Katherine L. Mouser, also known as "Righteous Princess" she the daughter of Demeter L. Mouser, a noble that was also a previous royal knight serving the kingdom Erend. Due to his loyalty and devotion to serving the kingdom, he was awarded a aristocratic position that made him into a noble.
Judging from the information written on her, I can see why she is called a "Righteous Princess". Due to his fathers background, she might have been disciplined by her father when she was young.
"You do not have any right to harass someone, release him and apologize, now!"
I could feel that he is shaking due to Katherine's presence, he had no other but to let go of my hair and apologize to me.
"Are you alright?"
Fixing up myself, when I look at her face, she was genuinely worried.
"Yeah, I am fine. He was just pulling my hair, thats all"
After I said I was fine, the expression on her face suddenly became furious, she seemed to be mad at me.
"What was that? You did not even fight him off just a little bit"
"Why would I do that?"
"Its human nature to defend themselves, yet you did not even resist when he was harassing you"
"I know, but there is such thing called "status" just like he mentioned, I am just an F class student, fighting back will just bring trouble to me"
When we were having a conversation, other students were looking at us, especially at Katherine. Since she is one of the schools talent, talking to her might just complicate my time here inside the academy.
"But you could ha-"
"I appreciate your concern, but talking to a F class student like me, will further ruin your reputation, it was nice talking to you, but I have to go to my class right now, goodbye"
She was trying to say something, but I walked away and did not pay any further attention to her.
I was walking down the hallway, looking for the F class classroom. After walking for a few minutes, I finally saw the F class classroom, the door was closed but not locked.
I knocked before opening the door, due to the F class being the lowest class, you could say that the classroom is not well maintained. Since I am the only one here in the classroom, I decided to clean up a bit so that it will be manageable to study inside.
There were a lot of stuff being stored inside the F class classroom, especially broken equipments and papers that the academy does not find useful anymore.
After arranging and organizing a lot of stuff, the rundown classroom looks like a proper classroom now. Then I heard someone cough, I turned around and it was Charles D. Anton.
"It looks like you cleaned up the classroom quite a bit, thats good"
"What are you doing here, sir Charles?"
"I am your advisor starting today"
"Really? I thought that the academy would send someone not a high calibre person to teach the F class"
Wiping off the dust off a chair, he sat and placed both of his legs on the table.
"I volunteered, after all I see potential in you during our fight. Besides teaching annoying spoiled brats at the upper class, is not worth it"
"I thought professors are professional?"
"Oh this? I am just placing both of my legs on the table, even though I am a royal knight and act serious while on duty, acting like that all the time brings only stress"
"Yeah, I get it, but other than that, why did you volunteer to teach the F class?"
Lifting both his legs off the table, he stood up and walked up towards me. Placing his hand in my shoulder.
"Did'nt I say that I saw potential in you? That is all the reason why I volunteered myself to teach the F class"
"In that case, I'll be in your care sir Charles"
"Just call Charles when we are inside the classroom, I do not like honorifics"
"Yes Charles"
"Good"
After exhanging words, he began to teach me about the academy and laid out the rules and regulations of the academy, you could that it was just an orientation on the first day. After a couple of hours of us just talking to each other, he teached me various techniques of using a sword.
Although Alfiva was skilled with her own techniques, it was not practical if used by a normal human. But Charles techniques are effective and requires minimum effort, that explains why even after sparring with multiple students during the evaluation, he was fine and did not looked tired.
When it was afternoon, he dismissed the class and said that he will start the discussion tomorrow. Going to the library, I was reading some novels to pass the time. I saw Hermione walking towards me, holding a book on her hand. She sat next to me and asked.
"What kind of book are you reading?"
"Its just a novel, why?"
"Oh, is that so? I heard that you are the only F class that was assigned this year, is that true?"
"Yeah, why? Did you sat next to me just to make fun of me?"
"No not all, its the opposite, I came here to encourage you"
"Encourage?"
"Yes"
Placing the book on the table that she was holding on her hand.
"You know, I am in D class even after three years of being here in the academy, its really pathetic to think about it"
"Why is that pathetic?"
"You know, one can move up to a upper class if you achieve a certain result. Even after 3 years, I still could not move up to a upper class, its really pathetic"
"Well, if you think about it, yeah its pathetic. But, does that really matter?"
She looked at me, after I asked that to her.
"What do you mean?"
"Is it not impressive enough that you were able to meet the standard of the academy? Some people do not have that opportunity, some would sacrifice their life just to get accepted in one of the prestigious magic academy"
After I told her that, she remained silent and did not utter a single word. Taking a quick glance at her, I noticed that there were tears falling down on her lap. She was crying? Why is she crying? Perhaps I said something offensive?.
"Are you okay?"
She began to sob and wiped the tears that were forming on her eyes, I was not sure on what to do to comfort her, so I just pat her on the head and did not disturbed her. After a while, she stopped crying and apologized that she made such an ugly scene. I told her that it was okay, and I had no problem with it. She then grabbed her book and went back to her room.
I could tell that she was burdened by the expectations of others, and wanted to move up to an upper class. I know the feeling, the same thing also happened to me back when I was still on earth. I hated that feeling, wanting to meet the expectations of other people is just not worth it.
After I was done reading the novel, I placed it back to where I got it from. I did not have anything to do, it was still early in the afternoon and I did not want to spend the rest of the day inside my room.
I decided to take a stroll inside the academy.
Walking around the academy, I noticed that you can join clubs depending on what type of magic you can use. Obviously there are four types of elements, those are fire, water, air and earth. Those elements are also the different categories of magic, you already know what I am trying to say, so I'll leave it to you to fill in the blanks.
I was just checking out the clubs, then suddenly the bully from earlier stood in front of me and was ready to pick on me, this time he has his henchman helping him.
"You were lucky that Katherine appeared, but this time you are not lucky, take him to the place"
"Okay, but lets not go to far or else we will be expelled if he snitch on us"
"Don't worry, a F class like him would be too scared to snitch on us"
After that, they took me into a dark room. There were six of them including Min, I was surrounded and had no room to escape. I was contemplating on whether I beat the sh*t out of them, or just let them have their way.
"Now you have two options, obey us and do anything as we say and we won't hurt you, or disobey us and we will make your life hell, which one will you choose?"
Wow, such threathening words. I read all of their information, and it was really pathetic. All of them are A class student, ganging up on an F class student. I wonder where their dignity is, I did not want to entertain them nor wanted conflict. So I simpy walked out of the place, they did not notice me because the one that they were talking to was simply a clone of mine.
After a few seconds, they would notice by now that I was not there to begin with.
After walking back to my room, I was tired and worn out. Taking a quick nap, to replenish my wasted energy.
After a week inside the academy, I noticed that they stopped pursuing me. I guess that they are smart after all, even if they do not have any dignity. Now it was peaceful and I am able to enjoy my life in peace, without someone disturbing me.
Charles is a skilled individual, no wonder that he was able to become a royal knight. His way of teaching is easy to understand, and also way more efficient than the textbooks. Although I already know both the basics and advanced magic incantation, and know different types of martial arts. It was nice being teached by someone other than Alfiva.
"You are improving incredibly fast, the first time I saw your skills it was a diamond in the rough, but now that diamond had now been polished and shiny, tell me who was your previous mentor?"
"Just someone I know when I was living in the mountains, she did not say her name, but she had pointy ears and white hair, so I am not sur-"
"Pointy ears and white hair? You mean an elf?"
"I am not sure, but that was all that I remember of her"
I saw that Charles was deep into thinking, probably because elves prefers to use magic and bows, not swords, and only high elves have white hair, while the average elf has blonde hair. With that, he might have been shocked that I was trained by a high elf.
"What kind of weapon did she use? Bow? Magic?"
"Three actually, she also used a thin sword like a sabre she was also skilled with using it too"
He was sweating, and I could see the distress showing on his face.
"That one who trained you was an elf, a high elf to be exact, if what you are saying is true, then you are lucky that you are alive encountering her"
"What? What do you mean?"
Wiping off the sweat that were forming on his forehead, he sat and placed his sword on a table.
"Her name is Alf, she is considered to be a dangerous creature that has harmed many humans"
Although that half of what I just said was not true, and coated it with a lie, however there are still truths in what I said. I guess that he is actually talking about Alfiva, I did not know that she did something like that.
"She was part of the hero's party 100 years ago, where they embarked on a journey that decided the fate of the world, after their journey she was the only one who survived, carrying the weapons of her subordinates. She explained that when they killed the demon lord, all of the demon lord's lackeys exploded, dealing massive damage to the party, the trauma she had overwhelmed her and went on a rampage kiling and hurting innocent civilians, she was stopped and exiled from the kingdom, and labled as a dangerous creature"
After all what you do, people will only see the bad part of you.
"Its a real tragedy on what had happened to her, I guess saving the world comes with a price"
"Yeah I agree, then what had happened to her after she was exiled?"
"I am not sure, after that incident, no one had seen her since"
"If that is true, then are you certain that the one that trained me was her?"
He nodded at my question.
"After, only high elves have white hair and she also used the same sword to what you described"
If you connect it piece by piece, then it is natural to assume that it is her.
Anyway, so that is why she lives inside of the forest hundred kilomters away from the nearest civilization, despite having Flin a human girl as her servant. Perhaps I can ask her if what Charles said is true, when I visit her back during summer.