75 Fruity Scent

[What if the teacher catches us!]

[Why? It's not even a real cigarette.]

[But still! Even so...]

Yuna couldn't hide her unease at Name's brazen behavior.

Although the principle was that inhaling a potion expelled only its bitter components as smoke, the sight looked far too much like smoking a cigarette.

Yuna herself had initially been unsure, but once Name had flatly declared that the principle was exactly the same, she was even overcome by guilt for standing by while her friend indulged in such delinquency.

Yuna's heart was scorched black as her sympathy—wondering how hard it must have been for Name to drink potions—clashed with her conscience, which insisted that, as a student, she still had to observe certain basic boundaries.

‘We weren't supposed to use magic recklessly on school grounds in the first place...!’

Perhaps Name had truly gotten hooked on it, because after that, going to the back courtyard at lunchtime became part of her daily routine.

Yuna even imagined that, if she were caught by a teacher from another class or an academy official, she might be expelled in the worst-case scenario...