Mondai High Enrollment (1)

Today's the big day— not really. It's just a normal day, like every other day. Except that we have to go register our attendance at Mondai High.

Nothing much changed the past few days— Liliath and I did manage to read a manga together— just that it wasn't porn-related. Fortunately.

We also did some miscellaneous tasks on the way, and I realized that previously completed quests can repeat sometimes— which is a good thing.

Putting that aside, I am wearing a white collared shirt with long yellow-ocher coloured pants as my formal attire. It's a requirement that new enrolling students wear smart. Typical stuff.

Liliath is wearing her signature black-laced dress with a yellow cardigan. Her hair tied with a black hairband decorated with a red ribbon my mom bought a few days ago since it looked 'cool' on Liliath. Though I think 'cute' should be replaced with 'cool' though.

A pin to keep her hair from falling to the front of her face and we have the cutest, most attractive Liliath.

Yeah.

Still can't get her cuteness out of my system. Welp, at least it's enough to drown out my little sister's level of cuteness, which in itself is already very cute. But she's the devil so let's not dig too deep into the significance of her cuteness..

"You contacted Prune did you?" my mom asked.

"Yeah, I guess it's just the two of us from our previous school."

"Three, you don't intend to leave me out, do you now Noel," Liliath narrowed her eyes at me.

"You're not a student there though.."

I wonder if the two are still hostile to each other?

The last time I texted Prune, Liliath kept trying to pry our topic of conversation. It's a fact that Liliath doesn't harbor any romantic feelings towards me whatsoever after learning about her special quests during the hospital incident. That said, her actions were the opposite of that..

I do wonder why she's so cooperative with the quests. Does she not feel embarrassed— nevermind, my mind just retrieved for me a bunch of image files where Liliath rolled herself up into a ball.

Another thing I learnt was why Prune's TALENT was considered 'troublesome'. The fact that she's a demi-human is for one, a super rare occurrence. If anything, she's probably the only person in Gilgamesh at this point to possess this sort of full body metamorphosis. It was to the degree where her hair colour and ears became altered. Not to mention, she grew a tail.

This meant her body was different now from that of a normal human. She told me that she would have a craving for raw meat from time to time.

In a sense, her TALENT made medical treatment a little more troublesome.

And that's kinda why her TALENT was categorized as troublesome

"We'll meet up with Prune one way or the other. Since there's a big welcome speech that's going to be held," I said, showing Liliath and mom the itinerary for today's occasion.

*

A cherry blossom path spread out in front of us, leaves drifting in the wind brought by the sultry wind of the summer— I was sweating like crazy.

The pristine path leading to the huge building fan out in a wide grandiose manner in front was made from refined, light brown interlocking brick blocks. I almost tripped because I thought the path would be safe and flat, taking for granted the finger-sized rock in front of me as my attention was directed at a tuft of grass growing from between the cracks of the bricks.

The sky was a sea of blue, scarcely any clouds in the surrounding. This gave the sun full authority to beat down and roast us like turkey meat.

And here I am, holding a bag containing the files I need to pass to Keaton— dragging my feet under the crazy 40-degree heat of summer.

The fuck is with this temperature...

Turning to look at my mom and father, they were sweating, but with a smile.

On the other side, Liliath and the little devil barely broke a sweat. Rather, the little devil looked hyper gallant with the way she was walking. Huh...

Huh?

Is it just me or do I smell magic in the air?

"My apologies," noticing my gaze, Liliath said, shrinking back.

After which I felt a cool breeze envelope me. Something manifested above me that seemed to block the heat of the sun despite the strong eye-stinging light.

"I wish I had asked this earlier.. thank you Liliath" I heard my father lament with a bitter smile.

"Thank you Liliath," my mom said with an exhale.

"Yeah, you saved us Liliath," I also said my thanks..

Liliath smiled, "Your welcome."

Liliath had come a long way from journey in princess speech to casual speaking.

Oh right, if you're wondering why cherry blossoms are everywhere, and why almost every school has at least one sakura tree, remember this: all trees in Gilgamesh are imported from other countries. That goes for the grass too— or maybe sea-crossing birds just came and populated the place with grass seeds— aka, bird poo. Now that's what you call doing a good service to Gigamesh's plant life.

And with Liliath's complicated barrier surrounding us, we proceeded towards the building— passing the pitiful students melting in the heat.

Liliath was fortunately aware of her own conspicuousness, so she had most probably cast a concealment barrier around herself. Nobody was raising precarious gazes at her.

The building— or rather, the massive school building which I have no idea why they needed to build it so far away from the entrance—

It was bustling with students. It felt more like a university than a high school? I personally have not gone to a university so I could only assume. But just gives off such a vibe.

Anyhow.. we proceeded to a counter with a teacher wearing glasses, but before that, there was a short queue.

The guy in front of the queue turned around. He had gorgeous unkempt black hair, messy, but gave off a cool vibe.

"Oh, we're in the same class huh? Er.. nice to meet you, I'm Kai," Kai had a surprised expression when he spoke.

The person he greeted wasn't me, but Liliath. He was sizing her up from head to toe.

I wonder what he's looking for?

To his greeting, Liliath only nodded with a princess-like smile.

"You're her brother, correct? Nice to meet you," Kai greeted me.

I wonder if Liliath looks like a 16-year old?

Nay, I should be more curious about why he's talking to me in the first place.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Noel and no, I'm not her brother. By the way, she's Liliath."

"I'm his brother!" the little devil retorted. What the fuck, you're my sister.

I wonder why Liliath chose to remain silent.

In any case, as you know, since the kids, that is me and Kai started a conversation, our parents followed suit. Of course, I had no idea what they talked about.

"So, what TALENT got you here in the first place?" Kai asked.

"How about you go first?"

"O-Okay, my TALENT has to do with the ability to access another person's mental strength.. that's a vague way to put it.. er.. I can also measure willpower, cognitive ability and EQ. Yep."

Wow heck? How is that a troublesome TALENT?

I flashed him a funny look, he scratched his cheeks in response.

"How about your—"

"Next."

The teacher at the booth called out. Oh, it's Kai's turn.

He flinched, quickly turned around to register his name, and our parents broke off their conversation.

"Be careful."

"Hm?" I tilted my head at Liliath's words.

"He's aiming for me."

"Huh? What?" Though surprised, I voiced it in a quiet tone.

"He mentioned about being able to read and access our mental aptitude, thus, we can infer that he has some ability to gauge someone's psychology and use it to his advantage."

I thought that Liliath was being too vigilant— and Kai being a whore because he tried to converse with Liliath first of all people— since she hasn't met many people yet but.. thinking back to my conversation with Kai, when the teacher called out, he left me dangling as if he was in a rush?

Also.. Kai was aiming for Liliath? I suppose he fell for her at first sight? Hm.. makes me wonder if Liliath has charm magic or something— it might be possible.

"Additionally, did you not mention before you intend to hide information regarding your abilities?" Liliath raised her eyebrows.

Uh.. I have no words to retort here..

"Sorry, you're right. I'll be more careful from now on.."

It sucks to be reprimanded by someone.

Kai's family left after finishing and it was our turn.

"Noel, right?"

"Yes, that's me," the teacher with glasses I realized had quite a stern look on her face. Her name is Glib, as shown on her name tag. What an odd name..

In fact, it was said that Gilgamesh is a country that has one of the 'best' naming sense for kids rated by emerging nations. Fortunately, my name, Noel, isn't all that.. nevermind

"And Liliath, what an interesting TALENT. Good to meet you all, my name is Glib, and I will be the homeroom teacher for Noel's class this year. Alright, you two head into the auditorium first, I'll discuss the rest of the details with your parents."

What?

Glib let out a sigh.

"The speech is about to start and it's my responsibility to make sure you two enter ASAP. So go," teacher Glib handed both of us a file each, containing the schedule for today's event and most probably more documents and information on our enrollment.

I turned to my parents and they both gave me a nod of consent. Novelle looked pretty lonely though.

Leaving it at that, Liliath and I proceed deeper into the building.