Capítulo 25: Breaking the rules again

– That wasn't there before... – Harumi muttered as she watched the symbol.

– This is a common spell but quite complicated, we use it to hide information, what's hidden will only show up when in contact with the sunlight – Asterin explained.

Leila watched closely, noticing something – Celine… this symbol looks like that drawing you made…

Celine nodded as she stared at the small, barely perceptible traces on the shaft of the hairpin, which came together to give shape to that creature – ...it's a dragon...?

Asterin's eyes widened as she stared at Leila and Celine – Dragon? Where did you girls see it?

– I saw this name and a similar picture in a book in my dad's office… I only remembered it recently when Celine drew a similar drawing, you know, a lizard with wings… – Leila explained a little dazedly.

Harumi seemed to notice something in Asterin's eyes, moving a little closer to her – Do you know anything about this?

– Yes, I...

A dry cough came from behind the girls, and as soon as they looked they saw the librarian staring at them with her arms crossed – Girls, this is no place to talk or conspire, if you're going to do this, you should do it in a place with few people.

– Hehe, sorry, we'll go then... – Harumi laughed nervously, waving to the others, as they left the library they heard the signal – Looks like it's lunchtime, let's go, we'll talk about it in the dorm.

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In the council room, a few veterans were gathered, discussing the latest big events, most of those who had just returned from their mandatory missions:

– Okay, so this person has already departed from Kesla... – One of them asked.

– By all appearances, yes, this person took that student as his last victim and left – Elaxi repeated what she had already explained dozens of times.

There were many types of expressions within the council, some were still stunned by the news, others were happy knowing they didn't need to fear their powers being stolen, while others didn't even seem to know why they were there, Thamy watched everything carefully, while he himself still thought about what had happened.

The lunch bell had already rung, but there they were, by order of the director they had to explain everything thoroughly to the veterans who had returned to Kesla, Ikuto was with his upper body stretched out on the table, and hearing that everyone had started arguing again he quickly got up – Lunch! That's it! Let's have lunch, I don't know about you, but I'm leaving.

Ikuto walked to the door, those who didn't know what was happening just got up too, saying goodbye to Thamy and leaving, the others looked at their president, and only when they saw him nod that they also get up to leave the council.

Ikuto waited with folded arms in front of the council room, Elaxi and Aysel left, the three of them waited together for Thamy, who left a while later, Ikuto smiled – You're welcome.

Aysel gave Ikuto a thumbs up, Elaxi rolled her eyes and Thamy nodded at him.

They walked in silence to the cafeteria, there were few people as the lunch hour was ending, as they walked Elaxi noticed four girls walking towards them, or rather, towards the cafeteria door. Ikuto noticed them too and opened a smile – Harumi! Have you had lunch?

Harumi went to him, responding with a smile – I already had lunch... I was going to invite you but I heard you were in a meeting.

– Yes... – Ikuto showed an aggrieved expression to Thamy, who just looked away.

He looked back at Harumi with a gentle expression – We can have lunch together another day.

– Of course! Let's have lunch together tomorrow – Harumi spoke quickly, promptly receiving a confirmation from Ikuto – Agreed.

– Okay, okay, we have little time for lunch now, the teachers showed no sign that they're going to teach this afternoon too, watch for a while, if no teachers show up just go back to the dorms – Elaxi said, most of the students who were close to stared at her with a puzzled look, Thamy and Aysel continued to look away as if pretending not to know these people talking so sweetly to each other, this atmosphere full of pink bubbles was not their style.

They said goodbye, Asterin, passing beside Elaxi felt something being placed in her hand, holding, she just moved on, just like Thamy's group, in the hallway, Asterin looked at the item Elaxi had given her, a piece of well-folded paper, opening it she can read a small message:

'Why didn't you wake me up? We could have spent time together, maybe... chatting…'

Asterin read the message with an indifferent expression, but only she knew the mess her mind was in, sighing she secretly moved her fingers, burning the message, this paper belonged to Elaxi, with a simple delivery spell she could return the paper to its true owner.

This little folded piece of paper appeared in Elaxi's palm, feeling the slight heat in her palm she furtively opened the message to read: '- It was more fun to see you snore and... no, I'm busy'.

Elaxi looked stunned at the delicately written message, this 'kind' of a message written in such beautiful handwriting…

– …snore? – Elaxi was perplexed, her face turning a little red, did she snore? Aysel never said anything to her about it, and now knowing it from Asterin... it's a bit of a shame... and 'no, I'm busy', was the phrase she knew most from Asterin, of course, only she was the privileged one, those words only appeared when Asterin was addressing her.

– You don't even know how to disguise... – Aysel spoke with her mouth full of food, swallowing she continued – Were you rejected again?

Elaxi looked at her with a deadly glare, about to say something when she felt a hand on her left shoulder, looking at the person sitting across the table from her.

– Give her more time, Asterin is the heiress of the Argon Empire, she has a lot of weight on her back so she feels pressured, it's normal for her to be afraid of having any relationship now.

– Thamy is right, if it's supposed to happen then it's going to happen, you still have a lot of time… – Aysel continued.

Ikuto lowered his head, watching his own food, Thamy smiled slightly, also returning to pay attention to his own meal, while Elaxi looked dazedly at the message – You right...

Aysel had not noticed at all the expressions of his colleagues, happily eating her own food.

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– This is very dangerous, if we get caught our parents will definitely know, the last time was accidental, so the director didn't comment anything – Leila spoke with a fearful expression.

Harumi patted her shoulder, comforting her – We need to do this if we want to find out about that creature...

– That thing is dead, and its owner is gone too...

– Don't you want to know more about these creatures? I heard Thamy arguing with Felipe and Matheus about this amulet that I just explained to you, he stated that there probably should be a book here that can help us find out more about it, if there was a page surely there must be the entire book…

Asterin spoke, indeed, as Elaxi had said, there was no sign of any teacher, many students were surprised, but as the veterans told them to go back to the dorms, they just made.

– They will definitely review the school before locking everything up, there's no way for us to go to the library at night, especially if it's the teachers' session... – Celine spoke calmly, they were in their dorm, seriously discussing their theories about that one's creature case – But... if that thing really has something in mind like opening a portal from a forbidden dimension then I think it's worth investigating.

– You've got to be kidding… – Leila said, Asterin watched her, Leila's change of attitude was especially strange – Leila, you were so convinced before, about investigating the case… is there a problem? – She asked calmly.

Leila frowned, sighing – Whenever I was there it was by coincidence, meaning I couldn't be guilty of anything since it was by chance, but now… actively participating…

– We won't get caught, are you afraid Uncle Leonar will find out? – Harumi asked with a worried expression.

– The King of Waterfall? Are you afraid of him? I hear he's very versatile and has a great mood, he's always smiley and likes to take things a little more fun… – Asterin commented.

Letting out a sigh Leila replied – He's like that… but once I saw him very angry in his office, he was talking to Lord Aillard, and his grim expression scared me… he never looked at me like that, so I'm afraid that one day he will use that expression to judge me...

Harumi nodded – We all have difficult times, but I don't think he would be like that with you, in fact, Uncle Leonar seems like the kind of father who, when his son gets involved in a fight, he asks if he won and still teaches some blows in case the son need to fight again!

Leila couldn't hold back her laugh as she heard Harumi's words, laughing before saying – Yes… he's definitely like that.

The three smiled when they saw that Leila looked a little better, Harumi continued – I think even if you get kicked out of college he won't fight you, because he knows that everything you do has a reason...

Leila nodded with a gentle expression, closing her eyes tightly and sighing – Right! Let's do this!

– Yes! – Harumi nodded, Celine was smiling, and Asterin held back a laugh as she saw Leila's struggling expression.

– But there's a little problem… – Leila suddenly spoke.

– Problem? – Celine asked.

Leila looked at each of them before answering – After what happened they will look at the whole school, meaning we can't stay there until nightfall… we could only go after they've locked up, and we would still need a pass permission, that only a few veterans have it...

Celine and Harumi looked thoughtful:

– There's no way we could ask, they would ask the reason and... it's not something we can explain like that.

– I'll take care of the permission, you three plan the rest, we can't be too slow, try to think of the possible title of the book and the excuses we'll make in case we get caught, I'll come back later with the permission, once everyone is asleep and I'll knock on the door of you, don't sleep, we'll do it this night – Asterin spoke as she got up and headed for the door.

The three looked at her stunned – Today? Will we do this tonight??

– Yes, we've wasted too much time, the culprit must have gone too far, if we take too long we'll lose any clue we'd have to find him – Asterin replied, waving at them as she left, heading towards her own room on the floor underneath.

At dusk, Asterin left her own room under the suspicious eyes of her classmates, she was carrying two blankets and a pillow, descending to the first floor and knocking lightly on one of the doors, which was soon opened, the person who opened the door looked at Asterin perplexed.

– Asterin? What are you… – Elaxi asked carefully as she stared at the items in the girl's hands in front of her.

– Can I sleep here? – Asterin asked.

Elaxi stared at her blankly, a voice came from inside the room:

– Of course, I heard that students with light powers are being ignored by other students, it must be difficult for you... – Aysel spoke sitting up on her bed.

Asterin smiled bitterly as she walked past Elaxi – Thank you.

Asterin came in and spread one of the covers on the floor beside Elaxi's bed, who watched the girl now sitting on her own bed. Frowning she said – You can sleep in one of those beds...

– No need, I can sleep on the floor, I don't know if your colleagues will like to know that someone else slept in their bed.

– I'm sure they won't say anything… – Elaxi continued trying to convince her, being interrupted by Asterin – I don't really need to, I can sleep here.

Elaxi's eyes sparkled for a moment as she said with a smile – If you want to sleep next to me, you can sleep in my bed, there's plenty of room in it and...

– No, it's good here – With that said Asterin lay down and covered herself. Elaxi smiled. Aysel, who was watching, rolled her eyes and lay down with her back to the other two.

Elaxi lay down. The lights went out and only silence could be heard, she thought of something, putting her hand out on the bed, her hand was close to Asterin, her fingers moving slightly, trying to get her attention, under the moonlight from the window, Asterin regarded the hand with an indifferent look.

Without any response from the person below Elaxi stopped moving her fingers, her expression a little hurt, but it didn't last long as she felt something touching her hand.

Asterin took Elaxi's hand, running her fingers lightly over her nails as if she was pretending to be just watching it and analyzing it.

Elaxi smiled, thinking: 'You just need time…'

She was very happy, feeling a warm warmth coming from her hand, and noticing something, her smile froze, slowly fading as she frowned: 'Sleep spell? What are you doing, Asterin?

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