If I should say from the amount of mana in her body, she is close to awakening but not enough yet. The amount of mana she has is not that big to call a mana pool so she has not yet undergone the necessary transformation of her powers. But I can't relax. If what the mission details said is true, once her powers awaken, it will turn into the dark side which would be hard to deal with based on my experience.

However, I can't take action carelessly. It is not even sure if she will awaken or not. Only two actions are necessary right now; observe and talk to her so that her powers won't awaken fully. Just as I was standing there staring at her, she looked into my direction and was surprised to see me look into her. I gave her a smile but she gave me a surprised look. As soon as she did that, I can see that she looked around her back to see if I was smiling to someone but seeing that her back is empty, she quickly run away without looking back.

'Just what is going on with her?'

...

I didn't report it yet on my notebook because I am not sure yet if she is really a candidate. If she is, then I have to investigate further what she is going to do for now. Lunchtime has only just begun and I haven't eaten lunch yet. Since I did not bother to bring a lunchbox, I have to buy food in the cafeteria for now. Now that I think about it, didn't Rena gave me a coin to use so that I have free food while I am at school?

I put my hands into my pocket and pulled the token out. But, however how many times you look into this token, it looked similar to the 5 yen coin. It has a gold color and has a hole in it, only without the word "Nippon" on the coin though. It has a design of two crossed wands though in which I previously saw when I was in the area where the Twelve Councilors are meeting together.

Does this really allow me to eat anything while inside this school? I brought an emergency money in case this token don't work at all. Well, nothing would go wrong right? The cafeteria is not as full as it was before since the whole chaos of the students over a certain food no longer applies to the later part of lunchtime which saves a lot of time going into a line.

When I arrived at the cafeteria, I saw a 20-25-year-old girl who is attending the counter is currently managing the place. When I arrived, she looked at me for a bit before she wiped her hands a bit.

"Wanna buy something?"

"Is the special combo still available?"

"Ah, we are sold out of that today, only the Super Combo lunch pack is left. Would you switch out on it?"

"Mm, that would work, let me have one," then I present the token to her.

"That would be 35 yen."

At first, she did not take notice on the token but when she looked at the token, her eyes grew wide and looked at me. She rubbed her eyes a bit before looking at it again.

"Token of the Magic Society? You are one the magicians a.s.signed here?"

"Uhuh," I nodded in response.

"I was informed that a magician would be going to blend in here. Are you the one?"

"Yes. I was under the mission of finding out the main culprit of the events occurring here. I heard that I can use this token as a payment?"

"You just need to show it to me. You don't need to give it to me. Everyone in the cafeteria staff is allowed to give you the food as long as you show this token, so don't be shy about showing this token to me or anyone working here," and the worker gave me the food out of nowhere as she flicks her fingers. Welp, she is a magician, that is not shocking at all.

After getting the food, I looked around the tables and frowned seeing that there is no vacant seat available. Then, I noticed that one table has only one person sitting on it. And what is more, she is waving at me.

"Ah great, its Erina..." I sighed and approached the table.

"Kazuma, over here!"

"Yeah, yeah. I hear ya," I said with a bored tone.

Erina frowned from my reply. "Why act like a jerk Kazuma? You always act like one when I am talking to you."

"You have a problem with that? It didn't matter what my att.i.tude to you is. You should be grateful I am still talking to you."

"Eh, did I ever did something to you?"

"Nothing...Anyways, I still have a few questions to ask you something about a certain cla.s.smate of ours."

Erina's reaction from sour to neutral returned after the sentence I have said to her. "A question about a certain cla.s.smate?"

"Do you know who was that girl who sits beside me?"

"The girl who sits beside you? Oh, that... wait is there anyone sitting beside you? From what I can remember, that seat is vacant."

My eyebrows creased hearing what she just said. What the heck did she mean that seat beside me is vacant? Who was that person who sits beside me since earlier? Don't tell me that was an illusion? But that is impossible. From what I know, Illusion-made people won't emit mana at all. But that girl earlier is emitting a fluctuations of mana in her body. It was impossible for her to be an illusion.j.a.panese gold-colored 5 yen coin has a diameter of 22mm and weighs 3.75g. The five yen coin has a centre hole. Text on the bra.s.s ¥5 piece reads 'Nippon'.