Two

Orion University is one of the 10 known magic learning facilities in the world that was created after the Apocalypse.

The remaining survivors leader back then decided to flourish and give the outmost priority in strengthening the magic that saves them from extinction.

After a decade they managed to see the outcomes of each Academy that meant to bring out the full capability of the magic within them.

I've known those basic details about the history of Orion since I was three years old. Funny how people think that I'm genius child when it was my fanatic father who keeps telling the beginning of magic to the point I almost abandoned him for that.

Despite being an ordinary magician who could mostly used basic spells , the love for magic that my father has is limitless that I could bet it rivalled the Magic Councils.

"Are you going home this weekend Einra?"

Ah.... speaking of home my parents nagged me for not visiting them during winter's vacation. I turn my gaze at Neli who's face almost burried in the pages of the book that Professor Caroline recommend for our summoning subject.

"Probably" I muttered before bringing back my attention to the same book he's reading. It's only been two weeks since the school started but I could barely find time to enjoy nor relax due to the lecture subjects and performing lessons that we have.

"I miss my freshman days" Deciding not to pay on his usual grumpy self, I turn another page of the book and try my best to understand what's in it.

Unlike Neli I have been studying at Orion ever since I was a toddler. I was only five years old when my father who has a good relationship with the head master decided that his only daughter who barely utter a word to strangers enter the Academy he graduated with.

Of course my mother and older brother is strongly against that idea but father is rather persuasive. At the end of the day my father used a sleeping potion and enrolled me without the consent of my mother.

"Einra loves studying magic,dear!" he explained while kneeling on the front door of our house. My mother refused to talk to my father for almost a year because of that incident.

Sigh. Sometimes I really hate how my brain refused to forget those embarrassing moments of my life. Sure having pictographic memory is a huge advantage especially on spells and potions making but most of the time it's rather tiring.

On the other hand Neli who's still complaining by my side entered the Academy during 7th grade secondary magic. He's from a mid-level family who produced ordinary magicians for decades but Neli is special.

I'm stronger than him but he's not weak.

"Have you heard of that newbie first year who got no color during the affinity test?"

I pause midway of turning the pages when I heard what he said. Glancing at him I found Neli's infamous tired eyes looking at me with interest.

"The Professors said that the testing system was broken but i doubt it, It's really a person without a specific affinity —" before he finished his sentence I mumbled the words that he supposedly saying.

"like the first magician?"

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Just like what I expected I managed to perform a satisfactory summoning that should at least be graded with S and Neli who doesn't show much interest and effort got an A.

"We're supposedly watching Professor Arvie's student" he tiredly muttered as he rest his head to my shoulder.

Being a third year high magic student is probably the most difficult point of studying magic here at Orion. It included lots of classes and running errands for your old professor's.

Neli and I as part of the top 20 best students in the whole academy live a life that's quite tiring and troublesome. We are required to do baby sitting for the freshman high magic students when their professor is absent.

At first I was actually interested to do those errand as I heard the class that we will watch over is the one who got those extremely talented newbies but all I witnessed is a bunch of arrogant noble magicians bullying a gifted affinity-less commoner girl.

In my perspective there's nothing special with them.

So instead of following Professor Arvie's order we basically decided to ditch the responsibility and rest in the forbidden section of the library.

Ah. How I love the silence.