บท 57: Chapter 57: Out of 'CTRL' !!!

Asta tries to strike up a friendly conversation with her, but Noelle slaps him mercilessly and arrogantly explains to Asta how the huge gap between their social statuses is, as she is a member of the Clover Kingdom's royal family, House Silva.

However, Asta does not take Noelle's speech quite lightly as he tries to argue by saying that they are equal as fellow squadmates, which ends up with the peppy girl trying to shoot a spell at Asta, which managed to hit Magna, who was standing beside the target/Asta.

However, instead of apologizing, Noelle chooses to give him a snide comment, implying that Magna is at fault for being in the way to get hit and how she is from the royalty.

Noelle's comment quickly angers Magna as he reveals that she was only able to become a Black Bull member only because Yami was kind enough to accept her after Noelle's brother rejected her from entering the Silver Eagle squad.

Refusing to hear any more comments from them, Noelle storms off while discarding her squad robe. The boys went off on their own and Aster was again forgotten despite being right there. An hour or so later, Asta manages to find himself watching Noelle doing target practice with humongous spheres of water causing destruction left and right despite being embarrassingly close to the target.

She pants from exhaustion as she begins to remember all of the sufferings that she received from her family, namely being shunned due to her lack of control over her magical power. Ultimately, her memories of her brother's rejection of her entry into the Silver Eagle squad motivate her to prove her worth to them.

She tries to release another attack, but her magical power suddenly goes out of control and creates a huge sphere of water, which also releases several waterspouts that wreak havoc in the vicinity.

Seeing the accident occurring, Aster and the other Black Bull members immediately head to the scene to see it up close. Yami then starts thinking of several possibilities to stop the water sphere from further destruction but the fact that Noelle is trapped within the sphere prevents him from taking a solution that could harm her in any way.

Aster sighs and walks up to him and pats Yami on his shoulder and floats up to the humongous sphere of water and taps it with his finger. The water disperses into tiny snowflakes and floats around them beautifully as Aster controls them to hold Noele and bring her back to the ground.

"Well done kid, you are going to handle all the jobs that come for me, from now on. HAHAHAHA" Yami roared in amusement.

"Can I politely decline?" Aster asked with a smile.

"That was never an answer!" Yami laughed and the others chuckled seeing their captain being his usual thuggish self. #Thug Life for Yami.

Noelle was downcast, she expected them to mock her like the how the others did before, but the always energetic Asta popped in, "That's some freaking amazing magic you got there!"

"If you train until you learn how to control it, you will be unstoppable! Dang it, now I will have to train twice as hard to make sure that I don't end up looking like a loser." Asta encouraged her while Magna joined in, "What? You couldn't control your magic? That's it? You should have told us sooner, you royal failure..."

"We the Black Bulls are a whole group of failures, that flaw of yours ain't a big deal, idiot!" Magna chuckled.

"I know a great pasta place, wanna join me there sometime?" Finral offered.

"Before that, have a cupcake." Charmy took a cupcake out of her pouch.

"Magic Control huh? I am the best at it, I can teach that to you along with other big-girl's stuff, FUFU~" Vannessa winked.

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During the meal, Asta innocently asks Magna about the responsibilities of a Magic Knight, which incurs Magna's wrath for his ignorance.

Magna explains that their job is to protect the country and guard stuff and that it is the manliest job in the world. [Did someone call Elfman's soul?]

Vanessa Enoteca adds that it could range from protecting peace to being a bodyguard for a handsome gentleman as she winked at Aster who was eating a desert Charmy offered him.

Luck Voltia simply says that a Magic Knight is allowed to fight without restraint, especially against criminals whom they can beat to a state that they are left on the brink of death.

Gauche the sis-con reveals that he becomes a Magic Knight because his sister respects Magic Knights the most and uses his salary to dote on his sister.

Charmy Pappitson believes the occupation allows her to eat various cuisines.

Finally, Grey tells Asta that being a Magic Knight is a great job while transforming herself into Asta's spitting image.

Charmy offers Asta and Noelle another dish, both of them agree that all of their squad-mates are very odd, while Aster is busy with his dessert.

"And so, I am going to give you guys your first mission..." Magna trailed, "You are going to the Saussy village to hunt boars."

And after a little attempt of protesting against such a mission being their first mission, Yami spoke up about how he and Magna had lost a bet and they owe the old man from the village a favor. Yami simply stated, "Go or die! and take this brat with you" pointing at Aster who was happily eating his seventh helping of dessert.

Noelle bashfully asked if it was alright for her to o=join the mission with her lack of control over her magic and Asta chuckled, "we can always have Aster take care of that" which made Magna roar in outrage, "hey, I am the senior out here, I can cover for you guys even with blindfolds."

"Now, get your brooms, that Finral jerk's magic can't get us to places he has not been to, brooms are the only way left unless you want to hike." Magna snickered.

"I can't ride a broom" Asta raised his hand like a grade-schooler and Noelle followed his example and nodded to convey her agreement on that she can't ride one either.

"No need to bother with the brooms, we are riding up to Saussy." Aster smiled as he put the last bite of the cake in his mouth.

"Huh, then how do you think we are going there?" Magna asked with a vein popping on his forehead.

Aster walked out of the castle and waved his hands, and four horses made out of crystal ice formed, the horses shook their heads and approached Aster and bowed before him. Aster petted them and gestured for the guys to come over.

The trio was so shocked that they felt their eyes were going to pop out of their sockets. It was the first time they saw someone control magic on this level without even opening their grimoire and even more so when the person was supposed to be a rook in the Magic Knights.

"Come on guys, get on and Magna can lead the way, oh, a reminder, these guys are sentient, please don't do anything weird unless you want to be kicked or dropped from their backs." Aster encouraged them to mount the horses.

The guys touched the horses, they were beautiful creatures, smooth and a little cool to the touch, nothing like a cluster of ice that they were supposedly made from. Noelle got on her horse and the boys did the same as well.

"So, lead the way Magna~" Aster chuckled.

Magna pointed the direction and the horses sped off, they were running faster than the brooms could have carried them, and by the next clearing, the horses jumped and started running in the air as snowflakes made it possible to step on frozen air and they started riding in the air.

"WOOOAAAAHHHH! THIS IS CRAZY!!!" Magna screamed while Asta and Noelle had bright smiles on their faces after they got over the initial fear and shock.

The squad of four rode to the Saussy Village and by the time they reached there, they saw something that should not have been there in the first place.

A thick shroud of mist was covering the Saussy Village in the middle of Summer...