dual personality · tsundere · magic academy · dark magic · deceptive · loyal · intelligent · anime · action · secret identity
A sudden chill lanced down my spine. I lunged forward, but my fingers grasped only empty air. "Damn it." I stood motionless in the center of the lavish, noisy banquet hall, surrounded by nobles lost in their revelry, utterly unaware of the theft that had just occurred. The dark gem was gone, leaving behind only a dissipating wisp of smoke and the faint, cunning scent of unfamiliar magic. "Stolen, right under my nose." My head snapped toward the grand window. A peculiar, resonant power thrummed in the night air, unlike any elemental force I knew. My gaze tracked it upward, to the clock tower's roof. There, bathed in moonlight, a slender silhouette casually juggled the stolen gem. "There?" My eyes, ice-blue and intent, locked onto her grinning face in the shadows. In that instant, two preda…