『 Also, WHERE IS THE TEACHER!?
』 Alex thought, he wasn’t concerned about his black gate he was more worried about Cleo and who he truly was…
“Fine,” Alex said, holding his hand up waving the situation off; “I’ll do your test, but where even is the teacher? I thought this was meant to be school…”
“HAh,” Shim yelled, “This is the school, and the teacher is always late, THAt being said you have someone who is almost on the rank of the old basted for a teacher.” Shim pointed to Cleo, who by now was already walking off to prepare something, but Cleo felt the pointing of Shim and shivered noticeably in his place before continuing to walk off.
Alex was now really confused,『 Huh, so Cleo is almost at the rank of a teacher, though he is just a boy…
『 Wait, is he a boy?
I can’t tell… Ughhhh, I am getting sidetracked, so he I presume, is on the rank of a teacher, while still being a child…
Interesting, and seeing what happen just then he almost certainly has something to do with magic, I never even knew about all this gate stuff.
I mean in my past life some of the magicians would talk about gates, but that’s neither here or there… 』
By the time Alex had finished his thought Cleo had already left, it was just Shim looking at Alex think, Shim then spoke knowing Cleo had left;
“Cleo will be back in a second, but you know he has taken an extreme interest in you for some reason, heh, ‘some magical reason’, he should be back soon with the mirror…”
『 Mirror?
And what do you mean ‘some magical reason’, was that some sort of witty joke or something really important!
I guess, I should ask Shim about who Cleo is … … …
』
“Who is Cleo anyway? Like, let me rephrase, how does Cleo know so much about magic?” Alex said, taking a seat on one of the many rows of the chapel seats in the church, Shim also sat down next to Alex raising his hands over his head, relaxed Shim spoke;
“Umm, it’s a long story… But Cleo wants to be a magician, this is for many reasons, but he still isn’t very good at it yet.
You see, he has an affinity with water magic, he also has great control of his mana, but he struggles with the throughput of that conversion.
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of water come out of you hands, to hard and it’s a sprinkler, to soft and to can’t get enough.
But he just wants to be a magician, and I am helping him with that, his family and many others had died a long time ago, and he moved here, and I had to take care and help him…”
Shim started to get slightly teary, his voice started to crack, but he persisted on letting Alex know about this;
“So, I ask that you extent your hand and help me, and help him, to really help of of us.. I want this year to be happy, you know?” Alex didn’t really know what to do..
He had been stuck since Shim took the aisle seat, and Alex had been siting in further, so he had to sit there listening to what Shim had to say, he felt bad but he also felt very awkward..
Shim had basically been asking to help both him and Cleo out by being there for them, such a task was easy for Alex seeing he needed to spend his childhood anyway.
Hearing the news of Cleo being a up and coming magician did put a slight fear in his heart, as Cleo had been able to see his black gate and almost pinned that Alex was dead, Cael thought;
『 Alex isn’t dead, is he?
I mean, I am Alex and sort of Cael, but I didn’t kill him right?
Cleo said my gate looked dead and black, might that mean I just can’t use magic?
If that was the case then I think that’s a fair trade from that ‘mist’..
』
Cael still hadn’t figured out what exactly that comic ‘mist’ was, or what that red star was either, but he had a high bet that the ‘mist’ and that angel were part of why he didn’t die that day.
“I guess, I can help, but I don’t want to be called dead by Cleo anymore… I don’t care if he has thrown away his logic for his pursuit in magic, but that doesn’t warrant calling me dead when I am right here alive…”
Alex said standing on that ground of logic, it was true he had seen some very illogical things like an angel or that star or why he was even here in the first place.
That didn’t stop him from finding a reason for such matters, he especially wanted to know about why he was still alive
“Yes I agree, completely.” Shim’s sadden face nodded hearing the words of
Alex, Shim then spoke again calming down slightly; “I will have a talk with him later about it, I am sorry on his behalf though, and I hope you accept that apology from me…”
“There is no need to apologize” Alex said, looking at Shim’s gaze stuck on the wooden floor below, Alex grabbed Shim’s hands pulling them up until there eyes met; “There is no need, really no need. I don’t care whether your sorry or not, I don’t care whether you apologize or not, I just had a request not to be called dead there is no need to get worked up and sad over it..”
“I need your blood, Alex.” A voice spoke behind them, It was Cleo who was somehow in the seats behind them, this caught Alex off guard as he jumped up letting go of Shim’s hands as he was frighten;
『 AH!?
SHIT!
』 “WhaT The Hell! Don’t do THAT!!!”
Cleo raised a finger to his mouth thinking for a moment before talking; “You don’t like being scared? I thought it would be funny..”
Shim stood up abruptly, as Alex calmed down from the scared pose he had been frozen in, Shim spoke as his head swayed looking at Cleo;
“That, was, not, Funny! Cleo, you almost scared Alex to death, also don’t call him dead anymore I am sure you heard all of that..” Cleo nodded down, and then up, he seemed to be a little ashamed and sad but that was mainly form Shim’s rage.
And the fact he had been listing in to Shim’s and Alex’s conversation, Cleo nodded again, he then looked to shim and
Alex at the same time raising up a mirror, he spoke;
“I heard it, and I won’t call you dead anymore… But that being said, I fetched the mirror, so we can now start the test for your magic and find out what is up with your black gate..”
“Yeah..” Alex trailed off, he really didn’t know anything about Cleo, if anything it felt like seeing a vet when you have an injury instead of a doctor.
Seeing that the teacher had also yet to arrived, and that he had nothing else to really do, he thought;
『 Ugh, that stupid kid, though, I have nothing better to do.
What’s the worse that could happen right?
』
“Alright,” Alex said getting the attention of Shim who had now regain his composure, and Cleo who was helplessly exited squirming around at the thought of what would happen; “How do I take the test, I am ready.”
Cleo let out a little laugh, raising the mirror up; “Silly, like I said before, I need your blood.”