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I awoke from my dream I was sweating profusely. Standing beside me was a worried looking Tsukiyomi.

"Edge you alright?" I went into a sitting position and slowly stabilize my breathing. After I calmed down a bit I answered Tsukiyomi.

"It"s alright Tsukiyomi... I just had a bad dream... A very bad dream..." Tsukiyomi looked at me with a doubtful gaze.

"If you say so... By the way, the cla.s.s will start in about twenty minutes." After she said that I was fully awakened from my sleep. I changed into my uniform and rushed off. Of course, Tsulkiyomi was right behind me.

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Our first cla.s.s in this school was the battle strategy cla.s.s. The cla.s.sroom was located near our dormitory, which made it quite easy to get to even though we were pretty late. We were able to reach the cla.s.sroom with time to spare.

I was a little tired, because of that dream, on the other hand, Tsukiyomi, as per usual, didn"t even sweat. Once we entered the cla.s.sroom everyone was staring at us. Everyone in the cla.s.sroom was looking at us with fear, admiration, or simply because of Tsukiyomi.

There was even one who looked like she didn"t care at the upper portion of the cla.s.sroom, and it was Evangeline Rogue.

I wasn"t bothered by the attention as I looked for a place to sit. The desks were placed in an escalating fas.h.i.+on. It was like there were stairs inside the cla.s.sroom.

At the end of the stairs was a majestic looking chair and desk, and sitting on it was a cute looking lady. She was not wearing any of the four ranked color uniforms. What she was wearing was a white uniform. She had waist-length silver hair, and the same as Evangeline she had two different colored eyes. The left pupil was blue and the right was green.

She looked very similar to Evangeline but with her round eyes as well as her elegant aura you can differentiate between them. While I was looking at the surroundings, one guy approached me, and as if that was a signal for something the whole cla.s.sroom wasn"t staring anymore. They returned to whatever they were doing before Tsukiyomi and I entered. The guy that approached me had a very cheerful demeanor which reminded me of Gerard. He was a head shorter than me, had messy black hair almost the same style as the Princ.i.p.al, but unlike the Princ.i.p.al, his black eyes were full of motivation. He was wearing a grey uniform. With a huge smile on his face, he spoke to me.

"A large staff at his back, a longsword by his waist, and wearing the black uniform for elites. The one always standing beside him, an incredibly beautiful maiden who wears the same black uniform. Her beauty indescribable and her appet.i.te never-ending. You two must be "the young genius" Edge Regius and "the guardian" Tsukiyomi. It"s great to meet you I"m Len Surian."

He introduced himself.

"How do you know who we are?" I asked him.

"Everyone knows who you two are! You guys are pretty famous. You two are the very first, first years that had been granted black uniforms. Not only that there are a lot of rumors about you two. Especially after you two walking around the school grounds yesterday. I even heard that Tsukiyomi-san here has gotten her own fan club after one day."

At this comment, Tsukiyomi snickered. "Kukuku, that is only natural." She said so with her usual confidence.

"You on the other hand Edge-kun has gained the hatred of most of the male students in the first year." Hearing that I looked at him shocked. "Huh? Why is that? I don"t think I have done anything that would warrant anyone"s hatred."

Len then looked at me dumbfounded. "You seriously don"t know why you are hated?" I shook my head in response.

"I"m not sure if you"re a genius or a knucklehead. Well, I"ll tell you the reason, most of the guys hate you because you live under the same roof as, Evangeline and Louise-san, and you even monopolize Tsukiyomi-san here. You"re always with her and it seems like you two have a pretty good relations.h.i.+p. Are you guys lovers?"

"h,h,h,huh? Me and Tsukiyomi lovers?!" I was about to retort but Tsukiyomi was the first to answer.

"Kukuku, oh? So that"s what we look like? Well, it"s true so who cares." With that one comment, the girls suddenly screamed "Kyaah!" While the guys sent me waves of killing intent.

Len took out a paper and pencil and started nodding his head while writing. "I see so the rumors were true after all."

"No, they"re not! The two of us aren"t like that! We aren"t l.l.l.l.l ov.....lovers! Everything is just a misunderstanding. Tsukiyomi was just teasing." I shouted at everyone, who were all shocked by the news and then started whispering to each other.

"You know Edge-kun, it"s not nice to lie like that." Len patted my shoulder.

"I"m not lying!"

"Well, either way, this is so going into the school newspaper." Len happily spoke, also he used an unfamiliar term.

"School newspaper? What is that?" I asked Len.

"Huh? You don"t know what a newspaper is?"

"No, not really, that"s why I"m asking." Len then looked at Tsukiyomi. "How about you Tsukiyomi-san do you know what a newspaper is?"

"Kukuku, how should I know." Tsukiyomi said so with her usual confidence.

"Oh, right both of you came from a far-off rural village," Len said so in a somewhat disappointed tone. "Well sorry if I don"t know." He then took something from his seat and gave it to us. It was a large paper with many others in it. On the paper was a drawing of Rain lecturing a bunch of students. While on the bottom of the drawing was a sentence written in large letters. RAIN SLYHERT ONCE AGAIN LECTURING DELINQUENTS.

"This is a school newspaper. In it, others write articles about incidents, rumors, and other things regarding the school. It"s a way to pa.s.s information to everyone. Well, these things are only available in the capital right now, but someday I"m sure that the entire continent will have their own form of newspapers." Len showed me an excited expression as he spoke. I see so this is the newspaper.

"How amusing... Len Surian will you be able to write an article about me and my beauty?" Evangeline asked while looking at the newspaper full of curiosity.

"I was hoping too, I was so excited to find out that a lot of interesting freshmen are taking the battle strategy cla.s.s. You two and Evangeline Rogue are part of the interesting freshmen. But the most interesting would be her."

Len looked at the girl who had a similar look to Evangeline. "Who is she?" I couldn"t help but ask.

Len sighed at me before answering. "I knew you wouldn"t know. She is the princess of this country. A true royal she is Serillia Sorente Vicarius de Ashen." "What a very long name." While I was thinking that I remembered what I was about to do. Oh right, might as well ask. "Um, Len where do Tsukiyomi and I sit?"

"Since you guys are black clads you sit below the princess and above Evangeline. You see the reason why the room was made into this ascending order was for everyone to know one"s ranks. Seeing people above you might give you the motivation to aim higher. Well, you two are already in the top the only thing above you are those of royalty. The sitting arrangements are always like that if there is a royal or a high n.o.ble they would take the top sit. If there are none you guys wearing black will take the top."

"I see so it"s like that."

"Yeah, let"s talk again later. The cla.s.s is almost about to start. Oh right, before you sit down you must greet the princess. After she acknowledges you, then and only then can you sit down, don"t forget that?"

After saying so Len went back to his seat and started chatting with the other grey-clad students. I look at Tsukiyomi and whispered. "Tsukiyomi when I greet the princess you must greet her too. You must do so in a respectful tone."

Tsukiyomi looked at me with a little disdain. "Huh? Why must I do that? Why must I act respectfully to a human girl?"

"Please Tsukiyomi! It really will get extremely troublesome if you don"t do so. Oh right if you do this properly, we"ll go around the restaurants and eat again until you"re satisfied."

"Oh bribing me with food... Well fine but this time I would like to eat at even those stalls on the sidewalk." It would seem like my allowance will be gone even before the weekends. Well, it would be even more troublesome if we gain the anger of the princess.

We ascended the stairs to our seats and before we sat, Tsukiyomi and I bowed in front of the princess. The princess nodded her head and with that, she motioned her hands gesturing that we could sit down. So we did, but after we got seated Tsukiyomi whispered her displeasure at me.

"That was the most shameful thing I did bowing to a human! You better treat me with a gorgeous meal later... Oh, that was so irritating, you might as well ma.s.sage my shoulder later... Oh right, call me my lady from now on as well." Tsukiyomi started adding things that weren"t in our agreement. Before I could retort someone entered the room it was an average looking guy with gla.s.ses wearing a white robe. He must be the teacher of this cla.s.s. While I was thinking about what kind of cla.s.s this will be, the teacher gazed upon the cla.s.sroom and then spoke.

"The two black clads at the back form a team and everyone else except the princess will be the other team. Now everyone head out to the training fields, and let"s have a mock battle."