[Pink, so much pinkness. Why is this entire room so… pink? Why does this pinkness feel so uncomfortable? Was it because everything is pink? Wait! Isn’t this the principal office? Why are there pink stuffed animals in this room? Wait, that is not what I should be focused on.] The overwhelming color of the room made Maria feel dizzy. She felt the need to puke but she held it in. [Phew, that was too close] Maria successfully pulled herself together and tried to focus on the small figure before her.

“Tee hee, do you like my room?” As the principal twirled around like a little kid.

Maria felt dead inside. [This thing is the principal? How? Why? Is this normal?] Maria quickly glanced at Odius, who was also just as flabbergasted when he looked at the room. [Huh?] Maria stared at Odius’s dumbfounded expression.

Odius coughed slightly when he caught Maria’s stare. His cough was light, but it was enough to pull everyone's attention.

“Excuse me, Principal. I believe that you can show off your collection at another time. Miss Elisa has just recovered, and she was quite busy.”

The little principal sighed in disappointment and returned to her chair.

[Well, at least she has a working chair and table.] Maria thought as she sat down on the opposite chair “So, why am I here? Miss… uh”.

“Asereth. You can call me Asereth.” The principal added.

“Yes, miss Asereth, why am I here?” Maria asked.

“Oh, it is my duty to give you a final inspection after you recovered. You were my patient after all.” Asereth casually answered.

“I was?” Maria was surprised. She turned to Ellaina only to see the nod of acknowledgment.

Asereth pouted her cheeks as she saw Maria's reaction “What? do you not have any trust in my position as the principal?”

Maria awkwardly apologized for her rude behavior “I am sorry. Please go ahead and uh… inspect.”

“Fine, If you already apologized, then I won’t be so petty. Please relax while I work my magic.” Asereth said so while taking Maria’s slender hand. It didn’t last long until Asereth told Maria to be stood up. At first, it is just hand-holding, but then Maria felt something was not right. Asereth started to fondle her belly, then her cheek, then her breast, then her... It was at that time that Maria flipped.

“What are you doing!” Maria pushed Asereth aside.

Asereth giggled while dodging Maria’s hand “Come on, don’t be stingy. You have such a nice body. I can’t help it. Besides, we are both girls, why are you so tense?”

Maria was speechless. She could not believe her eyes when she saw how lecherous the girl before her is. The fact that both are female does not help Maria to adapt to this weird situation either. Asereth did not stop her offensive behavior but before she was able to make another move, Odius quickly intervened and tried to restrain her.

“Miss Elisa, my apology but it seems like we are currently having a technical difficulty. Would you be so kind to leave and forget what you have seen today?” Odius said so but it seemed like he was having a hard time trying to contain Asereth’s aggression.

Before Maria was able to make a decision, the door behind her burst open. A group of hooded figures came inside. They quickly throw both Maria and Ellaina out and close the door behind, leaving them in the empty hallway.

Maria turned her head and look at her maid on the ground and ask.

“Ellaina, can you explain what just happen?”

However, her maid was confused just like her.

“I… don’t know… The principal has always been a role model for everyone else. I never thought that she would act like this.”

Maria couldn’t help but think of a lecherous “role model”. Maria forcefully removed that thought and look outside the glass window. A long day had passed and all her objectives for the day were more or less satisfied.

“I guessed it’s time to go home.” Maria said.

Those words might not be much for Maria but for Ellaina, it’s felt like heaven’s choir. For Ellaina, today had been the toughest day that her lady had put her in by far.

“Yes, right away, my lady.”

Ellaina didn’t take long to escort Maria through the shortest possible route, and they went straight home.

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Meanwhile near a remote location within the Academy’s ground. There was two groups of men facing each other. The smaller group consists of the princes who were involved in buying off Maria’s chest, all of them now laid on the ground with ragged clothes and out of breath. The other larger, and bigger group, on the other hand, all wearing a mask with Alvis as an exception. They too sustained heavy injuries but not as serious as the first group.

“Well, gentlemen. I believed that this concludes the argument of ‘Whose owns this box of treasure’.” Alvis was amused at the pathetic sight of his rivals.

“Ugh, it’s just one box. Do you think that would be enough to get you anywhere in her heart?” Xinye groaned.

“You have a good point.” Alvis plays around with the small chest on his hand as if he is taunting his rivals “but I like the odd. Well, have fun dragging your broken body back home.” Alvis laughed as he left the scene with his group.

After Alvis left, the group of the defeated princes and their servants were able to start treating their wounds. After some basic aid, they were able to act a bit more comfortably.

“I don’t understand… How did Alvis get so many servants? Where did they come from?” Xinyi couldn’t help but think out loud.

“I told you guys to not be underestimating him. If you guys were not so busy trying to …cough… gang up on me …ough” Asmodius couldn’t find the energy left to finish the sentence as he himself was one of the first ones to take a heavy blow from the joint attack of the other.

Hearing Asmodius’s words, other princes can’t help but groan. Alvis was the kind of man whose brawl is rather pitiful compared to his schemes. They did expect Alvis to try something, but they did not expect Alvis to have that many people. All Alvis did was wait for the right time and signal his army to take over. The group of princes and their servants were quickly outnumbered by 20 to 1. An impossible number considering that the land of the Academy only allowed a limited number of servants to follow their master.

“Did he snuck his people in somehow?” Xinye voiced the possibility.

“a few people? Maybe. A few hundred? Are you out of your mind?” Avala looked at Xinye like he just heard the funniest joke in the century.

“Then how else can he has that many people, ey?” Xinye retorted.

“Maybe he borrowed them from someone else?” Avala gave his opinion.

“But who? Who stupid enough to do that?” Xinye laughed at the possibility, but he felt that this theory is much better than his original one.

Hearing Xinye question made Avala remember an oddly familiar story “That’s it!” Avala shouted, “Damn it!”

“I see that you finally realized” Asmodius finally broke his long silence.

“What? What! come on, don’t left me hanging.” Xinye looks back and forth between Asmodius and Avala for an answer.

“Well, who would be stupid enough to meddle with our affair? It’s not like we don’t already know of one example.” Asmodius didn’t give Xinye a straight answer, but the implication is there.

“You mean Elisa? But she only interested in Carlos.” Xinye got more confused.

“No, you idiot. He meant it as an example.” Xinyi gives his brother a hit on the head “Just as Carlos had an annoyance like Elisa, we also have many girls who would stop at nothing to get our attention. It's just that they are smarter and less bold than Elisa, that’s all.” As if afraid his brother made him look bad, Xinyi explained in more detail “Look, what these assholes meant is that Alvis probably made a deal with our admirers to supply him with resource and manpower to defeat us in the race of obtaining our angel’s heart. If we lost, they get a chance at us.”

Avala laughed “Correct. We have been in the same situation as Carlos all along. The difference is we all have someone who has been holding our problems at bay. It's just that while Elisa is doing it out of love, Alvis has been using it as a weapon waiting to stab us at the most critical moment. I guess you could say he found our blind spot.”

Xinye grinding his teeth after he heard his brother and Avala’s explanation “So what! He got the better of us this time. He won’t get away with it next time.”

Asmodius stay silent while Avala shook his head at Xinye’s reaction “That will depend.”

“Depend on what!?” Xinye was confused at their reaction.

“Depend on what Alvis can do with that box. Can’t you tell?” He asked as if it was obvious” Alvis bet everything to obtain it. He even went as far as making sure we won’t be able to act by severely injuring us and our servants. With these wounds, it will take us at least a week to recover, maybe more if we want to fight. In fact, without help, we might have to stay here for the night.” Avala can’t help but look at the sky turning dark, wondering why the Academy security team has not arrived with such a big commotion “Where are those guys anyway?”

Xinyi automatically knows what “guys” Avala talked about as he was also wondering about the same thing “Now that you are talking about it, where is the security team? They should have arrived here by now.” Xinyi looked around for an answer, but others are just as clueless as him. With the unusual absence of a security team, the group of defeated princes was forced to spend the night out with each other. Bitter and injured, they swear upon their name to make the person responsible for this suffer once they get back.

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A few hours earlier, after retrieving Carlos and leaving the BattleGround, Carlos’s master finally settled down in an empty room. She put Carlos’s body on the floor and took out a large barrel from her spatial ring. Her eyes sparkle upon seeing the glittering liquid within the barrel. With a few mouthfuls of liquid, her body trembles with delight. That short live joy ended when her attention returned to the lifeless body of Carlos that she bought along.

“Hmmm, can’t be helped.” She gave a bitter remark before throwing Carlos inside the liquid.

A few moments later, Entalia appeared, still trying to catch his breath while keeping his guard up toward the place where Carlos’s “Master” disappear to. It was a small, yet luxurious house. At least, that was what was on the outside.

Entalia steps inside and observed the empty interior. In contrast to the luxurious exterior, the interior is quite plain and empty. It was only a few minutes when Entalia found the room. With a quick observation, he can see that there is nothing that can hide a full-grown human body aside from that huge barrel. The “Master” he was chasing is also there, sulking beside the barrel.

“Are you really Carlos’s master?” Entalia asked, unsure how to act. When he heard that she was a Master, he was quite surprised. During his time to serve prince Carlos, not one time did he ever hear about her.

“Hoh.” The woman chuckled and lifted her head. Then she laughed harder when she saw him.

Entalia was surprised and confused at the sudden outburst. He couldn’t help but instinctively laugh back awkwardly. However, the moment he does, he suddenly found his head rammed against the wall.

“You think this is funny!? You think this is FUNNY!?” The woman rammed Entalia’s head against the wall each time she repeated herself. After the third consecutive strike, she throws him out of the room.

Entalia was given a short moment to gather himself only to be horrified as he saw the murderous gaze from the woman. The twisted smile crept upon her face as she slowly advanced toward him. Entalia was no coward, but something about her made him tremble inside. The blood dripping from his head woke him up as it touched his eyes, pulling him out of his paralyzing mind and making him charge forward. It was a desperate charge.

Entalia fully understood that he was no match for the strange woman before him but with the pride and duty he bears, he had to try. With the power of magic and desperation, he quickly infused himself with electrifying energy as he charged forward with his sword. However, before it even connected, he felt the power that surged within his body suddenly vanishes. Weakness and confusion soon followed as he no longer have enough strength to withstand the weight of the heavy armor that he had worn to protect himself. Just as he feared, his body immediately crashed on the ground.

The woman stomped on Entalia’s head and bury it deeper into the floor “WHAT WRONG!? Laugh some more! Go ahead, Laugh to your heart content! Come on!”

Entalia could feel his head getting repeatedly smashed into the ground. Even with a helmet enhanced with protection runes, it’s still not enough to bear the strength that the woman was applying to him repeatedly.

“What the hell happened here?” David barges in, seeing his colleague lying limply on the ground beneath the woman’s heel, blood leaking out of his armor “Wh…kuh..”

Before David was able to utter another word, the woman was already lifting him by the neck before he even realized “And who are you supposed to be, hm?

Just then…

“Hiicc… Damn… Hiccccc… where..” Carlos voice echo through the room, dragging everyone's attention to him. As he emerged from the barrel, the woman let go of David to stop Carlos from getting out.

“Don’t waste the good stuff. Just stay insid…” Her voice was cut short when the visibly drunk Carlos suddenly hit her with an uppercut.

“Shat up…hicc” He yelled… and threw up, half hanging on the lip of the barrel

Awkward silence befalls the messy room.

“He’s… drunk?”