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 gotta

...

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 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 compared to

extremely bored. No

he said

Amanda was paying so 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

...It was odd.

recollection of him, as he was one of the more famous students in her

was what they called

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

about her interactions with him, Amanda

...he was a weirdo.

students would come towards her and try all ways to get her

was even more confusing were

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

new trick to try to get her attention, he

but she definitely started paying more attention

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

apart from a few people already getting drunk,

Drunk?

the only thing

people get

that something

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

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

started

but a wave of vertigo caused her to lose her

her best

every student fell on

"Damm it!"

Amanda tried her best to combat

It partly had to do with the fact

and she could only try her

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

he the mastermind

as she looked for any traces of him. It wasn't wrong of her to suspect him as he just

of person that loved

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

tell at first glance he meant

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

on the ground,

to be in distress Amanda took a few steps

"Huff..huff..huff"

knee,

"Kh-what's happening?"

who although was also suffering, tried her best to restrain

but take a step towards his direction. He was the only key she had to find

to the effects of the drug. Soon her

meters before Elijah, Amanda extended her hand in

"than-kh you"

hand...but before he could fully touch

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

looked at Amanda who was glaring

"Drop the act"

are you

think you can fool me when the entire time you had

Elijah

"ku ku ku"

deepened as he started

just couldn't contain

up, Elijah

alone time with you, one of the three great beauties of the

-Voom!

Amanda instantly drew

we a little too

Elijah smirked as

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!