Afternoon (Wed) Spring 3 Year 1
Hallway, Middle section, Neocademy.
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Lean on the wall right beside the door is Rhen waiting for Emma to bolt out of the classroom. A soon as she arrives, Rhen catches her by surprise.
"Yo!" He spoke in a casual tone, raising his hand in a friendly gesture.
"Ah!" Startled, Emma drops her notes as well as her stolen photos of Rhen. He notices it and acts as if she's just another fan girl of his, he signs his autograph on his stolen photo before returning it to her.
"Aw, shucks! I never thought you were a fan." Rhen then holds her shoulder before stating a warning. "Tell Iris I mean no harm, let's play nice alright?" He said and gave her a sly smirk.
After everything that transpired, Rhen nonchalantly walks away to buy some food from a vending machine nearby in order to satiate his hunger.
"(That's impossible, I made sure to hide my presence, b-but I'm a shinobi. I must protect Her Highness at any cost.)" The warning did little to no effect on the determined Emma, she puffs her chest up and proceeds to follow Rhen at a distance.
She peers around a corner and sees her target buying a cold can of coffee and some sandwiches. Notably, she saw Rhen bought enough for two.
"(After sexually harassing the bullies, the transfer student went to get some food. Interestingly, he managed to find me even with my presence hidden. He has bought food good for two, he must have a date with another girl somewhere. He's truly a lecherous man.)" Emma scribbles down Rhen's actions as quickly as she can on her notes.
As soon as she's done taking down notes, she turns around only to bump into Rhen's chest causing her to drop her notebook once again.
"Ack!" Emma rubs her red nose and looks up to see a handsome student looking down at her with deadbeat eyes.
Rhen bends over and picks up her notes and juts down his own rendition of the events.
"Me and the transfer student had a date in the school cafeteria, after which, he invited me into his apartment and we had som-"
"THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!" Emma takes her notes with hot cheeks before Rhen can finish writing down the next sentence.
She gnashed her teeth at Rhen with furrowed brows. "(H-how the hell did he sneak up on me!? He was just there a moment ago! I never let my guard down and yet I couldn't sense him.)"
"So, do you want one? or let's skip to the good part?" Rhen offers her his extra sandwiches while eating his own, but Emma harshly declines.
"I'm not touching any of that!" She swats away at Rhen's hand. The sandwich fell on the floor, luckily it's still unopened.
"And I'm watching you transfer student, I know you're up to no good, I don't know what it is but I just knew it! You're also a pervert for touching Her Highness in w-we." Emma's face turns red as beat as she remembers what transpired inside the dean's office earlier.
She stomps down her foot at Rhen "You know what I mean! I'll make suref you're never going to see her again!" Emma spun on her head with fury as she walks away.
Rhen bends over and takes the sandwich "More for me I guess, It looks like she really left. Man, I kinda miss her presence." After Emma left, Rhen roams around the school grounds seeking activities he could partake, but he realized that girls are congregating around him.
They grew bolder and bolder without Mia and Nia to intimidate them, until they were an arm's length away.
A Wood Elf girl approaches him and asks the most obvious question. "Do you have a girlfriend?" She said so with glee.
"Are you available for a "Chat" later? It's free" A Succubus then asks another.
"Uhhh. Yes, I have a girlfriend, please I have somewhere to go."
Rhen lies to try to deter them, but they are unstoppable as more and more girls come at him like a wave. He decides to teleport away, but a platinum blonde High elf approached him before he could.
As the High Elf steps in front of him, the crowd parted like the red sea. She approaches him and personally handed Rhen a love letter.
Rhen can accept it or reject it.
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[Take it]
[Leave it]
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Rhene takes it as a token of appreciation for deterring the relentless fan girls.
[Quest Received: Read Alfie's love letter and go attend her tea party (optional)]
"I'm Alfemia, you can call me Alfie for short." Alfie presses her hand against her chest introducing herself while doing a curtsy. She strikes a wink at Rhen, in an attempt to lure him with her charms.
Behind her is the valet boy, who approaches Rhen with a smug and arrogant expression on his face. "I am the first prince of the Kingdom of Sylnari, Monmondor Sylvania. You should prostate your self commoner, for you are in the presence of nobility!"
Monmon's eyes narrowed as he crossed his arms, he lifts his chin as he faced Rhen. There, he stood tall and proud. He remembered the insults Rhen did to him earlier and couldn't bear the thought of being belittled by a mere commoner.
Alfie jabs Monmon. "Shut up, brother, I'm talking, Ehem."
"I've taken a liking to you commoner. I Alfiemia Sylvania invite you to a tea party. You should be happy that I'm allowing you to talk to a High Even noble such as me." Alfie said haughtily, she too lifts her chin in front of Rhen.
Rhen judges her as attractive, but he despises this type of attitude. They are arrogant and he knows she does not care about him in the slightest, it is also a pain to keep a conversation with her going he thought.
Still, he can go to her tea party if he likes, but it would take a lot of effort to mold a posh girl into something that resembles a proper lady.
"I'll think about it princess." He gives an alluring smirk before kissing the back of her hand, politely declining her offer.
He kept her letter as a token of respect, placing it inside his blazer. Rhen used Shadow Step to flee the scene, leaving Alfie and Monmon hanging.
"Wha! Who does he think he is Alfie, he used combat magic in front of you, a clear violation of school rules. He should be thrown to the dungeon this instant!" Monmon clenches his hands and grits his teeth enraged, for no student has dared to deny a royal in his time being here. For Monmon, rejecting them is equivalent to a death sentence.
"And aren't we supposed to keep the bloodline pure? I'm going to tell Father." He added, pointing out his sister's questionable choices.
"Monmon, shut it! Have you seen those nobles back in the palace? they have no appeal whatsoever and besides, I'm not going to marry him. He's just a human, after all, just I want to make him my pet." Alfie argued with her brother.
Alfie walks away before her brother can react, she stomps her foot on the pavement with fury in her eyes as she leaves the scene.
"Hey, wait for me!"
"(That fool of a Human, I have given him a once in a lifetime opportunity and he dares to reject me!?)" She thought, gritting her teeth. The feeling of her first rejection was overwhelming. Anger bubbled up inside of her from being unwanted.
"(I'll make him mine no matter what, and I know just a plan.)" Alfie pop opens her phone, on its screen is a small red vial. She hovers her thumb on the ordered item before hesitating. She knows she's doing something a noble shouldn't be doing, yet her rage took over and she bought the item.
"With this, you're mine!" Alfie's lips curled into a mischievous grin as she spoke, her eyes glinting with a hint of malice. Monmon sees his sister's face, he has something on his mind about dating a Human. He took a step forward, but hesitated and retreated, not wanting to risk getting caught in her anger.
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Late Afternoon (Wed) Spring 3 Year 1
Main Entrance, Middle section, Neocademy.
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Rhen checks his pockets after his run-in with the royals, only to discover he doesn't have the car keys.
"(Wait I gave it to the valet boy… Oh no.)"
His heart sank as he realized he'd mistakenly given Monmon a million-dollar automobile for free. He starts to worry and frantically went back to the place where you've just met them earlier only to find them gone.
"Ah! fuck! I'm such an Idiot!" He cursed.
"Cazzo!"3x
Furious at his ineptness, Rhen kicks the side of the wall in frustration, as if Lady Luck has deserted him, his actions caused a crack in the wall.
"Merda! Porca puttana, non adesso" Rhen cursed even more after seeing what he's just done. He knows that if Iris finds out, her opinion of him will fall.
The crack is quite visible, but he senses no one is looking and move an adjacent potted plant to disguise his mistakes.
"Good, now no one will ever know hehehe." Rhen grins, chuckling at his half-assed renovation.
"Teehee"
Rhen heard a girl's quiet chuckling laughter from behind him.
When he turns around, he notices a goth-looking nerdy human girl with thick glasses that covers more than half of her face. To add to the absurdity, she wears a face mask as if it were the height of Movid.
She coyly laughs at his demise, hiding her lower jaw with her tiny hands. It appears to be she saw everything from the moment Rhen realize his mistake and began kicking the wall.
"What are you looking at?" Rhen asked her in a raised tone of voice.
She doesn't say anything and only points to the west. When Rhen turns his head around, all he sees is a wall.
"Look, I don't have time for jokes." He said that, but when you look back, the girl has vanished. She didn't leave any evidence of her presence, and even with Rhen's enhanced senses, he can't feel any trace of the girl as if she just vanished in thin air.
He scratches his head and wondered. "That's odd."
Rhen didn't worry about it too much, for he has more pressing concerns than pursuing an elusive goth-looking nerdy girl. He pulls out the student handbook and looks for a map.
Neocademy appears to be organized into six zones in a three-by-three grid, but the only sections you are interested in right now are the Main campus, which you are now in, and the Noble's section, which is to the west.
"It looks like she wants me to go here. I don't know whether or not she's psychic, but I have no other leads."
Rhen exits the Main Campus and walks westward. After a few minutes, he realizes that the school is so massive that it would be better to ride a bike or drive instead.
The stone roads are well-kept and as broad as a single lane; most Commoner students use the simple scooter for transport, while Nobles employ carriages.
He can also take an unconventional method, like the two Lycans who ran by him at forty kilometers per hour on four paws, or witches flying overhead with their magic brooms.
Rhen does not have four paws nor does he have a magic broom. Instead, he employs the fastest method he knows, Shadow Step. This skill's range isn't as good as the spell Teleportation, and it functions more as a mobility fighting skill, it has a short cooldown and can store ten charges, allowing him to blink around the battlefield like a lunatic.
Although these combat skills are illegal outside of selected locations, he continues to use them since they have unrivaled utility and no one can stop him from doing so.
Rhen blinks from rooftop to rooftop and arrives in Noble's section. On top of a tree, he uses his Magic Eye and spots the butler, he and blinks right in front of him.
"Oh my!" Startled, the butler nearly dropped his monocle when he saw Rhen appear like a shadow.
"꒗ꌇꃲꑾ, ꒗꒐ꁹ ꒗ꌇ ꇘ꒐ꑾ ꃲꌇ꓅꒒ꑾꋪ ꁅꑾꋪ ꋪꄱꌥꋫ꒒ꇘ? (Greetings, are you the butler of the royals?)" Rhen spoke in Sylnarian for the butler to understand and present his status.
The butler is impressed by your language of choice. For a Human to speak the ancient elven tongue fluently is quite a feat, considering High Elves do not teach this language to the outside world and not many High Elves can even speak it.
"ꁅꋫ, ꇘꑾ꒐ꁹ ꄘꑾꋪ. (Yes my liege.)" Despite Rhen's black attire, the butler makes a Sylnarian bow and considers him a noble.
"Excellent, then may I know what happened to the key? Errr?"
"Please call me Gandor my Liege. Please wait here, I will fetch the car for you sire."
"Oh thanks, I'm by the way Rhen Le Straza, Seniore Gandor." Rhen extended a handshake to him, which he accepted.
"Please wait here Mr. Straza." Gandor then walks away past the Noble's section gate which is a one-story high white wall.
Rhen chooses to follow him despite Gandor's offer, but he were immediately halted by two Wood Elven guards clad in medieval white elven plate armor.
"Only High elves are allowed beyond this point." They blocked Rhen's path, crossing their pikes.
Gandor returns and converses with the guards, yet even after conversing with them. The guards shake their heads in defiance.
"No can do Sir Gandor, the orders came from the King himself especially when the Second Princess is here."
"It's fine Gandor, I can wait here." Rhen said to him from the other side of the gate.
A few moments later after Gandor left, Rhen hears the sound of his car from deep within the forest. The two guards look at each other perplexed wondering as to what could it be, it was only until Gandor arrives with the Lamborghini they started taking pictures of the supercar.
*snap*3x
"Truly a majestic beast!"
"It looks better than those carriages, and I want one!" They said.
Gandor gets out of the automobile with a delighted expression on his face. He then hands Rhen the keys to the car with a sour look on his face.
"Thank you Gandor, I truly appreciate it. Maybe next time if we have a chance, you can drive me around with this car"
Gandor's eyes shine like the morning sun as he heard he could ride the majestic beast once again.
Rhen pats his back. For some reason, he seems similar to Felipe, except that he works for the Elven side.
After a quick farewell, Rhen left the scene with his car and contact Azrel for a discussion about their next mission.