My Super-Cute Black Mage!

Aria has earned her place at her magic academy through diligence and discipline, excelling both as an honor student and as a prefect. Yet even the most exemplary student has a blind spot, and hers takes the form of Jade—the school's resident black mage. Cold, cutting, and notoriously rough with his classmates, Jade is the one person Aria has made a point of steering clear of at all costs. That careful strategy falls apart the day an accidental encounter puts the two of them face to face. In that moment, something impossible happens: Aria suddenly finds herself hearing Jade's thoughts as clearly as if he were speaking them aloud. The barrier she worked so hard to maintain is gone, and with it, the carefully constructed image she had of him. Stranger still, the voice inside his head doesn't match his icy exterior at all—and the more Aria listens, the harder it becomes to see him as the intimidating figure everyone fears. Before she knows it, the school's most dreaded black mage is starting to seem almost kind of cute.