The Author's POV

"Thank you for your help"

After expressing his gratitude, Ren directly left the classroom.

Staring at the departing figure of the student who he had just helped for a brief moment, Kevin turned around and returned to his seat.

Taking out his bag, Kevin packed up his stuff.

Just as he was about to finish packing up, a handsome individual whose looks rivaled that of a top celebrity calmly looked down on him.

"What did you do that for?"

"What do you mean?"

Tilting his head, Kevin questioningly looked at Jin.

"Why are you helping a pathetic loser like him?"

Frowning at Jin's choice of words, Kevin secretly shook his head and responded.

"Picking on someone weaker than you is more pathetic in my opinion"

"Hmph, you should already how the world works by now."

Snorting at Kevin's comment in disdain, Jin turned around and went towards Arnold who was sitting two rows ahead of Kevin.

"Don't waste your time on helping losers like him. It's beneath you"

"Just ignore him"

Just as Kevin was about to rebuke him, a beautiful voice entered his ears, prompting him to turn his head around.

With her short brown hair accompanied by her porcelain white skin, Emma stood there looking up at Kevin who was half a head taller than her.

"He's an idiot so ignore him"

"But..."

"Just leave it at that, he's just gonna ignore whatever you say anyway so there's no point in arguing with him..."

Turning around, Emma left towards the exit of the classroom.

"You coming?"

"Ah...yes"

Sighing, Kevin took his bag and followed Emma out of the classroom.

Since he was still not used to this place, Kevin had asked Emma to guide him during the elective fair.

Catching up to her, Kevin walked side by side with Emma.

Normally, a person would've been extremely happy to walk next to such a beautiful girl, but it was extremely uncomfortable to Kevin, who was not used to this much attention.

Since his parent's death, Kevin preferred staying out of people's sight, hence why he was not used to the stares.

But unbeknownst to him, they weren't just looking at Emma, but at him too.

His looks, which rivaled Jin's, perfectly matched Emma's breathtaking beauty making everyone who saw them walking together sigh in admiration.

"You'll get used to it"

"Huh?—excuse me?"

"I mean you'll get used to stares soon enough"

"Oh? ok...but why do I need to get used to the stares? Aren't they just staring at you?"

Shaking her head as if she was looking at an idiot, Emma picked up her pace.

"Sigh, whatever...do you have an elective you want to join in mind?"

"Not really, I was thinking of joining some sort of combat-related elective since from what I've seen there isn't anything in particular that attracts my attention"

Cocking her head to the side to better hear what Kevin was saying, Emma's auburn hair which was moderately short, lightly rested on top of her shoulders, muting the azure blue uniform.

help but roll her eyes as she pinched the middle

all you do

thought that any other

my place to say what you should choose and what you shouldn't, but I do urge you

"Will do."

looked back at Kevin with a

I don't think

expression, Kevin's back unconsciously straightened as

have a much deeper meaning than you think, especially for someone as

elective and it happens to be under a faction, even if you don't plan on entering the faction, they will still consider you as a part of them. Especially since it's you...moreover, once you join a faction, you will officially be an enemy of all

faction, even if you didn't mean to, if

became dumbfounded as

of this just for joining an

chest with her finger, Emma looked at

so don't just carelessly

Kevin promised Emma to be careful when selecting

although Kevin didn't show it, he was extremely thankful to Emma who chose to help him out of her

her elective, and

for about three weeks, Kevin already considered Emma a

when

same time he met, Jin, Amanda, and

building, they had no choice but to interact with

and downs in the beginning as Jin displayed obvious hostility

hunch it had something to do with Melissa, as Jin's hostility would shoot up a notch whenever he interacted with

of Jin, the atmosphere in the dorm was quite tense. But fortunately thanks to Emma who got

the

knows if Kevin would've even bothered talking

"Hey, Hey, you listening?"

thoughts was the figure of Emma who had stopped

'Cute'

thought as he resisted the

you're thinking of something

"!"

turned his head to the side and pretended to have not heard

"Ah! So you were!"

know what you're

expression was calm and expressionless, but on the inside, Kevin felt a storm of thoughts

read my mind? Is this what they

best to maintain his poker face, Emma shook her head and opened a huge door that

one go...now

Kevin exited the building and strolled

this is a lot

swarming the campus as they each made their way towards the

sitting in the patches of green around the campus, and others were

odd reason some of the students were going out of their way to step away from their path, reaching the location where the elective fair was being held was not going to

exactly are

"Section B"

slightly, Kevin's eyes widened a little

Isn't that the

it's the professor area that the elective

her response, Kevin

does that make

forward ignoring Kevin who was

seeing that Kevin still had not understood,

I mention before about

but how does that relate to the fact that the

are also part of a

his steps, Kevin took a moment to

elective was a far

were trying to influence the elective fair, then it meant that the 'hidden politics' in the academy were

longer part of a faction, that still did not mean that they couldn't indirectly help the faction that they used

may no longer be a part of a faction,

they could force students to join their faction by abusing

Kevin's complexion was becoming grimmer by the second, Emma

need to worry about

you're extremely sought after, they won't carelessly try to force you to join a

Amanda, Melissa, and that

to mess with you

up with excuses to make him feel better,

life in solitude, having friends that supported him and helped him in times