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Vesperia Academy is a prestigious academy in a magical city renowned for its magic.

Except for a few exceptions like private educational institutions operated internally by Magnavis, it leads the way in magical education and other special abilities in the academy city.

If I hadn’t been a good Violet, Lucian would have originally enrolled here and played the role of a senior.

It might be hard to believe, but this cute girl rubbing her eyes and waking up now was also destined to enroll there.

Suddenly, a headache throbbed.

That guy sneaked out at night and devoured my milk and snacks.

Moreover, who would have expected Uncle Yurik to drink that milk?

“Hey! Trinity! Wake up!”

Enrique Meitner.

Her nickname given by someone is ‘Trinity.’

Her position is simple. A typical support-type mage that would only appear in common fantasy genre games.

If Lucian is like a machine gun, she is like an artillery unit.

She had a troublesome trait that made those characteristics even more prominent.

“The symptoms presented by Pereira earlier were acute radiation poisoning. Got it?”

Enrique is a walking radiation hazard. It’s because the massive amounts of magical power accumulated within her are reacting and fluctuating unstably.

“Uh… so…”

“Don’t look away, you idiot! I can see everything. What are you hiding?”

While Uncle Yurik was being taken to the hospital, Bernike relentlessly cornered me.

I had never seen Auntie so fiercely angry before.

“I’m not going to ask why the milk is like that. You seem not to know either. But remember this! Broca’s sensors detected a massive amount of radiation. The radiation levels here are thousands of times more than what an average person would be exposed to over decades. It won’t be a problem for us awakened ones, but for regular people like Pereira, it’s dangerous. Got it?”

The fact is, I did mess up, so I had nothing to say.

Eventually, the moment came when I had to explain all this.

First, I contacted Seijis, then I took Enrique out with me.

“Why did you call… I’m sleepy…”

“Actually, she sneaked out and drank the milk!”

“…?”

I briefly explained the situation, and the late-arriving Professor Albert, after hearing Bernike and me again, cast a few spells with a look of disbelief.

“Really? Let’s see…”

A translucent fog rose around us.

In an instant, the space around Enrique was filled with countless delicate lines. The white lines darted like bullets through the fog, intricately intertwined, as if tiny needles were finely slicing through the air, clearly and sharply etched.

“My goodness, I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. How does she have this constitution?”

While watching the spectacle filled with a dance of light, Professor Albert conversed with Bernike.

“…Is it a unique ability? It’s really peculiar.”

“No, to define it as a unique ability, perfect self-control must be a prerequisite. That girl seems unable to control her constitution.”

For now, I sent a text to the Scholarship Officer. I had been trying to call for a while but couldn’t reach her, so I left a message for Older Sister Sophie.

Now, all that was left was to wait. In the meantime, our tasks were clear.

“First, let’s clean the kitchen.”

“Yes…”

We had to carefully clean our house and ourselves with the hastily procured radiation decontaminant.

In the meantime, Enrique was being taken away with a gloomy expression to a vacant room.

“I’m hungry…!”

“I’m sorry! I’ll get you food soon!”

After a long wait, a familiar figure arrived.

Older Sister Sophie opened the door to our workshop with a tired expression.

“Violet! Good timing. That kid you mentioned is related to the incident the Inspection Bureau was chasing yesterday. Seijis is also caught up in a difficult situation right now.”

Taken aback by the unexpected news, I asked her to tell me about the earlier story.

“A difficult situation? The Scholarship Officer?”

It turned out the Inspection Bureau was tracking a dispute between some research group and organization yesterday. Enrique was right in the middle of it all.

“It seems the incident has escalated beyond our knowledge.”

I repeated what I had explained about Enrique earlier.

When I said she caused radiation contamination with each step, my sister’s face darkened.

“The Inspection Bureau suspects that two clans of considerable scale are disputing the assets of a secret research facility. Such a constitution is too unnatural. Could it be the work of Laplacian?”

One of the root causes in the academy city, which is often mentioned whenever something strange occurs, was brought up. Normally, I would have agreed, but this time I wasn’t so sure.

It was Bernike who brought our conversation to a close.

“Laplacian is unlikely. Inspection Bureau lady, I heard directly from that kid that she has had this constitution since birth. Though Raihan is a madman, he isn’t foolish enough to conduct such bizarre experiments.”

“…So you’re the professor Seijis mentioned.”

“Yeah, he said he was her brother? She seems to be comparatively sane compared to that lunatic.”

The fact that she was the sister of someone who had planted a bomb in his own neck seemed to make the professor uncomfortable, as he grumbled under his breath.

“By the way, Sister, why isn’t the Scholarship Officer answering her phone?”

“Seijis got injured. So I came here myself.”

We were taken aback by the unexpected answer.

“The Scholarship Officer got hurt?”

I wondered who might have injured the Scholarship Officer. When I asked about it, Older Sister sighed deeply and turned on the TV on one side of the room.

“You’ll know if you watch the news.”

The next moment, we were unable to hide our shock at the scene displayed on the screen.

A landscape spread across the screen, with a building split in two and a campus turned to ruins.

[Breaking News: Arturia Academy conference opening attacked… Assault by the Obsidian Legion. Important members of the Inspection Bureau injured. Those concerned are evacuating…]

[The Legion side accused the ‘current clans’ of being sheer hypocritical deception, claiming this terror is a warning…]

What the heck, why is a witch’s boss over there?

“The head of the Obsidian Legion has appeared. Seijis got injured while trying to thwart them…”

Wow, so much happened in just one night.

It really is a world where there’s no time to be bored.

 

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