Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Quin's POV: ]

"Haaa…"

"Haaa."

"Huuuu."

Three consecutive sighs filled the surroundings, and then there were four of them who shook their heads in the process.

"It's boring."

"Let's do something na."

"Do what though?"

Lucifer and Uriel weren't here so the rest of us had to cancel the plan to go and see the flower fields that had recently been said to have appeared in some part of the island.

It was sad that they had to do something very important exactly at a time like this, but if they weren't going, I had no reason to go either.

'And since I wasn't going, Chry didn't have any reason to go either.'

And since so many people weren't going, Zoe wouldn't come either, and after Zoe, Lizzy wouldn't come.

And, since so many people weren't going, even though Tia and a few others had some motivation to go, they wouldn't go either since it wouldn't be as much fun as could have been with the rest of them here.

"Should we play something? Or go explore the places we haven't been to?"

"We went around the garden just last weekend. Did you forget the incident with the creatures and Baal?"

Last week, we all decided to go around the garden and see what things we had not seen until now. But, while we were going around, a plant-like creature suddenly came to us with a bunch of other creatures and started 'playing' with Baal.

'It was strange, but according to the two of them, this wasn't something new or surprising.'

That plant-like creature had already attacked him once, and then it played with it after a certain thing happened.

"Then what? Go and check the creatures-."

"No. Absolutely not! Did you forget the bees got angry when we started climbing the tree?!"

The other time we decided to go around and play with the other creatures that we could find in the academy, like the creatures that lived in the garden the bees that lived on the great ancient tree, and the other bird that also lived on the branches of the other trees, something similar happened.

'There was some kind of event going on among the bees, as the two of them explained, and we ended up disturbing them.'

The two of them calmed the angry bees down with something strange that we still don't know about, and thanks to them, we were saved and forgiven.

'They said they had already met the Queen of the Blue Bees and they said that one day if she wants, we might also get the chance to meet her.'

"Haaaa…"

"Tsk."

"Why the hell is this damn day so long?!"

Even Carla was getting angry now.

There was practically nothing to do!

"Ughhh! Let's just go and play something, everyone. Or if not that, I'm going to the library to read something."

Alf and Bell were reading something else already while sitting a little too close to one another— but that was normal nowadays so that aside, they couldn't focus since we were in the garden and there were so many distracting things.

'They were mage scholars so they needed to study more than the rest of us… or perhaps they just liked studying, that's all.'

But this place was distracting. And they wanted to go to the great library on the western end of the academy castle… and actually, that was a good idea.

"How about we go and play in the library?" I suggested to the rest of them that they were getting so bored some of them were dozing off in the middle of a fine afternoon.

Some of them were drinking their own tea since Lucifer, the group food provider, wasn't here.

All of them were practically bored since we had to cancel a plan that was practically finalized from our side.

"There isn't much in the library but, have you all heard about the secret passages that lead to the secret rooms of the Great Library of Time?

They say many secret places in the library still haven't been found by the authorities yet."

Brother Lucifer told me this story one day. A story about the Eternal Library of Time.

"It was said that the library was created by the founder of the academy, however, they made it with the help of a certain elder that they all followed.

Some records say that this library is based on some other library that exists someone else in this world and that there is a certain place that connects the two libraries present somewhere in this library."

Everyone here knew about the common secret rooms that were locked by the authorities of the academy and only those permitted by the headmaster and a few certain individuals could enter that place.

We knew that, and those places were something we weren't that interested in, in the first place.

'But a secret, undisclosed place was a different matter.'

What if we find something there that would interest the two of them as well and surprise them when they come back?

"The library?"

They were bored and weren't doing anything anyway so, wasn't it better to just go and do something that would actually be interesting?

We had never explored the great library in detail anyway so, we might as well end up coming across things that might make this boring day worthwhile.

And since everyone here had to prepare for our midterms, even if we didn't find anything at all, we could just stay over at the library and spend the night reading or doing something that's more fun than just sitting around and practically doing nothing of significance.

"That's actually interesting, you know?"

"I was thinking we could go and visit Med in her shop, but since she said she was going to go around all day long, this is better."

"I had to return some books as well, so let's go to the library."

"Tsk. What could we find in that boring place filled with books? It's not like grimoires are lying around in that place."

Tia didn't like the idea of going to the library. She wasn't that interested in books anyway since most of the things that she knew were from her practical experience.

'She usually avoids learning things from the books since doing the things is more fun to her.'

And yet, she spends a third of her day reading books… our ironic little fairy fiend.

"You know what, Tia? Their library has a section in some corner where they store all the old romance novels out there.

Most of them are as old as a few centuries old, and some are-."

"What are we still doing here?! Let's go everyone~!"

She loved novels. Especially the romance ones of all kinds and all genres.

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She actually loved them so much that we sometimes wonder if she reads a few books every week or a few hundred of them each month.

"Wait a minute. Has anyone seen Miss Mia? I think she also wanted to go to the library with a few of us if possible.

We should go tell her as well."

Ball was having a fun time with the other students nowadays. He wasn't gloomy anymore and he wasn't alone anymore either.

'He had friends and he had ones that he was closer to as well. And it was pretty cute seeing him with the others.'

He had changed quite a lot since the first time we saw him, and this was a good kind of change.

"Hello? Is something happening finally?"

This group of ours had become unexpectedly big.

Aside from the three of us, there was Lizzy, Med, Zoe, Carla, Alf, and Chry who initially got together to have lunch, and then the first additions, Tia, Hide, Luna, Eula, Araxie joined us.

Captain Alpheus and Captain Alpha, and their vice-captains were the second additions after which, a large number of students started joining us for lunch occasionally.

'Some of them were only here for the chance to socialize with the rest of the students and captains, while some of them were doing it because of pressure from outer forces or with ulterior motives.'

But then it wasn't that bad at first… but then, after the competition, things changed quite a lot.

'Many students started joining us and following us around the academy with other motives and we had to warn them in various ways.'

But still, in the end, the group got as big as those 'societies' that the other students made.

Now there were around fifty of us only in this group and most of us were from the initial lunch group that used to eat together.

'There wasn't any group leader here, since this (Group) wasn't really an official group and just some people hanging around for their reasons, but Uriel and Lucifer had a deep connection with every individual present here.'

They were nothing less than a group leader, but still, the actual group moved through individual motivations.

"We are going to the Library~! Join us if you want~ hehehe."

Even Deleon and Miss Ezra who had started hanging around pretty recently were good people to have around.

'When we were in the Heliox estate, we had spent a pretty fun time together so we all knew neither of them was actually as bad as the rumors make them.'

They were cool, on the other hand.

"Miss Quin?"

"Ah, Chry~. Yes, let's go~."

Chryses had somehow become as close to me as Uriel and Lucifer… we spent a lot of time together studying and talking about various things.

This friendship we had…

"Oh, there's something on your face."

He was attractive.

There were many things about him that made us more comfortable with each other than the rest of the group.

"Ah, thanks…"

His smile was funnily similar to a smile present deep into my memories… but, I didn't know what that thing I didn't know about was.

"Shall we?"

"Yes. Let's go~."

I held his hand instinctively, and he held it back… even though he knew he shouldn't.

This friendship was precious to us, and we had to keep it limited to just that.

A friendship.

'At least until I finish what I have to…'

We needed to limit this relationship.

And he knew that better than me… perhaps that's why he never lets me intertwine our fingers while holding hands.

'Hump.'