The Author's POV

The sun slowly rose from the horizon, and Ashton City, more specifically, the Lock, basked in the warmth of the sun.

Standing at the entrance of the academy, enjoying the warmth that came from the sun, I glanced towards my right where a beautiful young girl stood.

Currently, Melissa and I were waiting at the northern entrance of the academy. According to Donna's instructions, we would soon meet students coming from one of the four great academies.

Our job was to greet them and bring them around the campus to familiarize themselves with the place. Although I wasn't sure about which academy they were from or who they were, that didn't really matter.

During the past month, I didn't stand idle.

Having learned my lesson from the situation at the Manticore building, after being made aware of the student exchange, I immediately memorized every single profile of the students that were coming to the Lock.

Regardless of the academy, be it big or small characters, I memorized everyone's profiles. Took me a while, but I forced myself to do it.

...I wasn't going to let something similar to the Manticore building situation happen again. From that point on, I learned that I needed to be prepared for everything. Instead of being unaware of what was to come in the future, it was better to proactively seek information beforehand to avoid being caught off-guard and thus lose composure.

On the topic of the dorm situation, for the past month and a half, all I did was observe.

Having learned a lot of lessons with regards to scheming and planning, I knew that haste made waste.

Therefore, I chose to observe them carefully. From their routines, behavioral patterns...everything. I made sure to engrave and memorize every little detail of their lives without missing a beat.

With the aid of Angelica's cat form, I was able to acquire a lot of information..and thanks to her, I could now finally say that they could be eliminated anytime I wished.

With my plans now completed, all that I needed to do was execute them.

But now was still not the right time. After a bit of thought, I had decided to set the pieces in motion after I came back from Immorra.

Since I was going to go there in a week's time, there was no need to overburden myself right now to get rid of them.

...after all, they weren't going anywhere anytime soon. They were merely sitting ducks from my perspective. All I needed to do was pull the trigger and everything would come toppling down.

They were no longer a priority for me.

Either way, those problems aside, I was now presented with another more annoying problem.

Glancing at Melissa who was standing next to me, trying to break the awkward silence that was between us, I asked.

"...so, how's your day going Melissa?"

Hearing my question, without hesitation Melissa responded

"Shit"

"Why's that?"

Looking at me as if I was an idiot, Melissa rhetorically said

"Do you even need to ask why?"

Frowning, I placed my hand on my chin as I pretended to fall into deep thought.

"Mhh, is it perhaps because it's too sunny outside? Understandable, girls like you want to kee-"

"Shut up"

Being told to shut up, I pretended to be offended as I once again reminded her about the fact that I was now her business partner.

"Rude, don't forget that you're now talking to your business partner"

If before I was scared of Melissa because of her influence and sadistic personality, I no longer had a reason to be scared.

Why?

the

happened to me all of the efforts we put in the project would go down

along those lines, I inwardly

wanted without caring about the repercussions...well, that was unless I pushed her too far. If

*Tsk*

face from the side of her eyes, Melissa clicked her tongue

one more word and I'll skin your throat and feed it to the homeless

threats? Either way, there's no way you're going to hurt your business partner

my taunts, with her chest moving up and down at a faster

you're

flaunted the fact that I was her

full well that she couldn't do anything

was revenge for all the

me you're salty you can't do anything

"huuu..."

her rage. She was now starting to regret making a deal with Ren...the limits of her patience were being tested with each passing second. If not for

"What? I didn't he-"

about to tease Melissa again, I suddenly stopped and looked towards the distance. After noticing something, with a tinge of regret, I

I would love to continue our conversation, it seems like our

head

"Where?"

"There"

distance, a group of five students appeared on the

look at them from the distance, the first thing I noticed was their uniforms

be from Lutwik academy from

able to guess the identity of the students that were

human domain and that directly faced the sea. Because they directly

they fully adapted themselves to the water, and from there they

because they specialized in water warfare didn't mean that they were weak in land warfare. No, rather, they were just as

line of sight was immediately drawn towards two

and

curly sideburns. Both his eyes were bright, and his entire body was emitting a boundless power that reminded me of

She had big deep sea-blue eyes and clean white skin devoid of any imperfections. With a silver reaper hanging

differently from Amanda who seemed as though she had walls preventing people from getting near her, the girl before me had an

Similar yet different.

my name is Nicholas Leinfall

hands towards Melissa and I as he introduced himself. As he spoke his voice was calm and

took a step to the side and started

are Joshua Claymore who here

pay close attention as I already knew the names of

Lawrence

our academy first years,

Although individually they

her reaper and Nicholas with his twin

would find it extremely difficult to beat them. In fact, there was a chance he

each practiced a four-star sword art...however, what made that art special was that it was made specifically for twins...and most terrifying of all was that when the two worked together, their sword art's might could even

last but not least this is my twin sister Aerin

out of my thoughts was Nichola's

was neither arrogant nor overbearing. Even though Aerin was cold, she didn't look down on everyone and it could be

compared to young masters, I would take them any time of

"He-"

just when I was about to introduce myself, to my bewilderment, I found Melissa approaching them

to say that we are glad you guys came all the way here to this academy and hope that you will enjoy your

at Melissa, Nicholas shook her

"Likewise"

"..."

make sure I was seeing correctly, I glanced at Melissa as the gears of my mind stopped working for a