Extra for a Reason

Chapter 10 | He...

Was it the second week since the Academy started?

I was running down to the canteen from the fourth floor where my class was located.

Of course, alone as always.

When I was on the stairs to the second floor, I almost tripped and as I got to balance back,

A boy from the second floor was staring at me, maybe he too was surprised or confused just like what I felt back then.

Our eyes met and... is it because I was running or is it just me, my heart was beating hard as if it wanted to come out and go meet someone.

It was not sure how many minutes passed but we were still staring at each other until his friends called out to him, " Hey, Nic..." 'Why are you standing there?"

'Nick?'

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Terla stepped down to the second floor and her gaze followed the boy.

"That uniform..., he's from Heros' school?"

Academy is divided into three schools, "School of Wizards or School of Sorcery and Wizardry", " Neutral School" and finally, "Heroes' School".

The first is where sorcery and wizardry are taught and only those with a magic talent are qualified to attend and also, where Terla' school. "Neutral School" is where common people and those who weren't qualified to attend the other schools have to attend. Literature, medicine, economics, etc. are main subjects here and housecraft skills, housework skills, and many more are taught here. And, lastly, as you might have guessed, "Heroes' School" is where heroes(knights) are born.

The school is again divided into six temples, Tank, Fighter, Assassin, Marksman, Mage and Support.

They too use magic but in a different way, for example, tanks use magic to create barriers or magic shields for themselves and fighters use magic as sword auras.

The mages are different from sorcerers in the way they apply magic.

A long skyway about a hundred metres is built between the two towers of "School of Wizards" and "Heroes' School" with a huge library in between.

The silhouettes of boys gradually became far away and only then did she realize she had been stupidly standing there for a long time now as she continued her run.

About a week later, the weekend classes of the "Ancient Tongue" class started.

She sat at the same place but this time, Violet sat beside her with Susan at another side.

But Terla's attention was on neither of them but on the boy sitting across one table from her.

The boy noticed her gaze and looked at her but she turned away immediately.

This boy has been on her nerves lately. Since the day they met at the skyway, he kept appearing in front of her. He was standing at the skyway's corner almost everyday and he also came down when she came down to the canteen. The other day, she went down late and he was not in the place. She felt somehow relieved. But..., as she stepped out of the stairs, he came running at her and closely brushed past her as he ran up the stairs. Then again when she arrived at the other side of the building where another stair existed, he ran down from the stairs concurrently as he brushed past her like before.