Somewhere within the grounds of the Olsyvia Academy’s western branch, the Euphemia Academy, Bella and the others purposefully sped up their pace. As there was quite the number of spirits wandering the academy for some reason, Angel was able to use her specialty magic to communicate with them and help Bella’s group by obtaining the locations of the three students that were following them.
As the branch full of students of royal birth, the security of the Euphemia Academy was quite strong. To ensure the safety of all the royalty, students from the other branches, apart from high ranking members of the various student councils and the disciplinary committee, would have to book an appointment several days in advance before their entry onto the Euphemia Academy’s grounds.
Later, due to the improvement in relationships between nobility and royalty, some higher ranking nobles were granted the right to enter the Euphemia branch without having to wait a week after booking an appointment. This right was currently only limited to nobles with the peerage of Duke and higher and when they entered the Euphemia branch, they were allowed to bring up to three companions or servants along with them inside.
Based on the information that Angel received from the nearby spirits, Scout was currently wearing a string ring that seemed to be possessed by the spirit of a powerful old man. It was that old man’s spirit who had cast some stealth magic on Scout, allowing noble with low peerage like him to enter the Euphemia Academy.
Adelaide was royalty himself, meaning that he didn’t have to take as many precautions as Scout did while following Bella. As for what his ‘cheat’ was, Angel’s spirit friends were unable to detect it for now. Based on the information that she had received from Ariel, Bella strongly suspected that this Adelaide was a Saviour smuggled into this world by one of the male Creators. It was just too hard to pass off Adelaide’s growth as anything less than being a transmigrator, the MC cliche was simply too strong with this one.
As for Scout, Bella was already 80+% sure that he was one of those Saviours as well. The ring containing the spirit of an old man was a cliche cheat that had been quite widely used back in Earth’s novels.
Seeing Bella’s group suddenly increasing their pace, all three of their stalkers thought that Bella had discovered something and that they had been exposed, but chose to continue their pursuit, speeding up to match Bella’s pace. After walking for several circles, Bella and the girls entered an elegantly designed and decored buildings.
Of the three people following them, two of them froze on the spot. Only the student council president of the commoners’ Francis branch, Britney, decided to leave her cover and continue her pursuit of Bella, after a short moment of hesitation.
Scout and Adelaide looked a little helplessly at the building in front of them, this was a building similar to the female washrooms back on Earth and there were quite a few female students coming and going from the building, the two Saviours could only try to remain hidden outside the buildings as they waited for Bella and the others to leave.
When Bella and the others sped up their pace earlier, these two had thought that the girls had discovered that they were being tailed. Seeing now that they had simply been in a rush to use the washroom, the secretly let out a breath that they had been holding for a while now, it seemed that they had not yet been discovered and all that worry was for nought.
As soon as president Britney closed the door behind her, she was grapped by someone from behind, a hand swiftly coming to block her mouth before Britney could yell for help. Quickly, two black-haired beauties appeared beside her, most likely her assailant’s accomplices, came and subdued her and then pulled Britney into a small room before locking the room’s door.
The assailant who had grabbed her from behind was also female, president Britney had identified her attacker’s gender the moment that she had fallen into the girl’s arms, due to this, Britney didn’t escalate her resistance.
“President Britney, you can speak now, why were you following us?”
“Er, this is all just a misunderstanding, Duchess Bellina… I just needed to come in here as well.”
“You’ve followed us even after we’ve walked in several circles, you call that a misunderstanding? Then let me word my question differently, why is the student council president of the Francis branch wandering around the Euphemia branch?”
“I’m here to find… find president Ese because I have something that I need to discuss with her. For real, I wasn’t trying to follow you girls.”
“That’s strange, after dismissal today I heard from Natasha that you had something you needed to talk with president Lucia about, so why are you over here looking for president Ese?”
“Uhm… Natasha probably remembered it wrong…”
“President Britney, I don’t think a dishonest girl is suitable to be a student council president~! How about this, I’ll come to find president Ese with you, didn’t you say that you were looking for her!?”
“This… I wouldn’t want to bother you, so myself is enough…:
“President Britney, just come clean. Natasha had already told me of the contents of your talk with Lucia, you’re following me because of that reason, am I right?”
“What? Didn’t Natasha and Lucia already promise to keep my secret, so why…”
Looking at the panicked Britney, a smile of victory appeared on Bella’s face. When they had first met, Bella had already guessed that Britney was a rather innocent and naive beauty. Now after just a few sentences, Britney spilled the beans as to the reason why she was following Bella.
Quite evidently, innocent girls weren’t very well suited for this line of work. Britney’s face exposed all of her thoughts and someone who was unable to hide their expressions was naturally unable to hide any secrets. Apparently, even though the student council presidents were generally all pretty well off financially, president Britney was the exception.
Of the five branch student councils within the Olsyvia Academy, the poorest would have to be that of the commoners’ Francis branch. Britney’s family was actually that of an impoverished noble’s, her father had once been the lord of a small fiefdom who had lost his land to other nobles during a territorial dispute.
After that event, Britney’s family situation had been in a steady decline. In recent years, Britney’s younger sister was diagnosed with a strange sickness and after expending all of her savings, Britney was unable to find a cure for her young sister’s ailment. There wasn’t much time left for her younger sister and Britney was able to see a glimmer of hope after hearing that Bella had auctioned off a bottle of ‘Elixir of Life’ at the Filomina branch’s auction for the seat of honour.
Britney’s sister had contracted a peculiar sickness and ‘Elixir of Life’ just might be able to save her life. So, Britney had tried asking the Filomina branch’s student council president, Lucia, for help, hoping to be able to obtain a drop of the valuable elixir. However, due to the fact that the bottle had already been placed into the treasury by the higher echelons of the Olsyvia Academy, not even Lucia could easily get her hands on it and she could only give her apologies to Britney.
The reason as to why Britney was following Bella and the others was because she wanted to find some time alone with Bella to ask if she had any more ‘Elixir of Life’ on her. If Bella had any left, Britney wouldn’t let this chance slip away from her hands once more. After their conversation, Bella learned that the president of the Golden Legend, Carlos, had been constantly been offering the Francis branch’s student council financial aid in secret. However, he had always been turned down by Britney, who opposed the idea of letting Carlos back them.
Carlos’ Golden Legend had always used this method to infiltrate the ranks of other student associations and turn them into his puppets. With this method, Carlos had annexed many small and medium-sized student associations and incorporated them into the Golden Legend. Now that he was no longer satisfied with only controlling student associations, Carlos turned his eyes toward the student councils of the five branch academies. The easiest target was Britney’s commoner council due to their financial problems, they were the easiest for Carlos to seep into.
After learning this, Bella naturally wasn’t going to let Carlos have his way. Her association, the Rose Society, had already openly declared opposition to the Golden Legend. After dealing with the bunch of Golden Legend members who were making trouble for the Rose Society last time, the Golden Legend’s members had tried several more times to surround the Rose Society’s main office and capture the association’s last bastion.
Only after Lisha and Kriss joined the Rose Society did the Golden Legend cease their antics, at least temporarily. The abilities of these two princesses were quite widely known and their title of ‘Hero’ wasn’t just for show, of the support that Carlos could obtain from outside, there weren’t any that were able to defeat Lisha or Kriss. Carlos was too smart to send his lackeys into a fight that was impossible to win.
The Golden Legend was currently recruiting around the Olsyvia Academy in hopes of finding someone capable of bringing him victory, meaning that he hadn’t given up on depriving the Rose Society of their last piece of territory, just that it would happen a little later than previously planned. So, Bella decided to help president Britney so that Carlos wouldn’t be able to further expand his power.
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