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As Frank and his friends made their way through the villa, they found Elfina and Fiere practicing magic with Hinata, they were having a really hard time even making up a single Magic Circle, which constantly gained cracks and then shattered into pieces.
Crack, crack…!
CRASH!
"Aagh! Not again! I was right there!" Elfina complained, throwing down the little wand she was carrying. "T-This is seriously not for me! Why am I being forced to do this?! I'll just go home!"
Elfina was about to leave, but her maid stopped her, supplicating her to stay.
"Ah, young lady, please calm down! We already discussed this, and we agreed that you would learn magic, right? To protect your family!" Fiere cried. "Please reconsider things out even if a little… You know what happened three days ago, we were completely helpless… What if that happens again but have no way to defend yourself?"
"T-That's…" Elfina sighed, as she stayed at the end. "But it's too hard, Fiere… I don't want to do this anymore! Sniff…" She was a very spoiled young lady that cried for every little thing that was too difficult for her.
"Hmm, I'm sorry young lady… I will try to talk with Lady Hinata again. Excuse me, this is quite complicated, aren't there easier Magic Circles to start with?" Fiere wondered, glancing at Hinata, who was grumpily crossing her arms while glaring at the two with an annoyed expression in her cute face.
"What? Easier?! You're already working with the easiest magic circle I can teach you; it only has five runes!" Hinata facepalmed, groaning in disbelief. "How come you're so bad at it when you have Fae Blood in your veins?! Both of you do as well, which is an incredible thing. You are connected with both Spirits and Nature to an incredible, supernatural level."
Frank, who was watching silently in the sidelines, had never seen Hinata so frustrated before! He stepped back a little while Sol was facepalming as well.
"Uh, Sol, is this how they usually are?"
From those dreams, those fragmented, confusing memories he had of a future he somehow never experienced before, but that sometimes appeared, he remembered a bit of his interactions with her.
With Elfina.
She was an honest girl, sometimes quite shy as well, however, she had an honest heart and a gentle personality, even though sometimes, she did act a bit spoiled and cried a lot.
Kireina was there for her, she was her familiar too, apparently, somehow, she had been summoned by Elfina, or something, he couldn't quite remember.
The two were inseparable, until… well, they were separated, Elfina ended being kidnaped by someone when they were all separated in a sandstorm or something.
Frank met them much later, and helped them rescue Elfina, or something like that, he couldn't quite remember well those fuzzy dreams.
"Hmm, this is not the Elfina I remember that much… She changed a lot."
"You knew her from before?"
Sol looked at her with slightly confused look.
"I don't remember you ever talking with her, are you some sort of childhood friend of hers?" Sol wondered.
"A-Ah?! No, no, nothing like that! Hahah, I just was imagining her being different…" Frank muttered.
"Oh… Oh well, yeah… Uh, this is her true self. Elfina is… she's my friend but yeah she's a bit spoiled sometimes. But I swear she's a good girl, she has… an honest heart and a beautiful personality." Sol tried to convince Frank it wasn't like this all the time.
"Uh-huh, sure, yeah." Erika glared at Sol with a slightly teasing smile, making Sol sigh, feeling like he couldn't really refute her.
"It must be very deep inside her heart, like really, really deep, huh?" Harumi, surprisingly, also joined on Erika's hijinks.
Despite their different personalities, both girls got along really well because of this, they often thought similarly and agreed a lot with each other, even though their personalities clashed sometimes.
After all, they have been friends and slightly rivals since they were little children, childhood friends for many years.
They also knew Matsuo for a while, but unlike with each other, they didn't interact all that much with him through their entire childhood and only met him and played with him very occasionally on formal meetings between the clans, only once a year at most.
However, once they entered the same school they began to become better acquittances, although Harumi and Erika wouldn't have called Matsuo a real friend until a year ago, when Frank appeared, and their group slowly grew together much strongly than before.
After sharing life or death situations, after protecting each other and fighting as one group, they had now become really good friends.
Three days ago, when they thought everything was over, they fought and protected Frank till the bitter end, feeling like their bonds had been forged stronger than ever before.
It was at that time that they knew they had become real friends, and perhaps best friends too.
"Come on now, don't tease Sol like that, you two," Matsuo sighed, crossing his arms. "Hahah, sorry about that."
"A-Ah, it's fine…" Sol muttered meekly. "Hey, Elfina! Please behave a little, we're not in your house you know? These people are helping us out to this extent out of the goodness of their hearts. They could just perfectly throw us out if they wanted."
Sol walked towards her side, as Elfina blushed a little by seeing his nude, muscular upper torso.
"S-Sol?! Eh? Why aren't you wearing a shirt? T-This is…!" Elfina grew more and more flustered, her pale face becoming as red as a tomato.
"Hm? What's wrong? This is-" As Sol talked, suddenly…
"Please, young lady, don't look! I'll protect you with my body from this perverted young man!" Fiere muttered, T-posing in front of Elfina to protect her from Sol's tempting visage.
"Kyaaaaah!" As Elfina couldn't contain herself and cried, her Aura suddenly erupted.
FLAAASH!
"Hm?"
Hinata looked at her, surprised that her Magic Power suddenly rose from that stimulus.
"Huh, wait a second… I think I have an idea."
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