After coming to Star-Torch Academy, subduing Void Worms, and making two good friends, Lynae and Rover, Megumi’s life had almost settled into the peace he had envisioned.
However, that was only before he was officially assigned to his department by Star-Torch Academy.
“Huh?! The Labelle Development Department?!”
Megumi, Rover, and Lynae gathered together, looking at the notification feixun sent to their Terminals, and suddenly felt as if the sky had collapsed.
“Wow! It’s actually this department…”
Beside him, the usually optimistic Lynae also steered clear of the class schedule displayed on Megumi’s Cassette.
Aside from the last evening self-study session on Wednesday, the schedule was completely full for the other six days!
Megumi even thought he had misread it at first glance.
Good heavens!
This was completely different from the university life he was familiar with!
“Lynae! I need your class-skipping skills!”
Megumi decisively chose to seek advice from Lynae beside him.
Seeing this expression on the face of the once lifeless Megumi, Lynae couldn’t help but curl her lips.
How interesting.
“However, this can also be considered a good thing,” Rover spoke up at this moment.
“As the department responsible for cultivating Resonators from Exostriders, the Labelle Development Department has more educational resources than other departments.”
Rover explained to the Megumi beside her.
Although what she said sounded very reasonable, Megumi’s eyes were full of resentment as he looked at Rover.
“But I’ve seen that for the past two days, Rover, you’ve been driving outside the academy whenever you have free time, without having to worry about classes at all,” Megumi said with a resentful look.
Her action made both Lynae and Megumi want to pound the floor in their hearts.
Damn it!
Is this the power of authority?!
Being able to skip class at will without asking for leave is just too awesome!
Over the past two days, Megumi had also gone to the library and asked I.R.I.S.
to learn more about the organization called Black Shores.
As the primary organization fighting against Tacet Discord, Solaris held an extraordinary amount of influence in this world; the very construction of Star-Torch Academy required their explicit approval.
And the Flower-Holders were the talented individuals within the Black Shores organization capable of standing on their own; they could be said to be one-in-a-million elites.
Judging by the farewell between Dr. Luuk Hess and Rover in the medical room earlier, she was one of the Flower-Holders.
To be able to send him, a person without proper registration, directly into the academy, Rover must surely count as an elite among the Flower-Holders.
Hmm, looking at it this way, he now had two pieces of news.
The good news: his friend had a very impressive background, and perhaps if he worked hard in the future, he could graduate and rely on her support.
The bad news: Rover was very strict in some aspects; at the very least, he had no way to use her to skip class now.
“Hehe, if you have any worries, you can communicate with your other friend.”
Lynae placed one hand on Megumi’s shoulder at this moment, while giving a thumbs-up with the other hand, pointing at herself.
However, looking at her cheeky expression, it was less like she was trying to help Megumi and more like she was here to watch him make a fool of himself.
After all, she wasn’t like Megumi, who had to deal with a schedule that was almost full for six days a week.
“Tsk! I’m going for a ride. My good friend, you can slowly enjoy your lonely preparatory class life all by yourself!”
After saying this, Megumi merged into the shadows and disappeared from the bench, causing Lynae, who lost her balance, to fall to the side.
Pfft.
“That guy, that guy not only made me almost fall, but he actually said he was going out for a ride right in front of me!” Lynae said, gritting her teeth while leaning on Rover.
To this, Rover could only smile bitterly and act as a peacemaker.
“Megumi definitely didn’t mean it; he knew I would be here to catch you, and besides… he probably left in such a hurry because he had something to do, um.”
Rover didn’t actually believe the second half of that sentence herself.
After all, Megumi had been gritting his teeth when he said the words “good friend,” and had also deliberately said the words “going for a ride” to annoy Lynae.
After all, he knew that Lynae was currently unable to participate in her favorite street racing activities due to being grounded.
As for whether the friendship between Megumi and Lynae would be damaged because of this, Rover wasn’t worried at all.
The fact that the two could bicker so freely was in itself proof of their very friendly relationship.
—————— Vroom!
At this moment, Megumi emerged from the shadows at the academy gate along with his motorcycle.
The shadow storage space of the Ten Shadows Technique should technically have no spatial limits; what limits its total storage capacity is the user of this Cursed Technique.
The weight of items inside the shadow space eventually rests entirely on the user of the Cursed Technique.
In other words, as long as the user of this Cursed Technique is strong enough, storing an entire building is not impossible.
However, Megumi definitely couldn’t do that right now.
Based on Megumi’s previous physique, let alone a building, he definitely wouldn’t have been able to carry even the high-tech motorcycle produced by Star-Torch Academy.
Fortunately, with the enhancement of Cursed Energy and its subtle transformation of his body, Megumi’s current physical fitness was much better than before.
Screech—!
With a sharp, ear-piercing screech of brakes echoing on a lawn outside the academy, Megumi jumped off the motorcycle.
“It’s time to begin…”
Whispering, Megumi formed the hand gestures to summon his Shikigami.