The bell rang and soon the entire school went silent, Lirain sat in the office feeling bored as he waited for someone to show him to class.
After a while a secretary came to him, "Sir Lirian, please follow me your new class, 1-A." she said with a forced smile.
He followed her but it seemed like she kept stalling, as they passed each class her pace seemed to slow, "Do all the staff here avoid taking students to class, or is it only you, because if it is I swear that you'll earn the love of every student." he joked when she seemed like she going to start dragging her legs.
She chuckled along, "Trust me after you go to class, you're going to curse me for not keeping you out longer."
"Why is that?"
She looked around as if uncertain if she should speak, "Oh, it's just that your teacher is currently going through something in her personal life, and she's been, let's say a little unpleasant to speak to and to listen to, oh and also to be within throwing distance of her markers."
"Oh, that doesn't sound very professional to me, I was told that this is the finest school in the system."
"I've heard all about you Sir Lirian..." she started.
"You mean from the twenty minutes I was made to wait before you came to take me to my class.", he interjected and chuckled.
Her face went a little red, "You're even smarter than they make you out to be Sir Lirian, but please go easy on her, I'm sure that within a week she'll be fine."
"Don't worry too much I promised my mom that I'd do my best to not make any of my teachers cry, so I'll be on my best behaviour."
When they reached a door with the class sign, '1-A', the secretary knocked on the door.
"Who is banging on my door!?"
The secretary opened the door and walked in front of Lirian, "Kira, this is your new student he was absent yesterday."
"Oh yes I know who he is, the great new prince candidate of the empire and my former neighbour!" she shouted.
"She is drunk.", he said immediately, ", very drunk," he added as she did a bow that was too deep for someone of his position to receive. 'She has definitely realised that the pictures came from my home.'
"Oh good, you know him, I'll take my leave then." said the secretary and she scurried off.
"My apologies miss Hira, my childhood was very sheltered, I have never met any of my neighbours', it's unfortunate that I was never able to make your acquaintance," he answered with a slight smile.
She frowned when he finished and she let out a burp. She wanted to pick on anything she could but ideas were slow at the moment.
"Uh-huh," she snapped and pointed at him, ", 'Sir Lirian' would you care to explain to your class what gave you the right to skip the first day of school, while they had to sit through the dull and excruciatingly long orientation that the principle insists on putting every student, and teacher through every year!"
'Lirian take deep breaths, very deep breaths and remember your promise, I will not my teachers cry, I will not make my teachers cry, I will not make my teachers cry.' he muttered to himself.
"I received a severe injury in training and my arm is not in its best condition, due to a complication I skipped school.", in the end, he couldn't control himself, "As I'm sure anyone with half a brain cell would have noticed by now," he said with a strained voice and pointed at his arm that hung in a sling.
"You have a major attitude problem, remember that here I'm the one in charge so as punishment you can teach the class while I go and rest my half a brain cell." when she finished she stormed out of the classroom.
He was dumbfounded he imagined it wouldn't be great to be in her class but this was more than he expected, she was still in the middle of her break down and it didn't seem like it was going to end anytime soon.
'hmm... this could work in getting the principal to meet with me.' he thought silently, if he played his cards right, he could get the headmaster to meet with him before homeroom ended.
The entire class was laughing and amongst them, he spotted the trio he met earlier, "Was she like that yesterday?", he asked with a friendly smile that worked on everyone in the class, the perk of his looks was that most people would find it hard to dislike him.
The entire class started laughing even harder and he stood there waiting for an answer, one of the girls answered him eventually, "Sorry, Sir Lirian, we are just glad it wasn't one of us that she lashed out at today."
"And frankly you were lucky, yesterday she gave every girl a new name, she said we could make it our permanent names after our husbands call us a prostitute."
One of the guys jumped in, "Yeah and she gave the guys names too, she said we can use them to become the best pimps in the world."
"Wow, she is in a bad place. Did I miss anything yesterday?"
"Nah not really, miss Hira wasn't lying the orientation was excruciatingly long, we only spent about thirty minutes in class at the end of the and half of it was miss Hira coming up with creative names for all of us."
"Did she mark the register?", he asked with a grin and ran to the teacher's desk, she did tell him to teach the class so she should have no problem with him going through her things.
"No, not that I remember, why?" he asked.
He opened up the register and found that it was empty and grinned, "Because, I have been appointed as your teacher for the day and it looks like our teacher forgot to mark the register yesterday, and I think that it's only right that I cover up for our teacher's mistake and mark everyone present including myself."
"That's not right.", one of the girls cried out.
"Oh, come on, please look away just this once for me, I'm a prince candidate and a perfect attendance will look better on my report card at the end of the year." he flashed her a smile and could tell that his eyes were working their magic on her as she wavered.
"It takes a lot of courage to stand up to me, so if you let me get away with this, I'll vote for you to be the girl class rep."
"F-f-fine, but just this once." she stammered.
"Hey, no fair how can you offer her something but not the rest of us." one of the boys shouted.
"How about I owe everyone a favour then, you can cash it in whenever you like." his words earned the approval of everyone and he soon put a tick next to his name.
He went through the list and called out the names of each person, it was a small group, there were only twenty in the entire class.
"Karen Eden" the girl that spoke to him when he first entered the class responded.
"Lucas Klutz" the dark-skinned boy that told him about the boys getting pimp names raised his hand.
"Sarah Jane" the girl he promised to vote for as class rep raised her hand.
He found soon came across two people with the same family name and they were sitting together, 'Shen Lim and Shen Xie.'
"Are you two siblings or cousins?" he asked.
"No," Shen Lim answered, ", it's just a very common family name on our planet," he explained.
"But we grew up together our parents are business partners, so we always ended up playing together." Shen Xie added, her voice was very squeaky.
"Oh, the cliché' childhood friends that end up becoming a couple later on in their lives.", Lirian announced loudly and chuckled.
The class laughed along and teased them. Lirian chuckled as they both went red. 'Ah, it's so easy to tease children.'
He soon got to the trio he met earlier, Hinata, Pollock and Eido.
When he finished the list, he noted that all the surnames were familiar, two people were from super-world royalty and eight were from advanced world royalty, six were from extremely wealthy families and then there were the three from the orphanage on scholarships and finally, there was him.
It could be said that every person in this room would have great future prospects, even the orphans wouldn't have been allowed into this school if they didn't show some potential, since none of them shed their family names to become a candidate they would never succeed as the leaders of their worlds, but gaining a high position was not out of the question.
'If I can figure out a way to whip them into shape or rather to see reality for what it is, I just might be able to hold some influence over them, and when it's time for me gather support before my ascension to the throne, it might be possible to use them, that is provided they survive to reach such heights, well in any case if they die it would mean that I just wasted a little time on them.'
The more he thought of it the more he realised that this school was a treasure trove to form future connections in, and this school kept students for up to two hundred years, he was curious as to how many important figures were in the school.