You call this a black hand?

The airship floating port in Graham City is located on a flat land near the seaside in the suburbs. It is somewhat similar to an airport in its previous life.

A group of boys and girls dressed in neat black uniforms with a circle and an inverted triangle logo on their chests are lining up in an orderly manner to enter the cabin at the bottom of a sky-blue oval "big balloon". They all have different looks, some are excited.

, some are disappointed, some are sad, and some are anxious.

Not far from this group of people, there were some elegantly dressed adult men and women, watching the group of children enter the airship, their expressions were also not calm, and some even cried.

"The Ministry of Transportation is said to be planning to build a large-scale undersea railway."

After finding a window seat and sitting down, the round-faced Martin, who looked a little bored, said to the black-haired boy opposite who was looking around:

"At that time, it will not take more than half an hour to go from Graham City to Fort St. Grant."

"But it is estimated that we will have graduated before they finish the construction."

Before Mellen could speak, someone started talking next to him.

It was a young wizard with short brown hair named Pop.

When Mellen was at Chelsea Manor, this man had been very enthusiastic towards him. Now, on the day when school started to go to St. Grant's Fort, he even went to the mixed-race association early in the morning and acted as the "bag boy" for Mellen.

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This made the little round-faced Martin feel in danger.

But at the moment, he was immersed in the melancholy of leaving home for the first time, so he didn't do anything because of it.

"The airship is actually pretty good."

Sitting next to Melen was a delicate girl with long brown hair. After hearing this, she said:

"The most important thing about the undersea railway is to sign a defense treaty with the deep-sea races, but those beasts have always been known for not abiding by contracts, so even if the railway is built, it may not be able to be used at all."

Her name was Fanny, and she had gone to interview Mellen with her fiancé.

Now her fiancé was sitting not far away, and there was an empty seat next to her. As a result, this man insisted on squeezing his way to Meren's place.

However, she claimed that she would take advantage of her free time on the road to write an interview for Mellen, so no one said much about it.

In fact, under the excitement of going to wizard school, no one paid attention to such boring trivial matters at the moment.

While some teenagers and girls were feeling melancholy, there was also a group of people who were very excited about it, so much so that they gathered together in twos and threes and chatted, constantly making "noise".

Yawenba

"It is said that this trial at the beginning of the school year is related to what happened in Cape Verde, Southern California."

Not far from Melen, there were several people mysteriously discussing the upcoming situation.

"What's the meaning?"

"I don't know either, but this news was told to me by a friend of mine. His father is one of the instructors responsible for preparing for this trial."

"So, what happened in Cape Verde?"

…

Basically no one knows what happened in Cape Verde.

A mysterious knight was summoned by a group of remnants of the Church of the Sun God, and then created a huge protective field.

The third prince of the Northern Empire unfortunately died in this incident, which caused a great commotion. It is said that the dictator of the empire became furious because of this.

But no one could figure out how everything that happened there was related to the school opening trial at Fort St. Grant.

"Of course the Imperial people will not be willing to let their prince die like this, but they don't dare to attack again."

Someone said mysteriously: "I heard that they sent a traitor to infiltrate, and the villains used drugs, and all the remnants of the Sun God Church have been captured."

"Did you hear that?"

"Of course, you don't know that the young lady from the Blackmore family disappeared in the Cape Verde incident, right? My grandfather is following the search and rescue there."

"It is said that the remnants of the Sun God Church kidnapped her."

"The Church of the Sun God kidnapped her, and the Empire people stunned the people of the Church of the Sun God... Isn't this troublesome?"

"Who says it isn't?"

"So, what does this have to do with this trial?"

"Uh, I don't know about that..."

It was difficult to tell the truth from the news he heard everywhere, but in line with the vague calling that had been missing these past few days, Mellen doubted whether this was really the case.

Have those who called you been arrested?

"So, after enrolling in school, you plan to focus on enchanting?"

The girl reporter sitting next to her was actually interviewing Mellen. It was said that she wanted to join the school magazine after the semester started and urgently needed to get her "first shot" started.

Considering that this person's previous interviews had helped him a lot, Mellen was not shy about eavesdropping on other people's conversations and casually making up some material for him.

"This is mainly for the purpose of delving into the field of alchemy in the future, because I think..."

As he answered, he scanned the surrounding crowd with his eyes, hoping to find Mrs. Chelsea——

The teacher's idea of ​​​​disguising herself as a student has not changed because of the "improvement" of her daughter's condition.

Before that, Mellen learned through the Book of Secrets that the teacher would take the same airship to Fort St. Grant with his group.

But he looked left and right and didn't see anyone who looked like her among the people around him.

"The most important thing about enchantment is the precise control of the third hand. Do you think you are talented in this area, Egg?"

"I think there is, because I have tried it before -"

His voice suddenly stopped.

Not only did Mellen's words suddenly stop, but the people around him who gathered in twos and threes also lost their voices.

Because under the leadership of a waiter, a pair of boys and girls appeared at the entrance of the cabin and were walking towards here.

"Shouldn't the Chelsea lady take a special airship to St. Grant's Fort?"

Someone saw this and whispered, "Why are you with us?"

This is obviously a puzzling question.

But no one is discussing it at the moment.

Because the people sitting here now are all members of wizarding families from inside and outside Graham City.

These families may not all be loyal to Chelsea, but at least they are related or have some kind of vassal relationship.

And the wizarding world is a highly hierarchical place, so of course no one would dare to arrange this young lady at will.

Especially, she was accompanied by her famous fiancé Kevin.

Therefore, the new students who had talked about some topics without any scruples before were now sitting quietly in their seats and maintaining a polite appearance, fearing that they would be underestimated by the two future controllers of Graham City if their performance was poor.

However, what happened next made it difficult for them to maintain this stable and cautious mentality.

Because after getting closer, the eldest lady with beautiful blond hair, after discussing with others, completely ignored her fiancé and sat directly next to Egg, whom everyone knew!