"Alright, let's start the class. Ask if you have any questions," the class instructor said after clearing his throat.
The academy on this continent has a different way of teaching, perhaps because of the influence of magic and martial arts education. After teaching some basic things again, they let the students research and study on their own, and if they have any questions, they bring them up in class.
Both martial arts and magic are things that masters guide you into, but training is up to the individual. Apart from teaching some basic knowledge, they can't teach anything else. They can only guide them while they practice and learn on their own.
Some people might wonder why not just hire a famous teacher and train alone. Of course, that's possible, but are there so many famous teachers in the world? Even if there are, at most, only one or two famous teachers can guide you.
In the academy, not only are there many famous teachers to guide you, but there are also some classmates to verify your martial arts and magic.
While the teacher is guiding one student, they often also give some help to other students. This means that the questions in class benefit the whole class. Not asking questions today doesn't mean the class is meaningless.
Of course, sometimes they would also share their own experiences.
Therefore, as soon as the class advisor said they could ask questions, someone immediately raised their hand to ask.
"I, I..." a student immediately raised their hand to ask a question.
However, the class advisor frowned upon seeing this student and said somewhat reluctantly, "Um, student Yelang, we'll research your question after class. For now, let's listen to others' questions in class."
After several painful lessons, no teacher dared to answer Yelang's questions in class, and since his questions were not helpful to others, they would generally choose to talk slowly after class. Whether they could talk or not was another matter.
"Oh..." Yelang seemed accustomed to this, lowered his hand, and then looked at the thick alchemy book while listening to the classmates' questions and the class advisor's answers.
Soon, a morning passed like this. Except for the mid-morning break, it was mainly focused on asking and answering questions. With the end of the day approaching, it meant that today's theoretical knowledge class was over. After lunch, it would be self-study or practical classes.
That's how the academy is arranged: theory in the morning, and then free activities in the afternoon. Those who like to continue studying theory can do so, and those who prefer to practice can go to combat.
After the class advisor dismissed the class, Yelang immediately left without a word, as if fleeing for his life. He temporarily abandoned the idea of discussing his questions with the class advisor and joined his sister to have lunch in the cafeteria.
Tiger-fleur was not into alchemy at all. When accompanying her master to alchemy class, she would either be sleeping or reading books on martial arts in the library. Regarding this, Yelang had once suggested that Tiger-fleur attend the martial arts academy. The alchemy academy was very safe, and she could take care of herself, so there was no need for Tiger-fleur's company. But Tiger-fleur flatly refused. She had come to accompany him, and if she went to the martial arts academy, her purpose in coming to the academy would be gone. Moreover, even if it had any meaning, she would not leave her master.
As she looked at the huge and magnificent campus cafeteria, Tiger-fleur became alert because this time was the easiest time to be attacked and the only opportunity for someone to approach Thirteenth Young Master.
This was not just her unfounded worry, as it happened every day. Most attacks were thwarted by her and Yelang, but unfortunately, occasionally they would be attacked, but fortunately, these were harmless pranks or humiliation.
To Thirteenth Young Master, such humiliation was negligible, but for Tiger-fleur, it was different. She would go berserk and make those people suffer terribly.
Carefully leading Thirteenth Young Master to the cafeteria, Tiger-fleur found a table and sat down. All the tables in the restaurant were the same, and there were no special tables in the middle. This was a message the school wanted to convey: in this royal academy, everyone had only one identity - that of a student. Despite someone's prestigious status on the continent, all students were treated equally.
Of course, this was probably because the academy didn't want to see conflicts arising from treatment issues.
"Lanyu, I'm hungry. Go get some food." After a while, Thirteenth Young Master started calling.
"Just wait a moment, wait for Miss Blue Rain to come. Why hasn't she come yet? She should've been here by now." Tiger-fleur said, looking puzzled at the door.
Before Blue Rain arrived, she wouldn't go get food because leaving Thirteenth Young Master alone could bring about unforeseen events. She also hesitated to take Thirteenth Young Master to get food as it would involve passing through a large crowd of people. So she waited, assuming Blue Rain would come and provide her with peace of mind. The problem today was that Blue Rain seemed to be delayed for some reason.
After a while, Blue Rain finally arrived with an unpleasant look on her face, clearly having encountered something unpleasant. Not far behind her was a beautiful girl around the same age as Thirteenth Young Master and Blue Rain. In contrast to Blue Rain, the girl was all smiles, as if something had made her happy.
This situation easily led one to speculate as to whether the things they experienced might be connected.
Indeed, Tiger-fleur was sure they were connected. It was none other than her intended fiancée, the seventh princess of the empire. Since the incident at the birthday, they had been at odds, frequently arguing. When one was happy, the other was definitely displeased, and vice versa.
Now, Tiger-fleur understood. They had collided, explaining why Blue Rain was late.
"Don't follow me, don't pester my brother. Brother, don't talk to her, or in the future, I won't acknowledge you." Blue Rain sat down, shouting at the girl behind her, then warning Thirteenth Young Master.
"You don't have to worry about acknowledging him. I'll acknowledge him. Right, Yelang?" The seventh princess sat down and also addressed Yelang.
The atmosphere between the two women was full of tension, and if Thirteenth Young Master said the wrong thing, it could lead to a war, albeit on a small scale. However, Thirteenth Young Master completely ignored the two women and directly said to Tiger-fleur, "Tiger-fleur, go get some food. I'm starving."
"Who agrees with her." The two girls said in unison.
"Oh, let's eat first." Thirteen just nodded and then picked up the food that Huni had brought back and started eating it hungrily.
"Humph..." The two women glanced at each other, then followed suit and began eating as well.
Huni shook her head helplessly, feeling somewhat sighing about how there always seemed to be strange people around her young master. Miss Lanyu already had a strange temper, and now there was another even stranger Seven Princess.
I wonder what this Seven Princess likes about the young master. Although it's not that kind of like, she always enjoys being with her clumsy young master.
"Full. Let's go out and play!" Thirteen patted his stomach, wiped his mouth, and then got up to leave immediately, not waiting for the girls who were still eating slowly, except Huni, of course. Huni just had a large appetite, so the overall speed was a bit slower.
"Young master!" Huni immediately wiped her mouth, got up, and ate about eight-tenths full. Eight-tenths full!? Sure enough, she's from the Tiger clan; this amount is enough for several meals for an average person.
"You little rascal, come back to me, just wait..." Miss Lanyu shouted angrily. She was annoyed by Thirteen leaving without waiting for her.
Although she knew that her brother had always been like this, she was still very annoyed.
But before she finished her sentence, an unexpected event occurred, which brought together two people who should not have had any connection, starting off with a very speechless encounter.
At that time, Thirteen was still holding a bottle of fruit juice in his hand. He liked to drink it like this, it was something he often did in the past, but today, because of this, a very speechless scene occurred.
Someone saw Thirteen "alone", and seeing an opportunity, used a very common prank to attack him, the method being to trip him by sticking out a leg.
Clumsy Thirteen was easily caught off guard, and fell to the ground, making very close contact with the ground, and the fruit juice in his hand spilled out as well.
"Ah..."
"Pain, it hurts so much..."
"Young master!"
"Younger brother!"
"Yelei!"
A melodious exclamation, Thirteen's cries of pain, and Huni and the girls' concerned voices almost simultaneously resounded through the entire restaurant hall.
The later voices were all very normal, but the earlier melodious exclamation seemed to have a bit of a confusing tone, leaving people to wonder who had made it.
It was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in white. She had an exquisite and delicate face, long silver hair, and snow-like fair skin, giving people a feeling of eating ice cream.
The girl stood in front of Thirteen. Her exclamation was not because Thirteen suddenly fell in front of her, but because of the fruit juice on her face and chest, yes, the fruit juice belonged to Thirteen.
The initially snow-like delicate girl now had a little color on her, the color of the fruit juice, which destroyed her overall appearance, and seriously ruined her white dress.
The girl furrowed her brows, showing signs of anger on her face. However, what made her even more infuriated was that, at this moment, a peculiar encounter occurred, causing two people who should not have had any interaction to have a very speechless beginning.
"..." The whole scene went silent.
At this time, the person who tripped Thirteen started to regret. Why did he take advantage of this little fool? He wished he had been the one who tripped, and this thought was probably shared by all the male students in the room.
Oh no, this silly little brother. How could he say whatever came to mind, so bluntly revealing seeing someone's underwear.
At this time, Miss Lanyu retracted the magic she was about to cast. If not for this incident, she believed that the person who tripped Thirteen would have been frozen for a while.
"Hehe, this beautiful lady, I'm sorry. My brother is an idiot, he didn't mean to peek at your underwear, he was tripped by someone." Miss Lanyu was trying to calm the girl down before she got angry, but it seemed that her words also had a big problem. She inadvertently brought up the underwear incident again.
"You don't know how to speak!" The Seven Princess quietly said to Miss Lanyu, then went up to talk to the girl: "Sorry, both of them siblings don't know how to speak. Yelei was tripped by someone to do this, we're really sorry, please don't be mad. Yelei, apologize quickly."
"Oh, sorry." Thirteen was still very honest. Although he was tripped by someone, he felt that spilling juice on someone was also wrong, and at least an apology was needed.
"Just one apology after being tripped, does that erase all the mistakes?" The girl said coldly, indicating that she did not accept the apology.