I went to the dorm, didn't touch anybody, swearing through my teeth at Frostbite when suddenly...
- Hey, look at that! That's the mermaid!
I was spotted by a group of young guys, not very presentable. Do I have fans? You can't tell by the look of it.
- Um, guys, I'm going home.
- Wait! Sign it, huh? Please!
I was standing very confused. Are you real fans? Come on, it can't be! Even the first competition hasn't happened yet, why did they like me so much?
- I don't even have a pen with me...
- But we do!
- Okay," I gave up. Well, if they want to, why not do something nice for people? - What to write?
- Erno, Likar, Sotrat, and Cheln from Oceania Azure.
I took a piece of paper with a pen and wrote: "All the best to Erno, Likar, Sotrat, and Cheln from Oceania Azure.
- We have such a question here, if you are a half mermaid, it turns out that your mother was a mermaid, and your father was a man. And how did they do it... well... it had a tail...
I smiled brightly at the guy, seeing his embarrassment. Yeah, that's a question many people were worried about, and no wonder there weren't many mermaids, and they didn't like to show themselves to anyone else.
- Well, first of all, it was my mother who was half mermaid, and I had only a third of mermaid blood in me. And secondly, all mermaids can conjure up their legs, they just love water more.
I finished autographed, but when I dotted it, I suddenly stabbed myself against a pen and stained the sheet with a drop of blood. And how did you manage to do that?
- Well, wow! Can you magic your tail?
- I can. Azure. Guys, I've ruined your sheet here, let me write it again.
- No, no, don't. Thank you!
The guys turned around and went where they came from, loudly discussing the peculiarities of mermaid anatomy. Nice guys after all. And how could I think of them badly?
- Hold it right there!
I jumped on the spot! Oh, my God, can you scare me like that? My heart almost stopped! Ern, the company, and the others got involved and stopped, and the evil, furious, ice-mage sorcerer was right on top of them.
- The leaf was returned, quickly!
And then I completely fell out! The guys who had previously seemed kind and a little naive to me were now completely different. The smiles disappeared from his faces, and his eyes reflected the same anger as Rin's.
- We're not returning anything to you, Frostbite. It's ours now.
- Well, since you don't want to be nice...
A bunch of guys suddenly got hit, and they were crushed by an ice block on top. Rianal came up to the top and took my autograph and came back to me.
- Don't you ever give your blood to anyone! You have no idea what the mermaid's blood has!
- What? What properties?
He didn't answer me, he just looked at me like I wanted to bite my tongue. Rin walked me to my dorm without saying a word, turned around and left. I felt resentful inside, but I didn't pay attention.
Finally, this crazy day was over!
If anyone says mermaids aren't curious, don't believe him! I walk up to the room as I see the door of my neo-Romani neighbors ajar and hear a deaf knock as if someone fell down. It's strange... Tonight the necromancers are practically in the cemetery, they shouldn't be in the room. I just wanted to come in and see if they had forgotten to close the window, so the door opened with a draught and the zombie came out of it! And the higher one, too! Such a simple battle spell can not kill. A zombie turned around and saw me, hovered for a few seconds, and then, furiously, the lever rushed! I ran down the stairs with a scream. At the next turn, I got carried away and sprained my ankle, but not paying attention to the pain, ran out of the dormitory.
"Where to run to? - the thought came to my mind.
The training ground! Exactly!
When I ran to the range, I turned around and no one was there! How so? Zombies did not lag behind me. But then I noticed a fleeting movement with the edge of my eye. A quick step aside and the zombies hit the air. Ewww, that's it.
What to do? Even if I scream, nobody will hear me anyway. Fool! I should have stayed in the dorm, someone would have helped me there. Unexpectedly, the words that had long been read and forgotten came to my mind:
- Aqua Eructo! - and a powerful stream of water came out of my hands. The enemy did not expect this and fell. I won.
Did I succeed? It's fantastic, such a powerful spell of water magic can not happen for the first time.
"We have to go" - another thought made itself felt. When I turned around, I started to hiss with pain.
- Lord, what to do?
- I knew that I shouldn't leave, but I should have walked you to your room! And a minute later, I got into trouble again...
- Frostbite, you couldn't show up a few minutes earlier? What are you doing here anyway?
- Came to the training ground to train, didn't you? - The Frostbite asked, looking at the zombie I had defeated.
- I went out for a walk.
- With a zombie? Good company for a young mermaid.
- Better than some ice sorcerers.
- So where are the zombies from?
- He came out of the dormitory, out of the necromancer's room and followed me. And here I killed him.
- You? High-class zombies? I'm sorry, but you can only kill him with the highest spell, and you can't do that, baby.
The first impulse was to start convincing him that I had really killed him. And it was the highest spell! But then suddenly I remembered what he had said to my neighbor, and I didn't want to humiliate myself right away.
- I'm not going to prove anything to you. If you don't believe me, it's your right.
Silence. We were drilling each other's eyes. I turned around and whispered away.
- Hey! What happened to your leg?
- I pulled it when I was running away from the zombies.
- Does it hurt a lot? - He came up to me, squatted down, and began to suddenly gently feel my ankle.
- Um... okay, - my voice got hoarse from a sudden run. And I imagined what we looked like from the outside. The girl in the short white dress and in front of her, almost on her knees is a white-haired guy and gently strokes her leg. From the picture that appeared before my eyes, I desperately blushed. It's good not to see her face in the dark!
In general, I didn't understand Rianal himself or how he treated me. Is he arrogant, contemptuous and cold, or funny, and now also ... caring?
My thoughts were distracted by the cold running down my leg, the pain immediately subsided and I was greatly relieved, but of course, I did not look like one.
- Thank you, but I could have cured myself.
He got up and looked at me with a smile.
- Well, I'll pretend like I didn't know it was harder for the healers to heal myself, and I'll believe you'd have done it all by yourself," wondering why he's so kind. I was waiting for a trick, and he didn't keep me waiting, - and I'll believe that you killed the highest zombie yourself, - added with sarcasm.
That's why he is like this? I'm already starting to hate how he is being thrown from extreme to extreme!
- You've had enough impressions for today. Go to your room and rest. Tomorrow at sunset will be the first stage.
The adrenaline is gone for good, and I am tired.
I wasn't sure I'd get to my room on the third floor and I wanted to ask Rina to escort me, but I changed my mind.