Skirt Flipping Incident

Perspective of Eric Turned Elise

In the infirmary.

There's no doctor in a white coat, so I help myself.

I chant healing magic, tending to Akira's wounds.

I try to fix the torn clothes with repair magic as best I can, but even for someone who mastered female voice magic as a child, perfect restoration is challenging.

"Thank you."

"I should be the one thanking you. I can't believe Akira would do something so reckless..."

"Ha ha. I acted without thinking."

"How did you do that magic?"

"Oh, that? I put some punch into it like this."

A gust of wind swirls up, lifting my skirt, a musical note patterned uniform skirt.

Akira, seeing my polka-dotted panties, looks away.

Was I just skirt-flipped?

But I am a man.

Such an act doesn't embarrass or affect me in the slightest.

However, I can't let suspicions about my true gender arise here.

I must pretend to be embarrassed.

"Eek!"

"Sorry..."

Somehow, he apologizes.

Getting angry here might make me appear more feminine.

I need to say something appropriate!

"Stop it! You shouldn't do that to girls! Only do that with me, okay?"

"!!"

Did I choose the wrong words?

Akira is blushing fiercely.

I didn't mean to make his heart flutter!

Now, there's a strange mood?!

Right, let's change the subject.

"Where are you from, Akira?"

Akira introduces himself as coming from another world, a world without magic.

That's why he has a knack for music but lacks a magical foundation.

Everything starts to make sense with what I've been wondering.

"If it's magic to return to another world, maybe they'll teach it in the Dragon class during our senior year."

I share this dubious piece of information with Akira.

From what I've seen in the curriculum, they seem to teach advanced translocation magic.

But it doesn't say anything about going to another world.

"Really? I promise I'll do my best to advance to the Dragon class!"

His bright smile beams at me.

I feel a bit guilty, like a bad woman deceiving a pure man, but after all, acquiring magical skills is essential in this world.

"How about we train at night?"

"Training?"

"Akira has a sense of music, but not the basics of magic. I'll personally train you to cover your weaknesses. You definitely have potential. You could even make it to the Dragon class."

I flatter him a bit, but it's not entirely untrue.

He has a knack for adaptively using magic and mastering techniques like the 'fist.'

Akira is still a novice in the world of magic.

But my intuition, honed by years of magical training, tells me he's a diamond in the rough.

And someday, I'll show Elise.