After compensating the shop for all the damages, the two girls were politely “escorted” out the door by the owner.
They stood by the roadside, staring at each other.
“It’s all your fault! My wonderful afternoon tea time right after enrollment was completely ruined!” Sevitis glared at Su Ling angrily.
“You’re the one who knocked everything away, so why are you blaming me?” Su Ling pouted pitifully.
“Still trying to argue! If you hadn’t dodged, I wouldn’t have missed!”
“Wow! That sword you pulled out earlier was taller than me! If I hadn’t dodged, I would definitely have died, right?”
The two bickered expertly on the street, attracting the attention of many passersby.
“Um… excuse me, you two? Can I interrupt?” a weak voice suddenly came from behind.
Sevitis turned around with a look of extreme displeasure, only to see a strange girl standing behind her.
“Who are you? Can’t you see we’re busy arguing?”
“You two are freshmen, right? Well, I’m a senior student responsible for guiding new students…”
“I don’t plan to join any college clubs, I’m not signing up for any magic interest classes, and I’m not taking any qualification exams.”
Before the girl could finish, Sevitis ruthlessly shot off a series of rejections.
The girl clearly hadn’t expected such a decisive reaction, and the smile on her face instantly froze.
“If there’s nothing else, we’ll be going now.”
With that, Sevitis grabbed Su Ling, who was still processing what had happened, and prepared to make a run for it.
“Wait, junior!” Finally realizing what the other had meant, the girl quickly took two small steps forward and spread her arms to block their path. “I’m not a salesperson!”
“Then you’re…”
“Not a scammer either!” Before the sharp-tongued girl could disrupt her train of thought again, the girl hurried to prove her innocence.
“Look at the back of my clothes, it says ‘Volunteer,’ right? And also, this is my student card. Please take a look.”
The girl turned around to show her back, then respectfully handed over her student card.
Sevitis took it casually, scanning her gaze back and forth between the photo on the card and the girl in front of her twice.
“Leila Roland… third-year student?”
“Yes, yes.” The girl named Leila kept nodding and bowing.
Even though she was supposed to be helping new students, somehow she ended up being the one begging humbly!
“It seems I really misjudged you. Sorry, here you go.”
Leila quickly took back her student card with both hands, forcing a smile.
“Haha, it’s fine. It’s normal for girls to be cautious when they’re out.”
“Since the misunderstanding is cleared up, we’ll be going now. See you around, senior.” Sevitis waved her hand casually.
“Sorry to bother you. See you around, junior… Wait!”
Leila suddenly snapped back to reality, pounced forward, and grabbed Sevitis’s clothes tightly, begging pitifully:
“Please, junior, let me finish what I have to say! I’ll do anything… no, you’re the boss! Please, boss, don’t go!”
Su Ling, who had been watching the show for a while, finally came to her senses and couldn’t help pleading on the other’s behalf:
“Boss, I think she looks really pitiful. Just listen to what she has to say. She’s a grown person about to cry.”
Leila, who was being dragged on the ground without any dignity, also blinked her eyes in perfect cooperation, forcing out a single tear.
At this moment, she had completely lost any sense of seniority as an upperclassman.
Sevitis twitched the corners of her mouth speechlessly.
This scene made her look like a bully who enjoyed tormenting honest people.
Come on, some stranger suddenly comes up to you on the street, says she’s a senior guiding new students, but acts so submissive—how could that not seem suspicious!
Feeling the increasingly strange looks from the passersby, Sevitis sighed helplessly:
“Fine, fine, get up first. I’ll listen to what you have to say.”
“No, I’ll just say it like this…” Leila sniffled pitifully.
“Let’s go, ignore this scammer.”
“W-wait! I accidentally twisted my ankle and got a cramp. Can you help me up first?”
Glancing at the other’s slightly trembling legs, Sevitis snorted and jerked her chin toward Su Ling.
“Go, pick up this ‘delicate’ senior and make her finish quickly so we can leave early.”
Hearing that the other still wasn’t going to let her off easily, Leila felt she might actually cry this time.
She should never have chosen to talk to this black-haired junior!
Originally, she thought this little loli looked soft and cute, like an exquisite little cake, so she must be easy to talk to.
Who would have thought that not only was the outside black, but the cake’s heart was even blacker!
“If you want us to listen to you, that’s fine.” Sevitis’s tone was sharp, her gaze fixed on Leila, who was being lifted like a chick by Su Ling. “But first, explain how you knew we were freshmen.”
She and Su Ling had been identified as freshmen right from the start. If there was nothing wrong with that, even the cow next to them wouldn’t believe it.
Leila, whose feet barely touched the ground, had a strange expression on her face.
“…Weren’t you the one shouting ‘just enrolled’ or something?”
Sevitis was taken aback and looked up at Su Ling.
“Did I say that?”
“Did you?”
“I think I did.”
“Oh.” Su Ling scratched her head.
Listening to the two of them verifying in front of her, Leila felt like crying.
After all this back-and-forth, it turned out that these two had simply forgotten what they themselves had just shouted!
Su Ling quickly put Leila down and even thoughtfully brushed the dust off her clothes.
“Ahem, then let’s start over.” Sevitis cleared her throat. “Excuse me, senior in charge of guiding new students, is there something you want to talk to us about?”
“Oh, right, call me Sevi. This is Su Ling.”
“Hello, senior!” Su Ling greeted energetically.
“…”
Looking at the black-haired loli who had calmly changed her expression as if the earlier embarrassment had never happened, Leila still forced herself to smile.
“Um, how should I address you, senior?”
“Just call me Leila. You don’t need to call me ‘senior’…” Leila said with lingering fear.
“Okay, Senior Leila.”
The girl’s smile was innocent, and seeing this, Leila had to accept her fate. This cunning loli was not someone she could mess with.
“Junior Sevi, let’s talk as we walk.” Leila got down to business. “You probably haven’t gotten your dormitory key card yet, right? I’ll take you there…”
“Amazing, Senior! How did you guess that?” The two chimed in at the right time.
“…Because the assessment results were just released, and none of the freshmen have gotten their key cards yet.”
“Oh, please continue, Senior.” The black-haired girl switched seamlessly.
Leila tiredly pointed ahead.
“I’ll take you to get your dormitory card first. The academy is too big, so to save time, let’s take the teleportation circle over there.”
With that, Leila led the two toward the nearby teleportation circle.
Since entering Kantaier Academy, Sevitis had actually used this facility several times.
It was a large-scale space magic array specially arranged by the academy to facilitate movement between areas for students and staff, open 24/7.
Once you step onto it, you can instantly reach various teleportation nodes within the academy.
After all, the entire Kantaier Academy campus was even larger than the kingdom’s capital.
If they didn’t have some means of transportation, how would students avoid being late for class every day?
In reality, no other power would dare to be so extravagant as to use it as a daily means of transportation.
This was a legitimate strategic-level magic array; every time its light shone, it burned through real magic stones.
Looking across the entire Ateria Continent, only Kantaier Academy, with its deep roots, was willing to lay down so many teleportation arrays like paving tiles on campus.
And as long as you held a student card, you could use them for free and without restriction.
Even Sevitis, who never cared about material wealth like money, couldn’t help but sigh at such “inhuman extravagance.”
Of course, she wisely didn’t tell Su Ling the truth.
If that stingy silly cow knew that every time she used the teleportation array, she was stepping on a pile of money, she’d probably develop a phobia of teleportation.
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