Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 69

Chapter 69: Roommates
“Students, please proceed to the Primaria Auditorium for the student orientation, it is imperative that all students are already within the aforementioned auditorium within the next half an hour”

Already preparing himself as he comes out of the bathroom, Diluc hears an announcement that resounded all the way across the entire men’s dormitory, the fact that it sounds quite loud surprising the other young man sitting on the other bed across this room.

“You good Michael?” looking at the young man sitting at the side of the bed, Diluc asked with a hint of worry on his face, the fact that this lad seems to be quite a bit shorter than any normal guys his age making it more worrisome.

‘Had it been not for me seeing that thing happening, he might be beaten into some sort of pulp now’ he thinks to himself as he shakes his head while looking at this young man apparently the same age as him as he recalls what happened the previous day when he departed from the Draconic Realm and decided to return to the Academy’s premises.

On the entrance of his dorm room, he saw four young men surrounding another young man standing just right in front of the door, the one surrounded seemingly feeling quite helpless and nervous as the people surrounding him starts throwing their insults, of course, until he came across them.

Had it not been for him developing his recently lean figure and gaining some sort of muscular mass that is quite apparent now, Diluc is pretty sure that he will also be thrown around by those young men despite the clear difference in height between them, with him standing over a head taller than the tallest guy among all of them.

This is also the moment that he found out who this frail-looking young man is, the one who is supposed to be his roommate, Michael Aureus.

While he might not know what his origin is given that he only told him some superficial likes and dislikes along with his name when they introduced themselves to each other, Diluc can pretty much tell that he is also someone who comes from a noble house of good standing, the great clothing, fair skin and seemingly stressless, innocent face making it clear that he’s not someone who is raised to know the outside world.

What is quite surprising to the emperor-like young man is the fact that despite his roommate’s noble lineage, he finds his own nature quite great once he had come to know the reason of why he is getting jumped on by the other students who folded the moment that he saw him.

“Why the hell are they even harassing you like that when they don’t even know you? Are they some sort of retard? Do they not know how much powerful students are just lurking within this academy?” as both of them enters the room last night, it is the immediate question that comes into Diluc’s mind, the annoyance at the fact that even in such a prestigious place like this, there is still characters like that.

‘Don’t that old guard in the entrance screen people’s characters?’ is what he thought about this issue as he remembers the things that the old guard in the entrance of the academy said, but given how easily they caved in and shamelessly talks to him like they are some sort of good kid makes him quite impressed with their acting skill, which is the most likely reason why even that old guard went pass them and feel like there is no problem.

‘Not to mention those people seems to be sons of some quite high-ranking nobles’ he added as he closes the door as well, allowing the frail Michael to enter first as he thinks of all these things.

“T-they saw me helping some commoner students… t-that’s what they told me” Michael replies back then with some apparent trace of conviction in his weak voice, something that even Diluc doesn’t expect hearing from the frail-looking young man.

Seeing that he treats those commoners quite good, Diluc finds some sense of camaraderie with this young man, deciding that should push comes to shove, he should help him when time comes, yet he also decided that he will only do so in dire situations and not become a nanny for this guy given that he also has his goals that he wants, and even needs to accomplish since he comes to this academy.

Back to the present, Michael seems to be quite flustered as he looks at the emperor-like young man in front of him, his frail stature and narrow shoulders seemingly looking even more narrow as he put his arms in front of him with both his hands clasped on each other, the widened gaze from his large eyes avoiding looking at the figure in front of him, as if he feels like there’s something wrong with him doing so.

“What the hell are you blushing for?” seeing the crimson red tint on the young man’s ears slightly hidden beneath his straight, shoulder length black hair, Diluc couldn’t help but feel weird about this young man, thinking that he should probably keep his distance from this guy.

“Y-your clothes…” pointing towards his chiseled, naked upper body, Michael said with his words eventually getting more and more silent as his words goes by, eventually reaching a point where his words can no longer be heard.

‘Fuck!!!’ now knowing why this frail-looking young man is acting like that, Diluc reinforced his previous decision to avoid this guy as much as possible, but for now, he thinks that he can still remedy the situation into a less awkward one.

“Michael, you’re a guy, how the hell can you feel embarrassed seeing a fellow young man’s upper body?” Diluc asked with a hint of conviction on his face, thinking that at the very least, he should point it out for this frail-looking young man to realize.

“O-oh…” Michael agreed with a weak voice before his gaze returns towards the floor once again, causing Diluc to helplessly shake his head as a wry smile appears on his face.

‘Nothing I can do about it’ he conceded as he starts getting dressed up, preparing the clothes he acquired for himself directly from one of the buildings in the school, finding the fact that the academy issuing such uniform for free is something really convenient given that some other schools in the kingdom even goes so far as to make the students pay for their own uniform.

“Three-circle magic and physical protection, as well as a homing feature… the academy really spares no effort into making these things huh…” feeling quite impressed at this uniform issued by the academy, Diluc couldn’t help but nod to himself as he starts feeling around his own body, checking whether this thing is the perfect fit, which it is, smiling with satisfaction on his face after doing so.

‘The enchantments are really high-quality’ he added to himself as he runs his mana to the Magic Circles etched hiddenly on this uniform, the fact that he only needs minimal mana consumption to keep this protection active making him quite fascinated by it, given that enchantments similar to this are something really hard to create.

Enchantments, magic circles that can be engraved of etched into items that are used by anyone to improve the efficiency of it, one such example being the uniform that Diluc, as well as Michael, is currently wearing, one that is engraved with a three-circle protection which means that this uniform provides their student with protection that can pretty much be immune against anyone with an equivalent combat power as someone of either a Yellow Core mage or a Blood Vessel Widening martial artist, and higher circled enchantments means that it provides higher level protection, meaning that should it be four-circle, then it can protect the students from attacks of that level and so on for the higher ones.

Seeing that Michael appears to be prepared to go out as well, Diluc sighs before a smile appears on his face as he opens the door of their room, looking back at the frail-looking young man before he talks to him once again.

“What? You’re not coming?” he invites as he moves his head and points out to the outside, prompting his roommate to nod at him as he stands up from his bed, the determined look on his face something that is quite unexpected from him even for the people who know him, but given that Diluc already saw the conviction in his eyes when this guy talks about valuing and protecting the commoners, the doesn’t really find it all that surprising.

‘He just need to temper himself, and what is a better place to do that than here in the academy right?’ the Ruler of the Draconic Realm thought to himself as he looks at this roommate of his, thinking that his frail nature will eventually change as his time on the academy begin.