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Chapter 6- The First acquaintance

“I'm a fourth rank magician, that's right! I'm here to beat you, Itsuki!”

Nina's words, which sounded like a high-minded declaration, made me break out in a cold sweat in a different way.

Basically, magic and monsters are things we can't talk about.

It's not something you talk about in front of nearly 30 elementary school students who don't even know what they're talking about!

I looked around, surprised that Nina had stepped through the taboo without a care in the world, but fortunately, the kids around us were so excited about the upcoming entrance ceremony that they were not looking at us.

Good.......

I let out a breath of relief and stood in line with Nina and asked her.

“Why do you want to beat me?”

“............."

Nina was silent.

I see. Don’t say what you don’t want to say.

Then, let's change the subject.

“If you want to beat me, can't you beat me in the same class?"

“No! Because we're destined to be in the same class!”

“......?"

Nina-chan shook her head as hard as she could at my natural question.

What do you mean?

I tilted my head, not understanding what Nina-chan was talking about.

Is this just me not keeping up with today's elementary school kids?

“......Why are we destined to be in the same class?”

"Don't you know? In the first grade, you get married to the person who sits next to you in the same class.”

“Eh? Why?”

"That's what the comic books I read before I came to Japan said!"

Saying that, Nina proudly puffed out her chest.

Before she came to japan? Did she live abroad? Her Japanese is very good.

I wonder if she learned it from shoujo manga.

However, I'm sorry to say that Nina is getting excited, but in reality, most of the classmates from elementary school are just going to grow apart. Reunions aren't held in elementary school. Well, I've never been to a reunion, so I'm just guessing.

But I'm not a child to tell Nina about such reality and take a mount.

I may be like this, but inside I’m an adult. I haven’t experienced enough in life to be called an adult.

So I smiled at Nina and said, "I see. Thank you for telling me".

“That's why you can't be in the same class as me!”

"Okay. But if you're going to marry the person sitting next to you, doesn't it have to be me?"

“......?”

"Like on the other side."

I said that and pointed to the back of the room, across Nina's desk from my seat.

Of course, Nina's desk, which is neither by the window nor by the wall, is sandwiched between the two of them. So I thought if she doesn't want to marry me, she can go in the back separately.....

......No, it’s a girl.

The other child next to Nina-chan was a girl.

Is this going to get me kicked out again because I can't get married? I was thinking about this, and Nina-chan made a face like, "Is that so.?”

Do you agree with that?

Well, maybe that's just the way elementary school kids are.

“So, I'm looking forward to working with you. Nina-chan.”

“...Hmm!”

The road to ten friends still seemed a long way off.

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At 9:45, a young female teacher entered the classroom.

Then, as if the commotion that had been going on earlier had been a lie, everyone sat down in their seats. Teacher power, awesome.

Then, the teacher introduced herself briefly by name only, and took us out into the hallway in order of our attendance numbers. Then the sixth graders were already lined up waiting for us. I knew this was a national thing!

Armed with knowledge I would never use again, the sixth graders took us by the hand and led us to the gymnasium.

On the way down the stairs, I suddenly sensed something.

--Is there something out there?

When I went down the stairs, I found him at the shoe box I had just passed.

He was standing on the stairs, with his hair unkempt, wearing a tattered one-piece dress, bare feet covered in mud and scratches, and cradling something in his arms like a baby.

But no one says anything about such a pervert standing there.

Because he is a monster.

"You too, oh, oh, you're going to be big.....!.”

A voice of persistence, like a roaring wind.

It was probably of the first or second rank.

However, the monster just stares at the school children who are heading to the gymnasium in a row, and he didn't do anything to us.

It's strange. Monsters want to eat children.

Monsters attack humans, but they go after children most of all.

This is because children are full of magic power, or life force, and are easier to hunt.

That's why I find it a little unusual to see a monster staring at me. But the moment our eyes met, the monster took a step forward.

"Grow big, to become ta, ta, I have to eat...!" ! 』

Well, that's what I thought.

My thread silvate, which was already in place, tied up the ghost and cut it into pieces, turning it into a black mist.

The end.

I don’t have time for this kind of thing.

I sighed, and composed myself.

I wondered if Nina-chan had seen the monster earlier and when I turned around, she was just coming down the stairs. Then she didn't see it.

I mean, if I had left the monster alone just now, Nina-chan would have exorcised it.

If so, was it a chance to see abroad magic in action.....?

From what Irena-san, a British exorcist, said, it seems that British and Japanese magic is somehow different. In fact, the "translation magic" that Irena-san would have used didn’t use guiding thread silvate.

There’s a more different magic system.

I would like to know.....

Strongly, I think so.

Maybe that's the magic I don't know about.

If so, you might think that I should have followed Irena to England, but that's that and this is this. I think it's totally convenient for me, but I'd like to see it happen.

However, even though Nina-chan is from abroad, I’m not sure if she is from England or not, so it might be magic from another country.

When I entered the gymnasium with this thought in mind, Parents were standing in line, dressed neatly and sitting on pipe chairs.

And there were my parents and Hina.

“Look, honey. There's Itsuki.”“Umm-mmm! I'm not going to miss this!”

I could hear them talking like that from a distance.

And then I saw my father holding up the most rigid SLR camera I've ever seen.

Oh, that's it!

That's the one that Youtubers use that costs close to a million dollars and takes great quality video!

When did he buy something like that...?

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