Chapter 18: The Rivalry (Part 1)
The Dorm patron checked Anne’s register docunts while humming. Makes Anne more nervous than she should.
“I must admit it, miss, you got the registered docunt so fast than the others, even from the golden pass recipient.”
“Really? I thought I wasn’t that fast, though.”
“Miss, you got back here in less than three hours. Even the golden pass recipient who forgot to register needs to wait for half a day.” Said the dorm patron while handing Anne her room key. “Your room is on the third floor. That’s the floor for the silver pass recipient, there are five silver pass recipients this ti, so good luck making friends.”
“Thank you... uhm... sir?”
“Jeffry, but call Jeff.”
Anne put her travel bag on her shoulder, while the demon kitten yawned on his basket, “Alright, so, room one on the third floor, thank you Jeff, and nice to et you.”
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“The sa, miss.” Jeff is smiling and begins to sweep the floor in the lobby once again.
She was so happy that Anne even skipped down the stairs. She never minds that her room is on the third floor. Anne likes to take a view from above, having the room on the third floor is already an advantage. When she reached the second floor when her body collided with soone else.
Almost falling from the crash, Anne thankfully grips the wooden railing.
“Oh, for the love of God! Careful!”
Her head looks up and sees a beautiful girl with golden hair and blue eyes staring at Anne with an angry expression. The demon kitten hissing at the girl, Anne needs to calm him down while she checks on herself. She felt a pain coming from her back, possibly from the impact, and her knee got a cut.
“Hey, you, girl! Were you listening to ?”
After taking a deep breath, Anne looks up once again and smiles.
“Yes, I hear you.”
“Good, now do sothing about this!” yelled the girl with her hand pointed at her cufflink that almost bust out from the seams.
“Look, I’m sorry about this. Just give your dress and I will stitch it back for you.”
She can feel her back aching like crazy, she really needs to drink a tonic and put so salves in it. The girl still berated her, even after Anne apologizes to her. Anne takes her travel bag and all of her belongings, when she tried to pass the girl when a hand then hold her arm.
“What’s your na? silver pass girl.”
Anne pulls her arm away from the hold and says it loud and clear to the girl, “River Anne, my na is River Anne. Nice to et you, golden pass girl.” She left the snobbish girl on the stairs and climb to her floor on the third.
The only thing that she wants right now is to check on her injury and take so much-needed rest. When she opened the door to her room, all of her problems earlier dissipated imdiately. The room is comfy, with a canopy single bed, and a desk with a window with a view. The room also has its own bathroom, which is a bonus for her.
“We are going to love here, right... err... kitten?”
Anne looks at her kitten and thinks, this is a good ti to na her kitten. She put the demon kitten on her bed, and arrange all the bottles of dicines on the table. Anne needs it to address her wound first but also trying to look for a good na for her soon to be familiar.
“Hmm... Randolf?” Asked Anne, with a tonic in her hand.
The demon kitten did not even look her way. She takes a sigh and thinks of another na.
“Ifrit? Wow... No!” Anne doesn’t even want to use the na, and then she rembers sothing, an energy drink in her old world, she liked the taste and also the na of the energy drink, enthusiastically, she turn to the kitten and said, “Chikara?”
The demon kitten looks in her way and owing. Anne smiles right away. She holds Chikara in her arms and kisses her soft fur. Afterward, she drink her tonic and took her salve into the bathroom. It is ti to treat her wound carefully.
The night is still young, but all Anne wants right now is to take a rest with the demon kitten beside her. She opens her window a bit, to take the breeze from the outside. She then realizes she can see the palace from here, smiling while looking at the palace, her eyes feeling heavier and heavier. Anne got a good night’s sleep that night.
The next morning, our purple hair girl is having a headache.
“Oh God, is it because of the tonic?” Grunted Anne.
She tried to ease the pain by taking a shower; it helps a bit, but it wasn’t much. Anne decided it must be because she goes to sleep without eating. The dorm has accommodated a free breakfast and lunch. The only thing that she needs to take care of is her dinner and food for her kitten.
After she put on her clothes and descends to the ground floor, she looks at a woman, serving breakfast in the breakfast room, there are four people inside the breakfast room, all of them are nobles, and they look at Anne with a condescending look. She used to it, having graduated with the townie nobles in her school. For her right now, all she wants is a tea to ease her headache and a portion of good food.
“Oh, good morning miss, what a lovely morning, my aren’t you a pretty one with your rare color of hair.”
Again, Anne is already used to soone noticing her irregular color hair.
“Good morning, Missus? Miss?”
“Oh, it is Missus. My husband and I have been running the Icarus dorm for ten years. My na is Delilah, you can call missus Del.”
“Nice to et you. Missus Del, can I have two slices of butter bread and bacon?”
“Of course, miss, coming right up, what’s your na, pretty miss?”
“Anne, my na is Anne.” Said Anne, smiling at Delilah.
“Oh, just as pretty as the owner, so, need anything else?”
Anne looks around the table and shakes her head. “But I have a question. Where can I shop for my groceries and also pet food?”
“We have it near the dorm, but if you want to find anything on your list, you need to take the central carriage and go to B Street. they have the largest marketplace in the capital.”
Said her thanks to Delilah. Anne eats her breakfast and imdiately goes to B street. Just like Delilah said, it is a very huge marketplace, with shops, stalls, and even cafés and restaurant. She is so impressed her headache is mostly gone. After the grocery shopping, Anne needs to find a stall that sells so Catnip flowers, the principal food for every kitten. She presus that the demon kitten, being a hybrid, a catnip flower will do him fine until he grow up.
“Heirim, would you stop talking so much?!”
Anne recognize the voice, it was Henry. She imdiately pokes at the man.
“Henry!” Anne calls his na with a very wide smile.
Henry turns around to see her, the expression on Anne changing drastically. There’s a girl beside Henry, the girl that she t yesterday, the girl that snobbishly asked for her na after clashing with her at the stairs. The golden hair girl with blue eyes, who’s staring at her with stinky eyes.
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