Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 78

Chapter 78: The Top Two
“Please, be confident, ladies, don’t say ‘this might be our fault’ admit that it truly is” hearing their words along with the regretful tone in them, Diluc said with a smile in his face that made the two of them quite stunned.

“You’re really quite the interesting guy, aren’t you? Perhaps that’s the reason why my cousin here is interested in y─” unable to bear the words coming out from her cousin’s mouth, Alea finally decided that it was time for herself to shut this talkative mouth of hers, the elven princess’ hands surrounding the poor elven beauty’s mouth and preventing nothing but incorrigible groaning to sound out of her as she starts talking to her sole male friend.

“Diluc, how about we go to the Orion Arena now?” still holding her own cousin’s mouth and preventing her from leaking any more information that might possibly embarrass her in front of the emperor-like young man, the elven princess said with a rushed tone in her voice as she already starts dragging her cousin along with her, causing the young man, Diluc, to look at the in wonder why is it that they are acting like that.

“Why the hell are you even covering the poor elf’s mouth like that’s going to prevent me from knowing what is it that she wants to say?” seeing the panicked look on Alea’s face, Diluc couldn’t help but add some fuel to the already burning fire, causing Alfia’s eyes to glow in approval as she looks at him with one of her hands raised in a thumbs up for him.

As she heard the young man’s voice, Alea’s arms starts feeling quite weak from the embarrassment about to rush to her head, causing her to bring up her hands to shoulder level and start fanning her face with them as if it is going to serve some help regarding the crisis that she is currently having.

Looking at the expression of her cousin, someone who had grown together with her since the two of them were infants, Alfia couldn’t help but reveal an entertained smile as rarely can she see such expression coming out of this lady’s face, the events in which such fortuitous happening occurring along with it being something that she witnesses being so rare that she might be able to count all of them with a single hand.

“You’re really smart, Diluc, I approve” moving towards the emperor-like young man with proud strides, this elven beauty said with a smile on her face as she stood in front of him face to face, only now realizing the difference between their heights as she had to tilt her head up quite a bit in order to properly look at his face at this distance.

After saying her piece, she once again nodded while acting like some sort of elder to him, something that both of them treated as a joke prompting both of them to laugh quite a bit from it, the only one not really having the time to laugh with them being the elven princess who seems to still mind the things that her cousin reveals.

“I suppose I should be honored having the approval of a direct descendant of a duchess of the Elven Kingdom” Diluc said with a smile on his face before he returned the act, curtly bowing at her and causing the elven beauty to snicker, this time, even Alea herself finds this action of his quite entertaining and making her giggle as well.

“You should be!! After all, these two ladies will be the first and second place among the freshmen!!” Alfia declares with such certainty in her voice causing it to be quite loud, enough for the other freshmen roaming around to her bold declaration.

As much as those students who heard it want to compete with their claims as well though, they know that they are not quite up to par when comparing themselves with these two, as they know that at the very least, they have the qualification to say so since they are chosen to be the leader representing the freshmen in the student council.

Hearing those words, however, someone is confident enough that these two shouldn’t be too sure with their claims, given the existence of someone logic-defying within their year, that someone being him.

Another person seems to share the same thoughts as him as well, this person being the elven princess who declares herself as the one who will claim the first place on the second part of the entrance exams, however, standing in front of this young man and recalling what he is capable of, she doubts that previous claim of hers will come true unless he intentionally wants to yield the first place to them.

“I won’t be so sure about that….” She said with a weak voice and a helpless smile on her face before she directed her gaze away from her cousin and towards the emperor-like young man who was also currently staring at her, seemingly noticing the way she was looking at him and understanding her though for her to come with such words as well, making him wonder just how much does him being able to tread both the paths of magic and martial arts affected her.

As Diluc thinks about all these sorts of things, he can’t help but wonder whether there will be other people similar to him who tread both the martial and magic path, yet the reply he got from the Dragon Herding System made him feel quite a bit disappointed given that he’s quite raring for a good fight to test himself once again.

[There’s a low probability of encountering other genius similar to the individual named Aria once again, after all, it takes either impossibly immense talent or a draconic bloodline in order to create such a genius, and both are something that is really rare to find]

‘It’s useless to think about it then, I should probably think of ways to hold a spar with the principal since she’s the only one who I can learn from the most…’ thinking of this absurd thought, Diluc nods to himself since he feels like there really is no other choice if he wants to improve his combat power even further as right now, he feels like he has yet to manifest the complete potential of both having a martial art and magic cultivation, and the only one he knows that is both treading the same path and is ahead of him being that violent principal.

Recalling how volatile of a lady she is though, even Diluc, in all his braveness, couldn’t help but feel like this is definitely going to be something that is life-threatening, causing a shiver to run down his spine as he thinks of just what sort of abominable things he might experience if this plan of him works.

Shoving those things at the back of his mind, he eventually forgets about all of them given that he is still entertained talking with these two elven beauties, the gaze landing on him something that he is already getting used to as they encounter more and more freshmen students who seem to be moving towards the same direction as them now.