Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

"Good morning, Miss Green, you are as diligent as ever." I heard Hammer's greeting before I even entered the door.

Hammer is Mrs. Helene's grandson, an honest young man. Mrs. Helene is nearly ninety years old. She is very sleepy and can no longer get up as early as before.

"Good morning, Mr. Hammer." Ethelia nodded slightly to Hammer.

"May the glory of Master Andrew shine upon you, Miss Green."

Phil, the female worker holding the broom, said to her with a smile.

"Thank you, Ms. Phil."

"Want to buy bread? Or read the newspaper?" Hammer asked knowingly.

Hammer has a hobby of collecting newspapers. He can even take out the newspaper from the year she was born in five minutes - she has witnessed it with her own eyes.

"Hammer, can you help me find a newspaper that lists the entrance exam times for the Magic Academy?"

"Oh, this, wait a minute, it should be the March newspaper, let me take a look, ah, here, Miss Green -"

"Thank you, Hammer, please go ahead."

The warm little bakery has returned to peace. Aecilia was sitting at the small dining table in the corner. There was a small green notebook next to her. It was a reward given to her by the general education teacher. She had been keeping it here. It recorded some information that she thought was important. .

She opened the newspaper and pointed her fingertips at the middle of the newspaper.

After thinking about it, she opened her pocket watch and pressed the raised button on the left side of the dial. A row of small numbers appeared at the bottom of the dial:

【7143.7.17】

At this point in time, there are not many colleges that have not started exams yet.

……

Urid Academy of the Practice and Application of Magic: 6.24

……

Margaret Academy of Magical Theory: 6.28

Strberg Academy of Magical Combat Practice:7.15

……

St. Ferguson's Academy of Magical Science and Technology: 7.19

Anthony Bridge Academy of Magic: 5.29

……

Wilmingston Academy of Magical Science and Technology: 6.26

No more, the last line.

Aecilia bit her lip subconsciously and wrote down in pencil the order of exam time for colleges that had not yet started their admissions exams.

The final information compiled is:

Tangia Border Magic Academy:7.17

Sophie Academy of Magical Science and Technology:7.18

Lian Luo Magic Theory Academy:7.18

St. Ferguson's Academy of Magical Science and Technology: 7.19

Enil Academy of Magical Technology:7.23

Only five colleges remain.

"Hammer, can you help me check the information on these colleges? Or if you are busy, can you lend me the Internet?"

"Okay, guest, the pizza is over here, yes, yes, it is guaranteed to be freshly baked and still steaming... Green, my smart phone is at the cashier, Ms. Phil knows! Sir, you are in the wrong place. , We don’t sell watches here! What? Oh, we don’t sell toothbrushes here either! Please go to the commercial street!”

Under the flying dust illuminated by the early morning sun, she sorted out the information she needed through Hammer's intelligence network.

The yellowed notebook finally embraced the new ink as follows:

"Tangia Border Magic Academy:7.17

Located on the northern border of the Aaron Kingdom, Asia currency/semester, the fastest is five hours by airship;

Sophie Academy of Magical Science and Technology:7.18

Located in Zozo, the capital of the Celtic Kingdom, it costs Asia dollars/semester, and the fastest is two days by airship;

Lian Luo Magic Theory Academy:7.18

The southern part of the Kingdom of New Modreno, Asian currency/semester, the fastest is five days by airship;

St. Ferguson's Academy of Magical Science and Technology: 7.19

The capital of the Kingdom of Aaron, Asian currency/semester, the fastest is four hours by airship and twelve hours by rail;

Enil Academy of Magical Technology:7.23

In the middle of the Aaron Kingdom, Asia dollars/semester, the fastest is five hours by airship and 17 hours by rail. "

First of all, after excluding the Frontier College, which was short on time, Aecilia thought about it and found that she was still reluctant to go abroad, and in terms of time, she had to exclude foreign colleges. The remaining St. Ferguson and Enil can choose to apply for the exam at the same time. Take the St. Ferguson exam first. If you don't pass, then rush to Enil for reference. You can barely make it in time.

——This is a plan that should be made from a rational perspective.

Before that, she had never considered the possibility of attending St. Ferguson or Enil College.

These two academies are the top magic academies in the Aaron Kingdom. For her, who grew up in Lawrence, a remote and economically backward place, they were just unattainable luxury. The last time there were students in Lawrence who could get into these two colleges was twenty years ago.

Although everyone will have the desire for those lofty goals when they are not familiar with the world, but for her who can only support herself most of the time now, and at the same time have to save her own tuition to attend the General College, it is a good idea Living is already a very difficult thing.

——After she lost her parents, the Claures, who also lived in Lawrence, went through the adoption procedures for her and became her acting guardians in the legal sense. But in fact, they only provided her with a place to eat and sleep. This place refused to help her pay for general school tuition very early on because she was already able to work on her own. To talk about their original purpose of adopting her...

She lost her parents in a fire seven years ago and received donations totaling more than 200,000 yuan from many caring people and charitable foundations in Lawrence. As she is not yet independent, she should naturally hand over the money to her agent. Keep it safe with guardians.

Green Bakery, which had always had a good relationship with her parents, did not compete with the Kralls, who had relatives working in relevant departments, so they could only watch her move into Grammar with the two hundred thousand Asian dollars that would no longer belong to her. The house of Mr. and Mrs. Raul.

Put aside the past and face the present.

Although the strength of Lawrence Magic Academy is average, it can at least bring her one step closer to her childish fantasies within the scope of her abilities.

But if you want to make your plans to St. Ferguson or Enil, which are out of reach...

Just paying the tuition fee would be enough for her to starve to death on the streets tomorrow morning.

However, God's calculations are not as good as those of humans, and she has no more choices now.

The Claures both have stable jobs, and they love their only daughter Maye Claure very much. After leaving Lawrence, she doesn't need to worry about this little girl who has been doing her best to give her warmth.

The income from Green's Bakery run by Hammer is not very high, but it is enough for him to spend his life smoothly and for Mrs. Helene to enjoy her old age.

Apart from them, she has no more worries here.

No matter how willful she is, the worst result is that she will starve to death on the streets alone, but if she doesn't try to do what she wants to accomplish because she is worried about the future that she doesn't know will happen...

She is not such a cowardly person.

After making preliminary plans, Aecilia checked the departure time and price list of the spacecraft to the capital Kakkar.

At a glance, only the second class cabins showed that one-way tickets cost more than 40 silver coins.

Oh, one denarius equals one hundred denarii.

She no longer considers rail trains. For her, the time saved is precious gold that needs to be used to review old knowledge and familiarize herself with the examination process.

Then, she made some necessary plans, expenditure budgets, etc.

When she looked up again, Aecilia looked out the window.

It was already bright on the street, and the time on the pocket watch read:

【7: 12】

Aecilia folded the newspaper and put it aside. Seeing that Hammer was too busy to touch the ground, she had to return the Zhiwang to Phil first.

She hid among the noisy people coming and going to buy breakfast, and left Green Bakery quietly.

She came to the door of Klauer's house. The door was locked at this moment. The Klauer family may still have not returned from the mall.

Aecilia took out the spare key, went upstairs, and returned to the room to look for her pajamas. She didn't see it on the clothes drying rack on the balcony, but turned around and found the neatly folded white pajamas on the sofa.

Xiao Meiyi should have ironed it for her. Little Mei showed a strong love for doing housework, especially for ironing clothes. According to her observation, Mei should have a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder or mysophobia and cannot stand the slightest trace of dirt and wrinkles.

She put her pajamas into her backpack and looked at the bedside. The glass, milk bottle and notes were all gone. She put all the things she could take away with her that she had owned before coming to Crowler's house into her backpack, and packed up the things she couldn't take away and gave them to Mrs. Helene for safekeeping. She remembered that there was a soft corner in Mrs. Helene's bedroom that belonged to Ethelia alone.

In the living room, she wrote a note:

"Mr. Krall, Mrs. Krall:

I will leave Lawrence and thank you for taking care of me over the years. I have repaid you many times the money that the Kraul family has invested in me over the years, the ten thousand silver coins. I won't say anything more, and I won't interact with you again. Just pretend that we have never met. I've completed my general studies, don't miss it.

Aecilia

7143.7.17 "

In the Kingdom of Aaron, people who have completed general education are considered adults, that is, most people have the ability to live independently by the age of fifteen and no longer need to rely on their parents. The kingdom's general education has taught its citizens basic knowledge and almost all survival skills. Cooking, paying bills, repairing home appliances, traveling, hiring people to build houses... Citizens who are over ten years old can already work and accumulate the wealth needed for survival after the age of fifteen.

The Aaronic Kingdom attaches great importance to the concept of "living first, then learning" and believes that only when people are self-reliant can they learn more profound professional knowledge.

That is to say, the Kralls no longer have the obligation to report to the Sheriff's Department that she ran away from home. When she was fifteen years old, she left this note, which means the well-known "adult independence", which every fifteen-year-old citizen must do. , living alone without the protection of guardians.

Pressing the key to the Crowler's door on the note, Ethelia Green turned around and walked out of the door without hesitation, and kindly helped them relock it at the end.