Sindria

Ja'far rolls up a paper that Sinbad had read and turns to Yamraiha.

"Come to think of it, I wonder if Aladdin and Vulpi managed to enroll at the academy?" He says.

"That's right, he must have reached Magnostadt by now." Sinbad says.

"Yes, he's probably taking the Kodar exam about now." Yamraiha says.

"The students are placed into six classes according to skill level, right?"

"Knowing those two I'm sure they've catapulted them into the 1st Kodar!"

Magnostadt

"6th Kodar." The examiner says.

Aladdin stares at the metal that signifies Aladdin's skill level as Vulpi has a different character on her metal that says 4th Kodar.

"All right. Next!"

"I don't understand… Mind if I give another try?" Aladdin asks.

"Hey, Aladdin." Vulpi calls.

"You really are an impudent transfer student!"

"Gomenasai." Vulpi apologizes for Aladdin.

Aladdin tries again and points his staff at the magic circle. "Harlharl Infigar!" He shouts but a puff of flames appears in the magic circle.

"Right… 6th Kodar." The examiner says and passes the class schedule to Aladdin when a young man sees this and scoffs at the boy.

"What a lame little twerp!" the young man says.

"What?" Aladdin thought as he looks at his paper. "Is this the best I can do without any help from the Rukh?"

"It'll be fine, Aladdin. You'll be able to use your usual strength to bring yourself up to the 1st Kodar." Vulpi says cheering up the boy.

"Yeah. You're right, Vulpi-nee."

Once all the transfer student has been decided one of the staffs of the academy gathers them in front of a door.

"All right, we'll be heading inside the academy now."

All the students cover their eyes as a sudden brightness covers them. When they exit the tunnel, they are in awe of what they see.

"Wow!" Aladdin says in amaze.

They all see the beautiful scenery of the country.

"Welcome to Magnostadt."

Later, all the students are sitting on the carpet with a magician controlling it, leading them to the academy.

"Magic… magic… This town is bursting with magic!" Aladdin thought as he sees different magic tools all over the city. "I'm seeing mysterious tool all over this town… Surely they can't be all Magic Tools… What's up with this town, anyway?"

As Aladdin and the other students look around, they see the academy in sight and approaching it. Later, the transfer students are gathered together again as a magician stands in front of them.

"You are member of this year's vaunted third annual class of transfer students to Magnostadt Academy! You shall rest up today and prepare for tomorrow's Maref."

With that the students are scattered to go to their dorm rooms as Aladdin and Vulpi are standing in the middle of the hallway looking at their paper.

"So Maref means classes…" Aladdin says and slowly walk as he looks around. "I can't wait!"

"Aladdin, isn't this your room?" Vulpi asks as she points at a door.

"Yeah. Thank, Vulpi-nee."

"No problem. Now Aladdin, I want you to do your best behavior while we stay here."

"C'mon, Vulpi-nee, you don't have to tell me that." Aladdin assures as he waves his hand at her.

"Considering how you are…" Vulpi states and turns her body as she has her finger pointing in front of her. "My room is this way."

"Okay. I got it." Aladdin says and Vulpi goes to her dorm room as Aladdin opens the door.

Just then, a snake comes to him causing Aladdin to startle and the same young man from earlier looks at him as the snake comes back to its master.

"Oh, you're that boy from before. I see that we're roommates." Aladdin says before walking towards the boy and offers his hand to him. "My name's Aladdin!"

"Look, I'm in the 4th Kodar. I'm not gonna get all chummy with a 6th Kodar. So lay off the easygoing chitchat." The boy says as he shows his paper at Aladdin.

"I see that your name is Sphintus-kun. Nice to meet you!"

"Don't look at my stuff!" Sphintus exclaims and slams his land on his bed as he looks away. "You little bottom-feeder, just flunk out already!"

"Flunk out?" Aladdin repeats.

"At this school, there's a magic exam called the Ikiyar every two months. And of you flunk that test, you get the axe… The… axe!"

"It's pretty strict here, huh? When my magic classes start tomorrow, I'd better give it my all!"

Sphintus looks at Aladdin for a small moment before taking the boy's paper to look at it. "Hey, what's the deal with your class schedule? Look, it's nothing but body-strengthening Marefs! Guess it's not the 6th Kodar for nothing!" He mocks and Aladdin takes another look at his schedule.

"Body-strengthening? Not magic lessons?" Aladdin questions.

Meanwhile

Vulpi is still looking for her dorm room as Ryuko has its head out from her bag.

"I think's its around here…" Vulpi says and then Ryuko chirps getting her attention. "What is it, Ryuko?" She asks and looks up to a door. "That's it! Thanks, Ryuko."

Ryuko happily chirps and goes back into the bag before Vulpi opens the door to see a girl with tied up dark hair and small eyes.

"Hello." The girl greets. "I'm Sai-Lin."

"I'm Vulpi. Please to meet you." Vulpi says as she offers her hand to the Sai-Lin and the girl takes the hand.

"If it's okay to ask, what's your Kodar?" Sai-Lin asks.

"I'm 4th Kodar. And you?"

"6th Kodar…"

"The same Kodar as Aladdin." Vulpi thought as a sweatdrop appears on the back of her head.

"I'm sure that you would do your best being here." She cheers up the girl.

"You think so?" She asks and Vulpi nods her head.

~The Next Day~

Off to the side, all the students including Aladdin who are wearing Magnostadt uniforms looking at their staffs as they were instructed.

"Um, why did you take away our wands?"

"You scrubs aren't ready for them yet!" A woman's voice shouts and then a whip hitting on the floor near them causing the students to jump.

In front of them is a tall and slender woman with long, purple hair with some of it tied into a loop on top of her head, and golden eyes. She wears red glasses with pointed rims. She also wears dark lipstick. She wears shoulder plates with a floral design, a short black cape, a corset-like breast plate with a spider design that reveals the top of her breasts, a metal thong, and metal boots that cover most of her long legs, except her thighs and calves. In her hand holds a red whip that was used a moment ago.

"I'm Myers, the instructor in charge of you little punks! You 6th Kodars are at the top of the drop-out candidate list! Unless you're prepared to die in this class two months from now, you'll all be thrown out!"

All the students slowly look away from her as their faces gone pale. "Yes, ma'am."

"I can't hear you!" Myers shouts and uses her whip at them and glares at Aladdin. "Hey, little squirt there! Is that your excuse for a shout? Let's hear you raise your voice! Show me that you mean business!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Aladdin replies.

Myers then squats down and grabs Aladdin by the collar for the moment when she throws him to the ground. "I can't hear you!" She shouts causing other students to startle and Aladdin lifts his head as his face is redden from the hit to the ground when he sees her chest bouncing. Then he remembers Vulpi's words.

"I want you to do your best behavior while we stay here."

"Listen up! I'll tell you what you 6th Kodars lack - it's…" Myers trails off and straightens her whip. "Physical strength!"

"Physical strength?" The students repeat.

Afterwards

"22! 23!" Myers count seeing the students doing pull ups on the bars as the students are struggling. "24! 25! 26! 27!"

"M-My arms…!"

"Wasn't this supposed to be a magic school?"

When a student let go of the bars, Myers wraps her whip around him and he starts to get electrocuted.

"You damned wusses!" Myers shouts.

"It's like we're in the army!"

"That instructor's rumored to be a former army magician with the Parthevian forces!"

Myers turns her head at Aladdin who is about to do the exercise but drops after trying to one.

"Hey, you!" She shouts using her whip to electrocute the boy.

Aladdin sits up as his body is still stunned. "I-I'm sorry! It's because I've never really built up my body…"

One all the students are sitting the ground, Myers takes a step.

"Hey, losers, I'll bet you're thinking, 'But magicians don't need physical strength!' - aren't you?" All the students look away as she is correct. "Even among magicians, who have a rep for being feeble, you're feeble beyond words! Therefore, in your current state, you have no right to wield a wand! When you're told to run, you will run! When you're told to eat, you will eat! When you're told to shout, you will shout!" She shouts and uses her whip on the ground. "Over the next month, only those who believe in themselves and refuse to compromise shall receive lessons in magic! Now then… Run!" All the students begin to run. "Anyone who stops will be expelled!"

"Y-Yes, ma'am!"

On a spiral tower, some of the students collapse on the stair as the rest continues to climb up.

"I-I never dreamed that classes would be like this. It's totally different from Yam-san's way of teaching or the way I thought they'd be teaching us. But I do want to learn more and more about magic. I have no choice but to do this!" Aladdin thought and continues climbing up.

~Night~
Cafeteria

"Better chow down or you won't survive tomorrow's Maref!" Myers instructs as the 6th Kodar students cover their mouth as their faces are paled.

"Huh! You don't eat when you get the chance. That's why you're a lowly 6th Kodar!" Sphintus says.

"Only those who believe in themselves and refuse to compromise…" Aladdin thought and begins to eat the food, but he immediately covers his mouth preventing to throw up.

Vulpi looks over to where Aladdin is with a worried expression.

A month, the 6th Kodar students continue doing work outs as some of the students dropped out. Some of the time, Vulpi looks out a window to see how Aladdin is doing in his class. Now, only five students including Aladdin are sitting in a room with Myers staring at them.

"The only ones who survived this moth to the end… Just these five, eh? All right, let me teaching you what the purpose of this past moth was!"

The five of them grab their staff and go to a circle for each of them when one of them, Nero uses his magic and a large amount of water appears in front of him causing Nero to startle.

"I've never generated magic this powerful!" He states.

"That's proof that your body has become stronger." Myers says and smiles a bit. "Using magic takes a toll on your body. Until now, the Rukh inside your bodies have been suppressing your magoi output to protect you. Now that you've trained those bodies, that limiter has been disabled."

Aladdin looks at his and turns to the circle with his staff pointing at it. "Harlharl Infigar!" Just then a large fireball appears in the middle of the circle, surprising the other students. "It's way more powerful now than during that entrance exam."

"This is the result of believing in yourselves, and whipping your bodies into shape for a month. You did well to make it this far! Especially you, little squirt. I never dreamed that you'd hang on till the end."

"Yes, ma'am! It's all thanks to you, Instructor Myers!" Aladdin replies as he salutes at her.

"Is that right?" She asks and turns around to hide her tears from the students.

"Day after day, it was total agony for me… But… Every time, I was encouraged so sweetly by…" Aladdin thought and Myers turns around as her chest shacks.

"All right, now we're going to start magic lessons!"

"OH!"

Aladdin turns his head. "Thank you… instructor's boobs…"

Later, the five students have their books and scrolls in their arms as they are amaze at the magic class as an instructor giving a lesson to the students. When they are in another room, they are still amaze at the items in the room.

"So we're finally starting magic class, huh?" Aladdin says.

"Okay, scrubs, start with this." Myers says as she opens a chest revealing a crystal statue. "Touch this, one by one. Just like you'd normally wield your staffs to use magic, just infuse it lightly with some magoi.

"Okay, I'll start." Aladdin offers and touches the statue making it to shine as the Rukh gathers and fly towards him. "The Rukh…!"

Soon after, the statue breathed fire at Aladdin making his face to be black.

"Right, you're a Type 1 Red Magician!" Myers states.

"R-Red Magician?" Aladdin repeats.

One by one they touch the statue showing which magic they wield. After Aladdin, Nero touch the statue as he is showered with water.

"Type 2 Blue Magician!"

Then wind blows Sai-Lin.

"Type 5 White Magician! Type 4 Yellow Magician! You're also a Type 1 Red Magician!"

In front of Myers, Aladdin and a student have their head burned, Nero soaked wet, Sai-Lin fixing her hat, and another student lying on the floor as smoke coming from his body.

"Instructor Myers, what was that?" Sai-Lin asks.

"This is a tool to sort magicians into eight different types, the Eight-Color Magic Sorting Crystal."

"Sort magicians into eight types?"

"Did you know that magicians and Rukh have distinct characteristics?"

"Characteristics?" Aladdin asks.

"Rukh that helps you to generate waves in the sea… Rukh that helps you to generate wind in the skies… they're all different." Myers says and points her whip at the diagram of the different magic. "In Magnostadt, they are broadly divided into eight categories. Type 1 Flames, Type 2 Water, Type 3 Light, Type 4 Lightning, Type 5 Wind, Type 6 Sound, Type 7 Power, Type 8 Life. And those who have a mutual attraction to Type 1 Rukh, and thus are skilled in Flame and Heat Magic, are called Type 1 Red Magicians."

"So that's why my magic is Flame-based…" Aladdin summarizes.

"Instructor, is it because I'm a Type 2 Blue Magician that I can only use Water Magic? Or because I have no talent…?" Nero asks.

"No. You're just ignorant. After Water Magic, Type 2 Magicians have the highest compatibility with Sound Magic. Look! What's the positioned directly opposite the magic you're adept at is your second-most compatible magic!"

"Mine is…" Aladdin trails off as he goes down the diagram from his magic color to the other color. "…wind!"

Aladdin, try using Wind Magic with this." Myers says as she takes out a tube with Rukh in it.

"But I don't know a single Wind Magic spell."

"Listen to the Rukh for that!"

Aladdin stands up and walks towards the desk where Myers put the tube and positions his staff as he closes his eyes.

"Listen… to the Rukh?" Aladdin thought and the Rukh scatter inside the tube. "What is it, you guys?"

For the moment Aladdin stand there listening to the Rukh inside the tube and he opens his eyes. "Asfal Riih!" Inside the tube the Rukh turn into a small tornado before it dissipates. "I did it! I was able to use Wind Magic for the first time!"

Myers smiles at the boy as they continue their lesson for another month. After a month, Aladdin stares at his staff after night has risen as the next day is the test.

"Tomorrow's the big day…" Aladdin trails off.

"If you fail the Iktiyar, no matter how well you did in class, they'll still expel you. Well, but I'm sure you'll be okay." Sphintus says.

"Eh?"

"Hey, because you've really been bringing it."

"Sphintus-kun…"

Sphintus then gets off his bed to Aladdin before he shakes the boy. "So tonight for sure, listen to my story!"

"All right. I'm listening!"

"Okay." Sphintus says and Aladdin faces him. "Ready? The thing about me…" The next moment, he sees Aladdin sleeping on his bed causing Sphintus to hang his head.

~Next Day~

At a certain corridor, the five 6th Kodar students gets nervous with Myers standing behind them.

"I-I might not make it." Nero says.

"Y-You'll be fine!" Sai-Lin assures him.

"But I don't have the confidence to pull it off in front of his huge crowd!"

We're the classes grueling?" Myers asks getting their attention and then look down.

"The first body-strengthening class was brutal for me. I don't know how many times I thought about giving up… But…" Sai-Lin trails off.

"Yeah, those magic lessons that came after sure were interesting. Because more and more we came to understand what magic is." Nero says.

"Two months ago, when you first got here, you were a bunch of ignorant losers. But not anymore. Today, you guys are self-aware losers! Go on! You can do it now!"

The five students look at the entrance where they will be taking Iktiyar as the announcer calls for Aladdin.

"6th Kodar, Myers Maref - Aladdin."

Aladdin and the four other students nod at each other before he comes out to the outside.

"If the power of your magic falls short of our criteria, you'll be expelled on the spot. I hope you understand that."

In front of Aladdin are eight instructors and all the students of the academy and behind him his classmates watch him as they pray for him as Vulpi has his hands folded together in the stands.

Aladdin then points his staff at the circle using his signature magic.

"Harlharl Infigar!" He shouts and a large fireball appears with two fire rings surrounding it causing the audience to be startled except Vulpi. Then Aladdin turns his staff horizontal. "Asfal Riih!" Using the wind magic, both the Fire Magic and Wind Magic creating a fire tornado as it climbs into the sky.

"To think that you've combined Flame and Wind Magic! You pass - That's a no doubter!" Aladdin cancels his magic and goes up to the judge. "You're a 1st Kodar!"

This news causes the other students to be baffle as Vulpi has a wide smile on her face.

"All the way from 6th?!" Sphintus questions.

After Aladdin receives his new medal, everyone applauses at him.

"You did it, Aladdin!" Nero shouts as he and the other three run up to him.

"Amazing!" Sai-Lin exclaims when Myers pushes the four students away as she rushes towards the boy and hugs him as she cries out of joy.

"I did it, Mor-san, Alibaba-kun!" Aladdin thought. "Are you both giving it your all now too?"

"Aladdin…" Vulpi thought with a smile on her face.

Elsewhere

Someone is trekking through a forest when he sees a city with a coliseum.

"I made it… So this is Reim, huh?"