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With a spring in her step that she had been missing since Eino had left school, she dashed with him towards the wheel. Everything always seemed more exciting when Eino was around. She was reminded of the 'quest' Eino had taken her and Hugo on last term to 'defeat the beast sent by the Ministry' which Kurumi had always assumed to have meant Mr. Ikenna, but they never made it to the man's office to figure it out.
When they had arrived at the wheel Kurumi spread her arms out and found that it was wider than her arm span and the tips of her fingers could just barely touch the rim of the wheel. It was so big! It probably would take both her and Eino, with perhaps the help of the Headmaster, to move it. Frowning when Eino's attempt to move the wheel failed, she stood next to him and put her hands on one of the spots where Eino's weren't. "Maybe if we pull on it together it will move?" she asked before bursting into laughter at her friend's next question. "Somehow, I don't think that is what the Headmaster meant by free..."
Then again, perhaps if she bribed the man with lots and lots of cookies he would allow them to stay on board...
If not that, then what else? Something was going to happen to the ship, that was certain, if it wasn't always going to be free, but what? And what was the Headmaster doing on the ship? Maybe he was the captain and he was going to turn everyone into pirates. Eino really wanted a peg leg and a parrot, but no eyepatches, he liked to rely on both of his eyes. Then they would go on an adventure and find treasures.
"Okay..." Eino said as he returned down from the clouds and agreed to attempt and pull the wheel with Kurumi. It might work. "On three... One, two three." He pulled the wheel as hard as he could and it moved! Only slightly, but it moved! "I wonder how many people it takes to move this, unless they use magic, then it would probably be easier." Too bad he didn't know any ship steering charms, or wheel moving charming, or whatever it would be called. "We should set sail!" As he said his he saw the main castle all the way at the top. It was very high and it didn't seem very safe.