Chapter 1
I am a 29-year old teacher teaching at a local high school in Kaneda, The Shafterlands. On the outside, I am a very gloomy person. Students would, very often, wave at me as I walk past them. I never wave back. In class, I teach Mathematics. It is generally not an annoying or confusing subject, but it is a subject that is hard to decipher using only one’s brainpower. Usually, the Mathematics teachers in my school would tell seemingly random jokes to give an analogy to those who had never heard of the concept. However, I do not. I explain the concepts in a very concise and straightforward manner that makes it easy to understand.
I know that students love me as a Mathematics teacher. I do not enforce class or school rules very often, so some students do slack off during my lessons. Of course, I almost got fired because of this. However, after that incident, I continued to teach in the same way, for it is a teaching style that the students love.
It is quite rare for me to be the homeroom teacher (teacher in charge of a class’s administrative matters), though. Other teachers think of me as seemingly emotionless, like a soulless machine. It is a rare phenomenon for me to vote during a meeting, much less raise an opinion. In The Shafterlands, teachers can mix up the order of the topics that they want to teach. Most of the time, I follow the most widely used sequence in my school.
Am I still capable of generating emotions? Yes. I can even create feelings stronger than what most humans can make. I can have mood swings from California to Washington, D.C. I can laugh, cry and scream. However, I tend to suppress my emotions to zero. Why? Because I am a magical girl, bound to a death contract from fifteen years ago.
