Charlie grinned as it was exactly as he had thought. "I knew you'd have something to do with that campus… By the way, which year were you studying there?"

Vera thought about it for a long while and murmured uncertainly, "It's been quite a while, so I don't really remember… But the first time I was there, I left North America after the Civil War broke out."

Pausing, she then added gingerly, "So, probably 1854? A year around that."

Charlie cleared his throat, pursing his lips awkwardly. "Well, I knew you would have been there, but definitely not that long ago…"

Vera laughed. "You may think that sounds ancient, but I was already two hundred by then. It was also around that time that the States started several campuses, and I enrolled in a couple since I was feeling bored.

"Naturally, I didn't dare to stay too long since my face never once changed—I would finish the syllabus at top speed and move on to the next campus. It was more or less a form of pastime while I was still on the run