Chapter 105 - Preparations (Volume 2 Ending)
"Is everyone ready?" The master asked.
"Mhm" Replied Serena.
"Everything right here," Said Ariel.
"Yeah," Said John.
Everyone including John had their luggage prepared, and carried it in their bag. After all, everyone was on vacation. And since John, Serena and Ariel were in the Alpha class, they had the option to prolong it from the normal 3 months to 6 months.
John\'s master was the one who planned everything. She had told him that for his training to finish, they would have to go somewhere, so he decided to wait until school vacation.
Everything about this sounded perfect to join, time off school, being able to relax, except for the two main problems. One, Eleanor can\'t go because she had to stay with her dad. They had tried to convince him but he wouldn\'t change his answer, which resulted in them having an argument.
And two, was because master was the one that planned everything. Just from that fact alone, John knew something was obviously going to end up ruining his happy free time. But he didn\'t really mind. If it made him stronger, which it was, it\'d be fine, or so he thought.
"Serena... Ariel..." Said Eleanor as she hugged them.
It was starting to get emotional as they all started to tear up, even Serena. That just showed how close they were.
"We\'ll miss you..." Said Ariel as she started to cry.
"Mmm..." Serena didn\'t say anything she was just crying as well.
John, who had turned rather insensitive, thanks to a certain master, spoke up.
"It\'s just 6 months, you girls will be together before you know it." He said.
"No one asked you!" x 3
John was so shocked he put on a poker face as he stared at the sky. It was one of his most useful abilities. He had asked his master to teach him half a year ago, and he never regretted it.
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"Send letters!" Said Eleanor as the carriage began to move.
"We will! Make sure you send them as well!" They replied.
"Of course! Take care of that idiot!" She shouted.
"He\'s in good hands!" They replied.
"I did not know I came here to be insulted." Said John as he tried to ignore the conversation.
The fact that Ariel also joined in hurt John even more, but she\'s been growing so it\'s obvious her mentality would change, and he knew that.
"Rebellion stage?" He asked himself.
After thinking for a while, he decided to forget what he said. It was a bit weird.
After John\'s carriage departed, Eleanor went home in her own carriage. Even if he didn\'t say anything, John was also quite sad that Eleanor wasn\'t going, She was really interested, and he even tried his hardest to convince her dad. But he kept saying it was too dangerous.
John didn\'t understand, Master was here, and apparently her older brother was coming too, she\'d be much safer here.
\'Unless... There\'s someone stronger than master on the loose and after nobles... But how would Kurt know that? And did such a person really exist?\' Such questions passed through John\'s mind.
He decided that instead of thinking it\'d be better to just see how things would play out over time. Although there\'s no way he would allow anything out of hand to happen.
School had ended so there was no way of going back and saying bye to all of the friends he made, and besides, no one would be there.
He also had to thank Victor for opening the gate for him to travel back to school. On the first day of school where he trained at night with his master, he had ended up staying up the whole night looking for a portal to head back to school.
It was only by luck that he encountered Victor roaming around one of the portal spots; they didn\'t ask each other what they were doing, John simply asked for help and victor agreed.
Every day victor would open a portal for John, now that John looked back at it, he really owed victor a lot but didn\'t know what to give him.
School for John also wasn\'t as easy as he first expected. Although he could understand chanting magic and could use 2 chanting aptitudes, he still had to memorize many incantations, but thanks to that, he got to witness and observe many different ice-type spells and Wind spells.
John was indeed going all out against his master, but only with his skill and technique, had John actually used the chant-less version of the saint class spells he learned, even his master who could freely shadow spell would have problems avoiding them.
Ariel also seemed to have a few problems at the beginning, but with John\'s help, they clutched through, without any problems.
Every 3 months there\'d be rank up classes. Fortunately, Eleanor managed to rank up to class B, but she had missed her opportunity to rank up to A last month, so she must be having it tough.
Aside from that, not much had happened. The school was normal, the education was very high levelled; the teachers knew what they were doing, thoroughly displayed, and showed the incantations. It was definitely fun. And recently when they became seniors, they were involved in more competitions.
But again, they had no problems thanks to the great lessons from the teachers, and the occasional chant-less magic which would go unnoticed. Despite having been strict at first, when we moved dorms and became 2nd years, the school pretty much let the A and B Class do whatever they wanted.
They could choose when to use the library, how many lessons a day we wanted. John really got to relax, especially in preparation for the hell he\'d go through at night.
A few students in the A-Class were given access to king class magic, and those students were Victor, Ariel, Serena, John, Kuro, and the brown-haired kid.
John didn\'t know why it was only them, and not the others in the class, but he never asked. And although they were given the scroll, he hasn\'t opened or read it yet. During his whole time there, John\'s never met the principal. He was curious about what sort of person he\'d be.
"Well, Time to enjoy our vacation as much as possible... We have a long year ahead of us." Said John as they all stared into the horizon.
"Uhm master, no, m-"
\'Now that I think about it, what is master\'s name?!\' John wondered, feeling dumbstruck.