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After advancing for a bit, the exit became visible.
"Ah, found her!" The girl coming from that side blocked the exit and extended her hand towards me.
They also anticipated this.
But, if it's just this much.
"Please get obediently cau──eh?"
When I got to one’s broom distance from her, I jumped down from the broom.
Then, after passing right under her, I called back my broom and continued flying.
It is a technique called aerial breakaway.
On top of it being used as a surprise attack, it's also somehow cool so I use it once in a while.
Even after I dealt with the girl, my path was blocked and I was trapped from the both the front and back. I had planned to hide by flying at low altitude, however it seems my position was completely exposed.
In that case, thinking so, this time I ascended towards the sky.
After rising to a certain degree of height, I overlooked the townscape.
From among the houses, or perhaps from the road, I could see that the students who noticed my movement had gathered. Apparently a little fatigue seemed to be accumulating as their speed wasn't much.
I waited in the sky until they approached me.
Before long, one male student from directly besides me,
leaped at me while raising such strange voice.
I avoided him by lightly moving the broom
Again, the boy raised a strange voice while passing by me.
As if that was a signal, this time, the students from every side made their move all at once. Their number──I counted up to ten and then gave up since it was bothersome, it was probably everyone who surrounded me at the beginning.
It seems their composure already didn't let them speak human words, and the voice escaping from their mouths were nothing but strange.
Like that.
I composed myself and avoided the rushing students. To the right, left, above, and below, sometimes even while turning around.
Anyhow, I continued to avoid.
They didn't start attacking me, so I didn't take out my staff either and simply continued to stick with just avoiding them.
"I-It's hopeless......"
I don't know just how long that continued.
Before I noticed, the students' movements became slow, and eventually no one was coming toward me.
It seems it was already their limit.
They all gathered in the same spot,
"I can't do it anymore......" Someone from them said while being out of breath.
"I-I'm about to die......" Someone said with a blue face.
While maintaining a calm tone to the end,
"Everyone, just what is your goal? What is it you want from me?"
I asked them a question.
However, there came no answer. But only breathing escaped from their mouths.
"I think you should understand it plenty enough now that you won’t be able to catch me even if you form a group. Please just give up."
Although I tried saying that, they didn't return the words after all.
Without minding it, I added,
"So then, you guys, just who──"
ordered you? – I swallowed the words I was about to say.
Because I lost my words.
There appeared... a Witch.
Someone from the students was looking at the same thing as me and leaked a voice, "Ah, Sensei......" Caught by that voice, all the students fixed their appearances at once.
The girl who came approached us on a broom, faceing towards the out-of-breath students and spoke, while floating a truly wide smile.
"Good work everyone. How was it? Even after you tried to catch a Witch with all your might, you were no opponent to her, right? This is the difference between you and a Witch. Age doesn't have relation to it. Because the Witch of Ashes over there is so powerful that she can't even be compared with you──"
Hair, black as the dead of night. And a matching dark robe and a tricorne. Shinning on her chest, was a star-shaped brooch.
She who hasn't changed a bit in the past three years smiled at me.
That person was my teacher.
"It's been a while. Elaina."
It was Fran-sensei.
Part 4
"I'm sorry, Elaina. I'll explain the full details myself──but first, shall we go to the academy?"
Fran-sensei said apologetically while guiding me and the students to the Royal Magic Academy.
Refusing her request wasn't even a choice. After all, there were mountain of things I wanted to talk about with her.
Perhaps the appearance of the twenty frail Magicians gathered up and flying together looked quite like migratory birds.
While I blankly stared at Fran-sensei's back and thought things like, 'she hasn't changed at all, huh, how old is she now I wonder', before I noticed, we had arrived at the academy.
Then, Fran-sensei spoke while coming down from the broom on the academy grounds.
"Everyone, today's extracurricular lesson has ended with this. That's enough for today──I hope you submit your thoughts about today at morning tomorrow."
"Yeees!", "Thank you very much!" After giving quite spiritless responses, the students dispersed.
It appeared they were quite tired, as some where unsteadily flying in the sky, while others gave up on it and were returning home by foot.
Fran-sensei revealed a smile in such situation.
"Oh my. Did you torment them too much, Elaina?"
"Is it my fault?"
"It's not my fault either."
"......You are acting as a teacher at this academy, Fran-sensei?"
"Yes. I was invited by the King-sama of this country a little earlier than when I trained you."
"............" First time hearing it. "That means you left school for a whole year? You are lucky you didn't get yourself fired."
"Yes. Well, it's because I'm not usually in charge of the lessons. Occasionally like this, I give extracurricular classes to just interested parties, or give guidance to teachers, that's my specialty. Besides──"
Fran-sensei, while looking at me,
"When I told them I taught Magic to you, all the teachers understood it."
And added that.
Huh? How come?
"To me, you say?"
"Yes. If the other party wasn't you, I might perhaps have been fired."
"Although I'm not supposed to be such an outrageous person."
"I wonder about that."
She said in her usual smile.
"Well, come inside. There are lots of things I want to talk about with you."
She said and pointed at the academy building behind her.
My feelings were the same.
The inside of the building was extremely modest.
Desk and chairs were lined up at equal intervals in square rooms. In front of them was a large blackboard. There were no useless ornaments on it.
Similar landscapes were lined up on one side of the corridor.
On the opposite side was a window. The vast academy grounds could be seen from here.
"You see, this academy was originally a place where they taught normal scholarship."
Then I was told, "But the new school buildings are being newly established──So as this place became unnecessary, they let us use it as an academy that taught both Magic and scholarship."
"The students who tried to catch me...... are also students from here, right?"
Sensei nodded.
"Yes. As a part of the extracurricular lesson, I asked them to bring you to me without letting you know about the circumstances, or even forcibly drag you here."
"......Why did you do such a thing?"
"You won’t get it unless I tell you?"
"I wouldn't."
After staying silent for a short while, Fran-sensei hit my shoulders with both hands,
"Because I wanted to meet you."
And said so in a tiny voice, as if whispering.
I felt gloomy feelings being born inside of me.
I thought this person was sly. If you tell me something like that, I can't get mad anymore.
I changed the topic.
"Why did you notice that I came to this district?"
"You tried to enter the academy on a whim didn't you?"