Today is the day for the entrance ceremony.

The entrance ceremony is being held at the auditorium. The freshmen, senior students, audiences and school staffs are separated in rows.

To start the program, the academy headmaster, mistress Lorey, begin to tell the background of Julienne Academy.

The Julienne Academy is an educational institution founded by the legendary hero named Aki. He is the first person to ever come up with the idea of building a place that specializes in educating youth in different fields of study and discipline. In the founding years of Julienne Academy anyone can enroll to the academy as long as they can pass the entrance examination, and free to any fees including lodging and allowance in the condition of maintaining the standard criterion of the scholarship program so commoners and nobles mixed well in the academy. Of course there are still problems but that's okay as long as no one will be disabled or dead. But now, the usual enrollees of the academy are mostly rich and powerful young masters and mistresses due to the low passing rate of commoners. So, for a child to be a student in the Julienne Academy really brought immensed pride and glory in addition of using this chance to widen their social network qnd find a suitable marriage partner. It's reasonable that most enrollees and families will be full of anticipation for this remarkable day.

"In the Julienne Academy, we usually choose the freshmen representative based on who is the first place in the overall rank. But in this year's we got three students who rank first! So we slightly alter the criteria. We choose the student who is fastest in taking the admission test!," The academy faculty really face dilemma in deciding who will be the freshmen representative, as the identities of these three students cannot be underestimated. "For this batch freshmen representative . . . Please step forward, Ashe Steinhart!"

Claps resound throughout the auditorium. Many got intrigued at the identity of the freshmen representative. Just who is this Ashe Steinhart?

Ashe Steinhart. Fifteen years old. He is the son of Supreme Commander Luther Steinhart of the Arcadia Kingdom and sole heir of the Steinhart Dukedom. Ashe Steinhart had been known as the mysterious heir of Steinhart dukedom and he's determination in training and academics. It's just no one knows how he looks like whether he's a pretty boy like his father or a gorilla-like because Ashe Steinhart never attends events as much as possible and according to the witnesses he is wearing a mask to hide the lower part of his face. Thus, Ashe is called the 'Enigmatic Knight' by the ladies because of his mysterious charm.

Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.

The clapping of everyone but no Ashe Steinhart walk up to the stage that cause the uneasiness of the audience and the others.

"Again. I want to call Ashe Steinhart to give the freshmen representative speech," Headmistress Lorey announce once again.

Among the audience is Duke Luther Steinhart, the father of the missing-in-action Ashe, there he is sitting looking pretty calm but His Majesty King Desmond, Her Majesty Queen Audrey and Prime Minister Rolf of Arcadia kingdom could clearly see the panic Luther is feeling deep inside his heart. They just silently laugh at their panicking friend.

Suddenly someone dare to poke the arm of the Supreme Commander, it's no other than his old nanny now the chief maid of Steinhart household, Hilde, 'Where is Ashe?,' he mouthed.

Hilde gave his master an okay sign. "You'll be surprise master."

Queen Sheila could guess the topic of the short conversation of the master and servant near her. She just slightly smiled that cause her husband to feel chills in his spine at the smile of his darling wife.

"Is Ashe Steinhart not present? If not-," the headmistress pause her words.

A young lady with wavy, long black hair and pair of striking blue orbs walked towards the stage full of gallant and elegance. "Headmistress," the young lady gave a polite smile towards the headmistress. She whispered something to Lorey.

Lorey stare at the young lady from head to toe then chuckle. "Go on," she went back to her seat.

The young lady gave a small sigh at the audience below the stage focusing their attention to her every action. "Let me first greet everybody present here a good morning. I am this year's freshmen representative, Ashe Steinhart."

Almost everyone is taken by surprise at the words of this beautiful girl due to the knowledge of everyone that Ashe Steinhart is the only son of Duke Luther Steinhart. It is also not possible that they possessed the same name as Ashe is a uncommon name and Steinhart is an old family.

Seeing the confusion of many, Ashe let out a small sigh again. "To clear everyone's confusion, I am a genuine female and the heiress of Steinhart Dukedom. I did not mean to cause any misunderstanding. So let me sincerely apologize. I am sorry," she bowed politely. She paid no attention to the commotion that ensued and start giving her speech.