Dormitory

(Ceruno)

"Ceruno! Have you enjoyed the scenery enough? Time to go!"

"Okay!"

Falcon took me on a flight around the enormous school, giving me a panoramic view of this massive aerial structure.

That's incredible! Absolutely breathtaking!

The central building of the Skyborne City School resembles a small mountain flying high in the sky. It is a main building complex made up of a large number of stacked buildings, covered by a huge transparent dome, creating an almost completely enclosed environment with no exits to leave the buildings.

"But completely sealing it off isn't very romantic, is it?"

"The lockdown is to maintain the air pressure at the City School. It probably has the same air pressurization and environmental control systems as passenger planes... Let's go in from that side!"

Although there's no entrance or exit, that's not a problem for me.

All you need to do is create a portal in the wall.

A Ring Corridor surrounds the hill, leading not only to the main building complex but also connecting to several functional cabins. The wormhole hall we arrived at upon landing was one of them. The Ring Corridor also has other interfaces reserved for future needs.

Back in the Ring Corridor, Falcon remarked, "This whole thing looks like a space station, but this behemoth isn't flying that high. Judging from the cloud cover, it's probably around 10,000 meters, about the same altitude as a passenger plane."

Miluno also complained, "This design doesn't look like it can fly at all."

I agree. This Skyborne City School has absolutely no elements of flight. The way it floats in the air looks like a texture bug in a game. Even floating cities in steampunk worlds would at least have a few propellers or hot air balloons that don't provide enough lift, but this City School doesn't even make that effort. It just floats in the sky in a nonsensical way...

"Can the Star Crystal support such a massive building?"

"Yes, magic is a miracle, and proof of the Crystal's will!"

Oh, this is magical punk.

Miss Metal looked quite excited, even rubbing her nose with her dirty gloves. Did she prefer fiddling with these gadgets to fighting?

They're so strong...

"Let's go to the dorm and pack our luggage first."

"Okay, I'll get back to work now. You can walk around the school later, or come find me in the main building at the bottom. You know the way, right?"

"Know."

Miluno pointed to the arrows drawn on the wall, one A4 sheet every ten meters.

"Xiao Yi has already put up clippings in the hallway; we can't just leave them behind, can we?"

According to Metal, the semi-permanent "City School" can accommodate 1,800 people and can only be accessed through a wormhole.

As wormhole technology matures, the Association's delivery capabilities have covered every corner of the world, and many remote areas no longer need to station magical girls. Therefore, it is not impossible for the wormholes to eventually be fully loaded.

However, the first batch of new students and teachers combined only numbered a little over three hundred, meaning that for a long time to Future, most areas of this massive building will be locked down due to lack of use...

"It's huge."

Passing through the connecting passage, you arrive at the main building complex that forms the core of the school.

The space is enclosed at the top, but it has streets, and there are even shops on both sides of the streets, but none of them are open to the public.

It's like building a small town covering more than 200,000 square meters within a huge miniature garden. Although the buildings are densely packed, they are well-ordered, resembling a mountain city, with the buildings rising higher as you get closer to the center.

The Falcon circled once in the air.

"My God, this is absolutely the coolest academy I've ever seen!"

Miluno remarked, "Judging from this setup, will magical girls open shops here in the future? It seems this 'City School' is more than just a school; it will become a residential community exclusively for magical girls... Is SpiCa trying to separate magical girls from humans?"

The cost of this "City School" was 15 billion.

For a building complex of this size, it's actually cheaper than I expected...

But apart from the Association, no other organization or group could produce forty-eight Star Crystal.

"A lot of people have already moved in?"

Scattered magical girls could be seen on the streets, but due to the language barrier, none of them took the initiative to speak to each other.

"Huh? Ceruno! Miluno! And... who was it again?"

"My name is Falcon! Haven't we met before?"

It seems there are acquaintances here; at the end of the stone steps stands a magical girl in a blue dress holding Megaphone.

"Miss Thunderous Resonance!"

"Ha, I knew you guys would come, so I packed my things and waited here!"

She lifted my suitcase with one hand and hooked her other arm around Falcon's shoulder, leading us upstairs.

"This street leads directly to the Dormitory District, all apartment buildings. There are no side streets, and there's a registration point at the entrance where you can get your dorm key. Currently, the number of dormitories far exceeds the number of students, so it's perfectly fine for only one person to stay in a double room... But you definitely want to share a room with Miluno?"

"Yes! I want to sleep with Miluno!"

I admitted it without hesitation.

Miluno simply smiled faintly, as if she were also pleased.

The Dormitory District is quite large, with a total of thirty-six apartment buildings of varying heights and even architectural styles, including some wooden structures. Perhaps this was done to accommodate the aesthetics and preferences of magical girls from different countries?

"Why don't you live in the same building as me? I want to bring everyone in Skyreach City together, since we're all acquaintances, it'll be easier to visit each other."

Who else from Skyreach City has come?

"Heat Haze, Bai Ze, and Fahrenheit, they were invited by Shi Yi as senior magical girls to serve as instructors for combat lessons. The only students are me... oh, and a little girl named Sky Lock, but I'm not very familiar with her."

Quite a few people have come, not just Heat Haze, but even Miss Sky Lock?

They're still mentors, but they probably can't beat Miluno, right?

Is she destined to remain a student because she only has one year of experience?

This is clearly unfair.

But she only asked, "Has everyone else arrived?"

"They arrived a while ago. These mentors are all paid by the Association, so they naturally have an obligation to assist the school in its work. They arrived a couple of days ago."

"That Heat Haze didn't tell me... I'm going to go find her now!"

The Falcon flew away.

I have no idea how she plans to find Heat Haze.

Thunderous Resonance chose the apartment building on the very edge of the Dormitory District. Because it was far from the center, the building was only four stories high. It was more like a detached villa than an apartment. Each floor had two 2+2 dorm rooms, which could accommodate a total of 32 people.

Miluno and I chose the top-floor dormitory.

I was taken aback by the luxurious interior furnishings as soon as I opened the door.

Wow! The double room is huge!

The double room is like a hotel room, complete with a private bathroom, two single beds, a wardrobe, a bookshelf, a computer, and a desk.

Through the balcony, one can also see the sea of clouds and the arc of the sky beyond the Ring Corridor.

In a sense...

Can this really be called a sea-view room?