The black haired leader of the golden troupe pointed her blade at Alen's throat.
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The very tip of her blade is touching Alen's trhoat.
All the students currently present started to sweat. Unlike the bandit group they just faced, the presense of this woman is unlike any they've seen up until now.
They all knew that, even if they all tried to save the brown haired boy, any attempt would be cut short by this woman.
"Class S rank 11, Alen, you think we, the golden troup, arw just here to clean up after you?" Her towering height dwarfing the boy.
"That's what it seems to me" if I show any weakness right now, she'll take all the credit to herself.
"Why don't I make you see otherwise, little student?" Her blade moved upwards, pointing in between his eyebrows.
*Clap*
"Now boss, I think we can give this one to these little guys. Don't you think?" The young guy suddenly appeared between the two of them.
I don't know who this guy is... and he seems to be of our age... even younger.
...
She clicks her tongue before sheathing her sword and walking away.
"I'll report your achievements to director Goldenlaw... and you better leave before I change my mind" her annoyed tone and angry face terrified every student present.
Before walking to stand next to his boss, the weird kid winked at Alen with a playful expression on his face, causing the brown haired boy to get goosebumps all over his body.
The whole group left the scene as they saw the couple of bandits being taken into a cart.
A long sigh escaped Yani's mouth as the whole group walked on the lonely streets of the poorest part of the city "And tomorrow we have classes... Kaida, I'm skipping classes tomorrow. Wanna come to my dorm?"
"I-I can't skip classes... and what happens if we have to be there to recieve our promotions"
"If we get enough points, that is" Cole added to te chat.
"Uuugh, but they can't make us attend classes after this mission, that's torture"
"This isn't that different from classes with teacher Kafka" Alen joked as both his and Fran's resisitance is being shaped by their tormenting teacher.
"I'm attending tomorrow" Fran said before skipping in front of Alen, stopping him with a poke into his chest "But you... are nkt attending tomorrow"
"Bu-"
"No buts! Look at your face, qith all those bruises, that black eye and all that bleeding" she spent an uncomfortably long time touching each injury the boy had, causing him to yelp in pain sometimes.
"She's right, you went through the worst part" Cole added with a laugh while both Yani and Kaida nodded their head.
"I can't believe you managed to wait enough time for us to arrive"
"Th-that was so-"
"On the contrary, I told you to be safe and this is how you come back?"
The gazes and compliments of his teammates made him blush and turn around.
"It honestly wasn't something that special, any of you could've done it"
"Th-that's not right! It's tha-"
"If you keep downplaying yourself like this I swear I'll make you regret it" Fran's cold tone that she almost never used on her friend escaped her lips as she began walkimg next to him.
"I'm already getting punished for other things... can't you let this one pass" Alen's defeated sigh made the villainess chuckle.
"Nope, I'm adding to your punishements"
The friendly chat between both class S students made the shy girl tighten the grip of her fist as she watcjed them.
Yani, having noticed this, prepared her plan to get Alen closer to her friend "Kaida, we haven't thanked them for helping us, right?" She told Kaoda on a way that the two friends walking ahead of the group would listen
"Huh?"
"You're our leader, so why don't you personally thank them"
"B-but" Kaida's gazed flipped between the mean princess and the guy that protected her.
"We haven't thanked them yet" Cole added, following up on Yani's plan "And our leader has to thank them"
"See? Cole gets it"
"B-but"
"We'll call them out for you. Alen! Fran! Our leader has something to say to both of you"
"We're not interested in whatever words escape from that sinner's mouth" Fran didn't even look back at the group as she coldly rejected whatever Kaida wanted to tell them.
"Don't be so mean... I'm actually interested on what they have to say" Alen words made the princess click her tongue.
"As long as that disgusting sinner doesn't talk..."
"Alen!"
That wasn't a soft voice that came oit of a shy girl... that's the voice of an angry dude.
Tirino, who was behind everyone, started approaching the brown haired boy as soon as everyone looked at him.
"I swear to god that if you recieve more points than us, I'm killimg you!"
"Tirino!" Both Yani and Cole angrily called him out, hopimg that he'd calm himself.
"You changed our whole strategy for the worst, you ignore me and put me to fight no-names and you'll end up stealing m-our efforts of catching this group" Tirino looked at Alen directly to his eyes, challenging him with his gaze.
However, Alen did nothing. The exhaustion and and fatigue he felt were enough to not go searching for more fights than necessary.
Not after his encounter with the golden troupe.
"Y-yea man... whatever ou say" he yawned as he resumed his walking "Kaida, you can thank us later for helping out. Right now, I want to sleep"
"But it's only like... three in the morning, are you already that sleepy?"
Everyone looked at the princess with a surprised face "at what hour I'm supposed to be sleepy then?" Alen asked in a low voice tone.
"I usually sleeo at four or six in the morning"
"We start most of our class days at seven thirty..." Alen could not believe what he was hearing "you only get like two, three maximum, hours of sleep at night?"
"Yea" she said with confidence before noticing that everyone was looking at her as if she were crazy "I-I mean... I take my naps to compansate"
Alen placed his hand on her shoulders as he looked at her with pity in his eyes "Sleep as mich as you can when we get to our dorms"
"I wouldn't be able to live with your schedule" Yani added as she hid her mouth behind her hands.
"I feel like I could sleep the entire day, do the same for your health, please" Cole added as he also lets out a long and contagious yawn.
Both Tirino and Kaoda kept silence. Kaida because she knew that if she talked, Fran qould just be mean to her. And Tirino becaise he was i disbelief that he was getting ignored again.
"I-It's not that uncommon... most people have my sleep schedule" Fran tried to defend herself, not against the whole group as she couldn't care less about them, but to an Alen that was lookong at her as if she'd been living in hell all her life.
"I'm concerned about you Fran... please get a good rest tonight for me, please?" Alen's genuine question made the princess blush and act all flistered.
"I-I mean, if it's my f-friend who's telling me this... I guess that I could try"
To the whole group, this was truly a once in a lifetime sight. Seeing the princess of the Montanev kingdom acting like this made the whole group silently laugh.
Alen just gently smiled at her as she accepted what the boy told her to do.
Meanwhile, deep inside Kaida's stomach, a knot was forming as she saw those two get along so well. But she pushed those thoughts aside and avoiding to look at them.
At the same time, Tirino's rage was building up, but he managed to calm himself when he began to yawn.
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"That kid was entretaining, right boss?"
"You have no rights on calling them kids" the captain of the golden troupe scoffed at her partner's comment.
They're currently walking on the neighbourhood, watching if they come across some thugs that managed to escape.
"But you can't tell me that they weren't at least entretaining" the kid crossed his arms as they found a lost stray thug that couln't escape in time.
"Only one of them seemed worth my time" with a swift motion of her sword, she cut the legs of the escaping thug.
"I know right? He even managed to keep a cocky attitude against you" the kid clapped as a way to silence the yells of pain of the thug.
"Not even I could do that the first time we met" he laughed as he placed the sole of his boot on the thug's face "Will you report them as the ones that stopped them? Or are you doimg whatever you want?" A meschivious smile formed on his lips as he managed to crush the thugs head.
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