An hour later, Yukina, having finished her hot shower, walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel and entered the living room.
“Wow! A hot shower really is relaxing!”
Seeing Yukina walk out with just a towel on, Charlotte, who was sitting on the sofa wearing a white T-shirt with the word “Witch” printed on the chest and absolutely nothing on her legs, let out a sly smile.
“Wow! Yukina, you’re really bold! Walking around in front of your big brother wearing so little! Are you trying to seduce me?”
Yukina, who walked into the kitchen to grab a can of milk from the fridge, shot her hard-headed brother a cold look.
“Brother, do you think the intensity of the beating you just got wasn’t enough? Do you need your little sister to try a little harder? You seem to really love getting hit!”
Saying this, Yukina brandished her hand-chop to intimidate her brother.
“No, no, Yukina, I was wrong. Your big brother was just joking. Please don’t chop my head off every time you’re annoyed. If you keep doing that, I’ll never grow taller!”
“You’re not growing any taller anyway, brother!” Yukina, who had seen the plot of Charlotte passing the entrance exam, retorted.
“Ngh… Yukina, you only know how to bully your big brother!”
After finishing her milk, Yukina sat down next to Charlotte.
“Speaking of which, brother, if I had been the one in the car accident back then, what would you have done?”
This was a question Yukina thought of by chance when she was standing still in front of Xinghe’s tombstone today.
If the person in the car accident hadn’t been Brother Xinghe, but her, and she hadn’t had the good fortune to be reincarnated in another world and become a witch, what would Brother Xinghe have done?
Would he have been heartbroken by her departure?
Would he have cried over her motionless body, begging her to wake up, just like she did for him?
“What would I have done? I’d have saved you, of course!” Charlotte replied casually, completely engrossed in the climax of her manga.
“I mean if I had died at that time and couldn’t be saved…”
‘What would you have done, brother?’
“That’s easy. I’d have used Soul-Revival Magic to pull you back from hell!”
“Do I have to go to hell? Why can’t I go to heaven when I die?”
“Because heaven doesn’t exist!”
“Then does hell definitely exist?”
“I’m just using a term that’s easy to understand. How about I change it? ‘Underworld.’ Yes, Underworld! Even if you did accidentally die, I could use Soul-Revival Magic to pull your soul back from the Underworld to the real world.”
“I asked what the pre-reincarnation brother, who hadn’t become a witch in the other world, would have done if I had died in the car accident! I didn’t ask what you would do now!”
“How should I know that! It’s been fifteen years! I have no idea what the fifteen-year-old me was thinking!”
“But the fifteen-year-old you was only buried today!” Some people die fifteen years ago but are only buried now.
“Don’t be too sad, Yukina. Even if you couldn’t be reincarnated in another world after the car accident, you might have been reincarnated as the child of an idol! Maybe you could even have a passionate romance with your biological brother!”
Yukina tilted her head and saw that the manga Charlotte was reading was Oshi no Ko (My Idol’s Child).
“Brother, stop reading those manga! How can a brother and sister fall in love? Have you been harboring those kinds of feelings for me all this time? That’s disgusting! You sis-con!” Yukina’s rapid-fire attack instantly left Charlotte speechless.
“Of course, that was just a joke between siblings.”
“Speaking of which, in your other world, can you really bring back the dead with that Soul-Revival Magic? Wouldn’t your other world be completely overpopulated then?”
“No, Soul-Revival Magic is the most difficult of all the Special Grade Magic. No one would just casually use it to resurrect unimportant characters.”
“Then why did you say you’d resurrect me so easily?”
“Because your big brother is the strongest Star Witch in the other world! Other witches have to pay a huge price to use that magic, but for me, I can use it unconditionally without having to pay any price! Although I haven’t used it even once so far… wait, I think I’ve used it once.”
“Eh? Who did you use Soul-Revival Magic on? Show me!”
At this point, Yukina’s curiosity was completely piqued again.
“Let me check when this memory was from… Oh, it was when I was in my second year at the Starsea Magic Academy!”
“So, why did you call me here again, Instructor Mashiro?”
Looking at the indifferent Mashiro sitting at her desk, Charlotte frowned.
Mashiro didn’t waste any time talking to Charlotte and threw a scroll at her.
“Complete this commission. I’ll give you twenty academic credits.”
“You called me here just for this?”
“Don’t you want the academic credits? Your grades were so low last semester that you were almost held back.”
“That’s because you deducted them!”
At the mention of this, Charlotte looked thoroughly displeased.
Generally, after passing the Starsea Magic Academy’s entrance exam, the new students become apprentice witches. After accumulating five hundred academic credits, they can take the official examination.
Passing the exam makes them an official witch, and then they can attempt a special challenge. If they succeed, they get a corresponding title and become a famous Titled Witch.
There is no difference in power between the various Titled Witches based on their title.
Charlotte had long set her sights on the Star Witch position, which had been vacant for centuries.
Charlotte was desperate to earn the five hundred academic credits quickly, pass all the troublesome exams in one go, and become the Star Witch to show off to Master Chloe.
Unfortunately, academic credits weren’t that easy to earn.
To be precise, earning academic credits was very difficult only for a little girl like Charlotte.
After all, the year she passed the entrance exam, she accidentally blasted over a hundred sheep belonging to eight hundred shepherds into fully roasted lamb with a single Crimson Judgment Bullet, resulting in an immediate deduction of a hundred academic credits.
Becoming the apprentice witch with the lowest academic credits on the first day of enrollment—who could she complain to?
To quickly fill the deficit, Charlotte desperately sought commissions to earn academic credits.
Unfortunately, after accepting a commission from Instructor Mashiro to handle a dragon attack in a certain village, she accidentally bombed the entire village to dust with one big move, resulting in another deduction of a hundred academic credits.
Furious, Charlotte felt like grabbing a Qilin Bow and shooting Mashiro’s horse, who specialized in giving her such terrible, unprofitable commissions.
And now, she had just managed to diligently scrape together enough academic credits to barely advance to the second year, and this Mashiro woman was pulling another stunt on her.
“I’d be an idiot to accept another commission from you, and only twenty academic credits? That’s too little!”
“If you can complete it within three days, I’ll give you an extra ten academic credits.”
“…”
Charlotte fell silent.
To be honest, thirty academic credits was tempting.
After all, she was resorting to every means possible to accumulate the five hundred credits quickly!
No matter how tricky the commission was, it was worth taking a risk. As long as she handled it carefully, earning the academic credits shouldn’t be too difficult.
‘For the Star Witch, all-in!’
“Fine, I accept this commission!”