The main library of the Tristain Magic Academy takes up three floors of the main tower. The top floor is the Fenrir section, where students are not allowed to enter, while the bottom Freyr floor and middle Frigg floor is open to the public.

Louise, the pink haired noble girl, is currently studying for her tests for the next day. While she had pretty bad grades due to her inability to perform basic elemental magic, she was still quite the serious student.

In spite of that, her mind would occasionally wander. This time, she thought of the scene she saw just now, where Saito ate at the kitchen, unknown of her presence outside the window. While she was extremely angry that her punishment was rendered useless, she decided to let the matter go since she was a little worried that her punishment was too harsh anyway.

"H-how do I read this word?" Saito's faint voice entered her ears.

Louise ears perked. She looked around but didn't see his signature black parka anywhere. She wondered if she was imagining things.

"It's read 'alef', dear." There was no mistaking it. It was the same dry voice that ridiculed Louise from day one. She narrowed her eyes.

Kirche.

What was she doing with Saito anyway?

Louise closed her book and searched the floor for them. She finally found Kirche hugging Saito near the corner of the reading area. His eyes kept swinging towards the area above Kirche's stomach.

Louise let out a dry cough that drew their attention.

Saito's eyes widened when he noticed Louise and he gulped.

Louise and Kirche, the redhead that had Saito in her arms, locked eyes and squinted at each other. Louise's body trembled in rage. She marched silently to Saito and yanked him away by the ear.

"Louise the Zero, what are you doing with my darling?" Kirche whispered angrily as she stood up abruptly. The sound of the chair being forcefully pushed back echoed around the library. Shushes came from the other tables.

Louise did not answer and continue to pull Saito out of the library. Saito began to pray that he got to escape from this nightmare alive.

When they were finally out to Vestri Court, Louise dumped Saito on the ground and spoke to him in a low voice.

"Ex-ex-explain why you were with that milk cow."

"I wanted to learn how to read to better serve you, master. Since my master is so busy, I decided to go to the library and ask for help. I don't wish to bother my master with such a trivial matter." Saito knelt before Louise.

"H-h-how thoughtful of you. In return, I will also give you an ex-ex-extremely thoughtful gift."

Louise pulled out her wand. Saito's face lost its color.

"I don't care who you ask, but why it had to be Zerbst? That insolent milk cow, rubbish mouth, useless woman…" Louise began to babble on her own. Her face was as red as beetroot, visible even under the moon light.

"Eh-eh, what?"

Louise pointed her wand at Saito. "Zerbst and Orneilles have been enemies from the day that scumbag of a Zerbst stole the wife of my great-great-great grandfather, and have been messing around with us ever since! We have been in war with them for two centuries!"

Saito did not understand why he had to be punished over their feud, but what he did know was that he probably would not survive the night.

As Louise swung her wand, he pounced towards Louise out of his survival instinct, knocking her off balance.

An explosion rang from a high place behind Saito just as Kirche and a blue haired girl ran out of the main tower.

A few minutes before that, a black silhouette stood on the main tower, a level below the principal's office, the wind tugging at her hood. She took an amber gem from her pocket and held it in her left hand as she placed the other hand on the wall before her.

"Earth, earth, earth , earth, water." She muttered as she chanted the reinforced transmutation spell, Alchemy. The amber gem in her hand dissolved as it was used in the spell.

The wall remained defiant. Just as she thought, the walls around the treasury have been protected by a powerful Solidification spell, possible with a few gems thrown in too. She looked at the remains of the amber gem in her hand, small featherlike points of light winking out of existence.

Centuries of studies allowed scholars of Halkegenia to find a way to utilise spirit stones in their elemental magic, enhancing the abilities of mages and reducing willpower consumption, simply by wrapping the original runes with additional special runes. Using spirit stones with the same affinity allowed twice the effect.

Fouquette sighed. Even with a pentagonal spell, the walls remain untouched, so it was not even possible to try brute force with her golem. She wondered how she was going to report to her employer over the failed heist. She grinded her teeth in hurt pride.

Fouquette never fails.

Just then, she noticed a pink haired noble drag a boy with black clothing out of the main tower. The girl yelled for some time before swinging her wand.

Just then, the wall beside her exploded.

Fouquette ducked, mouth agape. She could not believe that the girl below might have just circumvented a high level Solidification spell.

Not one to let a golden chance slip past her fingers, she quickly leaped into the hole created by the explosion and searched for her prize. She quickly found the ornate black box sitting on a rack, decorated by special runes that had been specified by her employer. The Academy did not even bother to hide it, since the vault was believed to be impenetrable.

Summoning a giant golem with another gem from her pocket, with enhanced speed from a wind element rune, she quickly leaped on it after leaving her signature message on the floor.

"Prize duly received - Fouqette."

Unable to hide her elation, she waved goodbye to the dumbstruck students below as her golem leapt out of the academy.

Principal Osmond rushed out of the canteen when he heard the explosion. Normally, he would have been in his office, but he was hungry and Miss Longbill had left home early, so he had to get his meal himself. By the time he reached Ventri Court, he only managed to get a glimpse of the huge golem that leapt away.

"Mr Osmond! The treasury have been broken into!" Mr Gimli rushed to the Principal. He was on watchdog duty that day, but he never expected someone to attack the treasury from the side.

"I see. Do we have a glimpse of the thief?"

"I have not seen him, but it seems that some students have witnessed the entire incident."

Mr Osmond stroked his beard. "Ah well, what done is done. Have those students come to my office tomorrow during lunch break, but for now could you please calm the students down and have them return to their dorms? I'll do what I can to patch the treasury wall temporarily."

Principal Osmond heaved a sigh as he levitated to the hole in the treasury wall. There was a lingering question as he waved his wand to repair the wall.

What would become of the ghastly power that destroyed the wall which was reinforced with a heptagonal Solidification spell?