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.

roll her eyes as she pinched the

you

thought that any other

say what you should choose and what you shouldn't, but I

"Will do."

around she looked back at Kevin with a serious expression

I don't

behavior and expression, Kevin's back unconsciously straightened as he listened

you think, especially for someone as

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

that once you entered a faction, even if you didn't mean to, if you wish to exit, you must

Kevin became dumbfounded as

this just for

Kevin's chest with her finger, Emma

don't just carelessly

promised Emma to be careful

he was extremely thankful to Emma who chose to help him out of her

already knew that Emma had already chosen her

known each other for about three weeks, Kevin already considered

when

same time he met,

choice but to interact with each other, and from there they had gotten along with

there were a couple of ups and downs in

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

as such, because of Jin, the atmosphere in the dorm was quite tense. But fortunately thanks to Emma who got along with

was the key that

knows if Kevin would've even bothered talking to

"Hey, Hey, you listening?"

out of his thoughts was the figure of Emma who had stopped walking and was looking at him with an

'Cute'

the urge to smile

you're thinking of something that would make

"!"

Kevin turned his head to the side

"Ah! So you were!"

what

on the inside, Kevin felt a storm

read my mind?

to maintain his poker face, Emma shook her head

let this one go...now

exited the building

a lot busier than I

of students was swarming the campus as they each made

leisurely strolling around the campus with their friends, some were sitting in the patches of green around the campus, and others were frantically rushing towards the stalls in

of their way to step away from their path,

exactly are

"Section B"

slightly, Kevin's eyes widened

that the professor

because it's the professor area that

Kevin looked at Emma in

that make

eyes, Emma continued walking forward ignoring Kevin

that Kevin still had not understood, Emma

mention before about the

Kevin replied, "Right, but how does that relate to the fact that the

professors are also part of

a moment to process what Emma had

was true, then choosing an elective was

influence the elective fair, then it meant that the 'hidden politics' in the academy were rooted deeper than he had previously

that still did not mean that they couldn't indirectly help the faction

may no longer be a part of a

wanted to, they could force students to join their faction by

second, Emma realized her mistake and tried to

don't need to worry about

they won't carelessly try to force you to join a faction as you

Melissa, and

mess with you with

to make him feel better, Kevin felt warm in

spent most of his life in solitude, having friends that supported him and helped him in times