Chapter 23: The Entrance Ceremony (1)
On a cold, cloudy day in March, the bell of the steeple rang nine times.
─ We will now begin Tilette Magic Academy’s 1024th entrance ceremony. We ask that new students and guests make their way to their designated seats and teachers, please help the students find the right place.
The entrance ceremony was taking place at the Academy’s northern amphitheater.
There was a podium and two chairs in the center of the amphitheater. The two chairs were prepared by the school for the first and second place students.
The whole program took place in the center of the stage from the opening ceremony rehearsal to the closing ceremony.
The teachers were standing along the outside of the theater. They were all readied with staff-summoning spells in case of anything going wrong during the ceremony.
One of them was Meriga Heerlein. The way she had her arms crossed with two high-grade golems behind her was enough to portray an ideal for the students of Earth Magic.
Next to Meriga, Klais stood slightly slouched over. There were deep dark circles beneath her eyes.
She must have fought big with the Prince.
Prince Klion had also applied to Tilette Academy and passed. There were suspicions about whether he had received the bonus marks for Imperials or not but that was quickly silenced.
Either way, the Prince would be in the gifted class. The gifted class was assigned to freshmen with excellent admission test marks who could potentially skip grades or achieve early graduation. Normally, acceptees until 20th to 25th place belonged to this class.