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

gotta do what

...

Amanda was lost in her own thoughts. Occasionally she would glance to her right where a male student sat. He looked completely out of place with his clothes that did not suit the atmosphere. He had short black hair and blue ocean-like eyes. His

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

he

because that very same student had approached her earlier. It was when she was

...It was odd.

of the more

'weirdo' was what they called

of the students as a weirdo that they should avoid

her interactions with him, Amanda couldn't

...he was a weirdo.

would come towards her and

he only told her two things before leaving. What was even more confusing were the things that he said

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

new trick to try

didn't really put his warning to heart, but she definitely started

since young, her temperament became cautious. If

from a few people already getting drunk,

Drunk?

the only thing that

people get drunk off of

Amanda knew that something was

behind her back, she prepared to summon her

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

started falling on

to summon her bow but a wave of

her best to support herself against a

around, every student fell on the ground

"Damm it!"

tried her best to

was strong, she still did not lose consciousness. It partly had to do with the fact that she was one of the strongest people in the room and her

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

around she tried to look for the boy that had warned her beforehand...but it was

the mastermind

wrong of her to suspect him as he just suddenly disappeared as soon as everyone started falling on the ground. To call this not

he was the type of person that

the years to get a better read on who had malicious intentions against her. Their posture, their expressions, their temperament, she could pretty much

weird, she could tell at first glance he meant no

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

the

at Elijah who seemed to be in

"Huff..huff..huff"

knee,

"Kh-what's happening?"

who although was also suffering, tried her best to restrain herself

take a step towards his direction. He was

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

before Elijah, Amanda extended her hand in

"than-kh you"

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

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

looked at Amanda who was glaring at

"Drop the act"

you

me when the entire time you had

Elijah touched his

"ku ku ku"

smiled deepened

careless of me...I just couldn't contain my

Elijah

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

-Voom!

Amanda instantly drew

aren't we a little

in surrender, Elijah smirked as

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!