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

what a

...

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

a sofa sipping on some wine looking extremely bored. No one approached him, nor

he

student had approached her earlier. It was when she was on the balcony

...It was odd.

he was one of the

'weirdo' was what they

sure about the details, but he was regarded by most of

her interactions with him,

...he was a weirdo.

students would come towards her and try all ways

things before leaving. What was

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

trick to try to get her attention, he had

to heart, but she definitely started paying more attention to her

became cautious. If anything remotely suspicious happened she would immediately raise her guard to

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

Drunk?

thing that

people get

Amanda knew that something was

her hand behind her back, she prepared to summon her

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

another students started falling on the

tried to summon her bow but a wave of

tried her best to support herself against a

every student fell

"Damm it!"

her best to combat

drug 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 strong

how long she could remain conscious for. Time was ticking and she could only try her

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

he the mastermind

her to suspect him as he just suddenly disappeared as soon as everyone started falling on the ground. To

of person

weird, 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 read on who had malicious intentions against her. Their posture,

she could tell at first glance

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

stumbling on the ground,

to be in distress Amanda took

"Huff..huff..huff"

one knee, Elijah

"Kh-what's happening?"

although was also suffering, tried her best to restrain herself from helping

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

she was struggling, Amanda was slowly getting used to the effects of the drug. Soon

Elijah, Amanda extended her

"than-kh you"

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

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

Elijah looked at Amanda who was glaring

"Drop the act"

are you

can fool me when the entire time you had a smirk

Elijah touched

"ku ku ku"

smiled deepened

me...I just couldn't contain

Elijah

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

-Voom!

her bow, Amanda instantly

we a little too

smirked as he walked in Amanda's

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!