What is "disappointment"?

Tia, who was only about to enter the second grade this year, had never thought about this issue. Because when people have so-called "disappointment" in you, the biggest prerequisite is to have "expectations" first.

Obviously, since childhood, Tia has seen contempt in the eyes of the people around her, seen severely, seen mockery, seen bad intentions... Of course, maybe compared to There is too little and too little, but she has finally seen sympathy, pity, and pity for the same disease.

But alone, I have never seen "expectations". Yes, even the man named John Stewart who greeted her into Ifamoni with kindness...even when she herself looked in the mirror every day, she never had it.

If she had to say it, she might not be the first until many years later, when she went to England across the sea by herself, and was invited by that outstanding and gentle and polite young wizard accidentally as a temporary potion preparation assistant in a crisis. I felt the expectation, approval and trust that may be trivial, but pure and real.

Of course, at this time about ten years ago, Tia, who was just 12 years old, certainly didn't know what happened in that long future. She fell to the ground at this moment, but she couldn't even imagine what she would become in the next second.

Therefore, when she "subconsciously lifted the wand that she had been holding tightly in her hand since before, trying to cast a spell at Alyssa that she had never studied, but nothing happened, and then Not surprisingly, during the whole process of being taken away by the other party's wand, her brain was almost blank.

"...Oh, so you are still a little witch? This is... why doesn't it surprise me at all?"

Alyssa crouched in front of Tia who fell to the ground, put away her wand, and then gently pressed Tia's forehead with the wand that Tia had seized:

"I think your teacher must have taught you. For us wizards, the wand must be the most important companion and support in our life. Unfortunately, you may not know it, but it is often not the case with the wand. Once the current master If it is defeated, it will most likely change its allegiance...or at least, it will not exclude a new owner who has defeated its former holder from possessing it."

As Alisha said this, she suddenly slammed the wand in her hand forward, and slammed little Tia's forehead and said loudly:

"It's like this! Heartbreaking...ah!"

At the moment when Alisha shouted the spell with a great evil thought, an extremely terrifying, soul-reaching pain rushed back from the handle of the wand in her hand, and rushed to herself unscrupulously.

Unprepared, Alyssa fell down like an electric shock, screaming and wailing in pain, and her facial features twisted and twitched in front of Tia.

Undoubtedly, she knew that Tia was a little wizard for a long time. She never expected that the magic wand snatched from this little girl was not only not her own, but was picked up by accident and followed for many years. A strange wand of a dark wizard, bad-tempered and extremely sensitive and difficult to control!

"what?"

Tia sat up, she stared at the woman who was "going crazy" in front of her, and at the magic wand that was still in her own hand but now seemed to be stuck in the palm of her opponent, she couldn't shake it off , My heart is full of confusion and fear.

Of course she didn't know what kind of magic Eliza was going to cast on herself just now, and she didn't really understand what the other party was doing now. But she had already realized ignorantly that if she had just been able to cast the spell... there would be no need for Eliza to do it, and the person who was lying on the ground in pain might be herself now.

But after a moment of confusion and fear, she still remembered her current situation again. Immediately afterwards, she saw her still sitting on the ground with both hands on the floor, and hurriedly stood up again, carefully bypassing Alyssa, whose convulsion had been slowly reduced, and continued to dash towards the end of the corridor.

Just before leaving here, she hadn't forgotten to drew the other party's wand from Alisha's pocket, grabbed one end and pressed it against the ground and stepped on it with one foot.

…

Tia finally escaped back to the monastery on the ground. She ran forward on the aisle with all her strength, while turning back from time to time. Alisha did not follow, the mysterious old man did not appear, and even ran into no one again.

For Tia who wanted to escape as soon as possible, this was obviously a good thing. But she remembered clearly that the boy had said before that his classmate Brooks Stewart was waiting up there.

So where did Brooks go?

"Miss Prince."

Tia, who was wondering but did not consider looking for the other party in the past, heard that voice when she turned a corner. It was the voice of a boy who had heard it a few times, but couldn't be said to be so familiar.

"Stewart... sir?"

Tia's pace was a little slow, turned to look behind the vase where the voice came from the corner, maintaining a guarded and cautious look on her face.

If John Stewart is one of the guides to enter Effamoni and one of the few trustworthy objects so far, then this is the same student of Effamoni and John’s younger brother. Brooks seems to be equally trustworthy.

Even though the two didn't have much affiliation during the one year at school, since the other party brought the boy to rescue him today, there seems to be no reason to distrust each other.

"Miss Prince, come here! Someone is coming up ahead."

In the corner, the boy whispered and dragged Tia, who was not struggling, into the back of the big vase.

"Squat down and hide."

Tia looked at the other party after pulling herself in, and then whispered, shaking the wand in her hand, poking and poking, as if she was laying out something with a spell. Although she had obeyed the other party's actions for a while, her heart was still uneasy.

And at this moment, Brooks, who had probably arranged the concealment curse, finally turned his head back and looked at her softly:

"Don't worry, it will be okay...Where is ‘him’?"

Tia was startled, and was about to speak, but soon a string of footsteps sounded outside, making both of them subconsciously hold their breaths and stop talking.

As Brooks said, someone was coming over here on the other side of the corridor.