Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Eon's POV: ]

"Come here. Gimme kissy."

"Ah…"

Rein didn't ask that question for my consent or anything. It was just a formality as always.

-Thud.

"Ummmm~."

She ran up to me with a tired look and first hugging me tightly, she pressed her lips against mine.

She was stronger now, and she knew that as well. And still, she ran up to me and crashed into me with such force that both of us fell down to the grass covered ground with her on top of me.

"Hmm~. Mmm~. Mmmmmm~."

Everyone was around us, looking at us with either a blush or a tired look, while some were also angry to see two of the house captains smothering one another in each other's saliva in a public place like this.

"Alright alright stop now. Enough."

I can tell Quin, Tia, or Carla were going to come up to us and smash both our heads together if we continued it beyond that point, so, after stopping her lips and tongue, I had carefully slipped away from her grasp.

"Let's continue this later, alright?"

I had to slip away from her even though I knew she would fall to the ground if I did that but, well, she wasn't going to get hurt by falling to the ground from that kind of little height anymore.

She was stronger now… but that did not mean we can just do something like that (for more than a few seconds) in a public space with so many people around us.

"Ahem. You two love birds done? Shall we talk about the damn papers we just had?"

Carla didn't mind us most of the time but she was someone that followed the ethical principles.

It wasn't a problem when we do it when no one's around or in a different environment, but with so many people struggling with the post exam anxiety present around us, she couldn't possibly let us make out as we wanted.

'Rein knew the ethical, moral, and social norms well as well as the fact that no one would have really cared about them in a different situation, but… after going through that uncomfortable situation, she couldn't hold herself back.'

I can tell just from her red face right now that she herself didn't know what she had just done… she wasn't as daring or shameless as people think she is.

She might be the captain of the Dark Society, but it was just a stereotype that her entire house is filled with shameless people that will one day become shady people.

'Contrary to normal beliefs, that entire house was filled with some of the most simple and normal people that were friends with many other normal people from the other houses.'

They were also nothing like those crazy, trough, or shameless kinds of people.

"Dummy."

Looking at her, and her red expression that was most certainly trying to rationalise what she had just done, I can tell she was going to run away from this place anytime soon now… oh.

"Excuse me, everyone. Ahem, I'll be back in a minute."

She couldn't even bear my eyes on her for that short moment. She just got up and ran away with a successful attempt at hiding her embarrassment.

"What… what just happened?"

She vanished from the place so quickly that no one even noticed when she just vanished right before their eyes.

'Her increased stats enhanced her ability to hide her presence, and her darkness affinity almost made her a shadow that others couldn't perceive until she wanted them to perceive it herself.'

She had gotten much better at handling her skills and witchcraft in these past few weeks as well, so, this was a surprising moment for them.

"Alright, alright everyone. There's nothing to be surprised about. It was just Uriel being Uriel."

There were only the people from our group in this corner around so this wasn't going to be that big a problem. Not that any of the students present around us had even paid attention to this side anyway.

"So, how was everyone's first test~?"

What just happened wasn't a mistake from our side. We just… slipped a little.

'It thankfully made the mood around here livelier, and now that everyone was not worried about other things, we can focus on the main agenda.'

Students were gathered here with their groups and friends to discuss how their tests went and what they did as well as how they answered their questions.

It was a common practice in this academy and in most other places. Paper review was not something they would normally avoid anyway since the insight from the other people was a precious knowledge all in itself.

"Oh! Right! The tests!"

What Rein did made the atmosphere around us livelier, certainly, but I had to pull their attention somehow so that they at least don't stay stuck on the two of us.

And, the liveliest of them all, our pretty little fairy friend was going to be the best help with that task.

"Lucifer! Lucifer! You know those extra question things, right? Did you also get something like that?"

She was directly asking about something that people usually avoid talking about.

'These extra questions were something that was placed randomly in the test zones of some of the students and it is not used in the main scores until the students need it or want it to be there.'

It was a kind of extra score that the lucky students can use later in their academic lives, and it was normal for the students to come across these special test questions at least once in their lifetimes.

'There were two other ways to obtain these special extra scores.'

The first one was from getting the highest scores in the exams, and the other one was through the acknowledgment of the headmaster himself.

"Why might you be asking something like this, I wonder. Tia, don't you know we shouldn't talk about it even if we did get it?"

"Ah don't give me that crap now, alright! They are all talking about how they got the extra test thing that gives you extra points and I didn't get anything like that!

How is that fair!"

She got angry pretty quickly even though I didn't even do anything to incur her anger this time around.

She also seemed frustrated that she didn't get this extra test thing while many of us did get it.

'I can tell from the atmosphere around us that there were more than usual people that encouraged these special tests and I know for a fact that many of them might not even have known how to solve those things.'

Tia on the other hand might have very well solved these special test questions if she was given the chance but, she was not… most probably.

"Alright, alright angry fairy. Calm down now, will you?"

She was smacking my head with her little heads after I said we shouldn't talk about those things, but thankfully she wasn't using any strength behind those strikes or else they might have had to arrange my funeral already.

She was a fairy but her strength was nothing less than Carla or even Rein's. Still, looking at her adorable behaviour was a mood changer for all of us.

"No! First tell me about the thing! Tell me why I didn't get that special test?!"

"It's a random thing, little friend. A random thing that one just gets by luck."

First of all, I asked everyone to gather around and take the little fairy with me.

Though, she still chose to be on my head instead of on my palm or shoulder.

"I believe a few of you might have encountered the unique things in your desk rooms, right?

Perhaps some of you encountered it earlier like Rein and I did or some of you might have had it in your desk room from the start."

Not many people just talk about these things and reveal that they had encountered this special opportunity, but they know in their heart that these opportunities are precious things.

"It's not up to us or even the headmaster who gets those opportunities since a special process determines the ones who will have them.

All they can decide on their own would be the number of the students that will have this special opportunity. And even that number is randomly selected.

Now… it's not true that it's a one time opportunity or anything since some lucky person would most certainly get a second chance with these special extra tests during the other exams, but the chances drop significantly as far as I know."

I patted her head and pressed the puffed cheeks that were glaring at Quin and the others who had encountered this special opportunity.

'It will come in handy for the others one day if they had answered their 'questions' properly.'

The number of points they could get through these special questions was limited and the headmaster along with the judges was the one to decide who would get how many points, so, we didn't not have to worry about that.

"If you didn't get the chance this time, worry not. There are still the end semester exams, as well as the four exams in the second and third years left.

You'll also get your chance. So, just be patient now, alright?"

Rein was back and it seemed like the atmosphere around us had gotten much better as well.

Even Tia had calmed down.

"Alright then, shall we finally talk about the test papers?"

There was no need to discuss anything about the papers that we have already submitted, but it was a good experience to take the advice of someone else and learn from it.

'It was an age-old way to get better at the subject… and even everyone around us, not aware of that fact, was doing it.'

Proving the effectiveness of this approach.