After guiding her through a few people, I led her to another alleyway. The only difference to before, was that I knew how to get back to the academy from there.

“So?”(Me)

“Where are we going?”(Sylphy)

I stopped.

“We? We are going nowhere if you are going to continue denying my questions.”(Me)

“Hmpf.”(Sylphy)

“Sigh. I give you a last chance, tell me who and what you are and I will take you with me. I will even buy some sweets for you.”(Me)

If I learnt something from my time with other children, than it would be that they can’t deny sweets.

“And if I don’t?”(Sylphy)

“I’ll leave you behind.”(Me)

She was staring at me with those eyes again. Like she could see through me.

“Liar.”(Sylphy)

“So you have an ability that lets you know if a person is lying or not?”(Me)

“I… Huh? N... No I don’t.”(Sylphy)

She was a terrible liar. She couldn’t look me in the eyes, she stuttered and couldn’t even bring out a normal no.

“Let me guess. Your eyes can see through lies.”(Me)

I didn’t stop my direct questioning.

“No. No. No.”(Sylphy)

She knew she couldn’t hide her ability in front of me any longer and just tried to overhear me. She shut her ears with her hands and just continued saying no.

“No. No. No.”(Sylphy)

“Do you even want to come with me?”(Me)

I added that sentence between her endless denying.

“No. No. N… Wait, what?”(Sylphy)

“Ok. See you.”(Me)

I had no time to play with her. I used wind magic to boost my jump and leapt in the air. I landed on the nearest house and looked down at her from above.

“I’m sorry to say this but I am not the nice guy that would rescue a cute girl, without a reason. If you don’t want to cooperate, I have no plan keeping you accompany.”(Me)

I said and turned around.

“Wait! Please.”(Sylphy)

Were the last words I heard from her. I could even hear her starting to cry, but this time I ignored it, because I didn’t want to go through everything again. I jumped over a few houses and landed near the plaza, where I lost the Takeshi and the others.

“Sakura, I found him! Over here.”(Ryo)

I heard as soon as I stood in the middle of the plaza near a water fountain.

“Jo.”(Me)

I said when Takeshi, Sakura, Haruto and Ryo stood in front of me.

“Where have you been idiot?”(Takeshi)

“I got lost.”(Me)

“We were worried you know.”(Sakura)

“Haha. Sorry.”(Me)

“Sigh. At least we found you before we had to use Takeshi’s idea to find you.”(Haruto)

“Why?”(Me)

They just smiled at me with strange faces.

Perhaps it’s better not to know?

“Why would you say something like that? I bet if we used food to bait him he would have come. 100 percent sure if we had used chocolate.”(Takeshi)

He got a palm onto the back of his head by Sakura and apologized to me, by buying me my dinner. We went to the restaurant of Haruto’s father. I had to admit, I had never eaten such exquisite meat.

After our bellies were filled with good food and Takeshi and the others paid for it, we went back to the academy. It was already late afternoon and the sun already began to go down.

We reached the gate and showed our student card to the guard.

“Hikaru, right?”(Guard)

“Me?”(Me)

“Yes. I am sorry but could you please come with me?”(Guard)

I had no reason to not go with him so I said bye to the others and followed the guard into a small house near the gate.

“I am sorry that I suddenly asked you to follow me, but there is a little girl who always asked for you.”(Guard)

It couldn’t be.

Yes it was. We entered a room and there she was sitting eating an apple. The girl in her tattered clothes.

“Could I have some time alone with her?”(Me)

“Sure, but watch the time. The gate will close in about 1 hour.”(Guard)

“Yes thank you.”(Me)

The guard left and we were left alone. The only noises were coming from Sylphy eating her apple.

“Why are you here?”(Me)

“You promised you’d take me with you.”(Sylphy)

“I did but you broke your promise, telling me who you are.”(Me)

She looked at me for a second.

“I am Sylphy.”(Sylphy)

I didn’t know if she was for real or if she just wanted to taunt me. Whatever it was, I already wanted to leave again.

“And I am sorry for today.”(Sylphy)

“And?”(Me)

“I will tell you what I am, but only somewhere, where no one can hear us.”(Sylphy)

“You can tell me now.”(Me)

“But someone could hear us.”(Sylphy)

“First of all, I don’t care.”(Me)

“Guh.”(Sylphy)

“And second, I already checked the surroundings with magic, there is no one beside us 2 in this house.”(Me)

It was the truth, as soon as I entered the house, I checked every room with wind magic. She used that weird ability of hers again, so she knew I wasn’t lying.

“I…”(Sylphy)

“You?”(Me)

“Don’t pressure me like that. I…”(Sylphy)

“You are a spirit?”(Me)

“I am a spirit… Huh? What? How… How did you know?”(Sylphy)

“I guessed.”(Me)

I caught her quite off guard.

“That’s impossible.”(Sylphy)

“Is it? You are definitely no human. I have seen a lot of demons, dragons and beastmen. I even know a lot of Halflings, but I have never seen someone like you. The only solution would be you are a spirit or of an unknown race. I just went with the more likely option.”(Me)

“You. If you knew, why did you leave me alone?”(Sylphy)

“Cause you looked like a nuisance to me.”(Me)

“You… I… You meanie.”(Sylphy)

“But I promised I’d take you with me if you told me what you are.”(Me)

As I promised, I took her to the gate and asked the guard to let her in.

“You could, but you would have to either take her as a slave or as a pet. It’s mainly because of formalities. I am only allowed to let students, teachers, or guests pass.”(Guard)

While I needed to hold back my laughter, Sylphy decided if she wanted to be listed as my pet or as my slave. In the end she went with slave, because that was what she was before and we went to my room. We received a lot of stares from the others, but that was nothing new to me.

“You take the bed.”(Me)

“Don’t act like you are my boss.”(Sylphy)

Shortly after she said that, she sunk into my bed and fell asleep.