CHAPTER I: Missing Point

It was an afternoon of the 6th month of the year. It was quite busy in the place where I was assigned to. The soldiers are busy walking around the camp as preparing for the battle, while others are helping us to resupply the medicines and bandages.

Knowing this kind of work was exhausting, I keep on pushing through myself to it, though my husband was mad about it. I understand his thoughts of being concerned about fatigue that I would get from working my ass of. But this work was vital on helping the soldiers for their mission—the subjugation of demonic species.

This will be the second time that the kingdom of Urania done this expedition.

"My lady, all the supplies needed for this tent are here in the corner. Do you need anything else? Madame?" Neita said, one of the soldiers. I look at him and give him a nod.

"I think for now, that's enough. I'll inform you if I needed more of these. Thank you, Sir Neita. "

He bowed a little and then went off from the tent.

Now, I have to finish my rounds on checking the wounded men in this tent. And hoping for this expedition to end.

But my prayers was not heard.

I feel the ground is shaking. I immediately run outside the tent, and witness as the horde of demonic species are heading towards the camp where all of us are staying. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind making the tents rattled and surrounding trees swayed because of it. I hardly make myself look to the source of that wind, my heart was like crushed by a heavy boulder.

No. Seeing this horrendous sight, I felt like my knees are getting weak. I just felt that I've been sitting on the ground from slowly sinking the thoughts of being killed and the fear of not be able to save everyone who are injured.

It was the so called legendary high-breed of demonic species. The Death dragon of demonic realm.

~Sesi's POV~

"Hey, do you have a minute? I want to talk to you about something." Relle—a girl with a long black braided hair, walking along with me in our school hallway.

Everyday this girl was pestering me, asking me weird stuffs and… repeatedly telling me that there could be a possible way to go to the other world. It's not like I'm not interested about it, I already know that there are three ways that are guaranteed to make a portal or a way to enter another world. It's just…it is not the right time for me to do something related to other worlds.

Besides, I have a secret that I can't even reveal to someone close to me. Even if, she/he is my best friend. In short, I just want a normal life for now.

"Can you please…tone down your voice? Your attracting unnecessary attention from other people." I whispered while making my pace fast.

She struggled to walk with me but still her incredible persistence on pissing me off every morning, everyday could be the reason that I will kill her, strangled to death.

For 30 minutes of pestering me while walking, we now arrived at the academy's library. You thought, she would stop? No! It was like a hell to me when she's around. Like a ghost or even a ghoul from the grave, endlessly whispering.

"If you just listen to me, then we could end this conversation painlessly, ya know?" She started whispering now like a ghoul.

"Tch. Whatever. And you know my answer about it, I told you thousands of times. But your weirdo and a mad-like scientist brain always pissing me off. Just drop that impossible thing to happen." I said firmly while hardly maintaining my voice, not to get loud.

"I'm telling you! If we're successful on finding the missing point of the formula that will complete the magic circle, then we will be taking our adventures in the other world." She said (still in a whisper mode) while making some weird poses.

"You're embarrassing me! Can you stay still and shut up? If not, I'll strangle you to death!" I said firmly (whisper mode) while rolling my eyes. I sat down and laid all the books and stuffs in the table. Even though I always choose the end seat of the library, I can't find a peaceful time because of this insect.

"I just want you to help me, Sesi. Just this missing point then that's all! I will not force you to come with me." Relle said who sat across me. She suddenly grab the book I've been reading.

"What the hell are you doing? Give me back my book or I will kill you!" While glaring at her like daggers.

"What will I do, to make you help me then?" She said while embracing my book against her chest and move backwards that in a silent library, the chair's grinding movement on floor can be heard. But of course, she's the type of human specie that has no common sense thus can't feel any embarrassment. In short, a thick-skinned human being.

"Just give me my book. And we will talk calmly about it. Just stop on attracting unnecessary attention, please? Or we will be kicked out from the library or even banned us from here. I can't afford loosing my paradise." I said sighing heavily while hiding my face through the other book I had on the table.

I feel that she sat back and tap on my left shoulder. I watched her with my exasperated sigh.

"Oh I know! I will give you…your handsome crush's account name or even the phone number." She said while moving her eyebrows up and down.

I suddenly felt some heat on my face and ears. It was shameful of me, thinking that I have chance of my feelings to be reciprocated. I shake the feeling of shamefully blushing. Especially, not in front of this insect.

"Whatever. Let's start on discussing that missing point and the magic circle." I said while ripping a clean piece of paper from my notebook. I gave it to her, for her to use it.

"Okay, I'll draw first the magic circle that I've been working on—"

"You mean you discovered." I cut her off.

"Y-Yeah of course." She stuttered a little bit and starting on drawing some lines and other shapes.

We discussed a lot about how will we find the missing point and other ways of completing the magic circle.

I feel bad on not saying the truth about the magic circle and about the three ways that I know. The ways that can be use to be teleported to the other world aside from using that ancient magic circle— that Relle discovered from some excavation activity she participated last year. It was a once a year activity by those students who are inspiring to be an archeologist.

Oh I forgot. We are now college or university students. We are now on our last year where in a few months, we will be graduating soon. She's an archeologist, while me was taking education course teaching history-related subjects or even called as future historian.

How did we know each other? We're classmates from my freshman to sophomore years, just in two to three subjects I think. When she knew that I'm a scholar, and the rumored "one of the top students", she eventually approach me and asking me things or topics related to history. At first, it was my pleasure to talk about history but then for those years, she slowly pestering me about this ancient magic circle. I am quite knowledgeable about it as our school was mostly using it before. In fact, this academy was not a simple school for human beings but an academy that housed gifted students.

Gifted students does not just end on the idea of being highly intelligent but also, students who are possibly or whom possesses skills, abilities or even magic power. But in this era, those human beings that had magic power are slowly diminished by an uncertain cause. Even I, don't know the exact cause of it. In fact, I've been also searching answers about it.

Changing the topic. It was already 5:30 pm when we decided to finish what we had discussed, later after dinner. It was a headache to continue this topic. But I have no choice but to satisfy this needy person whose pestering me everyday. I had enough of her ghoul like voice during my study time, and her attention-seeker attitude.

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After dinner, I immediately get back on my room. The academy's dormitory, are for those students who are scholars, student officers and to those hometown are far from the capital city.

Anyways, speaking of the devil, Relle been knocking at the door for 1 minute. I heavily sighed and rise up from the bed. When I opened the door, she carelessly bumped her nose on the door. Maybe…part of it is that I absentmindedly uncontrolled my strength on pushing the door.

"Oh my…sorry. Are you alright? Unfortunately, I forgot to hold back my strength on pushing the door." I said apologetically.

"What the hell…do you have a gorilla-like strength? What will you do if my beautiful nose was destroyed? " She said with a tone of exaggeration. I acted like I'll be closing back the door, but unfortunately she block it using her hand and gripping hard on the side of the door. "And now, you're not letting me in? You meanie!" She said almost whining like a child that dropped her ice cream.

After settled down inside my room while drinking my coffee, she ask me something that made me spat my coffee on the floor. I was coughing really hard, that I felt some of the coffee was stuck on my air tube.

"Why would you think that I know something?" I said while wiping my teary eyes and my nose. "Just try another possible points that can make that magic circle to function. Just keep on randomly filling it some coordinates." I said and getting some water to flush down the coffee's bitterness that was also lingering on my throat.

"I'm just kidding ya know! You don't have to waste your precious coffee." She said while writing some random coordinates that she could think of in another piece of paper. "You can give me some random coordinates too." She said while busily substituting the coordinates she had created and written from the another piece of paper.

I just sighed back at her, and sat back to my soft single-seat couch. I look up at the ceiling while thinking about the specific coordinates that I know to make the magic circle function. Yes, I'm doubting on how will this girl cope up and adjust herself if we will go to the other world.

Because I know, in that world where we will be teleporting was not a peaceful and simple world. But otherworlders like us could be one of the so called "taboo". We could be the extras of their world. The existence itself could rip apart their world and could cause larger conflicts in their political system. And I don't want that. I'm tired and I just want to live normally here in academy. I'll graduate, find a job, buy my own house and car, and travel around the globe.

But now, I can't believe that I am starting again on involving myself in a complicated world.

There is only one thing that could force me to involve myself to that world.

It is the strong feelings and desperate call of a person from that world. That strong desire is enough for me to make the specific coordinates and make the magic circle to work.