12 Roxanne

"Wait." Before Matthew could act, Roxanne finally spoke.

"What? Are you perhaps... scared?" Matthew spoke in a teasing tone, smiling mischievously.

Roxanne ignored his words and simply stood up, approaching him.

"Don't you want to know about your power?" asked Roxanne.

Their eyes met as she said those words.

Instantly, Matthew's eyes widened, and he retracted his aura. After all, he wouldn't waste this opportunity to learn about his power.

After all, it didn't seem to appear in the academy's library, so maybe Roxanne had some ancient books and knew about them.

'He's hooked...' Roxanne thought with a smile.

Her lips parted as she was about to say something, but Matthew directly interrupted her words.

"What do you want in return?" He went straight to the point.

Because if her needs were too high, he didn't want to be indebted to her. Especially when she's a villainess.

This world has something called "Magic Contracts," and she probably wants to do one of these, so Matthew can't escape from his promise.

"What I want is actually pretty simple. I want to get my position as the heiress of my family back."

"Ah? How am I supposed to help you?" Matthew asked, crossing his arms.

He didn't want to trouble himself with the noble's families. Even if he beat up the Crown Prince and the heir of a duke.

"Mhm~, don't worry about that. After the midterm exams, we'll be having another practical test, and I just need to get first place on it."

"...Ah. So, let me guess, you made some promise with your family that if you were the first place in that competition, you'd be the heiress again?"

"Not really, but close. After all, that competition is quite special. It's the competition that chooses the Class S students."

"Oh? So the condition was to enter Class S?" Matthew asked.

"Yeah. Don't worry about the midterms, though; I don't need your help studying." She added with a smile.

"So, do you accept the terms?" She asked.

"Sure, do the magic contract already." 

Hearing his words, Roxanne smiled and injected mana into the ground, making a circle around Matthew and herself.

"I, Roxanne Von Luxuria, accept the magic contract." She spoke leisurely, looking at Matthew as if saying, "it's your turn".

"I, Matthew, accept the magic contract." He simply said.

At that moment, a small blue paper with the conditions appeared in both of the people and Mathew read it carefully.

Seeing that there was no hidden agenda, Matthew accepted, and the mana circle around them dissipated.

"Glad doing business with you~" She smirked.

"As for the information about your power, I'll send you a book. I'll bring it to your dormitory at 9 p.m."

"Whatever." Matthew shrugged his shoulders.

He took a seat that was next to the window and let the time pass as the professor, who had just arrived, taught the students.

'How can I get my Class A benefits back?' He asked himself.

'Do I really need to speak with Lilian? Or could there be another option? Well, either way, when I find out who did that shit, he or she will be completely dissipated into bones!' His eyes burned like a never-ending flame.

He couldn't wait to kill that same person...

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"Alright students. The next class will be with the other classes. It's the student examination, and then we'll have the class awakening." The professor announced, looking around with a faint smile.

Although Class F was obviously the weakest, he had two complete monsters in his class, Roxanne and Matthew.

Hearing his words, Matthew got up from his seat. He simply followed the group, but then felt a pair of breasts pressing against his arm.

"Do you need something?" He asked Roxanne.

"Not really; I just want to be close with you."

"Ah... Sure."

"What? You don't believe me?"

"Obviously. Although I'm very handsome, I don't think a "young lady" like you would be so easily interested in me."

"Sigh... Don't you believe in love at first sight?" She asked.

"Not really. That just means that the person who fell in love is quite materialistic." He replied leisurely.

Roxanne froze upon hearing his response, but quickly woke up and clung herself into his arm again.

"Persistent, aren't we?"

"Mhm~, and? I'm pretty sure any man would love to have a beautiful woman like me cling to them."

"True... but there's quite a few..."

"Huh?"

"The Crown Prince and Kennard. They are both completely obsessed with Stacy, to the point that it's disgusting."

"Ah, those are lost causes." said Roxanne.

"Couldn't agree more." Matthew chuckled.

"You know..."

"Yeah?"

"We're quite compatible, aren't we?" Roxanne spoke with a charming tone, pressing her breasts against his arm even more.

"...If you were a commoner, I'd agree with you. I really am not interested in getting close to politics." 

"Tsk. Whatever..." She turned her head.

"Cute..."

"U-uh? What did you just say?" Roxanne blinked her eyes after hearing that Matthew called her "cute".

"Cute. I said that you were cute. You seemed to be quite prideful, but now I think you're kind of cute."

"Oh~, really?" She pushed Matthew's arm toward her and peeked at his cheek.

Matthew's eyes widened at her actions.

"You really..." Matthew sighed.

Roxanne raised her chin a bit, as if she had won a battle, and they continued chatting until they finally reached the academy's arena.

There, the students from all classes, including even the second year, could be seen seated down at their seats.

Seeing this, Matthew couldn't help but think...

'This arena is quite familiar to the Colosseum in Rome, but... it's a bit more exquisite and bigger in space.'

"Mhm~~" Roxanne hummed a song as she clung to Matthew.

In the span of a few minutes, Matthew had already gotten used to her.

"Yo, Matthew! What does it feel like to be in Class F?" A rough voice with a mocking tone came from Matthew's left side.

"Pretty good, actually. After all, I didn't kiss the ground two times, just like you did, Kennard." Matthew mocked him in response.

"Pffffffff..." Roxanne, holding Matthew's arm, couldn't help but laugh.

Kennard seemed pissed, but as he saw Roxanne's face, he didn't dare say something about her.

'Oh? It seems that Roxanne's family is quite... strong. I don't know very well about her family since it wasn't really shown on the chapters that I had read, so maybe I'll need to do a bit of research.'

"By the way, how's the injury on your back?" Matthew added.

"You didn't need your "Daddy" to help you heal it, did you?" He teasingly said.

"YOU MOTHERFU—... Huff... Calm down, Kennard..." He was about to scream, but suddenly he calmed himself up.

Matthew's eyes narrowed as he saw this.

'What happened?' He wondered.

'Did he get character development that fast? Or is it because I influenced the plot quite a lot?' Matthew asked himself.

"Strange... Kennard normally would try to attack, but he really calmed down..." Even Roxanne was confused.

Matthew took a look around and found Stacy, and to his surprise, the handsome professor who told him that his rewards would be revoked and that they would be granted to Stacy was talking with her.

His eyes narrowed as he saw a faint blush on his face, and he was still smiling very happily.

'Uhh... she really got her professor's interest...' Matthew tapped his forehead and sighed in annoyance.

'Well... one more target on my list.'

"What are you looking at?" Roxanne asked unconsciously as she saw Matthew's deep-thinking face.

"Can a student date his professor?" Matthew suddenly asked.

"I don't think so... Only if that same professor has really high authority."

"Oh, really? And what about that professor over there?" Matthew pointed to the professor talking to Stacy.

"You mean, Professor James? His authority shouldn't be that high; besides, he's only a small noble, so he should get expelled if he dates a student. But why are you asking that?" She looked at Matthew.

Matthew smiled deeply as he turned his head toward Roxanne.

"He was the professor that expelled me out of Class A. And just look at his expression while talking to Stacy..."

Roxanne looked at James and suddenly noticed the small blush on his cheeks and his happy smile.

"Oh... I see what you want to do..." She smiled back at Matthew.

She clung to him even harder than before.

"Attention everyone!"