"Headmaster, I heard you're looking for me?"

Dana knocked on the door, she was wearing a sailor suit from Crescent Academy, and her body was filled with the beauty of youth, but the girl's face was a little melancholy that made people feel a little protective.

"Sit down."

Reiner pointed to the couch to the side, and he put down the papers in his hand and looked at Dana.

"How do you feel about the mock exam?"

"Uh, I'm sorry, I failed to cast a spell again."

Since the last magic test, Reiner hasn't asked Dana about the details of the exam, partly because Reiner himself has caused a certain amount of commotion, and partly to take care of her emotions.

It wasn't until this memory settled that Reiner found Dana.

"I've heard that the cast failed to cause an explosion, and even the obsidian slab in charge of testing has cracks."

The expression on Dana's face darkened a little, as if she thought that Reiner was disappointed in her as well.

"I'm sorry, but I may have thought I was proud to have mastered some tricks recently, which is why I rushed to try to build a ring of spells......"

"Dana-san, do you know what the passing rate of the magic exam in Ammonel Province is every year?"

Reiner asked suddenly, leaving Dana a little unresponsive.

"What?"

"Every year, the number of apprentices who take the magic exam in Ammonel is about two hundred, and among them, those who can get passing marks in three theory courses, that is, a total of one hundred and eighty points, are more than one hundred and seventy, that is, nearly ninety percent of them can pass the theory exam."

Reiner said lightly, these are the advancement data that a principal should have.

"But in reality, the pass rate of the magic exam in the province of Ammonai is less than fifteen percent every year."

That is, at most, only thirty apprentices can pass the exam and become full-fledged mages, which is only an ideal situation, and the number of apprentices who can pass the first exam should be less than fifteen based on the data of those apprentices who have retaken the exam many times.

Reiner explained, but Dana still didn't understand what he meant.

"Dana, you have to know that you should take the exam in earnest next year, and there is still a year to consolidate your foundation and prepare for the exam."

Reiner said bluntly, the data he had cited was more convincing than mere comfort.

It's true that Dana isn't doing very well, but not many people actually do better.

"You've done the best you could, and I've received a report card from a mock exam here, so you can take a look."

Reiner handed out a list, Dana's heart began to beat wildly when she heard the report card, she reached out to take the list, but failed the first time, retracted her hand slightly, she pinched the report card again, and brought it to her.

"Mage's Code and History of Magic, Eighty-Seven Points, Magical Runes, Seventy-two Points, Magic Synthesis, Sixty-Nine Points...... Magic test, fail, final evaluation, fail ......"

Failing was expected, but Dana was surprised by the scores in the other three subjects.

The three subjects add up to a total of 228 points, and if you get a passing score of 60 points in the magic test, it is 288 points, which is already a pretty good score!

"For your reference, the Magic Academy affiliated to the Rainbow Tower Council, which is currently the magic school with the strongest comprehensive magic strength, has an average score of three hundred and twenty-two points in the magic test of the apprentices who have been successfully promoted in the past three years, while the data of Amone Province is two hundred and forty-five points."

In other words, if Dana casts the spell successfully, her score will be well above the average score of her province, and she has a year to continue to improve.

"By the way, in this exam, you are ranked third in Crescent Academy."

Reiner said again, and the second was Fina. Nabisteen, with a high score of 357.

The first is of course Reiner himself, as for the score, he feels that there is no reference meaning, it is enough to be promoted.

"This, I thought it ......"

Dana thought that if she failed to cast a spell and caused such a big move, Reiner would definitely blame herself, but instead of doing that, she cited various facts to comfort herself.

She thought about her parents in a trance, if they had adopted the same education method as Reiner, would she be different now?

"As I said before, I'm going to treat you to a big cake on your birthday."

Reiner said suddenly.

"Well, that's right."

Dana remembered the agreement between Reiner and herself, and in just two weeks, it seemed as if Dana had spent many years, fulfilling and long.

"Your birthday should be the day after the White Dew Moon, that is, the day after tomorrow, right?"

Reiner confirmed that today is the last day of the Moon of Flowing Fire, and from tomorrow, time will officially enter the Moon of White Dew, which is also the hottest month, many schools will have summer vacation in the two months before the magic exam to allow students to review freely, and the Crescent Moon Academy used to be closed around the fifth day of the Moon of White Dew, which lasted until the end of the summer magic exam, but this year due to the assessment, the summer vacation will be postponed for a few days.

"Well, that's right."

Dana nodded, at first she thought Reiner was just talking casually, but she didn't expect him to actually check her birthday.

In the past, Dana had never celebrated her birthday, and while her parents were still around, they were both busy researching, and it would have been nice to be able to have a meal together at home on Dana's birthday.

Since her parents' accident, Dana's birthday has become the death day of her parents, and she has never asked her uncle Chester to help her celebrate her birthday.

But Reiner's offer to help her celebrate her birthday does make Dana feel mixed feelings.

Joy, gratitude, loneliness, and entanglement, she doesn't know if she has the right to celebrate this day, because in the eyes of her parents who have long since passed away, Dana is useless, and her birthday should have been the last shackle left by her parents, so that Dana will always remember this day.

"Go back and get ready, and I'll have a surprise for you on that day."

Reiner rubbed Dana's head, giving her an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if someone had done the same thing once.

But it may be a memory that has long been forgotten, ambiguous.

"Surprise?"

Dana asked softly, looking at Reiner's eyes with a little more doubt, but still obediently left the principal's office.

When the student was gone, Reiner sat back at his desk, picked up his pen, and began to write back.

The title is - To the Honourable Chester. Mr. Christine.