The cat-eared woman I met in front of the school gate had chestnut-haired hair as far as her shoulders, with creepy pale cat eyes and a round face, and a crowded smile made her feel innocent.
There are various other races in this world besides humans. Emera of the Elves and Mariana of the Fairies. The woman in front of me is called the Meow tribe, with excellent motor vision and agility. The basics are not very different from humans, but they have cat ears and tails, and the characteristic is that they are not that tall and have a good night's eye. It's a cat-like species.
"Oh, I'm surprised. I'm Hinata, who teaches at this school. And you?"
"I'm Mira."
A Meow woman named Hinata. Hinata smiles happily with a cuter impression than a beauty. As for Mira, I thought the Meow tribe was used to seeing her, but she gets a momentary thrill at Hinata, who smiles at her by the time.
As it stands, the women we meet give Mira an honest, defenseless look. Because of this, Mira is still not immune to that unfamiliar look, which she doesn't often see.
"Mira. That's a pretty name."
Hinata lowers her gaze more, smiling cutely, and focuses on Mira's outfit.
"That's fashionable magic girl clothes, isn't it? Do you really want to be a magician?
Keep smiling and Hinata asks to talk. Alkite School is renowned as the best educational institution for those who aspire to be magicians internally and externally.
A girl who admires magicians and peeks into school. That was Hinata's first impression of Mira.
"No, I'm not a magician anymore."
Mira can't even tell Hinata's impression of herself, and she just denies that she's out of her mind. Hinata is unexpected and frowns at that one.
"It was. I'm sorry. Oh, can I ask you some magicians?
I'll reword it to fix it, Hinata. Mira doesn't seem particularly concerned either, and she confidently answers that she will correct her posture.
"Summoner."
At that moment, the smile that floated froze Hinata as it was. Because summoning is currently known as the most sublime and futureless technique in the school.
"Oh well... yeah, good luck with that"
That's why Hinata excites her feelings that she can't be depressed. Because,
"I'm a summoner, too. I'm a summons teacher at Alkite School. Now... that... this is the situation. But hey, Master Cleos is now sparing time to practice his old contract laws while he sleeps. The chances of success are amazing. So, uh, hang in there."
Hinata was the same summoner as Mira. That's what it means to have teachers outside in the middle of class hours in the first place.
It is a recent trend for students with proper summoning skills to graduate with credit in general education without taking summoning classes. Just because you're a graduate of Alkite School, it's foiled enough that you don't have to take classes in techniques that don't come true.
Summoning classes are held two or three times a week. I can't give up my talent as a magician. Meanings or people who are categorized as favorites of the rest are just getting it. For this reason, Hinata often asked for help from other teachers during the absence of classes, buying them out and helping them out.
"Hmm. Even to school."
Hinata tells me Mira finds out if the subpoena decline is shadowing her way to school. And that also means that it affects future children.
But I could also know that what I left with Cleos was useful. So far, with its gear and demon sealed blast stones, Dark Knight and Holy Knight, which are the basis of the summoning technique, will be mastered without difficulty. More depends on how much you can grow a mastered summons.
"Now, one at a time, to ensure safety, more and more students are able to summon the Martial Spirit. I'm sure our time will come soon."
Hinata behaves vigorously to Mira, who roars with a face that seems difficult.
A demon seal blast stone is enough if you just defeat an armored spirit, but in a situation where no one can help you, there is a corresponding danger involved. It is the equipment that strengthens muscle strength and strength that compensates for it, but only for one person. Besides, we can't risk those who are still students.
Cleos is currently recruiting the hopeful and successfully contracting with the Martial Spirit one by one. There are many hopefuls in the light, but a large number of students are still waiting.
"As a summoner, I hope I can do something."
Mira strokes her jaw with her left fingertip as she says so, meditating her eyes as she contemplates.
What can I do to move forward? One would be mass production of demon sealed explosive stones. But if we're going to create a lot, we need a lot of money. But around there, it seems to matter if you advise Solomon or Cleos.
The problem is physical reinforcement gear. The quickest thing you can do, but the gear with just enough correction to safely fight the Martial Spirit, other than the gear you gave Cleos in Mira's possession, is like whether there's a little bit of it to make in the tower or not.
"Mira! Mira, hey!
Mira is shaken hard on her shoulders and pulled back into reality when she was wondering if she had to force herself to make it with refining.
"Nah... what?
When Mira opened her eyes, Hinata's face was imminent like a peek in front of her.
"Oh, this is a manipulator's bracelet. Proof of Advanced Adventurer"
Saying, Hinata takes Mira's left hand and stares at the bracelet that fits in that arm with excitement when she opens her eyes completely.
"Well, yeah."
Not exactly, but I also affirm it because it's a hundred million bucks to explain. As a matter of fact, the Adventurer Rank meets the requirements for being able to borrow an athlete's bracelet, so it is thought that there will be no problem.
"I'm under contract with Dark Knight, Holly Knight, Salamander, Dry Adds, Wyburn right now, but isn't Mira under contract for anything other than this?
Mira replies reflexively, not knowing the intent of Hinata's question, but pressed by her anticipating eyes and impatient momentum. Then Hinata kneels to pray, squeezing Mira's hands with both hands, as she changes the color of her eyes like a cat who has found something to gain.
"Please. Just a little help."
Hinata, whose gaze is slightly lower than Mira's because of her kneeling, begs at the top. It should have had some effect on Mira originally, but this time it was immense. Lovely cat ears lie down and open repeatedly to explore.
I don't know what you're talking about, but I'll take care of it.
Mira nodded and agreed, worrying about the backwards, as she could see from the conversation that it was about summoning.
Mira, who was invited to the school grounds so that she could be drawn, is taken straight to the building behind the central school building.
Hinata explained the favor to me on the way. He said that today there is a monthly event called the Technical Review Board. As its name suggests, it is for examining the technique, and as soon as it is possible, it will determine the facilities available and the expenses for arranging the instruments. Screening is divided by type of procedure and representatives perform the procedure.
By the way, the review does not rank, but it will also rank itself because it will be announced in scoring. And the summoning technique pushes the grand bottom line every month. The reason is that Hinata has been presenting herself as a representative for a long time now, so there is no novelty due to the small number of repertoires, and I am tired of it. And there were no more summoners in the school than Hinata.
So Hinata asked me if I had a contract other than my own.
I mean, I just need to call on something other than the first five species listed, but this is an opportunity to regain the prestige of summoning, and Mira was listing advanced summonses in her brain when she finished listening to them, which seemed as flashy as possible.
(I need to let him know that summoning is the strongest. So, the Imperial Dragon Eisenfald? I'm an honest good girl. But if you mean flashy, Rainbow Spirit Twinklepam............ But... now that it's real, I can't measure what happens. Nooo)
"By the way, can outsiders participate in school events?
After some thought, Mira raises her doubts, as she recalls. I wonder if it would be problematic for adventurers who are not students to decide on a school month.
"Yeah, I think it's okay around there. In the first place, the jury is held to gauge the possibility of surgery, so even outsiders can use amazing techniques to show their future."
"Hmm, is that what it is"
"That's what it is. I'm going to change the delegates, so I'm not waiting here."
"Uhm."
Mira, who was brought to one of the large building rooms, sits on the couch there and gently sends her gaze around. The floor is hung with a grey carpet and the white wall with an analog clock showing 4: 20. The ceiling was not so high, and the white sphere, the illumination, emitted bright light. As far as I can tell, interiors like hard-to-reach rooms. But there's a whiteboard in the corner, so maybe not necessarily.
Mira exhales a sip of "Phew" when she takes the classic Apple ole out of the item box.
Mira alone, remembering Cleos, who spares no effort while she sleeps. There was his face as the Tower Elder of Summoning.
"Thank you for waiting."
Hinata comes back when the analog clock shows enough before 5: 00 and just finishes drinking the apple ole she was having a little fun with.
"Registration is now complete. Best wishes."
"Well, I'll take care of it"
When Mira stood up confidently, she headed to the venue where Hinata would guide her to the screening.
A modem by the venue. Simple seats were provided, lined with those in robes and those standing next to them to accompany them. Then, one of them in the robe notices Hinata and looks back.
"Ooh, ooh, boulders are the best summoners. You can't afford to arrive one last time."
A good man in a red robe says with an obvious scornful grin. Did you notice in those words, and when the others look back at Hinata, they give a look containing pity, sympathy, and awkwardness. Hinata waved gently and said, "This way," pulling Mira's hand and letting her sit in the empty seat.
The man in the red robe smacks his tongue small, then looks at the magic girl sitting in the corner seat and frowns at her roots.
"Ma'am, that's Chiu in the athlete's seat."
With such a despicable grin, the accompanying man standing aside gives a similar look. The other robe-wearers said, "Don't deal with me like that." "It's rude." "Oh, man, I'll do it right." The reactions varied, but there was no color that I despised like the man in the red robe involved.
Mira felt, from the look of it, a worse wind against summoning than she could have imagined. And he who soaketh it in mockery and joy, that it is also the flow of nature in the place where men gather.
"Yes, that's okay. Because this child is the representative of this time."
Hinata, who said so, has tied her mouth to a single letter that she enjoyed talking about until just now. The figure of Hinata trembling with regret enters Mira's eyes. meritocracy for better or worse. There was an upward and downward relationship here.
"I see. Learning houses are the same everywhere. If you claim to be up there, there will be ordinary people who can't measure their worth."
"What?
When Mira glanced at the man in the red robe, she regarded the man as ordinary. At the bottom of 10,000 years, the summoner tells me that wherever I go I can't count in the head count, and thin laps and darkness dwell in a man's eyes.
"It's what kids say, it's not very popular."
"Hmm, that's outrageous. It would also be adult duty to teach common sense to kids who don't know how to speak."
"Hey, why don't you stop it"
Without listening to the white-robed woman sitting next to her, the man stares at Mira to intimidate her if she cares too much. The man in the red robe further distorts his expression as he waves off the hand of the man in the green robe that went into the stop.
Hinata was puzzled by the situation. I never thought Mira would say it back from the front.
"One of the least common sense people in this world, well put. Goblins are still better off."
"Hey, come on. Who do you think I am!
"You're an unpopular adult."
"You!"
Finally, the man who couldn't stand on his stomach gets angry and gets up in a good mood. Hinata trembles her body victoriously at the look of it, and the man scorns it with a joyfully distorted grin.
"Thank you for waiting. Please come to the venue."
In the precipitated air, a female student from the High Ministry, who serves as a member of the jury staff, appears to call a representative when the door opens. When the man turned his murderous gaze to Mira, he smashed his tongue and headed towards the door.
I'm a very unpopular adult, too.
When Mira flaunts her shoulder, Hinata bows her head in apology.
"I'm sorry, Mira. Made me feel bad..."
A white shadow appears beside Hinata, who can't help but smile. In Mira's sight she looked up, a white robe woman leaned next to Hinata.
"Mr. Mary......"
Hinata with her face up looks at the woman and says: When I was a woman called Mary, about twenty cars ago? She looks like a grown woman with long aqua blue hair decorated with silver hair that mimics a cross in a circle.
"You knew this would happen, Dr. Hinata. How do you see such a girl standing on the arrow?"
Not suitable for the atmosphere, Mary blames Hinata with a strong tone. And looking right back, he smiled to Mira, "Never mind about him," he said. Mira says "no problem" and stands up.
"And is this child really the representative?
"Although Mira is an advanced adventurer and seems to be able to use anything but the summoning I'm contracted to do"
In fact, because Mira made me feel bad, Hinata's cat ears are tightly closed and her tail is dripping slowly.
"How many adventurers..."
"Well, isn't that good? I don't care about anything, Hinata, and your Lord doesn't care."
Mira smiles at Hinata as she blocks Mary's words. Mary was interested in Mira, who felt bigger than she looked when she swallowed the words that followed.
(I wonder what this girl is. Words, too, but it's kind of not childish)
Mary, feeling so, remembered Solomon, the king, and smiled joyfully. I was wondering if maybe it's the same kind.
"But, well, he seems to be very confident, but who is he?
Mira was creating an atmosphere of sorts, asking about the man in the red robe. I was wondering what would make me that proud.
"Eh..."
Explain briefly as Hinata stands only a little cat ear. First his name is Cairos Berlan. Prestigious of the family of magicians of the kingdom of Alkite, son of Marquis Alphonse Berlan. Regardless of its aristocratic attitude, it means that its witchcraft is real. Therefore, the jury says he has always been in first place since his appearance and tends to belittle the other magicians.
Typical idiot nobleman.
When Mira sighs in her heart, she finds out that these aristocrats are in this country, and she thinks she'll work for Solomon next time.
One foot behind and through a slightly larger door, you exit into a circular square like the Colosseum. On the ground of soil that rebels reasonably well when you step on it, a wall of about three metres surrounding it. Its exterior was lined with guest seats seated by dozens of well-dressed men and women.
In the clear air, in the center of the square stands a man in white, and in the front back of the entrance stands a knightly doll wearing armor. The ceiling gently arcs and domed the venue. A glowing sphere of light floats in the hollow between East, West and North, and the shadows that are supposed to appear on the ground are illuminated from all directions and invisible. It stays thin on the wall.
The delegates who had come earlier had entered through the entrance and stopped at the walls at both ends, of which only Cairos had a harsh gaze at Mira.
Mira and Hinata, and Mary, turn their backs on the opposite wall of Kairos. As a result, on the wall across the street, it was only Kairos and the two accompanying him. As such, Mira erupts small. But the person in question may mistakenly assume that he "speaks up" to those who do not want to line up next to the best sorcerer.
But it doesn't matter right away either. Because the screening venue was indoors and even bigger was not expected.
The square where the competition takes place is about fifteen meters in diameter, and when seated together it is about twenty-five meters.
Mira looked around in a heartburn, measuring the dimensions by sight, but had to say it was narrow.
(Candidate number one, I can't call Eisenfald! But the rainbow spirit is... Given the majesty, there is no stopping the subpoena... I'll think about it more...)
"Then thank you for waiting. We're going to hold a tech jury."
While Mira was distressed by herself, it sounded like a declaration of the start of the jury.