A few weeks have passed since Laura was finally recovered from certain death with the witch flu. In the world the witch flu pandemic took proportions of a global pandemic, where every continent had a high number of cases, which were already passing the 10 million mark. As for the deaths, there were more than 200,000 worldwide, of which more than 100,000 were witches alone, which greatly concerned their society.
Some restrictions the witches themselves made, since it was concluded that magic could further worsen the spread of the pandemic among them, such as avoiding to do any activity related to magic on the outside, as well as all magic schools had to start teaching online if they wanted to keep with the classes. The circulation of broomsticks itself was controlled so that the manifestation of magic was avoided and the infection continued, with the order that all witches stay at home.
Sporting events around the world were cancelled and this included until the World Broom Racing Championship, in which the Broom Racing Association had to postpone to July the first edition and the first race would be in Salem, in addition to a calendar decrease, which has never had so few races since 1766 when there were 15 races.
6th April 2020, the day was starting like any other in the Cavendish family residence, Akko and Diana wake up as usual one facing the other to start a day of work at home, Kagari is the first to wake up and soon gives a good morning kiss on his wife.
- Good morning my cute cabbage.
Says Akko kissing Diana while she woke up.
- Good morning Akko... Ahh... Another day filling out this director's paperwork.
Says Diana yawning.
- Sarah has offered herself more than once that she could handle all the paperwork, even more so that you are pregnant my love.
Says Akko.
- Oh I'm pregnant, I'm not without my hands, I can still work to help in the academy, besides I don't want to leave all the work to Sarah who already has a lot of things to do, if I'm in this position now I have to work as such.
Says Diana.
- Oh, that's right my love, do as you like, but don't force yourself so much, I don't want our little Mary to get bad because you don't rest right.
Says Akko as Diana hugged her.
- Oh don't worry honey, now let's get dressed and eat a little, you soon have to teach the girls in your class.
Says Diana kissing Akko.
Then the couple Cavendish Kagari gets up and the two go to take a bath together, Diana was already with a very prominent belly since she was 5 months pregnant, what Akko did a lot was to clean in that region saying that she was bathing in both, while gluing her face there to feel the little Marianne who soon gave some kicks which made the Japanese woman melt with love for her daughter. After the bath the girls went to the kitchen where Laura and Bernadette were, besides little Hellene who was sitting waiting for the food and soon they were welcomed with a good day, while the food was arriving at the table. It was quite a lot, pancakes, maple syrup, eggs, bacon, bread, ham and cheese and coffee and chocolate that McLaren prepared for her daughter who was blowing the mug so as not to burn her tongue.
- So, girls, what are you doing today?
Says Laura.
- Today will be the first online class I will give to the girls of Luna Nova.
Says Akko.
- I'll just keep on working with the paperwork; I'll advance on what happens.
Says Diana.
- Good and remember if you don't stay too long, once Akko finishes teaching her class, you stop and rest, I don't want you to force too much, for silly paperwork that is just to stamp and sign some papers.
Says Laura.
- Not so much paperwork, we call it paperwork, but we are going to the digital environment now, it's more efficient that way, the paperwork part is more to issue the students' certificates, diplomas and bulletins, little by little we are going more and more to the computers, this pandemic has in a way accelerated that a lot.
Says Diana while eating the pancakes.
- And to think that my little Laura almost stay in this place, if she weren't a fan of broom racing, she would be suffering with even more paperwork because it was still at the time that computers were starting to show their faces.
Says Bernadette laughing.
- I really can't imagine Laura being all serious doing paperwork, stamping documents and signing others, it's not the kind of thing that goes with her.
Says Akko while eating a sandwich.
- I always signed my racing contracts and solved all my paperwork, it was very boring, but really, I do not know if I could be director of Luna Nova, even more alone, you have no idea how lucky you were when Sarah Bernhardt appeared, two taking care of all this complicated and boring part is really something very advantageous.
Says Laura finishing eating.
After this family moment, both Akko and Diana leave the kitchen and go each to their office, Cavendish's she opens her notebook and starts working there managing the academy, while Kagari just waits until it's time for the online class to start until 9:00, all the students are connected and soon the Japanese woman turns on her notebook webcam.
- Good morning! Good Morning! Are you ready to go back to class? I imagine that you only enjoyed these good weeks off, but this break is over because now we will continue with our content.
Says Akko while the students on the webcam pretended to be excited.
- Yay...
Some of the students say.
- How much animation you've seen, don't worry that I won't be the boring teacher who fills the lesson, now let's go back to the way we were before, just look at the board and observe how a verbal spell is done without a wand.
Says Akko as he pointed to the painting.
Akko shows on the board that to perform a verbal spell without a wand it is necessary for the witch to have a much greater control over the magical power and in this she has to take the magic to the area of her hands, where it becomes a kind of wand and then say the name of the spell she wishes to use.
Meanwhile, away from there in the Appleton underground, Louis was in a reserved room with Donald, where the two were observing about Blackwell Health's actions and also about the witches' flu cases.
- Look boy, this plan of yours went far, I liked to see it, I have to say it was a master shot.
Says Donald.
- I didn't say, the first part of our plan worked, now we have to invest in his election as prime minister, so we stayed more in power and started to create laws to restrict the witches even more, although the witches themselves are doing it, since the flu attacks the more they use magic, so basically the witches can't manifest the same if they don't want to die.
Says Louis with a malicious smile.
- But still yes I am a little perplexed by Robert's death on the day Grace was born, is anyone all our conversation and is waiting for the perfect moment to give the boat away? Or is it that only one of our trusted men discovered of a betrayal of the same about us and gave an end to it, since the body was on the floor.
Says Donald.
- I managed to get some of the recordings, it was a female voice, it sounded like someone 50 years old, a witch, all she said was a "Now let me get rid of you", Robert was kidnapped when we weren't noticing and then she even said "Stay there in yours, you're nothing compared to an experienced witch, now magically you're going to die, I see you in hell you imbecile", it sounds like there's someone behind us, a powerful witch by the looks of it.
Says Louis.
- If I were you I would erase one by one of the witches who worked for you, in a way that looks like an accident, so we won't have...
Says Donald until Louis completes.
- I've provided this, each one of us who worked for us, mysteriously disappeared, but since that day I want to know who that bitch is! That bitch! No camera could catch her, I think it's amazing with an imbecile witch she could break all our anti magic defenses and even hack our whole system... Who the hell is that behind us? We must have a traitor... Is it Dana?
Says Louis.
- Don't exaggerate boy, because it would be your wife, that one there is lost in love with you.
Says Donald.
- Because she may have discovered some betrayal of mine and you know very well that I can't be alone, that woman is very boring, even more so now that I had the disappointment of having a daughter.
Says Louis indignantly.
- Ah boy, don't stop being so bad with your daughter, think about how she can help you in the future, sharing your ideals, so you would be able to influence her to become a future leader of witches and that will give you an even bigger step to put an end to these idiotic witches.
Says Donald.
Meanwhile, the mysterious witch was listening to everything, even in her rejuvenating sleep, so she uses a mind control in Hector, but the moment she goes to his door controlling the robot, decides to stop.
- (No! I'm boiling with hate about it, but I can't change anything, I wanted to show this son of a bitch's wife what a bad and dirty man he is, but if by any chance I expose what he said to his wife, I can not only make her angry, but I'll send her to die, since I doubt nothing that these two would not be afraid to kill his wife because he knows too much ... Because I thought about helping that imbecile's daughter? Fuck her... Although I remember my tortuous childhood).
Back int he secret room of the two, they both continued there to argue about influencing Grace to become a witch who could easily rise to power and destroy all the witches' advice, thus ending their problem for good, but this would still take a long time.
While Akko continued with her class, the students gradually showed her that they were managing to release verbal spells without the need of a wand, even some more complex ones like levitation, metamorphosis, changing clothes, which Kagari helped as she passed the class.
- Professor Kagari, what about non-verbal spells? Can you do it without a wand?
Says one of the students.
- You can only see that here.
Says Akko turning her hand and making some magical sparks appear followed by a small unicorn hologram.
- How cool! The lady didn't say a word and yet she went, even more without a magic wand!
Says one of the students.
- These are the non-verbal spells without a wand, you will learn from me until the end, I guarantee you will leave here with tremendous magic knowledge, but I want to see you with the verbal spells without a wand, you need to do very well in them if you want to advance to the next stage of more complex magic classes.
Says Akko.
- But only then is it very difficult, we have to control the magic of the hand and still hope for the spell to come out.
Says one of the students.
- Of course, this is your first class, you wanted it to be easy right away, you need to practice if you want to continue to increase the pattern of your magic and I'm not talking only in the classes, outside of them if you dedicate at least a few minutes to train the magic, you will be able to arrive faster in more complex classes of magic, but I really want to see you improve.
Says Akko as he watched the students trying the spells.
As time goes by Akko's first online class finally passes after a few good minutes, where the students say goodbye to the teacher and then Kagari finishes with the class videoconference.
- Whew... First online class finished... It's more complicated to teach here with students who barely pay attention, than to teach at the academy... What a pandemic ass, motherfucking bacteria, fucking microbe.
Says Akko relieved.
- (I still have to teach second and third grade girls... I better start these classes soon, Diana is lucky to just have to talk with Sarah and see if the documents are going all right).
Soon Akko started her second class, this time with the second year students who were learning non-verbal spells without the magic wand almost at the end for the students to finish that year, they even got some during class and also treated Kagari with an incredible respect of admiration, which only needed supervision from the Japanese during class.
Meanwhile in the other room, Diana was at a video conference with Sarah Bernhardt, where the two of them were discussing savings after this whole pandemic ended and classes went back to the way they were before.
- Diana, you don't need to use your money to keep the academy out of loss, we are sure about that, the savings here can insure all the maintenance costs and employees for the 5 more years without any profit, the savings of the academy is the least. We need to get a government endorsement for at least the graduation of the third year students, to be realized.
Says Sarah.
- The way they are blaming us for not being able to treat the witch flu so well, and on top of it they are furious that our so powerful magic is not saving lives, I really doubt very much that the government will make an exception.
Says Diana.
- Luna Nova is in a tax-free administrative region administered by witches.
Says Sarah.
- But it is still the United Kingdom that is in charge. Unless an independence referendum is opened, as Northern Ireland has done and in that Ireland has unified, still maintaining sovereignty over the whole territory, it would be an excellent attempt, or else we can support the independence referendum for Scotland and unify that territory over Scottish rule.
Says Diana.
- You know it's a good one... But how are we going to make this referendum work?
Says Sarah.
- I can use my influence, for the Scottish people to accept this idea more and more, if I support this referendum, the whole population of Scotland will want to sign in support, understand now?
Says Diana.
- I understood, so we already have a great plan to try little by little to recover the classes and some things.
Says Sarah.
Diana and Sarah are still there discussing what to do in the academy in this pandemic. Meanwhile, back in Akko's room, she was watching her students' classes, until one of them and ended up calling the teacher to ask a question.
- Professor Kagari, can I ask you a question? Maybe will skips class a bit, but I was always curious about it.
Says the student.
- You can talk.
Says Akko.
- Why only we girls use magic and we can become witches? I have never seen a witch in my life who is not some man just fantasizing, the men I saw flying on broomsticks were always hitchhiking with another witch. Do you have any reason for that?
Says the student.
- Do you know that this is a good question? Then let me explain here... That's kind of a rule pre-established by the master sorceress stone. .. From what I read in the books of the past of the nine witches, they tell a lot about it, both men and women could become witches, but only Lilith who ended up touching the master sorceress stone and so only those who have the genetics of a woman can manifest the magic within. If I am not mistaken, Lilith was even a lesbian and so it was one of the reasons that only women used magic, but there are some cases of men who use the magic of irreversible sexual change and become women forever, these same transformed women can use magic, since all genetics change, including the chromosomes.
Says Akko while the students are amazed.
- What about the women who become men?
Says the student.
- These unfortunately lose the ability to use magic, but even if a man cannot use magic, they can still work in various services related to it.
Says Akko.
- Now I understand Kagari teacher, your classes are always the coolest.
Says the student.
Then Akko's online class went on as usual, while the minutes went by and soon the class for the second year students finished and there Kagari started teaching the third year girls, who were still at a level below the second year students, since many were still from the old Luna Nova administration, so they were still learning non-verbal spells with the magic wand, which the Japanese girl soon began to give a strength to teach. The days went on practically like this during the semester to give continuity to the classes and to be able to continue with the classes of the girls who were studying in Luna Nova and wanted to be witches.
See you, online witch classes...
