“There’s not?” Tsubaki imagined how perplexed people like Maka and Oxford might be to learn there weren’t many scholars where Lingormr came from--Svealander. But Maka would also probably know a lot more about the area he came from, given the avid reader she was, as would Ox. Alongside Black☆Star, Maka was one of the other dear friends she missed for her insight… Heh, and Ox, too, and all of the others. But there was no point getting nostalgic now! “Oh, I admire people who study in those areas; they seem so difficult sometimes,” she said. “They’re subjects at my school, but there are a lot of students who are better at them than I am. I’m sure people wouldn’t judge you if went with Viking, though.”

At least in Tsubaki’s case, there were so many unique types of people and special abilities that it was kind of hard to rely on her own understanding of thing. Landel’s had opened her eyes even more to how fallible her perceptions could be.

“What happens at night does seem like a test sometimes… People have warned you about that, right? He’s hinted before that he evaluates what we do, but I’m not sure what that means.” She smiled back, a little wider than before. “I’m sure you’ll be in good hands! Um, I don’t know if you’ve heard this already, but if you have certain special abilities… in some cases, they might be dampened during the day but they’ll come back a little bit once nightshift starts. So that’s something. And people lend weapons if you ever need one.”