Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Troubles
“Glad doing business with you” Diluc said with a smile on his face as he takes the lead and goes in front of these two ladies, whom then followed him as they go out of the Primaria Auditorium.

“Alea, you know, I kind of see now why you see him as a friend” Alfia said as she scans the emperor-like young man’s figure from head to toe before she directs her attention towards the elven princess once again, scanning this cousin of hers similar to the way she just did to the young man.

“What reason?” as even she herself is wondering why she just couldn’t help but feel quite comfortable when talking to the guy, Alea asks her cousin who might know of the reason she is seeking, only for her to feel disappointed as the answer that comes out of her mouth isn’t the one she is quite expecting.

“Both of you are shameless people deep inside~~” Alfia said as she rans away from any possible threat that might come from the elven princess, catching up to the young man who also seems to pique her interest, from just the average curiosity from when her cousin is telling her about him to the itching curiosity she has now.

The reason for that newfound curiosity? It is the fact that she is someone who, for some reason, unidentifiable whether it is physiological or not, is able to smell all sorts of mysteries and secrets in the air, and among all people that she encountered ever since she had her self-conscious, this guy is notably the one who hides the most number, if not the largest of secrets.

‘Which makes it all the more interesting~~’ she thought to herself as she starts getting along with the emperor-like young man as well, oftentimes joining in on the conversation between him and her cousin as they walk along the path towards one of the largest squares within the academy.

While the academy does have quite a few students, numbering just some few tens short of a thousand, the buildings within it seems to be catered for a lot of people though, the fact that there are all sorts of shops within the square making studying here all the more interesting of an experience.

‘This is quite the overkill, isn’t it?’ Diluc thought to himself as he saw that most of those stalls doesn’t even have a single person as their customer, but despite all that, the owners of this stalls seem all too happy to be there nevertheless, something that made the young man wonder quite a bit but not too much that he wants to find out the reason of.

While they are roaming around, they couldn’t help but attract the gaze of some people, especially since the two walking with him is crowned as people who are among, if not the two most beautiful ladies within the freshmen students, a title that not even the two elven beauties in question, Alea and Alfia, is not aware they have.

“Those are quite the gaze, isn’t it, Diluc?” walking faster so that she can walk with the emperor-like young man side by side, Alea said with a smile on her face that made the stares from the young men to Diluc all the sharper, as if they are killing weapons that might had already stabbed him to death should stares can kill.

“You’re not even a bit guilty, aren’t you?” seeing the smile on the elven princess’ face, Diluc merely shakes his head as he smiles helplessly at her, not even a bit annoyed at her antics given that since she already paid him for doing this kind of things, then he see no reason not to continue with this so long as she will continue to pay.

“This is a fair trade Diluc, remember~~” Alea said with a victorious smile on her face as she moves forward and turns around to reveal said smile to him, her cousin, who is just standing right beside them smiling as well since she never saw this elven princess act like that in front of someone else other than their family.

“Is it really?” as he smiles back at her, he couldn’t help but retort as he saw some students walking towards their direction, their trajectory something that is about to meet with them should they continue walking on their paths.

“Alea, looks like we can finally see if this friend of yours is really as you described him to be~~” Alfia remarked as she looks at the people approaching them with excitement apparent in her eyes, as if she’s longing to watch the fight, her expression something that causes the conventional image that Diluc made of the elven race to start crumbling apart.

“Hey, you two are members of the student council, shouldn’t you be doing something to stop this from happening?” seeing the jealousy and envy from the young men’s eyes, Diluc couldn’t help but feel like this is going to be a lot of trouble for him, causing him to ask such things towards the two ladies.

“Well, the instructions to us said that as long as the students engaging in a fight is under a duel sanctioned by the academy, then there will be no reason for us to intervene” Alea said displaying a similar smile of that her cousin, making the young man feel that these two are going to be the greatest troublemaker of his life within the academy.

“Sanctioned duels are that right? the thing where the points issued by the academy is on the line?” Diluc asks just to confirm as he already read of that from the student’s handbook, a duel where the involved participants are the ones who will decide the format of the fight, and the only thing really banned within this fight is crippling or outright killing your opponent, meaning that anything goes so long as both sides will agree to it.

“Yep, and since we’re all first years, you can’t really deny it if they really want to duke it out with you because of that rule…” Alfia interjected as she stares at the group of freshmen who are already taking the badge off their uniforms, confirming her assumption of them about to ask this emperor-like young man to a duel.

“You cannot deny a duel against someone within a certain range of points close to yours so long as you don’t have any valid reason to turn it down right?” Diluc asks as he sighs in defeat, but somehow, the competitive spirit in him is also rising up as he also wants to compare himself against the other geniuses chosen by the academy.

“Right, and with that in note, I hope that you can be careful when fighting with them~” Alea reminded as she, along with her cousin, Alfia, decided to take a step back pushing him to the front as he meets with the young men just walking towards them previously, him and the one leading this group staring at each other face to face, with Diluc needing to gaze down while the young man of the other group looks up just for the two of them to see each other’s gaze.