The atmosphere at our table remained quite awkward, especially for me and John. My original intention had been to embarrass John a little, but now I was starting to regret it.
"He should be expelled!" Amelia voiced her frustration with Lykhor, expressing a desire for him to be expelled. "How dare he," she groaned.
Elizabeth, however, shook her head with a sigh. "Unfortunately, it will not happen, Amelia. Otherwise, he would have been expelled last year..."
She had a point, and I couldn't help but agree. Sancta Vedelia was built on a foundation of mutual trust, and expelling a student, especially one with such influential ties, was a delicate matter. Lykhor was not only the son of the Queen's older brother but also the child of Edea Elaryon, the homeroom teacher of the First Year Gold Class. Furthermore, they had never been caught red-handed, and their victim likely wouldn't dare to report them to the teachers.
