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Harem Ruler
Chapter 5: Harem Plan Preparations

Chapter 5: Harem Plan Preparations

With my plan to enter the school finally complete, it was time to move on to the next phase of my plan. That being the harem itself. Though I didn’t expect it to happen immediately. So for the time being, I needed to simply blend in.

Thus, I made my way towards the opening ceremony. But then, I spotted something not too far off.

What I saw was a young boy who looked to be around fifteen to sixteen with orange hair that almost fell over his eyes being sniffed over by a girl with long dark purple hair. Unlike many of the people around me, I already knew exactly who those two were.

“So you’ve already begun to gain attention, huh Riko Toyazoto?”

Riko Toyazoto. The MC of this story. In short, my main enemy in this battle of harem building. Like any MC with no personality, he’s not exactly sharp and tends to miss any hints given by the girls around him.

He also gets treated poorly thanks to his lower social standing compared to the rest of the people at the school and Naturally, none of the main heroines think of him that way and treat him pretty much like any other student.

As for the girl sniffing him over, I instantly knew who that was. Her long dark purple hair, her violet purple eyes, her strangely-shaped horns and wings, and not to mention her fairly nice bust. That girl was Xara Femashito.

Xara is a succubus who learned to hold in her lust for human juices thanks to a method known as smelling people's auras. Which gave succubi the same satisfaction as getting down and dirty but without the drawbacks.

It was a rather weird substitute, but considering the writers probably just wanted to include a succubus among the heroines, this was more than likely the best explanation they could come up with to keep the game from becoming an eroge.

But moving past that, according to the game's story, Xara accidentally ran into Riko and got a whiff of his aura. It was so sweet, that she ended up growing attached to him almost immediately. She’s also known as the easiest heroine to win over in the game despite almost all the other girls falling for the MC by the time you have to pick a single heroine's route.

Not only was she claimed to be the easiest, but apparently Xara was such a simple character that the studio had planned to drop a special fan disc that expanded on her story that was left out during the main game.

For a quick explanation, a fan disc is kinda like a mini-sequel that continues the story of the main game that was less like a second game and more like a continuation. Kinda like DLC.

Since the fan disc hadn’t come out yet when I was summoned here, I never got to check it out. Because of that, I’ll probably have my work cut out for me in trying to win this girl over. Especially since she falls for the MC faster then any other heroines.

Rolling my eyes at the two, my attention was brought to a nearby group of girls.

One girl imparticular stood out from the rest thanks to her orange and black striped hair, grey eyes, and fuzzy tail and ears. This girl was a demi-human named Kimichi Romaiyozu.

Out of all the other heroines, she probably has the most basic backstory.

After the near extinction of her kind, also known as the tiger demi-humans, she set out to show her worth in the world so people would stop looking at tiger demi-humans as monsters and more as helpful parts of the community who deserve to thrive as much as anyone else.

Meeting the MC when he’s checking out the different clubs, she finds him to be quite the interesting individual and in order to see what he can do, she had him compete against her in a game of soccer, and that proved the MC was actually rather athletic.

After that, she’d ask him to join the soccer club which he’d decline and that sets up her involvement in the story as she slowly falls for him over time while also trying to convince him to join.

Of course, there’s also the story if you follow her route where you learn she overworks herself and also has to deal with a rather…creepy individual. But considering how far off and deep that story thread is, it’d probably be best to save her for later.

One other person caught my eye who appeared to be directing everyone towards the school’s gymnasium where the opening ceremony would be held.

One of the most distinguishable features of this girl was her pointy ears that were poking out of her hair. Add that on to her long crimson-colored hair, green eyes, and lack of bust and you have the heroine Talia Yergonu.

Talia is a half elf known for her hatred of men which was all too clear as she glared at several of the boys who looked at her funny. She also had a short temper and could be quite rude when she wanted to be.

The most prominent part of her personality, as I mentioned, is her hatred of men. I won’t go into details, but put simply, the men in her life weren’t exactly the brightest and tended to make rash decisions for their own benefit.

I think there was more to it as well, but I couldn’t remember so we’ll just leave that be for now.

Returning to how her story went, despite this hatred for men, she still aims to make the school a safe place for both girls and boys even though she was only a first year.

Annoyingly enough, the only reason she really speaks to the MC is his rather feminine face which normally is covered up by his hair. Thanks to these features, she grows closer to him through several generic boy and girl events she normally never go to experience.

It might make most people's hearts melt, but all it did was annoy the hell out of me. In the end, the whole story was based on appearances. Had the developers just said she felt oddly safe around him then I would’ve bought it a bit better. Him conveniently having feminine features Tailia could handle was one of the few problems I had playing this game.

As you might expect, because Tailia is able to do boy and girl things with the MC, she eventually falls for him like all the others and is added to the roster of choosable heroines. Meaning that winning her over with a face like mine which isn’t feminine at all would be a much more challenging task.

But moving past that, I slipped into the gymnasium with the other students and sat down in one of the seats.

Oddly enough, I felt a ton of stares on me. But when I looked around, no one seemed to be looking in my direction. Weird.

Several kids chatted amongst themselves while they waited for orientation to start, so I decided to try that myself.

Turning to the kid next to me, I tried beginning a conversation with them.

“Hey there. Nice to meet ya.”

I tried starting it casually, however, the person next I spoke to just glared at me before turning away. What was that about?

Deciding that they were just rude I turned to the person on my other side.

“Hello th-”

That person did something similar as they turned their head away and seemed to pretend I wasn’t there. What’s the deal with these guys?

Not sure how to handle this, I ended up just slumping down into my seat as the feeling of someone glaring at me grew stronger and stronger. Making me feel rather uncomfortable.

Trying my best to them, I looked around the room in an attempt to find one of the other heroines but failed to locate the one I was looking for.

More than likely she was running late. It was in her character after all.

Just then, the sound of a microphone, or rather, a voice-amplifying spell, echoed throughout the room.

“Hello, new students. Welcome to the High School of Magic and Swordsmanship. As student council president, I wish you all a happy stay.”

Without saying a word, I looked up at the one who just declared themselves the student council president.

Standing there was a girl with long white hair, light blue eyes, and a vacant stare that gazed across the room. This girl was one I considered the biggest bore to win over. Her name was Haiko Ariyama.

Well, I say she was a bore, but it’s not actually that bad when you choose her route as a heroine.

According to her story, Haiko was experimented on ever since she was a kid due to her unnatural amount of magical ability compared to everyone else in her family. Those many experiences left her to act almost robotic-like which caused me to refer to her as more a humanoid robot rather than a normal human.

Once she falls for the MC, however, the thing she’d best be labeled as is a kuudere.

She’s constantly trying to poke around the MC’s business and always wants to be around him and help with his problems.

Like Xara, she apparently had some bonus content as well, but her’s was still in development with no release date in sight.

As for her story, it was actually quite heartbreaking. The story was about how after she finally opened up to the MC, her family decided they’d finally get involved with her life again after abandoning her and wanted to patch things up. Sadly, all they did was make things worse and things didn’t change for the better until the MC stepped in. A story that wasn’t bad, but dragged on for so long that I got bored pretty quickly.

Deciding to stop thinking about it for now, I listened in on Haiko’s speech all the way till the end until she dismissed everyone and we were guided towards a set of boards that would tell us which classes we’d each be going to for the remainder of the school year.

Quickly scanning the boards I finally spotted my name among all the others and my eyes went wide in surprise.

“No way. This is way too convenient.”

Looking over the boards a second time, it seemed I wasn’t imagining it.

“Yes!”

Pumping my fist into the air, I let out a shout of excitement. After I did that, however, I found several people staring at me with mixed expressions on their faces.

Embarrassed, I left the boards behind and began making my way to class. I never thought I could possibly get this lucky. Why do I say that? Well, allow me to explain.

You see, while the game does feature multiple heroines, only one of them is in the same class as you. Because of this, she’s the only heroine who I could easily interact with on a daily basis. However, the MC barely made into the class and only slipped in there thanks to one of the other students leaving the school due to cold feet. That is to say, it was Class 1-S. A place said to have a consistent amount of high-grade students.

However, it seems things have already changed quite a bit as I thought back to what the board said.

“Axel Savoncho - Class 1-S”

It seems by some stroke of luck, I managed to take the MC’s spot in class. What a fantastic twist of fate!

Just to be clear, I don’t plan on taking the spot of the MC or anything like that. If I tried such a thing, I’d just get myself killed.

Instead, I plan to act in the shadows and only interact with the girls whenever the MC isn’t around. Using my skills from dating sims to win their hearts with ease.

And thanks to this little miracle, I not only don’t have to worry about any major interactions with the MC, but I also have a free pass to talk with one of the heroines without the MC interfering.

Walking into the school building, I tried to move as casually through the halls as I could.

But as I did so, I noticed almost all the other students were looking at me with either disgust or aggression. What was up with that? It honestly baffled me.

Is it because I’m a commoner?

That seemed like the most obvious reason. As stupid as that sounds, this was a school that could usually only be afforded by those of high standing or noble birth. So a commoner coming to this school was pretty unheard of. But would that really cause this much hostility?

I wouldn’t entirely know since commoners never appeared in the game. If there had been one, I probably would’ve noticed how poorly they were being treated. But without a frame of reference, I didn’t have anything to go off of.

Letting things slide for now, I walked for about twenty minutes until I found myself standing in front of the door to my classroom.

Taking in a deep breath, I opened the door and stepped inside

Looking around, I saw a few other students were in there talking amongst themselves.

One or two looked my way for a moment before continuing whatever conversation they were having before.

Feeling rather out of place, I let out a sigh and slumped my shoulders.

“Hello there. Are you Axel Savoncho?”

Hearing my name, I turned around to find a girl walking up to me. It was the girl who had missed orientation. Though it wasn’t because she was a misfit or something like that, she just wasn’t required to attend. Thus, she probably headed straight to class.

“Yes. That’s me. What is it?”

“Oh. Nothing. I’ve just been hearing a lot of stuff about how a commoner managed to transfer into this school and wanted to take a look at you myself.”

“I…see.”

Looking at the girl, I immediately recognized her short blonde and sky-blue eyes.

This girl was Dianne Riosha. While this was meant to be a big twist, Dianne is actually the second princess of King Riosha who apparently is supposed to take the throne due to the first princess being banished for undisclosed reasons.

And before you ask, no that’s not relevant to the plot. She just mentions how much she misses her sister. Her main story is basically her quest to remove the standing between royalty and commoners and while I think she achieves that in the end, it was never really clarified.

Actually, now that I think about it, she’d actually be a pretty important person to have in my harem since it’d push the idea that despite being a commoner, I was able to win over a princess's heart. Perhaps making people more accepting of me.

As mentioned before, she was originally supposed to be in the same class as the MC. But thanks to my intervention, the MC is in another class instead which will make it easier for me to interact with Dianne without him butting in.

“Well, I just wanted to inform you that if you ever have any questions about the school or any of our class subject then please come to me.”

“Y-You sure? I don’t think these other guys would be cool with you conversing with a commoner like myself.”

I tried putting on a slightly nervous performance in an attempt to win her sympathy. It appeared to have worked as she gave me a look of concern followed by a glowing smile.

“I don’t mind. You’re more than welcome to impose on me.”

“Er…I see. Thank you.”

Damn. Was she always this cute?

I mean, I knew the art sprites were nice looking, but seeing the real Dianne in front of me, it was on a whole other level.

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Perhaps because she was done talking with me, Dianne made her way to her desk and sat down.

I took a quick glance at her as I made my way to the back of the classroom.

Despite being a princess, her blonde hair was cut short to the point it only fell down to her neck. Her sky-blue eyes sparkled in the sunlight and her bust wasn’t something to laugh at either.

And before you say anything about me being a perv…actually you’d been entirely correct. I kinda am one and I don’t plan on changing that any time soon.

Sitting down in the far back, I glanced around the room while trying to hold back a grin.

It was finally about to begin. By the time my life at this school came to an end, I’d have a harem of girls at my beck and call. That thought alone was enough to make me giggle with glee.

Soon enough, the rest of the students began to arrive and the seats filled up at a rapid pace. At least for the most part. The seats around me, however…haaah. They were all completely empty.

I never knew just how much being treated like this could hurt. I’ve seen this kinda stuff happen all the time in manga, but who would’ve guessed how awkward it really was when people acted like you were filth below their feet?

But leaving that be for now, once everyone had been seated, a man who looked to be in his sixties to seventies walked into the room and bowed to everyone before speaking.

“Greetings students. My name is Trevor Sebutan and I’ll be your teacher for the remainder of this school year. If you are able, please be patient with me.”

What was with such formal talk? Did all royals talk as stilted as he did?

Considering the only person I’d spoken to since arriving was Dianne, I didn’t really know.

“Now before we begin, I’d like to make something clear.”

As he said that, the old man pointed at me.

“I’m sure you’re all aware, but for the first time since this academy’s founding, we have our first-ever student from the common folk. As strange as that sounds, I can confirm he is permitted to be here due to his exploits and shouldn’t be treated any better or worse than the other students here. If any of you have any objections, please take them up with the school.”

Just as the old man finished saying that, one of the students raised their hands.

“Yes?”

“If I may, what kind of exploits has this commoner completed to earn a place amongst us?”

I could see the spite in the students' eyes as they looked at me. With how much hate they seemed to be throwing at me, I almost wanted to stick it to them and show everyone just how strong this commoner was. But not wanting to ruin my plans, I stayed quiet and tried to act like I didn’t want to punch that dude in the face.

“A fair question. Fortunately, I have a list here that I received from the school.”

The old man pulled out a piece of paper and began reading it aloud. All it really did was recap the events leading up to my admission. So to cut it short, I apparently found one of the rare floating islands that were almost lost to the ages after their sudden disappearance when magic was discovered and I even managed to take full ownership of it. With that feat in and of itself, I was more than welcome into the school. The guy who asked backed down after hearing that but still glared at me clearly quite pissed seeing me in the same classroom as him. Geez dude. Just take a chill pill already.

“With that settled, are there any other questions?”

A few more students raised their hands. However, most of them were just to complain about how I got in just for accomplishing what was supposedly impossible.

Honestly, it was just kind of a pain. And I had to do everything in my power to avoid shouting out right then and there.

Dianne gave me a few glances of concern, but I forced on a smile to make it look like I was okay. Once she saw that, she’d let out a sigh of relief and give me a smile back that caused my heart to flutter every time.

Honestly, if only I wasn’t trying to be a goody two shoes to win over these girls. I’d have probably snapped already. But whatever. If holding in my true feelings meant I’d get the harem of my dreams, I’d hold it all in as long as necessary.

The class eventually settled down and we began our lesson.

Thankfully it wasn’t too hard to grasp. Basically, it was just a lesson of how magic originated and how the headmaster founded the school, and how far he pushed society thanks to his discovery of magic.

It was actually kinda interesting.

I wouldn’t say I didn’t already know about all this since it was covered while I was playing the game, but there was still something fascinating about how magic in this world was created.

Once the bell finally rang, I chucked the bag I’d gotten for school over my shoulder and began leaving the classroom for the break period.

This probably doesn’t need mentioning, but the way this school works is through a multi-break system.

Basically, you have first period which teaches you things like magic and wizarding stuff which is followed by a thirty-minute break period to go do whatever you want. You can study, hang out with friends, even go grab a snack from the cafeteria. Anything you wanna accomplish within the break time is entirely up to you.

That of course is followed by second period which focuses more on your intellectual side. Stuff like math and English. Another break occurs after that before going into the third and final period of the day which involves physical education. Thankfully the three subjects are all split up and switched around for each class so it’s quite rare that classes end up learning together. I say rarely since there are times in the game when classes would be flipped around and you get to meet up with another class.

Normally the break period would give the MC a chance to interact with the girls in the game and get to know them better. But considering how early we are in the story, the only one he’ll be able to meet at this point is Xara. Although he’ll probably be meeting Kimichi later today when he decides to check out some of the clubs and happens to wander into the soccer club during practice. As odd as it sounds that a medieval-like world has soccer, I guess that’s just how crazy games like this can be sometimes.

But anyway. Since I don’t have the role of the MC, I figured it’d be best to just wander around during break time. As much as I wanted to put my harem plan into action, I knew it’d take time for me to meet with the other heroines besides Dianne.

Actually, I considered asking her to hang out today so I could get started. However, with all the glares I kept getting, I think I was right not to talk with her yet.

Thus, as of now, I found myself lying down on the school roof while looking up at the sky.

“Man. Talk about a whole lot of nothing,” I mumbled aloud at the cloudless mass of blue above me.

“I know right? Just a bunch of nothing.”

“Yeah…hm?”

I suddenly realized a voice came from beside me and I turned to find a girl lying there. She had blonde hair tied into a ponytail, green eyes, and a decently sized bust.

“Sooo…who’re you?” I asked.

The girl beside me grinned and sat up.

“Greetings! The name’s Lily Acantha! You’re the interesting commoner everyone's talking about right?”

I sat up and looked her in the eyes.

“Yeah. I guess I am.”

“Hmm…”

The girl looked me up and down before giving a little chuckle. For some reason, that caused a shiver to shoot down my spine.

“Er…Why’d you need to know?”

“Hm? No reason. Just thought I’d get a look at you.”

“Uhh…Okay?”

Something felt very off about this girl. I couldn’t put what it was but…something just felt really off.

“Well anyways! Now that we know each other's names, how would you like to be my friend?”

“Your…friend?”

“Yeah. Since this is my first year here, I don’t really know anybody. And since you’re probably better at interacting with people more than royalty do, I figured we could become friends.”

Not exactly a bad argument, but not a very good one either. I still had some hesitations about this girl, but if she really wanted to offer her friendship I saw no reason to refuse.

“Sure. I don’t mind being friends.”

“Really!? Thank you so much!”

The girl seemed incredibly hyper as she jumped up and down in excitement. Seeing that couldn’t help but make me smile.

We ended up chatting for a little while longer before waving goodbye for the break and agreed to hang out again at our next one.

Getting back in class, I tried listening to the lesson only to find myself nearly falling asleep.

While the lesson from this morning was actually pretty interesting, now we were going over magical formulas that were basically the same as learning math. So I found myself quickly starting to get bored.

Thankfully, class soon came to an end and I began making my way to the spot me and Lily agreed to me up at. And before you ask, no. I don’t have any plans of adding Lily to the harem… probably.

I didn’t wanna think too deeply about it since not only was she nice to me, but she also took the time to listen and treat me like a person.

Before I knew it, that feeling of unease went away and once we met up, me and Lily talked about random topics while eating some food we both bought from the cafeteria.

Honestly, it was one of the most fun conversations I had in almost six years.

As the bell for the second break rang, I got up and waved Lily goodbye before returning to class once more.

With third period starting, the class ended up going out to one of the two tracks the school had set up and trained our bodies by doing some laps.

Since it was the first day, the school uniforms for physical activities hadn’t been delivered yet so we ended up running in our school uniforms.

I was used to it since I’d gone through several hot situations wearing way more than this, but the rest of the class didn’t appear to be doing so great.

I spotted Dianne falling a bit behind and slowed down to move next to her.

“You good?”

All I did was ask her a casual question but was met by several angry glares. Would you all stop that already? It’s really getting on my nerves.

Dianne nodded in response.

“I’m fine. I just need to try my best to push forward.”

“If you say so.”

With that said, I began moving ahead again as the rest of the class stayed a bit farther behind me.

Despite being ahead, I could still feel the glares piercing my back.

“Could you stop already? I’m not trying to win over your damn princess…yet,” I muttered while using wind magic to make running easier as well as give myself a nice breeze.

In the end, I finished the laps faster than anyone else and had twenty minutes to spare so I decided I’d spend it relaxing in some shade under a nearby tree.

Having to move their attention away from me to focus on running, the glares stopped and I felt like I could finally relax for a bit.

Before long, the class period came to an end and it was time to make our way towards our new dorms. Yes, the school has dorms.

Since I was apparently recommended by someone of high authority, I actually got a pretty sweet pad. It wasn’t anything overly fancy…okay that's a lie. It was a little too fancy for my liking. It came with its own hot tub, a nice view, as well as multiple bathrooms and a bed large enough to fit around three to four people.

The floor was covered in a nice soft red carpet and the walls were coated in beautiful gold paint.

Honestly, it was way more than I could ever hope for. Now I just had to remember not to get used to it. Especially since this place was only mine for the next three years.

As a quick explanation, the school runs for a total a three years. Each year you get a new teacher and your classes grow more difficult. A new variety of lessons gets added each year as well. It was designed to always keep you on your toes. Of course, since this game was a visual novel and could only go on for so long, everything takes place in the first year.

But now that I'm here, I guess that I meant I’d finally get to experience this three-year course firsthand.

But moving past that, I figured it was time for me to get some dinner. Sadly, you couldn’t do stuff like order food to your dorm. Instead, you had to go down to either the cafeteria and buy it there or go into the town below the school and purchase it from one of the restaurants or food vendors.

While the prices in the town below weren’t especially expensive, I wasn’t in the mood to spend much money. Thus, I ended up just going to the cafeteria and getting something there for a much cheaper price.

As much money as I made from finding my island, I wouldn’t last a month if I just went around and carelessly wasted it all.

It was sad and it made me wish I could just make the money myself since there wasn’t a legal system to stop that in this world. But much to my disappointment, I lacked such a spell.

Well anyway, once I finished purchasing my dinner, I made my way back to my dorm room. Excited to enjoy my meal.

“This is unacceptable!”

Hearing someone shout ahead of me, I looked in the direction of the voice to find a boy from my class standing there glaring at what I assumed was dorm manager who donned a butler uniform.

“My apologies sir. There just aren’t any VIP rooms left.”

“Don’t give me that crap! I was informed by my father I’d have the highest quality room you could offer! I don’t want slop like the room you’ve given me! I’d be ashamed to be seen living in such horrendously cheap living quarters!”

“I’m truly sorry sir! There’s just nothing we can do about it!”

“Well, you better figure out how to do something! I can’t possibly live in a garbage heap like this!”

The boy appeared to be angry about his room. Did they give him a trashed room or something like that?

Walking past them, I saw the guy's door was open and I took a peak inside.

“Wah-!”

I couldn’t help but gawk in surprise. This guy’s room…looked the exact same as mine. Clean as can be and way bigger than what a singular person needed. There was literally no difference between his and mine. Was this guy crazy or something!? Did he really want something fancier!?

Not sure what to say, I shook my head and dipped back into my own room.

Were royals really spoiled to the point a place as nice as this wasn’t enough?

Sitting down in one of the two comfy chairs my room had to offer, I put the food down on a coffee table in front of me and slowly ate my dinner.

Come to think of it, how did this world have coffee tables but not coffee?

Probably since tables have existed since long ago they more than likely invented this under a different name so it’d be best not to think about it.

Deciding that’d made the most sense, I continued to mindlessly munch through my meal before stretching my arms and putting the plate I’d been given on a dish rack which I’d hand off to some dorm employee once it was filled up. Of course, I made sure to wash them before putting them on the rack. After that, I laid down in bed and found I was immediately bored.

Not wanting to just lie around until I fell asleep, I walked over to a bookshelf that came with the room and picked out one of the books, and began flipping through it.

Surprisingly enough, it was actually a pretty good story. I ended up reading it for almost three hours and probably would’ve kept going had I not felt tired.

Apparently, a dorm employee would come wake me up in the morning so I wasn’t concerned about sleeping in. However, I figured it’d probably be best to go to sleep now so I could get up when I needed to.

Lying down in bed, I pulled the giant blanket over myself as a cozy warmth covered my body.

I felt my eyes beginning to slip and about ten minutes later I was out like a light.

Around two in the morning, a boy stood on the roof of the school and looked out at the expanding sky.

“Heya Riko. How’re you doing?”

Hearing a voice call out to him, the boy named Riko turned his head to find a girl with long purple hair, a set of small horns, and a pair of wings approaching him from above.

“Fine. What’re you doing up at this hour Miss Xara?”

The girl named Xara grinned as she landed next to him.

“I was out grabbing a snack.”

“This early?”

“Yeah. But then I smelled your aura and thought I’d come see you.”

Riko couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Thanks, Miss Xara. I appreciate it.”

Xara’s smile turned to a frown.

“I’ve already mentioned this, but you really don’t need to keep putting the Miss in front of my name. Just call me Xara.”

“Er…Right. Sorry.”

Riko went back to looking back at the dark sky.

“Hm? Is something bothering you?”

Xara seemed to sense something was wrong.

“It’s nothing big. It’s just…something feels a bit off. I just can’t put my finger on it.”

Xara gave him a look of confusion.

“You think so?”

“Well yeah. It’s just that since I’m a lower-ranked noble who doesn’t have any achievements to his name. I was sure people would treat me like garbage just for showing my face at school. But that didn’t end up happening.”

Xara thought to herself for a moment.

“Hmm…Maybe it’s because all the attention is on that commoner student.”

“Commoner student?”

“Yeah. Apparently, because some adventurer found a lost floating island he was submitted into the school. He’s all everyone is talking about since there hasn’t been a commoner at this school at all before now.”

“Really? I guess that’d explain it.”

“Hm? Are you upset the attention isn’t on you?”

“It’s not that. I just didn’t think someone would have it worse than me at this school.”

Riko stared out at the stars.

Xara looked at him for a moment before smiling and turning her head to the stars as well.

“Personally, I’m rather curious about him. He doesn’t seem like someone with a good aura, but even so, I’d like to meet the guy and see just what everyone hates about him.”

Riko didn’t respond. Instead, he continued looking out at the sky seemingly lost in thought.

Staring at Riko’s face, Xara let out a small chuckle.

She couldn’t explain it, but for some reason, she felt quite an attraction to Riko. Whether it was the smell of his aura or something else, she just didn’t want to let him go.

About to say something else, Xara opened her mouth before her attention was drawn to something below.

There appeared to be two people talking to one another. She couldn’t make out who they were or what they were saying, but they spoke almost in whispers which meant they’d probably been talking in secret about something.

She watched them for a few more minutes before they left her field of vision.

“What’re those guys up to?” she found herself pondering.

Just then, Riko seemed to have finished thinking and turned to her.

“I’m feeling tired so I’m going back to my dorm. See ya later Mi…I mean Xara.”

Xara smiled with glee as he said her name.

“Yeah! Bye, Riko!”

With that, Riko began making his way back to his room and Xara decided she’d best make her way back as well.

All the while, plans were being formed from behind the scenes. That no one could’ve ever expected.