Some surprises were like love arriving out of the blue—you had never imagined they would appear, yet when they did, they somehow felt perfectly natural.
January 17th, afternoon.
Miss Betty of Viscount Karl's household followed a teacher from a noble magic academy, along with a group of noble classmates, on a visit to Imperial City First Military Academy.
Although Betty was a mage, her talent was limited. She had failed to gain admission to Imperial City Magic Academy and could only enter an ordinary noble magic academy under Viscount Karl's arrangements.
Already sixteen, she was currently a first-rank mage who had only recently advanced.
Even that had been achieved only because Viscount Karl had spared no expense in purchasing vast quantities of magical potions to pile her up to that level.
This had essentially exhausted all of Betty's magical potential.
Even now that she had bought Nether Orchids from Prince Ron's Flower Shop, it would probably take her a very, very long time to have a chance of advancing to the second rank, and she had no hope of ever becoming an intermediate mage in her lifetime.
Of course, Viscount Karl did not care about that.
As long as Betty possessed the identity of a mage, that was enough for him.
After all, Betty neither needed to go to war and fight with magic, nor did she need to learn all manner of supportive spells for magical experiments and research.
To her, the identity of a mage merely made it easier for her to obtain certain things than others could.
For example, something as small as this current visit, or something as significant as her future husband.
Though Betty herself still felt a tiny bit unwilling, if her future husband were someone like Prince Ron, then it would not be