Chapter 146

Chapter 118: Nothing but a Small Matter

“Mmmph mmmph…”

Ah. Can’t speak… just let me swallow this… oh no, Sarah is coming!!

“Quick, let me cut a piece~”

Hearing her voice in my ear, I immediately turned around and held the lamb leg close to my chest, shaking my head like a tambourine.

“Hmm~~ (tone lightens)!!”

It’s the first day of school, not eating enough is bad luck! Sarah, really, there was so much roasted meat in the cafeteria, why didn’t you eat any then? Why did you have to come back for mine? I’m going to be upset!

“I’ll only take a small piece… but you can’t finish it all by yourself.”

Anxiously chewing… gurgle.

“No! I can finish it!”

I stared at her seriously, raising my hand—thinking if she reached out, I would slap her!

After a moment of eye contact, Sarah suddenly laughed and “whooshed” her hand under my armpit.

“Tickle tickle!”

“Pfft ha—! Oh no, my lamb!”

She was quick, taking advantage of my laughing and dodging her tickling attack, she swiftly snatched the lamb leg from my hand and quickly stepped back, out of my reach.

“My turn~”

Then she showed a cunning smile, waving the lamb leg in front of me, making me grind my teeth in frustration, breathing heavily.

“You’re cheating!”

How could she find my weakness? How despicable!

Sarah! Do you know that if you were Percival or Carlos, you would have been done for long ago!

Slap slap!

“Ahh.”

I felt someone slap my back hard, wincing in pain and turning my head to see Sophia glaring at me furiously.

“I’m being serious, and you two are here acting out a food fight? Don’t you care at all? Do you know who Alex is!?”

I shrunk my shoulders: “Yes… you said he’s a troublemaker in the royal city.”

At this moment, Sarah’s laughter choked out: “Haha… I thought that troublemaker… phew, isn’t much, today we were led around by the two of you, heh heh… especially Peyelo, it’s perfect… um, this is delicious.”

“Yes! Today we managed to fool him, but what do we do next? Peyelo, he has his eyes on you!” Sophia’s beautiful phoenix eyes widened, looking exasperated, “Really, neither of you cares… I’m worried for nothing…”

Seeing that she seemed genuinely angry, I hurriedly smiled apologetically.

“I’ll avoid him from now on~”

In my heart, I was thinking, why hasn’t Sarah given me back the lamb leg…

I sneakily turned my head, seeing out of the corner of my eye that she was stuffing a large piece of lamb into her mouth, chewing while using a small knife to shave off another piece… why does she get to eat another piece!

I immediately became anxious: “Sarah, you said only a small piece! Give it back to me!”

Sarah looked at me warily, mumbling with food in her mouth: “Follow through!”

“No way!”

As I said this, I got up and lunged at her.

“Hehe…”

Daisy was giggling over there.

“Forget it, forget it, I don’t care anymore.” Sophia huffed, standing up and walking towards the bed, talking as she went, “Well, Peyelo, let me remind you, Alex’s family is very powerful. His father is the royal city’s finance minister, his uncle is the commander of the ironclad guards, and his grandfather is Duke Lexis, so it’s not surprising what kind of things he can do in the royal city. It’s not a big deal, just some gold coins at most. You should be careful, don’t go out alone recently, remember to call us when you go somewhere.”

“Yes, yes~”

I snatched the lamb leg from Sarah

I happily responded, took a bite of the lamb leg, and then looked up at Sophia’s silhouette.

She was somewhat slender, but her figure was exquisite. About one point seven meters tall, her beautiful blonde hair was held in place by a gem-encrusted glass hair ornament, and her legs were long and straight, as if drawn in a painting.

Suddenly, I felt a bit happy.

Thinking back, from last night until now, since entering the Royal Academy, nothing that happened could be considered good. Being harassed, being knocked over, almost being late, and Daisy getting hurt… there wasn’t anything that made me feel happy.

But on the other hand, it was precisely because of these bad things that the distance between the four of us in the dormitory had shortened visibly.

None of them were bad people, which was actually quite rare, especially in a place like the royal city. People like Sarah, who were straightforward, and Sophia, who thought about others, were rare nobles.

And then there was a rabbit who wasn’t very talkative, harmless, and a little timid.

Plus this small… cough, this strong man.

It was pretty good.

The academy life in the future shouldn’t be boring, right?

Compared to this, Alex’s matter was just a minor issue.

I wouldn’t actively provoke him. After all, they were just some immature boys who liked to cause trouble for no reason, and usually enjoyed teasing attractive women, wanting to do something with them. This couldn’t be blamed, after all, having been a man for twenty-six years, I understood their feelings.

It’s just that their methods were a bit foolish… but could it really be said like that? They were just doing as they pleased, unwilling to put effort into “pursuing girls,” and the reason naturally had to do with their status.

For example, a prince could never truly do something for a woman, such a plot could only happen in stories. Because in the eyes of those at that level, most women were easily obtainable and not worth the effort. Sometimes, even if someone was forced, they would usually just cry and complain, even if they wanted to die, what could they do?

There was no solution.

Either you accept this relationship, or you can give some gold coins and leave. There’s no place to reason about such matters; if you dare to make a fuss, they’ll kill your entire family.

Especially in a social system where there is a clear class division between nobles and commoners, such matters were commonplace. From the attitude Edward showed towards me when we were in the Winter City, he already saw me as his predestined empress, without asking for my consent, even if my father was Scalliger—his uncle, this idea would not change.

Thinking about it now still makes me feel nauseous.

Alex and his friends’ mentality was probably similar to Edward’s. I believe that among that group, they have done some harmful things to girls, and Sophia was worried that something like this might happen to me.

Actually, it won’t happen…

Even if I said such things, no one would believe me, so whatever Sophia said, I would just agree.

But if they continued to bother me, or if they did something bad that I witnessed, then it would be different.

While gnawing on the lamb leg, I thought about some trivial matters, and soon heard the three girls’ exclamations.

“Hey, hey, look! Oh my god…”

“Peylo, you actually finished the whole lamb leg…”

“Oh, I didn’t notice! She sat there quietly by herself… Is she okay! Eating so much without caring… silly girl, you should spit it out!”

“Hey… hey hey, do you want to eat more pie?!”

“What are you made of in your stomach, it doesn’t seem to get bigger… Where did it all go…”

“It’s like a bottomless pit… it’s terrifying.”

The matter was exposed.