Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Reception
“Cam you believe it!? That kid calls me the mascot of the academy!!!” complaining towards the beast kin lady, Aria said with a pout on her adorable face causing the beast kin lady to giggle once again before saying something that is quite possibly something that only her and her twin sister can say in the face of this terrifyingly powerful beauty without facing the wrath of her self-proclaimed fist of justice.

“Aren’t you really the mascot of the academy?” Aeonia said bravely without holding her words back, causing a deeper pout to appear on the white-haired beauty’s mouth, not a hint of anger in her eyes, merely curiosity to why this beast kin lady thought like that.

“Mind explaining me why that is?” knowing that the lady in front of her, her friend, always has a logical reason to her words whenever she say something like this, Aria asks with the pout still not leaving her adorable face.

“You’re the greatest figure in this academy, Miss Aria, the principal, the symbol of this place’s might and power, is it really wrong to call you the mascot of the academy?” she comforts, making it so that there will be no estrangement between the young man this friend of hers takes interest in, as she knows just how she can be sometimes.

“That’s true…” the youthful beauty said more to herself rather that to this friend of hers as she got lost on her own thoughts once again, causing the beast kin lady to shake her head with a helpless smile on her face before she stands up once again, deciding to leave this friend of hers to herself for now as she walks towards the shadows and disappears without making even a single sound.

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A bit earlier than this, just right after the emperor-like young man takes a step on the spatial gate created by the white-haired horned beauty, he is instantaneously transported into a specific place, and having felt the unique ambience particular to the academy, he couldn’t help but feel some relief for some reason unknown, this relief causing the image of that white-haired beauty to increase on his mind somehow.

As he walks around this place, he saw multiple students who seems to pass the fourth trial moving towards a single direction as well, towards a place where there is a reception area populated by multiple staff of the academy, all of them occupied with the work of giving the students the things issued when they are accepted into the academy, along with the job of making sure that there is no problem with the identity of this people, checking their identification cards or any proof of their identity and running it into a device that seems to check it somehow.

With the line Diluc falls into proceeding without any problems, he finally manages to reach the front of the reception area, being received by an amiable looking lady that seems to already prepare the things that needs to be handed out to him.

“Good day, dear new student, here are the essentials that you will need once you enter the academy” the lady said as she hands out the things to him, starting with a small notebook that she explains the purpose of immediately.

“Since we don’t have too much time to explain, we will only go with the absolute necessity, first, this is the student handbook including all do’s and don’ts within the academy grounds and even outside the academy grounds as its students, along with a comprehensive answers to all frequently asked questions on the registrar and all sorts of inquiry areas in the academy within the years, well you can say that this handbook is your personal academy guide” the receptionist said before she hands another thing to Diluc once again, this time a badge that contains the similar symbol as the one that he and Alea saw on the arch at the very top of the academy’s entrance gate.

“Then the second thing, your student badge, please bear in mind that this is the most important thing for every student in the academy, so we hope that you don’t lose it, and in the case that you do, immediately report to your class advisor or to us in the reception” the lady added before finally reaching out her hand, now empty and seemingly waiting for the young man to give her something.

“Now if you please, dear new student, a proof of identity, preferably an identification card but anything valid will do” she said with a smile on her face as she patiently waits, not really waiting for too long as the emperor-like young man already has his identification card in hand.

As the receptionist reads through his information, she couldn’t help but have her eyes widened as she found out his name, an expression that she immediately conceals but fails to hide away from Diluc’s eyes.

“Is there a problem?” seeing her previous expression, Diluc feels like something is wrong but couldn’t quite put his fingers on what it is, causing him to just ask the lady directly, her response assuring him as she shows the amiable and hospitable smile on her face once again.

“There’s no problem, dear new student, please wait for a bit since running your identity on the device takes a few seconds” the lady said as she averts her gaze and pretends to focus on the things appearing on the device she is using, the glowing runes constantly changing convincing Diluc that she’s really working and focusing on it.

After a few seconds passed, he finally manages to take back his identification card again, being handed out to him by the receptionist who already has that hospitable smile on her face once again.

“There’s no problem with your identity, dear new student, enjoy the few days of break left before the academic year starts, we wish you a good luck and great endeavor during your time as a student of the academy” the receptionist said as the smile changes into a welcoming one before the young man leaves the receptionist desk after thanking her as well.

“Hey, do you mind taking over my desk for a while, I just remember something I need to do” after making sure that the young man is finally out of the area, the very same receptionist said towards one of the free staffs just waiting on them, said staff agreeing to her request since there’s really nothing they need to do in the moment.

After expressing her gratitude, this receptionist moves towards the back of the area as she takes out a stone, this stone carved with runic magic circles that seems so complex for just any normal process, the lady making sure that there’s no one in the area before she starts operating this seemingly complex device.

As she infuses her mana into it, a figure emerges as light starts to burst out of this device, the figure coming out of it something concealed by the darkness of wherever this projection might be, the only thing anyone that can see this figure can deduce being the fact that this figure is that of a man, possibly someone prominent given his tall stature and wide shoulders, as well as the commanding aura that just seems to naturally leak out of him, an aura felt by the lady receptionist despite the man just being a projection and not the genuine article himself.

“Sir, I saw him…” the lady said as she starts narrating about her encounter with the emperor-like young man, the trembling in her voice apparent for whatever reason it might be as she continues how the encounter with him goes.

“You made sure he didn’t notice you right?” he asks as his gaze directed itself down, locking on the lady currently kneeling with her one knee on the ground, her head lowered as if she doesn’t even dare look at his projection.

“I… I felt a bit surprised so he asked me if there’s something wrong, and he eventually appears to forget it, Sir” she said with the shaking of her voice becoming more and more apparent, showing just how terrifying this man is to her.

After a moment of silence that seems to span for an eternity to her, the large figure finally opens his mouth once again to speak with her, the words coming out of his mouth something that made the lady assured that she will live to see another day.

“Forget it, you’re a good woman, so I will spare you for this just this once if you go to my villa just like the usual” the figure said after some deliberation, his mind thinking that it is too much of a pity to lose a woman like this, something that if the emperor-like young man see, will just make him wonder as this lady isn’t really all that exceptional in terms of looks and in figures, which make this figure’s fondness towards her boil down to two things, her character or her ‘performance’.

‘However perceptive he might be, he’s just a brat, I doubt he notices something’ the figure comforted himself, these words causing him to forget this event in its entirety, of course, except for the fact that the offspring of those two people is really in this capital city.