Autumn is a fruitful season.
Just as field crops bear fruit, many plants enrich their drug effects before winter.
It is said that the autumn moon has the power to activate magic, but as the saying goes, the flowers that bloom by bathing in the moonlight on fall nights and the plants that drool the ears also grow abundantly in the College Forest.
They become ingredients in various medicinal water outfits.
Going to collect that is the fall college event, the night herb collection internship. It's commonly known as the night herb hunt.
The day before the holidays, waiting for the sun to set, the students form a small group and enter the woods.
Routes are designated for each group, touring where the herbs are growing in that order, and finally returning to the college building to submit the herbs picked that night.
By the time I get back to the dorm, it's almost midnight already.
The following week, each one awaits an internship in making medicinal water using the medicinal herbs he picked.
The most important feature of this event is that the upper classmates lead the lower classmates.
A third grader walks in the woods at night with a second grader.
And the year after that, the advanced new third graders will equally lead the new second graders to walk in the woods.
Prior to the last holiday, the Ains carried out a three-year and two-year pair.
This time it was the turn of the Almarks to pair two for three years and two for two years.
The Almarks third-year students are divided into five groups of three.
There, an equal number of sophomores were to rendezvous.
After school the day after three days of refraining from herbal hunting, the two groups grouped their traineeships.
Almark became a three-man group with Morgen and Wendy.
"I don't know, it's been a long time since these three"
Wendy smiles happily when she says so.
"Maybe since my summer vacation, actually."
"Right."
Morgen nods.
"Almark's been busy with Ein and Leila lately."
"No, no, no."
Almark laughs bitterly.
He also briefly told Morgen about what happened in the fountain cave.
Morgen is
"So that changed Leila, huh?"
That's what I snorted at as convinced.
"But it's certainly been a long time"
That's what Almark says, he sees the two faces.
"Hey, don't be relieved"
"Right. Makes me want to go to a picnic."
Morgen grins and nods, too.
"I miss Mr. Sedall's cooking."
Almark and Wendy laugh face-to-face at Morgen looking out the window looking really nostalgic, giving out the cock-length name of the winter mansion.
"Morgen's memories are always tied to food."
To Wendy's words, Morgen nods with a clear face.
"Because in my case, my stomach has more memory than my brain."
Wallis gently walked over to the three laughing together.
"Almark."
"Oh."
Almark stands up.
"What's wrong?"
"It's just the right time. I'll talk to Lilty during the herb hunt."
Almark knew immediately that what Wallis was saying was about the play's song.
"Thanks. Speaking of which, Wallis was in the same group as Lilty."
"Oh."
Wallis nods.
"Buyers are straining."
I'm Dr. Herb.
Almark smiled.
The other two in Wallis' group are Lilty and Buyer.
Buyer's herbal knowledge is the best in class, and Celia in a healing class,
"Buyer, you're Dr. Herb."
And when I admired it, I turned my face bright red and that already seemed happy, so everyone started calling me by that nickname sometimes.
"You will not be guided to the woods yet. Stay away from the two of you."
That's what Wallis said, walking away from Almark.
While sitting back in the chair, Almark glimpses Leila.
Since then Leila had come to see if she had drunk medicinal water to Almark every day.
When Almark answers, "I drank it," he nods silently and leaves.
To be honest, Celia's medicinal water she made tasted and smelled terrible, and in the morning, just after drinking it, Almark was asked straight in the face by Morgen, "Have you even fallen in the morning?"
I would put up with it once or twice, but it's hard every day. Sure, there's just something to say about the deans being punished.
So remembering Leila, who comes to check every day, inspired me to manage to drink down the bitter liquid.
Here lately, Leila had often become an exchange of words with her classmates.
Originally, I have magical prowess, and I'm talking about her beautiful and smart. Occasionally people started to gather around.
Rumors that Layla had changed did not just stay with the boys in the class, but seemed to spread to the boys during the school year.
That would mean that until now there have been a lot of boys who wanted to stay away from the beautiful Leila but didn't.
Still, from time to time, Layla still used to look out the window all by herself like she did before and still think of something.
That's when Leila was still putting together the hardness to keep people away, and her classmates shy of speaking up.
This time, Leila was in the same group as Galein and Leido.
Galein is still silent and not sure what he's thinking, but Leido is talking to Leila calmly.
I feel safe with Leido, Almark thought.
To Almark, it seemed like Layla was still doing something impossible, but I felt like Laydo would do it well.
Beyond that, Nelson and Norish are still fighting amicably. It was Curimet and Pillman who joined the same group as the two of us. Under the influence that Almark has been transferring, this is the only group of four.
The two watched the Nelsons exchange with a smile just as it had begun again, but the intriguing eyes, especially looking at Curimet's two, looked as if they were also trying to make it the subject of the play.
Even though you go to the woods where you could always go, walking at night with your buddies, just kids, is still something special.
Everyone had a somewhat gorgeous atmosphere.
"Seraha seems happy"
Wendy smiles.
"Right."
Almark also looks at Wendy's watchers and snorts.
The person Serraja is smiling at is Torque.
Almark was a few days ago, from Wendy.
"Seraha said that torque is a bit good these days."
They were asking.
At that time, Almark twisted his neck and said, "I've never heard of a woman from Torque."
Now, while Serraja speaks to Torque hard, Torque answers something pale without even smiling, but I don't know one thing about what emotion it is right now.
"Deg seems happier than Torque."
And when Almark said, he saw Deg smile listening next to him, and Wendy nodded oddly as well.
"Really."