Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 94

Chapter 94: That’s What Makes Her Terrifying
As the ladies accompanying the two elven royalties locks their stares upon Diluc, the young man also notices the peculiar gazes that the other female freshmen students are sending across his way, and while he is just introduced to this sort of gazes a while ago, he knows full well what those eyes of theirs signifies, a thing that he often observes when he’s with the ladies of the Draconic Realm.

Different from the draconic beauties’ purely affectionate looks at him though, these students do have a mixture of majorly materialistic desires on their gazes of admiration, a thing that he easily picked up given how obvious most of them are.

Of course, there will always be an exception to this fact as some of them looks at him with pure admiration, most likely not due to his looks but due to his performance in the Orion Arena yesterday, albeit this minority group being far in between.

He doesn’t pay too much attention to the gazes on him though as he focuses on the two elven beauties now approaching him with smiles on their mouths, the fact that they are revealing an amused expression on their beautiful faces giving out to him just how interested they are to this situation.

“Wow! Even with all that beautiful batchmates looking at you, you’re not even affected a single bit, Diluc…” as the two of them approaches near him, the clearly cheekier and bubblier Alfia said with a taunting smile on her face the moment that she enters close proximity of the emperor-like young man, not even giving him a single chance to retort to her words as she starts speaking once again.

“You know, if you’re not interested with my best friend here, I will think that your preferences are… different” the young lady added as she remembers that frail-looking young man that is beside Diluc for practically the entirety of the freshmen orientation yesterday, taking this as a chance to jab a joke at the young man.

“Funny you mention that, Alfia, since there’s also someone, I’m starting to get interested in aside from your cousin…” of course, Diluc won’t take the lady’s words lying down as he decided to retort to her taunting, his ambiguous words causing the cheeky, yet inexperienced young beauty to feel surprised and taken aback, the words ringing in her mind for quite a while before she managed to recover from the offensive of the young man.

Meanwhile, hearing these words, Alea’s pointy ears couldn’t help but perk up as if she just heard something really serious and troubling to her, a mix of emotion welling in her mind as she thought of this as a chance to take revenge upon this childhood friend of hers for teasing her all the time about Diluc the moment that she had came to know of his existence, yet she feels conflicted of this since she’s starting to take some real interest upon this young man as well.

That is especially so since she witnesses how he dealt with the events that takes place yesterday, how he so easily subjugated what is possibly one of the strongest groups within the freshmen so far, and with minimal effort on his part at that, without him even having to summon his contracted beast, which she just initially assumes he has given how powerful he is.

Of course, that is not the thing that made her take more interest on him though, what made her do so is how he just blatantly pointed and called out that female staff of the academy for dealing with unacceptable things, particularly how she’s basically fixing a sanctioned duel between two parties without one of the sides even agreeing to the deal.

Some might call it audacity or improperly placed confidence, something possibly even beyond arrogance, yet to her, this is nothing more than standing up to oneself, something that anyone with spine should do, and given just how much importance the academy places upon their staff, almost equal to the students, she just couldn’t help but admire his guts for calling that female academy staff out like that.

“Hmm? I wonder who is that lucky girl?” looking at her closest friend along with her sole male friend jokingly talking each other as if they had known each other for a long time ago and not just yesterday, Alea interjected with a smile on her face, an amused expression mixed alongside it as if she wants to team up with the young duchess to tease the emperor-like young man, something that she never thought she will regret.

As all of this is happening, the followers of the two are already starting to disperse despite their desire to get to know the rumored strongest of the freshmen more, the reason for that being the fact that these two royalties appear to be quite close to the young man especially Alea, the sole princess and successor to her mother, the queen of the Elven Kingdom, and they wouldn’t want to risk the chance of offending the two just because they are interested in Diluc.

“Is that jealousy I can sense in the surrounding, Alfia?” hearing the words of the elven princess, the young man smiles as he teases back, the fact that he just hit the nail on the head stunning Alea, who is even more surprised as her long-time friend changes side and teases her with the young man.

“Just sense? Diluc, I can practically smell the sourness in the air~” looking at her childhood friend with a scheming, crescent-eyed smile that just made her appear like a villainous character, Alfia added while stepping away from Diluc and moving towards Alea, all while patting her on the back cheekily as if to add salt to the wound.

With Alfia suddenly turning back away from her like that, Alea couldn’t help but feel stupefied, wondering who is it that had become friends with the elven young duchess first, the way that she is siding with Diluc annoying her quite a bit.

Seeing the expression on the elven princess’ face, the emperor-like young man couldn’t help but start letting out an amused laugh as if he just watches something entertaining, the fact that the gorgeous elven princess is pouting due to her annoyance giving her a little more cuteness rather than her expected fierceness whenever she shows her face.

With his laugh distracting the two ladies, they eventually shrug off this little cheeky exchange between the three of them as they start talking about all sorts of things, particularly regarding the upcoming Primaria Class entrance exam just around the corner, not even giving them any time to properly prepare for it.

“The principal is really whimsical… deciding to create a class like that and just saying it in the freshmen orientation…” as they thought of how even the two of them as new members of student council are surprised by the announcement of the horned beauty that is Aria Frostborn, the greatest power and reliance of this academy, as they did not even pick up a single news about this supposed special class outside the academy.

“That’s what make her so terrifying….”