Yue Ayase, the leader of the Baka Rangers and best friend of Nodoka Miyazaki, woke up in a sleepy daze as she rubbed her eyes trying to fully awake from a restless sleep. Yue looked around the dorm's room that she shared with both Nodoka and Haruna "Paru" Satome.

Haruna loved drawing and writing her Mahora Academy's popular manga. She is also the top rumormonger among her class, but has kept Negi's secret as a Magi because she has a probationary contract with him.

Haruna was slumped over a tiny table with all her manga supplies covering each space of the table.

Yue shook her head in disbelief that Haruna stayed up all night trying to finish her manga.

Yue guessed that Nodoka had to work early at Library Island since Nodoka was not in the dorm room.

Yue quietly got changed into her blue t-shirt and blue skirt to not disturb Haruna and left the dorm room.

Yue stopped by a vending machine and studied all the choices of drinks it had. She chosen tomato milk.

Yue headed out of the girl's dorm with her drink in hand. She was heading to Library Island.

Yue was stopped by Eva-san, the Shinso vampire magi doll master, on her way to Library Island.

Eva-san coldly asked, "Have you seen boya?"

Yue looked directly at Eva-san.

"No, I have not seen Negi-sensei this morning," responded Yue just as coldly.

Chachazero, the magical doll that Eva-san controls, shouted, "YOU SHOULD KNOW."

Yue dismissed the doll words.

Chachazero pouted as she was ignored.

Eva-san asked, "Well if you see my apprentice, tell him...Never mind. Will see you later for training."

Yue half-heartedly bowed and stammered off toward the infamous library.

Eva-san looked at Chachazero and said, "What did I say?"

Chachazero shrugged her wooden shoulders.

Yue open the door to Library Island as it was fairly noisy with a lot of students coming and between the aisles of bookcases looking for a particular book. Yue walked up to the library counter expecting to find Nodoka.

"Um Nodoka-san?" as she looked behind the counter seeing nobody behind it. Only saw Nodoka's red jacket.

"I wonder where Nodoka-san could be," Yue said to herself.

Yue started to worry where bookworm could have went. It was Nodoka's day behind the counter. It was not like Nodoka to not be there.

A female upperclassman, who worked at the library, was stopped by Yue. Yue asked if she saw Nodoka. The upperclassman shrugged her shoulders and said, "No!". The upperclassman walked away.

Yue was not scheduled to work at the library so she decided to head back to the girl's dorm for a bath before her magical studies with Eva-chan. Eva-chan was hard and a merciless person training the girls and even worse with Negi.

Yue entered the dorm room that she shared with Nodoka and Haruna. Haruna was writing and drawing some of her manga as she looked up.

Yue looked surprise to see Haruna awake and said, "Wow you really are alive this morning."

Haruna yawned and responded, "Yeah just woke up a couple minutes ago and no one was here."

Yue did not say anything.

A concern look from Haruna asked, "What's up?"

Yue trying to think of where Nodoka could be with a calm demeanor, "Oh nothing I suppose."

"What does that mean?" asked Haruna suspiciously with one eye open.

"Probably nothing, but Nodoka-san was not in the library when I went there," said Yue.

"She was not there?" said Haruna with an astonished look on her face.

"Apparently not. She might had an emergency request and had to leave the counter area," said Yue with a hopeful expression.

"Maybe," as Haruna went back to her manga because her deadline was coming up soon.

"Well I am going to take a bath and head back out to Library Island to see if Nodoka-san is there. Then off to train. Will you be training today or ditching as usual?" said Yue.

Haruna giggled, "Sure I will be there as soon as this manga gets done."

Yue stepped out of the dorm room and started down to the baths. Along the way she bumped into Konoka Konoe. Konoka Konoe is the Mahora Academy's Dean's granddaughter. Konoka lives with Negi and Asuna Kagurazaka. Yue once thought Konoka was an air head. Konoka was still in her pajamas.

Yue asked calmly, "Have you seen Nodoka-san today?"

Konoka smiled and said, "Nope, not today. Why?"

Yue sighed and said, "Well she was not in the library when I was there. It was her morning to work the library counter."

Konoka looked puzzled because Nodoka was always in the library if she was not with Yue or training with Eva-chan.

"I guess she is somewhere in Library Island," Yue said with a concerned look.

"Well, Negi-kun was up awful early and said he was heading to the library," said Konoka.

"I wonder if they are together?" Yue said with a slight disappointed expression on her face.

"Jealous?" said a giggling Konoka knowing Yue was in love with Negi.

Yue blushed and with an upset tone, "NO I AM NOT JEALOUS! why would I be?"

Yue calmed down a little and said, "That is great that they are spending time together. Maybe it will lead them ahead a step in their relationship."

Konoka smiled, "Are you sure that it is alright? After all you still are in love with Negi-kun. Are you not?"

Yue started to tear up and turned her back so Konoka could not see her. Yue said, "Yes I am still in love with Negi-sensei. I try and try again to get over this feeling. But..."

"It is alright Yue. Not going to spill the beans to anyone over your feelings for our professor," said a gleeful Konoka.

"Well, if that is the case that they are together within Library Island I will head there and see if I can fill in at the counter for a couple hours before training with Eva-chan," said Yue plainly.

Konoka with a suspicious look, "Sure you are not checking up on them?"

"What! No not at all," said angry Yue.

Konoka shrugged her shoulders and wandered off to her dorm room. Yue proceeded to go to the baths for a bath first before heading to Library Island.

While just in the pool size bath, Makie Sasaki strolled in and spotted Yue. Makie got in and got near Yue.

Makie Sasaki, one of the sports girls, who loves rhythmic gymnastics and likes Negi a lot but knows he is only ten years old.

"Practice?" asked Yue.

"Yeah another hard morning of jogging and today with the ball routine," Makie said out of breath.

"I suppose you have not seen Nodoka-san this morning?" Yue asked calmly.

Makie with a confused look, "Um, no."

"Alright thank you," Yue smiled as best as she could.

"You are welcome I think," said a cheerful Makie.

"If you see Nodoka-san, tell her I am looking for her," said Yue.

"Alright, do you know if Negi-sensei is still in his room?," asked Makie cheerfully.

"Konoka-san told me that Negi-kun went to the library early this morning. So he might be with Nodoka-san if she is there," replied Yue.

"Thank you!" said Makie.

Yue washed up quickly then rushed out of the baths to the changing room. Yue pondered her true feelings if Nodoka and Negi were alone together.

"Could I be happy if Nodoka gets Negi? Do I have even a slight chance of hope of having Negi? And Makie also likes Negi but has not told him how she feels. Our class rep, Ayaka, fawns over Negi as well. Only Nodoka has told him how she feels out of the class," Yue said to herself being depressed.

Yue got dressed and headed back to Library Island hoping Nodoka was back behind the counter and Negi was not with her.

Makie leaned her head back within the water and was thinking of her cute professor.

"So if Nodoka-san is with him, does that mean he has chosen her?" thought Makie.

"No that cannot be since he is only ten years old. But what are they doing together?" said Makie to herself.

Chizuru Naba and Natsumi Murakami were walking into the bath area and saw Makie.

Chizuru Naba, the most endowed in the chest area and member of the Astronomy club, said, "Hi Makie-san, did you have practice?"

At first Makie did not hear Chizuru and glanced over. "Yes had practice. Never gets easy," responded Makie.

"Yeah I hear you with my drama club. Long hours of reciting lines," said Natsumi.

"Did you hear that Negi-kun and Nodoka-san are together in Library Island?" asked Makie.

"Oh ho ho ho, no we did not," responded Chizuru as she put a hand to her mouth giggling.

"Really?" responded Natsumi smiling.

"That is what Yue-san just said," said Makie.

"So that is who went by us in the changing room so fast," said Natsumi as she looked quickly over to the changing room.

"Well they do make a cute couple," said Chizuru.

"I guess," said a depressed Makie.

"I want to be his first and nobody else, but he is only ten. I wished I had a body like Chizuru. Then maybe I would stand a chance with Negi-kun," thought Makie to herself as she blushed.

Makie got up quickly from the bath and headed toward the girl's changing room before Chizuru or Natsumi could say anything to her.