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 a man

...

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 features that were devoid of any pimples or freckles looked clean and pleasant. Though he

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

he

because that very same student had approached

...It was odd.

as he was one of the more famous students in her class. Not

was what they

wasn't sure about the details, but he was regarded by most of the students as

her interactions with him, Amanda couldn't agree

...he was a weirdo.

come towards her and try

only told her two things before leaving. What was even more

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

to try to get her attention,

heart, but

temperament became cautious. If anything remotely suspicious

seemed normal, and apart from a few people already getting drunk,

Drunk?

wines the only thing that were served

get drunk off of

Amanda knew that

her back, she prepared to summon her bow in case

-Thud! -Thud! -Thud!

after another students started

to summon her bow but a wave of vertigo

around, she tried her best to support herself against

every student fell on

"Damm it!"

Amanda tried her best to combat the drug

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

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

around she tried to look for the boy that had warned her beforehand...but it was to no avail as he

the mastermind behind

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

of person that loved to tease his

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, their expressions, their temperament, she could pretty much determine if someone had any ill will or was wearing a mask to hide their true

weird, she could tell at first glance he meant

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

the

at Elijah who seemed to be in distress Amanda took a few

"Huff..huff..huff"

one knee, Elijah

"Kh-what's happening?"

tried her best to

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

to the effects of the drug. Soon her mind

Amanda extended

"than-kh you"

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

-Smack!

"Yo-u"

at Amanda

"Drop the act"

are you

think you can fool me when the entire time

Elijah touched

"ku ku ku"

deepened as

just

up, Elijah exaggeratively

some alone time with you, one of the

-Voom!

her bow, Amanda instantly drew

aren't we a

surrender, Elijah smirked as he walked in

-Woosh! -Woosh! -Woosh!