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

...

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,

wine looking extremely bored. No one approached him, nor did he

he

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

...It was odd.

was one of the more famous

what

most of the students as

interactions with

...he was a weirdo.

come towards her and try all ways

her two things before leaving. What was even more

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

trick to try to get her attention, he had

but she definitely started paying more attention to her

of situations since young, her temperament became cautious. If anything remotely suspicious happened she would immediately raise her guard

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

Drunk?

the only thing

get

knew that something

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

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

another students started falling on the

summon her bow but a wave of vertigo caused her

tried her best to support herself

around, every student fell on

"Damm it!"

teeth, Amanda tried her best to combat

strong, she still did not lose consciousness. It partly had to do with the

and she could only try

boy that had warned her beforehand...but

the mastermind

Amanda 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 falling on the

type of person that loved to

observing. It was something she developed over the years to get a better read on who had malicious intentions against her. Their posture, their expressions, their temperament, she could pretty much determine if someone had any ill will or was wearing a mask to hide their

tell at first glance he meant no

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

and stumbling on the ground, Elijah walked

be in distress Amanda

"Huff..huff..huff"

one knee,

"Kh-what's happening?"

although was also suffering, tried her best

she couldn't help but take a step towards his direction. He was the only key she had to find her mother...she needed

Amanda was slowly getting used to the effects of

a few meters before Elijah, Amanda

"than-kh you"

hand...but before he could fully touch her, she smacked his

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

Elijah looked at Amanda who was glaring at

"Drop the act"

you

fool me when the entire

aback, Elijah touched his

"ku ku ku"

Elijah smiled deepened

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

Elijah

couldn't hold myself after imagining myself sharing some alone time with you, one

-Voom!

her bow, Amanda instantly

aren't we a little too

his hands in surrender, Elijah smirked as

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!