Two days after the welcome party there was an opening ceremony.
I went with Dieter and Lawn and we had just entered a very large auditorium at the end of the hall. From there I could see the whole of the academy.
"Hey Lawn-kun, is that the elf girl you were talking about the other day?" Dieter suddenly spoke out loud as we walked through the door.
It was a girl with long ears and fair skin, golden hair and sparkling eyes. Although she was beautiful, she stood alone in the corner of the room, her hands clasped together, looking nervous.
"Right! It's her" Lawn shouted.
They quickly left me alone and walked towards the elf girl.
Standing at a distance, I could still see clearly what these two guys were doing: Dieter was slightly bent over, Lawn had his hands in front of his chest...
The nobleman's greeting ? hmm, doesn't look very impressive.
It was obvious that these two guys were just imitating, and most of the moves were all wrong!
It was easy to see why the girl looked at them as if she didn't care.
"This idiot" a hand tapped me on the shoulder as I looked at them, "why are you standing in the middle of the road?"
"You must be staring at a certain beautiful noble lady, right?"
This was immediately followed by a poke in my hip, and this familiar voice made me sure that the person behind me was Charlotte.
I turned around, ecstatic at the faint scent of roses in the air.
"The girl I know today knows how to use perfume ?"
"Just a little... "
Charlotte suddenly looked nervous when she heard my question, her hands clasped together and brought to her chest.
"Anos-kun, Don't... Don't you like perfume?" Charlotte was worried.
"If you don't like it, next time..."
"I really like it. This soft scent really goes well with Charlot-chan!"
Charlotte's face suddenly turned red after hearing my answer.
Today Charlotte looked cuter than ever in a schoolgirl outfit and her hair was decorated with two light pink ribbons.
"Charlot-chan, I just heard that you are one of the typical students?"
"Hmm... I.. I only knew about it yesterday"
"Speaking of yesterday... Ah"
Charlotte suddenly looked into my eyes, "Anos-kun, about the dormitory, I asked the president..."
"I said it was fine !" I waved my hand.
Charlotte was very angry when she found out about my dormitory the day before.
I really didn't want her to be affected by this, so I gave her a good scolding that day, but it still happened this way.
"You don't have to worry about me"
"I had told you, it doesn't matter where I am!"
"Aren't we still going to school together?"
When she saw me talking so hard, Charlotte trembled. With difficulty, she nodded.
At that moment, the girl with the red bandage on her hand whom I had met in the lobby the day before suddenly appeared. She looked tired and out of breath.
"Charlotte-san, do you know that everyone is looking very hard for you right now ?" she said to Charlotte as she glared at me, her teeth clenched in discomfort.
"Damn commoner..." she muttered to me, hastily pulling Charlotte's hand away.
Other than watching them until they disappeared into the crowd of nobles, I didn't know what to do at that moment.
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"Swordsman, come with us."
Dieter and Lawn were back in a very happy mood. They pulled me into the back row of the hall and 'excitedly' told me about the conversation with the elf girl.
"... and her name is Sylphy, that's all you know," I listened from beginning to end, and the two of them just said that name, "That's also called telling ?"
"It's also because Lawn-kun is so cowardly that he doesn't dare ask her about anything else," Dieter crossed his arms.
"You speak carefully. Who's a coward ?" Lawn tilted his head to look at Dieter.
"You're both cowards," I muttered.
Even though I was a novice at talking to the girl and wasn't sure if I was any better than they were, I secretly admitted that my two friends really were two big idiots.
The nobles who looked very serious were seated in front of us, although there were still a few individuals yawning among them.
The light from the headlights in the hall suddenly gathered towards the stage.
"Shhh, the show looks like it's starting," I motioned for Dieter and Lawn to stop their argument.
From behind the red curtain, the typical students came out one after another, leading among the three of them, the second prince of the Empire, Adonis Auf Barrett, Charlotte going second, and the third being the elf girl Sylphy.
Prince Adonis with short black hair, on his shoulders a large eagle that looks very fierce. He said hello on behalf of the freshmen.
He has a strong appearance. He is tall and has a muscular build.
The red eyes in the white skin made him the centre of attention of the noble ladies sitting under the grandstand.
The boys, on the other hand, focused their attention on Charlotte and Sylphy.
Dieter and Lawn were sitting next to me and when they saw Charlotte they couldn't help but exclaim:
"Charlotte-san is really the number one idol in our hearts. The beauty is like an angel from the holy book of the great Diggory-sama.."
"If the Academy were to hold a beauty contest, I think even President Dorothea-san would be unable to top her"
Hearing Dieter speak, I was also very proud of Charlotte. If she were here, she would probably be very happy too.
At that moment, a fat nobleman sitting in front of us turned his head...
"Ordinary people like you should keep an eye on her while you can, after all, Charlotte-chan will be my wife in the future !"
His subsequent laughter disgusted me, but he wasn't the only nobleman to think so.
As I looked around, the other students were putting their hands on the bodies of the two girls, and some of them were also saying that they would make the girl Sylphy their 'slave'.
I don't understand what the word 'slave' means. But since then it has come up more and more.
They were in my ears, which made me so uncomfortable... Then my wandering gaze stopped as I touched that student.
Purple hair and an unruly way of speaking.
Some of the cards contained a picture, perhaps of girls with animal ears, because he was holding necklaces.
"That bragging student is Douglas Syl Ivor?" Lawn asked me and Dieter.
"Exactly him..."
He now looked like a greedy slave trader with eyes hungry for prey.
"That elf's body looks great!"
The nobles, with the same perverted thoughts, stirred up after hearing him speak. They turned the area around him into a real evaluation session. They bickered, the climax of which was when they began to drag their clan's status into it.
"Shut up!"
"You must have heard about Count Ivor?" Douglas spoke loudly.
As soon as they heard the name of Ivor mentioned, all the nobles began to keep their mouths shut.
"That elf , she will be part of my 'toy' collection."
Dieter looked at me and gritted his teeth.
"He really is a bastard! Who does he think he is to price someone else?"
I shook my head at Dieter, who was extremely angry.
"Calm down, Dieter. You're talking too loud."
I looked at the nobles who had turned in front of me, trying to adjust my posture.
"You're not the only one who gets angry with he, but don't draw too much attention!"
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