The Legacy of Charm: An Examination of sincerity

Chapter 4

As soon as the light from the magical portal dissipated, Sophia and Nathaniel began to look around in amazement – this place was absolutely unlike their usual cities. The guys found themselves in the center of a street surrounded on all sides by various shops, the windows of which glowed with holograms and energy balls. They were standing on a perfectly flat, stone-paved road, which, apparently, was a sidewalk. Not far from them, the usual paved crossings were also visible. For a second, you might have thought that this was a roadway, but the numerous benches standing there along the entire street immediately caught your eye. This was to be expected – the Enchanters did not use vehicles – they always used teleportation to get around. However, Sherman once mentioned that in some places they have special driving simulators. Naturally, like most borrowings from Earth, this was done solely for entertainment.

In addition to the surprisingly clean and comfortable benches, next to which there were energy balls with deepening (apparently for waste disposal), the street was evenly furnished with trees with crystal leaves, which the guys had previously seen in the garden next to the collegium. Only now they were all the same sky-blue shade. Dozens of meters away from the company, two young witches were whispering at a showcase with clothes. A man and a woman were sitting on one of the benches not far from them. They looked to be no more than thirty-five, which means their real age could safely range from thirty to fifty. In the distance, several children could be seen riding bicycles.

"Oh, it's been so long since I've been here!" Antoinette spun around her axis, putting her palms to her heart, in parallel with this, her sports outfit was again replaced by a stylish top and shorts.

"You also studied here with the guys, right?" Sophy was slightly stunned by the sorcery she saw.

"Oh yes," the redhead touched her shoes, "I haven't been to this residential complex, probably, since the graduation of Sherman and Nora."

"Do you also live in the collegium?" Nate asked.

"O no," Leroy waved her hand in disgust. "We live in the spring region. In the eastern complex, which is also an administrative complex."

"You mean?"

"The committee building is located there," Nicholas explained.

The couple from Earth nodded understandingly.

"Okay, keep up!" Felicia walked forward in proud solitude, and the other four followed her, walking in a single line, with Toni and Sophy at the edges.

"What do you do in the auxiliary collegium?" Greenfire Jr. looked at his new acquaintances with interest.

"I work in the communications department," the redhead began to walk backwards to look at the interlocutors, "I keep the auxiliary collegium in touch with the committee."

"I am the assistant to the deputy head of the auxiliary collegium."

"An assistant?" Sophy raised her eyebrows. "I thought you were the deputy yourself, because your father..."

"Nepotism is not encouraged in Charm," Leroy interrupted her.

The blonde managed to keep a calm expression on her face with great difficulty. Literally everything Antoinette said irritated her insanely.

"And you are also combat units?" Nate asked.

"Of course," Nick nodded.

"It turns out," Sophy said, "that of our acquaintances, only Sherman and Nora are not employees of the collegium."

"Lucky ones," the redhead gasped. "Sherman is too careless for this kind of work. And Nora just can't stand it."

"Why do you work if you don't like it?" The blonde asked defiantly.