“Hey, look, isn’t that the three bottom-ranked students from the first-year elite class?”
“That’s right. Isn’t today the deadline for the elite class entrance exam? Why are they coming back now?”
“Hah, I heard that exam commission was simple. They’re coming back right before the deadline. I have no idea how they got into the elite class…”
Along the way, many students whispered among themselves.
‘That guy looks like he’s from the regular class, right? How dare he badmouth them when he couldn’t even get into the elite class himself.’
Xi Ya had long grown tired of these kinds of remarks in the game.
He could even repeat every single one verbatim.
Xi Ya glanced at the other two.
Dailina, just like in the game, kept her head down, pretending not to hear.
Feili, on the other hand, was the complete opposite.
Her eyes continuously scanned the female students passing by, and the antenna-like strand of hair on her head twitched along with her gaze.
‘Wow, the aluminum-copper detector is activated, huh?’
Within a hundred meters, not a single female student escaped her notice; she marked them all.
Xi Ya suspected that the strand of hair on Feili’s head was the actual body of the aluminum-copper detector.
Soon, they entered the elite campus.
The elite class’s teaching building and dormitories were located on this campus.
They needed to go to the central teaching building to submit their entrance exam.
If Xi Ya remembered correctly, as soon as they entered the teaching building, a noble classmate would jump out to taunt them.
Sure enough, a red-haired male student was leaning against the teaching building’s entrance.
He was Di Lun, the second son of Marquis Bant’s household.
Two other students beside him looked like his lackeys.
They were chatting about something, but upon noticing the three approaching, they immediately blocked the door.
“Yo, if it isn’t the three weakest in our class.”
Di Lun stood directly at the front, wearing a grin that practically begged to be punched.
“Coming back at this hour? Don’t tell me you flunked the entrance exam and came crawling back.”
“Di Lun, would you please step aside? We need to submit our commission.”
Seeing them blocking the way, Dailina tried to go around through the side door.
“Oh, don’t be in such a hurry.”
Di Lun pressed one hand against the door, blocking Dailina.
“So you actually finished the entrance exam. Well, the deadline is this morning, so we were just wondering—how did you manage to take a full five days on such a simple D-rank commission? Don’t tell me… you got your asses kicked by low-level monsters and came crawling back? Hahahaha!”
Di Lun and his two lackeys burst out laughing, attracting many elite class students to come watch.
Those students started murmuring among themselves.
“They’re the only group that hasn’t submitted yet, right? Isn’t the entrance exam a D-rank commission? That’s so simple…”
“Yeah, and there’s three of them. Three people taking that long?”
“Tsk tsk tsk, can someone really be kicked out of the elite class right at the start? How embarrassing.”
Seeing the surrounding students’ murmurs, Di Lun became even more arrogant.
“Letting you three into the elite class really tarnishes its reputation…”
“Are you done, Di Lun? If you’re done, move aside. A good dog doesn’t block the path.”
Feili spoke up, arms crossed, looking at Di Lun with a cold expression.
“Oh ho, you adopted daughter of a count have no manners. If you ask me, no matter what, a commoner is still a commoner. Even if you’re adopted by a noble, you can’t change the lowliness in your blood!”
Di Lun got angry when Feili called him a dog, so he turned to attack her.
“That’s right, that’s right!”
“You think that latching onto Count Granville can change your status, adopted daughter?”
Di Lun’s two lackeys chimed in.
Seeing Feili and Di Lun locking horns, Xi Ya silently played the role of an onlooker.
No matter what choice he made in the game, Feili always came out on top.
He just needed to watch the show.
The two would keep arguing until the teacher came to break it up.
‘Watching others argue is so satisfying…’
“Oh, I almost forgot about you. A commoner managed to get into the elite class? I don’t know if the teachers are blind, letting trash like you sneak in.”
Di Lun’s target suddenly shifted to Xi Ya, catching him off guard.
‘Why is he suddenly arguing with me?’
The noble students of this academy placed great importance on status, discriminating against nobles of lower rank and commoners.
Especially Di Lun—he only targeted Feili because she was originally a commoner.
Even though Feili was now a noble, it didn’t change others’ opinions.
Wait.
Xi Ya suddenly realized.
Of everyone present, he seemed to be the only commoner, the lowest status.
These nobles might have their own agendas, but they were remarkably united in discrimination.
As expected, everyone’s gaze focused on him alone.
The students who had been watching the show also turned to talk about him.
Xi Ya now felt as if he had been taunted like in a game—they had to attack him first, the target with aggro, right?
“You, a commoner from that filthy slum, could get into the elite class? Don’t tell me you used connections.”
Faced with Di Lun’s attack, if he hadn’t awakened his past life memories, he might have swallowed his pride.
But now, Xi Ya was not afraid of him at all.
How could he let himself be bullied?
After all, he was an orphan with no family.
He had nothing to lose.
“Yeah, a commoner from the slums like me can get into the elite class. That just shows you nobles really aren’t good enough~”
“What did you say?!”
“I said, you nobles enjoy the best resources, the best conditions, receive elite education from your families since childhood—and what’s the result? You’re still on the same level as me, a commoner, in the elite class.”
“Yo—”
Di Lun started but was cut off by Xi Ya.
“How did this happen? Don’t you nobles think you’re superior? Why are you caught up by a commoner like me? Is it that you’re stupid, or lazy? Or both stupid and lazy?”
Xi Ya had wanted to use the beautiful slang from a certain lower city on Blue Star to harshly attack Di Lun, but this was at the entrance of the teaching building.
Saying things too nicely would have a bad effect, severely limiting his performance.
Even he felt these words had no offensive power.
“You talk nonsense without even preparing a draft. You say I used connections? What connections does a commoner have? I don’t know who, relying on their family’s status, lowered the difficulty of the commission. Who’s really pulling strings? So hard to guess~”
Xi Ya continued his attack, his tone dripping with sarcasm throughout.
“Yo-you…”
Di Lun’s face turned bright red with anger.
He pointed a finger at Xi Ya, his lips trembling.
He hit a nerve.
Di Lun had indeed used connections on the entrance exam, replacing the original D-rank commission with an E-rank one.
“You what you?”
Xi Ya interrupted mercilessly.
“I…”
“I what I?”
“Yo-you slum rat!”
Di Lun finally squeezed out after a long pause.
Xi Ya felt nothing.
It was completely ineffective—neither painful nor itchy.
No offensive power at all~
He suggested Di Lun reincarnate on Blue Star and spend two or three years properly studying online.
Otherwise, even if his household registration booklet scattered all over the floor, he wouldn’t be able to find a few pages.
But with Di Lun’s level of skill, going online would probably be like struggling in a flood without finding a floating log.
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