10.32 cycle six, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  It’s been a month since the soul transfusion, and I am dealing with two different memories

  Nothing weird really seems to be happening, and I still regularly write in my daily journal

  I realized a few things: something is definitely happening outside my knowledge, as if I were a pawn in something bigger, such as Noah's plan and Millenia's secret

  Also, ever since the day Noah went to the meeting, he only came back once and then went somewhere, perhaps on an expedition or something, while the maid also came to the academy to bring Alias to play with me after the Millenia class everyday

  Despite how troublesome babysitting is, I couldn’t help but go with it, because perhaps I have become closer to Alias? But then again, I got some benefit from Noah

  That’s right, I got paid

  I get 2 different salaries, one from being a teacher assistant and one from babysitting Alias

  Because I had no money left, before Noah left on the expedition, I asked him for half of my salary in advance

  The average salary is around 5 silver coins, so I received 2.5 silver coins upfront

  1 silver is equal to 100 copper coins, while one plate of food is somewhere around 5-ish copper, depending on what kind of food you order

  Quick math: in one day, humans eat 3 meals a day, so 15 copper instantly gone a day, times 30, and we get 4.5 silver coins. It's pricey to eat outside every day, so I'd rather cook myself, plus I also need to pay monthly rent, given that I didn’t buy the house in full cash

  2 silver for a monthly rent, it's pretty cheap compared to Earth

  Currently, I'm playing with Alias, since there’s no Millenia class for today

  Millenia's class schedule is on days one, four, and seven of the week, and Millenia said she's going somewhere today, so I get a lot of free time today

  Alias really doesn’t seem bothered by the absence of Noah, probably because she lived with her mom longer than her dad?

  While for Millenia, she doesn’t really care much about what I do, since most of the time she just orders me around like a slave rather than an assistant, and after the class too

  Bring me that and this

  Cleaning here and there

  And such…

  Set aside that demoness young lady, rather than playing, I wasn’t really playing with Alias in the literal sense

  Rather, I teach her some basic magic and show how such magic could be created

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  We’re in the side building of the library, sitting on the bench

  You could hear the water flow through the fountain in the middle of the area, and a small garden of flowers was scattered around, which filled the vision of whoever was visiting

  I could feel Alias's hand tugging my sleeve while looking at me with shining eyes

  Too bright…

  “Alright, alright” She was interested in some mediocre magic that some weird individual was trying to show off in the training ground before, when we were walking in the hallway

  She somehow managed to catch sight of it

  Mist magic is just simple magic where you need to combine water and fire elements, you don’t even need to use a magic circle, unless you’re going big with it

  Opening my palm and gathering mana around it

  The natural mana is just pure mana that is contaminated with elemental mana, though the majority of its structure was pure mana

  You need to feel which element you want to use before filling that specific element's mana, which exists within the natural mana, and then you fill that elemental mana with your own mana

  And it will alter its whole structure and overwrite the other existing elements, but with the affinity element, you could do it faster, and sometimes even skip some steps with it

  That’s basically the basis of it

  Then, slowly, a small mass of water formed around my palm, and I heated it through the fire element, where I covered the water with fire. After it reached its boiling point, I released the fire barrier

  I release the fire barrier and then lift the boiling water into the air before scattering it with wind magic

  The rapid change in temperature from the wind magic forcefully turned the water into mist that slowly covered both of us

  Alias was looking at the magic phenomenon with wide eyes while extending her small hand to feel the mist

  Was it really that interesting? I can’t really understand that, it's as normal as human needs

  Perhaps because Kaleth's memory was filled with magic experiences, I couldn’t help but feel nothing with it

  “Kaleth, again,” Alias said while tugging my sleeve and looking at me with expectant eyes

  “Sure thing.”

  Was it because my mana is twisted right now? The mana I used for this simple trick was more than usual?

  *****

  11.32 cycle six, Ca’thir, of calendar Moonrachia

  When I look at the academy tower, the clock shows half an hour before lunch break, so I decide to head into the principal's office before a lot of students fill the hallway and scare Alias

  Maya was the name of a maid who was always beside Noah. When Noah disappeared and left his principal work behind, it was Maya who finished the paperwork

  She also prepares a bunch of Alias's needs, such as lunch, snacks, etc

  Knocking on Noah's office door, a calm and steady feminine voice could be heard, “You may enter.”

  When I opened the door, a figure was sitting on Noah’s seat while moving her hand

  You could see a mountain of paper neatly placed around the table

  Maya's appearance is easily described as a black rose, she had really long hair that fell into her tailbone, with a calm and subtle smile, yet somehow, I could feel a thorn around her

  As if my instinct is telling me there’s something dangerous about her

  Am I paranoid? Or were a lot of people here hiding some dangerous secret?

  “Hello Kaleth, was it already lunchtime? Time really flew fast if you keep yourself busy, hmm?”

  “Yeah, it seems so, but still, don’t you at least take a break once in a while?” Even just seeing how much paperwork was already sent some dizziness into my poor brain

  “I do, I really do take breaks sometimes.” Then she stood up from her chair while pulling out a lunchbox from the small pouch of her

  A dimensional pocket, in theory, the way it works, is expanding the dimension inside the pocket, using specific monster or dragon skins with manipulated structures so they can expand while maintaining the same size from the outside

  Simply, it's like stretching a rubber band as far as it can without breaking it. They basically stretch the dimension inside the pocket

  Then I slowly take the lunchbox from Maya's hand, “Has Mr. Noah not come back yet?”

  “There’s no news about it,” Maya sat back into the seat again

  I became closer to Maya because of babysitting Alias, close enough to talk casually

  I have never really travelled outside, so I don’t really know how long it takes to travel from kingdom A to kingdom B

  Then my gaze fell on Alias

  I didn’t realize that Alias was munching on Maya’s snacks. Alias looked at me with cheeks full, like a hamster

  “Don’t you at least tell her not to eat a snack before lunch…” Then Maya was smiling and giggling

  “When you were still as little as she, you could almost eat anything and still be hungry, you know?”

  Really though? Honestly, I don’t know, I'm a small-appetite type of person

  “Let’s eat your lunch first, okay? Before eating another snacks” Pulling Alias away gently, somehow, she was fast enough to snatch another one and put it in her mouth

  “I should bring her somewhere, can’t let her eat all of those snacks, no?”

  “You’re right, you can come back again, once you feed her lunch first”

  Before leaving the room with Alias, she was waving her small hand toward Maya while saying, “Bye, bye”

  Maya then waved her hand with a small smile

  “Good luck with all of that paperwork” Holding the door open

  “You too, good luck with that little one”

  I can’t help but let out a wry smile to her before I close the door and walk toward the roof

  *****

  The door closed with a soft thud

  A mountain of paper still needs to be done

  I can’t help but let out a sigh

  Where did Master Noah go? If I could be honest, I would rather do my usual maid duty than do all of this paperwork…

  Massaging my palm while looking at the door

  Kaleth, someone who will change the future

  How could you be sure about it?

  I can’t help but wonder about it, because no matter how many times I observe him, I can’t seem to see him as a hero type of person

  And you also said Alias Fate was in his hand?

  Are there many other things you also hide from me, master?

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