Ghost

The student gasped as we both witnessed Alex disappearing before our eyes. Instead, there were faint footsteps and Alex's voice beside us. Did that mean Alex turned invisible?

"Alex, are you here?" I sensed his hand on my arm.

"I think this is connected to yesterday," His voice resounded.

The guest turned to find Alex's voice when he was nowhere to be seen. Their faces were disappointed from not being able to request more pictures of the younger version of Alex. I knew at this rate, there would be bad reviews, making us get less points of this event.

"Everyone, this is part of a surprise event! This is the ghost crossing dressing and miniature café," I announced when the guests looked in our direction.

"It evolved again," Ben mumbled.

I ignored Ben and continued serving the guests. When we closed the café, I flopped down onto one of the chairs in relief. I couldn't believe people actually bought the explanation. Their eyes widened in fascination when they observed plates of desserts floating in the middle of the air on their own. Some even took pictures, saying it was a rare sight.

I guessed not many people turned invisible on their own here. The chair beside me, moved as if Alex was taking a seat. None of us were surprised by now since we were used to the sight when we were working.

"What happens now?" I gulped.

Currently, both Charles and I were still in our younger forms while Alex stayed invisible. Normal classes started tomorrow where the teachers expected us to return to our original forms. Unfortunately, the infirmary was closed today since the medical staff went to spend time on their research after yesterday.

The room stayed in its dreary silence as no one came with a viable solution. Random ideas from light novels started to pop up in my head. Like since this was a fantasy world, wouldn't they have potions that fixed everything? Wasn't potions like drinks brewed with mana here?

"I have an idea," I announced.

Everyone turned to face me with no hope. They didn't expect anything from me after being the source of causing these incidents. But it was strange how Miliana didn't appear stiff as the others. Instead, she seemed like she was struggling to maintain her stiff expression.

"How about we make potions?" I suggested.

"What do you mean by potions?" Luke questioned me as if he was trying to keep me in check.

"We can brew mana into more drinks to make potions and see how they work," I imagined the process in my head.

"No, Rika, just no," Luke stared at me with disapproval.

"Did you forget those drinks were the cause of this situation?"

"It's better than doing nothing," I pouted.

"How about we try to reason why this all started?" Shelly tried to console me.

"Well, Rika had too much mana from the drinks." Allan recalled.

"So we just need to get rid of that?" Ellen derived a solution.

"I can use the mana practice room to get rid of some of it!" I raised my hand.

This is how we ended up in the mana practice room in the middle of the night. The barriers to keep spells inside was fortified after my many struggles of controlling mana during class. Since I kept on blowing up the room, Daniel eventually hired the best defensive mages and put a level nine barrier in the middle school section.

Barriers had ten levels in terms of how they defend against physical and magical spells. Level ten meant it could defend against practically anything except for the end of the world while level one defended against simple physical attacks.

Starting from level seven barriers, it was simply lower level barriers layered on top of each other. Normally, schools wouldn't be able to possess even level eight barriers, but this was a school for the elites.

No expense was spared in providing the best facilities for the students. I grinned since it had been a while since I was able to let my mana go wild. Before I started to release my mana in the air, Luke held my shoulder to not overdo it.

I shook Luke's grasp off as I imagined using heal on everyone here. Heal drained the most mana out of all the spells I knew. Plus, it wasn't destructive as well! Meaning no one would notice us visiting the practice room.

The room glowed in particles of golden yellow as it swirled around my classmates' bodies. Their jaws almost dropped as I continued the heavy spell. I could already feel a heavy flow of my mana leaving my body as my head started to swirl like a blackhole.

I staggered as I continued the spell as I felt my line of vision getting taller. Was this actually working? I smiled as my clothes were shrinking till my skirt was starting to resemble the length of very short shorts.

"Stop," Alex who regained his physical appearance, grabbed onto my right hand.

Charles studied his hands that returned to its original size. His legs made the long uniform pants seem like shorts while the sweater was now a T-shirt. I wondered if our bodies were really that small in elementary school. My thoughts were interrupted by Alex who squeezed my hand.

"You're going to put yourself in danger," Alex continued with a frown.