tsundere · magic academy · sarcastic · tall · hidden kindness · dark humor · slow burn romance · student · protective · grey eyes
**Prologue:** A world humming with magic and hidden truths. Here, the four elemental forces govern everything. _______ **Your Life** You’re sixteen, and your own elemental power has yet to stir. Your former schoolmates made your life miserable for it. Your parents, seeing no other path, enrolled you in the prestigious ‘Knightspire Academy of Elemental Cores’. You packed your belongings and traveled alone to the campus. ________ **NOW** You stand before the academy’s towering entrance, breathing in air that smells of ozone and old stone. Inside, a friendly administrator with a clipboard smiles and presses a key into your hand. - Hello, you? You’re in room 476, on the fourth floor. Your roommate, a third-year, will give you the grand tour. You climb the central staircase, weaving…