Mariel is now 10 years old, and her appearance is even more beautiful. She has long, light blue hair with a hint of grey. Her body begins to grow like a young girl. There is a little bit of change like a normal girl. For example: her breasts begin to enlarge slightly and grow taller quickly.
(From this point, I still didn't quite sure about behave appropriately. I didn't think that girls' bodies would grow this much faster than a boy's. My breasts began to appear. My body is also very attractive to look at too.) (Chai thinking)
"Am I really fallen in love with myself?" Mariel said with a feeling that couldn't be explained after considering her body from the mirror in the shower room.
After taking a shower, wipe her body clean with a towel. Returning to the bedroom, she goes to pick up the clothes that Claudia had prepared for her.
"Wow! a light blue long skirt with a flower pattern. Oh my god...this outfit is really cute." Mariel said. Normally she only wears T-shirts and shorts like normal boys but today she has to go into the capital city with Deric and Claudia to buy various learning equipment. Whether it's stationery Basic year 1 textbooks, so it is necessary to wear clothes that are more appropriate for her age.
When Mariel finished putting on her clothes, she walked over to the mirror in her bedroom. Then she turned around and looked at herself in girls' outing clothes, which made her feel like she looked even more feminine.
"But wearing a long skirt for the first time that made me a little shy." Mariel said with a feeling from inside her mind.
Then she went down to eat breakfast with Deric and Claudia like they did every day. Deric and Claudia also praised her for looking beautiful and cute like a young girl who was wearing this outfit. It made Mariel feel embarrassed.
Today Deric woke up early to do his daily routine in the barn, then after eating breakfast, they prepared to leave.
"Mom, don't we use teleportation skills for us or teleportation crystals? It will shorten the time even more." Mariel asked curiously.
"Sometimes we want to be like normal people. We are traveling to various places by car, boat, or other vehicles. Seeing the scenery around you also helps you feel more relaxed. Those skills are mostly only used by people when fighting or when they have important matters." Claudia explained.
"Oh, I see." Mariel nodded, understanding the answer.
They talked together with happiness while driving to the capital city. Claudia and Deric also share awkward stories of their life and told Mariel about their mischievous childhood stories that made them laugh many times.
Mariel is also very excited to meet many new friends and teachers at school, which would fulfill her wish to study because in the past world she could only read old books that had been donated.
When they arrived at the destination outside the capital city near the parking lot. They all got out of the car together after finding a place to park their car. Deric walked ahead and Claudia walked while holding hands with Mariel through the main gate in front of the capital city.
The curriculum in this world is all the same. Every school in each village will study the same type of textbooks and make it easy to buy them everywhere in the capital or big cities in each district.
"Alright, let's go to the bookstore and buy the 1st year basic textbooks at first." Deric said, pointing to the first bookstore on the right in front of everyone.
When they enter the store, they find that it is crowded with people because the next day will be the first day of school for children who have reached the age of 10, parents bring their sons and daughters out to buy textbooks and necessary equipment for school together.
They stood in line and waited to order textbooks for the first-year basic knowledge in front of the checkout counter because the store had already prepared them for customers into sets.
After almost an hour, Mariel received a complete set of first year textbooks, consisting of 7 books on Mathematics, Intermediate Kale language, Basic living book for children, an ancient history, Science, Creative subjects, and General Alternative Occupations.
Mariel was very excited and wanted to go home immediately, so she could open her textbooks and study quickly.
(I was almost in tears. For the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to have my own textbooks. I wanted to go to class quickly, and I would like to meet new teachers. I also wanted to meet new friends who study together. My feeling of joy almost flows out continuously.) (Chai thinking)
"Alright, let's go buy some stationery." Claudia said, pointing to a stationery store not too far away.
Upon entering the store, they found many stationery items such as pencils, pens, and countless types of erasers. Including various types of colors for painting in art, Clay for pottery works and many others.
Deric and Claudia bought Mariel a large set of art supplies such as various paints and pottery clay.
"Each school teaches sculpting, drawing and painting for every student so that they could learn and discover for themselves what kind of work they would be in the future. Some of my father's friends didn't go into adventure but chose to go into art and create great work. Some people work in pottery or create ceramics to sell." Deric said.
"As for general alternative career subjects, there have various career fields in the future that you can decide on it such as medicine, engineering, politics, and government. Nevertheless, there are about negotiations regarding trade or investment and they also Including the farmer's way of cultivating too. There will be more information for you to study about them when you are in the high school of magic." Claudia said.
"That's very interesting." Mariel replied.
After that, they went to buy appliances and cooking ingredients before returning home.
When they returned home, Mariel stayed in her bedroom from afternoon until evening. Each book Mariel carefully opened and read each page and understood the content in advance before starting class.
"Mathematics is not much different from the past world, but it will focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and various formulas that can be used in real life in the future." Mariel said as she tried to take a few quick tests and memorize the basic formulas accurately.
Then she put the mathematics textbook aside and started working on the next one. The Intermediate Kale language which focused on more formal vocabulary for writing announcements and general letters. How was this word used in a sentence so that it was appropriate? And including the basics about negotiations regarding future trade regarding what form of sentence to use on it.
"Ok...I might use sentences like this, I got it." Mariel read more and more happily until time passed quickly.
"Alright, let's try another one. It's almost time to go down to eat dinner," Mariel said, twisting her body around and picking up a textbook on basic living for children.
In this textbook, it was very useful because it taught us about survival in everyday life, such as when encountering an unexpected event or an accident, what to do, how to fix it, meeting different people, how to deal with it, and being aware of various tricks and including survival in many different critical situations.
"Not everyone knows the variety of magic or has the right idea. Analyze and distinguish accurately what is happening in front of you. That's why we must have this textbook to teach us how to solve various situations that arise." Mariel understood the content.
It suddenly reminded her of the incident when she gave her savings to an old man at the market in the capital city. It's no surprise that you hardly see any children walking around alone. Most of the time, parents will take care of you and not be far away because of the basic things they learned from these textbooks. The more she read, the more Mariel felt an appreciation for the good things in this world because they taught basic human things to survive. In every society, there were good people and bad people everywhere. It's more about how much each person can handle it.
In the evening, Mariel came down to have dinner with Deric and Claudia. Then she hurriedly went to bed early because I had to get ready to wake up and go to school early in the morning.
The morning dawned after breakfast had been eaten. Mariel wore a plain, light blue T-shirt with a short white skirt, plain white socks, and sneakers along with a bag of school textbooks.
(In this world, you can wear normal clothes to study. Except during big festivals or year-end exams. Even though there are uniforms for each school, they are worn for official purposes only. So that there is no need to waste the money of each family's parents) (Chai thinking)
"Come on! let's go to school, Mariel." Claudia said.
"Let's go!" Mariel replied with a smile.
They go to a basic knowledge school in the village which is open to boys and girls who have reached the age of 10 in this village. This year there are 14 students in total, which will be divided into 2 rooms. One room will be for boys, with 7 people in total, and another room will be for girls, with a total of 7 people as well. As for the 2nd and 3rd year students, they will be separated in two other buildings which are not too far apart.
A total of 8 male and female teachers stood and waited to welcome the old and new students with smiles.
"Hello, welcome to the school." A group of male and female teachers greeted them.
Many parents and students greeted the teachers with smiles on their faces. Everywhere you look, there are only smiles on the first day of school. This made Mariel very excited.
(This kind of feeling, first day of school and first time in my life. Please wait and see, I will study hard and get number 1 in class for my dad and mom.) Mariel thought in her mind.
Deric, Claudia, and Mariel greeted the teachers with smiles. Just like any other family but when they walked in a bit, there was a strange feeling at the back while Deric and Claudia were registering Mariel's name now.
Mariel looked back and she saw a boy who was good-looking but not very friendly. He walked along was elderly man in a suit who was standing there saying hello to the teachers.
"Why didn't Mom and Dad come and drop me off on the first day of school?" the boy said with an expression of dissatisfaction.
"Young master. Your father was in a big meeting with traders from other cities. As for your mother, she met a society of famous people in another town. So, they were unable to drop young master off today." said an elderly man who was probably the butler.
"I' m not satisfied. I will go to a class now, just drop me here." The boy hurriedly shouldered his bag and walked towards the classroom without looking back.
"Please come to rooms 1-1, Young Master Frederick." A male teacher hurriedly walked towards the classroom with him.
But as he was about to enter the classroom, he turned to look at Mariel who was looking at himself as well.
They looked at each other, but the other side looked back with hostile eyes. He also looked at Deric, Claudia and looked back at Mariel again. It made Mariel herself wonder why he had to act like that, but she didn't think much of it.
"Alright, Mariel's room is 1-2, please come into the classroom." the female teacher said after checking all the documents.
"Study hard, Mariel." Claudia greeted and kissed her daughter on the cheek.
"I'll be waiting to pick you up after school at 3:00 p.m." Deric said, rubbing his daughter's head.
" I will do my best, then I'll go to class. Bye." Mariel replied, waving goodbye to Deric and Claudia before walking into the classroom.
As soon as she entered the classroom, she found that there were 7 small study tables with chairs. There was a locker behind them for storing school bags and there was a large white board for teaching students in front of a classroom too.
(This was the feeling that I wanted to be for a very long time. I really missed my school life that I never had the chance to have. Now it's happened.) (Chai thinking)
Mariel checked the class schedule that was placed on each study table and found that each day, she would study 5 subjects in the morning (classes start at 7 a.m. until 12 p.m., or noon, 5 subjects, 1 hour each), and the other 2 subjects. Subjects related to basic living and general alternative career subjects would be lectures outside the classroom instead of in the afternoon and there would be other activities together until 3:00 p.m., then it was time for parents to come take their children home.
Mariel finished reading and took out a box of stationery from her bag along with a mathematics textbook, which was the first subject. Then she took it to the locker at the back of the classroom.
The remaining 6 female students smiled and greeted each other. Everyone was the children of people in this village and other nearby villages.
Mariel also greeted the others with a smile. From now on, the first day of class was one of the best days of her life.