The Author's POV

-Clink! -Clink! -Clink!

"May I have everyone's attention please"

Tapping on the wine glass in his hands, Elijah gathered everyone's attention.

Standing elegantly in the middle of the hall, Elijah made sure that everyone was looking at him before continuing.

"First of all, I would like to thank all of you that decided to attend the gathering. Although our elective could be considered on the smaller side compared to other electives, we here are like a family."

Making eye contact with everyone in the room, Elijah mood turned a little bit serious as he spoke

"I have recently been made aware of the conflicts happening between the juniors and us seniors, and it honestly pains me to see this. I may not be able to change this, but I sincerely hope that in our elective this prejudice and conflict does not appear."

Pausing slightly, and looking at everyone in the room, Elijah raised his glass and said

"This is more than just an elective. This is a family!"

At first, everyone was quiet. Turning to look at each other a myriad of expressions could be seen from certain individuals' faces. they wanted to rebuke but...they dared not to. With Elijah's current influence, his words were law. Refusing him was like signing a death warrant.

-Clap!

Breaking the awkward and tense silence was the sound of a clap.

-Clap! -Clap! -Clap!

Soon someone else started clapping, and like a chain reaction, everyone followed along and started clapping.

"I understand, I will follow the president's order!"

"We love you, president!"

"I love you, president!"

Cheers resounded across the hall as both the male and female students cheered for Elijah.

Smiling, Elijah took a big gulp of the wine and once again lifted the cup in the air

"It is with great honor and pride that I welcome you to our elective, food exploration!"

"Thank you!"

"Food exploration!"

"Best elective!"

Though everyone cheered, two individuals didn't. One retained an indifferent face throughout the whole ordeal while the other cringed repeatedly.

Of course, this didn't escape Elijah's eyes, as his eyes narrowed for a split second before returning back to normal as if nothing happened.

Unbothered by the fact that Elijah probably noticed my behavior, I nonchalantly sat on a sofa and enjoyed my wine. The fact that he managed to say those words without cringing was worthy of my admiration.

For all I knew, Elijah cared nothing for the conflicts within the academy. In fact, he was probably rejoicing at the fact that there were conflicts within the academy. Most notably at the fact that some of the attention was diverted away from him, allowing him to act as he pleased.

Looking at the glass of wine in my hand I frowned.

Though I usually disliked alcohol, due to previous trauma, it wasn't a problem anymore. Excluding the fact that the wine wasn't that strong, with my new physique only alcohol higher than 70% could affect me. Anything lower than that didn't bother me.

Sort of ruined the pleasure of alcohol, but oh well, it's not like I needed alcohol in my life again.

After nearly finishing half of the wine that I had brought with me which I so conveniently hid inside of my bracelet, I felt my bladder bloating.

Walking up to a waiter I asked

"Excuse me where's the bathroom?"

Pointing towards the entrance of the room, the waiter said

"Turn right over there and after you walk a couple of meters you should see a bathroom sign"

"Thank you"

Thanking the waiter and following his instruction, I headed to the bathroom

do what a man

...

He had short black hair and blue ocean-like eyes. His features

extremely bored. No one

he said

much attention to him was because that very same student had approached her earlier. It was when she was on the balcony looking at the moon

...It was odd.

the more famous

what they called

details, but he was regarded by most of the students as a weirdo

interactions with him,

...he was a weirdo.

would come towards her and try all ways to get

two things before leaving. What was

be careful tonight...' and 'Something might happen tonight, and you might be the target—no,

to try to get her attention, he had

heart, but she definitely started paying more attention

been in these sorts of situations since young, her temperament became cautious. If anything remotely suspicious

everything seemed normal, and apart from a few people already getting drunk, there was nothing

Drunk?

wines the only thing that were

get drunk off of

that something

her hand behind her back, she prepared to summon

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

another students started falling on the

to summon her bow but a wave of vertigo

tried her best to

fell on the ground

"Damm it!"

teeth, Amanda tried her best to combat

had to do with the fact that

ticking and she could only try her best to

warned her beforehand...but it was to no avail

he the mastermind behind

just suddenly disappeared as soon as everyone

type of person that loved

in her books, she was always observing. It was something she developed over the years to get a better read on who had malicious intentions against her. Their posture,

weird, she could tell at first glance

"Cough!...cough! kh-Amanda!"

the ground,

at Elijah who seemed to be in distress Amanda took a few steps

"Huff..huff..huff"

knee,

"Kh-what's happening?"

her best to restrain herself from

his direction. He was the only key she had to find her mother...she needed

Amanda was slowly getting used to the effects of the drug.

few meters before Elijah, Amanda extended her hand

"than-kh you"

with his right hand, Elijah tried to grab Amanda's hand...but before he could fully touch her, she

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

Elijah looked at Amanda who

"Drop the act"

are you

think you can fool me when the entire time you

Elijah touched his

"ku ku ku"

deepened as he started

of me...I just couldn't contain

Elijah

couldn't hold myself after imagining myself sharing some alone

-Voom!

her bow, Amanda instantly drew

my, aren't we a little

surrender, Elijah smirked as he walked in Amanda's

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!