"Umm...." There was little voice coming out from Kan at the thought of being alone with Secretary Inerva nervously pressured him.
"Don't worry, I have plenty of time. If you find it hard to ask me your questions how about I question you first, then we'll work our way there?" A sudden nod from the 1st year student.
"Then, what do you think of your situation right now?" Fiddling with his hand Kan tried to voice out his answer.
"I think there is very little to no chance of me winning let alone taking the first win of the round." A forced hard-pressing truth seems to cloud Kan's mind. "However, seeing both Mika and Shinra do their best for their ambitions and goals. I feel that I should also do the same. After all, this chance is not given just to anyone." An expression of regret and feel of discontent is seen from the 1st year.
"There is nothing shameful in acknowledging one's powerlessness, Kan. On the other hand, to be controlled by it is another thing. I don't want to tell you what you should do as I'm sure you've thought about this hard and thorough."
"Do you think there is a chance for someone like me to fight alongside Mika and Shinra?"
"How do you find yourself compared to them?"
"I hate that I think all of the things that have happened might have just been a coincidence and after a while we'd go on our separate ways. I want to be confident so that I can hold a candle to them."
"If you're saying you have a chance to fight alongside them, then you're already doing it beside them aren't you? Now I know, you meant fight as fighting together to defeat someone or something. Still, it can be the same as fighting your fears, worries, insecurities. Is being with Mika and Shinra only amount to you being a good magician?" Inerva looked at the student in front of her once again for a moment. "Sorry, let me rephrase it. Do you need to be an excellent magician so badly that it is the only acceptable thing to be around Mika and Shinra?"
No one made any sound.
"I don't think I can answer your question, Inerva-san."
Silence hastily made way to take hold of these few seconds.
"Haaah, it's fine Kan. I was also getting a little bit worked up there."
"Although I don't have a definite answer to your question Inerva-san I feel that I need to say what I think about it." Inerva lightly nodded. "I think that being an excellent magician might mean more to me to fully accept myself. On the other hand, I want to be friends with Mika and Shinra even if I am not an excellent magician."
"Mmm, that's a good answer. I don't know how you truly feel Kan but to tell you the truth one of the reasons I took an interest to your group, and in you particular was because I fought alongside your parents back then."
"Ehh?"
"Yeah, it was many years ago. I was a few years younger than you now. If you want, I could tell you a little bit of it."
"Ahh, no it was just surprising to hear about it." Kan was quite quick to change the topic.
"Oh right, you said something about tactics. I have some few books here you could definitely use." Inerva stood up and looked around the bookshelf
"So that was the reason, huh?" Kan quietly utter.
"Hmm, what was that? Here you go." It was a few books, some scrolls, and a ring.
"Oh, it's nothing. What are these items?" Kan looked at the items placed in the table.
"This one is for storing mana." A normal ring with a small orb in it.
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ActionYyssa, a world governed by hierarchy from the infamous 7 Royal Families. Their presence shaped the world and nations were mainly ruled by them. Kan Uolo, seeking to be a well-known mage although his fatal flaw... he is not born to be a mage but to b...
