It was quiet inside the Biele School of Magic.

　There was no sign of anyone at all and a strange atmosphere was in the air.
　The air was so strange that Xiaomei couldn't help but shiver with her arms around him.

"Are you alright, Xiaomei?
"That's okay,

　Xiaomei looked around with a furrowed brow.

''Master Alexander, there's no one here at all .
It seems. . and it's not like you can't see people, it's like you're never there.
"Really? ......

　Xiaomei started to be frightened and troubled.
　This is the first time for me too.

　With the Philosopher's Stone and the Philosopher's Sword you can gain all kinds of knowledge whenever you want, but it's a different story when it comes to experience.
　It's a strange feeling to be in a huge building like the magic school with no people at all, a first for me. .

Let's check it out first. Let's keep an eye out.
"Yes.

　Xiao Mei nodded, took a deep breath, and switched her face to a crisp one.
　I walked out with Xiaomei and came to the school building and peered into the building through one of the windows.

It looks like a classroom.
"It's still funny, Mr. Alexander.
Yeah, that's funny. It's like we were just in class. I left my textbook and notebooks open on the table, and I'm in the middle of writing on the blackboard.
"There are no signs of a struggle. It's like everyone just disappeared.
"It's getting stranger and stranger.

　I looked at several windows in a row, one after another, but they all had the same look and feel, like a person suddenly disappeared.

"Let's not just look at the classrooms, let's look at the other facilities,
"Yes!

　Stepping back from the school building to get a full view of the school, I headed there to mark a different colored structure.
　Along the way, we'll

"Dear Alexander!
"Hmm?　Oh, monster.

　Two monsters appeared out of nowhere.
　One was a two-horned rabbit and the other a gorilla with a face that looked like it wore glasses.

　Both are more than twice the size of similar types of animals, and the gorilla one looks like it has more power than the other.

I'm going to take him down.

　Xiaomei stepped forward and chanted a spell.

　I taught her in magic school and utilized the Mupapato formula to boost her magic to the limit, creating several ice arrows from a glowing magic circle.
　Xiaomei, who is good at ice magic, let it go.

　I wonder if these magical and sharp ice arrows will work on those two monsters.

!

　My eyebrows shot up the moment I saw the monster.
　At the same time, my body moved.

　I drew my wise man's sword on my back and dashed out, overtaking an ice arrow as fast as a normal arrow and knocking it down with my wise man's sword.

"Alexander-sama!
"Wait a minute Xiao Mei
What's going on?

　I suddenly burst in and was puzzled Xiaomei .
　Meanwhile, the two monsters have escaped.
　There was no will to fight, they just ran away.

　I snapped up the glasses I'd been wearing the whole time and squinted at the fleeing monsters.

They were both C's.
"Huh?
"...... That was the human soul,
"Oh ......, really?
"Ah, the deeds of the previous life seen in these glasses, the soul rank, both C. And the rank C has always been human without exception.

　If it's too high, for example, an S-rank, it may not be human.
　If it's too low, you're punished and made into a different creature.
　But a C-rank is, for better or worse, a normal human being.

Why would a monster be a C-ranked soul?
I don't know.

　I didn't know, so I asked the wise man's sword.
　But the answers I got were too many.

　Because I have all the knowledge of the world, there are roughly 100 possible answers to the phenomenon of "a human being turned into a monster," for example.
　There are too many answers to narrow it down, so it's as if you don't have a real answer.

Let's wait and see.
"Yes.

　Nodding to each other, I regained my composure and resumed my search with Xiaomei.
　It's still not very popular.

"Monsters are very common.
That's it.
"They look at me and run away. Is it possible?

　Xiaomei looked at me.
　I gave a small nod and said, "Yeah, they're all human.

"Yeah, they're all human.


If I could catch them and hear their stories, I would.
"Well, I'm worried about you running away suddenly and losing track of them when you're chasing them.

　Xiaomei nodded, which is also one of the questions.
　They disappear, literally.

　If you're chasing a C-ranked monster, it will literally disappear before you know it.
　I'll chase it on sight and it will disappear in a flash, a very strange phenomenon that keeps happening.

Dear Alexander!
What's the matter--much.

　Following Xiao Mei's gaze, I saw a monster and a human ahead of me .
　It was a monster with a fish body and limbs, more than twice as big as the human we saw together.

　The monster was attacking the human.
　I was relieved in a way.
　What happened at the stalemate, might be a chance to break the deadlock.

　............ Oh, I see.

We gotta help!

　Xiaomei held out her hand and chanted a magic.
　The hand was aimed at the monster.

　I drew my wise man's sword back and threw it at it.
　Faster than Xiaomei could unleash his magic.

　The wise man's sword pierced the human.

Alexander!
"The monster is a former human. That's the spirit.
"...... oh

　Xiaomei huffed and lowered his hand .
　Yes, there had been several monsters with human souls in the past.
　Still, the simultaneous appearance of the human and the monster caused Xiaomei to reflexively try to unleash his magic at the monster to help the human one.

　(、、、、) I defeated the soul of a rank G, definitely not a human, but a "human" with a soul to be punitively reincarnated into something else.

I'm sorry Mr. Alexander.
Don't worry, Xiaomei, just do what you want. When I see you, I will stop you.
"Yes ......

　Xiaomei's face colored and she nodded a little.

''Speaking of which, you're not running away.
"Huh?　Oh really.

　When the explanation was over, Xiaomei and I noticed that the monster didn't run away like the others.

　Soon after, an even bigger surprise happened.

　The G-ranked soul humans I defeated gradually faded away and disappeared.
　The C-ranked soul monster was enveloped in light, and the human that peeked out from the light was the human I had defeated.

　It was the form of the human I had defeated.

　The word "returned" popped into my head.

　Apparently, for some reason.
　Humans and monsters seem to have been swapped.