Lucid Dreams of Late: Luckless Trinity

CHAPTER 8: トラブルが頭をもたげ始める [Trouble Begins to Rear its Head]

 Everyone in class, began to clear their tables and stack them on top of one another, placing them along the four sides of the classrooms.

They were all very excited to have this practical class and all the young and aspiring necromancers were all chirping away while clearing the table very animatedly and Tsukiko was no exception. She always looked forward to their weekly practical classes as they gave her the opportunity to test out the progress, she'd made in class so far and would also be able to know more of the mistakes she made when using her magic, so it was good learning opportunity for her.

Tsukiko hummed a tune as she did her share of the preparations and out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Jae-sung.

"I wonder if Jae-sung had any practical classes in Korea.", she thought, "I'll go ask him". She tried waving her arms and yelling his name in a half whisper, half shout but for some reason, he didn't notice and continued to stack chairs. Feeling a bit exasperated, Tsukiko decided to try to wave her arms even harder and thankfully, he was able to notice her. He briskly walked towards where she was and was visibly confused.

Tsukiko felt a little sorry for him, seeing him in this state and tried to make him feel less confused. "I wanted to ask you about something regarding the practical class", she said. Almost as if he guessed what she wanted to as, he answered her question with another question. "Let me guess, you wanted to know if we had any practical classes in Korea?".

Tsukiko, "..."She was so shocked that Jae-sung was able to accurately guess her question, and with so much ease too! she even started to welcome the possibility of him being psychic. Seeing her have such a strong reaction, Jae-sung realized that he was right and answered her question. "To answer your question, yes we had practical classes in my old school in Korea, in fact, we had them every day after each class".

Tsukiko, who had already come over her shock was surprised to hear this, after all, they had these classes once a week, sometimes two, but never the entire week. She wanted to ask how doing practical classes everyday felt since she had never experienced such a fantasy when the teacher told them that it was time to get started on the practical.

Tsukiko and Jae-sung stopped talking and faced the teacher in order to see what she was going to do. There were suddenly two rectangular blocks of marble on the floor which both had something on them, though, nobody could see what those somethings was as they were covered in thick black silk.

The teacher dramatically moved around the two marble blocks in circles and spoke with her arms behind her back. "Students, today we will be working with metamorphosis and transformation magic which were the last thing you were all taught before this class, right? the students gave an excited 'Yes' and she continued speaking, " Now, I'm sure some of you have started to ponder about just what was behind these veils, well I'll tell you they are the materials that you will be using for this class". As she said this, she dramatically unveiled the two objects on the marble blocks. On the first one, there was a book, and on the second, there was a fishbowl.

Some of the students were confused while others like Tsukiko immediately got it. "We're supposed to turn the book, into a fish". And they were right. The teacher told them to watch her, and she dramatically raised her hand and pointed it at the book and closed her eyes. Soon, a loud bang was heard and there was an eruption of smoke.

Once it cleared, everybody saw that the book that once lay motionless on the marble block, had now become a lively orange fish. The class was in awe, and they all immediately brought out their wands, wanting to try it out as well.

The teacher turned the fish back into a book and told the class that they'd have to do the same. Some immediately became less enthusiastic as the magic to change something back to its original form, was much harder than changing it to something else.