Hearing the teacher's voice who was standing in the middle of the stage in that amphitheater, Lothur turned to her with a look of curiosity. "Is there a problem?"
That woman's eyes sharpened as she noticed the positioning of this young newcor. "What is your na? Are you by any chance a new student?"
"Oh? Do I have to introduce myself?" He asked aloud, looking around, surprised at that. 'Well, this is a room full of children. That shouldn't be strange...'
He looked again at that woman dressed in an outfit very similar to those worn by stewardesses in his last world and said. "Well, my na is Lothur Ritter, but you can just call Lothur."
"And yes, I am new here, but don't bother introducing yourselves to . I won't be staying long in this place, so I will hardly rember your nas." He said, looking at where the children in that place were.
"How arrogant!"
"Who is this idiot?"
Murmurs spread through there as the young people began to look strangely at Lothur.
At the sa ti, the teacher stood watching him with her mouth open, enjoying the sight of this new student who was self-sabotaging his social situation.
'How can soone be such an idiot? Does he think he's a genius?' She wondered, startled by his out-of-the-ordinary behavior.
'Young people his age are already at least in Sector-3, but he starts in Sector-1 saying that?'
"Now, dear teacher, may I sit down? Or is there sothing else you want to know? I don't mind personal questions..." He said, standing between the stage and the row of seats, waiting for that woman's answer.
'This boy...' She shook her hands and said. "Call Miss Koch, and yes, you may sit down. But since this is your first day here, try to follow the class with one of your classmates."
Lothur then headed toward the place he wanted to sit before, where there was a small group of beautiful won.
Looking at those won who must have been between 16 and 19, he waved at them, smiling, and sat down next to a redhead, who was just as pretty as Elise.
"Hi, you wouldn't mind if I follow the class with you, right?" He sat down next to her and said this in a quiet tone, looking her in the eye in an eye contact that few would attempt in the first contact.
"I..." She stamred, turning her eyes away from his with embarrassnt. "You can."
"Hmm, by the way, what should I call you?" He smiled at her.
"Elke."
"Elke, call Lothur. I'll probably adapt quickly to this place, but being around soone like you might make want to stay here longer..."
"That..." The woman's face turned red at hearing that, experiencing such an explicit situation like that for the first ti in her life.
She was only 17, the age at which humans in this world beca adults. Because of this, and also due to her beauty, she had never experienced a situation where a man was so direct with her.
She had several suitors, many of them in this class. However, none of them dared to co directly to her, even just to sit next to her.
Consequently, she was surprised to hear Lothur's words as she observed this young man's incomparable countenance.
"Hehe..." Her lips ford a discreet smile, and without realizing it, a graceful laugh reached the ears of those in her surroundings.
After this, Lothur moved a little closer to her and began to look at Elke's books on a stand that existed in front of each seat in such an amphitheater.
As he did so, he leaned sideways while quickly using one of his hands to touch the upper middle of that young woman's back while supporting himself. "Elke, would you mind lending one of those other books?" He used his other hand to point in the direction of an open bag on the floor.
That was the cultivation world, but spatial items were not so common and cheap to the point that even low-level people had independent spaces to carry books.
No, even if so of those students had storage items, such a thing certainly could not store many cubic centiters.
Therefore, they would never carry books in spatial devices, as it would be much more interesting to have dicine and ergency resources in them.
So, everyone in that class had bags or backpacks, like the one at Elke's feet.
"Yes, but wouldn't you rather attend class?" She asked in a low voice, not bothered by Lothur's touch. "It might be more interesting for you to catch up on the weeks of your delay at another ti."
"Is that so?" He smiled, saying softly in Elke's left ear. "Perhaps you would like to follow this class very closely..."
Gulp!
"I..."
"No, that's not why..."
"Oh? Too bad." Lothur removed his hand from her back with the sa expression on his face as before, finally bending down and picking up the book that had the na 'Geopolitics-I' in her bag.
"Don't worry. I'll finish reading it before class is over."
Noticing Lothur's movent, Elke felt strange by the change in his behavior, which had gone from a warm person to a cold one in a matter of seconds.
'Did I do sothing wrong?' She wondered quietly, looking sideways at Lothur's face, curious.
And while Lothur was reading that book, Elke watched him every 2 or 3 minutes, seeing how focused he was, totally ignoring her presence there.
'Why don't you look at ? Are you pretending to concentrate just to tease ?' She began to feel nervous, watching that young man change pages every 30 seconds.
This situation was extraordinary for her. After all, right now, while Lothur was standing next to her, reading that book focused, more than a dozen young n were watching her from afar.
And she obviously knew this since every woman had this divine sense of noticing the eyes watching them.
However, the young man closest to her, who could take the opportunity to talk to her and try to get closer, was ignoring her.
That was incredibly annoying!
She then moved a little closer to him, running one of her hands through her hair to get his attention.
However, Lothur was not doing any of this on purpose. Or rather, he knew how his actions could influence those around him, but his goal there was not to provoke Elke, although that would be good for him.
No, he was just focused on the content of that book while using his speed-reading technique, sothing he had learned in his previous life.
That was the first book about this world Lothur had read, and as he learned so basic information, he could not ignore the feeling of satisfaction that ca with the knowledge he was accumulating.
With that book, he had already discovered that Peters City was actually the largest city of Linn Province, one of the ten regions of Leopoldine.
Leopoldine was a large state ruled by an imperial family of the sa na. That was an ancient power that almost 2,000 years ago had brought the ten then independent regions together into a centralized governnt.
But even if Leopoldine was as large as the Europe of Lothur's previous world, this place had less than 30 million inhabitants and was surrounded by four other empires and a few kingdoms. Each of them with populations as large or even larger than the one of this state.
And precisely because of this, this empire was constantly involved in conflicts with outside powers, trying to regain or take new territories.
Leopoldine did not have a passage to the sea, so from ti to ti, wars took place. After all, having to cross borders could be very costly...
How could overtaxed goods from a state not unlike its neighbors with access to the sea compete in the continental market?
That was a problem!
But Lothur did not delve too deeply into the external affairs of this state. No, there was not much information in that introductory book on the subject. So, he had soon begun to learn more about Linn Province, the learning focus for the young beginners at this academy.
...
Reviews
All reviews (0)