小嫂子的味道

Req\'s story was interesting, and the history it told about this world was a bit different from what they had written down in the books. So to research a bit more on this, the next day I went to the library after the classes were done.

It took me a while to search for a book that told an actual history and was not a mess of many theories on \'what would have happened\' by multiple authors. I also came to understand that either the people here were not so concerned about history or it had been altered deliberately.

Finally, after a long search, I found three books which were fitting my needs. I spent the next couple of hours reading them and found that the history indeed was altered.

The war was mentioned in the book but there was no mention of Req in it. Not a single chapter was about her, not a single paragraph, not a single sentence. This, of course, meant that the way the war ended had also been changed.

The reasons were slightly different and varied from book to book, but all of it boiled down to one thing. And it was that the kings stopped the war themselves.

Yeah, according to the books the kings finally noticed the loss of resources they were doing and the damage the war was causing to the world and the people living in it. They realized their mistakes and came together to sign a peace treaty that is still being followed to this date.

There were a few other things I wanted to find out, for example why the kings hadn\'t gone to war again once Req was taken care of. My thesis was that during their battle with her, they must\'ve had a conversion and had come to know the reason behind her existence and why she was after their lives.

The destroyer was born from the flames of the war, so to keep anything like this from happening again in the future they decided it was better to not start the war again. I wanted to check whether I was right or not but apparently the book had only so much information.

It was frustrating, really. There was one more thing I wanted to get information about and it was the items Req talked about—ones that were the source of the strength of all the kings. But even that was not mentioned.

In the end, all I got to know was that after the war ended, the kings came together and operated in peace. As time passed, the names of the kingdoms were changed. When the heirs of the kings took over the throne, civil wars broke out in some of the countries, and a coup d\'etat was launched which ended up with the partition of some countries. As of now, there were a total of eight countries in the world.

After that, there was nothing much to do so after having a cup of coffee in the cafe I returned to my room. I sat on the bed as I flipped through the pages of my diary.

There was no major event happening anytime soon, the closest event that happened in the novel was the mid-term exam which was two months away. I had nothing but time on my hands.

I closed the diary and looked at the wall before me.

\'If I have time, why not use it efficiently,\' I thought and made up my mind.

***

Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, slowly the time passed now it was the month of December and winter was at its max. About two months went by since Req told me about her past and I decided to use my time effectively.

And I did that, in fact. During these days I spent all my time training and learning more about the Requiem sword; controlling it was the main goal of my training. The training brought good results, of course.

Now I was able to handle the magiken pretty easily and using Dark Edge had been somewhat easier too. My strikes weren\'t as smooth as Req\'s but they were still quite destructive.

I had also worked on casting magic spells through the Requiem sword just like Req had told me to. And I\'d to say, while it was a bit harder to do that, I was finally able to cast spells via the magic circle method.

Though I made sure not to use them in public as I never used the Requiem sword in front of other people. That was most of what I did in these; made myself stronger. I worked on my skill of [Foresight] too.

I had a major problem with that since whenever I used it for more than ten minutes I started having a very bad headache. I didn\'t know the reason for it hence there was no sure-fire way to deal with it, but I made a guess that it might go away if I used [Foresight] constantly.

So I did that and included half an hour of constant [Foresight] in my training menu. And it did help, in fact. Now I was able to go on for fifteen minutes without any headache.

The only incident which happened was the first time when I used it for half an hour; I was giving it my all to bear with the intense headache when I noticed that my eyes started bleeding. Gave me a real run for money.

For it helped me increase the overall time so hey, everything paid off I guess.

Aside from my training and daily classes, I met up with Ellyn on a daily basis and made her report to me about Leon\'s activities. Turns out that this world was still following the novel\'s plot.

One thing that I did notice was the relationship between Anya, Leon, and Ellyn. They seemed to have grown close and were like a friend group; I\'d asked Anya about this and she said that she was not being forced by X. So if she was fine, I was fine.

Speaking of X, I hadn\'t noticed any activity from their side in the last months. It was as if they had disappeared into nothing and were concealing their presence. I tried looking but in the end, came out empty-handed. I mean, how can I find an enemy whom I don\'t know a thing about?

All the information I had about X was that they were from my former world, a reincarnate, and knew about loli_pop\'s novel and that this world was based on it. That was all I had.

The clock tower\'s bell rang and resounded throughout the whole campus. I looked at the clock hung on the wall of the cafeteria and saw it was about time for the classes, and I was late.

I finished my coffee hurriedly and ended up burning my tongue in the process. Then I paid for the breakfast I had and left the buildings. Then I made a run for it since today was a day I didn\'t want to be late.

I ran as fast as I could, leaving the other late students behind, and arrived at the Mains. Upon entering the building, however, I did not go toward the classes. Rather than that, I headed toward one of the assembly halls—one where the opening ceremony took place, to be precise.

As I reached close to the hall I noticed that a number of students had already gathered inside. I went and joined the crowd. There were a great number of students here.

Just to be clear, I had come here instead of going to the classes because I already knew something was gonna happen here, well, that was true but it was not the reasons which pushed me. Yesterday all the students had been told to gather in this hall first thing in the morning, that\'s why I and the rest of the students were here.

Soon the remaining minutes passed and all the late students arrived too. The teachers who were already there adjusted the students to stand in rows, and before I knew it there was complete silence in the hall that, a few moments ago, was bustling with conversations.

The sound of footsteps resounded in the hall, as a man in a black suit climbed onto the stage and walked up to the mic. He was none other than our Mr. Halls, and he was here to make an announcement.

An announcement related to the mid-term exam that was going to take place tomorrow.