70 Returning to School 1 (1/2)

The teleportation gate spit us out to the middle of the river where I first jumped in from the burning sun.

”Are you kidding me!” I yelled from irritation.

Why were we here again? I thought we would be back at school.

Even though I did hate school, I realized that there were many places worse than school such as climbing a mountain under the burning sun while wearing fall clothes.

I was wearing a thick dress with many layers to make the dress have more volume. This was even worse than wearing my physical education uniform meant for fall.

This would be a dress meant to keep someone warm even in the winter! Not wanting to go over the same painful experience again, I started rip some layers of my dress until only one satin layer remained.

”Rika!” Luke yelled at me as Cillian looked the other way.

”You try wearing that heavy dress under the burning sun!” I argued back.

Luke sighed as he handed me a heavy cloak like he had foreseen this would happen as the worse case scenario.

When I was about to hand him the thick cloak back, he showed that the satin layer was see-through to a certain extent.

'At least do it for Cillian,' Luke mouthed.

Knowing that Luke wouldn't back off on this one aspect, I took the cloak.

Luke hated it whenever I deviated way too far from his standards of being the typical 'lady' from the Roselia house. He once scolded me for hours when I wouldn't change into my uniform when going to class because I was lazy to get out of my pyjamas.

To save myself from his constant nagging, I just gave into him and decided to properly wear my uniform to class as it was more trouble not to.

It wasn't like I could avoid Luke to get away from his lectures when we were using the same dorm, in the same classes and were forced into attending the same events.

Surprisingly, Luke used his mana so that when someone wore the cloak, they would feel cool even under the scorching weather.

This must have used alot of his mana. I gratefully wore the cloak as we hiked down from the mountain.

”Why does the school have to choose a place where the whole area is spelled that someone can't teleport to the top or the bottom of the mountain!” I complained due to my aching feet.

I used my marble to check the time. The marble indicated that it has been four hours since we returned from the fifth district.

”It's because the school uses it to train us for situations where we have to use mana sparingly,” Cillian answered for the nth time.

I got bored of the same green scenery when I was hiking with Ellen and Allan. It was more bearable that time since I had Ellen, but now I had to walk in absolute silence since we all had trouble spending extra energy speaking when we were so tired from hiking without resting.