But God Forced Me to Reincarnate!

Entrance Exams, and...

Day 10 Month 7 Year 976.

As promised, I went to Harmonia Academy with my mom. Oh, and I made sure to make both of my eyes blue as I wanted to conceal my identity as the Hartmann family's daughter to avoid any kind of bias... if there's any... bad bias, especially.

Though those who recognized my mom and saw me with her would find out my identity. But at least, I won't get questioned about how my eyes have different colors! I've got that questions a lot by the other children, so I don't really want to spend my time here by explaining it.

After being separated from my mom, I followed the teacher in front of me with the other 30 children my group (examinee number 1-30 for this day) to enter our examination room. Apparently, my schedule today starts with interview exams, followed by psych-test.

After that, those who apply for the special class should remain to do the other tests. The schedule starts with basic knowledge exams followed by the batches of physical combat exams and magic exams, so I will probably be in the early batch for physical combat exam and the late batch for the magic exam.

Yup, I am planning to take all exams, obviously! More points will be better! For reassurance!

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We were gathered in a room and were told to sit down according to the number. They would call us one by one to conduct a short interview.

Once the teacher finished giving the instructions, he called #1 to enter. After that, an uproar began. The children quickly gathered to talk with one another, trying to play, and other things.

I nervously took a glance at my surroundings. Not good, they all seem to have friends...? Or is it that they quickly "click" with one another? I missed my chance to gather with them, too. After all... I became a good kid and obeyed the teacher, so I remained in my seat calmly as the other began to get noisy...

Did I miss my first opportunity to make a friend?

Just as I gazed right behind me, I noticed that there was a lovely girl sitting there! She didn't seem to be talking to other children. She just gazed down at her hands and—oh, she's trembling!

...Her short hair's color is shadow grey and with how she bent down, it covered her face... wait, you aren't the notorious ghost, right?

"U-uhm...," I decided to call her out.

"Hiiiii! Eh, ah? Y-yes?"

Her first reaction: she reflexively distanced her body (slight movement) from me in surprise, but then she tried to lean towards me... and her trembling got worse...

"Are you all right?" I can't help but ask that.

"Y-y-yes, I... I'm fine!"

No, you are not.

How will you handle the interview if you behave like this?

"I'm Lyra, what's your name?"

Okay, first, let's exchange names!

"I... I... I'm Iris..."

"Iris... uhm..."

Well, my neck will hurt if I were to talk with her posing like this. I saw that the seat beside her was empty, so might as well move there to talk with her, right?

"Iris, may I sit next to you?"

"E-eh? I, it's okay..."

So, I moved right away next to her~!