Chapter 118
Chapter 118: Nothing But Trivial Matters
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"Mmph mmph mmph—"
Ah. I can't speak... wait until I swallow this bite... no, Sarah's coming over!!
"Let me cut a piece~"
Hearing her voice ring out beside my ear, I immediately turned around and hugged the lamb leg to my chest, shaking my head like a rattle drum.
"Mm~~!!"
It's the first day of school after all, it's bad luck not to eat enough! Sarah really, there was so much roasted meat in the cafeteria, why didn't you eat it then, why must you come back and eat mine, I'm getting angry!
"I'll just cut a small piece... you can't finish it all by yourself anyway."
Anxiously chewing... gulp.
"I won't! I can finish it!"
Staring at her with a completely serious face, then raising my palm — thinking that if she reaches her hand over, I'll slap it!
After staring at each other for a moment, Sarah suddenly laughed again and "whoosh" thrust her hand under my armpit.
"Tickle tickle!"
"Pffft hahaha—! Ah, my lamb!"
With quick reflexes, while I was laughing and dodging her tickle attack, as my attention shifted, she snatched the lamb leg from my hand in one go, then quickly retreated a step, moving out of my attack range.
"It's mine now~"
Then she showed a cunning smile, holding up the lamb leg to show off to me. I was so angry my teeth clenched, panting heavily with "huff huff" sounds.
"You're despicable!"
She actually found my weakness, how hateful!
Sarah! Do you know if you were Parsifal or Carlos, you'd already be done for!
Smack smack!
"Ah."
Feeling my back get slapped hard twice, I grimaced in pain and quickly turned my head to see Sophia staring at me with an indignant expression.
"I'm talking to you about serious matters here, and you two little dogs are putting on a food-snatching show? Don't you care at all! Do you know what kind of person that Alex is!?"
I shrugged my shoulders: "I know... you said, royal city scoundrel."
At this time, I heard Sarah's hiccupping laughter from behind: "Haha... I think that scoundrel... phew, is nothing special, today didn't you two pffft, play him like a fool, thinking about it makes me... pffft hahaha, want to laugh... especially Peylo's act, it was absolutely perfect... mmm, this is delicious."
"Yes! Today we managed to fool him, but what about later? Peylo, he's got his eye on you!" Sophia's beautiful phoenix eyes widened, looking like she hated that iron wouldn't become steel, "Really, you're all so carefree, what am I worrying myself sick for..."
Seeing that she seemed genuinely angry, I quickly put on a flattering smile.
"From now on, I'll just avoid him~"
But in my heart I was thinking, why hasn't Sarah given the lamb leg back to me yet...
Sneakily turning my head, from the corner of my eye I saw her stuffing another big bite of lamb into her mouth, while chewing and using her small knife to cut off another piece... why is she eating another piece!
I immediately got anxious: "Sarah, you said only a small piece! Give it back to me quickly!"
Hearing this, Sarah looked at me warily, saying unclearly with her mouth full: "Jwust one mwore bwite!"
"No way!"
Saying this, I got up and lunged toward her.
"Hehe..."
Daisy over there was giggling.
"Forget it, forget it, I'm not going to care anymore." Sophia waved her hands huffily, stood up and walked toward her bed, talking as she walked, "Hey Peylo, anyway let me remind you, Alex's family power is very great. His father is the royal city Finance Minister, his uncle is the Iron Guard Commander, his grandfather is Duke Rexus, so it's not strange what kind of things he can do in the royal city. At most he'll just have to pay some gold coins to settle things. You'd better be careful... don't go out alone, remember to call us wherever you go, that's all."
"Yes yes~"
Having snatched the lamb leg back from Sarah's hands, I happily responded, and after taking a bite, looked up at Sophia's retreating figure.
A bit thin, but with graceful curves. About 1.7 meters tall, her beautiful golden hair held back by a glass hairpin studded with gems, a pair of straight and slender legs, beautiful like a painting.
Suddenly I felt somewhat happy.
Thinking about it, from last night until now, ever since entering the Royal Academy, nothing that happened could really be considered good. Being harassed, being knocked down, almost being late, and Daisy even got injured... not a single thing that made one feel happy.
But thinking about it the other way around, it was precisely because of these bad things that the distance between the hearts of the four people in the dorm was shortening at a visible speed.
None of them are people of poor character, which is actually quite rare, especially in a place like the royal city. I imagine that people as simple and straightforward as Sarah, nobles who consider others like Sophia, are both quite precious.
And a rabbit who doesn't like to talk much, harmless to both humans and animals, and a bit timid.
Plus this young... ahem, this manly man.
Pretty good.
The academy life from now on probably won't be boring, right?
Compared to this, Alex's matter is just a trivial thing.
I won't actively provoke him. After all, they're all immature little boys who like to make trouble unreasonably, who like to tease pretty-looking members of the opposite sex when they have nothing to do, wanting something to happen with them. This is understandable, after all, having been a man for 26 years, I understand their feelings very well.
Their methods are just a bit stupid... though I can't really say that. They're just doing as they please, unwilling to put effort into the matter of "picking up girls," which of course is related to their status.
For example, a prince could never really do anything for a woman, such plots only appear in stories. Because in the eyes of people at that level, the vast majority of women are within easy reach, completely not worth investing in. Sometimes when the mood strikes, even if they force themselves on someone, those women usually can only cry a bit. Even if they seek death, what can they do about it?
There's no solution.
Either be forced to accept this relationship, or if it really doesn't work out, take some gold coins and leave. There's no place to seek justice for such matters. If you dare make a fuss, they'll kill your whole family.
Especially in this kind of social system where the class separation between nobles and commoners is obvious, such things are all too common. From when I was in Winter City, Edward's attitude toward me showed it, he had already regarded me as his pre-determined empress, and wouldn't ask for my consent. Even though my father is Scalliger — his own uncle, this idea wouldn't change at all.
I still feel a bit nauseous thinking about it now.
Alex and his group's mentality is probably somewhat similar to Edward. I believe that group of people have all more or less done things that harm girls. What Sophia is worried about is nothing more than such incidents happening to me.
Actually it won't happen...
Even if I say something like this, surely no one would believe me, so I'll just go along with whatever Sophia says.
But if they continue to bother me, or if I happen to witness them doing bad things, that's another matter.
While gnawing on the lamb leg, I was thinking about these boring things, and before long heard the three girls' exclamations.
"Hey hey, look at this! My goodness..."
"Peylo, you really finished the whole lamb leg..."
"Ah, I didn't even notice! She sat there alone without making a sound... Are you okay! Eating so much, are you trying to kill yourself... little fool, hurry and spit it out!"
"Eh... eh eh, you're going to eat pie too?!"
"What is your stomach made of, it doesn't even look bigger... where did it all go..."
"A bottomless pit... simply terrifying."
And with that, the matter was exposed.