Why can't I use magic?

Chapter 4

After a long introduction it was finally over. I managed to remember most of the names. It also seems like there are 30 students in each class. But at the end of the day, I blew my chance. Anyways, everyday is a new day for making friends. I will try again tomorrow. Everyone was leaving, I also packed my bag was about to call out Kyonagi so that we can walk home together but I saw he was surrounded by girls. I decided not to call him and went on my own. I went to the washroom. I was looking in the mirror, I swept my dark brown hair sideways otherwise it always fall over my eyes. I looked myself in the eye. I had brown eyes. I look exactly how I used to back in my world. It's just puberty hit me after I came here. As I was leaving, someone entered the washroom. He was the same height as me but was pretty buff and was holding his jacket in his hands. He had his left ear pierced and had long black hairs. He was giving off those delinquent vibes. We looked at each other and I left the washroom.

"What a weird dude... how is he gonna pee holding his jacket?"- I thought.

I checked the time, it was 4pm already. I decided to drop by the convenience store and buy some of the important things and some food too. Also I wanted to check how this TransP works.

I was walking towards the store, I saw many students from other classes and from other years too. Walking through the streets lit with street lamps, it was almost like a small city within the campus. There were also so many stores in this area. But it's a pain in the ass that the store is ten minutes away from our dorms. I decided to plug in my earphones and started the music app. It's boring walking without music.

After a walk of five minutes, I finally reached the store, the first thing I searched for is that do they sell Choco milk here or not? To which I wasn't disappointed. Ok onto the next important thing. I was walking by the aisle which had daily amenities like Toothbrush, paste and stuff. I turned around the corner to find a classmate of mine.

"Ohh, you surprised me. You're um... Su- Suimei-kun right?"- she said.

"Ah, nice to meet you Chiaki-san"- I replied.

"So you remember my name? That's good"

"Seems like so."- I said, and stood there for a few seconds. I was not good at carrying conversations, which she caught on to quickly.

"I see you're not very good at socializing."- she said while smiling.

"Well, I didn't had much friends from childhood that's why I didn't get much exposure to social interactions."- I replied.

"What are you shopping for?"- she asked.

"Just daily amenities, Toothbrush, Pastes, Shampoos and stuff you know. I guess you're doing the same too" I said while looking the basket she was holding.

"Yes I am. Seems like you're good at observing others. Anyways, I'm almost done, let's walk back home together."- she said.

"Yeah, sounds like a plan to me."- I replied. I added,

"Also you wanna drink something?"

"Umm.... yeah Iced tea if they have it here."- she replied. I have her the OK symbol.

I bought some Toothbrush, paste, Shampoo, some Notebooks, some cup noodles, and of course my precious Choco milk. I was at the cashier, checking out my bill, while Chiaki was waiting outside, fiddling through her mobile.

"Here's your bill Sir. It's a total of 560 points"- the cashier said. I opened the TransP app. I have already checked through it, as there was a option of payment by scanning the barcode of the bill. I did the payment and went outside.

"Here's your Iced Tea, though it's just cold not iced."- I said while handing over the can of the drink.

"Ara, thank you Suimei-kun, but there was no need of this."- she said as she accepted it from my hands. Well I know it wasn't needed, I just bought her one because it will look bad if we're walking and I was sipping through my can of Choco milk while talking to her.

We started heading towards the dorms. Most of the walk was quiet but since I was walking with someone, it didn't felt as boring as before. We were talking from time to time. I decided to start a conversation.

"So what's you magical affinity?"- I asked.

"Well, it's Anemo. I mean I can do magic from other elements too, but Anemo is my affinity."- she replied and added a question of her own. "Well what's your magic affinity?"

"Well, it's really lame, but I can't use magic."- I replied.

She looked at me in surprise. I responded her surprised expression with a nod of mine.

"That explains why I can't sense any mana coming from you! I thought your mana is just too low to be sensed but turns out you don't have any." – she said.

"Ah, that hurts."- I said.

"No, sorry I didn't meant it in that way. Umm, well why is it that you don't have any mana?"- she asked.

"Well I don't know, I was born like this. Without mana. Would you mind telling me your magic grade in your student profile?"- I asked politely.

"Yeah no big deal, it's 98"- she said casually. I was dumbstruck by her score.

"Damn, you're crazy strong."- I said. It's true that time flies by when you are having an interesting conversation with someone. We reached our dorms.

"Aww, we already reached our dorms, well Suimei-kun wanna exchange contacts?"- She asked.

"Of course" YES. Who doesn't wanna change contacts with cute girl. I thought. As I we were sharing our contacts, I opened my dorm details, and saw that my dorm was G-4. Well here G means the floor number. So my Dorm was on 7th floor.

"So my dorm number is G-4."- I mumbled.

"Wait G-4? Well mine is F-9. Just a floor below."- she said. We added each other and then went towards the elevator. She got off a floor before me, we waved goodbye to each other and then I got off on my floor.

I searched for G-4 , it was straight from the elevator. That's convenient. Now that I was thinking about it, they didn't gave us any key how are we gonna open this our doors? I decided to check on the dorm app for help. I look at a unlock option in the app. I was holding the phone near the door, and the unlock icon was blinking. I tapped on it.

Please set your four digit pin

The notification box appeared. I set my pin and asked me to put in again for confirmation. Then the door unlocked. Damn this is some use of technology here. Damn, like they are using Wi-Fi here. The fact that this world also has Wi-Fi blows my mind every time. I kept the shopping bag on the table in the middle of the room and laid on my bed. It feels good laying down after a long day.

I looked around the room, and it was perfect size for a single student. There was study table and bed and book shelves. The room was quite clean. Well it was clean, from now on it's my responsibility to clean it. I just remembered I have buy things like detergent and cleaning solutions from the store too. Anyways, I will buy those tomorrow. Now I should take a bath and eat my Dinner. After that I will go sleep. It's a tiring day.