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"What?! What do you mean Gab is going to be expelled?!" Evelyn's hands make a tight grip on her dress.

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'He can't be expelled?! What the heck did he do. Tsk!' She thought as she bites her lips in frustration.

"Child, calm down first. You know that Gab wouldn't do that without proper reason..." Gil said in her head.

"Yes! Gab wouldn't do that without reason! He must have been provoked by someone!" Evelyn spoke as she was in a dazed.

She processes what happened and turns her head in the green-haired boy who was standing and is obviously nervous for some reason.

"Hey, you! Leafy! Tell me what happen?! Why did Gab become aggressive? He's not the type to be easily swayed and provoked!" She glares at him, while he avoided the piercing sunset eyes of Evelyn.

"I-I don't know! And besides, I'm not leafy! I'm Tristan!" He shouted.

"Okay... Leafy Tristan. Tell me what happened! No explained it to me on the way... Lead me to where the headmaster's office is." Evelyn spoke with a commanding tone that Tristan seems to be taken aback.

He came running as Gab was the first person to talk to him in that suffocating class where every noble boasting their prestige to one another and Gab became the center of ridicule when they learn that he was a subject of the Emsworth family. It means that he was the rumored lover of Lady Evelyn.

That became the reason for them to go at it with Gab and Lady Evelyn. And Tristan doesn't have the guts to tell her himself that.

"I think you should just go to the headmaster's office before the nobles blame him all for it." Silvester butted in.

He stands up and reaches for Evelyn's hand. He holds her hand that she was stunned that she was being pulled from her place and to the door.

"W-what are you doing?! Take your hands off!" Her face flushes red with the sudden contact.

She tried to swat away his hand but his strong grip made it impossible to escape. She surrenders.

*Sighs~

"Fine... I'm going but can you let go first? Sir Silvester?" She stares at their holding hands.

She thanked the heavens that the students have classes right now, but once it gets out that she was holding hands with someone else other than his fiancee then surely rumors will start to float again.

And Evelyn doesn't want that!

"Let go." She looked at Silvester's ocean eyes with resolution.

"Then, stop calling me "Sir Silvester". Call me Sil. I want you to call me that."

"Huh?"

'Why do I need to call him that? What the hell is this man thinking?!' She thought while she watches him, trying to guess his intention.

"Chill... I just want to get close. So...?"

*sigh~

"Fine, Sil. Now, let go!"

He smiled and chuckled and eventually, slowly, let her hand go.

"Umm... Are we still going to the headmaster's office?"

Evelyn and Silvester looked back and saw Tristan trailing them.

"Oh, you're still here..." Evelyn said, embarrassed that she forgot his presence.

"Yeah..."

***

"Headmaster! This guy here just punches my beautiful face. Look at me!!!" Vallen said as he points his finger at his bruised cheeks that was now looking like a bloated chipmunk.

"Tsk..." Gab clicked his tongue.

'I should have punched that foul narcissistic mouth!' He thought as he glanced at him dangerously. His golden eyes gleam like a hunting predator.

He really wants to kill this man for bad-mouthing his master.

'No one talks to Eve like that!'

"That's just warning... Talk like that again and I swear I will not let it slide again...!" He growled as he thought back again on how he makes a blunder to Evelyn.

"Look, headmaster! Look at how he threatened and glare at me! I'm a marquees son! How dare you, a measly commoner warned me!" Vallen appealed to the headmaster.

"He must be expelled, headmaster! A commoner's blood will sully the prestige of St. Prisch Academy!" He continued.

*Sigh~

"This is just the first week and I need to deal with this problem?!" The headmaster said as he massages his temple to relieve the coming headache.

"Care to explain why Sir Gab punched you, Sir Vallen?" He inquired.

His sunset eyes scan Vallen from head to toe.

Vallen steps back, his forehead begins to produce cold sweat and his hands trembled when he met the golden eyes of the headmaster that seems to judge him like a prosecutor.

"I didn't do anything, headmaster... I just criticized Gab's closeness to his master." He said but his eyes were glued somewhere else and not to where the headmaster is.

"Is that true?" Headmaster's voice was dangerously low.

Fallen gulped down his dry saliva. While Gab was indifferently looking at the front.

The headmaster then switched to Gab.

"Will you tell me what happened? Sir Gab?"

At that moment, a knock was heard. The headmaster sighs and asks his assistant to get the door.

"Headmaster, it's Lady Evelyn." His assistant said.

His eyes glow for a moment, a look of mischievousness can be seen in his eyes. He beckons his assistant to let Evelyn come in.

*clack!

"Greetings Headmaster Carsillion, I'm Evelyn Emsworth and I'm here because I heard Gab, who was sponsored by my family and also my aid is here because of some trouble..." She said in one breath as she looks at Gab who has a cut on his lips.

She grits her teeth in anger!

'How dare...! The guts of some dude to hurt my Gab!'

She thought as she murderous thought of ways to get back at the green-haired Vallen, who was looking at her with a question in his eyes.

"Yes... Lady Evelyn. As he was your aide, his your responsibility..." Carsillion said

"Wait... I was the one who punched this..." Gab interrupted as he hurriedly tried to get all the punishment but Evelyn also stop him from further talking.

"Yes, I'll take responsibility for my aide." She resolutely responds to Carsillion.

He nodded.

"Then, Sir Vallen what do you want as punishment for Sir Gab..."

"Wait a minute, Headmaster Carsillion, There seem to be a misunderstanding, I'm not here to receive punishment without an explanation. That would be an unfair treatment for my aide..."

She walks to where Vallen is and confronts him.

"... So what did Sir Gab did for you to get a purple make up that suit your pale face?" She said in sarcasm.

People inside the room, especially Silvester was trying his best to hide his chuckle...

Vallen turned red at the ridiculous taunt!

"Wh-what? I'm not wearing makeup! This...! This...!"

"Hmm?"

"I didn't do anything, Lady Evelyn! You should have to discipline your commoner aide! And besides, I know that his your secret lover!..."

The room went silent when the last words left Vallen's mouth.

"What...did you just say...?"

She glared at him, her murderous aura seeping out from her.

The room temperature went lower in every second that Vallen didn't answer.

"Are you telling me? That I'm having... an affair with my aide?!"

She steps to close the distance from her to Vallen, every sound of her footsteps, her icy stares send shivers to Vallen.

Before it gets her to him, Carsillion opens his mouth.

"Lady Evelyn, that's enough! Stop that murderous aura or am I just a stone in your eyes?" He warned her.

Evelyn eventually canceled out her aura and Vallen can now breathe a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry, Headmaster." Evelyn apologizes and she walks away and went to where she was once, beside Silvester.

"What?!" She asked quietly as she saw Silvester looked in his eyes.

Sylvester leaned closer to her ears and whisper to her, which Gab pay attention to.

"Nothing... I didn't know that you can emit a murderous aura. I mean you look like a bunny~ who can't harm a flower..." He chuckled and Evelyn elbowed his side.

"Stop it, Sil!" She demanded.

Gab narrowed his eyes to Evelyn's closeness with another man.

'Did she just called him with a nickname?!' He thought while he grits his teeth.

"Ahem...!"

Carsillion fake a cough, gaining the attention of everyone inside the room.

"As I can see... Both parties have made a mistake. The one made a blunder and the other used his fist... While the other used her murderous aura" He emphasized the last sentence while he alternatively looked at Gab, Vallen, and Evelyn.

"As I see it, no one will be backed down and apologize to one another so I suggest that you guys fight in a fair and square battle."

Everyone was baffled at what he said so Carsillion further explained.

"There will be a coming up tournament for a freshman... You can settle your scores there and the winner will demand something from the loser... How about that?" He explained.

"I agree... I'm a knight, I won't back down from this fight! I need to see this imbecile kneel in front of me!" Vallen said while discrimination was pasted in his eyes.

But Evelyn was suspicious of Carsillion's suggestion. She can just use her power as a daughter of a Duke but people will make rumors again that she's a tyrant.

She sighs in surrender.

"I... Fine, we will apply for this tournament."

Carsillion's golden eye sparks with Evelyn's agreement.

"You made the right decision..." And Carsillion grinned.