First encounter with magic in parallel world.

Leo's eyes widened with surprise after hearing Miss Camille's last sentence, but after a moment of silence, he started laughing.

"Ah, I get it. This must be a prank. What a surprise, Miss Camille. I never thought you were the type to make jokes."

However, Miss Camille's face remained completely serious.

Seeing this, Leo stopped laughing and said, "Seriously, Miss Camille, what's wrong with you today? Did you drink before coming to work?"

"Who are you? No, what are you? Why do you look and sound exactly like Leo?" Miss Camille narrowed her eyes at him, emitting a slightly dangerous aura.

Leo swallowed nervously, but he had no response, as he didn't know what to say.

"Tell me about yourself." Miss Camille suddenly said.

"Huh?"

"Tell. Me. About. Yourself. Speak to me as though this is our first meeting," she clarified.

Leo sighed. He couldn't understand why Miss Camille was acting like this, but he nodded his head regardless.

"My name is Leo, and I am currently 18 years old. I skipped a few grades cause I'm just that smart. My birthday is on the first day of the first month. My hobby is reading. I enjoy fiction and mystery the most. I like sweet and spicy food but dislike sour food. I was accepted into this university— Four Seasons University— after scoring a perfect score on the exam. I… I don't have any friends in this university even after an entire year here, and I am often bullied because of that— and because I am from a common family."

"There. What else do you want me to say that you don't already know?"

"Do you remember our first encounter with each other?" Miss Camille suddenly asked.

"Of course. We met when I had to get treated for an injury from a fight with Adam and his group of dumb monkeys."

"..."

Miss Camille would once again silently stare at him with a pondering look on her face. She then looked at me and asked me the same question.

"I don't remember anything." I replied to her after wearing back my clothes.

A few moments later, Miss Camille spoke, "First of all, this place is not the Four Seasons University. It's called the Four Witches Academy. Second, you— Leo has plenty of friends in this place, and nobody would dare to bully him. Oswald, you are a new student in this school. You were suddenly transferred to this school without any prior notice or certificate. They just said that you have a really strong background and to take care of you for a few years. Two days ago, you were targeted by a group of bullies but they were soon found dead. Even though you survived their attack, they were able to hit you on head with a strong artifact. That day you had been brought to my clinic. You had lost your memories but were still alive but somehow you mysteriously died that day."

"Uhh…" Leo held a dumbfounded face at this moment as he tried to comprehend the situation and I just nodded at her explanation.

"This confirms that you're not Leo and Oswald… At least not the Leo and Oswald I knew of. However, you are still yourself... probably. There's only one reasonable explanation to this phenomenon… You, Leo from another world, had somehow traversed to this world— a world where 'Leo' no longer exists. And you, Oswald, you might be somehow resurrected."

"And before you ask, yes, this has happened before— at least according to some rumors out there."

Leo's jaw dropped after hearing Miss Camille's 'reasonable' explanation but I just raised my eyebrow in confusion.

I died mysteriously? Does system has anything to do with it?

'Miss Camille… She has turned crazy!' Leo thought inwardly.

"I know you must think I am crazy, but allow me to show you the truth…"

Miss Camille suddenly lifted her arm and placed her palms directly in front of Leo's face.

"Her hand… It's glowing?" Leo mumbled in a dazed voice.

The next moment, Miss Camille spoke in a low voice, "Heal."

Leo could immediately feel a warm sensation spreading throughout his face, and the pain in his left eye started to disappear.

A few moments later, Miss Camille lowered her hand and said to him, "Go take a look in the mirror."

Leo didn't ask any questions and went to stand in front of the mirror by the sink, and to his absolute surprise, his left eye that should've been swollen had, by some miracle, completely healed!

Leo caressed his face in disbelief.

"W-What just happened? How did you do that?" He turned to look at Miss Camille with a shocked face.

In a calm voice, Miss Camille responded, "Judging by your response, I can assume that 'magic' does not exist in your world, which makes things easier."

"Magic?" Leo looked at her with wide eyes.

"Yes. Magic." Miss Camille repeated, and she created a glowing orb of light that floated above her palm.

"Can I touch it?" Leo asked in a nervous yet excited voice.

"Sure."

Leo began poking the orb of light at first, then he tried to grab it, but it would go through his hand like it was an illusion. However, he could feel a warm sensation coming from the light.

Unlike Leo, who was excited to see the magic for first time in his life, I i stead focused on the system.

<Congratulations. You have successfully copied magic affinity : light affinity>

I hid my excitement and kept a neutral face on the outside. After calming down my mind, I focused back on Leo.

After taking a long moment to accept his situation, Leo asked, "How did I end up in this world? Can you send me back?"

"You're quick to adapt, which is good."

"Anyways, I don't know how you came to this world, but since your world doesn't have magic, it's safe to assume that someone in this world had summoned you here for whatever reason. Unfortunately, I don't know how to send you back to your own world."

"Then do you know who can send me back?"

"I do not. Although there are people who are capable of using teleportation magic, I am not aware of anyone that is powerful enough to teleport through dimensions."

Leo rubbed his eyes in a stressed manner, and he sighed, "What am I supposed to do now?"

"You can just live here until you figure a way back home," she said in a nonchalant voice.

"But I am supposed to be dead in this world, right? Won't that cause some sort of complications? I don't know anything about magic, but I have seen enough movies to know what's possible."

Miss Camille pondered for a minute before speaking, "Leo's corpse was never recovered, so we can say that you'd managed to survive. And this is not a movie. Leave everything to me. I'll figure something out. But it will be a problem for Oswald as his body was found dead by school authorities. It's good that the news was not released among students. I will convince the school authorities by saying that your strong background has helped you recover."

I happily nodded and thanked her with a beautiful smile to which she reacted with a blush and moved her face to the other side.

Having no choice but to rely on her, Leo nodded, "Thank you, Miss Camille."

"By the way, if you don't mind me asking, how's your relationship with the previous Leo? I was practically best friends with the Miss Camille of my world— though she probably wouldn't admit it."

She responded after a moment of silence, "The Leo I knew was a handful. He would take up most of my time because he is always injured from fighting, but because of the time we spent with each other, we became quite close. But we were not friends. I was more of a mentor to him than anything."

"A mentor, huh? I guess you're just like the Miss Camille I know, then. I'm really glad that's the case." Leo showed her a bright smile.

Miss Camille stared at his smile with relief in her eyes.

Sometime later, she said to him, "Anyways, if you want to survive this world, then you'll need to learn about it first."

Leo nodded with a serious look on his face, completely oblivious to the cruel world that he'd just arrived in.

Fortunately for Leo, he still has his immense luck of a protagonist.

On the other side, I was just quietly listening to their conversation. I agreed with Miss Camille. If I really have to survive in this world and complete my quest, I would have to get stronger as quickly as possible.

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