“Can you hooligans stop bothering my little sister?! She has already cut ties with you, hasn’t she?”
“Princess Irene, that time was just a misunderstanding, we pulled back to gather reinforcements! Can you just let me talk…”
“Hayden, you best get out of our sight this instant! If it wasn’t for… nevermind, but Lisha almost lost her life because of you selfish bastards!”
Lisha hid behind her older sister Irene, not willing to talk with Hayden directly. The legendary hero with the title of 【Grand Enchanter] had run off with 【Berserker] Balthes and 【Hand of Resurrection] Wulfe back during their party’s plight back during the fight at the Laerte Line, abandoning Lisha and Lola. If those void monarchs hadn’t been Bella’s subordinates, the fate of the two girls wouldn’t have been very bright.
Irene had already joined Bella’s Dark Sanctuary and only returned to the Octavian Empire(Knights) because Bella needed an insider to keep her up to date on events that happened within the Empire that Felia had belonged to, another factor was that Irene didn’t have any decent excuse to abandon the Octavian Empire yet. After she had finally managed to repair her relationship with Bella and Lisha, Irene finally experienced the feeling of being an older sister. Irene had already heard from Lola about how Hayden had abandoned Lisha and left her to die, so she was steeled on not giving this pretentious male any chance to get close to Lisha.
Lola had also instinctively placed herself in front of Lisha, she didn’t have the best impression of these three either, having shared the same fate as Lisha.
“Lisha, give me a chance to explain, please! If you don’t give me a chance, I’ll stay on my knees until..”
Before Hayden could finish speaking, a cup flew straight at him from somewhere among the onlookers, hitting Hayden’s self-protection magic formation and shattering. Hayden looked back a little awkwardly at Brad Scout who was secretly watching the scene not too far away. Hadn’t their plan been for Hayden and the others to keep Lisha occupied, then some delinquents paid by Scout was supposed to mess with the girls, giving an opportunity for Scout to save the ‘damsels in distress’?
Scout was also rather surprised at the course of events, he scanned the crowd of bystanders who had gathered to watch and found that those subordinates of his who were supposed to have been those ‘delinquents’ were nowhere to be seen. Scout didn’t know where that cup had flown from and didn’t exactly care much for that right now, as he was desperately trying to find a way to fix his plan.
When Scout looked back to where Lisha, Irene, and Lola had been just seconds earlier, they were nowhere to be seen. It would have taken inhuman speed for them to have run away in the brief time that Scout had spent scanning the crowd, especially when one considered his cultivation level of Holy Knight. Outside of the dining hall currently, several young noble males were getting the living c**p beat out of them by another group of young nobles, their screams and cries carried quite far and had even drawn the attention of the Olsyvia Academy’s security, with a detachment of guards on their way. The onlookers of the one-sided fight were mostly those from the commoners’ Francis branch Academy and chose to watch and not act when confronted with such a situation.
“Beerbohm, what the hell have I done to you…”
“Why did you glance at me?! I don’t enjoy your damn eyes looking at me, Kyle, you brought this beating upon yourself, so you better take it like a man!”
Bella’s group, now with Lisha, Irene, and Lola in tow, glanced back behind them at the scene outside the dining hall and continued on their way out. Before Bella had left, however, she had gestured to Beerbohm who was still beating on an unfortunate noble, Beerbohm and his subordinates soon left the scene as well. When the detachment of guards arrived with some of the school’s duty teachers, all they saw were a bunch of young nobles from the Octavian Empire sprawled on the ground and the group of their counterparts from the Gabriel Empire had long fled the scene.
This Beerbohm was a count from the Gabriel Empire that Bella had invited over, she had foreseen that the male Saviour back at the dining hall was planning something cliche like ‘saving the damsels in distress’. So, Bella had gotten Noesha to use her spatial magic to contact Beerbohm and his friends who had been wandering the shopping district to come over and help her deal with some hooligans, using the chaos that they caused to smuggle Lisha and the others out using Noesha’s teleportation magic.
The Saviour on the other side was evidently not as experienced as Bella in the art of plotting and trickery, Bella had quickly seen through his plan when she saw a bunch of nobles from the Octavian Empire gathered outside of the dining hall dressed like delinquents. If it had been her, she would have at least hired some nobles from a different empire from her own. Right now, Bella didn’t really want to face this Saviour head on, as 【Light Creator] Vianne’s intel had been that there was more than just one such Saviour in the Olsyvia Academy, and it would be best not to stir up too much trouble before she was able to confirm the number of enemies.
“Be… Felia-nee, it’s good to see you again, are they your friends?”
“I’ll introduce you girls later, aren’t you only supposed to arrive here tomorrow? So why are you here…”
“If I didn’t come today, I would have been annoyed to death by that stupid father of ours. As soon as I got back last time, he was looking through marriage candidates for me and kept arranging for me to meet them, it was fortunate that Irene-nee and Luce-nee helped me talk him out of it, but it was still really annoying!”
However, Bella’s group hadn’t gotten far from the dining hall when they were stopped by a group from the Olsyvia Academy’s disciplinary committee. The Olsyvia Academy was largely managed by the students themselves, meaning that the student councils of the academy all held quite a bit of power. Apart from each branch academy’s student council, there was also a ‘main’ student council with the five council presidents of the branch academies as members and a ‘chairman’ at the top, usually referred to as the head president.
The Olsyvia Academy’s disciplinary committee was under the direct control of the main student council, the student council of the five branch academies had neither the authority to control the disciplinary committee nor the right to create one of their own. The committee was tasked with keeping order within the academy and would dish out disciplinary action to those who had broken the academy’s rules and regulations. The disciplinary committee was different from the academy’s security, as the guards would only be able to deal with conflicts between the commoners due to their own lack of peerage, and when royalty and nobility were involved in conflicts, the disciplinary committee was the only group with sufficient power and authority to punish the parties involved. Mainly because of the fact that many of the disciplinary council members were either royalty or nobility themselves.
“You girls over there, halt! Are you the lord of the Saniyah Duchy, Duchess Bellina? Please come with us to the disciplinary committee’s office for a bit.”
The party that confronted Bella’s was entirely comprised of members of the disciplinary committee. Their uniform wasn’t very, well… uniform, having some members from each of the five branch academies that all wore their respective uniforms. The only thing uniform about the group was the black armbands around their right arm that signified their identities as members of the disciplinary committee. The group was led by a beautiful knight in a snow-white set of light plate that was engraved with a unique dragon emblem that showed off her status and cultivation of dragon knight.
Bella did a scan through Felia’s memories and was able to identify this beauty in front of her. Esther Natasha, a member of the Esther family which was one of the Octavian Empire’s four great families.
Natasha, along with the 【Rose Knight] Eleanor who had joined Bella’s Dark Sanctuary, was also recognized as one of the Octavian Empire’s 【Four Beauty Knights], carrying the title of 【Frost Knight]. Natasha was also called the 【Pure-White Knight] due to the snow-white colour of her hair.
Based on Felia’s memory and some tidbits of information that Bella had gotten during her conversation with Eleanor, this white-haired beauty in front of her was a rather strict person with quite the sense of justice, meaning that Bella would be in for quite a hassle if she allowed Natasha to take her back to the office of the disciplinary office. Especially as Natasha’s crystal blue eyes locked onto Bella with the same gaze as that of a police officer who was looking at the suspect of a crime.
“Classmate Natasha, I just arrived at this school, so why is it that…”
“Cut the c**p and just come with us!”
“Unless you give me a valid reason, Natasha, I won’t allow you to take Be… Duchess Bellina!”
“Princess Irene, this isn’t the Octavian Empire, you have no authority to command me here. Kadir, why don’t you and your subordinates go and invite the duchess over…”
“If anyone dares, I won’t take any responsibility for the consequences…”
“Hey, Natasha, why don’t you see how many princesses are here first… If you don’t give us all a good reason for doing so, we’re not going to let you take Bellina… Duchess Bellina.”
Before Bella had even answered, her sisters Irene and Lisha confronted Natasha, and even Noreya had butted into the conversation. Natasha’s deputy, the vice-chair of the disciplinary committee, Count Kadir, looked a little awkwardly at the girls around Bella. Not counting the princesses Lisha and Irene, the three cloaked figures behind Bella had taken out their items that represented their identity as members of various royal families.
The Aldrich Empire’s 5th princess Ariel, Kristoff Empire’s 4th princess Noreya, Octavian Empire’s 1st princess Irene and 10th princess Lisha, as well as the Manasville Empire’s 6th princess Elaine. This meant that Duchess Bellina had a total of five princesses from four empires on her side. This was Kadir’s first time seeing such a powerful ‘anti-disciplinary’ force in all his time in the position of the disciplinary committee vice-chair.
Even though Ariel, Noreya, and Elaine were are princesses with no real power or authority and could, therefore, be somewhat ignored. Princess Lisha, however, was a dragon knight just like the head-chair of the disciplinary committee, Natasha. If Lisha were to stubbornly resist, then the disciplinary council really couldn’t do much about her.
“Are you all planning to resist the disciplinary committee’s decisions? Do all of you want to go have a chat in our…”
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