Are You Sleeping
Lily＝Schwarz woke up, before the sun is up, before the chirps of the wild birds are audible.
She sticks her long slender legs out from the bed, holds her arms out wide, and stretches a couple of times. After that, she smacks her cheeks hard and clears her head. She fixes her glossy golden hair using her fingers as a comb until she arrives before the dresser, and she plunges her face into the basin filled with cold water without any hesitation.
“……puhah! Preparation complete”
She wiped her drenched face with a towel and took a deep breath. The time required to reach here is slightly over twenty-five seconds. Actions that can even be called strange compared to other girls who are similarly 16 years old are to Lily, a routine.
When she checks the clock, the clock’s needles are pointing at 4 o’clock sharp. Hogner Magic Academy starts school at 5:30. Her waking-up time that’s becoming earlier by the day, knows no bounds. It’s already such an early time to wake up, that it makes one wonder whether she’s become nocturnal instead. For this diligent beautiful young girl, even a routine, is something one should strive to improve, and that drive of hers is, already something, that anybody would be taken aback by.
After that, she also quickly finishes up her balanced meal exactly like she always does, brushes her teeth attentively, and her preparation for going to school is complete.
The time class starts is 8:30. From this dormitory, it’s a 5 minutes walk all the way to Hogner Magic Academy.
A destructive as well as progressive, hastiness.
With the extra time, she revises three months later’s lesson preparation. Furthermore, the preparation for three months later’s tomorrow’s lesson preparation. There’s extra time, so three months later’s the day after tomorrow’s lesson preparation. It’s been one and a half years since she enrolled in the school. The difference between the lessons and her studies is, widening one-sidedly.
“Fuu……done”
The time her revision finished was, 6 o’clock. She finishes up her daily prayer and hurriedly leaves the dormitory. An already pathologically diligent beautiful young girl who, recently, has been telling herself that she shall arrive at the classroom early, have a change of pace, and study, she is.
Garararah.
When she opens the door and enters the classroom.
On the teacher’s table, the Dark Magician is already there on standby. He’s sitting on the chair with his legs crossed.
“……you sure are early. How rare”
She takes her seat right in the very middle of the very front row sceptically.
“……”
Sleeping. He’s sound asleep with his elbows on the teacher’s table. Lily, stares at the fast asleep Magician suspiciously, wondering what he’s up to.
“Geez, you can just sleep at your own home if you’re going to sleep, can’t you”
While voicing her dissatisfaction as such, she opens her textbook as always.
・・・
“……u――――u. It’s distracting, you know! You are awake, right!? You are awake and pretending to be asleep, right!?”
She’s bothered in any case. A diligent beautiful young girl who’s overly bothered and can’t concentrate. She gets close and pokes him to confirm whether he’s really sleeping.
“……”
“……are you asleep? Are you real―――――ly, asleep?
“……”
She gets right beside him and pokes his cheek over and over again. She stares fixedly, at the Dark Magician who doesn’t wake up even with that.
“You’re sleeping huh……I’ll assume you’re sleeping, alright?”
Apparently, he’s asleep. Lily who came to the conclusion that, apparently, he’s really asleep.
“……Mira-saーn! Mira-saーn! Are you not around?”
She starts wandering around the classroom shufflingly and checking if the competent butler is around. She scrutinizingly investigates all the way to the inside of the locker on the corridor over and over and over again.
After she’s satisfied with her overall investigation, she once again gets close to the fast asleep Dark Magician’s side and pokes him.
“……you’re still asleep, right. You’re asleep, right?”
“……”
Apparently, he’s asleep. Lily who came to the conclusion, ‘as I thought, it seems he’s asleep’.
“……suー, haaー”
She takes a deep breath.
“Asch-sensei……I, hate, you”
“……”
“I hate you very much. I really, real――――ly hate you”
“……”
“You bully people right away, you don’t keep to your words, you’re cowardly, you’re cunning, you’re narcissistic, you act cool right away, you’re a sadist, you’re unfair; you’re really the worst”
“……”
“……u――――u……you’re really sleeping, right!? You’re sleeping, right!?”
Slap Slap
“……”
“……but……thank……you”
“……”
“Err……if you weren’t there……to search……for the Pietra Grass with me……I think I wouldn’t have found it”
“……”
“……u――――u……butt! But but! I think you’re horrible. When it comes to altering the excursion’s course as you please as well, it’s better if you listened more to people’s opinions. Even the board game, you keep on cheating”
“……”
“……Sensei……what are you thinking?”
Gararararah.
“Lily, morni-……what are you doing?”
The beautiful young girl who doesn’t have any place to hide and is rolling on the ground, trying to hide. Cis stares at that curiously.
“……I’m……a little sleepy”
“Is……is that so”
The Inept beautiful young girl who decided not to probe further.
The one she discovered next was, the Dark Magician who rarely……or rather, the Dark Magician who came to school early for the first time.
“Asch-sensei……good morning”
“……”
“He’s sleeping huh……Lily, why is Asch-sensei?”
“Wh-, who knows. I do not know”
Lily who’s, for some reason, speaking politely. Her secret sense of guilt, might be the price for her not being honest normally.
“Asch-sama goes into a deep sleep once he falls asleep”
The competent butler from above. For some reason, she’s sticking to the top corner of the room.
“……why, is Mira-san at a place like that……why a posture like that?”
Cis asked an extremely normal question.
“I was ordered by Asch-sama.『I’m about to fall asleep from boredom, so you give the students a surprise』”
“Is……is that so……as I thought, Asch-sensei is strange huh……Lily?”
“……”
“Li-, Lily……why, are you covering your face?”
“Don’t……speak to me right now…..”
“Go-, got it'”
Lily who’s groaning while tapping her legs. Cis who has no idea what’s going on at all.
