[*sigh… so it’s come to this….]

There are about 20 to 30 girls on spacious fields. And among those girls, there are two familiar figures among them, standing in front of the crowds. The violet blue haired girl with a straight hair flowing down her neck into her hips, with clothes that quite modest and cover most of her body figure, yet it still shows her exquisite body figure, was Christine, and often called Chris. While accompanying her, a light blonde haired girl that had her hair barely reached her neck and clothes that completely exposed her skin and barely covers her private parts with a bikini-like string clothes, though not having a body as exquisite as her partner, was Rosalinda, often called Rosa.

[Where’s Lady Hilda anyway?] [Usually she’s the one whom were chosen to train the girls with her magic and familiar training?!] As Rosa complained as she spoke softly so that the others won’t heard.

[Rosa, our familiar may have been healed since they only received moderate damage, but Hougo’s body were already critical when he’s being healed, so Lady Hilda has to remodel every inch of his body.] [I also don’t have to mention how much help we received from her when our familiar’s were in bind, right?]

[Ugh, that’s right.] [In fact, it’s because she helped us a lot that we start following her….]

They looked nervous as the other that seemed younger than them were looking at them with curious looks. Both of them were being appointed to teach the Witches whom have just matured enough to learn magic, and now they were in the middle of a lesson.

[Alright then, here goes!]

As Chris slapped both her cheek, she started to turns her body and faced her junior.

[Sorry for the wait, everyone.] [My name is Chris and this useless person besides me was called Rosa.] [Though we were being appointed as your new instructor, if you have any difficult question, do please tell me~❤]

[CHO-…!] [What do you mean by that, Chris!?] [Even if I’m like this, I’m still a 5th Tier proper Witch, with Gallant as my main occupation!] [Rather, we’re on a same tier, so why are you treating me like a bug I am?!?]

The girls were somehow surprised by the way they introduced each others. Usually an instructor was quite stern and serious, or at least that’s what they think. But somehow, seeing the way Chris and Rosa bickering against each other put everyone’s mind at ease and start laughing at them.

[So you’re saying that you’re actually smarter than your looks, eh~?] [Then do tell me how we Witches were split into rank and define their function.]

[Eh…?] [Err….]

Her silent voice makes the other junior giggles as Rosa was flustered and confused to think of an answer.

[Can anybody here answer my question?]

Everybody was starting to raise their hands and Chris just quickly aimed at one person that she saw raised it first.

[Yes!] [We Witches have a rank start from the 1st tier to 7th tier, while the highest tiers were only consisting of the member of the circles and the elder herself.] [The tier was split based on how much knowledge she knew and how much abilities she could execute.] [But when we reach the 3rd tier, the evaluation becomes slightly different.]

[Alright, stop.] Chris was somehow stopping the girls explaining, and starts to aim at someone else. [Should another person start to continue explaining?] As she smiled toward the other girls whom almost dozed off.

[Ah, yes!] [The evaluation progress from the 3rd tier and so on changes after they successfully summoned a Familiar.] [Also, the quality of the familiar also decided how they will grow later in ranks.] [The quality of the familiar was based on how we rank the monster around here.]

As the lesson goes by, the other girls start to explain the monsters’ rank that available within their own territory. The ranks of these monsters were being split into 6 kinds of monsters based on their size and their lethality. These ranks were compromised of Lesser Class, Dread Class, Titan Class, Magna Class, Divine Class, and God Class.

[Senior, I have a question!]

[Yes, go ahead.]

[Why are we classifying the monster not based on their type, but from their size and abilities?] [Even if there are a variant of one type of a monster, isn’t it easier for us to identify their actual abilities?]

[Good question.] [Actually, it is also a way that being used by our predecessor.] [But as time goes by as we travelled around this continent, our predecessor realized one thing.] [All of the monsters around here were abnormal.] [Even a monster of a same type and race could unleash a different and deadlier type of an attack to his liking.] [That’s why we classify the monster by their size and deadliness, noting that their abilities had a potential of such names.]

The girls are nodding in harmony after hearing Christine’s explanation, leaving Rosalinda in the dark.

[So, have you understood now, Rosa?]

[Huh?] [Uh yes yes, I understand!!]

Chris can only sighed while the other junior just giggled behind Rosa’s back.

[Alright, for now, since all of you were qualified to summon your own familiar, shall we go ahead and prepares you with the knowledge of how to summons one?]

As Christine started on her explanation regarding the familiar summoning, all the girls’ face started to get serious as they intently listening to her.

In brief, a familiar summoning was commonly known as a ritual to make a moving object who would obey anything their master had to say. But in Witches’ case, the summoned familiar had a soul, completely different than a normal familiar. The kinds of familiar summoned varied; it can be living things, or a normal object that could moves.

Usually, to summon a familiar, one first must have a material comparable to what one creature would’ve consisted of, like bones, heart, water, and anything else. There is also another prescription for one desired familiar, but it only increases the chance of summoning one’s desired familiar. Thus summoning a familiar was mostly consisted of luck. Then again, it doesn’t mean that it was purely chance that one had summoned a strong familiar. The quality of the sacrifice used was also necessary to summon it, though it only increase the chance altogether.

{In that sense, Josephine had the greatest luck ever considering her being able to summon such familiar.} was what Chris had been thinking in that spur of a moment as she taught her junior regarding the familiar summoning and its detail.

***

[*sigh….]

[So, how is it, Chris?] [Your first experience as an instructor?] As Hilda was coming from her side, offering her a cup of transparent liquid that doesn’t seems like normal water.

[… It’s surprisingly tiring.] [I guess I just don’t have a knack to teach the juniors.] As Chris take a sip of what Hilda offered to her.

[Oh, but weren’t you love to explain many things to other people?]

[I am….] [But taking care of them was different.] [I never thought that they would dare to manipulate the magic circle itself.] [Teaching them was one thing, and I need to clean up the whole mess.] [And Rosa’s was of no help after all.]

[HEY, I WAS ALSO DOING MY BEST, YOU KNOW~?!] As Rosa was still far from where Hilda and Chris were, in the middle of scrubbing herself.

It was actually just a moment after Chris and Rosa finished their lesson and went straight for the public bath, wanting to relieve their fatigue. And just in the nick of time, they met their senior, Lady Hilda, accompanied by Josephine, whom somehow looked as lifeless as Chris and Rosa, almost as if she’s been sucked dry by something. As all of them entered the public bath, Josephine was just left floating around the bath while the three of them have a nice, private chat.

[Huhuhu.] [Kinda reminded me of the past, when you were also fiddling with your sacrificial item in order to cut back the amount of it, causing the summoned familiar to went berserk and died shortly after before wrecking everything in sight.]

[Wha-…!] [Lady Hilda...!!]

[Eh?!] [Is it true that this stern lady was once made such a mistake?!] As Rosa, who finished scrubbing quickly went toward both Hilda and Chris with such excited face.

[Oh yes, she is.] [It was a time when her body wasn’t as “big” as these.] As Hilda poked toward her “chest”, causing it to bounce in the hot water.

[So she wasn’t as “big” as these before, Lady Hilda?] Rosa just went toward Chris back as she just casually groped her chests.

[YOU TWO!] [I’LL GET ANGRY!!!]

[Iya~ iya~~❤] [Sorry~❤]

[Sorry about that~❤] [It’s been a while since that time that I see you changed a lot from before~❤]

Chris’s face just went red after being teased by both of her colleagues.

[… I haven’t changed at all….]

[Well, that’s quite true….] [Still, I was quite surprised when you volunteered to instruct those junior.]

[That’s….] Chris just flinch her eyes toward the sides, avoiding eye contact with Hilda.

[Isn’t it already obvious?!] [She’s doing it for you, Lady Hilda!]

Hilda could only express her confusion as Chris just keeps looking away from Hilda. At that moment Hilda could only smiled widely as she goes toward Chris, hugging her while stroking her head softly.

[You really haven’t changed at all….] [We’re already a fellow 5th tier Witches, and yet you still revere me as your senior.] [If I hadn’t forced you to change the way you call me, you’d still going to call me “Senior”, right?]

[… Senior….] As Chris turned her back toward Hilda and started to hug her tightly.

[Wow….] [I rarely see Chris being this meek.]

[Well she’s drunk.]

[Huh?] Rosa confused after hearing Hilda’s explanation.

[I forgot about it while drinking, but Christine was actually weak against alcohol.] As Hilda shows Rosa a small wooden bottle in a shape of curvy tube. It was some kind of fermented drink made from a carbonated food being pressured and contained for a long time. They usually called it “sake”.

[Wait, Lady Hilda, why are you drinking sake in a place like this!?!] [You’ll drunk!!!]

[It’s fine~❤] [It’s just occasional time so let me drink this a little bit more~❤]

[Wuaa….] [I guess it’s true that an alcohol could change one person’s personality.] [Thank god I’m still underage just like Josephine.]

*KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!!!

[Huh?!?]

As she still saw a scene where to women were hugging each other, one seemingly drunk while crying and one were just purely drunk and just keep on drinking, she heard a shrieking scream, not humane, coming from the entrance as one person appear while holding something.

[Yo….] [I caught this mouse in the middle of stalking us.] [It’s that red-haired man’s pet, wasn’t it?]

Yohana was coming inside while holding an eccentric mouse that was Rud’s companion, Yohn.

[Ah, you’re right.]

[What is this guy planning…!?] [Is he by any chance seeking revenge after what we had done to him before at the field?!]

[*KIIK!!] [*KIKIKIKIIIIIIK!!!]

It was quite obvious, but after Josephine’s experiment on Yohn failed, Yohn weren’t equipped with any kind of translator or the likes, so the girls ended up unable to understand what Yohn had to say and vice versa.

[Hey, Yohana.]

[Yes, Rosa?]

While Rosa was calling Yohana, she already went near Josephine and Hilda and pulled their earrings that had the same pattern as Rud. It was the earring that was needed for them to communicate with other humans.

[Before, I saw that red-haired man having a conversation with that mouse.] [I’m guessing that that mouse must be able to speak human word.] As Rosa quickly put on the earrings. [Here, can you understand me, mouse~?]

[I’m sorry! I’m sorry!!!] [I wasn’t trying to peek, really!!] [I was… I was… yes! I was just taking a stroll here!!!!]

Yohn was just uttering many excuses as he panicked and tried to run away, but unable to do so because she was being gripped hard by Yohana.

[Peeking?] [What do you mean?]

[Eh?] Yohn confused. He was confused not only because the girls could understand what he’s saying, but also because the reaction Rosa gave her.

[No… I….] [I was actually just watching you girls took a bath….] [And it looked enjoyable so….] Somehow Yohn was just blabbering all his true intention while still minding his word.

[Is that really all~?] [Then why won’t you jump here together with us~❤?]

[EH!?!] [REALLY!?!?!] Seeing how Rosa gladly inviting Yohn to bathe together, Yohn’s excitement was already maximized that he’s trying to slip through Yohana’s strong grip.

[Sure, come here~❤] Rosa was opening her hand as if inviting him to jump over.

[I’ll be gladly too~~~~~~~~~❤!!] As to Yohana’s surprises, Yohn were able to break free from Yohana’s grip and flew toward Rosa’s bosom as Rosa’s just cuddling him.

[Geez, Rosa!] [You need to be wary!] [Even if it’s not a human, it’s still coming from another world!]

[It’s fine, it’s fine~❤] [I was often taking a bath together with a familiar, it’s the same~❤]

[… Somehow I don’t really think that’s the case….]

Yohana feels something wrong, but she decided to brush it off, as she saw her junior, Josephine, was still sleeping like a log while floating around the bath, Chris and Hilda whom were drunk and off in their own world, and Rosa whom looked enjoying played together with a mouse that somehow stuck in her bosom has been smirking in a weird face.

[Really, it’s just one weird thing after another….] [Makes me wonder how she is doing, that girl….] [Haven’t seen her doing anything weird anymore, but I somehow had a bad feeling….]

As she just casually brushed off her worries and entered the bath, another person had been standing on the front door, holding on her towel, but unable to go in. No, to be exact, she does wanted to go in, but somehow don’t want to.

[… Josephine….!!!]

It was Maria.