It was a languid afternoon.
With winter behind it, the Academy was showing off its mild climate as always. Sunlight poured down like thin honey, while shadows gently swayed along the boundaries of light that touched the leaves and spilled away.
The Academy’s southern forest.
It was a place with which I had a long history. Right after I first received the ‘Love Letter From the Future,’ hadn’t Emma been gravely injured here in an attack by a Magical Beast?
After that, the incidents had only continued.
I got tangled up in trouble with Senior Elsie, met Senior Delphine, participated in the Hunting Festival, and ultimately even won it. I had gone through no shortage of ordeals.
By now, I supposed I could call them memories.
Yet strangely enough, this forest had a tendency to overlap with the course of my life. For instance, hadn’t ‘Jealousy’ hidden its base here when it attacked the Academy?
It was the same now.
Immediately after hearing about Emma’s dream, I had come straight to this place filled with memories.
It truly was a peculiar connection.
Thinking back, the Archwitch had also left me with a…