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I kept my eyes on my book throughout the whole lesson. Professor Shou was just repeating the same information we already know, about after school, we are to meet at the Library of Knowledge to receive our grimoires and activating our full magic abilities.

Did I care about my magic? Not really. I already knew there was nothing special about me when I was the only one in class who couldn't reciprocate simple spells. Father said I needed to focus and learn to control my magic which I later on did but I still have no interest in being a sorcerer. I did want to protect myself from the demons but If my father, King Odon already vowed to protect me at all costs why should I awaken my full potential. Why should I assign a contract with the antichrist, a human form of a demon to help me?

I sighed closing my book as I was already finished with it and started to pay attention to what Professor Shou was saying. But I soon couldn't bear to keep my eyes open as he began to speak of the different types of Antichrists there were. Just the name of them sounds awful, the enchantress' get to make contracts with beautiful fairies while we get stuck with hideous demons. Now it makes sense as to why they call us evil but we're just like them with the same goals.

I began to shut my eyes and lay my head flat against the table. This lecture wasn't getting any more interesting so I might as well take a nap.

"If you end up with an untamed Antichrist, don't say nobody tried to teach you how to tame one when all you did was read and sleep in class" I heard someone next to me say. I turned my head to the right. Oh great, Miss Prissy is speaking to me. It was bad having to hear her speak but having to look at that annoying face makes me want to vomit.

"I would have thought you would have figured it out already? That I don't care."

"So she speaks words. Everyone says you're mute but now I know they were wrong" She continues to make conversation with me. It takes all of me not to roll my eyes into the back of my head in annoyance.

"Yeah," I say unamused, turning my head back around. Maybe this time she'll stop talking.

"My name is Himari"

Still. Don't. Care.

"What's your name?"

Why. me.

I groaned, "If I tell you would you leave me alone"

"Maybe" She teased, I don't know what's she's trying to accomplish by knowing my name but she said maybe.

I'll take that chance easily.

"Yuzuki Chi"

Her eyes widen a bit as I spoke my last name, "You're the daughter of your highness, King Odon. That's weird considering you're the most honorable person here yet everyone hates you"

I sat up in my seat resting my elbow on the desk and my hand under my chin. "You must be new."

I don't want to bring back old memories but everyone thought of me as a freak. I never wanted to train or fight in battles nor did I want to learn magic. It was something forced upon me and I made it a habit of reminding everyone that if I ruled I would banish all types of magic. I would have been expelled if my father didn't rule the whole kingdom. If Himari knew this she would sure distance herself from me like the rest.

"I'm actually a late entry. My parents didn't have enough gold to get me in university on time so they had me waitlisted until today. And I thought I shouldn't waste any more time and try to make friends" She smiled innocently. I will admit, she caught my attention knowing she wasn't a spoiled and arrogant brat like most of these students.

"That surprisingly makes me like you a little bit more now" I smiled back at her. Doesn't mean I want to befriend her though.

"Okay, that's it for homeroom. Don't forget we're all meeting at the Library of Knowledge after classes" Professor Shou said before dismissing us. I, Of course, was the last person to walk out the door.

It didn't occur to me that someone was calling my name since I had my headphones in until I turned around to see Professor Shou chasing after me. I removed an earplug from my ear and I waited for him to catch up. Once he did, it's not like I didn't know what he was going to say already.

"Yuzuki. Please, I beg you. Don't skip the Antichrist summoning this evening."

"Don't worry. There would be about 10 guards watching my every move to make sure I'm there." I put back on my headphones and I left a relieved Professor Shou to sigh.

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"Alright now in any second those doors will open and in there you will find your grimoire that contains the stone that will awaken your powers and antichrist" Professor Shou stood tall and proud as this was the first time he ever leads a class of promising sorcerers and me. "You may now enter and don't rush. You'll find your grimoire when it glows. Only your eyes can see it glow."

Everyone chatted in excitement as they were to about to find out what kind of magic was hidden inside them. Some held special elemental mage powers like Fire, Ice, Wind, etc. Maybe Earth Magic or Light magic. It sometimes depends on your ancestry or you're just a basic magic user which most of us are. My father has magic from time and space. Also called Cosmic magic, it's very powerful and uses a lot of concentrated mana that I know I don't have.

I searched around the library which was huge. I didn't know how they expect us to find our one book where they're almost hundreds of thousands in here. There are very old ones from the beginning of magic and there are ones that were recently developed for a new kind of magic. A lot are replicas but altered to fit yourself.

An hour passed and more than half the class have received their grimoires. I was getting a bit nervous, maybe I'm not cut out to be a great sorcerer after all. After all that effort I did forcing myself to learn magic I didn't care about. It would make me angry for all that work to go to waste.

So I actually started to look, and I looked everywhere. The thing is I should have a sense at where my grimoire was but I have no idea where it is. Each floor I climb I get the same feeling of emptiness in my body, nothing is calling to me.

It was when I finally gave up. I sat by a bookshelf a the top floor, all by myself. Everyone has gotten theirs by now so they didn't need to come this high up. No one needed to come halfway up but why did I need to take six hours to search the whole library and find nothing. It's not fair.

I heard muffles of everyone chatting from the bottom using the little magic I had to enhance my hearings. Everyone sounds so happy to discover what powers they'll master yet my mockery of magic only punished me at the end. I guess this is my punishment for not caring.

I sighed, "Oh well. Father will probably disown me  but at least I know my wish came true."

I got up started to walk down the stairs where the rest of the class was waiting. I'm going to be one of the rare sorcerers who doesn't wield any kind of magic. Maybe I can write books now, I smiled.

"It's getting late so we'll host the Antichrist summoning ceremony tomorrow morning. Make sure to study new spells starting tonight" Professor Shou dismissed all of us.

I was walking home when I felt someone tap my shoulder.

"You look sad," Himari said, I knew it was her the minute she tapped me. She was following behind me the whole time.

"You got your grimoire? What kind of magic does it hold?" I ignored her last statement. It wasn't that I was sad, I was disappointed. What would my father think of me?

"Yeah! It doesn't say specifically but there's plenty of spells about manipulating plants and their energy." She opened her grimoire to the first page to show me and it amazed me to see all the spells it held. "I don't know what my stone is yet but we'll find out tomorrow. But- where's your grimoire?"

"I don't have one"

She stopped holding my hand so I'd stop with her, "Wait, you didn't search for your grimoire? You can't do things like that now we have to go back."

She tugged me back down the sidewalk to where the library is but she's got it all wrong, "No Himari"

I yanked my hand back but she wouldn't budge, "We're going back there and you're going to get your grimoire whether you want to or not"

"But I searched everywhere. I don't have one. I wasn't meant to be a sorcerer so I have to accept it"

"That's absurd!" She yelled, we were still on our way back to the Library meaning she's too stubborn to understand that I'm not powerful enough to be a sorcerer. "You were born with magic right?"

"Yes"

"You can use your magic now?"

"Kind of" I lied,

"Lies. It doesn't make any sense. Non-magic users know they aren't sorcerers from birth but you are long past that. You have magic, it's not possible for you to not have a grimoire." We made it back to the Library, the place was empty meaning there might be a lot less stress for me than it was before.

"This isn't a good idea. I don't think I'll find anything here."

"You need to look harder. You probably weren't focusing harder with your magic energy. Try one more time and I'll be there every step of the way"

I was shocked to hear that Himari would do this for me. I don't think anyone would care if I were to spend the rest of my life without magic.

"Why do you care so much?" I said looking down, it's not like I was any nice to her before.

"Because we're friends" She smiled warmly.

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"You weren't lying when you said you looked at everyone floor," Himari said, we were both exhausted from spending five hours searching the library together.

"I told you. I didn't think I would get punished like this" I laughed.

"It's not possible though! I'll have to speak to the headmaster about this tomorrow and then I'll speak to the King if I have to" She threatened but in reality, no one can change faith. Maybe I was born this way.

We both sat down in the middle of the last floor where the dome window above us had the full moon glowing so bright. I never saw the moon glow like that as I watched it.

"It's getting late I said. We should get going." I said but both of us seem stuck watching the beautiful moon glow.

"Yuzuki"

"Yeah?"

"Is it just me or is something falling from the moon?" She asked.

I was confused at first but looking back up there was indeed something falling from the sky. I was fixated on it like a trance until Himari pushed me out the way as something crashed through the dome window. Landing flat on the ground in front of both of us.

"Is that.." She said and I looked closely at the glowing object that fell from the moon.

I didn't know how it was possible but it was a book.

It was my grimoire.

"Holy shit" I almost stumbled back in fear, why would my grimoire drop from the sky like that. It's not possible, it's not natural? 

"Holy shit is correct. Open it." She said pushing me forward.

I had to admit I was scared to open the probably cursed object but it was glowing so that meant I had to open it. The content it held amazed me once I opened it. I never heard of this type of magic before, it was never in our history books. None of the famous sorcerers wield this kind of magic.

"Lunar Magic? What's that?" I asked Himari. She came closer to take a look in the book herself and what she read amazed her as well.

"This-, this is forbidden magic Yuzuki. Lunar Magic was so powerful, sorcerers from the beginning of time had it sealed away in the moon so it never reached the hands of another sorcerer. I thought it was only a myth."

"A myth? Then how is it right in front of me right now?"

"You underestimate yourself too much. It means your mana was strong enough to trigger the grimoire and break the seal. Imagine if you never came back? Tonight was a full moon." She was so awestruck, she took the book completely away from me to read for herself. I didn't understand anything inside it so I didn't mind. "Wow, I completely understand why they didn't want this to get into the wrong hands. Skimming through a handful of spells you can teleport, lunar aura where you can use lunar energy for defensive purposes, Lunar healing-"

"Healing magic is completely forbidden and against the law" I shut the book and removed it from her grip. She was too excited about this. Imagine if my father found out I could wield this kind of magic. Healing magic is dark and could only lead to more bloodshed. Magic always has a cost.

"No, using Healing magic to cure diseases and bring people back to life is illegal. But healing wombs and small sicknesses isn't"

"This is dangerous. I could only imagine what antichrist would be like" I sighed,

"This is awesome. I can't wait to see what your antichrist would be like" She completely disregarded what I said and said the complete opposite.

I know one thing and I'm not looking forward to tomorrow.

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