Night had come in their stay in Nive Havenia. On the past hours, Atia had spent it walking around the town and going to shops that sells decorative materials for her pet, whom she have named as 'Khaki.'
Passing by near a food stand, the Fello's tail wagged and it whimpered as if begging to have one of grilled pork.

She then approaches the stand, "Excuse me, can I have four of these?"

After taking her orders, they continued their stroll until Atia noticed Serene and Juno walking together. Atia then carried Khaki into her arms and she then use her spatial magic to get nearer to the two--
--Getting behind them, she finds the conversation informative and decides to follow them without interruption.

"Nive Havenia is actually known as the Savage Terra. You already noticed how tall are their twelve years old children right?" Juno informed, "It's quite a very strange habitat too! Their human race possesses a huge adaptation towards colder environments as well, they're like a tundra giant!"

"Is that so? That's pretty cool and insane~" Serene responsed.

"And also, for some reason-- where are the others?" Juno then asked as he looked to his sides.

"They probably went into the hot spring..." Serene answered. "I'm planning to go there once we reach the cabin, anyways... How about you?"

"That would be nice~!" Juno smiled, "... It kinda smells like grilled pork for awhile though..."

"Want some?" Atia then extends her hand forward with her share of the grills.

"Thank you..." Serene thanked as she takes a stick. "--Wait... ATIA?!" she then taked a step back in surprise. Khaki then responsed with a bark.

"Since when were you there?!" Juno exclaimed.

"Boy, you're such a creepy girl..." Serene sighed as takes off her boots. They have reached the changing room of the hot spring.
As Serene takes off her clothes, Atia played with Khaki by doing a mini-fight play with her hand against the playful pup.
"Oh well, you better get change and join the hot spring..." Serene then wraps herself with a towel and opens the door towards the hot spring.

"Alright! Ready to hit the hot spring, Habanero?" Atia asked enthusiastically and changed to her body towel.
After changing, Atia then carries the beast in her arms and opens the door.

Despite being the place as cold, it felt warm due to the air it felt warm due to the air mixed with the springs warmness.
Her classmates were all relaxing in the spring, some are even discussing about something she had no clue about.

"Hey guys! I brought my pet fello, Khaki!!", Atia then lifts Khaki higher for them to see. "What's the discussion between you guys anyways?" she asked as she dips her leg into the hot water.

"A lot of things..." Emily answered with a red face, looking away.

"What's up with her?" Atia, getting confused, asked Petra.

"Since she had told the others, there's no hiding it~" Petra sighed, "She had an emotional admiration towards Hugh..."

"And things going with Mica was having something to Willem! A little ironic for being a salvager and the other as a thief!~" Petallite grinned.

"Yeah... pretty ironic..." Atia nodded, dipping Habanero into the spring.

"Atia! That's an adult fello!!" Eren shouted, "If you provided it the things which claimed to be owned, then let go of it!"

"Why?" Atia asked, pretty hesitant to Eren's instruction although followed later on.
As the beast swum on the spring, it suddenly glowed red-- growing bigger and bigger until--

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" the girls screamed, their voice reaching to the other side of the wall.

"It's quite lively over there, right~?" Peter asked with a smile.

"Girls are sometimes more troublesome than us..." Torin sighed.

After what happened inside the spring, the girls managed to adapt to the stuffy situation, and afterwards, they went out.

"I see..." Atia said as she arranged the button of her robe. "Stray fellos will remain small until given the needs that claims that they had an owner, I don't really have an idea about that... How do you know, though?"

"My brother had two, back home-- he also bothered to tell me about the recognition stuffs regarding about those..." Eren answered as she headed for the door.

"You might risk yourself of having a heartattack if you lack knowledge about it, Atia..." Ymir chuckled as she brushed the fur of Khaki.

"Excuse me, I have undergone asphyxia to be exact once, it was when I'm running late to my old school..." Atia demanded as a memory trailed in her mind:

The bell already rang and everyone proceeded outside to the hall for the everyday small routine. Atia who was around 10, run as fast as she could to reach her class' line, and after managing to get to her line she tries to catch her breathe. She then felt her breathing sequence is slow than the beat of heart, she suddenly felt a pain in her chest and she tries to massage her chest through her clothes. The strange pain grew as her breathing goes slow, her sight began to grow dark and she felt a heavy and dizzy sensation.
Her classmate, who had black hair and purple streaks in the edges, notices her and asks her some questions while mentioning her lips turning pale. She then offered her a shoulder and that's when Atia could no longer stand on her own and was brought to the infirmary during the routine.

"You're pretty talkative too, aren't you?" Eda tapped her shoulder which brought her to the reality that others had left them alone.

"I-I am talking to... Khaki! Y-you should know pretty well about that since you're a summoner!" Atia denied.

'Those girls! They show no respect...' Atia mentally sighed as she gave a nod to Eda and walked out of the room.
'Lesson learned...' Atia mentally noted.

"Khaki..." she then called to her pet who was sitting next to her, out in the cold near a statue. "...I have nothing else to do and the night is still so young, what do you suggest for us to do?"

The brownish dog then responsed motioning her head to her back while looking at her. She then barked three times and gestured to her back.

"Ride?" Atia guessed although picking up on a random word. Khaki then wagged her tail and approaches her mistress.
"Alright..." Atia then stood and settled on the back of her pet, she felt uneasy at first, unconfident of her weight but then the fello run as if it meant nothing.

Although it's cold, the fuzzy brownish fur of the dog shielded her away from the cold sensation. They then made their to a large wooden gate and found it opening as four wagons entered the city.
On those were students with blue scarves and bags of crystas on three wagons, there was Ainsworth, their history teacher, riding on the first wagon that carried logs.

"Good evening students!" Ainsworth greeted to the other students who happened nearby.

"Good evening sir!" they would greet back.

Ainsworth Lutrehen is an adventurer ranking top #37. Despite having a lower rank than Guilimiere, it was quite effective that he would monitor on the older students especially when the teachers also need to do a material farm since he could use his puppetry magic to do those kinds of activity while watching over the hunt. He is a necromancer afterall.

"You wanted to see them come, Khaki?" Atia asked. Noticing no response from the dog, she lowers her vision to find her pet looking at a further area in which she also trails her vision into.
She then finds Robyn running from outside, trying to get into the city.

'What now?' Atia sighed.

"Khaki, care to approach the new arrival student?" Atia ordered and her pet followed her order.
As they meet the running Robyn, before she could ask a question to him, he suddenly hop onto Khaki and held her shoulders.

"Atia, please! Help me get out of this mess!!" Robyn pleaded to her.

"Did you brought trouble this time?" Atia asked, raising an eyebrow, suspicious of his request.

"It's more than a trouble! I'm not ready to face parenthood!!" Robyn demanded shaking her.

"What?! What are you saying? What are you implying?!" Atia asked, now getting all confused--

HONK!

A sound suddenly arrived.
"Nooo!! Atia! I am in danger!! I am not ready to be a parent!!! Let's escape now!!!" Robyn screamed.

The sound suddenly grow closer and faster, as if there were a number of them coming near. As they get near, they saw a number of elongated shape in pink color, the shape of its beak is of toucan, and in every individual of them had four legs.

"We better get going now, Khaki..." Atia instructed and the dog run and hopped onto a roof.
"What trouble did you get into?"

"I don't know! I was just following the third years and got lost for a bit, it was when I found a group of Hengguins on an open field out there and they started to follow me as if I am their parent!" Robyn explained.

"Hengguins follow something that differs from them since their born leaders have different color from them..." Atia added.

"Get me out of this mess..." Robyn pleaded.

HONK!

They heard a sound, although seems cuter, near them, they looked down to see a hengguin on the roof, looking at Robyn with its ocean blue eyes. It was smaller than those who've followed him.

"I guess, you should keep that one-- Robyn..." Atia suggested.