A First-Year This Honest
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 Trey
Trey 
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I’m glad I met you on the way back. Thanks for helping me carry all this, Ace.
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 Ace
Ace 
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This is easy. Well, at least when there’s a reward like this!
Please make sure that at the dorm tea party tomorrow, you give me the fruit tart slice with lots of cherries on it.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Of course. But I’m surprised that you’d help me with that kind of condition.
Seems like you really like cherries.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Yes, cherries had always been my favourite fruit by far.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Or could it be… You’re actually scheming something else?
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 Ace
Ace 
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Doubting an honest little first year like me, how mean of you Trey~
That being said, this stuff is super heavy.
Do a fruits tart need this much ingredients? There are four grocery bags
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 Trey
Trey 
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Nah, it’s heavy because I’m stocking up on sugar and flour.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Haaaah~!? Did you do that because you’ve someone to carry it for you?
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 Trey
Trey 
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Haha, sorry, sorry
My family owns a cake shop, so I’ve always helped out with shopping
Stocking up whenever there are stuff on sale for cheap is a habit from back then…
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 Ace
Ace 
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Heeh~ So Trey you've been making sweets from a young age huh?
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 Trey
Trey 
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Well, just helping out.
And I’ve made some before when badgered by my younger siblings.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Having a sibling who can make sweets sounds so nice. My older brother doesn’t do any of that.
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 Trey
Trey 
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So you’ve an older brother Ace?
Could it be that you’re the youngest child?
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 Ace
Ace 
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Hey! Don’t decide on your own that I must be the younger child! Well… It’s true though.
Even so there are only the two of us. He dragged me around quite a bit before I entered this school.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Hmm. Is your older brother significantly older than you?
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 Ace
Ace 
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He’s 7 years older! On top of it he’s an alumni of Night Raven College.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Then it must be reassuring, being told all sorts of things about this school before you entered.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Mm, it’s all stuff that isn’t serious though, stuff like how to kill time at the dorms.
Aah, speaking of that, what are you usually doing when you're in your room, Trey?
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 Trey
Trey 
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Me? As for me, let’s see… I do my homework or read a book… I think it’s the same as just about everyone else?
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 Ace
Ace 
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Ugh, how serious~
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 Trey
Trey 
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That’s the norm as a student.
I’m not saying that you have to review everyday, but if you don’t at least do your homework, you wouldn’t be able to keep up in class.
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 Ace
Ace 
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I do my homework! …Well, once in a while I do copy them from someone else.
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 Trey
Trey 
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It’s important to do it with your own hard work.
You should think ahead even from your first year.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Eeh- does that mean you properly studied from your first year, Trey?
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 Trey
Trey 
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Because I thought my childhood friend Riddle would come to this school the year after.
If I keep getting bad marks, I’m afraid of what he would say. At least I should be average.
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 Ace
Ace 
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For sure, he would get mad till his face is red.
”Trey, with these marks, off with your head!” …or something like that.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Pfft… That sounds a bit like him.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Heeh. Ah, speaking of test scores…
When you were in your first year, what country’s history comes up the most in the magician's test?
Our test scope this time is the Queendom of Roses, Scalding Sands, and Shaftlands.
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 Trey
Trey 
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…I keep thinking something it’s off from earlier, but Ace…
Are you trying to get me to say the possible content of the test?
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 Ace
Ace 
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Eh? No way I’m doing that, come on.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Don’t lie to me. As expected you have ulterior motives for helping me carry this stuff.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Eh, shouldn’t you instead praise me for “working hard to not get bad marks”?
To collect information, I’m carrying all this heavy stuff~
Beside Trey, you knew from the beginning I wouldn’t carry all this stuff for a pie with lots of cherry on it.
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 Trey
Trey 
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You… could it be you were lying about liking cherries too?
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 Ace
Ace 
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That’s the truth. I learnt that from my big brother. “When you’re lying mix a bit of truth in it,” he said.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Haah…
Saying that seems in line with what your brother would be like.
Seriously, I would help you with your studies without you doing something like this.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Eh~ It’s because it seems like you wouldn't let me take a gamble on what questions would come up.
Like you’d tell me it’s normal to study all of the test scopes.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Of course. If you don’t spare efforts to understand the basics then one day you’d trip up.
Not taking a gamble on what questions would come up and studying properly, if you say that I’d help you… So what do you say?
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 Ace
Ace 
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I thought if I ask you straight on it’d be like this…
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 Trey
Trey 
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How about we also call Deuce and make it a group study session?
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 Ace
Ace 
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Hey, stop treating us like a set.
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 Trey
Trey 
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Hahah, at any rate, I think it’s better to study for your test properly.
If you miss your mark in guessing and get a bad mark, imagine what Riddle would say about it.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Yeah yeah. I got it, I’ll do it. Haah, just a bit more and I could have gotten the answers from you.
Well, whatever… At least it seems like you would teach us nicely, unlike Dorm Head Riddle.
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 Trey
Trey 
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So then, let’s have the group study session tomorrow after school. List up the parts you’re bad at beforehand.
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 Ace
Ace 
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Oka-y, I’ll be in your care.
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