Today was the start of magic lessons. In the morning, I went to the designated classroom.
When I entered the classroom, I didn't see anyone inside. So, I sat on the nearest chair, pulled out the book I had borrowed from the library, and began reading.
After reading a few pages, I could hear footsteps from outside approaching this room.
With the creak of the door, I saw Haru rush inside. She came up to me and spoke excitedly.
"Flitz-san, Flitz-san, look! Look at this!"
It was surprising. What Haru showed me was her hand, glowing with light. I could feel warmth coming from that light—I guessed this was her power.
"I don't know what happened, but when I woke up, before I realized it, my hand was already like this."
"Are there any strange symptoms you're feeling?"
"No, I don't feel anything... ah, yes, somehow I feel like I can move this light. I'll try it."
"W-wait!"
I was startled by her words, and by the time I tried to stop her, it was already too late.
The light gathered in Haru's palm, forming a ball.
Seeing that, Haru hurriedly threw it upward, and the ball of light floated slowly like a bubble.
I immediately stood in front of Haru, bracing myself in case something happened with that ball of light... after a while, it began to fade away as if running out of energy.
Phew, thank goodness nothing bad happened. I turned and looked at Haru with a smile.
"Eh? Umm... t-that... hehe."
Noticing my gaze, Haru nervously tried to say something, but in the end, she only smiled with a regretful expression.
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When Fujita woke up, he felt something different within himself. When he saw the servant who entered his room, he was shocked to notice something glowing blue from the servant's chest. Looking more closely, the light resembled a small flame burning inside the servant's body.
"What are you doing?"
"Eh? I-I was just preparing your needs for this morning, is something wrong, Sir? Do you want something?"
"No, nothing! You can continue your work!"
From the servant's response, Fujita was convinced that the servant wasn't the cause. Fujita thought about it and suddenly remembered his own power.
Could it be because of that?
In a hurry, Fuji got ready to head to the training room today—maybe the others had experienced something similar to what he had.
On the way to the magic training place, Fuji realized he could control that vision. He only needed to focus his mind, and it would activate or deactivate.
So he observed every living being he saw carefully. He could see people radiating light from their bodies in various colors—even the birds he looked at also had it.
Arriving at the classroom, Fujita saw Renaldi leaning against the front of the room, looking like he was waiting for someone. Fujita also saw a blue glow from Renaldi's chest.
Approaching him, Fujita asked,
"What are you doing, Renaldi-san? Are you waiting for someone?"
Hearing someone speak to him, Renaldi looked and replied,
"Oh, Fujita-san, huh? No, I'm not waiting for anyone... it's nothing. You can go in first, I'll follow after."
"Alright then, I'll go in first."
Saying that, Fujita looked at him with confusion and entered the room.
Inside, except for Renaldi and Magnus, everyone else was already there. Fujita even saw an unexpected person. Her name was Adelia Bel Forgh, the second princess of Cyrus, aged 13. She had a beautiful appearance like her mother and had the same hair and eye color as her father.
Was she also joining this training? Fujita noticed that she too radiated a blue glow.
Seeing Fujita had arrived, Flitz approached and greeted him.
"Good morning, Fujita."
"Oh, good morning, Fli... huh???"
Hearing Flitz's greeting, Fujita looked at him and replied, but in the middle of that, something strange happened.
Fujita saw nothing on Flitz. He didn't emit light like the other living beings Fujita had seen.
Fuji looked around to make sure his ability wasn't inactive, but he saw that everyone else was still radiating light. He was sure the strange one here was Flitz.
Flitz noticed Fujita's confusion and asked him.
"What's wrong, Fujita?"
"It's nothing, I was just thinking about something."
Hearing that, Flitz didn't pursue it further and instead asked about someone who still hadn't arrived among them.
"By the way, did you see Renaldi?"
"When I came, he was already in front of the room."
"Why hasn't he come in?"
"I don't know."
Bam!
At that moment, the door suddenly swung open with a loud sound.
Everyone saw it was Renaldi. With all eyes on him, he stood at the doorway for a few seconds, observing the room, then entered with slow steps and a sharp gaze.
Without saying anything, Renaldi walked straight to the very back corner seat and sat down.
He rested his head on his hand, staring at the wall beside him.
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From the moment Renaldi appeared, we could only stare at him in silence.
After watching him briefly, I turned my attention back to Fujita.
When he came in, I felt like he was observing everyone, and when he looked at me, he showed a doubtful expression on his face. Although his expression quickly returned to normal, I knew for sure something was wrong.
When they arrived after Haru's, I learned that Kushida and Agatha had also awakened their powers, just like Haru.
Agatha showed us that she could store objects in thin air and pull them out again like a trick. It was very similar to my own storage.
And when Kushida demonstrated her power, something crazy happened. She suddenly cut her finger with a knife that appeared out of nowhere. We were shocked to see her do that, but she only chuckled lightly and said she was fine. Then suddenly, her wounded finger was wrapped in a faint light and healed completely, leaving no scar at all.
"Fujita, have you awakened your power too?"
"Too? Yeah, it seems so, but also... have the others awakened their powers?"
"Yes, except Renaldi—I've already been told by them... Renaldi, have your powers awakened as well?"
I turned and asked Renaldi about his awakening.
Hearing my question, Renaldi brushed his hair back with one hand, and with his other hand, he pointed at me.
"In your pocket, there must be a coin."
[Sensorium Materia]
That was the name of Renaldi's power. After the examination procedure for powers yesterday, he told us about it.
It was the ability to detect the location of materials—like detecting stone, iron, bronze, and so on.
"Oooh, true to its name, Sensorium Materia, that's really an amazing ability."
Returning to Renaldi, who showed us how his power worked, I clapped my hands and praised him, and he looked very proud hearing that. His ability was really useful—he could become rich with it.
"So, Fujita, what about your power?"
"I can see the light radiating from every living being I look at..."
Hearing my question, Fuji explained that he could see something glowing from living beings, which he believed to be their souls.
Fujita said that the souls he saw radiated different colors depending on their race: humans were blue, beastmen were purple, and animals were white.
Since only those races existed in the castle, he wasn't yet certain about this classification... and although only a handful, he also said that the souls of some people and animals he saw were red, which made him even more doubtful about that classification.
"By the way, what's wrong with her?"
Fujita looked at Haru, who was lying on the desk, and asked me about her.
I explained to Fujita what had happened earlier—how Haru had recklessly shown her power, and how I scolded her afterward.
Fujita couldn't hold back his laughter after I finished explaining. Well... although Mio did something reckless too, since she was already an adult, I didn't think she needed scolding.
After a few more conversations with Fujita, I returned to my seat beside Haru's.
"Hm???"
As I sat down, I heard a confused sound from Fujita.
"What is it, Fujita?"
"It's nothing, I was just thinking about something."
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"Before the lesson begins, even though you may already know, I will introduce these two people who will also guide you in your training."
It seemed Magnus wasn't the only one who would be teaching us.
In front of us, besides Magnus, there was a man and a girl, both of whom we had already met.
Wearing knight's armor, the black-haired, narrow-eyed man introduced himself.
"We've met before, but I haven't properly introduced myself. My name is Keil, one of the three personal guards of the King of Jatumheim. In this class, I will guide you in the use of AURA."
After Keil's introduction, the girl introduced herself.
"My name is Anna, a healer from the church. I will guide you in the use of Holy and support magic."
Because of my low angle of view, I was finally able to see her face. Her gloomy expression couldn't hide her beauty. She had heterochromatic eyes—her left eye blue, and her right eye brown. Her black hair had streaks of blue running through it.
I didn't know what AURA meant, but Holy and support magic... just from the sound of it, I guessed Anna had come specifically for Haru and Kushida.
"Well then, since the introductions are over, let us begin the class."
With Magnus's words, the lesson began.