The dormitory! The dormitory! My most cozy harbor!
Erika frantically rushed in and locked the door. Her roommates, Lisette and Axis, seemed to have gone to class, leaving the girl alone in the room at the moment. But she had a feeling that she absolutely had to leave this unfavorable place, so she hurriedly gathered her books and prepared for her next class.
This is not a place to linger!
“Knock, knock.”
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
“Erika Angelina, are you in there?”
“…”
The voice coming from behind the firmly locked door was undoubtedly that of the arrogant and caustic noble young lady—Miauna Drayco herself.
N-no, she’s not here!
Erika pursed her lips, trembling, not daring to make a sound.
“ALBED—”
“Click.”
Immediately after, the utterly bewildered girl heard the sound of the lock she had secured opening on its own. Miauna had probably used some kind of unlocking spell.
“Creak.” The door was pushed open at once, and Miauna Drayco walked into the dormitory room under Erika’s dead-fish-eyed stare.
“If even such a simple unlocking spell can open it, this room really is hopelessly cheap,” she said, entering the Bronze-tier girls’ dormitory and looking around on her own. The expression on her face was like seeing the Grand View Garden for the first time.
Do you nobles greet people by starting with a zero-frame spell instead of knocking?
“It’s incomprehensible. How can anyone bear to live in a place like this? And with three people crammed together!”
Clearly, for the noble Miss Miauna Drayco, this cramped Truth Hall Room 3 was an utterly incomprehensible, abstract existence. Of course, that wasn’t the important thing now. Miauna had personally come to her dorm. Erika wasn’t stupid enough to not understand the reason.
But sometimes, it’s better to pretend to know nothing.
“Miss Miauna, what brings you to such a humble place?”
“Hmm, it’s actually nothing major, but it’s better to get straight to the point.”
Miauna also seemed somewhat hesitant. “After all, our schedules are quite tight, especially my time, which is quite precious. The young ladies of the Drake Family are always very busy.”
Although she was accustomed to arming herself with arrogance and dignity, sometimes it was because there were unspeakable difficulties hidden behind it.
“So, what do you want to say?”
“Erika Angelina, you are merely an insignificant, worthless commoner. You admit that, right? Logically speaking, you and I shouldn’t be able to have a proper conversation in the same room like this.”
“That… I admit it.”
“However, I am willing to acknowledge your thirst for knowledge and your quite excellent eye for people. After all, the one you admire is none other than me, Miauna Drayco.”
Swish. Miauna pointed at her own chest with her palm. The full, shapely curves were still visible beneath her uniform shirt.
But looking at her wavering eyes, Erika decided to be direct. “So, you want me to play the role of the perfect partner proposing to Miss Miauna in next week’s class?”
“It seems you’re much smarter than I imagined? But let me correct you. This isn’t role-playing. You really did propose to me.”
When did I ever propose to you?
Damn it, are all of you from the Four Great Families lesbians?
“Ah, ahaha, I didn’t expect my feelings to be accepted. But Mistress Miauna, I am a woman, you know?”
“Hmm?”
“Um, if my common sense isn’t faulty, normally, if one girl says she likes another girl, others wouldn’t believe it, right?” Erika widened her strawberry-red eyes, her tone innocent as if stating a fact just taught by a kindergarten teacher.
“It doesn’t matter! I am the Head of the Drake Family. Naturally, I cannot marry out. My original plan was either to take in a live-in son-in-law or directly take a wife. So, having a female partner is perfectly normal.”
If you ask me, not a single one of you Four Great Families is normal! Oh, there’s still one left whose situation I don’t know.
In any case, the current situation was not good. If she appeared in the next class as the person who proposed to Miauna Drayco, she couldn’t even imagine how Emil and Evelyn would react.
Can girls get axed by the Goddess of Death too?
For the sake of her life and safety, Erika felt she absolutely had to refuse this absurd request!
The Great Lady Miauna covered the lower half of her face with a fan. “You may feel honored! Among the many suitors of me, Miauna Drayco, you, Erika Angelina, have been chosen. Hurry up and say thank you.”
“Cao…”
“Cao? What does that mean?”
Erika tightly closed her eyes, raising her long neck to look up at the ceiling. “It’s slang among us court retainers. It means being extremely, extremely happy and grateful. It’s such an honor that my vision goes dark.”
“Hmm, I see. That’s understandable.”
“But Miss Miauna, may I be so bold as to ask a question?”
“Ask what?”
“As Miss Miauna said, I am merely a commoner of lowly status, with nothing particularly commendable about me.” Erika ruffled her hair a bit and unbuttoned her shirt halfway, looking unkempt.
“Moreover, among so many outstanding young men, there’s no need to pick a woman alone, right? I think Mistress Miauna must have countless suitors, and there are probably many who want to be a live-in son-in-law…”
But Miauna’s attitude was very firm. “Erika Angelina, that is not something you need to worry about. My requirements for a partner do not require suggestions from a commoner. Besides, you don’t need to worry about the gender issue.”
“…? What does that mean?”
“Let me explain it to you, you ignorant commoner. For our Drake Family, an extremely short time is enough to turn a pile of rotten flesh into a perfect skeleton, and we even have plenty of time to spare.”
“Huh? You mean you’re going to turn me into a skeleton?”
Are you stupid? I mean, if it’s me, Miauna, I can completely turn you into another person in less than a few days.
“Turn me into another person?”
“That’s right. From now on, you will become a mysterious ‘Silver Nova.'”
“So, you mean for me to pretend to be another person, right?”
My brain understands, but my hands don’t.
Understanding something and actually doing it have always been two different things. How could she possibly pretend to be a man?
Even if she really disguised herself as a man, could she really fool Evelyn and Emil’s eyes? Although her acting skill was Level 9, almost master-level, there were obviously major problems in every aspect!
Most importantly, this matter offered Erika no benefit whatsoever. On the contrary, it was all risk.
But if she said, ‘Just kidding, I’m not interested in Miss Miauna,’ Miauna probably wouldn’t fall for her intentionally cute act. At that point, her bones and flesh would probably really part ways…
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