After I died of old age, I was reincarnated into another world and became a cat

"There is no rule that one must be a student of the academy. Anyone who is taught in the magician's classroom can participate."

"But I don't even seem to be a human being, do I?"

"Tsk..."

Although La Luna felt like she was being argumentative when she said this, it was the truth.

Don’t you see that you are now a white, soft and charming cat?

"Why don't you just become a human and participate?"

"You've seen me as a human before, what about my ears and tail?"

Just as La Luna was about to say a few more words, Lilith suddenly stuck a card in her face.

"Huh? What is this?"

La Luna used her little paw to open the card, and then saw a row of numbers displayed on the card.

"This is the compensation for the trouble you caused last night!"

"Eh!? You don't want me to compensate you, do you? I don't have any money. Only you humans like to use that kind of stuff!"

"Then what do you say we should do..."

Lilith darkened her face and gradually moved closer to La Luna.

"I didn't say I wouldn't go... The point is, after I become a human, how can I cover my ears and tail?"

La Luna stretched out a little paw and placed it next to Lilith's cheek, making an expression that said, "Don't get close to me."

"Can't this be covered by just putting on a big magic cloak and a big hat?"

La Luna simply turned into a human, and almost fell off the table because of her suddenly enlarged body.

"Look, a big cloak and a big magic hat."

La Luna pulled out a two-piece suit from her spirit tower, adjusted the brim of the magic hat to be quite large, and then a magic coat that was one size wider.

Add to that the fact that these two were originally dark in color, and suddenly the whole person seemed to be immersed in darkness.

"Don't you think this looks like a suspicious person coming to cause trouble?"

"really……"

Lilith took a closer look at La Luna's attire. It didn't look like she was going to participate in a competition. Instead, she looked like she was going to rob a business, although students in all kinds of strange costumes could be seen in the magic academy competitions every year.

But La Luna's way of wearing it is really ugly...

"Can you change the cape to a smaller size?"

"No, if it's small, the tail will hit it."

La Luna shrunk the cloak, and sure enough, there was a magical protrusion twisting on the back.

"Is that so? Why don't you just wear this outfit?"

Lilith clapped her hands and happily made the decision.

Then he pushed the pile of books in his hand directly in front of La Luna.

"Okay, stop worrying about these messy questions and take a look at these books. I feel that since you have already condensed your first high-level rune, the questions here should be quite simple."

La Luna took the books reluctantly.

At first, I flipped through the books casually and found that most of the questions in the elementary level books were questions that I already knew the answers to. There were no problems with the intermediate level books either, but there were some parts of the advanced level that I didn't understand at all.

Lilith stared at La Luna in amazement, as she turned over one page and immediately went to the second page. It seemed like La Luna was just flipping through a book and didn't seem to want to remember anything.

This made Lilith want to interrupt her.

During this period of time, La Luna had finished reading the ten elementary books and started reading the intermediate books directly.

"Wait a minute, that La Luna? Are you really watching…?"

"I'm here?"

La Luna stopped what she was doing and tilted her head to look at Lilith who was standing aside.

"So what kind of magic does the second section of Book 8 of the Elementary Course talk about?"

"Let me think about it. It's a refrigeration magic. It's used more often in summer, but the temperature isn't particularly low. It can only cool things down, and it can't even freeze them."

"…………"

When Lilith saw that La Luna ignored her, she started flipping the pages of the book like a money counting machine. Then she silently took the last advanced book from the table and staggered away.

For a moment, the classroom was so quiet that the only sound was the rustling of pages.

"Oh, by the way, here's the card for you. Remember to go to the cafeteria to buy some food at noon, and bring some for the idiot locked up in there. She doesn't like coriander, rosemary, and ginger."

Lilith had just walked out of the door when she immediately turned back and threw the card she had been holding in her hand onto the table. She reminded La Luna to remember to eat and to bring lunch for another student of hers. Then she slammed the door and left.

"Oh...wait where is the cafeteria?!"

La Luna memorized every paragraph in the book at the speed of light, her mind racing so fast that she couldn't wrap her head around it.

By the time she reacted, Lilith had disappeared.

"That's a lot of money... but you have to tell me where the cafeteria is first so I can buy food!"

After La Luna went crazy for a while, she suddenly remembered that wasn't there someone in the library who knew the school better than she did?

Thinking of this, La Luna simply put her mind at ease and continued to memorize the last few intermediate books out of boredom.

Chapter 11: Lilith

A week is neither long nor short, and it passed in a flash while La Luna was reading.

Although it only took me one day to memorize all 29 books, it seemed that I gained a lot of new knowledge in addition to the parts I had already learned.

In the following days, La Luna repeatedly experimented with various magical effects, thoroughly applying the knowledge from books to practice.

"Hmm, so that's how it is."

Ever since La Luna was asked by Lilith to participate in the competition last time, she has maintained her human form in order to adapt to the activities of the human body. Later, facts proved that her approach was correct.

Indeed, because I haven't used my human form for so long, when I first tried to walk, I subconsciously crouched down...

Fortunately, no one noticed it in the classroom...

However, these past few days, Lilith has been rarely seen, except for taking time to come here to check her progress and get herself a level certification. No one knows what she is busy with all day.

In fact, Lilith also wanted to show off her magic teaching skills, but there was no way. La Luna's self-improvement was too fast. When she went to see her the next day, she found that La Luna was at a different level from yesterday.

Teaching and self-study are completely in two different dimensions.

So Lilith simply gave up the idea of ​​calling her La Luna and focused on other aspects of the school.

The last day of the week is also the day before the competition.

Lilith suddenly appeared in the classroom and gave La Luna a final magic appraisal.

"I, the Great Magician Lilith, swear to the God of Magic to witness my student, La Luna, being awarded the 9th-book advanced magic certification. I guarantee to the God of Magic that this certification contains no falsehood or lies."

Lilith stretched out her right hand, holding a necklace chain in her hand. At the other end hung a magic book that was not even as big as a palm, with a white number nine engraved on it.

After Lilith finished her declaration, the nine characters above shook for a moment, and then gradually turned into black and white. This was a sign of successful certification. From now on, La Luna became one of the people closest to graduation in this magic academy.

"call……"

Lilith breathed a sigh of relief. Although she had guessed that La Luna's progress might be as fast as a rocket taking off, it turned out that this was not a rocket taking off at all, it was clearly a space migration!

He had just started to learn about the academy's education a week ago, and had entered the graduating class a week later. If Lilith had not left a safety net and did not give all the 30 books to La Luna, but took away the last volume of advanced magic, if he really wanted to successfully certify the 10th volume, he would probably have to go to the library to pull Tina out and throw her on the stage to get a beating.

"This is your magic certification necklace. From now on, you can enter and leave the school freely with this necklace. If someone bothers you, just show it to them. In addition, with this necklace, you can also enjoy other privileges in the academy. However, I will not explain them one by one here. You can experience it yourself."

Lilith threw the necklace in her hand to LaLuna, who was sitting opposite her with a cute look on her face.

"That's it?"

After La Luna took the necklace, she uttered these words in a daze.

Na Luna looked at the small magic book tied to one end of the necklace in her hand. The black and white stripes on the word "nine" were flowing, just like her fur after she turned into a cat.

What? Isn’t magic quite simple? You can graduate after studying it for a week.

"…This is the last volume of advanced magic. Read it after you finish the competition."

Lilith speechlessly took out an advanced magic book from her bag and placed it in front of La Luna.

La Luna nodded and put the book on her desk, but she didn't rush to read it. Instead, she asked Lilith.

"Is this competition important? You seem to take it very seriously."

"It's not important?"

Lilith's answer left La Luna dumbfounded.

"Then why do you take it so seriously?"

"It's just for fun. Life is so long, just have some fun."

Lilith found a stool and sat down.

"We humans are different from you who are born immortal. You must have many companions with the same lifespan, right? But not all humans are like me. I am just an unexpected lucky guy."

"Huh? Really."

La Luna said nothing, but turned back into a cat and curled up on the table.

"Yeah, I guess you can't understand how your loved ones and friends around you feel when they leave you one by one, right?"

"Meow~"

"This feeling is terrible. Many people envy me for my longevity and think that I can accomplish many things because I live long enough. But they don't understand that there are many things that cannot be accomplished simply by living long enough."

Lilith sat on the stool and pondered for a while, as if she was recalling something from the past.

"Meow meow~"

La Luna got up from the table, jumped on top of Lilith, and rubbed Lilith's hand.

"You're so well behaved at this time."

Lilith stroked La Luna's fur, feeling both amused and helpless.

"But it's actually pretty lonely. Always."

Lilith muttered to herself as she stroked LaLuna's fur.

"I have been living in an era that does not belong to me. Every day when I open my eyes and close my eyes, I see unfamiliar things. I dare not make new friends because they will eventually pass away and I can do nothing about it."

Lilith turned her head and looked out the window. This school was not like this decades ago. The colleagues around her were just like her now, maintaining youth and vitality.

But now, former colleagues have all grown old, and except for a few old monsters, most of Lilith's former superiors have passed away.

Among them was Lilith's former mentor.

Lilith still remembers that she used to be a taciturn person who almost never came out of her own circle of friends. But one day, her mentor suddenly notified her. When she hurried over, she saw that her once energetic mentor was in critical condition.

At that time, the teacher gently stroked her cheek with her cold hands.

"Lilith, you have eternal youth and beauty, which is what every woman dreams of. I predict that you still have a long way to go in your life, so I am very worried about you. Although I, a dying man, no longer have the qualifications to preach to you, I still hope you remember what I said."

“No matter how long the journey of life is, don’t feel dull or bored. The world is big and perfect. No matter how much time you spend looking at it, you will never see enough. Don’t stay in your room all day like a dull person. Go out more often in the future.”

Since that time, Lilith was no longer limited to activities within her own social circle, but began to constantly try to enter more new fields and find freshness in life.

"Mage Lilith? Is Mage Lilith here?"

Just as Lilith was lost in her memories, there was a sudden knock on the door, pulling Lilith back from her memories.

"Ah, I'm here, what's up?"

Lilith quickly put La Luna down and ran to the door to open it.

"Meow."

LaLuna jumped back onto the stool and then looked at Lilith's back.

Eyes that sparkle like sapphires, slender white eyebrows, and dazzling silver hair.

Although nearly a hundred years have passed, La Luna still remembers the girl who once stuffed her with dried fish in the carriage.

Time flies by in the blink of an eye, and the little girl has grown into a mature person.