Trey: I’m glad I met you on the way back. Thanks for helping me carry all this, Ace

Ace: 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.

Trey: Of course. But I’m surprised that you’d help me with that kind of condition.
Seems like you really like cherries.

Ace: Yes, cherries had always been my favorite fruit by far

Trey: Or could it be… You’re actually scheming something else?

Ace: Doubting a kouhai this honest, how mean of you Trey-senpai~
That being said, this stuff is super heavy
Do a fruits tart need this much ingredients? There are four grocery bags

Trey: Nah, it’s heavy because I’m stocking up on sugar and flour

Ace: Haaaah~!? Did you do that because you’ve someone to carry it for you?

Trey: 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…

Ace: Heeh~ So Trey-senpai had been making sweets from a young age huh?

Trey: Well, just helping out.
And I’ve made some before when badgered by my younger siblings

Ace: Having a sibling who can make sweets sounds so nice. My older brother doesn’t do any of that

Trey: So you’ve an older brother Ace?
Could it be that you’re the youngest child?

Ace: Hey! Don’t decide on your own that I must be the younger child! Well… It’s true though
Even so there are only thw two of us. He dragged me around quite a bit before I entered this school

Trey: Hmm. Is your older brother significantly older than you?

Ace: He’s 7 years older! On top of it he’s an alumni of Night Raven College.

Trey: Then it must be reassuring, being told all sorts of things about this school before you entered

Ace: Mm, it’s all stuff that isn’t serious though, stuff like how to kill time at the dorms
Aah, speaking of that, what do you usually do in your room, Trey-senpai?

Trey: 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?

Ace: Ugh, how serious~

Trey: 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

Ace: I do my homework! …Well, once in a while I do copy them from someone else

Trey: It’s important to do it with your own hardwork
You should think ahead even from your first year

Ace: Eeh- does this mean you properly studied from your first year, Trey-senpai?

Trey: 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.

Ace: For sure, he would get mad till his face is red
”Trey, with these marks, off with your head!” …or something like that

Trey: Pfft… That sounds a bit like him

Ace: Heeh. Ah, speaking of test scores…
When you were in your first year, what country’s history comes up the most in the magicians test?
Our test scope this time is the Rose Kingdom, Sand Country and Jewel Country

Trey: …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?

Ace: Eh? No way I’m doing that, come on

Trey: Don’t lie to me. As expected you have ulterior motives for helping me carry this stuff

Ace: 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-senpai you too…
You knew from the beginning I wouldn’t carry all this stuff for a pie with lots of cherry on it

Trey: You… could it be you were lying about liking cherries too?

Ace: That’s the truth. I learnt that from my big brother. “When you’re lying mix a bit of truth in it” he said

Trey: 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

Ace: Eh~ It’s because it seems like Trey-senpai won’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 scope

Trey: 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?

Ace: I thought if I ask you straight on it’d be like this…

Trey: How about we also call Deuce and make it a group study session?

Ace: Hey, stop treating us like a set.

Trey: 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

Ace: Yeah yeah. I got it, I’ll do it. Haah, it seems like just a little bit more and I can get the answers from you
Well, whatever… At least it seems like you would teach us nicely, unlike Dorm Head Riddle

Trey: So then, let’s have the group study session tomorrow after school. List up the parts you’re bad at beforehand.

Ace: Oka-y, I’ll be in your care