Chapter 22: Entrance Exam
Although Lonis was eagerly awaiting Eluscia’s arrival.
But in the very next second, the silver-haired girl was dumbfounded…
“What are you yelling about? Aren’t I right here?”
“Eh?!”
Lonis blinked, only then realizing that the person controlling her was Eluscia!
However, compared to her usual black dress, the girl had now changed into a brand new school uniform… a dark navy round-neck blazer with a white-trimmed pleated skirt. No matter how one looked at it, this black-haired girl appeared youthful, radiant, and extremely beautiful.
“Ah… Eluscia?”
“Lonis, what on earth are you screaming about? Hurry up and put these on.”
“Uh?”
Lonis’s eyes widened. On the lush green grass, a brand new school uniform dress was laid out… its style was exactly the same as what Eluscia was wearing, except this one was off-white, and the stripes on the pleated skirt were light brown.
And what had covered her mouth and nose just now was not a “rag” at all, but white thigh-high socks.
“Th-these are…”
“Your exam attire.”
“Ah, I have to change here?”
“Of course. The entrance exams at C. Academy are very strict. The clothes we are wearing are magic items, and wearing them in the exam would be considered cheating.”
“Oh…”
Hearing that she could finally take off the small dress she was wearing, Lonis felt extremely relieved. After all, no one wanted to be confined to a single outfit like a dress-up doll.
However, when she prepared to put on the school uniform, the silver-haired girl found that things were not as simple as that…
“El-Eluscia, the size is a bit tight…”
She had put on the shirt, but the buttons on her chest couldn’t be fastened.
Although her own dress came with a small toy, Lonis had already grown accustomed to it and felt a sense of instinctive security. The exposure of her skin to the forest air made her cheeks flush red.
And putting on the school uniform skirt also made Lonis feel a sense of incongruity, as if she were secretly wearing a classmate’s clothes.
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However, looking at the blushing girl, Eluscia just said dismissively:
“Hmph, it’s normal for the size to be a bit off. Because there wasn’t enough stock, I already used the larger one.”
“Huh?”
“Do you have any complaints?!”
“No!”
Seeing Eluscia’s chest proudly puffed out, Lonis quickly shook her head… She could only press down forcefully and fasten the button.
*Click, rustle~*
With the sound of the zipper engaging, the school uniform was finally worn.
Not to mention, although the chest area felt a little snug at first, after it was actually put on, there was no longer that uncomfortable feeling.
By standing tall and tucking in her stomach, as long as she maintained a girlish posture, it fit quite well.
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“Not bad? You masochistic maid, you actually look somewhat presentable in a school uniform.”
“Uh…”
“However, don’t think you can escape my control just because you’ve changed your clothes? You can try to run away, or even seek help from a teacher, and see what your fate will be next.”
“!”
Lonis’s pretty face flushed. She knew Eluscia was teasing her.
Because if Eluscia had been tormenting her with violence all along, it would have been one thing. But each time, Eluscia gave her one blow and then one treat. This made it completely impossible for her to truly resist her.
Therefore, this time Lonis could only obediently ask:
“I-I know… I won’t run away. Can I just go take the exam?”
“Mm, the admission tickets are already prepared. I don’t need to tell you about exam discipline, right?”
“Mm…”
“Meet at the third waiting room after the exam. Don’t wander around.”
The exam site was indeed very strict.
There were three security checks just to enter, layered one after another. Lonis didn’t know what those instruments were testing, but she cooperated as much as possible with the security personnel’s commands.
Furthermore, instead of walking in, the method of entering the exam hall was to be directly teleported to the exam corridors via a teleportation array, eliminating any possibility of cheating.
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(Wow, there are quite a lot of people taking the exam…)
There were many people in the hallway. Besides students around Lonis’s “age,” there were also many middle-aged people.
Everyone was orderly entering their respective exam rooms…
The exam rooms were for twenty people each. Although Lonis’s exam content was similar to Eluscia’s, they were not assigned to the same room.
…
The rooms were quite normal, very similar to traditional classrooms.
There were no cameras here. Instead, examiners in suits stood at the front, their gazes sharply sweeping over each candidate’s face.
“Please answer honestly. For those who violate the rules, we will not only cancel their exam qualification but also pursue their responsibility.”
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Each person’s test paper was individually wrapped in a hard cover. Only upon opening could one see the contents.
These various complex procedures made Lonis feel a bit nervous… However, after opening the test paper, her inner tension eased.
Because she had already reviewed these questions, and for some very obscure and difficult questions, Lonis had firmly memorized them with the “price of her physical body.”
The exam process also went very smoothly~
It was just that because she was wearing a new school uniform, Lonis always felt a chill under her skirt, and her thighs felt insecure.
Her chest also felt a bit heavy, and when she wanted to lower her head to write, she easily bumped it on the desk.
But fortunately, the method of examination was no different from what Lonis remembered, as it was all done with a fountain pen, so the silver-haired girl was quite adept at it.
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However, the second major subject, the Magic Fundamentals exam, almost made Lonis want to smash her head onto the desk.
She knew that blue cells were the foundation of magic, and that as long as the blue cells reached 1% of their maximum theoretical value, one could be called a magician.
But what about the secondary metabolic pathway of blue cells?
The calculation of the linear function relationship between magic power and time?
The relationship between the magic trajectory and the Hurunbayar expansion?
Lonis understood none of these. She could only write down some easy questions and fill in answers and formulas that sounded plausible but were not entirely correct, trying her best not to make her test paper look too blank and embarrassing.
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Finally, Lonis, who came out of the exam hall, had a drooping face, as if she had endured an ordeal.
She knew her magic fundamentals were terrible. Now, Lonis could only pray that because the proportion of magic fundamentals in the score was not very high, she could pass the written exam smoothly.
If she couldn’t pass the written exam, she would definitely be severely punished by Eluscia!
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As for Eluscia, because she had three more subjects to take, she didn’t come out until the evening… Compared to the uneasy silver-haired girl, this beautiful girl wearing a school uniform seemed to be handling everything with ease.
As she walked out slowly, she even tidied her flowing long hair.
“El-Eluscia Master?”
“Oh? Lonis, you look… rather guilty?”
“Uh!”
“Don’t tell me that after the exam, you suddenly realized you got the questions wrong that you should have gotten right.”
Eluscia gave Lonis a cold glance and said menacingly, “Did you really get them wrong? Lonis, even without a remote control, I still have ways to punish you… Want to try?”
“No, that one! I got the ones I knew, I answered them correctly?!”
“Hmph… you said so, didn’t you? If you fail, you, this guy, can just wait to be locked up in a cage for me~~ Keeping a slave maid as a toy, just thinking about it sounds so interesting!”
“Woo woo woo!”
Thus, the written exam smoothly concluded.
And Lonis didn’t know…
Her and Eluscia’s test papers brought great shock to the teachers who reviewed them…
