The Greatest Sinner

Evan went out of the lake and calmly began to dress. He didn't care that Sana was looking at him right now, but the girl, on the other hand, was surprised by such a thing.

She quickly turned away and said loudly: "You should at least give me a warning!"

The young man smiled and replied, "So I did, you're just reacting too slowly. Okay, take your Azure Dandelions and show me the way to the Academy."

Of course, Evan knew how to get to "The Last Moon", but he was sure that Sana, as a student of that Academy, knew a shortcut to it. If she often collects plants in the neighborhood, she must know it well.

Upon hearing Evan's words, the girl turned around, measured the young man with a glance and said: "That coat looks good on you, too bad you have to say goodbye to it at the Academy."

Evan looked at the girl puzzled, "Why? Are there any strict rules about clothing at "The Last Moon"?

Sana nodded: "Yes, of course not all of them, but there are for outerwear like mantles and coats. I'm not wearing a mantle right now, but when I return to the academy, I'll have to wear a blue one."

"Do all students wear blue mantles?" Evan asked in surprise. He didn't really want to change his appearance because of the school rules, but he knew there was hardly anything he could do about it.

Sana shook her head, "No, I wear the blue mantle because I am a "Creator". Those who are "Summoners" wear green mantles, and "Amplifiers" wear yellow ones. Each student also has an emblem like this."

The girl pointed to the round purple emblem on her chest.

"There are two kinds of emblem: white and purple, depending on what color is your "Warp".

"I see, well, is it time to go back to the academy?"

"Take your time, I'll show you the short way, but you have to help me with something." With a smile on her face, Sana said.

"With what?"

"My teacher`s told me to gather not only the Azure Dandelions, but also the pits of the Purple Tree Fruit, it will take me a long time to do it myself, so your help won't hurt."

<She's crafty, knows how to take advantage of a situation, but okay. If I help her, I'll get to the Academy faster and learn more about it.>

Evan thought to himself and quickly agreed.

"All right, but you're going to tell me what's being made out of these pits.

Sana nodded, and at the same moment, her "Warp" was spinning. She needed somewhere to put her dandelions and pits, so she decided to create the necessary thing.

Whoosh.

Many thin branches appeared in the air and began to intertwine with each other, and in a couple of seconds they turned into a pretty basket.

Sana took the basket in her hands, plucked three Azure Dandelions and put them in it.

<Her control is at a pretty high level, I think I couldn`t have done something like that with my spell>.

"Come on, we need to get to the grove." Sana said and headed towards the dense forest of Purple Trees.

They quickly reached the first tree and Sana plucked the yellow and blue fruit which taste Evan hadn`t liked so much.

Crack.

The girl easily broke it in two and pulled out an oval, brown pit.

"This fruit just tastes awful, apparently the pit has some special effects?" Asked Evan as he watched Sana pull the pit from the second fruit.

"Have you tasted this fruit? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I didn't expect anyone to do such a thing. The fruit itself is pretty useless, the beasts like the taste of it, but to us it's disgusting. My teacher likes to make tea from these pits, they have an unusual flavor, just try it."

Evan took one of the pits and immediately smelled its light aroma, at that moment he thought to himself, <Coffee?>

In his past world, it was a fairly common drink, but here he saw nothing like it. Even in Marcel`s restaurants there was nothing that resembled coffee in taste and smell. He`d thought coffee didn't exist in this world, but it looks like he was wrong.

<It's certainly not coffee, but it reminds quite a bit of it. These fruits are not as useless as I`ve originally thought>.

"Not a bad flavor, but can these pits be used to make anything other than tea?"

"Well, some potions and ointments, but mostly it's my teacher's personal request, since he likes the smell and taste of these pits. By the way, stop standing around and help me"

Evan grinned and said calmly: "Okay, okay. Oh, before I forget, how many pits do we need in total?"

"A hundred."

"Huh, your teacher loves tea too much." Said Evan and headed for the nearest tree.

For a while, they picked pits from the yellow and blue fruit until there were one hundred brown pits in Sana's basket.

The girl looked at the collected dandelions and bones and said with a satisfied smile: "Great, now we can go back. We'll take a right and go through the woods and soon we'll be over the hills."

<Sounds like she really does know the short way to the Academy.>

Evan thought to himself and said: "Hmm, but the shortest way on my map is to the right, through the glades and up into the hills."

"That's all because we`re going through the hills, there's an abandoned mine behind the woods that's not on the map, only people who frequent here know about it."

Evan nodded and they headed on. They approached the border of the "Valley of the Azure Dandelions" and in that moment, Evan suddenly turned around.

Whoosh.

He stared intently at the blue glades as if trying to find something.

"Is anything wrong?" Sana said puzzled.

Evan turned around and simply said: "No, it`s just seemed."

...

<Hmm, has this guy really felt my gaze? He`s an interesting young man...>. The unknown being, who was several kilometers away from Sana and Evan, thought to itself.

...

Sana and Evan walked through the forest and talked about various topics. To Evan's surprise, the girl was very talkative, which was good for him.

She treated Evan as a newcomer who knew nothing at all about "The Last Moon", and as a senior she tried to tell him as much as she could. She was right on one hand, though, because Evan didn't have much information about the Academy.

"Sana I see you have great respect for your teacher. I'm curious, do you do what he asks of you because you want to, or is that the rules at "The Last Moon"?

Sana thought for a while and answered, "You're right, I'm proud to be a student of my teacher, but to be honest I'm not only doing these errands out of good motives."

The girl sighed and continued: "You haven't enrolled yet so there's a lot you don't know about how "The Last Moon" works. Every student doesn't just attend classes and spend all day in the library, but completes assignments given by the Academy, and you receive "Moon Coins" for that."