Finishing his conversation with Gilead, Eugene left the room. As he walked back down the hallway, he heard a knocking sound coming from a tightly locked door.

“What is it?” Eugene asked without any alarm as he halted in his steps.

He knew whose room that was. It was one of the rooms Ciel was using. Ever since she had started going through a rough patch of puberty a few months ago, she had stopped going to the gym and instead used some of the rooms in the mansion for her own training.

“Are you really going to Aroth?”

Ciel didn’t open the door fully and instead let her voice leak from a crack in the doorway.

“Did Cyan tell you that?” Eugene asked.

“Mhm. He also told me that you’ve reached the Third Star of the White Flame Formula.”

“So you’ve already heard everything then.”

“I asked if you’re really going to Aroth?”

“Yep, I’ve even got permission from the Patriarch.”

“Why are you even going?” as she said this, Ciel knocked on the door once more.

Knock knock.

Eugene smiled and responded with a few knocks of his own.

“Because I want to learn magic,” he explained.

“If that’s the case, you don’t really need to go to Aroth. You can just invite a wizard from the capital to be your teacher,” argued Ci...