Chapter 95: Vice Dean’s Speech
Beside her, a dark-haired noble boy with House Thorne’s crest clicked his tongue irritably. "Calm down, Claire. You’re drooling."
"Shut up, Lukas, you’re just jealous!" Claire whispered fiercely with flushed cheeks. But she turned her head and looked at Lukas with unkind eyes, "And why are you even here? I already told you I don’t like you."
Lukas gritted his teeth and stood up before leaving without saying another word.
Further ahead, a boy named Leon whispered excitedly to his companions, "He knows Princess Arya personally? Maybe those rumors about him aren’t exaggerated."
"Quiet, Leon!" hissed a girl named Maya. "He’ll hear you!"
"Well, I don’t think he would mind us. After all," another young man named Dane pointed around them, "Everyone is already discussing him."
The trio looked at each other and decided to mind their own business.
Orion, however, paid none of the students there any mind, calmly walking alongside Arya until they reached the plush front-row seats, but they were the same as all the other seats—clearly showing how the academy treats all its students equally.
As they took their places, Orion settled into his seat. Arya sat in the middle with Orion at her right and Emilia on her left. Orion continued to feel eyes drill into his back.
’Ha, I really did choose the right hairstyle,’ he thought smugly, casually crossing his legs and waiting for the ceremony to begin.
Minutes later, a heavy silence suddenly descended upon the auditorium as two imposing figures stepped onto the floating platform from opposite ends.