An Ordinary Girl

"Then it's settled. Don't be late when the time comes, okay?"

Walking down the spacious corridor, Sylvia ended the call and closed the spatial window before her.

Though she was reluctant to let her beloved's face disappear from view, they would officially be going on a date at the academy festival in a few days anyway. She could treat this lingering reluctance as something to make her look forward to that time even more.

"Still, I never thought the day would come when I'd become like this."

She felt lonely when she could not see her beloved's face.

She felt happy whenever she thought of dating her beloved.

When she dreamed at night, he was the only one she saw.

If she did not think about him at least once a day, it felt as though something was missing.

Things like that were quite common in shojo manga.

Sylvia knew that this was what it felt like to love someone.

But before this, Sylvia had never imagined that she herself would become this way.

Still, Sylvia did not dislike this version of herself.

"Just like Fang Li said, I'm only an ordinary girl too."

As she said that, there was not the slightest shadow over Sylvia's expression. She even began to hum, her voice—the most beautiful in the world—echoing through the immaculately clean corridor as she walked onward.

This was, of course, Queenville Girls' Academy.

Having just finished her concert and returned here, Sylvia had used the spare moment on her way to the chairman's office to call Fang Li.

Now that the call was over, she had reached the end of this stretch of corridor.

Thus, Sylvia arrived at a room at the end of the hallway, one with enormous double doors.

"Click..."

With a soft sound, the automatic