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Chapter 3

Alex and Julis walked back to his room, his eyes went to the PC table.

His computer was here but it was a shadow of the former self…

It had one of the first flat screens and it was barely 17 inches!

With a tired sigh, he went to his bookshelf and started pulling relevant books for Julis.

The girl in question was slightly embarrassed for the sole reason that she was in boy's room!

Her first thought would be that it should be a messy place with clothes all over the place, but to her small shock, it was not!

While Alex was checking the books she was looking around and noticed that he was an actual history nerd, there were several maps on the walls, not this day ones, but one Is Roman Empire and the other one is Eastern Roman or the Byzantine Empire…

After checking the maps she looked around for more details on his personality, after all, he pretty much knows quite a bit about her, so it's reasonable for her to find out about him.

"So, I got relevant stuff you would need, which is some cold war stuff, and the fall of Berlin wall, since it's your 'homeland' you should know this kind of stuff." He explained showed few books, and took a world map with him, he even got some modern stuff.

"We should watch some recent movies as well, just to know certain pop culture references." He started to add stuff from the top of his head.

"You should know that I am not good with interacting with lots of people at the same time," Julis said with annoyance, now she started to realise how much there is work to do!

"Like it or not, we will be at the centre of attention for a couple weeks," Alex said with similarly annoyed look.

"Since we both are transfer students AND coming from Europe specifically to study here." He said that with a slight frown, now if Sirzechs has such fund group why…

Yeah, probably because Alex has easily fallen on his radar…

"For guys over there it will be a big thing, and on top of that…"

Julis shoulders dropped each time she heard him add something, until he stopped mid-sentence and she looked at him.

"Well, because it was girls only academy, meaning that the current school population is 80% females, and…" Before he can finish the pink head was already next to him, she grabbed his hand.

Her behaviour is quite weird, not in a bad way, the more hugs his way the better.

"Since we suppose to be… a couple they will want 'details'." He said with a sigh.

Julis stopped in her tracks and looked at him.

"D-Don't they have anything else to do? Instead of gossiping?" She asked with half-angry half-embarrassed look.

"This is not Asterisk Julis, but they even gossip in that place, only here is worse." He said that half-jokingly which made Julis direct her gaze at him.

"Any way we can talk about this tomorrow, for now, we have some things to do." Since she took his hand he started gently pulling her back to the living room.

Once there he put the books on the table, Julis got comfortable on the couch and grabbed the first one to read, it was in Japanese and for some reason both of them can read it.

Well, more like he can since Julis already knows the language beforehand.

He got comfortable next to her and pulled out his phone.

His eyes widened for second because the phone was not affected by the 'overwrite'.

Meaning, he still has his S10 Samsung!

'Well, her goes my mid-class pulling out my phone moments…' Alex sighed internally, he then checked his gallery for second.

Going through folders until he found folder dedicated for Asterik and found Julis picture and put it as his background picture.

"What do you think?" He showed it to the Pink Princess.

Julis eyes widened, she instinctively moved her hands to grab his phone, but Alex has years of experience in keeping his phone away from other people hands.

"Nope it's my phone Julis." He smirked at her, and the girl growled with embarrassed blush.

"J-Just change it into something else! W-Why you need to put my picture as the background!?" Realising that her actions are a burst she started to ask instead.

"Julis… why are you embarrassed? You are my girlfriend, so I should have the entire file dedicated just to you." Alex said with a smile, as this idea is incredibly nice one.

Then, he instantly heard the very famous word which most of tsun tsun girls love to say.

"B-Baka!"

She then quickly moved her head away and continued reading the book.

Alex just chuckled and focused back on his stuff, for now, he decided to wait until Julis finished her stuff and then he will pull out his last card and access his falna it's his only proper power at this moment.

For now he decided to check out the curriculum of the school he will be going to…

~~~~~~Couple Hours Later~~~~~~

"Done!" Julis closed her book, and Alex lifted his eyes from the Japenese history book he was reading.

The content here was much more detailed than in his country, which is obvious now that he thinks about it.

They only teach bare bones about distant Asian countries, same could be said about here as well!

That why he was so into! The juicy details and in-dept stuff from the Sengoku Jidai and the stuff which happened next, all of that in details.

"That's great! Why don't we eat something?" Alex said while he was getting up from the sofa, he then started to walk toward the kitchen.

The moments later he opened the fridge, and started picking up ingredients from there.

Julis observed him closely, she was wondering if he is pretending or he can cook!?

"Julis… a quick question," Alex asked from the kitchen side.

"...ask." The Pinkhead quickly lowered her head she pretended that she was reading and not watching how he was doing his thing in kitchen.

"Do you like mild or spicy?" He asked curiously.

"MILD!" the girl nearly shouted from her seat.

"Oh, sorry I have some bad memories from eating spicy curry in Seidoukan!" The Princess quickly explained her reason.

"That's good I don't stomach spicy stuff too, I believe its Eastern Europian thing, most of the stuff we eat is with potatoes and Pork all most every time" he explained to her and Julis slightly got relieved hearing that she is going to live with someone who has similar tastes in food as her.

"Yes, now that you mention it is true.* She had a thoughtful look for second, she remembered all the times she got her tongue and mouth burned when she tried out new stuff once she started attending Seidoukan.

She was after all on the other side of the world, and just like most of the people she was curious, and the dishes are not properly explained.

So, from stomach problems to burning mouth her first months over there were not great.

Hearing that her taste buds are similar to his, he continues to do his thing in the kitchen seeing that Alex is not paying attention to her Julis continued to look at him.

The longer she looked at him in the kitchen the more she believed that he knows what he is doing.

"D-Do you often cook in your home? I mean back in your previous world before this whole thing happened?" Julis asked curiously.

"Not at first, at one time I just got tired of waiting for mom or even dad to cook so I started doing it myself, at first I did simple things like frying eggs with sausages," Alex said as he started to spread out the products then pulled out the cutting knife.

"Then I started cooking more difficult dishes, until I reached the point that I started experiment with food and coming up with something on my own, you can thank that one to the animes I watched." He slightly chuckled remembering Food Wars.

Her eyes slighly widened for a second, did she ended up with someone who can cook!?

She then noticed him quickly slicing veggies, preparing salads, the longer he was in the kitchen the more things he started to do!

By this point she stopped caring if he is going to notice her watching him!

Around thirty minutes later Julis was already sitting at the dining area, she helped to set up plates, in the end she was slighly embarrassed that the only thing she did was watching!

In the end, Alex prepared something healthy-looking, which somewhat impressed the girl for the simple reason that the guys usually love eating junk food, or maybe it's her thinking about male population.

"Some salad done with olive oil…" He put bowl of salads on the table…" and this is Eastern European variant of meat soup with small cubes of pork, but most vegetables and seasoned spices, the spices are a combo which I discovered some time ago, and it seems it has travelled with me here." He explained to the girl who observed the two stuff.

"...are you...really, just a guy who likes to cook?" she asked with a gulp, what she witnessed reminded her of her family chefs!

"Yes, now let's dig in." He just smiled seeing her reaction, then he motioned for her to start eating.

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

After satisfying meal both of them returned to the sitting area, Alex pulled out his phone and accessed the Lottery App.

He then pressed on 'Card Deck' and found only single card remaining he the pressed on it.

[Do you wish to summon this card?]

[Yes] [No]

Alex pressed 'Yes' and the screen glowed and royal purple card manifested above his phone.

This time he was not jumpy anymore, more like he was on guard slightly.

Julis instead looked at this with a curious look, since she was closely sitting to him, in a way it's training as well, for her at least, Alex doesn't mind that she is sitting so close to him, in fact he likes it very much.

He looked at the card closer it was the same size as the other two, he then focused on it the same way he did before and the card shattered like glass and Alex whole body glowed.

That moment foreign information started to invade his mind, he learned the power of 'Falna', how to grant it, how to upgrade it, ins and outs of it.

It's an incredible piece of magic which doesn't require much magic at all! and it's bound to his blood and intent!

It can be classified as growth type of magic because... well it's fantasy-style levelling system!

"Well? What did you got!?" Julis asked very curiously, her face was closer to him, she was observing him if there was any changes to his looks.

"I got growth type of magic." He very simply said that it took several minutes for her to process that.

Instead of saying something like 'magic is not real', or 'prove it!' Or something among those lines instead she said...

"How does it work?" she asked with even more curious look.

Instead of answering her question, he decided to show it to her.

"Wait a moment, I need to get something…" Alex left the couch and went to his room.

He pulled out a single piece of paper from one of his draws and went back to the living room.

After getting comfortable on his couch his right-hand index finger glowed pure white he then brushed it on the paper.

Letters soon started to appear on it.

[Alexios Komnenos]

[Lv 1]

[STR: I 0]

[VIT: I 0]

[END: I 0]

[AGI: I 0]

[MAG: I 0]

[MAGIC: POWER OF FALNA]

[SKILLS:]

Alex had indifferent look when he saw this, more or less he knew that there was nothing on him yet.

He gave the piece of paper to Julis who read what is writer on the paper, before she can ask him for an explanation he started to explain.

The more she heard about this power the more she was shocked to hear what this kind of power can do!