Chapter 328
The Imperial Rondarium Academy was a four-year institution.
The reason it ended up this way probably stemmed from the developers’ desire to stack three years of high school onto the third year of middle school.
This academy didn’t follow any legally defined curriculum. Judging by its system, it functioned as a strictly private institution. Everything was determined by the will of whoever funded it—that is, whoever paid the money to run it.
In the first place, this country didn’t even have a proper concept of elementary school, let alone high school. There were some similar institutions, but they catered only to wealthy families.
In the long term, establishing a system to educate children like that would be beneficial. If Alice really became emperor in the future, I’d consider suggesting it to her.
Anyway, since what we’d consider basic in modern society had never been legally established here, you can imagine what the rest was like.
Things that would be unthinkable in a modern society were completely legal here and happened openly.
And Charlotte was making full use of that “legal gray area.”
It took us three days to figure out where Charlotte and Mia disappeared to every morning.
Alice and I had been doing our part in the meantime. We made the rounds through the student council offices, casually chatted with noble students, subtly asked about things they hoped would be taken care of in the future—always careful to avoid giving direct promises, keeping our words vague enough that nothing could be pinned down.
They couldn’t even complain later, asking why their requests weren’t handled. After all, it was just a brief conversation from back when they were students.
But even that slight “possibility” was enough to get the noble students to vote for Alice. And that influence would remain useful all the way up to the moment Alice became emperor.