Chapter 57 - New Friend

After Cecil found his and Lucia numbers, they immediately made their way towards the academy district's gate.

When they arrived the two showed their examination numbers to the student staffs who were at the gate.

The staffs were astonished to see that the two top examinees had arrived together. They didn't want to create any commotion so after Cecil and Lucia's numbers were verified, they quietly let them in through the gate.

The staff at the gate had even assigned someone to escort them to the dorms.

When they arrived at the academy's dorm complex, Lucia was sulking a bit. Cecil immediately asked her what was wrong.

"What's up Lulu?"

"...we're going to be separated..."

"..."

Cecil facepalmed and said wryly.

"Hey, you make it look like we're separating for life. When school starts, we'll probably be in the same class, so cheer up."

"...Fine."

They arrived at the female's dorm first. Cecil took a look at the building and thought that it was like a 5 star hotel. It was awfully luxurious, the lobby's interior was also really spacious and decorated in a high class fashion. There was even a restaurant and convenient store on the first floor!

The convenient stores in Alterna weren't quite like the ones back on Earth. Although there were still some similarities, such as having snacks, some groceries, bathing essentials and such, there were also the added magical items, potions, simple alchemy ingredients and other items unique to Alterna.

When Cecil handed Lucia luggage to her, the staff escort turned towards him and asked.

"Shall I lead you to the male's dormitory now?"

"Oh... sure. See you in class Lulu."

"Y-yeah... bye-bye Cel~"

Lucia had perked up a little, so Cecil thought it was fine to leave her now.

Of course, that was impossible. Inside Lucia was agonizing whether or not she should detain him right there and then, or even ask the staff that brought them here whether there was a mixed dorm.

But, in the end, Lucia restrained herself.

Since the academy had already assigned their dormitory rooms, she didn't want to cause Cecil any problems. So she watched him walk off towards the male's dormitory and only until he left her sight did Lucia finally walk into the building behind her.

Lucia looked around and found that it wasn't as crowded as she thought it would be. She then walked to the reception desk and checked her name in.

"Examinee No. 1560, Lucia."

"Okay, one moment please..."

The female receptionist inputted her name onto the plate that she was holding. Cecil had always wanted to point this out, but wasn't the plate similar to the tablets from Earth?

The receptionist quickly found Lucia's name.

"Ah! So it was our top ranking student! Pleased to meet you, let me get your dorm key!"

The receptionist turned around and waved her staff, it wasn't long before a card flew out of the small openings that were on the wall behind the reception desk.

"Here you are, Lucia. You will be in building S01, room number 101."

Lucia took the card and thanked the receptionist. On the card there was some sort of serial number.

"S01101, huh."

Lucia was about to ask where the building was, but then a map suddenly formed on the small card. It indicated where she was currently at and where her room was.

"Well, that's convenient!"

Lucia then followed the directions on the map. It was a surprise to her since her room wasn't in the building she was currently at.

Actually the building that acted as the lobby and check in area was the dorm's administration building, on the card's map it was marked AF01.

When Lucia walked out of the AF01 building, she found herself staring at a large building complex that surrounded a park that was situated in the middle.

"Woah..."

Lucia was somewhat surprised, but she kind of expected this. The building she just came out of was large, but it's not like it could house all the female students of the academy that numbered in the thousands.

From what she saw from where she was standing, Lucia counted at least 10 buildings that had similar sizes to building AF01.

"Okay... where's mine?"

She thought that since it was building S01 it should be close by, but the map only indicated for her to walk further and further into the complex.

On her way, she came across some of the other female students who were either her upperclassmen or freshman just like her.

Some greeted her and other's just walked passed.

Lucia was focused on her map, so when she got deeper and deeper into the complex, she didn't take notice of the shocked and envious gazes of the other students.

She finally arrived at building S01.

"Tsk, it's building 01, but why is it so far from the entrance!"

Lucia was annoyed with how far she had to walk from the administration building all the way to her dorm.

"A-anoooo... excuse mi-igh!"

Lucia turned around when she heard someone call out to her. Behind her was a girl with similar height as her who seemed to have just bitten her tongue. She had tears in her eyes with one of her hands clasped over her mouth.

Lucia took another look at the girl and thought that she was pretty. The small girl had long, wavy aqua blue hair reaching her buttocks. Her eyes were a bright emerald color. She seemed to be about Lucia's age too, but the most astonishing thing would have to be her body.

The girl and Lucia sported almost the same height and figure, only Lucia was a little bit taller, but the difference between their chest sizes was astonishing.

Lucia wondered how a girl that should be the same age as her grew up to be that... well, big!

Even as a 14 year old, Lucia's chest was pretty well developed and she would probably have some huge knockers when she grew into an a.d.u.l.t. But, even Lucia had to admit defeat before the girl in front of her.

Lucia started worrying since Cecil's eyes would sometimes wander onto a woman's chest whenever they met one with huge assets. The prime examples would be when they first met the guild receptionists in any city or town they stopped by.

At first, Lucia had to stab Cecil's eyes with her fingers just so that he wouldn't let his eyes wander, but Cecil soon learned his lesson after numerous eye-blinding assaults.

From then on, Cecil made sure that his eyes would never gaze at ANY girl they met for prolong periods of time, in fear of Lucia poking his oculus uterque out.

'Uwaahh... she's dangerous...' Thought Lucia. 'Better keep her away from Cel.'

The blue haired girl grew worried when all Lucia did after she turned around was glare at her. She opened her mouth and asked worriedly.

"I-is there something wrong?"

Lucia snapped out of her train of thoughts and greeted the girl.

"Haha, nothing, nothing~ my name's Lucia. I'm a first year, nice to meet you!"

The girl was surprised at Lucia's abrupt change, but she quickly reacted and greeted her back.

"N-nice to meet you! My name's Aquafina Oceania Neftersea. Like you, I'm also a first year!"

Even when she was just glared at, Aquafina only smiled back and introduced herself happily. Lucia grinned seeing the cheerful personality of the girl.

"So~ Fina~ I can call you that right? Fina? Aquafina is pretty long! You can call me Lulu, all my friends call me that!"

"O-okay! L-Lulu!"

Aquafina giggled, she was very happy since someone who she just met actually wanted to be friends with her and even gave her, her first ever nickname.

"Fina... Fina~ uhehehehe~" Fina was giggling and had a sloppy grin on her face.

'Woah, this girl sure has a lot of expressions~' Lucia thought.

Just a second ago, the girl in front of her just had a tearful expression from biting her tongue, a fearful one from Lucia glaring at her, then a cheerful expression from having their introductions done and finally the current sloppy, over-the-moon blissful expression from calling out her own nickname.

She was cute... goddamn she was too cute. Even Lucia couldn't help but want to hug, pet, and spoil this adorable little thing.

"WAAAAAH MOOOEEEEE~"

Lucia shouted and dashed up to hug the cute little thing in front of her.

"Eh? L-Lulu?!"

Fina was surprised at the unfamiliar term that Lucia just spouted, not to mention that she was also abruptly embraced by the beautiful fox girl who she just made friends with.

Lucia started rubbing her cheeks on Fina's and laughed.

"Nahahaha~ I wouldn't mind Cel being friend's with you since you're soooo cute and adorable~"

Lucia would normally limit Cecil's interactions with girls who were 'threatening' in her eyes, but she made an exception for Fina since she was just too precious.

"Uh o-okay? Uhehehe~" Fina was a bit bothered at first by the unfamiliar and unexpected skin ship, but she started giggling happily soon after.

"Okay, so since you're here too Fina, does that mean you're also going to be living in building S01?"

"Yup! My room number is 101! So come visit me if you have time!"

"Eh? 101?"

"Yup!"

"What a coincidence! Mine is 101 too!"

Fina, upon hearing this was simply overjoyed. Her first friend also happened to be her roommate.

"Yay! Let's go up to our room then!"

The two walked arm in arm into the building, they checked in with the receptionist and quickly made their way to their room on the second floor while chattering about.