“Uh… This, this question…ah, how should I put it…
Honestly, Keti didn’t really want to talk about it, at least not tonight. The girl had planned to just go to sleep and leave any troubles for tomorrow. But…
Since her archenemy was asking so directly, would it be bad not to answer? Ahem, ahem…
But “Lynn, um, I was thinking, if I always go to you whenever I run into trouble, isn’t that… not so good? After all…our relationship…”
As she spoke, Keti found herself at a loss for words, as if she’d bumped into a question that pierced her very soul. Just what… exactly was her relationship with Lynn?
You could call them archenemies, but… shouldn’t archenemies have nothing to do with each other? Ahem, ahem… Actually, that label was just Keti being stubborn.
The truth was, their relationship now was much more like friends.
But still, would friends really do that kind of thing?
No one needed to guess which “thing” Keti was talking about.
Even though the silver-haired beauty was desperately trying to shove everything that had happened before out of her mind, it was… clearly impossible to forget, mmph~
An utterly undefined, tangled mess—maybe that was the truest portrait of what existed between Keti and her archenemy.
Mmph, but whatever things were like now, once she went back to normal, their relationship would only…get even weirder!
Grumble…
That was why the girl didn’t want to tell Lynn right away. It was just—well, from the viewpoint of the great ruler, the girl’s doubts hardly counted as a real problem at all.
“Hmph, since when are you being polite with me, little kitten? All you need to do is tell me what’s bothering you, and I’ll take care of the rest for you~”
Grumble…
That cool declaration from her archenemy left Keti a little exasperated. Why did everything seem so easy to this guy?
Is being a rich kid really such an overpowering profession? Truly the fate of a dynasty, ugh…
Why couldn’t she be like her archenemy, able to brush off any problem as if it were nothing? If she were a rich and powerful lady, she’d definitely make Lynn her first kept man, then bully him mercilessly!
Ahem, ahem.
Wait, that’s not right—why a rich lady? Shouldn’t she want to be a tall, rich, handsome guy like her archenemy and go around picking up girls like crazy?!
Keti felt a bit awkward about the thought that just flashed through her mind, ahem… But she quickly adjusted. Since her archenemy had already said so much…she might as well speak up!
“Whew… then I’ll say it. Whew… Actually, it’s still about that competition.”
“Tonight I took the students to train at that place called the Greenhouse Bastion, but the teacher from Class 3—someone named Ebert or something—ah, I can’t quite remember if that’s right.”
“Anyway, their homeroom teacher fought with me over the venue and even mocked me…”
“Hmm… Ebert…is there such a person?”
Lynn thought for a moment, but… he really couldn’t recall such a name. Clearly not someone worth remembering.
“Eh, eh, eh?! Um… You first-year teachers really don’t know each other at all, huh? That Ebert guy didn’t know you either.”
“Uh… although he seemed to have a bit of an impression, but when I mentioned your name, it did absolutely nothing! Ugh… Lynn, how embarrassing for you…”
“Embarrassing?”
At that, the great ruler really found it hard to keep a straight face. No…
Maybe he should’ve just come clean earlier? Uh… but if he did, he wouldn’t be able to keep being a teacher, and seeing the little kitten every day would be tough.
Although things had been so busy lately, it wasn’t all that different already…
“Ahem… Sorry, sorry, I’m the one who’s embarrassed, I’m the one who’s embarrassing, ugh. I thought first come, first served—the venue had to be mine, so I didn’t yield, and even made a bet with him.”
“Whichever class did better, the loser would pay a steep price. For me, that means leaving the school, and as for that guy… he’d have to give up the elite class benefits.”
Remembering she was asking Lynn for help, Keti quickly coughed twice, composed herself, and continued:
“But… who could’ve guessed I’d get played by that Richard. My reservation request was never even answered—they just approved it directly for Richard in Class 3.”
“So now I have nowhere to train. But… without a training venue, except for Layla and Sylvia, I really don’t have confidence in the others if they can’t practice. So… I’m racking my brains trying to find somewhere to train.”
“A training venue, huh…”
After hearing the girl out, Lynn chuckled on the other end. Well… since she couldn’t see him right now, he finally didn’t need to restrain his smile, and could stop pretending to look troubled in front of the silver-haired beauty~
“Hmm? Could it be… you, you actually have a way to get me one?!”
Hearing the drawn-out tone from her archenemy, Keti grew excited on the spot. No way, did he really have a solution?
Uh…
But this solution probably involved negotiating with Richard or something, just like Sylvia suggested before. After all…
Aside from the school, the only other training venue in the Imperial Capital was the royal Grand Training Grounds. But that place was even more out of reach for Keti and her students.
Because that place was practically reserved for the members of the Magic Tower.
No… not even just any member, but only the upper echelons of the Magic Tower—those with the most power and influence in the entire capital, and their people—were allowed to use it.
The facilities there were probably even better than the Greenhouse Bastion at the Magic Academy.
After all, it was designed for high-level magicians to train, so the training intensity would naturally be higher than anything prepared for students.
Not to mention, the latter was basically built as an inferior copy of the former.
So a place like that was something Keti could only dream about. It wasn’t that she’d never thought of the possibility, just… she really had no way in.
There’s no way her archenemy could, right? Grumble…
Even if Keti admitted her archenemy looked quite wealthy and probably had some solid background, but… how to put it, if he really had that much influence, would he be content being a humble teacher at the Magic Academy?
Unfortunately, even though Keti herself hadn’t yet become a full-fledged teacher—her lifelong goal, which she was working so hard toward—she still had to admit, it wasn’t exactly a lofty position, at least compared to those Magic Tower big shots.
So… the only way Keti could think of for her archenemy to help would be for him to negotiate with Richard.
Uh… although Lynn was technically Richard’s subordinate, he did seem quite good at dealing with that Director Richard?