Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 118

Chapter 118: Should I Go Wreak Some Havoc?
Returning to herself and remembering that he is someone treading the twin path of power, the elven princess then smiles wryly to herself as she wonders just how violently the other students will react once they come to find out about it, and not only the students, she is even fairly certain that those academy staffs and instructors will be baffled by that as well.

All while the elven princess is thinking about those things regarding this young man, a friend she made just before her time in the academy started, her closest friend, along with the roommate of this said young man are also having thoughts along the same line as hers, the only difference being the fact that these two are far less aware of the young man’s true strength compared to her.

“Honestly, just how much more of that talent of his is he hiding?”

Shaking her head helplessly as she watches Diluc moving away from the spot he stands on when he attacks previously, the young elven duchess, Alfia, asked with a hint of envy in her otherwise completely curious tone, an envy that slips out as she thinks of whether she could even achieve that kind of prowess when she reached the same level as the emperor-like young man.

“You’d be surprised~”

Hearing the question from her closest friend, the elven princess, Alea, replied with a mysterious smile on her face, opting not to tell Alfia about the fact that the young man approaching them is someone who treads the twin path of power despite how close they are, thinking that sooner or later, Diluc himself will reveal this fact to her closest friend if they continue getting closer like this.

Meanwhile, Diluc’s roommate merely stares at him with surprise on his eyes watching everything unfold, how he managed to deal with multiple geniuses of the same age as him without even breaking a sweat, making him think whether he’s even standing on the same level as the other freshmen.

‘I initially thought that he’s quite strong given how he carries himself and how he deals with things but… for him to be this strong…’

He thought to himself as he felt like he managed to witness a new side of this friend that saved him at their very first day in the academy, wondering just how big the difference between the two of them is.

“Looks like that teaches everyone else a lesson…”

As the three continues daydreaming and getting lost in their own thoughts, the young man they are speculating the strength of finally reaches their position, standing right in front of them, catching them off guard as they just heard his voice and not a single one of his steps, despite him walking all the way through from the edge of the relatively wide spire they are standing on to the position they are currently standing on.

Seeing the modest smile on his handsome face, the two elven beauties couldn’t help but feel their hearts skipping some beats, urging them to look away from his face in order to stabilize themselves, all while using their fair, dainty hands in order to cover the rush of blood flooding their faces, something that just made it all too obvious that they are feeling really shy right now.

Given his experience with the dragonesses in the Draconic Realm, Diluc should’ve been pretty aware of what these two elven ladies are thinking about and why they are acting like that the moment they saw his face, however, there is one thing that is in his mind that makes him overlook how these two ladies are acting right now.

For better or for worse, the emperor-like young man, despite his usual wits, attributes how the three dragonesses act towards the fact that he is the Ruler of the Draconic Realm commanding great respect from them and automatically placing him to be the greatest choice of partner there is for them, and not due to anything that he had for himself.

Hence the struggle in his mind whether he should point it out to the two ladies now giggling to themselves as they turn their backs on him, making him decide that he shouldn’t really touch such topics now, especially when they have plenty of time to talk about it in the future.

Redirecting his focus, he then looks at his often timid roommate, the expression on said roommate’s face giving him quite the surprise, not the positive kind, but rather, the weird kind that just made his entirety tingle and his hairs stand at its very end, prompting him to take a few steps back as he clears his throat in order to wake his roommate up.

‘Should I exchange rooms with someone else?’

Looking at the mesmerized expression on the timid young man’s face, Diluc couldn’t help but think of this option, all while wondering whether this new friend of his really swings that way, something that he already pretty much confirmed seeing how he is reacting right now.

Massaging between his eyes for a bit in order to not feel too overwhelmed with this oddly pressuring information, the emperor-like young man breathes out a conceding sigh as he decided to not bother about all these things too much for now.

‘While there’s clearly no one else who wants to mess with us now, that’s just on the surface, I need to watch out for people who might just ambush us if they have the chance…’

Diluc thought to himself in order to occupy his mind with anything else but these three people he made friends with during the short time he is in the Flammenherz Academy, using the things that Yggdrasil had taught him in order to detect every single freshman still fighting in the arena, the number just a little bit more than anyone expected.

“Heeh… looks like the freshmen this year are pretty good huh?”

“Looking back, it was not even this long when I got disqualified for the Primaria Class examinations during my time, and that was on a normal arena!!”

“Hahaha!! Looks like we will have a hard time disciplining them later~~”

From the audience’s seats, they are sharing the very same thoughts as Diluc regarding the number of the freshmen students still competing in the arena, some of them even discussing how they should teach the freshmen a lesson that they won’t forget so that they continue respecting the older students even with said freshmen’s strength possibly surpassing even theirs within their time in the academy.

“The problem is that monster…”

“Yeah, I guess only the third or fourth years are capable of fighting him…”

“Nah, you give him too much credit, anyone from the top ten ranking of the second year should be more than enough to deal with him…”

As the older students continues to discuss among themselves, their topic eventually arrives to how they should teach the emperor-like young man, one they already branded as monster, a lesson, this topic piquing the particular interest of the nobles within the group, a manic smile appearing on their faces as they continue to discuss about such topic, the expression on their faces showing just how much they are looking forward to such thing happening.

‘Serves him right, how dare a commoner be greater than us!?’

All while the older students who hail from noble houses thinks of such things, a person they fail to notice already slips past them bringing along with her a record of all the things they had said without anything added or omitted, this figure slipping through the shadows of the audience until it eventually reaches a particular place, emerging right beside a chair where a white haired, horned petite lady is sitting, watching everything happening in the arena unfold with a smile in her face.

“Miss Aria, take a look at this…”

Handing out the records of the conversation, the figure in the shadow said with a hint of concern in her voice, said individual finally revealing herself as a graceful, attractive lady with beast-like features of a black, cat-like ears and tail, making her appear all the more appealing to everyone and perfectly suiting her cold, seemingly distant and aloof character.

Hearing the words of her most trusted aide and close friend, Aria raised an eyebrow before she reaches out for the records, intending to read it as the concern on her friends face pretty much tells her that this is important, her eyes scanning through the records at such an absurd speed that she finishes it in just a moment, the information within it causing her mesmerizing smiling face collapse into one filled with malice, the air around her steadily getting colder and colder by the second.

“Hehehe… the guts of those brats to talk about something like that… except the Primaria Class of every year, looks like I haven’t beaten all the other classes into proper shape… those damn old bastards and their bad habits… Aeonia, should I go wreak some havoc on them?”