"Teacher Ning, are you coming too?" Reya asked.
"Halfway through, I guess. I'm going somewhere else though," Ning said as he showed up to the gathering of the students in the fields behind the academy.
A year had gone by, and it was time for the Decennial Competition.
The students were all happy and excited to be going on this small adventure. Not only that, the Alchemy students were particularly jumpy due to what was at stake in this Decennial Competition.
"Wow, so many people," Ning said as he looked around.
"Why are you here? I thought you said you weren't coming," Ely asked from the side.
"That was just because Anya said she wouldn't be coming, so I didn't really care about it, but then I recently remembered something I heard a long time ago and thought that it would be a good time to visit that place," Ning said.