Just as I sat down, Monica came back with a serious expression on her face, as she looked at me cautiously and whispered something that only God and herself know, but if you're paying enough attention, you can kind of guess what she is saying 'Here's comes trouble, I hope nothing goes wrong'
As she takes a deep breath and says
"Attention! please, I would like to announce something, as I already said before"
As a loud voice echoed through the classroom
When I watched her, Monica was standing behind the podium as she looked at the class
"Today is your first day, so there won't be anything special planned, but I sure hope you don't slack off during your time at the Academy, I know some of you may be proud of being accepted in the ultimate Academy of humanity. into the Ultimate Academy of Humanity. But let me tell you something, here we don't care about your wealth or your background, if you make a slight mistake or slack off in classes, you are out. How do you expect to graduate from this place if you can't be diligent?"
-Bam!
Slapping her hand on the table hand on the table, a small pressure spread through the classroom. Other than Emma, Jon, Luna, and a few other students, everyone in the class got pushed back, and of course, I'm one of those few other students who weren't pushed back
"There will be no slacking off in my classes!!"
Scanning the whole classroom, her eyes briefly settled on Emma, Jon, Luna, Adela, Kyle, some other students, and then finally me, who managed to withstand her pressure. If one looked closely you could see traces of satisfaction on her face as she looked at us
Placing both hands on the podium she looked around the classroom
"Now, let's start with the self-introductions. I'm Monica Lavender, your personal instructor for this year and maybe for your future years"
Monica Lavender
Of course, I knew who she was, she is the protagonist's teacher in the novel and she is also
'The Rose of the Apocalypse, Monica Lavender'
I whispered admiring her beauty, she is indeed beautiful, she really is like a rose a purple rose precisely but just like roses are beautiful they also have thorns that can be deadly and like a rose, Monica was really beautiful but also deadly as beautiful
Her violet hair gently cascaded along her shoulders stopping right above her raised butt that reminded one of a fully ripe peach. Her tempting figure that could cause any man to go insane, drew the ire of every boy in the class causing their hearts to boil
But what truly stood out the most about her, was not her figure, but her beautiful violet eyes that made one lose themselves if they looked at them for too long
From an early age, she practiced an extremely rare art of enchantress, which caused her to become extremely seductive to the opposite gender, as well as to demons
What made her particularly fearsome was not her battle power but the fact that she could completely tip the scales of a battlefield by turning her enemy into allies, who fight against each other
Currently, she was only 28 years old, which was quite young considering that now the people lived up to 300 years old, more than triple than before, prior to the Cataclysm
Every one of her movements was extremely alluring. Even now as she stood in front of the podium her every move caught the eye of every male in the class. Even Jon and Kyle were no exception as their faces turned red
What about me?
She is beautiful incredible beautiful.... However, although I appreciated her beauty, that was all, nothing more and nothing less
There is one thing I learned from my previous life and that is that the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is
Never underestimate a woman even more if she is beautiful because if you underestimate them they will eat you up and they won't even leave your bones
It's not that I don't like women nor I love men ehhh, just thinking about it makes me want to vomit, it disgusts me
Maybe one day I'll find someone who really loves me, someone who doesn't look at my appearance but at my soul itself, my real self not just the flesh that surrounds me, and above all someone one who will never betray me for anything be it money, power, anything and for that I need to find someone normal
Maybe one day I will have my own family, my own children and I can give them the love of a parent that a child needs and a beautiful childhood that I did not have
but for that to happen I have to become more powerful not only for that but if I want to do anything or just to survive in this world I have to become more powerful because here in this world the strong prey the weak and only the truly strong remain
Alright let's stop thinking about unless thing, let's the future for the future and focus on the present
"I'm sure I don't have to say more as most of you may already know about me"
Monica calmly spoke as she looked around the classroom.
She seemed to have grown accustomed to the boy's reactions, as she feigned ignorance to their reddening faces
"Since it's your first day, I won't take too much of your time. I can already see some people who look exhausted in the classroom. Perhaps they did not sleep enough because they were too excited or they trained all night, so I'll make this first session short"
I nodded my head diligently, I am really tired, not physically but mentally, even though I feel that I could do again what I did after coming to this world, but I'm really exhausted because I haven't had rest, after coming to this world, not even once and it's really exhausting
"Alright first things, let's take attendance"
Taking out a small tablet, she quickly called out names
"Order 3, Rank 1100, Anthony cirvel"
"Present!"
Nodding she continued
"Order 3, Rank 902, Arcano Parratron"
"Present!"
"Order 2, Rank 865, Rius Nightay"
"Present!"
"..."
"..."
To join the Academy, one needs to pass an intense period of exams which can last at least weeks, these exams are divided between physical and academic
Those who join the Academy are considered a genius in their previous school but here most are at the bottom
After passing the exams they are given a rank in a specific order, there are a total of 5 orders and obviously, the 1st order stands on top and 5th on the bottom. The better your order, the better your treatment, your resource...
in order not to discriminate, all classes are mixed
Monica was totally reading in Ascending order, wasn't she....
As she read the names on the list, the rank got smaller each time a new name was called. And it just so happens that I would be not on the list because I did not participate in the test
I should have realized that before. Sighing, I quietly waited for her to finish reading the names
"Order 1, Rank 15, Sylde Alstrom"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 12, Dirx Palyton"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 6, Emma Roshfield"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 4, Luna Winters"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 3, Adela"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 2, Jon Gray"
"Present"
"Order 1, Rank 1, Kyle Elford"
"Present"
Monica suddenly turned her face to me as we made a eyes contact and says
"What's your name?"
"...."
A silence enveloped the class but that silence really annoyed Monica as she asked my name again
"I said what your name"
"Arsene, Arsene Lionheart"
"Good, from now on you will be temporarily ranked Order 1, Rank 0 but let me clarify something if anyone in this Academy can defeat you then they can advance one order higher and you will immediately take his/her order and rank, is that clear?"
"..."
My mind went blank as greedy eyes landed on me, I tried to hold my calm but a loud voice echoed through the class again
"Is that clear??"
"..Yes!.."
I respond with a slightly pale face, even though my mask didn't allow me to lay low, I also didn't want to lay high, I wanted to have a peaceful and hopeful environment that helps me to grow fast
I am sure she did it on purpose, she probably did it to take revenge for any possible trouble I'll create and also because I annoy her in some way
As I turn my face to her, our eyes meet and she gives me her best smile, others may found that smile beautiful but I found it sinister, as I cursed
'Damn, women are really dangerous'
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