[Eon's POV: ]
"So, today's the day everyone."
Looking at the group gathered in the garden of the accident on this fine morning, we looked around at our dear friends that seed to be doing much better than we had expected.
"Haaa… I'm gonna fail."
Of course though, there were going to be various reactions to this day.
"No you won't. Why are you so negative, dummy?"
"Mana properties of the environntal Mana associates itself with the physical body to give rise to the attached Mana that one uses in order to conjure natural phenonons with the specific 'magic' formulas, as well as in various different forms…"
So were studying even right now while so were learning so things from the others.
Others were carefree but there also were so that looked particularly troubled.
"Soone please teach this! Soone! Whhaaaaa! Please teach this!!!"
Tia had studied more than enough and still, here she was crying over sothing as simple as the fundantal structure of a spirit body.
She was being too much as usual, but she really didn't seem to have done that topic.
'It wasn't in the syllabus and the chances that they would ask sothing so tough to soone in the first year was not high.'
She didn't really have to do this, but she was crying. And, Bell couldn't just leave her crying fairy friend alone.
She knew the most about the fundantals of spirits so she was teaching her to the best of her abilities.
"Co on now, Tia. They aren't going to ask you to summon an advanced spirit or sothing. Don't stress it too much-."
"Shut up! Just shut up! Let do this or you're gonna pay!"
She was even shouting at Carla now. She really was talking all this too seriously.
"Well, at least they look cheerful."
Rein looked around at the others, how they were preparing for their individual papers, and how despite most of them having different subject's tests today, they were helping one another.
The atmosphere around here was nice, nothing gloomy or cold like it was a few days ago.
'So of them were looking especially high spirited thanks to the good luck rituals they had done, or the people they had talked to.'
Though, above all else, the reason for their relatively better 'vibe' was the friends around them.
Friends that had helped them and taught them all that they needed to know for this test…
It was nice, and seeing them like this was pretty much worth all the efforts we had spent on them.
"Lucifer. Got a minute?"
"Hmm?"
A familiar voice called from the back as soon as we sat down on the ground after greeting the rest of them.
'We knew they would crowd around the two of us after they were done with their own studying. And since there was still an hour left before the start of the tests, we had plenty of ti for the last minute discussions.'
I thought they would give us so peace of mind, but soone was already here to greet .
"Yes, Miss Luna. What is it?"
It was Luna and she didn't seem as normal as she usually is.
It was difficult to notice the subtle sadness on her ever stoic face, but for so of us, it wasn't difficult to notice sothing as obvious as this.
"Not here."
I had an idea what she might have wanted to talk about, so I nodded at Rein and went to the other side with her.
I knew she was going to talk about personal things so I was just about to put up so barriers as well… but the first words coming from her surprised a little.
"You also have a Magic theory paper today, right? Can you teach how to do inverse casting?"
"Hmmm?"
She didn't say anything about her mother, and she didn't start with anything that might indicate her unwillingness to talk about sothing private.
She was simply asking for help— sothing I was not expecting.
"You want to learn the inverse casting?"
"Yes. Just how to do it. not the demonstration or anything."
We weren't that far from the rest of them so we both knew that so of them might be listening in on us right now.
She knew about it as well and still, she did not mind them.
"You just want to learn that? Nothing else?"
"Yes. That much should be sufficient."
She didn't show any signs of wanting to talk about sothing else. Not anything about her family, nor anything related to her mom.
She genuinely just wanted to learn this one thing…
"You can teach it to , right?"
"Hmm…? Yes, I an… Yes I can."
Teaching her sothing as simple as that wasn't a difficult thing. She was smart and knew how to use that kind of magic already, so I just gave her a few examples and after she demonstrated to what she had understood, she had successfully grasped the entire concept of reverse casting.
'She must have studied it extensively, seeing how she grasped everything I said so easily. So it was mostly thanks to9 her efforts.'
But, she thanked for teaching it to her anyway, and was just about to go back… when I had no choice but to stop her.
"Miss Luna… it might be just my imagination but you look down for so reason. Is everything good? Could soone from your family-."
"I thought you knew… no wonder you looked so surprised."
She turned back with a subtle smile on her face, looked in the eye, and shook her head with a new upset expression.
"I don't know how you know it, but if you didn't get the information from so secret spy from our family, then I will have no choice but to suspect that you have bugged my dorms.
I don't want to believe that, so please let's just not talk about personal matters."
"…"
She didn't show it, but she was angry.
She was certainly angry.
"The personal things hold a lot of significance between us, Miss Luna. And we are generally concerned so, please tell us with any kind of help you may need.
We are here for you. All of us are."
At this point, it was no use hiding the fact that we knew the others that were listening to this conversation.
They were bound to find out about it sooner or later anyway, and if things were serious, her mom would need imdiate help from the ones that knew how to cure her.
"I appreciate the gesture but… we can take care of this."
She bowed a little and with that sa atopic upset look, she walked away from , and went all the way to the empty area on the other side.
"What did you do…?"
When I ca back, Rein was standing there, looking at the lone figure of Miss Luna standing alone staring blankly at her notebook.
She can tell she wasn't reading— everyone can tell it since she was holding her notebook upside down. And, she could see the emotions that others, even I cannot perceive.
"I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary… I an, everyone already knows we sohow know so unordinary things.
She just got upset and-."
"She's sad, not upset… it's almost as if she wants to cry."
"What?"
Her behaviour just now was unexpected, for all of us.
Captain Alpha even went up to her and started talking with her casually like he usually does, but she avoided him and even ended the conversation.
She didn't look sad but angry and upset, but what she was showing and what she might be feeling could certainly be sothing so complicated that she herself couldn't understand those emotions.
Rein could see them with her eyes so that was the only way we could tell that there was so deeper problem, and seeing how the tests were going to start in a few minutes from now, this wasn't good.
"Miss Luna…"
I couldn't just leave her like that, so even though Rein was hesitant, I told her it was alright and went up to miss Luna once again.
"What do you want now? Didn't I say we are fine-."
She was adamant on what she had said earlier, but right now, she shouldn't be alone.
She needed people. If not help, she at least needed soone to be with her.
And…
"Miss Luna. How can I help?"
Even though we don't know how bad her mom's condition might be, or how worried and concerned she is right now, we were here for her.
"How can your friends help you?"
I wasn't the only one present here for her.
All of her friends were here.
Rein, Quin, Lizzy, Captain Alpha, Zoe… all of us were here from her. And, she can rely on us without worrying about the exams that will start in a bit.
'We knew we were going to do well anyway, so, at a ti like this, helping a friend was more important than burying our faces in the sa books we have already studied.'
If she couldn't even recognize her emotions properly, there was no telling what she might have to go through during her test.
Worst case scenario, she might not even be well enough to finish her test paper… and I'm not overreacting.
"…"
She knew she needed help as well.
The moist eyes looking back at all of us were enough proof of that.
"Everyone…"
She didn't have to fight this internal battle all by herself…
We were here for her.
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