Remember when I said off to the next class in the last chapter. Well idiotic self from 2 minutes ago and listen to the smarter person who is in the all new time frame of the present. Tada! The next period is a break which I plan to spend with Yuuta. I'm so glad I met him, he seems like a genuine person who doesn't like high class privileges as much as he cares to admit. Sigh, if I was gay I'd marry him but I'm not sooo, he's just a best friend. I wonder if he thinks of me like that? I don't want to get cocky and say he does but I did get him out of the direct attention do girls *shudders* so I think he thinks of me as at least his friend. Hopefully! Then we can work from there and go to close then to best friends, simple. I know I'm a childish person but cut me some slack, he's practically the first genuine friend I've ever had. I'm giddy just thinking about it. Please, please don't take this the wrong way because I am not gay, you hear me? Good! We are on the page now.
If your wondering where we are, I'm daydreaming right now while walking with Yuuta towards my locker room. Beforehand when we were walking to get Yuuta's books for maths he suggested that we spend first break in my locker room. When we arrived it was as promised, exactly the same, identical to his.
"So you going to answer my suspicions, Malligane? Or are you under that fake last name for a reason. The last name Malligane is not common you should of done better, the only families that have that last name are out of the country and their children aren't your age nor do they have your first name." Yuuta explained.
"Well now, Yuuta, I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of trust. You felt that I was so untrustworthy you did a background check on me, I'm hurt" I said with a sarcastic and confident voice, venom practically dripping off my words.
" let me give you some clues, there are more then 3 classes, it's the 30th century. What was the new law unforced? It was that only lower ranked high class and above can have a middle name." I paused with a grin on my face.
"Connect the pieces Yuuta Iru Higashi, eldest son of Osamu Mira Higashi, heir to the Higashi family. A young genius like you who won his first international competition in academics when he was 3 should be able to connect pieces of a puzzle. Right?" I then finished with a question and narrowed my eyes as I finished. Still all with a sly grin.
Yuuta's eyes widened a fraction. His face blank and not showing any emotion to give away information.
The thing with noble class is that the middle name is the name that carries the status, the last name only carries the class.
For example my own family. There is the main family and the branch family, if your middle name in the Coltus family was something other then Malligane, it meant that you belonged to one of the branch families. However if your middle name was Malligane, that meant that you are the heir of main family.
Which is why I coaxed a reaction out of Yuuta, if I didn't give my middle name to him he wouldn't of reacted. It's almost common knowledge that the noble class main families prefer to have one child, otherwise their child wouldn't have a middle name at all until they turn 18 or the other child dies.
Making this connection in his head Yuuta knew that he was the heir to the Coltus business. This rule is the reason that if you were to search up a noble class person their middle name would be classified. Only the upper high class members knew their middle names. They were common enough names that it wouldn't matter if a common family had that middle name as their last name.
"So you want to play this game then. Mr Micheal Malligane Coltus." He said with a slight smile and narrowing eyes.
This is a show of intimidation, a common effect and technique used in business dealings to show the superior.
We were both leaking our presence as a superior. Who won? We will never know as we both noticed that we were showing our presences after he repeated my full name with pauses in between to heighten the tension. Pulling it in, we realised we were both in difficult situations right now. I was wondering how Yuuta would react, I'm so glad I only let a bit of presence leak, he is powerful I'll give him that, but I will always come out on top as a noble. To be honest it hasn't been that long since I've let it out. I know it goes against everything I have ever gone for but it was for a good reason. To keep up this deal I have to attend business negotiations in space of my parents. Usually in these meetings I'd used sheer logic and pressuring. They they were difficult after that then is pull out my presence. I can't exactly stop now because I earned a bit of a reputation to never losing a business negotiation. Also the fact that if I do stop my parents are going to blackmail me and threaten to send guards. I hate compromising.
Moments of silence passed as I as was thinking and Yuuta looked to be talking to his AI. He tapped me on the shoulder when i was putting my books from the previous two classes down. He seemed to have calmed down.
"Yeah?" I said
"I asked Perlet to do some research on the Coltus main family to check. She said that they only had one child, if that child is you doesn't that make you the heir?" He said
"Yep, lucky me," I said back sarcastically.
"Doesn't that mean your a big deal? And how many kidnappings have been attempted on you, I'm only from a top high class and countless have been attempted. Can't imagine what it would be like for the heir to a Noble class." He said with a little pity on the end.
"Countless, their so troublesome and they are terrible on what they do," I said back sighing. Kidnapping attempts were always so idiotic and tiresome to deal with. Every time they try it will always fail. I didn't do an internship to a top military school for nothing.
We left our stuff for the next two periods, two periods, you hear that Yuuta? Also I did check to see the next two periods' books on the table. We left our stuff and went to get some stuff to eat. I was about to leave the room when I saw Yuuta standing at the empty wall waiting for me and looking at me expectantly. Looking closer at the wall, it was a door!!!!! I can't believe I didn't notice that! I'm so stupid... sigh. It wasn't a door really, it was actually an elevator, I have a personal elevator and by the looks that Yuuta gave me it was another privilege for the elites. I really have to talk to that principal.
"How do you work think thing?" I mumbled
"What do you want to do Micheal?" Lixer asked.
" Open the door and take us to the dining hall please." I said back and it seemed to have worked.
The doors opened to reveal the inside of the elevator which again had no buttons or anything. With a subtle jolt that most people would even feel, we were off to the dining hall in my personal elevator, sigh, why me?! Couldn't it of been someone who wouldn't mind being the frickin heir.
"Ding!" That was the elevator as it signalled the arrival at the dining hall. It was like a rustic style restaurant buffet with high roof and hanging lights. We went to get our food at the right back of the dining hall, the lady that greeted us at the bar like service area was overly nice to Yuuta and completely ignoring me. I sighed, another person who is swayed by class and status. She asked for both out ID cards/keycard and scanned them, she looked at me after she scanned mine with wide eyes then started to bore my ears with flattery and sweet talk. Handing up identical trays of food we then went to sit down at an empty table which was right there when we turned around, I heard the people who were originally there move. Probably to make space for the all important Higashi heir. If only that knew how much he hated his status privileges, I had an amused looked on my face as he scowled at everyone in the hall.
I sat down at the vacated table and stared at the food. It was impressive that they could afford chefs of such high level for a school that accommodates for the high middle class to upper high class. A thought then popped into my head as I compared my food to Yuuta's. It was the same...
Then when we went to get our food we were asked for our ID cards then given our food. Even food was based on class?! Seriously people!!
Yuuta looked like he didn't notice my slight change of face as I twitches my eye at the realisation. He was too busy scowling...
Why would he notice a twitch of an eye when I'm always so flamboyant with my reactions? It's because I'm mentally unstable but physically very stable, my expression changed maybe once a year normally but my mind is a complete mess that I haven't bothered to tidy up.
I hid my food at the same time trying to seem innocent as I'm eating my food so that people wouldn't think that I'm a high class person they didn't know about. Otherwise my face is going to end up like Yuuta's is now for the rest of my time here.
I finished my food in a rush so that there would be less time for everyone to notice my food then walked to the far left of the dining hall using my arms as cover before putting the tray down on the trolley full of dirty plates. I walked back to the table with the same strict expression hoping no one would take an interest to my suspicious movements and stood in Yuuta's glare hoping he'd catch the gist. Hurry up and stop glaring at people I need to escape!! I really wanted to shout that at him, but I couldn't, even a socially in adept person like me would know that I'd draw attention to myself trying to boss around the heir to the richest high class family on earth. By attention I mean the bad kind, not good. Actually, now that I think about it, both are bad.
We finished eating only to head straight to the elevator at the back of the hall.
"Lixer, take me to my room please." I told my AI.
"Ok!" She enthusiastically said back as she took control of the elevator to my room.
"You do realise that the elevator that we used was for private use only, luckily people think that I opened it but if they say you talking to your AI your plan to keep hidden would've gone downhill fast. Truth is that everyone apart from the top five high class and you are the only ones that have a private elevator. The other people have to use the main one. The one at the back of the hall is yours, it's the most privileged one because it's the closest to the dining hall. I'm guessing all the other elevator stops of yours are also the most privileged ones. I'm not trying to sound like I'm taking advantage of them but you should have me there so that people will think that I have most privileged one, it would make sense."
I thought about it, it made sense but usually the things that make sense are the things that trick you. There was no bad vibe from him and non of his words were twisted.
"Ok then." I decided to reply with that.
In my locker room we both picked up our prepared books for next two class and left before we met another teacher like Ms Li.