The Archangel of Death - Chapter 54

54: Dinner 54: Dinner Chapter 54 “Student Adrian, I noticed that you haven’t selected any additional courses as your classes.

Is this your final decision?” Michelle asked after classes had just ended for the day before leaving.

“Yes.” I simply replied not going into the details.

“Well, it is your choice but this would affect your ranking.” She advised once more, trying to change my mind or just informing me.

“I’m aware,” I replied again, simply as I could.

I knew my ranking wouldn’t be affected.

The ranking is changed by three things in Bellator Academy.

Tests, compulsory duels, and class credit.

Tests are held after three months inside artifacts or other tests like clearing dungeons or missions.

The compulsory duels are conducted under the supervision of the teachers and they record your performance and your win determines whether your rank deserves to be increased or not.

Simply betting your rank is also a shortcut option because evaluation done by teachers takes more than one duel while the bet only takes one.

The last method is your performance in the class.

If you are in a swordsmanship class or other types of optional classes, tests related to them are held and your credit is determined.

Similarly, compulsory classes have written tests to determine your credit.

If you don’t do well in compulsory classes, your credit from optional classes can fill that deficiency, sort of like extra credit.

But, if you do well in compulsory classes, duels, and tests, there is no need to waste time in optional classes.

Of course, optional classes offer training as well like sword techniques or techniques related to classes.

There is no physical compulsory class so if one student wants to train, they have to join optional classes.

====== “Your Highness, the Princess of the Ravenknight kingdom, Her Highness, Laura Ravenknight wishes to see you.” A servant informed me while I was getting ready to leave for Laura’s mansion myself.

Cr*p.

If I had gone, the problem wouldn’t have been much but since she has come herself, it means apologizing would be tremendously difficult.

And sure enough, since her status was amazing, she was directed towards my personal welcoming living room and when I entered the room, the first thing that I noticed was that angry expression even though her face was covered in a veil.

Those eyes screamed, ‘You’re dead.’ Still, with a smile, I welcomed her so as to remain oblivious.

I know, bad move but I can’t just admit what I was doing for the past week that I couldn’t find the time to visit her even once.

“Hello, beautiful,” I said as I approached her.

Her expression, however, remained the same.

Yeah, I’m sure as hell dead.

“Twelve words.” She spoke in reply.

“Pardon?” I asked since I wasn’t sure what she was getting at.

“You have twelve words to explain yourself.” She replied with a calm and serene voice.

Bad sign if seen in a woman.

But it seems there was still hope.

I raised my hand and showed her my five fingers and replied, “Just five would be enough.” I replied and closed each finger with each word.

Then I sat down in front of her and pulled the whip out of my inventory.

She glanced at the whip and replied, “Even though I feel somewhat excited, that doesn’t explain everything.” Wow!

She’s amazing.

“Touch it then.

You will understand yourself.” I replied which would make it eleven words in total.

She picked it up and almost immediately, the whip resonated with her mana.

Now if someone was just inserting mana in the whip, the reaction wouldn’t have been that good.

Just at the level of B-rank but since Laura’s mana has dark properties, the reaction she would feel would be enhanced many times.

And from the looks of her astonished eyes, she must have felt that as well.

She glanced at me but I remained quiet.

There was a smile on my face though which said all that needed to be said.

“Fine.

I forgive you.” She said while rolling her eyes.

I smirked and replied, “That is a special kind of whip that reacts well to dark mana and since your mana is inherently dark, it would be ten times more efficient in your hands or your mother’s hands.” I explained that surprised her quite a bit.

“Where did you get this?” She asked after a while.

Uh oh.

I was hoping she wouldn’t ask that but I feel like if I lied, I would be in more trouble than telling the truth so I went with that.

“From an auction.” Of course, withholding information doesn’t mean lying.

Unfortunately, Laura was more perceptive than I thought.

“From which auction?” She asked once more, her voice a bit stern.

Seeing no other choice, I could only meekly mumble in reply, “The one in the auction house.” [Hahahaha] ‘I will deal with you later.’ Laura’s eyes narrowed and no one needed to explain to me that she was pissed under that veil.

“How many women did you meet over there?” She asked in a roundabout way.

“Two.

One old woman and another young woman.” I truthfully replied but I wasn’t worried.

I didn’t say anything about the receptionists and the serving girls because I didn’t have much of an encounter with them.

“What for?” She asked.

Laura was smart enough to ask the right questions.

Although she was jealous, she wasn’t the type to get angry without getting to the bottom of it.

That is another quality I like about her.

“Strictly for business purposes.

Except for business, we didn’t talk about anything.” I replied truthfully and from the looks of it, she was convinced as she said, “Be careful not to be swayed when you go there next time.” I chuckled at her reply.

She wasn’t forbidding me to go there but she was telling me, no engaging with women.

Anyway, now that we have this out of the way, we need to work now.

“You’re staying here tonight.

We have work to do.” I said while standing up and calling for a servant without waiting for her reply.

A maid deftly entered and bowed.

“Princess Laura will be staying here tonight.

Prepare a room for her and add another extra seat at the dinner table.” As soon as I finished guiding, Laura from the side spoke, “Me and Adrian will have dinner alone in his or my room.

Please prepare it like that.” The maid glanced at me when Laura finished and I simply nodded so she bowed and returned.

“I won’t be staying with you?” Laura asked with a smile which was unfortunately hidden by her veil but her eyes said it all.

“I won’t be able to control myself in that case so behave,” I replied while sitting back down.

Laura slowly stood up and slowly walked over to me.

I let her.

Slowly and sensually, she inched closer to me with every step and soon she was standing before me.

She slowly leaned in, settled herself comfortably on my lap, and softly whispered in my ear.

She made sure to move her veil so her breath fell in my ear which excited me a bit.

She was playing with fire but it was useless.

I wasn’t going to do anything yet.

“Who said I wanted you to control yourself?” She softly whispered which made me smile.

But even I knew that she was only trying to play me so I decided to up the game.

I suddenly stood up and pushed her onto the sofa, flipping places so I was on top but I was careful about doing it gently.

“Oh no~.

Please let me go.” She was now underneath me but the resistance offered by her was simply playful.

She was basically tempting me.

Of course, that is not what she really wanted so I made sure to only play along.

This was kind of a test of hers after all.

“And what if I don’t?” I asked softly, pushing her arms above her head and moving closer to her face.

Her veil was pushed aside because of me flipping her earlier and her smile was simply enchanting coupled with those blue eyes and pitch-black hair with some of it sprawled over her face.

Contrary to her expectations though, I simply and gently fixed her locks and got off of her.

She wasn’t the only one who knew how to play the teasing game.

“Let us go to your room.” She was frozen at me suddenly stopping after heating things so much.

Still, it’s not like she could say anything about it so she just blushed and mumbled under her breath, “I will get you later for that.” I smiled and extended my hand for her to grab.

She grabbed it and stood up.

“Let us go,” I said to which she simply nodded but the pout on her face was so cute that I couldn’t help but chuckle.

===== These are scenes in animes in which the main character, who isn’t dense has dinner with more than one girl at the same time.

Some scenes are hilarious in which the girls fight.

Some are harmonious and wholesome in which girls compete to feed the main character.  And then there is the last one.

The tense one.

The one in which girls silently stare at each other and the atmosphere is so tense that the main character can’t help but sweat and gulp repeatedly.

Well, I’m not sweating and gulping repeatedly, but I’m not far from that.

“Fancy seeing you here, Lady Alicia.” She lives here.

Don’t taunt her anymore, please.

“The true surprise is seeing you here, Princess Laura.” The black-haired beauty replied while keeping her eyes narrowed.

It isn’t a surprise to have guests so please don’t look at me like that and please don’t act like that.

“Nom, nom.” The next sound came from a pink-haired cutie.

Why are you even here?

Rose doesn’t usually eat dinner with me no matter how much I say but today, even though I didn’t ask her, she promptly took her seat opposite to me and started eating without even asking.  So, my evening was going very smoothly.

Very, very smoothly.

I had a blue-eyed girl flirting with me every second and a delicious dinner placed in front of me.

But then, Alicia barged in saying she didn’t like the menu in the main dining room so she came to try ours and unsurprisingly, she liked it so much that she decided to have dinner with us.

Yay!

And shortly after her, Rose entered and quietly sat opposite to me on the sofa, and without any kind of permission or saying any words, she started munching on the dinner.

And that is how it came to the tense situation I am in right now.

Now, I’m not a dense anime protagonist who is an idiot to the core.

I know why these girls are here and I don’t intend to deny that it feels very good to have so many women fighting for me.

The problem?

The problem arises when it comes to the type of women.

These girls, here, are all independent women.

Even if they aren’t, women don’t like to share, but when it comes to a strong independent woman, all dreams of a harem life have to be abandoned.

And that is why, I am quite tense here.

“Honey, this is delicious.

Here, try this.” On one side I have a provocative girl who likes to tempt me every second we are together and tries to annoy all the other girls in our presence.

“I like it too,” Alicia said while grabbing Laura’s hand and guiding it to her own mouth.

Before Laura could say anything, she excused herself by saying, “Oh my, my apologies, I couldn’t resist such an appetizing delicacy.” Then I have a bashful yet strangely forward saint, who asserts her dominance while also appearing submissive at the same time.

Before I could further analyze anything, a spoon was shoved into my mouth.

Rose, who was quiet all the time, came out to be the winner of this competition.

“How rude!” Laura exclaimed loudly.

“It is not good to do that, Rose.” Alicia also stated her point.

Rose on the other hand, simply smiled beautifully and ate with the same spoon she had fed me with.

Fire erupted in both girls and the dinner, which I was hoping to be peaceful, turned into a battlefield for these girls.

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