The airship slowly descended and landed.
Lu Mo rubbed her sleepy eyes and gently nudged the teary cat-like maid who had fallen asleep against her shoulder.
“Mi-Miss… I… huh?”
Realizing what she had done, the little maid instantly blushed bright red and began apologizing to Lu Mo over and over.
Amid repeated cries of “H-hondo ni sumimasen!” Lu Mo stood up, stretched lazily, and stepped out of the cabin.
“Blue Feather Academy Academy, huh—”
The moment she stepped outside, she immediately felt the dense aura of Light and Wind elements in the air.
In the distance stood a massive statue, faintly veiled in mist—a gentle woman with her head lowered as if in prayer. Wings formed of wind slowly unfurled behind her, like a flower blooming within a breeze.
This was the symbol of Blue Feather Academy.
Blue Feather Academy was on the same level as Ice Orchid Academy from the simulated reincarnation. It specialized in the Light and Wind elements.
The academy maintained a strong relationship with the Holy Church. Each year at the opening ceremony, a bishop-level figure would attend, or young members of the Church would come for exchange studies.
Because the Trasil family possessed a special Light-element talent, many of its members applied to Blue Feather Academy every year.
Of course, Lu Mo was not one of them.
—She had been forced in through family money.
The family’s requirement for her was simple: don’t cause trouble, don’t stir up problems, don’t embarrass the family. Just obtain a graduation certificate.
With a diploma, it would be easier for her to marry upward.
At least then, when her future husband’s family conducted a background check, they wouldn’t find her academic credentials suspicious.
However, not even the Trasil family had expected that Kexira would take such a great interest in Lu Mo.
“Good thing I came to Blue Feather Academy… At least they didn’t sign me up for somewhere like Golden Iris Academy,” Lu Mo muttered softly.
She and the little maid walked forward together.
Gradually, she noticed that members of the Trasil family had once again deliberately distanced themselves from her. No one accompanied her.
Were they planning to leave her isolated and wait to laugh at her?
Lu Mo suddenly remembered a time before she had recovered memories of her past life.
Some family members used to tease her—bringing her into lively crowds, then suddenly running away, leaving her alone, looking around helplessly until she burst into tears.
Later, she had her personal maid, A-Fu.
But A-Fu hadn’t been much help.
When brought to unfamiliar places, A-Fu would cry along with her—and even louder.
“M-M-Miss, it’s okay! I’m here! It’s fine!” A-Fu said nervously, clearly trying to reassure her.
But that tone of voice wasn’t reassuring at all!
The “coward duo” scoring big points again.
Lu Mo sighed. “It’s fine. Just follow me.”
“Huh?”
In her first simulated reincarnation, Lu Mo had stayed at Ice Orchid Academy for five years.
She was already very familiar with many academy procedures.
Blue Feather Academy wasn’t much different.
So she smoothly completed registration, enrollment, and dormitory application without any issues.
A-Fu stared at her in shock.
The Trasil family members hiding at a distance, waiting to see a joke, were also stunned.
Why was she so skilled at this?!
“Miss…”
“Yes?”
“Have you… gone to school before?”
“Actually, I haven’t.”
Leaving behind a cryptic answer that A-Fu half understood, Lu Mo continued toward the academy.
“Buzz—”
At that very moment, in the testing area, a pillar of light shot into the sky.
Lu Mo and A-Fu turned around to see an ice-blue beam piercing the heavens, so bright it was almost blinding.
Dense Ice and Wind elemental energy radiated outward from the pillar, sending a chill through the crowd.
“This kind of talent phenomenon… It’s more terrifying than the top freshman of the past few decades—no, the past century!”
“Ice element? Did this person come to the wrong place? This is Blue Feather Academy!”
The crowd erupted in discussion.
Looking at the ice-blue pillar, Lu Mo was momentarily stunned.
That aura… felt strangely familiar.
“Must be my imagination…”
After a moment, she shook herself back to reality.
Perhaps she had spent too long at Ice Orchid Academy in the simulation and had slightly blurred the lines between simulation and reality.
“Let’s go, A-Fu.”
Instead of joining the excitement, she called the maid and continued walking deeper into the academy.
“A-ah… Miss Lu Mo, wait for me!”
Thus, the two figures moved in the opposite direction of the pillar of light, growing farther and farther away.
Meanwhile, at the talent testing ground, Elia stood in the center of the plaza, slowly retracting her power.
Teachers, hall masters, even the dean—all stared at her in shock, unable to recover for a long time.
“It’s… a girl?”
“That phenomenon just now—was it caused by her?”
More and more people gathered around the plaza, surrounding it layer upon layer.
“Sister Lu Mo… are you somewhere in the crowd?”
Elia scanned the crowd with anticipation.
But soon, anticipation turned into disappointment.
The person she wanted to find wasn’t there.
Still, Elia did not despair.
As soon as the talent test ended, she disappeared like the wind and entered the academy grounds.
“According to the information, Sister Lu Mo in this life has no talent, and her family doesn’t value her much.”
“She should have entered through paid enrollment, so she wouldn’t need to participate in the entrance test.”
Elia released her perception, carefully searching for Lu Mo’s presence among the crowd.
And at a certain moment—
She finally sensed that unforgettable figure.
Her heart trembled.
Her body shook.
She nearly burst into tears.
Across the vast sea of people, she felt Sister Lu Mo’s existence.
At this moment, Sister Lu Mo had lost her talent, lost her power, and was walking forward alone.
She looked so lonely.
Her expression so sorrowful.
Just like…
The ordinary and humble girl Elia had once been, many years ago.
“Lu Mo… Sister…” Elia’s voice trembled.
Three hundred years!
For centuries, she had searched for traces of Lu Mo.
In the end, the longing had nearly driven her mad.
And now—
She had finally found Sister Lu Mo again!
She wanted to rush forward without hesitation, to give lonely, helpless Lu Mo a big hug—just like Lu Mo had once done for her.
But—
She knew that the current Lu Mo had lost all memories and power from the past.
She couldn’t just rush up recklessly.
What if Sister Lu Mo disliked her?
But how could she get close to her?
Elia froze.
She seemed to have died at the very first step.
Ever since Lu Mo’s death back then, she had completely sealed off her heart and nearly given up socializing.
When ministers spoke to her, she usually replied with only a word or two, nodding or shaking her head.
Only with the heirs of the Frostspeak Empire did she speak slightly more.
But even then, it was communication between superior and subordinate—utterly unequal.
She couldn’t exactly approach Sister Lu Mo cold-faced and say, “Let’s get acquainted. Don’t fail to appreciate it,” could she?
That was villain dialogue!
It would instantly freeze their relationship!
This life, she wanted to be the older sister—the one protecting Lu Mo.
“No… I waited three hundred years. I can’t stop here!”
“I must find a way to bring Sister Lu Mo to bed—
I mean, to protect the best Sister Lu Mo in the world!”
Elia clenched her teeth and thought desperately.
What could she say that wouldn’t make Sister Lu Mo hate her?
“Are you there?”
“Can I get your contact?”
“Miss Lu Mo, I have a cat in my dorm that can do backflips. Want to see?”
…No, no, that’s not right—
“Ughhhh—!”
“I can’t think of anything at all!!!”
“Elia, you’re useless—useless, waaaah—”
In the end, she nearly lost it.
She pressed both hands against a wall and repeatedly bumped her head against it.
“Waaah—”
At that moment, she heard a soft cry from a girl.
That sound tugged directly at her heart.
She quickly looked up.
In the distance, Lu Mo had apparently fallen.
“Huh?”
An opportunity… had just appeared like this?
If she extended her hand to Sister Lu Mo now—
Elia immediately prepared to rush over.
But at that very moment, another figure ran ahead of her and reached Lu Mo first.
“?”
Elia slowly typed a question mark in her mind.
Wow.
She actually fell.
Lu Mo felt a little embarrassed.
She had been thinking deeply and hadn’t paid attention to the road.
Before she knew it, she had tripped.
She was just about to stand up, cover her face, and sneak away—
When suddenly, a figure radiating holy aura appeared before her.
“Are you okay?”
Lu Mo looked up.
A girl dressed like a saintess was smiling at her.
Light golden hair floated in the air, more dazzling than the sun overhead.
Her eyes were pure and innocent, like a clear spring holding a tiny sun that would never set.
Standing before her, the girl resembled a sunflower—forever embodying ideals and hope.
—The only thing slightly ruining the picturesque scene was the restless ahoge on top of her head, constantly bouncing.
A member of the Holy Church?
Lu Mo recognized the insignia on her clothes.
“I…” she began, but the girl quickly interrupted.
“Ah! You’re bleeding… how could it be this serious?!”
Huh?
Lu Mo finally noticed that her fingertip had a tiny scrape—so small it was nearly healed already.
But the girl suddenly knelt down anxiously, grabbed Lu Mo’s hand, and—
Licked it.
Huh?!
Lu Mo froze.
A surge of holy power flowed through her fingertip, and the wound vanished completely.
Yet the ticklish, slightly damp sensation of the lick lingered.
“All the pain, fly away~” the girl said cheerfully, as if soothing a child.
They both stood up.
Lu Mo dusted herself off and noticed that because the girl had knelt, the knees of her white stockings were now slightly stained gray.
“Th-thank you,” Lu Mo said.
Though it felt a little strange, the girl had indeed helped her.
“It’s nothing.” The girl smiled brightly. “We’ll meet again~”
With that, she skipped away.
For some reason, her figure seemed filled with excitement and happiness.
Lu Mo stood there for a long moment before smiling faintly and leaving.
Elia, meanwhile, had witnessed the entire scene from the side.
“Crack—”
The next second, a cracking sound echoed beside her.
“Ahh! What happened? Why did space suddenly crack open here?!”
Several students were so startled their legs gave out, and they collapsed to their knees.
Lu Mo did not notice Elia, nor did she suspect the saintess girl’s identity.
After arranging her dorm room and touring the academy, she returned to her residence.
It was now night.
And the system countdown had ended.
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