"Are you just arriving now?"

Before I could pretend to be friendly, Flam spoke to me first.

"Yes, hello. You're early, aren't you?”

There were still ten more minutes for the class to start. It was quiet around me. It seemed maybe I was also a little early.

Even considering that swordsmanship was a mandatory subject and was divided into classes, fewer than 20 people were in the vacant lot.

"Haha, it's not far from dormitories. Which dorm room are you in? I've been looking for you ever since we went our ways after lunch on the day of the entrance ceremony, but I haven't seen you."

It seemed he had been looking for me since we parted three days ago.

On that day, Flam left first after lunch saying he had someone to meet, so I wasn’t able to tell him that I was commuting to school. I felt a little bad.  

"Oh, you've gone through a lot of trouble. I'm not living in the dorms, but commuting."

Flam's eyes opened wide in surprise. "No, but weren’t trainees required to stay in the dormitories?"

It appeared he couldn’t even imagine that I might be commuting. But the guidebook did say that all the students had to enter the dormitory,...