Chapter 113: The Transfer Student (1)
The number of enrolled students at Tilette Academy was less than you’d think.
There were around 300 to 400 in each year. Because of that, it was easy to memorize the faces of my classmates if I put my mind to it.
Actually, it was said that the social butterflies could memorize the names of everyone in their year from going around to a few drinking parties. I wasn’t to that extent, but was at least able to think ‘oh, they’re a first year’ when I ran into a student on the street.
This was simply because I was a Golden-Eyed. It was partly due to good memory and also by way of being the race that I was, which would seem fascinating in other people’s eyes. As such, there were more than a few times at the beginning of the semester where I’d learn someone’s name going up and down these corridors.
It was ironic considering how the Golden-Eyed had been shunned for over a millennium for not being able to use magic. The first impression of most students I had met after entering the Academy hadn’t been so bad, either. Maybe because I had got in as second place.
They could be treating me differently because I was a Golden-Eyed who was in Tilette’s gifted class rather than just a normal one. Whatever the era, a person who went to a good school was generally treated well, after all.
Of course, there were also people who purely despised or discriminated against the Golden-Eyed.
I had met a few guys like Prince Klion who’d spit insults like ‘a race who can’t even use magic’. Although I’d usually walk past them because of time constraints, there were some who’d take that as me being intimidated and cross the line. Whenever that happened, I’d give them a good taste of my calipers and relish the sweet sensation of legally smashing their heads, relieving the stress that had built.
Whether I liked it or not, the number of students I’d met through such means was around 500 now.
“It’s my first time doing course registration, so would you be able to help me for a moment?”
And out of all those faces, this girl didn’t exist in my memories.