Type-Moon, I'm a magician, is that true?

She is slightly taller than Shizuki Sojuro, but gives people a very coordinated feeling. Her body wrapped in the Western-style school uniform looks slender, but not thin. Although it is just clothes of normal quality, it highlights the excellent texture.

To be fair, from Sojuro's perspective, he had never seen a more beautiful person than the one next to him.

The three-dimensional facial features, the perfectly angled jawline, and the clear lake green eyes do not present the handsomeness of a man, nor the softness of a woman, nor even the neutral beauty that is a fusion of the two. Instead, it is a high-dimensional, fairy-like beauty that transcends the definition of "human".

This is beauty in the sense of existence. Even if Evindon's face was scarred, people would not change their evaluation. (In a sense, it makes people give up the beauty of sexual orientation.)

At this moment, the pair of lake green eyes turned their gaze to Shizuki Sojuro, their gaze as clear as the surface of a lake.

"Jingxi, you don't have to call me by my full name. It's too long and inconvenient. Just call me Aiwen. It's the abbreviation."

"Is it okay? I remember the book said that you can't call someone by their name when you meet them for the first time." Shizuki Sojuro thought doubtfully.

"It's okay. If you feel it's inappropriate, you can add 'classmate'. It's also somewhat rude to say your full name during a conversation."

"I see. I've made a note of that."

Sojuro smiled as if he had suddenly realized something, and silently engraved this piece of knowledge in his mind.

During the approximately two hours of chatting, he had confirmed a lot of common sense from Evindong that was not mentioned in the books.

Kusagijuro was very glad that there was someone to chat with during this long wait. Although enduring boredom was already a daily routine for him, it was always better to have a companion.

"Then Aiwen, your windows..."

"Wow—"

Just as Shizuki Sojuro recalled the question about the window and was about to bring up the topic again, the sound of rough wooden boards grinding against each other broke the cold and quiet atmosphere of the room.

"Boom boom boom!"

With the sound of imposing footsteps, Aozaki Aoko entered their sight.

Their eyes met each other, and different thoughts arose in the minds of the three people.

"Excuse me, I'm the student council president of this school, Aozaki Aoko."

Chapter 3: First Meeting (k)

The originally cold meeting room became a little more lively with the arrival of the other two people, which was a bit touching.

Humans are such strange creatures. Even though the heat from four people is not enough to warm up this empty conference room, Ewendong still feels that the cold is getting away a little.

Teacher Yamashiro, who followed closely behind, stood aside awkwardly, and judging from the atmosphere, he seemed to be caught between the two sides.

Aozaki Aoko recalled what Teacher Yamashiro had said about the two of them on the road and felt a little annoyed.

"An orphan from a mountain without electricity, who seems to be of foreign descent. Is this some kind of fairy tale?"

Looking at the student council president who was getting angry again for some reason on one side, and the two people who were as calm and distant as a cold pond on the other side, Mr. Yamashiro felt that this could not go on.

He thought he had to do something.

"Haha, Aozaki-san, don't be so cold. How about I, the teacher, introduce them to you two first?" The teacher stepped forward with a laugh and extended his left hand to Kusajuro and Evondong who were standing silently by the window.

Perhaps he was trying to lighten the mood, but it was clear his efforts were failing.

"Don't bother Mr. Yamashiro anymore. Leave the rest to me. This is why I got up so early and came to school, isn't it?"

Aozaki Aoko interrupted the conversation. She had a perfect smile on her face, and at first glance she looked like the cuteness of a seventeen-year-old JK, but the words she said sounded like a threat.

No, it is indeed a threat, at least that's what Mr. Yamashiro thinks.

"Okay, well, people of the same age do get along better with each other, so I won't get in the way here." Teacher Yamashiro walked towards the door awkwardly, and quietly reminded Aoko when he passed by her.

"Aozaki-san, remember to be gentle."

After saying that, without waiting for Qingzi's sharp eyes to sweep over him, he quickly closed the door of the conference room and left quickly.

The meeting room was really a bit cold now, Aiwen felt.

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The situation was not what Mr. Yamashiro had expected. Aozaki Aoko did not mock or show any impatience.

Of course, she was impatient, but Qingzi suppressed it deep down. She wasn't one to mix public and private matters, and she wouldn't verbally attack two classmates she'd just met.

So she just introduced herself in a very formal way and then led the two to visit the school.

"Let me be clear in advance, I don't have much time. For the sake of efficiency, please raise any questions as soon as possible." Aozaki Aoko said coldly, and at the same time subconsciously glanced at Aiwen who was following silently beside her.

As soon as she entered the door, Qingzi inevitably noticed this dazzling existence, and she almost screamed out in surprise.

Aozaki Aoko is very confident in her charm as a woman. Maybe her personality is not very likable, but her outstanding appearance is enough to captivate the eyes of many boys who meet her for the first time.

She thought those boys were superficial and ignored them all, but a slight and overlooked pride in her appearance still existed.

Now this little bit of pride was completely shattered, especially after she knew Aiwen's gender.

"I'm so unhappy and embarrassed!" While waiting for the two to visit the classroom, Aozaki Aoko cursed herself in her heart.

She couldn't believe that she had been moved for a moment just now, even though she knew nothing about that guy.

Doesn't it seem superficial to act so arbitrarily?

The dissatisfaction with herself weighed on her heart, making her mood worse, and also making her subconsciously regard Aiwen as an enemy.

Aozaki Aoko is a very awkward person. The more she likes someone, the more hostile she will subconsciously be to them, because—

"This will affect your judgment and prevent you from following through on your original decision because of other people's opinions."

Anyone who interferes with your feelings is your enemy.

Thinking this way, Qingzi decided to stay away from Aiwen. She was even a little afraid of him now, afraid that she would be attracted to him. This was the first time that Qingzi felt unconfident in her willpower.

While Aozaki Aoko was reflecting on herself, Aiwen was also secretly observing Aoko. Unlike Shizuki Sojuro, he noticed something unusual.

'Mana ripples around her,' Aiwen muttered to herself.

Although the movement of Mana was very subtle, like a breeze fanned by his hands, he was a genius praised by his master as "unparalleled in meticulous operation" and would not miss this.

"So Aozaki Aoko is a magician? Or does she have innate abilities?"

His master's teachings gave him a general understanding of the world of magic, and he also knew how cruel and cold-blooded magicians were.

only--

"It's fine, it's just something like this."

He buried this sentence deep in his heart. Whether Aozaki Aoko was a simple half-baked person or treated the people in the school as personal consumables, he had no objection.

This is a defect that should not exist for humans. Empathy for the experiences of others should be a genetic limitation engraved in our bones. Without this, humans would not be able to gather together and help each other to develop to this day.

It wasn't that he deliberately ignored this feeling because of special education, but from the moment he realized it, he realized that he lacked many of the feelings that a "human" should have.

[He is a natural born magician]

The cloak teacher exclaimed with such joy when he first met him.

"If only you were an ordinary person. Living like the masses would be more suitable for you. I'm really worried."

The cloaked teacher murmured with such concern for him when he said goodbye to him for the last time.

Thinking of this, Aiwen shook his head, feeling that he was once again entangled by the reflection of the past.

"This is a common laziness, a refusal to change one's familiar living environment, because it means all the experience accumulated over time is useless, and accumulating it again means that the risks are currently undetectable."

"I see. So that's why people miss their homeland. It seems humans and I do have something in common."

Aiwen nodded, and Aozaki Aoko took his action as an agreement, which made her feel relieved.

"Great! Unlike that Robinson Crusoe next to him, this guy still has a lot of common sense. His workload is reduced by half."

(Robinson refers to a person who is out of touch with human society)

But Aozaki Aoko made a big mistake.

This is someone that Mr. Yamashiro feels he cannot handle, and it is an oversight to take it for granted that Aiwen is a normal person or something.

This omission gave her a big surprise at the end of the visit.

The three of them were walking in the teaching building. Aiwen, who was one step behind, glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist. On the simple dial, the hour and minute hands formed a subtle angle.

"Oh no, it's already half past twelve." Aiwen said with no hint of anxiety, attracting the attention of the two people next to him.

"Is this true? It's already this late!" Aozaki Aoko exclaimed. In her knowledge, the school shouldn't be this big.

"Ah." Kusajuro, who was standing beside him blankly, seemed to have realized something and shrank back with a troubled look on his face. "Oh no, it's almost one o'clock."

"To be exact, there are still thirty minutes left. No, it's already twenty-nine minutes now." Aiwen added, and his words made Sojuro's face even more serious.

"Hey~~ Looks like you had a reservation. My plans for today were completely ruined because of you guys, but you're not going to offer an equal amount of distress yourself?"

Aozaki Aoko gritted her teeth in dissatisfaction. The unequal price aroused her resistance, and all that came out of her mouth was sarcastic praise.

"You are surprisingly good at obeying yourselves."

"Even if you praise me, I can't give you anything in return now." Shizuki Sojuro responded with some guilt.

"I think so too. You're right." Aiwen nodded nonchalantly.

Looking at the two people in front of her, one of whom didn't understand the sarcasm at all, and the other who completely accepted the complaints, Qingzi felt like she had been punched into a quilt, and the empty feeling made her complaints disappear.

"Forget it, it's better to end it early, so let's end the tour here today."

Originally, Qingzi wanted to at least ask what they were in such a hurry to do, but she gave up the idea after taking a look at Aiwen.

"Let's not get too involved. If I keep asking, won't it seem like I'm trying to get to know him better?"

With this thought in mind, Aozaki Aoko watched the two of them walk into the classroom and heard their conversation.

"As for Aiwen, we should go to the clothing store at the station entrance. It's amazing! My eyes hurt when I first saw that store. I didn't know that clothes could be inlaid with stones. Why would they do such a thing?"

"It's a reflection of human consciousness. Complex and heavy clothing goes against the laws of nature. If bears and tigers were wrapped in large amounts of cloth and gemstones, their hunting abilities would be affected, and they would eventually be eliminated by nature. But humans don't, so complexity has become a label, a way to show off our abundance."

"That's true. People in the mountains only wear just enough to keep warm and don't think of adding anything extra to their clothes."

"Humanity no longer relies on individual strength to survive. The emergence of society and the creation of classes are all derivatives of nature, creating rules that are different from nature. People who consume other people's time and add useless things to clothes are the target of this store."

"The city is terrifying," Kusajuro exclaimed. "But Aiwen seems to be handling it with ease."

"Because there's nothing wrong with human society. No, it can't be divided into good and bad. Everything is reasonable. All we need to do is endure the choices we make."

"It's really profound. Aiwen gives me the feeling of a master from the mountains."

Listening to these conversations, Aozaki Aoko felt an indescribable sense of strangeness: "What human society? You're talking as if you're not human."

"But it's true. Can a human reach that level of beauty? Maybe that girl is actually a fairy or an elf?"

Such a joke flashed through her mind, and then Qingzi threw it behind her with a smile.

"That's impossible. I don't sense any magic power in him. He's just an ordinary person."

Thinking of this, an inappropriate thought suddenly flashed through Qingzi's mind: "Speaking of which, isn't the door in front? Why are the two of them walking towards the classroom?"

Then, before she could come to her senses, she heard the sound of the window opening.

Chapter 3 The Magician Named Evindon (k)

"Hey, what are you doing!?"

Aozaki Aoko rushed into the classroom.

Just as I imagined, the window was open, and Shizuki Sojuro had one foot on the edge, with Aiwen quietly standing behind him, as if they were in a queue.

"What... are you going to do!" Qingzi rushed forward to stop the two of them and felt like she was about to explode.

"Let's go to work." Sojuro said naturally, and Aiwen nodded.

"Then go through the main door. The windows are not for people to enter or exit. And what floor do you think this is?"

It was hard to tell whether she was worried or furious, as Aozaki Aoko felt that today was full of unexpected things.