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How much did it take to do everything he did?

Those were the questions that first came to my mind.

After the classes ended I prepared to go to the cafeteria for some food but a strange girl caught my eye.

She fidgeted a lot and she kept biting her lip so much it started bleeding.

Her appearance tho was not much at first look.

But when one took a closer peek at the face that was behind the glasses and all that dirty hair, one would find themselves a gem.

After 1 minute she got up and rushed out of the class.

I wanted to go follow her and see what was up but a group of guys took the lead and, while smirking, they began following the girl.

As a person who wanted to bring salvation to all I was naturally not going to let anything bad to happened to this girl.

I sat up and began following the group without letting them notice me.

...

The sun was high and clouds were lightly covering its light.

I was ordered to wait for a certain student I would be in the care of.

While I was paying attention to the clouds in the sky a cloud descended and from it dropped 2 men.

One of them was the academy recruiter, and the other one was a 16-year-old boy.

He had an athletic build and a handsome appearance.

With long, blond hair and brown eyes, an uncommon look for a commoner.

After the wizard left I began presenting myself and then proceeded to show him around the academy.

Taking occasional looks at his face allowed me to understand what kind of person I would be serving.

His face constantly showed a curious look that transformed into a smile each time he noticed my eyes.

This went on until we got to his dorm room and even after he took a bath.

After we ended our history lesson, he began talking to me, asking different questions.

I answered what I could and after a sudden silence, a weird question was asked.

"Are you happy?"

I looked at his eyes and noticed his smile was even wider.

I began getting suspicious about his motives for asking me those questions.

Why would he talk this way to a maid he met for the first time?

I answered his question with a simple sentence.

"The academy prevents any type of interaction between a maid and her master besides professionals ones"

He smiled at my answer and got up from his bed.

While looking through the window he asked me another question.

"Is the life you are living now bringing you any joy?"

"Is this what you desired to do or were you forced on this path?"

His question reminded me of my training days.

The maids in this academy were trained from a very young age.

Indoctrinated and trained from their cradle and forced to serve till their deaths.

I wanted to answer with another vague iteration of the regulations but.

The boy that was looking through the window was no more.

The whole room was empty.

The weirdest thing was...

The doors, and when I turned around even the windows.

All... disappeared.

Seeing this sight looked impossible.

The boy I was responsible for wasn't even aware that he had any magic talent until some hours ago.

How could a commoner with a simple family that never had any teaching in magic perform an illusion spell?

I tried breaking the spell but to no avail.

Its complexity baffled me.

It was an advanced version of the basic spell, yes.

But this almost looked like a different one altogether.

The movements, the transition.

Everything happened so fast that I couldn't react.

An unknown force pushed me into the wall.

The force was so great that my vision started to get dizzy.

A strong pain spiked in my guts and I started to cough uncontrollably.

A weird voice started to resound through the room, over and over.

It was unintelligible blabber but some words were discernible.

"Love", "Faith", "Fate".

I couldn't understand what the voice was saying but the words reminded me of my younger days.

When I used to enjoy being with my other friends.

Girls of my age who liked innocent things.

Cooking and sometimes even playing games was fun passing time.

Those days passed as fast as a leaf in the wind when the instructors were ordered to raise our training regimen.

Stricter and harder training was placed upon all of us and this took a strong toll on each girl's body.

Some got sick, and some died.

I was the only one from my class that survived the intense training.

The voice was getting clearer and clearer until it became clear what I was saying.

"It seems you are not happy, so I will take it upon myself to make you enjoy life."

These were the last words I heard before the torture started.

...

The girl was nervously walking towards her dorm when she got surrounded by a group of boys in a deserted part of the academy.

"Don't lie to me whore, you promised me you will give me a night with you and now you want to take it back??"

A guy with a lightning symbol on his neck started raising his voice toward the panicked girl.

She was with her back to the wall and couldn't run any further.

With the group surrounding her, she had no way of escape.

The only way forward was to confront the guy in front of her.

Her eyes were going everywhere, trying with all her power to not make eye contact.

She started to breathe heavily as the guy started pushing and getting closer and closer.