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The day Eres arrived at Academy City, she was visited by the leader of Wings of Liberty, who invited her to join the club.
Eres did not want to join the club. She came here to find her brother, not to lose her time playing to factions with people weaker than her.
However, she knew that joining a club could make it easier to find her brother.
Plus, Wings of Liberty was a club that only accepted humans, and it represented them as a race. Due to that reason, it was the most appropriate club for someone like the princess of the biggest human kingdom.
Aware of that, the princess reluctantly agreed to the invitation.
However, the situation changed afterward.
When she learned about the opening ceremony of the War of Clubs, she thought that it could be the perfect opportunity to locate her brother.
The ceremony would be watched by more than fifty thousand people, and the entire city would pay attention to it. With a bit of luck, her brother would learn that she was in the city after hearing that she appeared in the ceremony.
And there was a big chance that her brother would contact her after that.
With that idea, she told 'nicely' to the leader of the club that she wanted to participate in the ceremony.
And by nicely, it means she beat down all the resistance.
Moreover, she refused to go with the planned entrance. With her ice-cold and stern personality, she found such performances distasteful.
No matter how much the leader of the club tried to convince her, she insisted.
In the end, the leader sighed and acceded to her request with the condition that Eres agreed to be the leader of the club.
Considering the Eres was the princess of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, he did not want to make her an enemy. Plus, he thought that making Eres the leader of the club could bring the club many benefits.
Plus, Eres was a well-known genius around the world, so there was not going to be much resistance if they made her the new leader of the club.
Just like that, Eres Skysword became the new leader of Wings of Liberty.
Of course, the princess did not care. For her, this club was nothing more than a tool to find her brother. If being the leader of the club could make the process easier, she did not mind doing it.
But she never thought she would find him so easily.
Eres opened her eyes wide. She looked at the blue-haired young man standing on the metallic wolf with an astonished expression.
Her body shook, and her ice-cold expression crumbled completely. When her gaze met his gaze, her eyes were filled with tears.
But when she was about to rush towards him, the blue-haired young man looked away, as though he did not recognize her.
Eres's body froze.
'B-Brother…?'
Was she mistaken? Was he not her brother?
No, she was sure. He was her brother.
She was still doubtful after hearing that her brother was in Academy City, but now that she saw him, she was sure he was his brother.
His hair was different, and his strange blue eyes carried nothing of the gentleness they once had. But it was definitively him.
Her big brother, the person she had tried to find for so long.
Then, why?
W-Why did he no recognize her?
No, that was not important now.
'Glenn.'
"I-I found you…" Her lips parted slightly, murmuring in an almost inaudible voice; and her feet moved instinctively towards the person she had missed all these years.
But at that moment, a stern voice woke her up from her daze.
"Princess, what are you doing?"
Startled, Eres realized that the young man beside her, the previous leader of Wings of Liberty, was looking at her with a frown.
He did not know why, but he had the feeling that this princess was about to do something troublesome.
And if for some reason, this willful princess ended messing the opening ceremony and offended the headmistress, their club would be done!
The young man could not allow something like that.
But Eres did not care.
"I'm going to meet someone." She said indifferently.
"Princess, we are still in the middle of the ceremony. You can't leave now."
"I don't care about it."
The expression of the young man turned icy. "Princess, you already forced us to bring you to the entrance ceremony, and even stopped us from performing the club's entrance. Do you want to destroy the reputation of our club now?"
Eres frowned in displeasure. She glared at the young man coldly, warning him to stop bothering her and move away.
She wanted to go with her brother now. She did not have time for this.
However, the young man did not move.
When Eres realized that the young man was not planning to leave her go, her expression turned chilling.
Killing intent surged out of her body, pressing on the young man and all the people around her. At the same time, her mana circulated violently, ready to erupt.
The sudden burst of killing intent surprised all the students around her. The weakest ones even turned pale!
But at that moment, Eres felt a chill on his spine.
All of sudden, she realized that Headmistress Eve was looking at her with a small smile.
Her eyes, however, were squinted sharply.
Eres understood the meaning behind her gaze instantly.
'If you dare to mess this up, I won't care if you are a princess.'
Eres's expression changed. When she saw that gaze, she was attacked by a powerful fear.
She bit her lips and looked at the headmistress unwillingly.
She just wanted to go to her brother! She just wanted to see him after so many years!
'Patience… I already found him… I can wait a bit longer.'
The headmistress was not someone she could face right now. Plus, it was not wise to make her an enemy.
With that thought, Eres retracted her mana and killing intent and looked at the young man that had just arrived in front of Headmistress Wave with eyes full of longing.
"Brother…"
She murmured softly.
However, the blue-haired young man did not look at her again.
…
"My hero, she is still looking at you…" Gina whispered softly with a look of wonder. "Amazing. She has not moved her gaze away in the last five minutes…"
Bloed rolled his eyes.
'Do you think I didn't notice?'
He could not help but sigh and put on a bitter smile.
"… I just hope she doesn't do anything stupid."
Bloed knew that Eres had been searching for him, but he did not understand why she was so anxious.
Certainly, they were very close when he was still a prince, but it had been five years since then. In all honesty, the current him only had a vague impression of this sister of his.
Fortunately, Headmistress Wave stopped Eres just now, otherwise, he had the feeling Eres would have done something that would have brought him a lot of trouble.
Just at that moment, the last one of the top one hundred clubs performed its entrance and the first part of the opening ceremony finally ended.
Now, it was time for the second part.
Headmistress Wave looked at the representatives of the top one hundred clubs and smiled gently.
"Following the tradition, one of you will be selected to challenge another club in the first battle of this War of Clubs. Now, I'll cast a spell that will choose one of you at random."
The representatives of the top one hundred clubs put on serious expressions and nodded. Seeing that, Wave smiled and waved her hand, creating a magic circle above the group.
"Choose."
With Headmistress Wave's command, the magic circle lit up briefly before turning into a pillar of light.
Then, the pillar of light fell on a fox girl.
The fox girl, leader of [Queens of Fire], ranked ninety-six, was startled before taking a step forward.
"Meola Rain, leader of [Queens of Fire]. I'm honored for being chosen."
"Miss Meola, It looks like you are the lucky one." Headmistress Wave chuckled softly. "You can choose your opponent."
"Thank you, headmistress."
After bowing slightly, the fox girl looked around at the representatives of the top one hundred clubs.
Finally, her gaze stopped in a blue-haired boy.
Bloed did not know whether to laugh or to cry when he saw that.
And just as he expected–
"I would like to challenge [Machine Revolution], headmistress."
–The fox girl selected them.
"[Machine Revolutio], huh." Wave's eyes looked at Bloed with a playful twinkle as she smiled. "Mr. Bloed Norman, please step forward. You will take part in the first battle of this War of Clubs."
With a wry smile, Bloed nodded before putting on a serious expression.
"I understand."