Chapter 90. Cornelia Succumbs to Temptation (1/2)

“N-no, w-we are from Class A.”

Cornelia seemed very nervous when facing a new classmate, and her speech was a bit stuttered.

“Huh? Class A? Then how many classes did you skip to be required to attend make-up classes?”

Flora asked with great surprise.

Her gaze gradually became serious, as if she were looking at some extraordinary problem students.

This made the corner of Dekan’s mouth twitch slightly.

You have the nerve to talk about us?

We are the pride of the Knight Faculty!

“W-we…”

Cornelia was trying hard to explain.

However, Flora propped her chin on her hand, observing Cornelia’s expression with a smile.

“Ehehe, feeling guilty now, are you? But no matter how many classes you skip, you won’t have skipped as many as me. I’m quite confident in my class-skipping skills, you know!”

Flora’s tone was very proud.

“I-I…”

This really confused Cornelia.

She didn’t know how to explain to Flora that they were actually good students who abided by the school rules.

And she had never been treated so kindly by a girl since coming to the academy.

She thought Flora was a very nice person, but she didn’t know how to interact with this type of classmate.

After all, not everyone could understand her meaning as quickly as Dekan.

She felt more and more anxious, and found it increasingly difficult to organize her words.

“De-Dekan, he-help me!”

Cornelia grabbed Dekan’s sleeve helplessly.

“Uh…”

Dekan had wanted to explain, but on second thought, he felt this was a good opportunity.

Cornelia needed to practice her language skills more.

And Cornelia’s anxious look was a rare sight.

Flora naturally didn’t give them a chance to explain, and continued with a smile:

“Hehe, no need to explain, we all get it. Which class in this Knight Faculty dares to call themselves top students, and which class doesn’t have its underachievers? From now on, the three of us are the ‘Truancy Trio’!”

“No, Cornelia did-didn’t skip class!”

Cornelia managed to spit out a sentence with great effort.

“Hahaha, don’t be stubborn. But your clumsy acting is also exceptionally cute! Dekan, don’t you think so!”

Flora laughed happily, seeming to have already become familiar with these two.

“Indeed.”

Dekan nodded.

“Hoho, you admit it! You two really are the truancy kings of Class A!”

Flora seemed to have misunderstood what Dekan meant by “indeed,” or perhaps they were just not on the same wavelength.

Cornelia seemed to have thought of a way to explain things properly to Flora.

She prepared to organize her thoughts and write a paragraph on a piece of paper to hand to Flora.

So she pursed her lips and wrote and crossed out things on the paper with her head down, looking very wronged.

Flora watched as Cornelia wrote slowly and nodded with satisfaction.

Everyone here was an underachiever, as expected.

“By the way, are you two really willing to stay here for a whole day? The weather today is exceptionally good!”

Flora was clearly the type who wouldn’t let her deskmate study in peace.

Her words never stopped.

“Do you have any ideas?”

Dekan asked with a smile.

“Originally, I planned to just stay here and sleep through this class. But, after seeing you two, my soul of freedom has started to stir restlessly again!”

Flora suddenly stood up, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Dekan and Cornelia.

“How about the three of us skip class together!”

She finally said what she wanted to say the most.

“N-no, we can’t. Skip-skipping class is not good!”

Cornelia quickly put down her pen and tried to persuade her.

“Let’s go together! Dekan, Cornelia, let’s go eat parfaits, sunbathe, and play with cats!”

Flora had already left her seat and was almost dancing in the sunlight shining through the classroom window.

“Mmm…”

Cornelia would normally never consider skipping class.

But.

It wasn’t easy to find a girl who was so enthusiastic towards her, and Cornelia didn’t want to refuse her.

Most importantly, play with cats!

What to choose!

It’s so difficult!

She fell into extreme indecision.

“I-I…”

Cornelia seemed to be gradually getting confused and looked at Dekan again.

She needed a processor.

“We are not under mandatory tutoring, so strictly speaking, even if we leave this class, it doesn’t count as skipping,” Dekan explained with a helpless smile.

Looking at Cornelia, he knew that if he didn’t let her go out and play today, she would regret it for the whole day.

Even if she stayed to study, she would likely be listless for the entire day.

Sometimes it was like that.

When you met like-minded friends, anyone would find it impossible to resist temptation.

“Ding-dong!”

The bell rang.

Although the teacher hadn't appeared yet, they didn’t have much time left to think.

If they were going to escape, it had to be now!

However, before they had made a final decision, Flora had already opened the window and jumped down from the third floor.

Her decisiveness once again shocked Dekan and Cornelia.

As expected of someone who didn't even know her own classmates after two months of school!

Cornelia: “What do?”

Dekan: “Let’s go!”

Cornelia nodded, a little excited, a little scared, and a little thrilled.

She immediately stood up and ran to the window, preparing to jump down.

However, she suddenly remembered something.

She almost forgot to bring her brain.

So she immediately ran back, picked up Dekan, and jumped down with him.

“Wow!”

Flora, standing downstairs, cheered when she saw Cornelia and Dekan had also come down.

“Yay! Let’s run!”

Flora ran over to the two of them and shouted happily.

Dekan and Cornelia looked at each other and both showed helpless smiles.

Although Flora was strange, they didn’t dislike her.

Who would refuse an energetic girl who invited you to skip class and play?

“Hahaha, today is a historic meeting of our Truancy Alliance!”

The three of them walked freely on campus, and Flora said with a laugh.

She was now convinced that the three of them together would probably have a hard time mustering up a single brain.

Cornelia probably had good physical fitness, but she wasn’t good at studying.

And Dekan not only had poor grades that required make-up classes, but his physical fitness was also poor. Apart from his looks, he had nothing.

But as long as everyone had fun together, that was all that mattered!

Happiness didn’t require a brain!

“…”

Dekan looked at Flora’s brilliant smile, and his face gradually filled with black lines.

PART 2

He could roughly guess what was going on in Flora’s mind.

It must be very rude!

Dekan had never been treated as a fool before!

But to be fair, Dekan couldn’t get truly angry at a pure, natural idiot like Flora.

She had no malice; she was just too free-spirited and carefree.

“By the way, are you really not afraid of being expelled for skipping class like this?”

Dekan couldn’t help but ask.

No matter what.

Even in the Knight Faculty, skipping class for two months was too much.

He felt that even for top students like himself and Cornelia, skipping class for two weeks would definitely lead to a serious talk with the school.

“It’s fine. My family is quite powerful! I have an earl for a father! And he’s on good terms with the dean.”

Flora made no attempt to hide the fact that she was a nepotism case, stating it openly.

“Besides, if I could really be expelled, that would be great!”

When expulsion was mentioned, her tone became at least seventy percent more cheerful, as if she couldn’t wait to leave this school.

“No, Flora, you can’t, go.”

It wasn’t easy for Cornelia to make a female friend she got along with so well.

Previously, her social circle at school was basically limited to Dekan and Cloix.

Although there were other classmates she could talk to, most were just acquaintances she would greet when they met.

She couldn’t accept the idea of Flora being expelled.

“Don’t worry. I’ve only been required to attend make-up classes after skipping for two months. I won’t be expelled even if I skip for another year!”

Flora explained with her strange logic, sounding quite confident.

Dekan had originally thought that the nobles of this country were all quite normal.

For example, Teresia and Cloix.

Even a dandy like Frata was at least a diligent top student.

At least they looked like nobles.

He didn't expect there to be a weirdo like Flora.

Her behavior pattern was completely unlike something a noble lady would do…

…

The three of them chatted as they walked towards the dessert shop.

Once Flora’s floodgates opened, she became talkative, telling Dekan and Cornelia about her life.

She had been forced by her family to take the entrance exam.

Originally, her family didn’t have much control over her; she had been raised happily since childhood.

But her brother was unruly and ran off to roam the world.

So Flora, as the eldest daughter of the family, began to be strictly disciplined.

Of course, the main reason might have been that her family had discovered the consequences of a happy upbringing and was afraid that she would also fly away like her brother.

So they stopped letting her run free.

“You’re actually the daughter of that iron-blooded earl—General Hanover?”

Dekan couldn’t imagine that Flora was the young lady of such a respectable and prominent family.

“Yes, yes, my full name is Flora Hanover.”

“Then why isn’t your brother caught and brought back by the family? Besides, as the young master of an earl, isn’t he afraid of being kidnapped?”

Like father, like son.

You are all embodiments of freedom.

It’s a miracle the family hasn’t fallen apart.

He complained silently in his heart.

“Although my brother isn’t good at fighting, he has a unique talent for communication and a great business sense. You don’t have to worry about him being short of money, unlike me who’s so clumsy…”

As she said this, Flora pouted her ruby-red lips, looking a little aggrieved.

“He’s very smart?”

“Yes, my intelligence was probably all given to him.”

Dekan stared at Flora’s face again for a few moments, feeling more and more familiar.

“How much older is your brother than you?”

“Two years.”

He finally seemed to have confirmed something, and asked with a frown:

“Is your brother very handsome, looking elegant and kind, but if you look closely at his eyes, there’s a hint of danger?”

Dekan summarized his impression of a certain person from his memory and asked.

When he first saw Flora in the classroom, he had felt she looked a bit familiar.

Especially her eye color and hair color.

They were almost the same as the person in his memory.

“Yes, yes! Have you seen my brother?”

“…Is his name Morion?”

“Yes! Are you a friend of my brother?”

“Damn! Ah, no… I guess you could say we’re friends. Back in the Kuran Border Territory, he stayed in our town for a while.”

Dekan gnashed his teeth at the thought of this guy.

Damn profiteer!

In this world, to this day, the only person who had dared to pull teeth from a tiger’s mouth from Dekan!

He had bought that batch of 【Bandit Goblins】 at a price of 100 copper coins per card!

And then this guy actually dared to risk being caught by his family and ran to a crowded place like the Royal Capital to sell this batch of cards.

And he wasn’t even discovered by anyone!

What a guy who valued money more than his life.

At the thought of Morion, Dekan’s fists clenched unconsciously.

“By the way, does your family have any kind of bounty? For example, how much is the reward for catching your brother?”

“Of course there is. If you can bring my brother back, my father might be so happy that he’ll marry me off to you!”

Flora touched her lower lip with her index finger and said with an innocent smile.

“No, no, no, don’t joke.”

Dekan quickly waved his hands.

A family that could raise a pair of siblings like Morion and Flora, Dekan didn’t want to get involved with them.

After a pause, Dekan asked again:

“But are you sure your father would be that happy?”

After all, from Flora’s answer, it was clear that Earl Hanover attached great importance to capturing Morion.

Perhaps the earl would pay a reward equivalent to the value of this foolish daughter.

Flora nodded:

“Yes, my father always says that if he were to die with regrets, his biggest regret would definitely be not having caught my brother and beaten him to death.”

Isn’t that a coincidence?

My thoughts and your dad’s are exactly the same!

This unscrupulous profiteer, it’s against all reason to let him continue to be at large!

I, Dekan, am definitely not doing this for any reward, but only to uphold justice!

“Flora, don’t worry. Helping the Earl bring Morion back is our inescapable duty!”

“A-another job!”

However, Flora shook her head regretfully:

“Don’t be silly. How could the three of us possibly catch my brother!”

“No, I have an important clue here. Hmph, let’s go find someone first, and then go to the dessert shop together.”

The corner of Dekan’s mouth curled up, and he let out a cold laugh.

Logically, Morion had been selling the popular and sought-after card 【Bandit Goblin】 in the Royal Capital.

If someone had known that Morion had a large stock, they would definitely have asked him about the creator of this sinister card.

And then tracked him all the way to the border town.

But the actual situation was that after 【Bandit Goblin】 became popular in the Royal Capital for a while, no merchant found their way to Dekan’s border town.

This meant that Morion was extremely cautious when selling the cards.

He wouldn’t easily communicate with people.

However, in the end, only that down-and-out earl’s daughter, Teresia, found Dekan in the border town, bought the 【Goblin Sheriff】 from him, and brought him to the Royal Capital.

This meant that Teresia had very likely met Morion!

And Morion must have trusted Teresia very much to have told her so much!

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