"Your Highness, a letter from the Bexerth Academy has arrived." Julia said upon entering her room. Minerva, who was being dressed up by Cassie, Shirley, and Elise, nodded her head.
"I thought it'd take two weeks for the results to come in. It was sooner than I expected." Minerva said in surprise.
"Your Highness, the Bexerth Academy was always efficient. The admins would try to finish the selection as soon as possible." Shirley replied.
"Mm. I see." She said so and took the mail from Julia. Honestly, Minerva was kind of nervous. What if she didn't pass?
As if she knew her troubles, Cassie held her hand that had the mail.
"Your Highness, I know that you did your best. Please believe in yourself. "
Minerva couldn't help but smile. Cassie had grown on her for years. Before, their relationship was based on being employer and employee. She did her job wel
Hold on, why did her thoughts fly there? Wasn't the topic about Cassie?Minerva inwardly scratched her head. Anyway, what she had wanted to say was that Cassie had broken the Marquis of Santcliment's clutches. She removed her name from the Santcliment's registry after a few years of resisting. And as one of the favors that she had given to Emperor Logan and Empress Dowager Janeth, Cassie was adopted into Alvin's family. Alvin, who was the estate's head butler, became the sister in the name of Cassie. Cassie no longer had any relationship with the Marquis of Santcliment as a result of this.Actually, Santi had planned to give Cassie her freedom back. If she wanted to, she could ask Emperor Logan to run away and live in the suburbs just like she planned. Even Empress Dowager Janeth has raised this. However, Cassie politely refused. She said that she wanted to remain on Minerva's
"Why were you telling me these now?" Minerva asked.However, Sora just nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders. "Well, I was honestly curious. So you should, too."With his words, Minerva felt that something had snapped inside her. This brute!"Hmp." She didn't want to see talk to him anymore!"Hey, weren't you also curious about it? How about you'd go and ask around about the beast tide? Preferrably the red haired Great Swordmaster that you had met. He surely knew the answer!" Sora insisted. He even rose up from lying on the couch to sit closer to her. Minerva couldn't help but scowl at him."Were you for real? Didn't you hear about what Dad had said? He didn't want me to associate with him."Sora sneered and recline himself to the backrest of the seat, "And you believed him? Master had also said the same thing about Percival and Khalil. But didn't you still have a goo
"Did you prepare everything you needed?" Santi asked as soon as he wiped his mouth with a table napkin."Yes, dad. I already did." Minerva answered.Santi nodded his head. "Just tell me if you still need anything. Also, check your things again to make sure that you won't forget anything.""Yes, dad, I will." She said, helplessly. But deep inside, Minerva knew that her father was just worried about her. After all, this would be the first time that she'd be away from him. She'd stay in the academy for months and would only return for a short vacation.Frankly, Even she, herself, couldn't believe that this day would finally come. Minerva became so used to being with her father that the idea of her living away from him made her sad. But of course, she didn't show it. If she did, her fathe
"Be careful over there okay? If there was someone who displeased you, tell me immediately. If you don't want to go to school anymore, that's also fine. I could work it out." Santi said with seriousness as he stood in front of her. They were in front of the Bexerth Academy and her father went with her to personally escort her to the academy.They were just fine a while ago when they were inside the carriage. However, as soon as she was about to bid her goodbye, he suddenly started to nag.Minerva stifled a laughter and smiled helplessly at her father. "Don't worry, dad. I'd make sure to take care of myself."Santi had a conflicted look on his face. Minerva pursed her lips and stepped forward to hug him."You should also take care of yourself, dad. I'll have Alvin and Cassie look for you. If you were bored, you could call Uncle Lorenzo to keep you company.""Now it was you who were nag
The red-haired Great Swordmaster narrowed his eyes at Santi. Minerva, who was on the side, couldn't help but be nervous."Yeah, almost a hundred years had passed, yet you still hadn't changed a bit. You're still as brutal as ever."Santi shrugged his shoulders. "Well, that's one of my charms. Something that you didn't have."Minerva snapped her head at her father. Seriously, He's still going at it? Dad was making him even angrier!"Dad..."She was about to say something when her father interrupted her by patting her head."Don't worry, he wouldn't dare to lay a finger on me, much less on you. If he did, I'd kick his virgin ass." Santi said, obviously trying to console her. Unfortunately, it didn't work at all. Instead, Minerva felt like crying inside. Why did her father keep on saying such things? And how in the world did he know about this?
At the top of the west tower of the academy, a blonde woman was reading beside the window. Silence enveloped the whole room aside from the occassional flipping of the pages. However, the silence was suddenly broken when a hurried footsteps was heard. She knitted her brows and placed the book she was reading on the table. Within just a few moments, the door swung open and the man with a red hair came inside."What happened?" She asked in a serious tone. This was the first time that she saw him on this state. He looked extremely pale and sweating. If she looked closely on his arms, he seemed like shaking. Even his legs looked like they were about to give up!The red haired man just gasped on his breath before he sat down on the couch. He breathed heavily as he clutched on his chest."What's wrong with you? Did something happened?""I..." The red haired man muttered between his gasps, "I... I made a mist
"Uh… Dad, was that okay?" Minerva asked the moment the red haired Great Swordmaster, whom her father had called Roland, left them as soon her father dismissed him."Who cares?" Santi nonchalantly replied. The coldness that he emitted earlier instantly vanished. His laidback and arrogant looking self was back.Minerva just sighed. Seriously, she didn't know what to do about her father who offended a lot of people from left to right. She wasn't even that fazed when someone was angry at him. Well, who wouldn't? If her father had talked to her like how he was to the others, she would seriously get pissed without a doubt.Fortunately for her, Santi treated her differently. Unlike the others, he never talked to her in such a brute manner. He would even shower her with compliments that she felt embarrassed most of the time whenever he did it."Dad, I have to get inside now."Minerva
"Didn't you just said earlier that the North Dormitory only had the nine of us?" Minerva asked in a strange tone."Yep." Zinnia nodded."Then how come this was too huge?" Minerva asked while pointing at the building in front of them."Uh, I don't know...?"Minerva just shook her head. She wasn't kidding. The building was too huge to only be occupied by the nine of them.When they were walking earlier, Zinnia had pointed at Minerva on where the other dormitories were located. There was where the scholars resided, the main dormitory, and the north dormitory. While the North Dormitory wasn't as huge as the Main Dormitory, it was still comparable to Southeast Dormitory where the academy's scholars resided. And compared to the North and Southeast, the Southeast Dormitory housed hundreds of students."Did the other nobilities talk about this?" She asked.