Today’s class that Neris took with other freshmen was basic magic.
Traditionally, nobles considered magic an important liberal art. In the age of the three warriors, it was as natural as air, but in this age, it had become a very expensive kind of skill, almost disappearing, so it was even more so with the desire for rarity.
To be recognized as a dignified noble in social circles, using a few terms of basic theory was sufficient, but occasionally talented people claimed to be the distant descendants of the three warriors.
That is to say, an individual’s magical talent, which seems like an objective figure at first glance, could be used politically.
So the school did not offer regular opportunities for basic magic to young students and only allowed further studies after carefully measuring talent over three years.
After all, the lowergrade magic classes were just simple things like learning how to put some energy that everyone has into existing magic tools, but there were many children who couldn’t even follow that much education.
Neris had a higherthanaverage amount of magical power and excelled in application. It might be related to her eyes, but it was unknown.
Just, having to take those lessons that had been too easy for her for another three years was tedious.
Fortunately, there was something to see today.
“My bracelet is gone.”
It was when basic magic practice ended, and everyone was taking off their practice clothes and putting back on the jewelry they had taken off before class. Lianon spoke with a pale face. Megara frowned.
“Bracelet?”
“My emerald bracelet!”
Lianon’s emerald bracelet, made with topgrade emeralds that looked as if flames were flickering inside, was an expensive piece of jewelry for a child.
She cherished the bracelet, which her wealthy family’s maternal aunt brought as a dowry when she got married, and there wasn’t a single child among her classmates who hadn’t envied the bracelet at least once.
Lianon’s screamlike voice drew the attention of the entire class. Dianne, who was taking off her practice clothes with Neris’s simple help, squinted.
“The bracelet is gone?”
“Look carefully.”
Megara advised with a surprised face. Lianon turned pale, thoroughly feeling around the nearby desks and the inside of the practice clothes she had taken off. Alecto started to help her look around.
“It’s gone!”
Finally accepting the situation, Lianon covered her mouth with both hands. Alecto looked around menacingly.
At the end of that gaze was Angarad, who was as pale as Lianon and then turned red in the face.
“What’s going on?”
Mrs. Greyum, the basic magic teacher, had returned to the classroom a little later than the children as she had been tidying up the practice field. She sensed the strange atmosphere among the students and asked.
Lianon suddenly spoke with a choked voice.
“Teacher, I can’t find my bracelet…….”
Mrs. Greyum was more of a cunning teacher than an excellent magician. Taking care of the lower grades was more about caregiving than passing on knowledge. She asked carefully.
“What does it look like?”
“It’s a gold bracelet with an oval emerald this big, and, uh, small…… small diamonds embedded three on each side…….”
The size of the emerald that Lianon approximated with her fingers could not be ignored as a child’s item.
Mrs. Greyum’s face stiffened. Her voice became kinder than before.
“Are you sure you wore the bracelet today? Honey, could you have not worn it today and that’s why you don’t see it?”
“I saw Rini take off the bracelet before class started. I think she put it in the drawer.”
Megara spoke with a pitiful expression. Suddenly, the classroom became dreadfully quiet.
“Let’s search for it first. Kids, look around. It might have fallen on the floor.”
The children silently searched their surroundings. Lianon’s face was soaked with tears.
Megara and Alecto comforted Lianon and checked Lianon’s desk, clothes, body, and bag one more time. When the bracelet did not appear anywhere, the children fell into a chilling silence.
“Teacher.”
Alecto spoke quietly.
“I think someone took it.”
Who first turned their gaze to Angarad again was unknown. Angarad slumped over his desk under the entire class’s piercing stares.
“Why are you lying down?”
Alecto sharply asked. Angarad did not stand up. Whether he burst into tears or not, his visible back shivered slightly. Alecto approached Angarad like a strong animal and asked again.
“Why, are you lying down, huh?”
“Alecto Islani!”
Mrs. Greyum quickly warned him. Alecto glared.
“What did I say, Teacher? I just asked a question. Angarad suddenly lay down.”
“If you talk to a friend like that, anyone would be scared. Go back to your seat.”
Ever since the ribbon incident, Alecto had tried to devour Angarad whenever he saw him. Dian looked at Angarad’s back with a strange face and whispered to Neris.
“What’s going on all of a sudden?”
“Indeed.”
Neris answered cheerfully. Diane slightly raised an eyebrow at her indifferent voice.
“Aren’t you curious how it happened?”
“Curious. It’s a valuable thing. An emerald that size would be hard to find even a similar one.”
Neris’s voice was slightly louder in the last sentence, heard by half the children. Angarad’s back jerked sharply.
“Teacher.”
Lianon spoke quietly.
“At my grandfather’s house, when jewelry or gold coins go missing, they open the pockets of likely suspects.”
Lianon, who had lost her bracelet, was clearly very angry and anxious. Mrs. Greyum sighed with a troubled face.
“Dignified people never rashly suspect others, Lianon. But yes, someone might have taken the bracelet by mistake. When many people gather, really unbelievable mistakes can happen. If someone made such a mistake, let’s have time to check ourselves quickly so that they can know and fix it, and if anyone remembers something, they can tell the teacher, how about that?”
It was nonsense. There was no way anyone could accidentally take something that was left in a drawer.
No child smiled, and Mrs. Greyum quickly realized that. Megara raised her hand.
“Teacher, we don’t need to check everyone. We all moved together when we went to practice and when we came back to the classroom. The culprit must be someone who left their seat during practice?”
“Then we know who it is! Angarad Nain went out and came back earlier!”
Someone shouted in a cynical voice.
Neris sneered. She certainly did. Lately, in Angarad, as the number of children who wouldn’t partner with her increased, she often left her seat during class time, excusing herself with a headache. It was an obvious lie, but as no one pointed it out or worried about it, the frequency increased.
“It’s not necessarily like that.”
Megara said calmly.
“You left your seat too, Neris. Right, Neris? It feels a bit strange for me to point this out in this situation, but I brought it up because if someone who is wronged comes out, it’s an ‘absolute’ nogo situation. I hope you don’t misunderstand me.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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