Confrontation

Ciobara walked avoiding every earth spike on the way reaching in front of Anne with her right hand raised

Fire-type mana started to appear and condense in her hand taking shape of a pearl that spewed out flames with pressure.

After reaching a certain distance, the flames returned to the pearl resulting in a perfect flame sphere.

This is the spell [FIREBALL] after Ciobara's optimizations she referred to as F16. This was the best variant that could be used at her current mana capacity

She took her hand holding the fireball near Anne's face and said

"Never mess with me or my friends again or this fireball will leave only the ashes" Ciobara warned Anne

followers were too scared to remember they can still cast spells.

"Don't you dare harm Miss"

"You won't get away with this" they were both scared by the weird but scary-looking fireball

She canceled the spell right after the warning and started walking toward Asa

Seeing her turn her back one of the followers got the courage and dashed toward Ciobara intending to push but

"STOP IT!! Let's go" Anne shouted looking at her idiot follower while deciding to punish her later.

She halted "But... but" "I SAID! Let's go"

With this, they left the classroom making one wonder why Anne left so early without fighting back or threatening while using her father's name.

"Let's go I am already missing the snacks we can get" Ciobara called out to Asa this time

With this, they left for the cafeteria.

~Amya's POV~

I left class right after the miss still wondering why did she stop me instead of praising me which would be her usual behavior and then we proceed to break the target

"Do you know why I stopped you?" Miss Anne asked with a calm smile as we were making our way toward the cafeteria. I felt this was a rhetorical question but the silence crept me so

"Miss do you have another plan in mind," Amidst the silence, I nervously asked her.

"Let's drop the act, time to return to being friends," Anne suddenly said with a smile which turned the situation awkward for a moment.

"Wait, is she the one you were looking for?" I asked in astonishment and excitement breaking the silence while Ilka looked at Anne curiously as the question she wanted to had been asked.

~POV back to 3rd person~

Asa and Ciobara both reached the café without another trouble knocking on their door.

The café was filled with neatly arranged wooden tables for students to dine on. Each table was circular in shape and accompanied by 4 chairs all around it which also looked extremely luxurious

The café was also laced with inscriptions and circles all over enhancing its beauty. A counter near the end of the room where you could place an order.

There were some weird tables around as well with no chairs surrounding them which had magic circles drawn on top of them, they saw a maid go to one of said tables and snacks appeared on top which indicated they were made to make service in the café faster

Even though the café was extremely large it did not look messy or poorly arranged. There were even some wider tables for larger groups.

Although She does not need to eat anything other than blood anymore, she still needed to act like a human.

They both got seated while waiting for their orders to arrive, and they started to have a chat.

"How are you able to use magic? If you could why not just show your talent instead of pretending to be an idiot? Tell me why?" Asa inquired with a bit of rage feeling like she had been cheated by the only friend she had.

"Would you believe me if I said I was sick, like really sick, and could not focus enough to do magic?"

"You've recovered and can instantly use tier 2 spells like they are nothing and have enough knowledge to improve sensei's spell?" Asa emphasized her anger through these words.

"Don't you dare lie to me? I want the truth," Asa got emotional and was almost crying she was feeling like a child who was about to be abandoned by his parents

"Come to my house with me and ask my parents if I was sick or not. She sent me to the academy in hopes I could find a cure and yesterday I did," urging Asa to visit her home the first chance they get, she replied with confidence

"Ok fine but till then I am not going to trust you completely," Asa relented still looking mad

"Asa, can I ask you a question?" She asked with a caring smile

"Yeah shoot"

"Would you like to learn magic from this awesome friend of yours?" she inquired

"Academy is good enough, remember, I still don't trust you" Asa replied feeling better but still angry

"I am better than the academy" Ciobara said with a tone of bragging

"tsk. Talk like that again I will ignore you"

"Here's your food" the maid interrupted their arguments with the dish

As they started to dig in and were about to continue to chat once more another person took a seat at the same table

"I hope I'm not disturbing you guys," he said while he started eating the snacks, he brought with him and continued before anyone could interrupt him

"You were so cool in class, the look on Anne's face was hilarious and how did you do a spell with a red circle? Isn't that what only grandmasters should be able to?"

As she was about to turn him away, she noticed the red tomato Asa had become.

'Is he her crush' Ciobara felt amused and decided to inspect him a little.

He was a cute boy with a face that would turn extremely handsome. When he turned adult, he would be a lady-killer she predicted.

Crimson hair and a wild look on his face as if a lion was sitting in front of them. He had a smile on his face that could make anyone forget what they were doing. Muscles visible even at that age made her wonder did he choose the wrong department

"Should I 'ask' him to go away" she whispered to Asa

"NO!" Asa shouted back looking around her face turned red once more. Taking a deep breath

"I mean you can sit here" she continued saying to the boy known as Yaseang Saja

And nervously continued to eat while stealing glances at her crush

"So how did you do that spell?" Yaseang asked once more

"You mean the one in class it was just a flashy spell made to intimidate people" Ciobara stated with indifference continuing to eat her food

"Anyway, I came to make friends with you guys name's Yaseang Saja you can call me Yaseang"

"I am Ciobara and this here is Asa"

"Hi!" Asa said still in an awkward way

'did I do something why does she look scared of me' wondered the boy as he was about to ask

"Oh, crap it's 10 minutes left to class," said Asa suddenly said making them drop the discussion and focus on food

With what would be considered speed eating they finished their order in 3 minutes and rushed back to the classroom just in time for the next class to begin.