Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 74

Chapter 74: A Declaration
“Hello, good day to everyone here…” moving her gaze all around in order to look at everyone within the auditorium, it just goes to show the elven beauty’s practiced knowledge when it comes to this kind of things, a practiced knowledge that seems to be already engraved within herself.

“I am the head of the first year chosen by the student council president and approved by the faculty and staff of the academy, some of the elven students studying here might already know who I am, but for the sake of the ones who don’t allow this lady to introduce herself…” the elven princess said before curtly bowing forward, not so much as to look like she’s lowering herself but rather just enough to show that she is also respecting her fellow students.

“My name is Alea Alfheim Evergreen, the daughter of the Elven Kingdom’s Astrea Alfheim Evergreen, the kingdom’s matriarch…” she said with a hint of pride on her face as she called onto her mother’s name, the identity suddenly just dropped to them by this seemingly gentle and easygoing lady something that made even the bravest of heart shaken by her words.

‘Oh my god, to think that I’ve declared love to the elven princess…’

‘Fuck!!! I heard that elves are good assassins as well, is she going to send someone to dispatch me when I’m sleeping!?’

‘This is bad, this is bad this is bad, what should I do!?’

While the normal students do have their own reason to be surprised of such turn of event, the ones who confesses their ‘love’ for her is even more surprised, or rather, worried of what might happen to them now, their previous actions making them regret of making a move first before thinking things through, something that might just possibly lead them to their deaths by offending a royalty.

“Well, I suppose that’s all my fellow students need to know for now, since we’ll get to know each other soon enough either way…” Alea said as she starts moving backwards, allowing the last one among the student council to introduce herself, but not before giving one last words towards her peers.

“Oh, and one last thing, I’ll be claiming the first place on the second part of the entrance exams” she declared with a confident smile on her face before she allows her closest friend to take over the attention of the crowd, her words leaving a lasting impression to the mind of the students that heard her, particularly the ones who are about to compete with and against her as well, the freshmen.

“She’s quite the arrogant lady…” looking at the elven princess with a soft frown on his face, Michael said before he looked at the emperor-like young man sitting just beside him, wondering what this young man was thinking about hearing the words from the elven princess.

“She has all the right to, she’s quite the monster herself” Diluc replies as he continues to look at the elven princess now back on her previous position, his mind quite surprised as well from the revelation that just happened, the fact that this lady is the elven princess something that caught him quite off guard as well.

‘Should I charge her more for using me as a meat shield against this pompous young masters?’ he wonders to himself as he caught her attention as well, the two of them smiling at each other with words seemingly flying between the two of them, but given that the spotlight is no longer on her, their exchange doesn’t even catch anyone’s eyes, making only the two of them aware of whatever it is that is happening.

Meanwhile, on the front part of the stage, the final member of the student council finally finishes introducing herself, another elven beauty who seems to be someone who shares blood relations with Alea herself, the lady, Alfia Verdant Evergreen, introducing herself as an heir of a dukedom within the Elven Kingdom, a cousin of the princess.

This beauty doesn’t even pale in comparison when standing side by side with Alea, having the same build as her with her face being the only thing that seems to be different despite bearing some semblance of appearance with the elven princess as well, sharing the same shape and size of the nose and lips, with the eyes being the only extremely different thing between the two of them, this young duchess’ eyes being a downturned-shape giving her the languid look, perfectly matching her lazy-sounding, melodious voice as well.

In addition to the difference between their eyes, the other thing different between them is this elven beauty’s blonde hair being straight contrary to the wavy one of the elven princess, her thick voluminous hair also reflecting light the same manner as the elven princess’ hair does.

“Well, since the princess already declared that she will take the top spot among the freshmen, then as her cousin and closest friend, I suppose I should aim for the second place now, shouldn’t I?” as she finishes introducing herself, the elven beauty, Alfia, said as a closing remark, making the other members of the student council smile, with the leading one among them, the student council president, Kiara Van Hyperia, nods in acknowledgment as she feels like this is how a proper member of the student council should act.

Looking at the students who seems more inspired rather than angered of this claim strengthens her belief of this is how the leading students should act even more, seeing that this declaration serves as a motivation that will fuel the students to push themselves more.

‘A pity that this is only the case since she’s a princess from another kingdom. Had it been a commoner that declares that in her place…’ not even wanting to imagine what could happen in that scenario, the student council president shakes her head to remove such unwanted thoughts in her mind, making her think that she, and even those that will succeed her in this position, hopefully sharing the same goal and vision as her, will still have a lot more things to do in order to change such state of mind.

As she snaps out of her thoughts, she finds herself illuminated by the spotlight at the top of the stage once again, along with her illuminated are her companions as well, a group that she so specifically chosen in order to create a new trend within the academy, a group that hopefully, will work harmoniously with her for this entire academic year without any major mishap occurring.

“Once again, we are the student council of this current academic year, we hope that the students or our academy will work with us towards a greater academy!!” the president, Kiara, declares as her powerful, charming voice inspires awe not only upon the students but also upon that staff watching her speak, her words something that made these students feel like they’re in the midst of war for some reason unknown to them.

Meanwhile, within the auditorium, the white-haired, horned beauty, now in her youthful form, smiles as she listens to the words of this black-haired beauty, nodding with a smile on her beautiful face before her figure disappears from the auditorium.