Re: Love & Magic

Outside, the students were surprised to see a flying ship floating over the main ground of the academy. It was literally a ship, but flying instead of floating on the water.

It was twenty meters long and eight meters wide. Such a flying ship was a luxury vehicle because it could do much more than just fly. It could attack and protect itself and its surroundings with various built-in magic functions.

The students on the ground watched enviously as the ship flew away.

Kerolin watched with slightly teary eyes that burned with resolve, “Tigger, I will come there next year! Wait for me.”

Inside the ship, Tigger looked at Kerolin from the windows and sighed.

“It’s ok, bro. She will be able to come next year,” Dan patted Tigger’s shoulder.

Tigger looked at Zevien, Vernisia, Erica, and Dan and sighed enviously, “how good that you four can go together in pairs while I have to leave without my girlfriend.”

“Haha, I think you are forgetting an important detail,” Zevien said with a laugh before asking, “remember, what was the condition to graduate from our academy?”

“Graduate? It was…becoming a 5th class magician and…,” Tigger’s eyes widened, “Kerolin can already graduate since she always had a knack to become an alchemist. After she became a 5th class magician four days ago, she already crafted her first tier-1 magic potion successfully.”

“Exactly,” Zevien nodded with a smile, “so just tell her to come to the Lankrena region and then leave the rest to me.”

“What are you talking about, boys?” Baishi entered the deck that had Vernisia, Erica, and the other students as they were inside the cabin to observe this beautiful but fierce flying ship.

“Eh, our friend’s girlfriend couldn’t win, so we are consoling him,” Dan said smilingly while rubbing his nose.

“Oh,” Baishi raised her eyebrows as she looked at Tigger. “Well, better luck next time,” she said with a consoling smile.

Tigger nodded at Baishi before quickly asking Zevien, “Zevien what did you mean by calling her to the Lankrena region?”

“I am going to create my clan, and since she already met the requirements to graduate, she can just join the clan in the Lankrena region. Of course, you are also joining my clan,” Zevien grinned.

“Clan? Are you serious?” Roman scoffed, “you don’t know anything about the requirements to create the clan, and yet want to create one?”

“Oh my bad,” Zevien shook his head, “it was a slip of my tongue. I mean, I know someone who can create a clan, and we are going to join the clan he is going to create.”

“Is he the same person who gave you the quota?” Baishin asked as she smiled keenly.

“Yes,” Zevien nodded with a smile.

“And who is that?” Roman snorted.

“That’s none of your business,” Erica said. She felt that this guy was being aggressive without reason.

Suddenly, Jacky arrived in front of Zevien with a somber expression before asking, “Zevien, do you remember me?”

“You?” Zevien narrowed his eyes before a bulb lit up above his head as he remembered, “you are that lap guy that I beat up on the first day of the academy…right? You sure changed a lot.”

Vernisia was also surprised as she finally recognized the guy. After all, this guy had transformed himself. The tattoo on his left side neck was gone and his hairstyle also changed from funky to a proper short ponytail. His body was also a bit more buffy with muscle mass.

“Yes, that is me,” Jacky nodded without changing his expression, “since the day you beat me up, I have worked hard and focused fully on becoming stronger. I was not expecting to get the quota at first, but I managed to win. So, I wanted to tell you that if you are fine with it, I want to join your clan.”

“Don’t you want revenge?” Dan asked doubtfully.

“No, it was my fault in the first place,” Jacky shook his head before turning to Vernisia, “I apologize.”

“Err…ok.” Vernisia and the rest were taken aback.

“Interesting,” Baishi smiled and said, “anyway, you all talk here and pair yourselves up if you want to. In the Skyward academy, all tasks and anything you do aside from occupation training will be in pairs. You will have four days to decide on your partner and if you still have not decided by then, we will assign you randomly. The academy is all about competition and ruthless eliminations. Keep this in mind.”

After saying that, she turned around and entered the control cabin.

“Miss Vernisia, would you like to be my partner?” Helin said with a gentle and confident smile. He had wavy maroon hair and a pale face with gem-blue eyes.

“Are you an idiot?” Vernisia said with a foul expression as she stood beside Zevien and grabbed his hand, “he is my partner.”

“You must be living under a rock,” Leena rolled her eyes, “everyone knows that the freshmen representative Vernisia has a boyfriend.”

“Ohhh….,” Helin scratched the back of his head while smiling, “I didn’t know.” He then turned to Leena and asked with the same smile, “then miss Leena, would you like you to be my partner?”

“Fuck off,” Leena scoffed before entering the cabin.

Helin turned to Erica but before he could say anything, Erica narrowed her eyes, “I swear I will break your bones if you say a word.”

*Crack…*

“And I will break your little brother,” Dan grinned ferociously.

A chill crawled up Helin’s spine as he turned around and stood at the corner of the deck before sighing.

“It is indeed a lonely world. Laa~ la la la la laaaa~ Oooo Lonely~ Is this world~ Oh how loooonely~”

“Shut up!” Roman stomped his foot angrily, “I was going to ask you to be my partner but fuck you!”

“Ehh…” Henil creased his eyebrows before speaking hesitantly, “b-but…I am a perfectly straight Homosapien species.”

“Dumb guy, pairing doesn’t mean you are going to marry that person or spend lifelong time with them. It is just a custom in the Skyward Academy because of the way we hold our training programs,” Baishin’s voice reverberated on the deck.

Henil was silent for a few moments while others also sighed.

Zevien, Vernisia, and others walked towards the stairs as they decided to enter the cabin.

“La la la looonely~….Oh, how this world is so loonely….”