Blooming Tower of the West Wind

She watched Hipper's... should be said mischievous eyes, and was stunned again.It is true that they have not seen each other for a long time, and Hipper's face is really missed.

"I thought you wouldn't come."

"Why do you think so?"

"Because you said in your letter 'maybe come'."

"This is just an understatement. Even if I left early from the last meeting, I would have caught up with your graduation ceremony. You left school in style. This will never happen again in your life."

"Would you feel... would you feel happy?"

Hipper said sincerely: "Of course, when I came in, I heard that someone wanted to recruit you into the tower as an apprentice, but unfortunately they didn't have the chance. I didn't understand why my teacher was so keen on finding student, but I experienced it deeply today.”

"It makes you happy, I'm so...I'm so happy!"

There was an unconcealable sincerity in Theron's expression. Hipper stopped and looked at her. If their relationship was still as pure as before, maybe at this time there should be a hug without any grievances, and a kind kiss.

But she didn't dare to do these dangerous actions, the archmage was not sure that she could resist such a temptation.

In the end she just raised her hand and stroked Theron's short hair.

"Go to your activity room?"

"Well... good." They walked side by side, with dark clouds floating above their heads, and the cool wind in the shadows became something that could take away the heat. There was almost no one around, only the two of them walking in the quiet small alley.

Some traces of melted stones can still be seen on the road. Hipper said strangely: "These are traces of fighting. Is Xingsong Castle not peaceful recently?"

Theron said calmly: "It seems to be a strange thing, but in the end the sheriff didn't find anything, and the supervisory committee didn't find anything, so let's just let it go."

When they got to the school gate, the gargoyle opened the door from a long distance away, and when Hipper passed by, it actually folded its wings tamely.It's a bit far from here to the "Sisters' Hall". Theron took Hipper on a road that rarely encounters people, from the upstairs of the Spring Hall to the Falcon Castle through the hanging path. When the Archmage was on the tower of the Falcon Castle He suddenly said, "Couldn't Virgil have taught you all your dueling skills?"

Theron's back was visibly stiff, and the Archmage added: "Upstairs in Falcon Castle is a place Virgil likes to come to very much. From here, he can see the playground, and then laugh at the students who behaved particularly badly in the actual combat class. The two of us do it a lot."

She replied softly: "... yes."

"He also knows about your duel?"

"I, I don't know if he knows it!" But he probably knew, otherwise he wouldn't have taken her to listen to the Meserani dialect...

Then he must have known it, the archmage thought, Virgil likes to inquire about gossip so much, he must listen to every trouble in the school, how to punish this old hunter?

"Go this way." The tiles on the castle roof suddenly flew up one by one, forming a ladder in front of them, and the archmage walked down step by step, standing on the castle roof and reaching out to Theron.Theron walked down tremblingly, and couldn't wait to hold Hipper.

"Do not be afraid."

"...I'm not afraid." She was just shocked why these tiles are so obedient. There is space magic on the tiles, and their characteristic is to always struggle to fly back to their original position, unless someone cancels this spell, but they violated this nature just now , came to Hipper as a stepping stone.

Then this scene that was too flattering to be seen appeared again, the tile path in the air appeared again, they went directly from the roof of the Falcon Fort to the roof of the Red Clay Courtyard, and the tiles were arranged again and again to form a new path, allowing them to walk on the roof Unobstructed, and finally directly into the interior of the Sister Hall from a staggered roof.

By the way, Virgil said "There is no roof we can't go to", so it turned out to be the case.

The activity room was still empty for the time being, the spider Shirley was hanging on the net, and when she saw Theron coming in, she made a "squeak" sound.

In fact, the two of them didn't talk all the time when they were together. Hipper wandered around in her laboratory, looking at the cabinets full of test materials in amazement.

"I bought it myself? Is the money still enough?"

"Well, well, it's enough, mainly Svis, who contributed all the potions he saved for two school years to our experiments."

She took out the notes from the bookshelf and flipped through them. Hektra consciously rolled into a circle, and Hipper leaned on the sofa of the water lord and whispered: "My teacher Emerson once collaborated with Svoboda A book on witchcraft..."

"Swoboda?" She still remembered the name, and she took out a book and handed it to Hipper, "Is it this one? My only guide book."

"Yes, this is the one. But then in an experiment, Swoboda's eyes were burned out, and the study of witchcraft was completely banned."

"...and then?" This book was exactly as she had imagined, with a tragic story behind it.

"Nothing more, I just want to tell you that this is still taboo now. Although it is not as forbidden as shadow spells, don't tell others casually. Before you leave, you must pack all these things and take them away. Are you ready?"

Theron shook her head in a daze, she didn't have time to pack her luggage, but it's already afternoon!Because of Hipper's arrival, she had to go home tonight. She hadn't forgotten that Hipper didn't sleep very well outside, so she got up and said, "Sit down first! I'll pack things... "

Hipper didn't intend to help her, because there were more important things to do: finish reading "Beauty and the Duel" in hand.

While Theron was sorting out his own books and those to be returned, he was interrupted by Hipper from time to time and asked questions.

"There is a long section in the middle where you win with one blow. How on earth did you come up with the idea of ​​hitting someone? This is not like a mage's way of thinking."

"Uh..." Theron wanted to explain, but finally turned over a notebook to Hipper, "I have roughly analyzed this for a while, and there is a simple model, which I feel can be calculated in this way."

Hipper took it over and took a look. The person was abstracted into a point, and the arrow indicated the direction of the force. There were a lot of measurement data recorded on it. It was estimated that it was done with a hanging scale, and everything was written in weight units.

"Hmm...very clear." An abstract model similar to complex wind elemental spells, with an approximate weight of the opponent's physique listed next to it.

"If it's too heavy, use Lenning to hit it. There are rules in a duel and there are different ways to play it. It's much more interesting than blowing up the opponent's armor."

"Yes, the duel method did not become popular in the mage circle at the beginning, but various professions suitable for wrestling. During the Seti Empire era, there was a special arena, which was popular near the Principality of Meserani. It should be possible. Consider it the beginning of dueling."

Theron continued to pack her things, and Hipper would interrupt her and ask, "You really say that to everyone?" She was about to read on, but she felt that she couldn't speak, and Theron asked, "What?" While leaning over, seeing Hipper pointing to the phrase "I can let you leave without saying bad things about Hipper", she looked up at the archmage who was embarrassed to say her name, and felt a trace of anger in her expression. Secretly shy.

"Basically yes," she stared at Hipper, admiring her expression, "if you just come to a duel, the mark of shame only lasts for five days, and it's white."

"What if not?"

"It's a red month, and the words on the mark of shame are even more shameful."

"It also says that someone is proud to lose to you."

"Maybe." Theron said with a smile, and put the books in the cardboard box by the wall. A child of the soil fell out of the void, and she had to return the books later.Thanks to the previous chain of events, she completely forgot about things like packing and returning books.

Hipper accompanied her out of the activity room to return the book and go through other formalities, but before she finished reading "Beauty and the Duel", the book kept flying in front of her, just blocking her face.She only needs to look at Theron's feet that appear and disappear from the gap. When she needs to go up and down the stairs, the little beast, who is now a guide dog, will stretch out a hand to hold her hand and remind her Be careful going downstairs.

She doesn't even need to worry about walking, she only shows her face to sign when she needs to sign.

Theron now has two boxes, one contains the books she bought herself, and the other contains luggage, all of which are carried by Hektra, and the darker and darker sky reminds them that it is almost time for the dinner party.

The question in Theron's mind became deeper and deeper: Does the Archmage really remember the dance steps?Wouldn't she have the trouble of forgetting that "middle-aged people forget everything"?She didn't intend to embarrass Hipper, but if she said "no way" in front of the arrogant archmage, the consequences might be particularly serious.

Kowa seemed to appear out of thin air, hula landed in front of her, and reprimanded seriously: "Where did you go! You ran away after the speech! And you! Did you just pull her away so impatiently! I didn't Just in time to tell her about the first dance of the night!"

Hipper smiled politely, "Kova, long time no see."

"Yeah," Kowa poked the Archmage's shoulder with a troublesome expression on her face and said, "You didn't even come to visit me when you came to my place, huh?"

"Well, I didn't have time."

"Be careful next time, hurry up, it's about to start!" Kowa stretched out a hand to hold Theron, "Who are you dancing with for the first dance?"

Just knowingly asked, Theron was about to answer, when the other hand blocked Kowa's hand, Hipper said lightly, "With whom?"

Theron stopped in a panic, and was about to speak when suddenly deafening music sounded in the hall. Kova flew behind the two of them and urged, "Don't worry about it, let's go in first and make a decision, okay?"

The author has something to say: boring little daily life...

It's normal for Hipper and Kowa to know each other√