“Yo Emmy, who you looking at? Did you finally find a boy toy for yourself this year? Hahahaha”
“Arya, we aren’t friends for you to talk like that and I am the Principal. Please behave yourself.” Emilia said in her gentle tone.
“Boo! So boring you are, Emmy. Hey Sel, why does your boss deny being my friend?”
Arya looked at the light brown haired lady and asked.
The light brown haired lady, Sel, looked at Emilia with a neutral face and then at Arya and said in a neutral tone
“Because miss Arya and madam are not friends. They are bestfriends.”
“Hey!”
“Hahahaha. Emmy, Sel is as fun as always even though she is twice as serious as you.” Arya laughed and pulled Emilia closer to her.
“Sigh. Arya please behave, we are in public and there are children and staff watching us.”
“So you are not denying that we are bestfriends, right?” Arya smirked and asked.
Emilia got out of her hold and said in all seriousness
“I don’t even know you and we are not friends. Also, Miss Arya Relgar, I have called you here for business, please be serious.”
“Ah right! It’s about a boy who shares the same hair as me, where is he?” Arya said cheerfully.
Emilia gave up in wanting Arya to be serious and pointed towards where Lith was.
Arya looked at Lith and said
“Hmm, his hair colour isn’t like mine. Mine has a bluish hue to it just like my eye colour. Emmy are you getting senile with your age, can you not even look that he doesn’t have the same bluish platinum silver hair like me.”
Veins popped on Emilia’s forehead. She looked at Arya and said with an angry tone
“I am not senile. Also, I only said he has silver hair and didn’t mention that it is the same as yours.”
Arya looked at Emilia’s reaction and smirked.
“Tsk. Tsk. Emmy you are getting senile with your age and are forgetting things easily. You clearly told me that he has the same hair as me.” Arya said and provoked Emilia once again.
Emilia burst into anger and said yelling
“WHO’S SENILE, YOU STUPID LIZARD! DAMN YOU!” She got up and got into an attacking postion. Many pairs of wings spread out from her back and they were also very colourful.
Sel from the other side simply got up and went behind her madam. She put her arms under her madam’s armpits and held her back.
“Hahahahaha. Emmy it’s sure fun to provoke you. Anyway, didn’t you say people are watching? What is this behaviour, Miss Emilia Liwet?” Arya laughed and in the end gave a smirk to Emilia and said.
Emilia realised her blunder and quickly retracted her wings. She then sat back down calmly and tried to compose herself. She looked at Lith and said with her gentle tone as if the previous incident didn’t happen
“He is very pure and innocent. His overall ability is also very good. His comprehension ability was top notch. He probably would be 1st in that test had it not been for a boy from the demon’s lust family. He also preserved and survived well in the survival test and his willpower is very strong.
Because of his superior observational ability, he avoided all strong beasts and he didn’t fight even once. We do not know about his combat powers and during this test, we’ll know about it.
He is the only Vampire Prince in the world and there shouldn’t be any harm done to him. We do not want to provoke the Vampire Queen at any cost. The previous Vampire King was killed by her and the Dragon Emperor of your race was also beaten to half death and only spared because of the request from the Dragon Empress.
We mustn’t provoke the Vampire Queen. I being a Principal, am not eligible to take him as my personal student. I want you to take him as your student. You’ll be the incharge of his class and also the Club advisor for whatever Club he joins.
Of course, your pay would be high but I know it doesn’t matter to you. So, Arya..”
Emilia looked at Arya and said with a very serious expression
“…I cannot make any promises to you but I can for sure say that it will definitely help you with your last step.”
Arya got serious when Emilia said the last sentence. She looked at Emilia in her eyes and asked
“Emilia, even if it helps me as you say, I wouldn’t take him under me if he doesn’t do well. I am here to groom and teach students and not babysit them.”
Emilia smiled and said with her gentle and sweet tone
“Of course. But I do believe that he’ll do good.”
Arya nodded her head and once again wrapped her arms around Emilia’s shoulder.
Emilia got annoyed and removed her hand from her shoulder. Arya once again put it back there. Emilia said in an annoyed tone
“Stupid lizard! Get away!”
“Sel, what is wrong with your madam? Why does she act like how a stupid teenager would act in front of her crush.”
“Madam has not gotten any form of love before. She also has no experience in being intimate or close to anyone.
Miss Arya’s behaviour makes madam feel shy and embarrassed due to that and this is the reason of such a behaviour from her.”
“OOOOH! Right! right! Makes sense. I think I should even give some kisses to her. Hahahahaha!”
“SEL! ARYA!” Emilia looked at her secretary and shouted. She was her boss, you know? Why was her own secretary not on her own side? She was angry with this fact.
Emilia didn’t even think that her own secretary insulted her and exposed her in front of her. She was only angry because Sel wasn’t on her side and was teaming up with Arya to bully her.
“Stupid Lizard, let me go!” Emilia struggled to get the arm of Arya out of her shoulder.
“Emmy, if you struggle more, I’ll kiss you in front of Sel. If you struggle even more than that, I’ll…” Arya smiled and said to Emilia. She then leaned closer to Emilia and whispered something in her ear.
Emilia’s face turned as red as a tomato when she heard Arya’s whispers. She gave up struggling and stayed still like an obedient kitten. She was scared of what Arya would do to her and thus chose to give up. She then muttered softly
“B-but….I-I am the P-Principal!”
Arya leaned closer to Emilia’s ear and let out a hot breath. Emilia shivered from such an action. Arya then said in a sweet whisper
“That only makes it even more fun.”
Emilia’s face flushed. Her face was burning and she was very embarrassed. She didn’t say anything anymore and quietly looked at the arena.
Sel from the side was also a little red. She had a high rank and could easily hear whatever Arya had said to Emilia. She too was embarrassed just from listening to Arya’s words but she didn’t say anything and maintained a calm face. She tried her best to look professional but her red ears and cheeks gave them away.
Sel then took out her tablet and tapped on it a few times.
…..
Ding!
“Attention candidates. Your registration badges would now display the area where you need to fight your opponent and also the estimated time for the match. Until then, you have to stay in the waiting area.
Refreshments and food would be provided. There are restrooms and also places where you can sleep and relax. You will be staying here until the end of the tournament and those who have been disqualified would be sent out immediately.
Your registration badges would have your overall score. You can use this as a report card and as a reference for your abilities to the other academies if you fail.
There will be screens in the waiting area that would state what match is ongoing. There are 10 arenas in total. They are named as Arena A, B, C upto J. Each arena has 10 stages available for you to fight. The stages have their number. Such as A-1, A-2, A-3 etc.
There will be instructors available around you to guide you. Make sure to follow the instructions given by the instructors when you are in the waiting area.
Only the top 10,000 would be admitted in the academy, so do your best. Goodluck.”
After a ding sound was heard, a monotonous voice was heard all over the arena. Each candidate heard it loud and clear.
The candidates then saw the change on their badges. All had the number zero written in red at both the top and the bottom of the black screen indicating that no fight was going on and no estimated time was present.
The candidates were all led to the waiting area and after an hour, the fights had started.
200 candidates were fighting at a time. There was only 10 minutes given for them to defeat their opponents. If they couldn’t, the win or loss would be decided by the number of points they had. The refree gave them the points by noticing the overall damage done. The one who had the highest point would win. It would mean that one has done more damage than the other.
Lith was sitting at a table and he looked at his badge. It was written as 543 and the estimated time was 27 minutes. He noticed a person coming towards him. It was a black haired boy with black eyes. Lith realised who it was. It was Dennis Dracula.
Dennis walked towards Lith and saw him sitting at an empty table. He said to him
“Hey dude, can I sit here with you? Or is it occupied?”
Lith was surprised as to why Dennis didn’t recognise him but then he quickly recalled the bracelet he was wearing. He looked at the black bracelet in his hand and smiled.
This bracelet was an artifact given to him by Lucy. It would make people unable to recognise him. If they looked at Lith, they wouldn’t be able to tell that he was the Vampire Prince or the son of the Vampire Queen.
His face was very similar to his mother and if people had seen the Vampire Queen’s portrait, they could make it out that Lith was indeed the Vampire Prince. So, this bracelet made people below Emperor rank, unable to relate him as the Vampire Prince even if they have met him before like Dennis.
There was also another thing. People at a certain radius would always be under the effect of the bracelet. If Lith said that he was Lith Evure, nobody would think that he was from Clan Evure of the Vampires. Most people didn’t know the Royal Clan’s name and even if someone did, they wouldn’t be able to relate Lith to the clan.
The radius was very big. The whole Sky Island was under it’s effect. Only three people were an exception. They were the staff of the academy. One of them being the Principal, Emilia Liwet.