Chapter 2: Unluckily lucky

WHAT!!!!

It wasn’t just me who said that. As I mentioned before the other one was that girl I saw getting ready to stand up. But what the hell is going on? I never heard of me giving a speech. It wasn’t even in the letter. Now, what should I do?

“Student Risiel, please come on stage.”

As she was repeating it that girl I saw before started to look around to probably see who that mysterious Risiel is. Nice, another beauty with platinum hair and dark orange eyes searching for me. If only her face did not look like the reaper himself it would be much better. Oh well I can’t let Lis waiting forever.

And so I stood up. The guys that looked at me with disdain before now looked at me with a confusion in their face. I wonder what confused them? Maybe because my clothes looked, well like commoners, so plain looking or maybe because of my social status? Like such things could mean anything when it comes to wisdom. Yeah, as a noble you have teachers, books and such but even as a commoner you can learn from elders. That’s how I was learning. What else could I do anyway? It’s not like my parents could buy me books left and right. They are dammed expensive.

Oh, it looks like that girl finally found me. She was gritting her teeth. She should not be so angry. She’ll get wrinkles.

Well anyway so I started to slowly walk on stage. I must say I’m really impressed. I thought that girl will start shouting like ‘What is this?’ or ‘How can this be?’ and after that calling me who knows what. I need to reevaluate her. So I finally reached the stage and Lis is showing me where to stand. Hm, I wonder what speech should I make? Hm, I’m still weak so I can’t offend them too much and I have zero connections so I will be doomed if I will mess up but looking at those shitty nobles with those stares of hate I really want to do something.

With my evil grin inside me I decided. I will make this speech a little bit interesting.

So I stared my speech or at least I wanted to but before that something unexpected happened. Or maybe it wasn’t really unexpected. See for yourselves.

“What madness is this? How can a commoner like him be the best student? Stop this bullshit already and let me give my speech!”

Wow, I don’t need to say who said that, right? Just as I thought. It really did happen. Oh well I already have it all planned anyway now just to start with phase 1.

I looked at her with an indifferent face and soon after averted my gaze that said ‘whatever’. That really infuriated her. Just as I wanted. If she wants to play with fire then she should be prepared to be burnt. I looked through whole audience looking at their expressions much to my disgust and when I finally ended I put my acting skills to action.

“Hello, my name is Risiel. As you all can probably see from my appearance I am a commoner. Many of you probably don’t believe that I am the best student and I don’t have any proof to show and even if I had, it would be meaningless anyway and as such I did not even expect this occurrence of me being on stage. I don’t have any talents to speak of nor am I physically fit.”

Before I could finish I was interrupted by booing. 2 phase start.

“You said it yourself, you don’t have any proof to back your claims. And even if you had someone like you does not have any right to be on that stage. Only people like m…”

Before she could finish I interjected with my own speech.

“I understand. It’s just like you said but I don’t have any other choice do I? I was chosen and so I will do it.”

Ha ha, showing her that she can’t get here instead of me is proving good. I need to make her more angry. To shake her inside.

“You, you.”

Now let’s start with phase 3 before she calms herself.

“But I really can’t take it from you. As you said I really don’t have place on this stage and so I think you should take it from me and so ladies and gentlemen please welcome on stage our little lady here.”

Just as I wanted. Making her angry so she would lose her edge. Then show her that her input is worthless and then when she is shaken and can’t think properly make her step on stage to embarrass her.

And so I slowly walked away from stage, well to back stage in fact. I don’t go to the lion’s pit afterall. Let’s just stand here for a while and listen. Damn, I can’t hear anything. Did they use magic to project soundwawes to the audience? Well no matter. Just seeing her mouth trembling, scared eyes and dripping sweat is enough for me.

You probably think how could something so simple shake someone? When you are before 1000 people, angry and think about bastard who took my light you won’t be able to think straight and much less give proper speech. But the best thing about this tactic is that I helped her and gave her what she wanted so I look favorably in the eyes of the audience. Oh again my evil grin. God how happy I am for my acting skills. If I would not smile just internally it would be bad. Oh well it was enough of fun for now.

I did not go anywhere by the way. I still stood there and waited until the end. Who knows, maybe there will be something important? And so I waited and started to reminiscence a little.

As you probably already noticed, I am a liar and deceiver. Since I can remember I was always like that. My mind was much more developed that those of the same age and my emotions were different. In what way? Let me explain.

I can’t feel emotions. Well that’s not correct. I can feel but at much lower state than normal. But in a certain situations I can show immense hate and love. Those that hurt those that I have close to me will feel my rage and it’s not something you would want to receive. But my feelings of love are only for those that are close to my heart. Close to me and close to my heart is different. I won’t tell you how, just find out for yourselves.

I still remember my first time smiling sincerely and my emotions changing to those of love. It was year and a half after my sister was born. I was in our house alone. Mother and father were in the garden and because I did not have any friends I took care of my sister. I was just looking out of the window and thinking about all kinds of things. Workings of the world, magic, swordsmanship and thinking about all kinds of stories. And then it happened. I could hear smooth sobbing like someone wanted to start to cry. I understood immediately and went to see my sister. When I came to her I could see tear drops of fear in her eyes, but when she saw me it changed to those of happiness. I’m really sensitive to changes of expressions so that’s why I noticed it.

But the most important thing is what happened next. She started to run to me and when we hugged she said her first word. She was speaking it over and over again. It was like this.

“Rlis, Rlis, Ris, Ris……”

That’s right. Her first word was my name. Well the first word was a little bit badly pronounced but she got better really quickly. And so I smiled with my first sincere smile and tears in my eyes. Something I never expected. I took her in my arms still hugging her and went to see our parents. When I came to them I told them what happened and when they saw my teary eyes and my smile they both wore stupefied expressions and both of them started to cry.

They never probably expected to see me cry and smile with such a smile. At that time my acting skills weren’t so good and they were my parents so they understood that I was forcing myself to smile most of the time. Mother took us both to her arms and kissed us. My sister started to smile and we all went home to take a snack.

This memory still lingers in my mind. That’s probably why when I speak about my sister I sound like a siscon but when she someone is your ray of light you would never want to harm you will act the same way. Well anyway I took a big step away from the situation.

So after I stopped my reminiscence it looks like her speech ended and students were taking their leave. I think I saw her crying while running. Well she deserved that but I hope she will learn from this experience. It’s not like I like to hurt girls. Oh my cute little sister it’s your fault.

So while I was looking and the dispersing crowd someone touched me on my right shoulder. I turned and saw that it was Lis. I used my fake smile and asked her something that was eating at me since I left.

“So, how was the last speech?”

I could not hear it so what did you expect from me?

“It wasn’t bad but you shouldn’t degrade yourself and I knew I heard your name somewhere before. I can’t believe I forgot name of the only guy in history of our school that got more than 100 points on the test.”

She looked dejected but I knew she was acting. Did her personality changed? She was more of a cool beauty type and now she is more of a big sister type. Oh well it’s not like it matters anyway I need to ask this last bit of info.

“Well anyway because I was standing here I could not hear anything so could you tell me if I need to know something about classes or such?”

There was a change in her.

“I see, so you did not hear it then. Well let me explain then. You will get a room number to your room in dormitory. In there, there will be a list with your subjects. All necessary information is explained there. And now come with me to get your room number. It is given randomly by the way. ”

I knew there was a change. She reverted to her indifferent tone of voice and cool beauty. Hm so it looks like her true self is that of a big sister. Now that I understand her more it will be easier to manipulate her if need will arise but I hope it won’t happen. I took a liking to her. Well, more like an interest.

So I went with her to get my room number. We went to the brown lady. What was her name again? In, In, Ilena so close it was something like that, but before I could remember Lis took care of it.

“Professor Irene, please could you give a room number to Risiel here.”

What a bummer. Oh well I need to thank Lis for that.

“Hm, did he not get his number from assistants?”

“No, he was back stage so he did not hear anything.”

“I see. Ok here you go Risiel.”

And so I got my room number. It was 0416. Not bad, not bad.

“Thank you Professor Irene and thank you Lis, for your help.”

And let’s end it with smile. The next part was unexpected.

“Oh ho ho. Lis you say?”

She looked at Lis and Lis reddened. What the? Is it so strange to call her Lis. Well it’s not like I need to care. I will call her like I want ti anyway.

Lis quickly took hold of herself and spoke again.

“Well anyway. Now that you have your number you can go to your room. You still have your map right? I’m sorry but I can’t show you the way. I’m busy.”

She looked dejected. Not like before where she played that but really dejected. And miss Irene was grinning from ear to ear. Really professor does not suit her. I will rather call her miss. But I won’t test that right now. It’s better to do it when she won’t have other choice than go with that. I think she would punch me if I would say it right now. Is she maybe what is called 30 and still single? Well I think this question will soon be answered but I really don’t want to be punched so I will let it go. For now.

So I bid my farewell and walked to the dormitory. It was much easier to find it then the place of opening ceremony but still it wasn’t exactly walk in the park.

So I went to the building and asked the clerk about the place and such. It looks like I will have my own room. That’s right. Because most of the people here are nobles everyone has a private room. That will be nice for practicing my magic in private. I can’t wait.

So I took my leave and thanked the clerk. I found my room without a trouble. Room 0416, here I come. I slowly opened the door and what I found was breathtaking. It was huge. There could be 3 people living here and everything was so stylish and looked insanely expensive. But the last hit to the coffin was bed. It was the type of harem king just not so big but 3 could sleep there without any problem and they would still have space to move around.

Seriously, does academy want to have group sleepovers? With women of course. I’m pretty sure some of you thought about guys. Shame on you.

Well anyway will my dampened emotions I was calm again and just took my stuff and placed them in closet and changed myself to the pyjama. I don’t care what you say but pyjama is comfortable. The next best thing is sleep naked but I don’t want to test it here. What if there are maids who wake you up and they would see my ding dong. Well that could be interesting. WAIT! What the hell do I want to do?

Well let’s not talk about that anymore. Now I need to find that paper with subjects. I was looking everywhere until I found it behind desk. It must have fell when I opened the door. Window was opened so it’s quite possible. Well, let’s take a look.

LIST OF SUBJECTS[tr][tr]BASICMATH

LANGUAGES (Mother language and 2 of choice)*

ETIQUETTE

* - Choice at the spot

MAINAWAKENING CEREMONY*

BASICS OF FIRE

BASICS OF WATER

BASICS OF EARTH

BASICS OF WIND

BASICS OF VOID

* - On the first day, then one of the 5

SECONDARYMARTIAL ARTS

ARTS

ALCHEMY

ENCHANTING

CALIGRAPHY

JEWEL CRAFTING

FIRST AID

SURVIVAL

BEAST TAMING

CONTROL

* - At least 3, at most 5

And so, with all what happened today on my mind I went to sleep.

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And I decided to do one chapter every 2 days or 2 chapters a week but it will depend. I can do chapters every day. To write one I need 2 hours but if I would write chapters with 3000 words every day then I would surely stop writing because it would get on my nerves so that’s why every 2 days or 2 times a week.