“You will come with us.”

One of the knights demanded while golden light was shining through every available gap in the enchanted armors he and his companion donned revealing that both of them were already using the light enchantments on their bodies.

“Did he give me an order?”

Kierul frowned and raised her brow in discontent while turning to her masked attendant.

“That definitely sounded like an order to me, my lady.”

The black-haired boy nodded in confirmation.

“The guts of some people. What, you two expect me to listen to you just because you are in King’s Guard? You didn’t say anything about acting according to the wishes of the royal family so the answer is no.”

The red-haired girl shook her head in disbelief and scoffed at the heavily armored knights.

“That wasn’t a question.”

The other knight spoke up revealing themselves to be a woman and then both of them stepped forward at the same time moving in perfect sync without ever signaling anything to one another.

“Show them their place, Zoemi.”

*click* *WHOOOOOSH*

Kierul’s glare became ice-cold and she snapped her fingers, as she did, the attendant behind her back disappeared without a trace.

“…?!”

“…!”

The two knights flinched at the same time, realizing too late that the masked boy reappeared right between the two of them.

“Aries, Taurus, Aquarius.”

As the pair stepped back, each throwing a magic-enhanced punch at the attendant’s head, the black-haired boy already had his fist glowing with a faint silver glow…

*WHAM*

Zoemi merely straightened his arms to the sides, hitting both knights in their solar plexuses with the back of his hands – funnily enough even the sound of the fist and metal connecting was in such perfect sync that they sounded as one…

*CRACK*

The enhanced metal bent out of shape and large cracks appeared all over the chesplates while the embedded magic stones shattered from the impact that swiped both knights off their feet while robbing them of their breaths.

*THUMP*

Although the scene seemed to be playing in slow-motion with the armored bodies hovering in the air, gravity claimed them without mercy and both of them fell face-first to the ground at the masked attendant’s feet.

The masked attendant stood up straight and slowly turned around towards his master in silence.

“Alright, alright… good jo…”

“See? SEE?! That will be you if you don’t start behaving and I will have to stop you from doing something stupid, my lady.”

When it seemed like Zoemi was waiting to be praised and the corner of Kierul’s mouth lifted up a little bit, the black-haired boy interrupted her while aggressively pointing at the defeated knights.

“Way to ruin a touching moment, you hotheaded attendant! Where did all your perfection go to?!”

The red-haired girl blushed and hid her embarrassment behind a veil of anger.

“Doesn’t matter! Anyway, we are going straight to the headmistress!”

Without even giving Zoemi the chance to respond, Kierul raised her hand signaling that any conversation is now over, and walked towards the main Academy building.

“You couldn’t be less patient even if you tried, huh…?”

The masked attendant spread his hands in a defeated gesture and rushed in front, passing his master on the way to be the one to open the door for her.

“Iron wall.”

Just to be greeted by a spell cast by a girl wearing a male school uniform.

*THUNK*

At her command, just like the name of her spell implied, a massive slab of iron blocked the way into the building.

“…tsss… I am going to melt whoever that bitch was together with her dumb spell…”

Kierul breathed out the air sharply and growled while raising her hand, putting back her index finger as if she wanted to flick somebody on the forehead.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa…! Kierul, stand down. There’s no reason to destroy the property because of some rude girl!”

Zoemi was so taken aback by his master’s behavior that he dropped any form of honorifics and just jumped in front of her waving his hands to appease her anger.𝒐𝐯𝐋xt.𝗇𝓔t

*rumble*

The Academy ground began to tremble but since it wasn’t the doing of either Kierul or Zoemi the two of them exchanged confused glances.

As they looked around the reason for the tremors revealed itself rather easily.

The soil and rocks surrounding them were forming into humanoid shapes and said shapes becoming golems were standing up.

Within seconds the master and her masked attendant were surrounded by earth golems!

“…who the ** tries to push their hand-me-down handicraft project? All those clay ** needs to be baked!”

Kierul expression turned furious as she estimated the radius her spell needs to be to get rid of the newly animated nuisance.

“Any objections?”

The girl asked sending her attendant a pissed-off glance while the encirclement of dozens of golems was closing in on them cautiously slow.

“Some people need to learn their place the hard way~”

Zoemi shrugged his shoulders theatrically and expressed his reluctant approval.

As if they were sensing the danger, the golems began moving faster, some of them were climbing on the backs and shoulders of the ones in front of them as if in order to cut off the escape route of the surrounded pair…

“How considerate~”

Seeing the golem’s new strategy Kierul smirked in approval – then thin lines of red light appeared on her body. As the girl clenched her fists, the light turned orange and she crouched touching the ground with both palms.

“Incinerate~!”

*WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*

Kierul chuckled and with the air trembling around her, she, the masked attendant, and all the golems were engulfed in an eruption of orange flames that shot out into the sky creating a pillar of fire.

The spectacle lasted less than four seconds but when the fire subsided all golems were burnt solid in place.

“Zoemi~”

“Sure.”

Kierul stood up shaking off the dirt from her hands while keeping her mouth open even after calling him, to which the masked attendant nodded and clasped his hands together.

*BOOOOOM* *KHHHRIIIIT* *crack*

As he did, he created a shockwave that once touched the baked golems and shattered them into fine pieces that spread across the Academy’s front yard…

…still, the golems weren’t the only damaged things, some windows of the main Academy building ended up breaking too…

“Now then, time to do my part too~! Sagittarius!”

Zoemi dusted off his outfit and stepped through the door while taking a swing at the iron wall blocking their way…!