Champion's Arrival

"Wait…I can't accept that–" Emilio shook his head.

"Please," Jeane told him with a genuine smile, handing it over, "I'm just a first year student, but in Indasia Academy, my alchemy is looked at as just an inferior tool by the other mage students. But you…you showed a genuine interest and appreciation for my trinkets. You've spent a lot of time developing your magecraft, right?"

Emilio slowly nodded, "...Yeah."

"Then I believe I'm right in giving this to you," Jeane said.

Given no other choice, he accepted the tinkerer's journal, feeling the weight of generations of knowledge in his hands now.

"Anyway, want to see what I've been working on?" Jeane asked.

"Do I," Emilio happily obliged.

It was like delving into another world, sitting beside Jeane, who held an earnest smile like that of a curious child when talking about the trinkets he developed and those made by other masters.