[Trouble] Chapter 12 (uncomplete)

The teacher started to lightly touch upon the subject of magic when the school breaks ended. Though for those students that does not have any element, the teacher explained that they do not have the talent for magic, by which some of them raised their hands up to ask the teacher.

“Teacher! Is it not possible to train to get magic talent?” 

“Train? You must have asked this because of your past senior.” The teacher smiled, “Well, a lot of students have tried, but none other than that one senior, no one has been successful at all.” The teacher said as she shook her head.

“Awh, really… what a bummer.” That student pouted.

“But don’t be sad, everyone who does not have talent in magic will be allowed to choose if they want to train in your physical.” 

“Physical training?”

“Yes, it is one that help in increasing your toughness, endurance and also survivability. But we won’t force you to join military or something. So it is all up to you on the path after you graduated.” She smile and added, “So it will be okay. Even I, your teacher also does not have talent for magic, and only end up joining those student in training my physical.”

“Eh.. What is the difference?”

“It is basically just like you join a club activity, that’s all. So because of that, I can only suggest you books to read about magic for magic student, and for the rest, I can show you the training room.” She smiled, with the students still looking a bit confused.

Then again one of them ask her, “Teacher! I got a question!”

“Ah? Yes what is it?”

“Is it possible for those who got talent in magic to also join the physical training too?” That student look serious, “Is it also possible if they don’t want to learn magic, can they refuse it?”

“Is that so, well, for your first question, yes you can, but your priority is more toward magic so you will only be able to join on the days without the magic class.” She said with a chuckle, “For the second question, most will not usually refuse, but we allow you to refuse because something forced are often will not give a good result.”

With that the students whispers and discussed with each other, seemed that some of them are not planning to learn that magic despite being detected in having some talent in magic. The teacher upon seeing that there does not seem like any student wanted to ask anymore, the teacher walked to the desk and take a seat, as she watched over them.

Riz looked at his classmates which he are recently being close with, they too seems unsure if they would like to learn it or not so Riz suggested to them, “Well, I think its fine to try? If me, I’m thinking of trying it for a few months, if I didn’t like it, I’ll go submit a class withdrawal form to our class teacher.”

“Eh? Can we do that?” The others asked and looked at the teacher, and some even went to the teacher to ask about that. Seeing that the teacher nods, a lot of them consider that they should at least try this first before deciding.

With that, in the other half of the school year, there are a new subject being added in their schedule, which will teach the students about magic, lightly touch the history, and how to use if for the first time. These are deemed as a basic, so that subject is only being teach twice a month instead of daily like the other subject.

With that, the months passed by, and then year by year passed by. Those who liked magic and choose to learn it took the supplementary lesson which are separated from their class schedule, and due to not many students choosing to learn it, that separate lesson is being made in one class with all the other students from other classes being combined into that class.

Those who choose to learn magic was asked to drink a liquid in a test tube provided by the teacher when they first come to the class. From the testament given by their seniors in the next class, that liquid is to amplify their magic talent further, so that their learning is better and smoother, but the side effect is something certain people are not able to easily accept. 

From what they can see, all their seniors that are learning magic all have one distinct similarities, where they all have a pair of animal ears with or without tails, and some of them have a stunted growth too, means that some of them are shorter than the average person, despite their increasing age, some of them never grow taller than 155 cm.

While the rest of the ones that choosing not to learn magic instead join the physical training classes, which act like a curriculum activities, and they learned how to fight and defend themselves from ill intended people. These people grow taller than the magic students, and much tougher and resilient. Despite the different choice, they never fought each other, and instead back up each other when their schoolmates are facing problems.

So any incident such as kidnapping or bullying are something rarely happens in this whose school due to how united the students were.

.._..

With that, 6 years passed by, and by now Riz is now a university student, and he was still living in the same building as the headmaster, with both his two siblings, where they are now at the age of 11 years old, and are currently learning at the middle school.

Riz despite just recently entered the university, he was already bombed with a lot of assignments and homework, and unexpectedly he met his previous classmate from his previous school, where they seems to be taking the same course, however Riz of course did not notice his previous classmate, since he now was often surrounded by new friends.

.._..

Joseph stared at a short classmate that just arrived at the class, he cannot help but rub his eyes a few time, and gasped, “So he is here. He moved here?” He mumbled and watched as that classmate walked happily to the front row in the hall and took a seat. His blue hair are now a bit longer that it was enough to be tied behind, and his round childish face are now a bit longer with his used to be big eyes are now a lot more smaller and narrower. However his height are rather short for an average man.

What is more baffling to Joseph is, he saw there were a pair of fluffy but sharp animal ear on top of the head, and behind him is a big fluffy tail swinging slowly to the left and right. Joseph has heard that this institute is owned by a rich lady, where she has a sort of fetish of liking fluffy things, particularly something furry.

He wondered if that classmate of him is a victim to that lady or not, however he decided that he is not going to let that lady touch his friend any more after this, with that his eyes narrowed slightly.

.._..

When recess came, Joseph walked down the stairs and was just approaching that friend of his when some other girls pushed him away with a squeal and surrounded Riz, “Riz! Can I pat you?” one of them asked with eyes sparkling, though their earlier squealing startled Riz a lot, making his ear flopped down and he hug his tail, as if defending himself, but to those girls it make them squeal a lot more.

And one of them dragged Riz out followed with the other girls behind them as they walked to the cafeteria together. Riz shook his shoulder, feeling helpless as he followed them due to their firm grip on his arm, showing that they will let him go anywhere soon.