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

man's gotta do what a man

...

the atmosphere. He had short black hair and blue ocean-like eyes. His features that were devoid of any pimples or freckles looked clean and pleasant. Though he could've been considered handsome, he was only average if

sofa sipping on some wine looking extremely bored. No one approached him, nor did he approach

he

same student had approached her

...It was odd.

a vague recollection of him, as he was one of the more famous students

'weirdo' was what they called

wasn't sure about the details, but he was regarded by most of the students as a weirdo that they should

about her interactions with him,

...he was a weirdo.

the male students would come towards her

leaving. What was even more confusing were the things that

tonight...' and 'Something might happen tonight, and you

try to get

to heart, but she definitely

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

hall everything seemed normal, and apart from a few people already

Drunk?

thing that were

could people get drunk off

that

her hand behind her back, she prepared to summon her bow in case

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

started

to summon her bow but a wave of vertigo

her best to support

every student fell

"Damm it!"

Amanda tried her best to combat the drug

still did not lose consciousness. It partly had to do with the fact that she was one of the strongest people

know how long she could remain conscious for. Time was ticking and she could only try her best to not fall for whatever plot someone

for the boy that had warned her beforehand...but it was to no avail as

he the mastermind behind

as she looked for any traces of him. It wasn't wrong of her to suspect him as he just suddenly disappeared as soon as everyone started

of person that

she could tell he wasn't the culprit. Although Amanda didn't like to talk much and always seemed to be absorbed in her books, she was always observing. It was something she developed over the years to get a better

tell at first glance he meant no

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

stumbling on the ground, Elijah walked towards

Elijah who seemed to be in distress Amanda took a few

"Huff..huff..huff"

one knee,

"Kh-what's happening?"

although was also suffering, tried her

told her not to...yet she couldn't help but take a step towards his direction. He was the only key she

to the effects of the drug. Soon her mind regained some

a few meters before Elijah, Amanda extended her hand in his

"than-kh you"

tried to grab Amanda's hand...but before he could fully touch her, she smacked

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

Elijah looked at Amanda who was glaring at

"Drop the act"

are you talk-ing

entire time

aback, Elijah

"ku ku ku"

smiled deepened as he

careless of me...I just

up, Elijah exaggeratively

hold myself after imagining myself sharing some alone time with you, one of the three great

-Voom!

her bow, Amanda instantly drew

my, aren't we

in surrender, Elijah smirked as he walked in

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!