Reincarnated In a World without Tea

Entry 8

A/N: Thank you for being so patient with me >///< I told myself to at least spend an hour every second day on this! So I hope you'll continue being patient with me~ 

*Slightly edited*

Entry 8:

On the second day of the festival, we had met up outside the university. With my current height, it felt intimidating to walk through the large gates of the University building.

Then, as if he kept a tracker on us, Jun-senpai immediately spotted us and guided the three of us around like it was his home. The university was massive; saying that would be an understatement though. It accommodates various courses after all.

As today was Aura Academy's birthday, the main events would be taking place. Apparently later at night, there will be some special firework displays. It was a sight to see every year, or so I've heard. Each year a theme was given to the fireworks displayed, however, it was kept a secret until its launch. It supposedly boosts the hype.

Anyway, Jun-senpai introduced us to some of his university friends; the amount of names given to us had already left my memory. How is the Breeze system so unique if there's so many of us?? Oh, however, Jun-senpai mentioned that in each course only one top student is given Breeze privilege. Also, Breeze members that graduated from high school are still Breeze members, without the privileges or something like that. It was too much for me to understand right now.

The top two rankers had meanwhile kept silent most of the time. Therefore I, along with Jun-senpai, had done all the talking. My cheek muscles felt the strain from being over-polite to the senior Breeze members.

"Aren't you having fun?" I turned to ask the two boys while Jun-senpai was chatting to one of the university Breeze members.

Teri-san responded with a look, then he briefly glanced at Tomi-san who returned it with a wry smile.

"How about you, Wakachamu-san?" Tomi-san redirected the question.

Huh? Wasn't I doing the talking and looking all excited while you boys stood like decorations in the background???

"Of course," A smile stretched across my face, "it's a festival, after all, ~ And we haven't finished meeting all of the Breeze members that Jun-senpai wants to introduce us to."

Although I was really really craving for some tea, particularly a calming and refreshing herbal tea; like lemon balm! I placed a mental reminder to have some once the day was over.

There was a moment of awkward silence that was luckily broken by the return of our senior Breeze member. "Sorry kiddo's, my friend struck up an interesting conversation. So where to next?"

To the next destination, of course!

— I was about to say, but Teri-san spoke just before I could even open my mouth. "We passed by an interesting cafe earlier."

"Oh— "

"Oh yes, " Tomi-san agreed to his friends' idea and cut my words off, "I'm feeling thirsty. So how about we relax at that café?", which stopped me from getting another word out.

I guess I could do with a break~ Talking to the Breeze members was exhausting and I could feel that I was eventually forcing my smile.

We entered a cafe with a Bohemian theme; the warm and colourful decorations mixed with interesting patterns had filled the classroom. I relaxed into the cushioned seats and opened the menu that was already sitting on the table. Whilst deciding my order, I took a peek at both Teri and Tomi. They looked out of place.