4 days before we can activate the summoning circle.

  “So, 4 more days until we get everyone out of here”- Hana talked to me via the telepathic link.

  We are currently separated, in this Academy they separate boys and girls and train them in different magical arts. We learn the same things but think differently. I don’t know why this is necessary but I can’t compin, or talk at all for that matter, I have to keep up appearances and be socially awkward at any time. It gets boring sometimes, but I get a free pass from teachers and they don’t ask me questions.

  “Yes, it seems like it. Do you remember our cssmates? Those who supported us when we lived in Welcia? I am trying to find out what happened to them. We only have 2 people that might know. I doubt that Masamune will know something since he left before then. Now that I am looking closely I can’t find them anywhere, they weren’t here when we arrived either. King Wieka was up to something”- I can’t remember much about them, but they helped us avoid a lot of trouble while we were here. We were the ones who caused trouble for ourselves with Lord Welcia back then, but it turned out fine, we have Fumiko protecting us from the shadows. We are still in enemy territory, we don’t know if we are safe yet, but we hope so.

  “We need to investigate the school properly, tell Sia to tell you the whole school pn from the files that you analyzed yesterday”

  !I am already on it Hana!

  !I found something interesting. There is a dungeon under the teacher’s room. Maybe you two should look there first!

  “Understood, after this css we will go and investigate”

  “Ok, but how do we deal with the teachers?”- They seem persistent in watching the Hero css. Although they seem to let their guard down once in a while.

  !Humans need rest to function, so the teachers will take breaks periodically. At least that’s how I think it works!

  “You are right. Maybe we should go while they are on break. If you want I can get closer to the teacher’s room”

  This css is damn boring. I don’t know how to describe it. We are having magical battles. I know I said before there will be something simir in the library with the Heroes css, but that is only for the heroes css, and from my understanding, they teach more advanced techniques there than they teach in normal csses.

  And damn it. The teacher looked at me and pointed to the battleground or the terrain that we used as a battleground.

  “Hana, with what element did you say I was proficient?”- I can’t remember this, it won’t look good if I can use more or all elements.

  “Ice, Wind, Earth, and Water. That’s all the elements I said you were proficient in”

  “Thanks”

  “Now, Arata will be fighting 2 people. He seems to not pay attention. He will have the strongest opponent from the hero css and the strongest from the normal css. The fight will only consist of magic, now swords”- The teacher looked at me for a few seconds and then looked at my opponents.

  I didn’t recognize the person from the Hero css, he wasn’t from our school.

  “My name’s Yuki. Nice to meet you. I hope for a good battle”- At least this guy is nice.

  In character, I just bowed and talked in some sort of sign nguage that was accepted there. It’s so frustrating.

  The battle starts, and I want to finish this quickly. I used a quick wind attack but it was blocked. I unched 4 different wind attacks to throw him off followed by a quick earth spell to throw him off bance, it almost worked, and he managed to stabilize himself with a wind spell.

  You know what? I shall use Shadow magic to win this, it will be quicker.

  I used my shadow tendrils to restrain him. I allowed him to move a little so he wouldn’t suspect anything.

  Then, using a combination of both wind and shadow magic I punched him in the face. It isn’t against the rules since I used magic.

  “Well, that was almost against the rules. The winner is Arata.”- The teacher looked at me sharply after this win. They might suspect something about this, but I can’t compin.

  I waited for the css to end.

  After the css had ended I sneaked around the teachers and got into their room.

  “Sia, I don’t have too much time, where is it?”- I don’t know where to look here.

  !It’s behind the wall, there is a brick that you can tap and the wall will open, you will find a trapdoor there.

  I went to the wall and tapped on the brick, and the wall slowly retracted. I found a small trapdoor, I opened it and went down the stairs. I don’t have a good feeling about this, but we shall see what this is about.

  !Caution: I detected traps. I also recommend closing the door behind you. We shouldn’t raise suspicion!

  “Yeah.”- I tried to cover my tracks as much as I could.

  I sent my shadow tendrils forward to trigger any trap that there was there.

  There were a few traps that were triggered with my ability, those were mostly bow traps and pitfalls.

  I explored that pce a little.

  “Sia, did you analyze this pce?”

  !Yes, you should find something interesting if you walk ahead from where you are. You need to turn left two times and then right one time.!

  “Ok”

  Following Sia’s instructions I arrived at some sort of dungeon, there were a lot of cells in there. And in the cells, there were a lot of people, some were people that I had gone to the same school with and were part of the faction that supported us. They don’t recognize me since I am disguised so they didn’t recognize me.

  “Hana found them. You know what we should do.”

  “Yes, I heard you. We will talk more about this tomorrow”