"What's the matter, Negi? This is only your first class, it's inevitable to encounter such situations. You can also discuss it with Ryuudou later, can't you?" Yoshino comforted Negi, "All things are difficult before they are easy. Just like when you first started learning magic, you couldn't master it right away. You need a process to get used to it."
"But Sister Yoshino, don't you think that girl's attitude is really too bad? It's utterly outrageous," Negi complained, "When I came to Mahora Academy, someone told me that girls in Neon are all very gentle, but why are the girls I meet like this? It's not what I imagined!"
'Sister Yoshino...' Yoshino's eyebrow twitched at Negi's address. She thought about how she used to call others'sister,' and now having someone call her'sister' felt truly strange. Thinking this, she gently stroked Negi's small head, secretly casting healing magic to heal the spot on the back of Negi's head that Kagurazaka Asuna had hit.
"Well~ no matter what, it's all because your first impression of her was really bad. The first thing you said to her was that she had signs of heartbreak on her face, and you even stripped her clothes off in front of the person she had a crush on. That's why she's targeting you. And all love starts with teasing, that's the first step in student relationships nowadays. It seems you and that girl have a strong connection," Yoshinon said teasingly to the scowling Negi. 'Hitting is affection, scolding is love, and if love isn't enough, you kick.' Their current bad relationship is simply because their love isn't deep enough yet.
"Don't joke, Student Yoshinon. I'm in despair right now. Hmm? So her name is Kagurazaka Asuna, what a strange name. The Director told me to stay at her place tonight, but I have a feeling she won't be happy. What should I do? Do I really have to bring a sleeping bag and sleep in the park like she said? Hmph! Hmph! I don't think anything good will happen." After Negi finished speaking, he looked at Kagurazaka Asuna's photo in the roster he held, thought for a moment, and then started drawing a mark next to it, writing 'mean old hag' and sticking out his tongue, indicating that she deserved it for liking to bully him.
'What a childish thing to do. But Negi is only a ten-year-old child right now, so such childish behavior is quite normal.' Yoshino smiled, watching Negi's actions. This kind of behavior was more fitting for Negi's age. Becoming a teacher at a girls' school at ten years old, that's clearly not something she should be doing.
At this moment, Negi saw a short-haired girl walking down the stairs not far away, carrying a large stack of books and looking like she was struggling.
"That's Student Waka Miyazaki, number 27. Carrying so many books is really dangerous." Negi felt he had seen her before, checked the roster, and found the girl's name; she was a student in his class. Following Negi's gaze, Yoshino also saw the shy girl wobbling with the books, clearly unable to hold on much longer.
"That was dangerous. I need to stop her." Negi put down the class roster in his hand and was about to act when he looked up and saw Waka Miyazaki suddenly stumble and fall. However, there was nothing to block her fall, and she would tumble down the three-story high steps.
"Oh no!" Negi quickly pulled out his 1.5-meter long magic staff, unwrapping the cloth strips to reveal the dry wooden staff beneath. He used wind magic to slow Waka Miyazaki's descent, while Yoshino skillfully created ice skates on her shoes and swiftly moved to Waka Miyazaki's side, catching her as she fell. This averted the crisis of her falling.
"Student Miyazaki, are you alright?" Negi, having put away his staff, rushed over and looked at Waka Miyazaki anxiously. But he received no response. Upon closer inspection, Student Miyazaki had already fainted.
"Thud." They heard the sound of a bag hitting the ground. Turning their heads, they saw Asuna looking at them with an incredulous expression.
"We've been seen! I was careless!" Negi exclaimed. He hadn't expected that in his haste to save Waka Miyazaki, he had forgotten to check their surroundings, and they had been seen.
At this moment, Waka Miyazaki slowly regained consciousness. She saw Yoshino holding her and Negi beside them. Just as she was about to thank them, in the very next second, Kagurazaka Asuna grabbed Negi by the collar and Yoshino, pulling both of them towards a nearby grove of trees, leaving a bewildered Waka Miyazaki standing there, at a loss.
'It seems the story is still developing this way. This should be the beginning of the bond between Negi and Asuna,' Yoshino thought, looking at Kagurazaka Asuna, who was excitedly grabbing her and Negi. 'Curiosity killed the cat, indeed. From now on, Asuna's ordinary life is over. However, Asuna's life as the 'Princess of Twilight' was destined to be extraordinary. It seems all of this was fated.'
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