The boy: "?"
"Huh?" The short-haired girl looked over in surprise.
Before she could say anything, A22 had already wrapped an arm around her waist. "I'm her girlfriend, so don't get any ideas about her, or I'll get angry."
"Girlfriend? You two..."
"Is there something wrong with girls being together?"
"This... uh, no, it's fine."
Testing Grounds
Yeah, right. Fine my ass. This was ridiculous.
Two absolutely stunning girls were a couple? Was this going to let anyone live?
"Ahem, well, I didn't have that kind of intention to begin with. I just knew that Nana had been studying magic, so I wanted to come discuss it with her. Besides, she's a genius from the Magic Academy. I've admired her for a long time." The young man put on a sincere expression.
"You don't admire all those truly impressive geniuses, but you admire someone with a low-level tower like her?" A22 smiled faintly.
"Sorry, I know you're on guard. After all, she looks... well, but don't worry, I'm not a bad person."
He had originally wanted to say, "She looks like the kind of person who gets bullied easily," but he was afraid that saying it would immediately worsen the relationship between them, so he held it back.
A22 could not be bothered to argue over that. Instead, she asked, "Is there a competition going on inside?"
"More or less. A lot of people from the academy are there, and it's very lively. They call it magic, but to a large extent, they're using their own abilities. There are also quite a few real Transcendents inside. They've found all kinds of applications for magic, so you should be able to learn quite a bit."
"Then I'll go take a look." A22 had intended to do that anyway, so she turned