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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: TushChen
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In spring, new students step through the doors of this academy.
The entrance ceremony to welcome them was about to be held in the school’s main auditorium.
The Third Imperial Princess, Yuria Rodmas, once again imprinted in her mind the welcoming speech for the representative of current students written on the document.
Although she was called a genius and didn’t need to check a document she had seen once today was uncharacteristically nerve-wracking, causing her to reread it without realizing it.
Yuria approached the mirror from the luxurious chair in the student council room.
There stood a beautiful girl whose ample bosom and slender waist couldn’t be hidden even by Ellentia Academy’s white uniform.
Her long golden hair, neatly arranged with dignity, fell below her round shoulders.
Inside her long, elegant eyelashes that seemed to hold sunlight were cold blue eyes.
On Yuria’s skin, as white as her eyes, her protruding cherry-colored lips turned up slightly as if displeased with her appearance.
Everything that made up her seemed to have changed.
“I’ve changed too much.”
Yuria murmured, lightly grasping the blue sapphire necklace hanging around her neck out of habit.
Especially her eyes, which looked as cold as merciless ice.
What would that child think of me now?
Knock knock.
At that moment, Yuria lifted her head at the sound of knocking on the door.
“Come in.”
At Yuria’s cold words, a boy entered.
“Madam President. Everything is ready. Everyone is waiting.”
A boy with grayish hair and eyes slanted long to the side spoke to Yuria.
It was Caiden Adan, who had become Yuria’s assistant last year.
As the second son of the Adan duchy, he had a good background.
He handled work neatly, except for his somewhat rough personality.
Yuria had kept him in her student council because she liked that about him.
“What’s wrong with waiting a little? Are you saying it’s difficult to wait for me?”
Yuria asked sharply, as if bored.
“…No. If you’re not ready yet, I’ll go tell them to wait a bit longer.”
Caiden looked like he wanted to say something more but eventually closed his mouth.
Yuria let out a deep sigh.
He should just say what he wants to say.
The biggest flaw Yuria saw in Caiden wasn’t his rough nature or tendency to look down on others but this very point.
The fact that he wouldn’t speak his mind to her directly.
‘He wouldn’t have been like this.’
Looking at him, Yuria naturally recalled that boy from her childhood.
That winter.
The feeling of the boy’s lips gently kissing her hand, which still hadn’t lost its baby fat.
‘Don’t think about such past things.’
Yuria covered the back of her hand, which was starting to feel ticklish, with her other hand.
It was a story of a time she couldn’t return to anyway.
Childhood had already passed, and she had changed a lot since then.
She was so different from her younger self, who had been innocent, pure, and unblemished.
Even if that child saw how she had changed, he would only be disappointed.
“…Alright. Tell them I’ll be there soon.”
As Yuria waved her hand, commanding him to withdraw, Caiden bowed his head and retreated.
Yuria looked at herself one last time.
Yuria went through a lot that spring when she returned to the imperial palace.
The imperial palace was stained with blood by her two older brothers, who had massive forces behind them.
News of someone dying in an accident reached her ears almost every day.
Of course, it was an assassination, as accidents couldn’t be that frequent.
Amid that relentless whirlwind of the era, she could survive simply because she was an insignificant girl.
Yuria and her mother, who had been the emperor’s concubine, lived in the imperial family as if they were dead, holding their breath.
Simply so as not to catch the eyes of her two brothers and so that a blade wouldn’t be stuck in her neck.
In that process, Yuria firmly established that she had to escape this situation with her abilities.
‘Only I can save myself.’
That’s why when it was time to go to the academy, Yuria didn’t hesitate to leave her mother, who had just given birth to the emperor’s fifth son, in the prison that was the imperial palace.
Even though she knew it was heartless.
And it wasn’t long after that.
Before even three months had passed at the academy, news of her mother’s death arrived.
Along with her younger brother, who was in a carriage accident.
Her mother, who rarely went out?
Bullshit, of course, it was an assassination.
‘Would it have been different if I had been there?’
Yuria thought in her sorrow.
‘No?’
It couldn’t be.
She would have indeed died along with them.
‘It’s all because of my lack of power.’
From then on, Yuria pursued power and strength even more.
Among them, the first place where she could create her own force was the academy.
Yuria rose to become the student council president of the academy in no time, using her abilities and name as an imperial princess.
In that process, she couldn’t count how many people she had cruelly trampled and broken.
Yuria reigned as the queen in her kingdom that she had created that way.
And someday, she considered using this academy as a stepping stone to challenge her brothers’ positions.
Yuria had been ignoring those she had crushed under her wishes until now.
‘But…’
But of all times, now that boy was coming…
The boy who had occupied a part of her heart when she was at her purest was now coming here.
‘What will that child think of me now?’
Yuria tried to smile, but she realized how awkward the smile of her reflection in the mirror was.
‘Let’s stop.’
A smile didn’t suit her current self.
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A little later.
Besides the new students, the academy was bustling with children who had just returned from winter break.
However, they held their breath at the appearance of a girl and her followers.
The blonde imperial princess, Yuria Rodmas, carelessly brushed past the boys and girls who parted to the left and right at her appearance.
The boys and girls quickly averted their eyes or lowered their heads, not wanting to catch Yuria’s attention unnecessarily.
Only after the suffocating tyrant’s march ended and Yuria and her followers disappeared did they exhale.
“Scary…”
“Did you see her eyes? It’s like she doesn’t think of people as people.”
“I heard if there’s someone she doesn’t like, she always crushes them. They say several people were expelled or even died in severe cases because of that. You should be careful too. I think she saw you earlier?”
“Oh, really. Don’t say things like that. It’s scary.”
The students shuddered at the chill she left behind as they spoke.
“The Tyrant of Cold Eyes,” they whispered quietly.
However, Yuria’s power created those who feared her and those who admired and followed her.
That’s how the student council executives gathered around Yuria.
All of them were exceptionally capable; they supported Yuria and maintained her dictatorship.
In an unbreakable, solid form.
Yuria, the center of that system, crossed the sky bridge leading to the second floor of the main auditorium and opened the door.
There was already some commotion inside the auditorium, as if quite a few students had gathered.
Yuria, who was about to go down to the first floor right away, paused her steps for a moment when she heard the words of the girls clinging to the second-floor balustrade.
“Hey, did you see that kid? His skin is really white…”
“Yeah. Yeah. I saw him too.”
“There were only rumors, but it seems like all those rumors were true.”
“I know, he’s extremely, extremely… beautiful, and they say he’s really sickly.”
No matter how you looked at them, they looked like second-year students or above.
Due to the entrance ceremony, Regular students were prohibited from entering the main auditorium.
The students seemed to have snuck in to see the new students.
“Shall I warn them?”
Caiden whispered, but Yuria lightly shook her head and approached them herself.
“What are you looking at? Is it fun to watch the new students like you’re at a zoo?”
At Yuria’s ice-cold voice, the girls who were watching turned around.
“Ah, Pre-President…!”
“Your Imperial Highness… That’s not…”
Yuria glared at the girls with her “cold eyes.”
The girls’ complexions turned deathly pale, and one of them quickly had tears welling up in her eyes.
‘Pathetic. Worms.’
Yuria lightly evaluated them, who couldn’t even show a hint of spirit, and nodded her head.
“Go.”
As soon as Yuria’s words fell, the girls ran out hurriedly.
‘Who were they looking at?’
Yuria cast her gaze downward, recalling the faces of the girls looking down as if mesmerized.
And the next moment, she realized she shouldn’t have done that.
The place where the girls had been looking down.
A boy was sitting in that spot.
He was a boy with jet-black hair like ebony and golden eyes that shone brilliantly like the sun.
Below his neatly arranged eyebrows on his white skin, his eyes looked indifferent and bored, as if sunken.
The things that made up the boy’s face in her memory were now arranged in a much more beautiful form than she remembered.
“…Leonhart Deinhart.”
Yuria whispered without realizing it.
And at that moment.
The boy lifted his head as if he had heard that slight sound.
When the gold and blue eyes met, Yuria was overwhelmed by an embarrassing desire to run away.
“My knight.”
As Yuria murmured softly, a faint smile spread across his lips.
Yuria felt like her heart had sunk with a thud at that smile.
He was saying something to her with his mouth, smiling.
That mouth movement wasn’t difficult to interpret, so Yuria had to find a way to calm the excitement in her heart.
‘This shouldn’t be happening.’
Yuria had to become strong alone.
Without relying on anyone.
And yet… some emotion still remained.
Even when she thought she would have entirely changed by now.
It seemed that some things just couldn’t be altered.
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‘When does the entrance ceremony start?’
I was sitting in my seat, feeling bored.
Nias had separated to take my luggage to the dormitory in advance.
Because men and women sat separately, I was temporarily separated from Livia.
As I turned my eyes, I could see Livia waving her hand energetically.
Thinking I should ignore it, I looked straight ahead again.
‘I can’t see Elin and Elena either.’
It seemed the saintesses were running late.
Come to think of it, the two’s admission to the academy was tumultuous in many ways.
It might be understandable that the saintess of Nephthys, the chief god, and even the saintess of Yuan, the evil god, were entering, after all.
With many situations to consider, they might miss the entrance ceremony.
Even without them, I was already a topic of conversation.
The surroundings were already somewhat noisy, and I could feel gazes here and there from those who had recognized my identity.
Actually, I didn’t care about such things.
The feeling of sitting directly on the stage of the original novel was more exciting and heart-pounding than I had thought.
Ellentia Academy was indeed a treasure trove of settings.
Many of the core parts of this novel’s setting, which started as an academy story, were concentrated in the Ellentia Academy.
‘I want to go check it right now.’
I was in an impatient state.
I felt like running to take out the first dean’s access card and enter the basement.
‘If I can confirm what’s there…’
I would indeed become rich.
I’m already rich, but
More money is always better, and what’s better must be mine!
‘Just wait.’
Besides that, there were many settings I wanted to confirm in person.
And there must be more hidden settings to be revealed, and if I think carefully, I might find keywords or holes.
It was when I started moving my feet, crossing my legs, and tapping my toes in impatience.
“…Leonhart Deinhart.”
I lifted my head at the sound of someone calling my name accurately.
It was thanks to my sensory expansion special ability.
A blonde girl came into my view.
I quickly recognized that it was Yuria, who had become much more beautiful than before.
There was a desperate emotion in Yuria’s blue eyes as if she wanted to run away somewhere.
The necklace I had given her was still hanging around her neck.
“…My knight.”
At her quiet murmur, I smiled faintly.
It meant she still remembered the oath we had made.
I mouthed words to her.
‘See me in a bit.’
I needed to ask if I could join the student council.
After all, I had to complete that achievement.
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