Book 3: Chapter 11: Lady Sophia's Wish Part 1
That day, the Academy was in an uproar since morning. An Imperial Prince and Imperial Princess from the Flamefield Empire—which was an important neighbor of ours, from a political standpoint as well—arrived to study here.
“Hey, did you hear?”
“You’re talking about the Imperial Prince and Princess, right? That has nothing to do with us, though, right?”
“What do you mean? If we win their favour, they might even hire us! I heard that, whenever the members of the Imperial family come to study abroad, they recruit several people from the Servant course.”
“What, really?! Then this could be an opportunity, even for us!”
Even in Class A of the Servant course conversations such as these could be heard incessantly. Now, I had to clear up that small misunderstanding. Just because particularly outstanding students were in this class, it didn’t necessarily mean that they would be employed by Royalty or high-ranking nobles for sure.
Many of the exclusive butlers and head maids that were working for Royalty or high-ranking nobles already, aka the people who took on managerial positions among the servants, were of noble descent – in other words, students of the Noble course. Or they came from a family lineage such as mine, a family that had been working for the Marquis household for many generations.
However, the Imperial family members who had come to study here before had apparently employed students of the Servant course, and treated them well, too. Therefore, people seemed excited, thinking that this time they might have a chance as well.
Of course, students who had already received tentative employment offers weren’t that excited. But there were many surprised shouts at the fact that the Imperial family was coming to study here, out of nowhere, too. There was also a certain student with a tentative offer that was very interested in this topic as well.