"Th-this, this..." Himeragi Yukina's cheeks turned completely red, and her gaze darted left and right.
Wow, what kind of weirdos are your parents? Did they really think Saikai Academy was just an ordinary Magic Swordsman school?
What exactly did they send you here to do? The students here are either children of major powers or true commoner geniuses. Do you really think this place is for studying?
"Forget it. You still have your entrance exam evaluation, right? Let me take a look for you first."
"Okay, thank you, Senpai." Saying this, Himeragi Yukina took out a piece of paper with something written on it from her backpack.
Cid took it, glanced at it, and then looked at Himeragi Yukina with a very strange expression.
"Senpai, what's wrong? Is there a problem with my evaluation?"
"No, no problem. Actually, not only is there no problem, but it also says you're very strong." Cid looked away from Himeragi Yukina.
"Phew, that's good then."
No, it's not good at all. This is too weird. Cid thought. Why does someone with A- rank strength not have a set of chess pieces from their organization? You're only a first-year high school student!
It wasn't that A- rank guaranteed you'd get chess pieces. But to reach A- as a human at this age, you were basically a treasured darling of major organizations. In that case, coming here to fight commoners for chess pieces... seriously?
The more Cid thought about it, the weirder it got. He couldn't help but go over the information he had in his head again.
Sent to a semi-noble school without any information, powerful talent, but her organization didn't give her chess pieces, naive and easy to fool...
He looked up at Himeragi Yukina, and a possibility popped into his head.
Could Himeragi Yukina have already been reserved by someone as a Peerage member, so her own organization sent her out?
No, no, no, that's too far-fetched. What organization would be so rich as to send a disciple with this kind of talent to someone else as a Peerage member?
Cid shook his head, trying to get the thought out of his mind, but then he suddenly stopped walking.
Himeragi Yukina, beside him, saw her senpai stop. Just as she was about to ask what was wrong, a loud explosion sound came from the distance, interrupting her.
BOOM!!!
Noticing the sound, the goofy expression on Himeragi Yukina's face changed. She now had the look of a warrior, radiating a heroic and beautiful aura.
"That's... the aura of mana! (Whispering)"
"Senpai, I have something to take care of right now. You can give me my student ID tomorrow."
Without waiting for Cid's reply, she tightened the guitar case on her back and ran towards the sound of the explosion.
"Hey..." Cid put on a show of surprise, reaching out a hand, but internally, he was cataloging the information Himeragi Yukina had unintentionally revealed.
That mana... it feels like the surveillance mana I sensed at Kojou's place a few days ago. Is it someone from Kojou's side?
….
Himeragi Yukina felt very unlucky. Extremely unlucky.
First, as a child, she was sold by her parents to cultists for a blood sacrifice ritual. Then she was rescued and taken to the Lion King Agency to be trained as a Sword Shaman.
Just when she had finally achieved some skill, she was called by the top brass of the Lion King Agency, the "Three Saints," for a mission that sounded bad no matter how you looked at it: monitor the Fourth Progenitor, Akatsuki Kojou.
If he showed any signs of endangering the world, she was to kill him...
Never mind what she thought when she received that mission. Upon arriving at Itogami Island, the first thing she did was go to the residence arranged for her by the Lion King Agency next door to next door to Akatsuki Kojou's house...
At home, she found her operational funds from the Lion King Agency and a first-year high school enrollment notice.
Hmm... very reasonable, she initially thought.
The next day, she followed Akatsuki Kojou, planning to monitor him while also using him to learn the way to school. After all, the monitor and the monitored target should be at the same school, right...?
Until she realized Akatsuki Kojou's route was different from the one she saw on the map...
She panicked. She rushed, following the map, even using her spiritual power, and barely made it to Saikai Academy before class started. In the office, she met her teacher... a little girl?
Led by the teacher, she went to the classroom and introduced herself on the podium. She was lucky enough to make a few new friends.
One of them, Akatsuki Nagisa, though a chatterbox, was very friendly to her and proactively introduced her to others.
Since they weren't at the same school, she couldn't even think about monitoring Akatsuki Kojou during lunch. She could only deal with the classmates who, for some reason, got very enthusiastic after practical combat class, while also rushing to eat.
After school, she didn't even have time to say goodbye to Akatsuki Nagisa before she used her spiritual power to rush to Akatsuki Kojou's school.
Thankfully, it seemed like something was going on, because when she arrived at Akatsuki Kojou's school, he hadn't left immediately for some reason. She could finally start her surveillance mission! Tears...
But it was while tailing him that a problem suddenly popped into her head: she wasn't good at tailing.
In the Lion King Agency, she was a Sword Shaman, not a Mai-hime. The Mai-hime were the ones skilled at tracking. So, could she successfully tail Akatsuki Kojou?
Oh, no need to think about that question, because she had already lost him. Great.
To make matters worse, two demon delinquents actually came up and started harassing her. If it was just words, she could have tolerated it. But they tried to get physical! Could she tolerate that?
….
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