"What a pain," I mumbled as I arrived at the central building of the academy, moving through the corridor towards a specific part of the building.
True to her words, Sophia made sure that I would go towards the managent committee as soon as lunch arrived, and here I am.
"There will be quite a few heroines," I mumbled as I crossed another section.
In the ga, the managent committee was the place where Aron would join as a mber after the mid-term exam.
Given that the hero would be there, it was bound to have heroines as well, and that’s what’s true, as most of the sub-heroines from the second year were present there as well as so from the first year.
As I arrived at the entrance of the managent committee room, I straightened up my blazer, tucked in my shirt, and opened the door.
*Click*
With a soft click sound, the door opened, and my gaze soon landed on the round table and three second-year female students sitting around it.
What stood out in the scene was that they all had their legs casually placed on the table, crossing one leg over the other, displaying a fine part of their beautiful legs.
They leaned back on their chairs, and there were so tea, cakes, and pudding placed around them.
Their laughter stopped abruptly as they looked at awkwardly.
"I will be back later," I said as I started to close the door.
"Wait, wait, wait!"
The one sitting at the head of the round table exclaid as she placed her legs down, and the others followed suit, albeit flushed with embarrassnt.
"Knock before you enter, Eden!" she exclaid as soon as she recognized .
"It’s not your room, Evelyn. Why should I knock, then?" I rebuked, entering the room.
"Still, you could have knocked," she replied as she ca closer to , her hands placed on either side of her waist.
Evelyn, the daughter of Duke Nightshade ,a sub-heroine of the first ga and the president of managent committee, is like a positivity-oozing machine.
She wasn’t as pretty as the won whom I know, but she was beautiful in her own way.
She had scarlet-red hair that touched her waist and a cute face that would make any man want to protect her.
And like every other child of the Dukes, she is also one of my childhood friends, with whom I spent my ti in my early days.
"Yeah, sorry, I should have knocked," I replied as I raised my hand in defeat.
"Good, better do that next ti," she replied, smiling as she moved back towards her chair.
"Please sit down, Eden," she said as soon as she sat down. "Madam Sophia has already inford about your volunteering—"
"Punishnt," I interrupted her as I sat down. "I got punished to be here."
"Why?" The lady on the left side of Evelyn asked curiously, coming out of her embarrassnt.
"I disfigured soone’s face," I replied with a smile, which imdiately left her in a daze.
"You ok?" I asked, tilting my head.
"Y-yes, I-i a-am," she replied, stamring as she averted my gaze.
’Sotis I forget that I have reached the mortal limit of charm.’
As most of the girls or won I t have known since I was a kid, they in a sense have certain immunity towards .
Because of this, I tend to ignore the fact that the majority of the girls would imdiately have a crush on just because of my handso face.
"You got a really light punishnt for that, didn’t you, Eden? The last ti I rembered, the punishnt for attacking a fellow classmate was suspension from the academy."
At Evelyn’s comnt, I just shrugged my shoulders, not replying to her.
I know Sophia has been very light about giving punishnt, like the very first day I broke soone’s wrist. That alone was enough to get suspended for a while.
But she didn’t do that but gave so light punishnt.
"Ahm, aren’t you guys a little casual with him?" The third girl, the one who looked the most timid, said, glancing at . "You do know the rumors surrounding him."
"They are false," Evelyn said almost imdiately, defending . "I’ve known him since he was a toddler, and even if he loses his way a little, he won’t go so low as to do sothing like that."
Like I said, she is a positivity-oozing machine. Even if she is skeptical about those rumors, she wouldn’t let that stop her from being her usual self in front of .
And I don’t know how I should react to her way of handling things; her behavior is the reason that got her killed in the ga; she placed her trust in soone she shouldn’t have.
She placed her trust in .
I shook my head, scraping away those useless thoughts.
Even though I have a strong dislike for people like her, I can’t deny that she is a good girl.
"Anyway, what do I have to do?" I asked, getting to the point.
"For now, wait for a while and have so pudding," she replied as she passed a plate towards .
"Why?" I asked, taking the pudding.
"There is one more first-year student coming to join us," she replied as she resud drinking her tea.
"Who?" I asked.
"You will know in a while."
"Anyway, are you always this free?" I asked, looking at them. All three of them were stuffing their mouths with food and tea.
"It’s lunchti, Eden, and we have to maintain activity clubs after this, so we have to fill ourselves," Evelyn replied as she elegantly ate her pudding with so tea.
"Where are the rest of the mbers?"
"Most of them are in class, while so of them are roaming around," she replied.
"The crown prince is coming back, Eden." Out of nowhere, Evelyn gave this information.
"That bastard?" I replied, frowning.
"Shhhh... don’t call him that; what if soone heard it?" she said, panicking and placing her fingers on her lips.
"That doesn’t change the fact that he is," I replied as I continued to eat. "When is he coming back?"
"Maybe after the first-year students’ trip around the king’s monuntal," she replied thoughtfully.
"Yeah, the brainwashing event," I muttered as I rembered the next event.
"Shhh... Idiot, don’t say those things," she replied again, panicking.
"Isn’t that what that is?" I replied as I looked at her panicked-filled eyes.
"They take the first-year students towards the previous king’s monunts, make sure they know all the deeds the previous king has done for them, forcing them into an overwhelming sense of closeness towards the kingdom, and boom! no more revolt, plus free and loyal pawns."
"Co on, Eden, enough," she said, sighing tiredly.
"You shouldn’t say sothing like that towards the kingdom you live in," the timid girl rebuked as she looked at .
"See, it’s working perfectly fine," I replied, smiling and pointing at the girl.
*Knock*
With a slight knock on the door, it swung open, and I looked back at the door.
The first thing that was revealed was her beautiful face with her blonde hair tied in a high ponytail; her srizing red eyes looked at in surprise.
"Eden?" Grace asked as she looked at .
"Hiiii." I waved my hand, looking at her as she frowned, shifting her focus towards Evelyn.
"What’s he doing here?" She asked.
"Madam Sophia asked to take him in," Evelyn replied.
"Throw him out," Grace said, her voice emotionless.
"I can’t do that; it’s the teacher’s order."
"Then I will leave," she replied, closing the door.
"You can’t; you have already taken your leave from the student council and transferred here."
Grace stopped as she thought about her choices, and with a defeated expression, she entered the room, taking a seat as far away from as she could.
"Wasn’t she in the student council?" I asked, looking towards Evelyn.
"She transferred from there."
"You could do that?" I asked in confusion.
"Normally, no, but one seat for the place of assistant was vacant, so she was appointed."
"I sll nepotism here," I replied, looking towards Grace, who averted her face and didn’t even look towards .
’So Sophia helped her to be here.’ I thought, but that made even more confused.
Shouldn’t Sophia have told her that I would also be here?
"Anyway, since it’s the first ti for both of you, I will give you so easy tasks," Evelyn said as she looked at both of us.
"Go and evaluate and observe the selection process of the activity clubs. You don’t have to give a deep analysis; just make an overview and submit it to ."
"And Grace and Eden, form one group and give the report at the end of the day," Evelyn said in an authoritative tone.
"I would like to do that alone."
"Fine by ."
Both Grace and I replied at the sa ti.
"It’s an order, not a request, Grace; no questions asked."
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