And friends?

Yes, friend. Yes, my friend. I'm Hurt, third son of Count Silverlei. Will you be my friend?

''No, well, when I say I'm going to be friends with a nobleman...''

So, I'm going to tell your father about what you called me 'stupid' earlier.

'Please don't do that!　I mean, you can't blackmail people who are trying to be friends with you... s-sorry, sir!

'Whoa, so we're going to be friends, right? That's the way you speak, right?　I'll leave it at that. That's our friends.

Yeah, well I get it. I'm Luke, nice to meet you.

Yeah, nice to meet you.

　I put my hand out and Luke quickly wiped his hand on his own robe and then shook my hand.

　It's kind of...he's a really good guy who can take care of the details.

'Oh, well I want to be friends with you two too.

　Very reservedly, the girl I had just helped spoke to me.

　Of course I couldn't say no.

'You're going to be friends with us too, aren't you? I'm Hurt and this is my best friend Luke.

You're going to introduce me?　You're my best friend.

　For some reason, I called Luke my best friend, even though I just learned his name just now. The interaction with Luke was interesting, so I just had to.

　Luke looks a little embarrassed when he's called me, but he doesn't seem to feel bad, so I guess there's no problem.

''My name is Luna. It's nice to meet you.

Yeah, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.

　And that's how I have two friends. When I tell Tina about it, she'll be very happy to see me. She was wondering if I'd be able to make friends at the school, so I went to the entrance ceremony with Luke and Luna.

　While thinking about this, I went to the entrance ceremony with Luke and Luna.


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　The entrance ceremony ended rather quickly.

　Right now, I was taking Luke and Luna in tow and heading to my house, which was built on the school grounds. I was walking slightly faster because I wanted to introduce them to Tina as soon as possible.

''But the Count family is amazing, I didn't expect them to build a house on the school grounds.

''And there are maids too, right? As I recall, this academy was usually closed to non-students, even relatives...

"Heh, isn't that great?

　I was bragging a bit, but inwardly I was getting impatient. I couldn't find my house. According to the map Tina had given me, it should be around here, but....

Hey, Hurt, I don't know if you've ever been to your house, but is it your house?

What?

　Luke pointed to a mansion that was large enough to accommodate dozens of students. It's about one-fifth the size of the Count Silberlei mansion I was living in, but a mansion with a garden was built there, which is extremely different for something on the school grounds.

　The words 'Silverlei' were engraved on the main gate.

　........Seriously?

　I thought that I had been given a smaller house from my former world, a house with about two bedrooms at the most.

''Count-sama is amazing, isn't he?

　Luna is stunned.
　I'm surprised too.

　There was no point in staying outside, so I took Luke and Luna and headed to the mansion. I rang the doorbell attached to the mansion's door, and a little while later Tina appeared from inside.

''Halt-sama, welcome back.''
I'm home, Tina.

Master Hurt, who are these people?

I want to introduce you to a friend of mine I made today. This is Luke and this is Luna.

'I'm Luke. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. My name is Luna.

'Well! Congratulations on making a friend already, Master Hurt.

Yeah, thanks. So, now that we're here, I'd like to have dinner with Luke and his friends, if that's okay with you?

Of course. I'll be ready in a minute. I hope you all enjoy your time in the living room.

Yes, sir.

　After Tina went to the kitchen, I realized I didn't know where the living room was, so I walked around the house with Luke and the others and opened the door. When I finally found the living room, I sat down in a chair and immediately Tina came to call me.

　The mansion is too big.

　I was thinking about suggesting that Luke, Luna, and the others should live here too, since some rooms would never be used by just me and Tina.

　The dinner Tina made was as good as ever.
　Luke and Luna seemed to be satisfied with it as well.

　After dinner, Luke and the others said they were going back to their dorms, and I promised them that I would walk with them to class tomorrow. A lot of things happened, but it was a fulfilling first day at the magic school. Tomorrow, the magic class starts.

　I'm looking forward to it.

　But before that, there's a class announcement to be made. If possible, I'd like to be in a class with Luke and Luna. When I told Tina about this, she went off somewhere.


　She came back after an hour or so, but when I asked the smiling Tina where she had gone, she didn't answer me.


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　The next morning, I headed to the place where I met up with Luke and Luna, and they were already waiting for me.

'Sorry, I'm late,'

No, on time.
Well, I've just arrived.

That's good. Class, I hope we can get together.

'The three of us together might be tough. There are 30 classes.

　Three hundred students will be enrolled this year. And since there are ten students per class, the number of classes would be thirty. It was hopeless, probability wise, that the three of them could be in a class together.

''If it's Halt, can't you manage with the Countess' power?

'No, you can't, indeed. For the most part, I only became friends with Luke and his friends yesterday. Not enough time to lay the groundwork.

That's a good point.
'Yes, of course...'

　If it was your father, who is extremely lenient with me and builds a mansion in the school, I might be able to make him play with the class structure if I asked him to.

　But as expected of yesterday, he can't do anything. With that in mind, we went to the bulletin board where the classifications were posted.


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　Bottom line.
　We were all three in the same class.

　It looks like they crossed out the part where someone's name was drawn and wrote all three of our names. I could faintly read the name that had been written earlier.

　One of the names that had been erased appeared to be Nard, the son of Baron Zoldi, the son of Baron Zoldi, who had been involved with Luna yesterday...

　Well, not the details.

　Right now, you should be happy to be in the same class as Luke and Luna.

''I didn't expect the three of you to be in the same class.......after all, you did something with the power of the Countess, didn't you?

I didn't do anything. How come our class is the only one without a homeroom teacher's name?

'It's true, each of the other classes has the name of a teacher on it.

　Our class teacher's name was also erased, although it seemed to have been originally written on it.

　I feel like there's something to it.
　But I can't help but think about it now.

　Once the class starts, at least we'll know who the homeroom teacher is. I headed to the classroom with Luke and Luna.