Previously

"Why enroll here? Out of all the magical schools that exists in the realm of magic, why an academy full of witches? You know there are schools for wizards as well, yet you are enrolled here in an all-girl school. So why?" Professor Finnelan questioned the teen about his decision about going here in this academy.

The teen contemplated at first, trying to find an answer at first, which leaves him quiet at first and lightly looks down at the floor. The other professors were waiting an answer from him. After a few seconds of silence, and he looked at them and answered.

"There are reasons for enrolling in this academy my professor. Though most of those reasons are for myself and for myself alone. For that reason is since I am new here, I am not yet comfortable for telling such reasoning to any of you just yet." He said truthfully infront of everyone on the room, which they send him some suspecting looks onto him, especially from Professor Finnelan, but Headmistress Holbrooke and Professor Ursula agreed to his reasoning. Before they could questioned him further. He raised his hand to stop them from talking.

"But there are some reasons that I can share to you all. One reason is that I would like to feel what it's like to be taught by someone other than my master whom homeschooled me throughout most of my life as I have never been schooled before. And with the first reason, that also includes being able to communicate physically with someone close to my age and have the feeling to actually have a colleague or a classmate. And lastly would be that, one of your former student insisted or maybe "forced" me into enrolling this academy, since they highly praise this school, so I thought why not." He explained his minor reasons to them.

Even though he said those minor reasons to them. They still gave him such a suspicious look, a look which makes them question whether his reasoning are indeed valid or not. For Professor Finnelan's view, he seems to be untruthful to them, just today, but she feels that there's more to reveal about his reason. Before they could question him again about it, Headmistress send off a little giggle from her lips and sent the new student a gentle smile.

"Very well then. I know that them interrogating you further would most likely make you feel uncomfortable, but rest assured, you will know what it is like to be a student in this academy. And I am sure that our former student, whoever she is, made a good choice on having you to recommend this school young lad." Headmistress Holbrooke assured the young student about enrolling into this institution. As well as Professor Ursula who was standing besides her with a small smile on her face.

"Thank you for understanding my reasons Headmistress Holbrooke. For my part being a student, rest assured that I will behave the best I could, to lessen the problem that you are currently dealing with righr now Headmistess." He said as he stopped leaning onto his staff and stood straight infront of them all, giving all of the professor a small bow.

"My pleasure Mr? I'm sorry, I didn't get you're name." Headmistress Holbrooke asked about her new student's name while giving a small chuckle.

"Mahiko. Mahiko Reinkarnasyon."

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Third Person POV

Morning dawned towards the academy, too early for any student (except a few students) as the first beam of the sunlight peaks over the horizon and shining its rays on the Luna Nova Tower holding the sorcerer's stone in which still glimmers in bright, emerald-green glow.

But before that happens, before the sun shares its sun light on Luna Nova Academy. A certain purpled haired student is still heavily sleeping in a bed that didn't come with his size. His feet is slightly dangling on the edge of the bed and not covered by a blanket that lacks in length but still held comfort over his sleeping body.

He twists his unconcious form to the left, facing his coffee table which is next to his bed. But before he could sleep even further, he felt droplets of liquid substance, like popping of soap bubbles hitting his face. He scrunched his face from the popping bubble-like feeling onto his face until he lightly open his left eye, showing his lime green iris and looked at the perpatrator of these bubbles and saw one of his most favorite plant.

Fume Shroom

He smiled lightly at the grumpy look of his "alarm clock" and slowly lifted his right hand and stroke the head of the plant, Fume Shroom even though with a grumpy look on his face still leaned onto his touch and continues to shoot streams of purple bubbles on his face making him chuckle at his attempt of waking him up. He then looked at the source of light.

Plantern

(Forgive me I can't find a better image)

After petting Fume Shroom, he pet his night light in the head a few times like he did to Fume Shroom. Unlike Fume Shroom, Plantern gave off a happy noise, her eyes are evident of being gleeful.

"How did you two get in here anyway?" He asked the two plants with a grogging voice lacing onto his words. The two plants just have the same expression as reply. He just shrugs it off, not wanting to find out there ways of finding him, though it doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate their efforts.

He stirred from his previous position and sat up, the blanket slowly coming off his body and showing a navy blue, sleeveless shirt that hugs his lean, slightly muscular built with a matching colored pajama pants. He took off his blanket and sat at the edge of his bed and looked at his surrounding for a bit with the help of Plantern lighting up the room.

Yesterday, after he enrolled in Luna Nova Magical Academy, the professors along with the headmistress were talking about his stay in the school. Since the academy has only dorms for females, they have no other place for Mahiko to crash in other than the dungeons under the tower holding the sorcerer's stone (if they have one). Mahiko understood their situation for his dormitory in the academy and tries to persuade them of letting him choose the dungeons, even though Headmistress Holbrooke along with the other professors, even Professor Ursula did not agree with Mahiko's dorm being in the dungeons of the tower but nonetheless, having no other way to convince Mahiko, the professors allowed him to take the dungeons.

After the meeting, he was given a tour around the academy until they led him towards the tower holding the Sorcerer's stone. They showed him the stairs the leads them towards his designated dorm, after a few flights of stairs they manage to show him his room. Looking at the pre-designed dorm, it appears big enough to be compared with the normal student's dorm, and it even has its own bathroom. Yet it shows that these parts of the dungeon has not been visited for a long time as evident with the specks of dusts covering the room, a plentyful amount of dust bunnies and strings of cob webs dangling on the ceiling. Having no windows which this room is being a dungeon, sunlight can't penetrate through underground which it is also a disadvantage of having dungeon as his room.

He kindly accepted the key of the dungeons that they gave to him, and left him to clean the dorm for himself which he insisted on doing it alone without the help of anybody, even the helpers of the school. But after he heard from a fairy that they send that the orientation is about to start, he thanked the fairy and left the dungeons to introduce himself infront of everyone in the campus.

After the orientation, he went back to his dorm room and starts cleaning everything from floor, walls and to the ceiling by himself. Once he finished cleaning it and making it more habitable, using magic, he created a window for both the room and to the bathroom. The windows contain a special visual magic that allows to function as an actual window, able to see the outside of the dungeon and allowing any form of light from sunlight, starlight, moonlight and all to enter the room without the said magic window to appear outside of the tower or from the dungeon room.

After recollecting his memories from yesterday, he stood up from his bed and streched his body making his joints pop. Letting out a satisfying sigh, he tiredly walked towards his bathroom, which he cleaned until not a speck of dust is shown. He walked towards the sink and looked at his reflection on the chipped cornered mirror.

His medium length purple hair was left unkept with some strands pointing outwards. Without his glasses and mask, his face was slightly scarred due to different reasons which will be talked about later. His heterochromic eyes were one of the distinct features that he wishes to hide, the normal lime green eye on his left while the right eye has a crimson iris with a black sclera. For his face, he has a single curved scar the runs from the tip of his left mouth that stops just below the cheekbones, in the middle of his cheek, a sided smile or a smirk is what it looks like from others.

He rinsed his face with water from the sink, washing off the drowsiness that still lingers onto his expression until it is no longer seen, he then dries his wet face with a small towel that is held by hanger on the wall, on the side of the sink. He walked out of the bathroom and towards his drawers to pull out his necessary clothes for the day, including the regular class Luna Nova uniform, but for men which were made by Professor Ursula who is kind enough to make it for him and walked back to the bathroom.

After cleaning and drying himself up, Mahiko first wore his mask then his eyeglasses for hiding his distinct facial features in front of everyone, grooming his hair in an appropriate style, then he wore the men's version of the school uniform, which is a white long-sleeved shirt, a navy blue vest, a neck tie and a pair of slack pants of the same color. Instead of a ribbon sash that is mostly tied around the waist, he has a scarf that reaches below his knees if wrapped around his neck, the color of the said scarf is maroon in color and has the academy's symbol on both ends of the scarf. He took his appearance in front of a full body mirror, turning around to see the men's version of the uniform that was made by Professor Ursula herself while the measurements for his new uniform was given by his mentors from afar.

After being content of his own appearance, he walked towards his study desks and took a few things necessary for his first day of being a student. From his class schedule he obtain from the headmistress, his subjects were Magic Lunguistics, Fundamentals of Magical Pharmaceutics, Magic Numerology and others. After collecting his books, he begins to walk towards the exit and summoned his staff that is placed on the side of his study desk, which it flew towards his hand. But before he could leave, he walked towards Fume Shroom and Plantern, placing them both on his shoulders and begins to walk out of his dorm, not forgetting to lock the doors and walking up the stairs towards the outside world, and placing them back on the garden.

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Mahiko's POV

The botanical garden is quite pleasant as Lady du Nord said it would be. Once I arrived at the botanical garden, I entered the garden and looked around the environment and I start to appreciate it. The Jennifer Memorial Tree being placed at the very middle of the garden, giving a tranquil atmosphere in the garden. But there is something off about this tree, I see how the roots and the barks are mostly gray, it looks sick to me. But before I could stay any longer, thinking on what I am going to do about this withering tree, Fume Shroom keeps blowing bubbles on my face, wanting to sleep already as mushrooms like him are asleep during the day, as well as Plantern here, her light is about to go out, showing on how tired she already is in lighting up my room last night.

Without any further delay, I went my way to one part of the garden where I was assigned to place my plants there. The professors were kind enough, especially Headmistress Holbrooke and Professor Ursula to have my own place to put my plants in the garden. Sinces adoptive parents couldn't take care of my plants since they are too troublesome to be taken care of, I just took them with me towards Luna Nova Magical Academy and placed them all inside of me magical suitcase. Standing in front of a stainless glass door, I opened it showing the varieties of plants that have grew in my years growing with my mentors. I mostly keep the plants the I like for example:

Caulipower

Winter Melon

Missile Toe

Twin Sunflowers

Phat Beets

Pea Pod

Thyme Warp

Snap Pea

Lightning Reed

Magnifying Grass

Gold Magnet plant

and etc.

These are just plants that can planted on the soil and most likely awake during the day, yet sleep at night, on the other hand, I have plants that sleep during the day yet awake during the night. For I have both Nocturnal and Diurnal plants. They are still asleep, good because when they are awake, they'll pester to no end until they are satisfied, leaving me with no time for myself and for my studies. As for my nocturnal plants, they are:

Fume Shroom

Doom Shroom

Puff Shroom

Plantern

Toad Stool

Ice Shroom

Magnet Shroom

Ghost Pepper

Jack O' Lantern

and etc.

Those are the plants for land, I also have aquatic plants as well, mainly:

Cat tail

Tangled Kelp

Lily Pads

Sea Shroom

Guacodile

These are the plants that have been with me ever since my mentors took me in. I have been taking care of them all the way, even though they are time consumers at their finest, but I don't care.

After putting both Fume Shroom and Plantern on their respective plant pots. They both started to doze of until they are both asleep, Fume Shroom slowly blowing one bubble each time he snores, while Plantern just flickers her light off. I smiled at their sleeping form, and silently leave the garden, while the other plants are still asleep. After leaving the botanical garden, I watched as the sun begins to rise from the horizon. Smiling to myself, I begin to walk towards my class.

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Still Mahiko's POV

Pain. In. The. Ass.

Being this tall was a pain in the ass sometimes, a real pain in the ass for various reasons too. I know my parents were tall people, my dad being 6'2 tall while my mom is 6'0 flat, but to grow up to 6'7? I dwarf both them even back in their days as teens for Eru's sake. Not to mention the attention that I am getting from the other students. Attention is the last thing I needed in my life right now, in my first day of school no less. I mean look at me, I'm a tall ass man, wearing strange glasses made by my family and a mask no less to hide these scars in front of them.

And for the tall part, that has got me in the worst place in the entire classroom, at the very end, I'm always going to be in the very end of the classroom on every class. Sitting in between two students who are looking at me weirdly and my staff that is leaning just next to me. Staring at me, wondering to themselves on how on earth for some like me enter this school, an all-girls school no less. Choosing to ignore their stares on me, I just focus my eyes, ears and mind on my subjects in front of me.

Magic Linguistics, I may not be familiar with their magical language system, but most of my language system were taught by my former mentors from my homeland, primarily Quenya, Latin, Filipino and a little bit of Nordic. I raised my hand to turned the miniature gears that are on the sides of my glasses to magnify my vision, to see my lesson more clearly as seeing as I am legally blind. While the professor was discussing her lesson, she asked someone to read what is written on the board. One student raised her hand, stood up and said what is written on the board with confidence. It seems that she is Diana Cavendish, the blonde haired girl that these professors in their own words, praise so much as being the "prodigy" of Luna Nova Academy due to her skills, talent and dedication in magic, mostly being praised by the current professor of Magical Linguistics, Professor Finnelan.

Fundamentals of Magical Pharmaceutics, a subject that focuses on using and making potions for a medical field, held by Professor Lukić. One of the few things that I am not good at, even back in the days during my time with my mentors, even with their supervision, I am not good at this, you could say I'm mediocre on this subject. Instead being used for healing, It was made to make it worse. One time I mixed two liquids that are incompatible to one another, and made the whole container explode in front of my face. While the professor was pouring substance after substance onto the cauldron, it is emitting a green mist that spreads across the room, messing with my classmates' focus, except for me as I can't inhale the gass thanks for my mask, and Diana as she whips out her wand, clearing the smoke as she continues to study.

Magic Numerology, first time I heard of such subject. Truly, since my mentors ways of teaching were mostly magics used for: Healing, Defense and Offense, White/Light and Black/Dark, Non-Verbal, Magic without the use of wands or staves, and that is about it. But hey, I am new here, who am I to judge on what and what not to teach to these students. As the lecture continues by Professor Badcock, Diana raises her hand, stood up from her seat and rectifies Professor Badcock's mistake on Pythagoras Numerology.

While focusing on my studies that I am already getting a grip on while jotting down notes on my notebook, my focus then changes towards three peculiar figures who are sitting just behind Diana and her followers. One who has short, orange hair listening, intently at the Professor's discusssion but her posture says otherwise as she is yawning, covering her mouth with her hand to prevent being noticed by the professor while writing notes on her notebook with a quill. Sitting besides her is a Brunette girl whose hair is tied up to a ponytail is actually dozing off on top of her open book, in front of the professor. Big respect to that girl. While the other girl with a mauve shade hair was pouring a mixture on the sleeping girl's head, changing the girl's ponytail into a plant. These three girls are the very same ones who made an eventful impression on the orientation day that time.

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Third Person POV

The ceremony has already began in the Luna Nova Auditorium, Headmistress Holbrooke was giving her speech towards the new and old students of Luna Nova. While that is happening, Mahiko is standing behind the curtains on the left side of the stage, waiting for the headmistress cue. While Mahiko is waiting, he is observing the vast array of students standing on their part of the auditorium as well as the professors through a small peak in between the curtains, he observed them all until he noticed that there is someone missing during the opening ceremony, it was Professor Ursula herself. During Headmistress Holbrooke speech, she was interrupted by a green circle in the middle of the hall that caught everyones attention, it glowed brighter, until it became a green portal. Inside of the portal shot a beam of green light towards the roof. In a few seconds the beam dissipate, revealing 3 students, they levitated on the air for a few seconds until they fell on the ground. All of them groaning in pain, one girl who is a brunette, stared at her surrounding until she finally registered it in her mind.

"Yahoo!!! I made it!!! Yay!!!" The brunette girl shouted with glee as she raised both of her arms up in the air while one of her hand is holding a peculiar scepter.

The one who is holding the scepter is a short, brunette haired, fair skinned girl wearing an orange hooded jacket, blue turtleneck sweater, brown shorts, and red boots, a backpack still worn.

The other girl was an orange haired, glasses-wearing, pale skinned girl, who appears to be slightly shorter than the two. She wore the standard Luna Nova uniform with an overcoat on her shoulder, holding a plastic skull cup that has a small will-o'-the-wisp sitting inside.

And lastly was another girl, a tall one, taller than the other two. She has that mauve shade of hair color, grayish skin complexion and wears a lime green, long sleeved dress with a brown overcoat on her shoulder, and has satchel hanging on her shoulders.

The girl that is holding the scepter up in the air, continued to shout with glee, everyones attention was on her and with the other two students who accompanied her. While that happened, Professor Ursula nimbly walked behind the professors, trying to be unnoticed. It wasn't long until Professor Finnelan strictly stopped her gleeful antics and commanded her to go on her proper place like the rest of the students, she did the same thing with the two students that accompanied her.

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Mahiko's POV

I guess those three were: Atsuko Kagari, Lotte Jansson and Sucy Manbavaran. The last girl has a familiar last name, Manbavaran, I might have heard of that name before. But before I continue to ponder on those three, the bell rang, signalling that the class has ended. I tucked my things under my left arm, grabbed my staff and waited for the other students to leave the room, leaving me as the last person to leave the class.

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Still Mahiko's POV

"(Sigh) I guess I have to feed them first before me." I said in a tired voice as he walked over the stone bridge towards the botanical garden.

After class, I went straight to the botanical garden with a sac of plant foods levitating behind me. I didn't have enough time to feed myself as my plants have a very specific time schedule on their feeding time. Well I guess I'm going to sneak in the cafeteria at night for today. Being inside the botanical garden, I've caught a glimpse of the sick-looking Memorial Tree, seeing as some parts of the body is showing gray colors.

"It is getting sicker and sicker." I muttered as I walked towards the tree until my mind went back to my own plants who are getting hungry. I just sighed and went my way towards my part of the garden. The moment I opened the glass door, I was bombarded by a barrage of their attacks, as in literal attacks, from peas, goos, and all the stuff, making my uniform a mess filled with squashed bullets and ammos from them.

"Oh come on!" I whined at them as they continued to shoot bullets after bullets at me, while I tried to guard myself from their barrage with my arms and my staff.

These plants are troublemakers and time consumers alright. I know they are hungry since they only shoot or fire when they are hungry or threatened. Their attacks won't hurt me since they knew me and I gotten used to their attacks, but to enemies, their attacks are painful as hell, it felt like a punch to the gut or to the face, I've experienced this first hand. Anyways, after they calmed down a bit, I lower down my guard and looked at my uniform.

"Great. Just freakin' great. Now how am I going to explain to my professor this mess you put on my uniform." I grumbled at their antics, as I tried to wipe off their bullets. I manage to wipe some of them off, but for the goo, it stained in the uniform.

I sighed at their antics but could careless about the uniform, I'll just explain to them what happens and that's it. I placed the plant food sac down besides me and zipped the sac open, grabbed the trowel that is inside the sac and shoveled a mouthful of it, and start feeding them one by one. I'm like feeding babies here, but they are my babies nonetheless. After feeding my diurnal plants and my aquatic plants, I placed the trowel back inside the sac and sealed the sac shut tight, I'll feed those nocturnal plants later when night rises.

After feeding them, I found a big metal tin can on the garden, I grabbed the body of the can with my left hand, I changed it into a watering can using alchemy, filled with water from the sink and watered my plants that are planted on the soil, as for the aquatic plants, I mean, they are already in the water, no need to water them. After the plants finished drinking, I placed the watering can on the desk near the glass door and the looked at their faces, they seem to be happy about it, but as for one of my plants, Thyme Warp, pulls out a paper behind him, grabbed a pencil and draw something on the paper, finished with his work, he showed to it to me, the paper with a pencil drawn music note on it.

"You want to listen to music Thyme Warp?" I asked him and Thyme Warp just nod his head.

"OK then. I've got just the song for you to listen to. Can all you agree to that?" I asked the other plants if they mind if I play a song for them. They nod their heads, not minding if I play a song for Thyme Warp.

I nodded back at him, and conjured a small black turntabld and an LP disc with a daisy picture in the middle of the disc using my own magic. I placed them both on the desk next to the watering can and looked back at the plants.

"This should be a good song for all of you." I said as I place the LP disc on the platter, moved the tonearm of the turntable towards the disc and turned the turntable on. The song started to play as the disc spins around the platter and the needle of the tonearm scrapes the lining of the disc.

I just stood next to the turntable and watch the plants sway and move to the beat. It seems that everyone is enjoying the music, even my nocturnal plants are enjoying the music. The sight of my plants being happy made me smile as I pulled a chair towards me using telekinesis and sat down and watch them sway side to side, bounce up and down to the song playing from the turntable.

I felt that the song is going on for about forever, until I felt the ground shaking a bit. I got confused by the sudden action until the shaking intensified. I got up from my chair and stood firmly on the ground as I watch my plants becoming agitated. The shaking continued to do so making the turntable's music gone static and the plants becoming more agitated, even the nocturnal plants are waking up from their slumber. The pebbles rumbling out of place, and the aquarium water is flinging of the tank with the aquatic plants swaying along with the water flow.

"What now?" I mumbled as I try to calm the plants down, they are being agitated by all of this shaking.

"It's OK darlings. I am here. Calm down now." I tried to comfort them as best as I could be it appears it is not working.

The shaking continued until, roots shot out of the ground, thrashing everywhere. Roots after roots appeared from the cracks formed from them emerging from the ground. The plants are now screaming from the sudden event and I tried to calm them down. One root flungs itself upwards, knocking out one plant, particularly my most favorite plant.

Witch Hazel

"Oh Shit!" I cursed as I followed the falling plant. Before the plant could hit the ground, dove forward with my hands outstretched to her direction. I manage to catch her on the palm of my hands before she hits the ground. I sighed in relief as I manage to catch her without hurting her, I pulled her towards me and looked at her if she is hurt.

"Are you OK Hazel?" I asked her, which she replied back with a nod. I hold her under my arms, protecting her from the attacking roots.

The shaking continues and the roots continue to writhe everywhere. The plants are becoming more scared and trying to protect themselves from the attacking roots. While Witch Hazel is still my hand, I grabbed my staff with my other hand and swung towards the roots that were about to hit my plants, hitting them and trying to push them away from my plants. It continued until I have had enough of the roots hurting my plants and endangering them.

"That does it. I've had enough of this shit" I said as I stood up from the ground with my staff held tightly on my hand while holding Witch Hazel on the other hand. Not wanting these roots to harm my plants any longer, I raised my staff in the air.

"Shield of Istari."

My staff glowed white, with the crescent crown of my staff forming a small glowing orb inside. I conjured up a white, near transparent shield dome around me and the plants and my part of my garden. The roots continue to hit the shield but cannot penetrate or break the shield.

(Like this but smaller in scale to fit the a small room.)

It continued for a few more seconds, until they stop thrashing around and the roots remained still. With a sigh of relief, thinking that it was over, I lowered my staff down, making the shield dissipate.

"Is everyone OK?" I asked them with a worried voice as I looked at each and everyone of them. They seem to be OK and some of them even nodded in response to my worried question.

I placed Witch Hazel back in her place and pet her head as she leans in to my touch with her arms wrapping around my fingers. I smiled at her and then to everyone of my plants. After calming each and everyone of them down and trying to place my nocturnal plants back to sleep but fail to do so, I looked where the roots laid motionless around the garden. I grabbed my staff with both hands and placed it in front of me, with the crown of the staff pointing at the roots and carefully walking towards it with my guard up and examined them. One of those roots have what appears to a chrysalis attached on it, sapping away the nutrients of the roots, turning them to gray, I looked at the other roots, they also have the same chrysalis that is attached on them.

"These things look familiar. Have I seen them before?" I asked myself and continue to look at the chrysalis, gently poking it with my staff a few times.

I've examined them for a little while longer until I heard a voice, a female's voice to be precise as she shouted the incantation and conjures up a spell.

"Papilliodya that travel the five continents.
Take flight, magic butterflies, towards hope!
Papillio Fillio Nymphodya!"

After the incantation is complete. The chrysalis starts to glow, and cracks are forming on it. I backed away, but still held up my guard and watch as the crack continues to form on the shell. When the shell is finally broken apart, a glowing creature slowly climbs out of the shell until it spread it's wings outward, revealing the magical creature that M'lady Arwen keeps telling during story time back in my younger years.

"The magical Pappiliodya." I whispered as I watched one fluttering her wings.

I've watched the other Pappiliodyas break out of their shells and glowing, flapping their wings, levitating themselves off the ground. Even my plants and the awakened nocturnal plants watched in awe at the magnificent beings. One of them floats in front of me and examined me, I felt like she is seeing though my disguise.

"Umm. Hello?" I awkwardly greeted the Pappiliodya that is fluttering in front of me.

Without any delay, the butterfly waved backed at me and continues to fly away from and towards the cracked glass of the garden. The other ones followed in, leaving me and plants in a state of wonder, watching fly out of the greenhouse garden. I followed them through the broken glass and watch them fly away with the other Pappiliodyas. While watching them, I saw the three witches from the orientation, flying with them on their brooms, yet the brunette is flying on the orange-haired girl's broom while the other is flying solo. I saw the brunette waving her hand out towards Diana Cavendish who is standing on the bridge, watching the Pappiliodyas fly away as well.

Then the three looked at me for a while, and the same brunette waved her arms at me, which I replied back with a wave of my arm. After watching them fly, I looked at the sun setting on the horizon, seeing it set and the sky slowly deem.

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Third Person POV

After the swarm of Pappiliodya flew far away from the academy, Akko, Lotte and Sucy finally landed on the ground safely. Akko and Lotte finally got off of the broom with Sucy doing the same. The trio walked towards the academy with Akko skipping and has a smile plastered on her face.

"That was a fun day!" Akko gleefully said as she held Shiny Rod in her hands as she skips towards their dorm.

"It was Akko. But you should have not block Murowa like that. I could have hurt you more Akko." Lotte replied with a worried look back to Akko as she followed her.

"I can manage Lotte, but after what we just did, the tree is now cured and I am close to becoming one of the greatest witch in history like Shiny Chariot." Akko continued to say every word with such a happy expression plastered on her face.

"Hehehe. I guess so Akko." Lotte just gave in to her friend's enthusiastic behavior, but she doesn't mind as she just smiled at her silly antics.

While the two were conversing, Sucy halted for a minute, stared back and looked at the setting sun over the horizon with a broom in her hand. Her actions caused the two to stop their tracks, noticing her other friend not following them towards their dorm.

"Sucy! What are you looking at?!" Akko shouted at the girl, but Sucy did not respond and continues to gaze at the sun.

"Sucy. Is there something wrong?" Lotte asked her, at first she didn't reply at Lotte's question, Sucy looked at the sun for a bit until she answered her.

"Just looking at the sun set that's all." Sucy replied with an apathetic voice.

"Are you sure Sucy?" Lotte asked her.

"That is what I said right?" Sucy just replied with the same tone as she always do.

"Are you sure that is about it Sucy? Because that is what our new male student was doing before we are waving at him when we are flying on our brooms." Akko asked back to Sucy, wanting to interrogate her friend further. Until an idea popped in her mind and giggled teasingly.

"Or is it because you want to copy what that boy is doing? Huh?~" Akko teases Sucy, but only got a brush wacked on her face by Sucy.

Akko hold her red face in pain, as Lotte came over and tried to comfort the girl. Sucy not paying attention to the two as she continues to watch the sunset.

Coincidentally, both Sucy and Mahiko are looking at the setting sun on different places, Mahiko still being in the garden while Sucy is with her friends at the Luna Nova front grounds.

"I can see a new hope coming in for a new tomorrow." Both Sucy and Mahiko said with a small smile plastered on their faces as they continue to watch the sun set over the horizon.

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Original Publish: May 31, 2020
Reedited Publish: January 27, 2022