Chapter 4: The Magic of This World

"I hope it's in this desk." I opened the teacher's desk and found a list of lessons. "This doesn't look like it." I dug more and found no information of the Human World.

"I wonder how I can go back home." I thought about the man that took me here. "Oh yeah, isn't he the one in charge of this place?" He doesn't look like he's willing to tell me anything, so going there is a waste of time.

I dug his desk more and found an ancient, golden key. "Hey! Uhh, uhhh- what are you doing?" I looked at the door and saw that kid from earlier. "Are you stealing something from the teacher?"

"Uhhhh- no?" I awkwardly closed his desk and sighed. "Alright, fine. I am." I fiddled the key in my finger.

"What's that in your hand? Can I take a look?" I gave her the key, to which she responded and tried to catch it, but she flinched as soon as the key made contact with her hands. "It hurts! Take it back!"

"What?" I took it back from her and hid it in my pocket. "Why does it hurt you, but not me?"

"I don't know. Anyways, I just came here to invite you to take a look outside the nursery. I wanna see what's outside before we get kicked out of the Inner Demon World, or what else they call it."

"Fine, I'm coming with you. When are we departing?"

"There are many eyes today, so maybe the day after tomorrow. I heard that we will be fighting against each other, and it might be a chance for us to sneak away." Sneak away?

"We can just go right now, why need to sneak away?"

"Are you stupid? We're not allowed to go outside!" That sounds suspicious.

"Why?"

"Because they say it's dangerous. They didn't say anything else. Anyways, you sound like a newbie here so I will give you a tour around. What do you say?"

"I say no."

"Then good, let's go!" I got shocked by her pulling me away from the classroom and dragging me somewhere else.

"Where are we going?"

"I told you, I'll give you a tour around these parts!" I sighed as I let myself get dragged along the hallway. We continued walking until we reached the cafeteria.

"Demons can actually eat? I thought we were immortal?"

"They say that the food here contains something refreshing like washing of sins or something. I don't know, I didn't listen." I grabbed a drink and some sandwich with her.

"This is important, you should have listened." I sighed as I ate as fast as possible for my sins to wash away. I waited a little longer after finishing everything, but nothing is happening.

"This is a scam. Alright, I'll go back to my room now." I stood up and hurried away before it's too late.

"Phew, that demon child is ruining my plans. Alright, I need to learn how to summon things. If my classmate can do it, so can I." Hours passed, and I was able to summon my things from my backpack.

"Alright, this would do. It's class time again." I walked to class with no disturbance and successfully sat on my chair without her noticing me.

"Alright class, as I said the last time, you will be learning Demonic Magic and Rituals. As everyone knows, the easiest type of magic is Summoning Magic. I'm pretty sure most of you have already learned this one. You just imagine the material that you want to summon, and boom, you learned it already." He summoned his wand again and opened a scroll showing symbols of elements.

"There are many types of magic you can use, like fire, water, wind. air, demonic magic, and the combination of those. The easiest magic to learn is the demonic magic, since the source comes from within us, and also the reason why Summoning Magic is easy to use."

"Teacher, this is boring!"

"I agree!" Everyone started chattering, making the teacher raise his wand.

"Do you wanna get kicked out right now or what?" Everyone stayed silent.

"I will continue this discussion outside at the courtyard. Next topic is rituals. As a demon, we are required to perform rituals in order to use certain types of magic, like soul strengthening. These types of rituals have certain requirements that you must fulfill. I won't discuss it since it's available in the market anyways. Now, fall in line properly and quietly."

"You expect us to follow you?"

"You want a taste of death?"

"Shut it everyone, it's annoying! Let's just get this over with." My seatmate butted in and complained while we line up to go to the courtyard."

He lead us all to the place. It looked like a soccer field but was filled with crimson grass. "This place looks really emo." One of the girls commented.

"See the bleachers over there? Go and sit down while I prepare my stuff." Many tried to escape, but they were blocked by the demon maids watching over us.

"Whatever." My way to the bleachers was immediately blocked by that girl.

"Hey, you forgot to say hi earlier. I was really sad earlier."

"None of my business." I tried to go past her, but she held my wrist forcefully.

"You will go hang out with me, right?" Jeez, what's with the scary face?

"Alright, alright. Let's go there together." I internally sighed and sat down with her.

"Alright class." Everyone paid attention to the teacher. "There are certain steps in making a magic circle." Five shapes suddenly lit up from the ground. A circle, star, octagon, square, and a wavy circle.

"Always draw a circle first. It is the most important part in making a magic circle. Then, draw the core of the magic that you want to use. Circle for demonic magic, star for fire, octagon for earth, square for water, and this wavy thing for wind. If you want to use something like ice magic, you just combine both square and octagon. Make sure they're in the same place or things will go different." He drew the magic circle that he mentioned on the ground.

"After the core, draw another circle before adding another element. In this case, I will draw this wavy circle. After doing that, make sure to seal it with another circle, like this." After drawing, ice suddenly shot out from the ground. "See that?" The teacher dispelled the ice after.

"That was really cool! To think we can use magic just by drawing some shapes!" She gasped.

"If you want to add specific commands like making an ice sword, just use demonic language adjectives and add it after this circle over here." He wrote "sword shape, long-lasting" over the circle and an ice sword appeared on top of the magic circle.

"You see how easy it is to make a magic circle? Make sure you took notes because tomorrow, I will put you against each other. It's a race on who makes a specific type of magic faster. You have all the time to practice before the next class anyway. Class dismissed." As always, he hurried away, refusing to be around us further.

"Hey, uh, what's your name?" I asked the girl.

"Oh, I didn't tell you? My name is Shannon."

"Okay Shannon, let's practice doing magic together." I need her around me in case something bad happens.

"I thought you're the hard-to-get type. Didn't know you will be the one to invite me."

"Shut up, just accept my invite."

"Alright."

My classroom seatmate touched my shoulders for attention. "Can we practice together?"

"No." And with that, we hurried back to my plain old room and practiced all day.

Next up: Outside of the Nursery