
Kees adds, "Here, we create new spells and potions for fun, and of course, each has its own use."
Haven brings a purple-colored potion bottle and offers it to Rozer, "Like this, drink it. This potion will make you warm and energetic, unlike Liquor drinks, this one is alcohol-free."
Rozer refuses because of Sierra's advice still ringing in his head, "No, I don't want to drink something I don't know."
"Is that so... Well, this one doesn't sting, even though it should taste sweet." says Haven, then drinks the potion, but her facial expression contradicts her words mentioning the sweetness, "It's bitter..." she adds and leaves to find a sweet drink in the cafeteria because the taste still lingers on her tongue.
Rozer sighs, thankful for not drinking the potion.
Aleta enters the last mentioned magic circle, "...Rozer, try using the hand gesture for the gateway to activate the magic circle below me," she asks Rozer.
Kees comments, "Is that okay? The magic circle is not perfect yet."
"It's okay, this is important for recruiting new members; he'll be impressed." Aleta replies.
Kees sighs, "Okay, I'll get another robe just in case it fails." she says and goes to another corner of the room to rummage through a wooden box.
Rozer looks at the magic circle with five symbols: light, darkness, human, darkness, and gate. It's a combination of magic circles unknown to Rozer, but his prediction says that if the magic is activated, it will summon a humanoid supernatural being.
"Alright, Rozer, start the ritual." Aleta orders.
Rozer nods and makes the hand gesture; Gate, focusing his magic flow into the magic circle,
Bright light begins to appear from under Aleta's feet
, two supernatural beings emerge from below and stand behind her. Aleta whispers some words to the beings.
In an instant, all of Aleta's clothes and shoes are taken away by them, sucked down—disappearing with the bright light.
Rozer's face turns red, observing Aleta's body curves; smooth skin with breasts large enough for her age, an hourglass figure, and long legs. Still, this is just a silhouette of bright light in a magic circle.
Poetica quickly runs and covers Rozer's eyes with her hands, "Don't look!" she shouts.
Aleta smiles at her success and says, "How about that? Good magic, isn't it?"
Rozer comments, "Magic for nudity?"
Poetica adds, "This is indecent magic!" she exclaims.
"This is a practical magic if you want to go for a bath, no need to bother taking off clothes. After finishing, your clothes will return when you leave the magic circle. I call it, naked magic." Aleta responds.
"Is the name directly related to its use?" Poetica comments.
Waify adds, "It's quite helpful for bathing, especially if you're wearing layered clothes, don't you agree, Cyka?"
"...nn..." Cyka mumbles while nodding in agreement.
Aleta crosses her arms with pride after being praised by her juniors.
"How long will you keep doing this? I'm tired of covering Rozer's eyes." Poetica says.
"Oh, sorry, sorry." Aleta cognizant and jumps out of the magic circle simultaneously. The magic circle becomes active again, and the supernatural beings quickly put back Aleta's clothes in the blink of an eye.
But...
Something is missing, though not visible to others' eyes, Aleta herself can feel the coolness behind.
"Could it be..." she says while wiping her skirt inside,
"Give back my panties!" she shouts while hitting the magic circle several times.
Seeing Aleta, they couldn't comment. Her magic worked as she explained, but still, it's not perfect.
Several invisible creatures could also be heard giggling for a moment