56 Chapter 56: Speech

Seeing these these two again, made me recall all the beautiful and wholesome memories we all had together during our years in Elenoir.

"I really miss Meliodas, I havent seen him for a while now." I murmured to myself, which Elijah seemed to hear nonetheless.

"Oh you mean your brother? I never met him before. What does he look like, don't tell me he is a monster like you. Hahaha" He joked not expecting me to confirm.

"Well, last time we met he clearly was stronger than me, but I will catch up to him, im sure about that." I said

"Oh my god, someone even stronger than you, just what did they gave you in the milk when you were children...? So we have twin monsters now, huh?" He suprisingly asked, with a sarcastic disgusted expression as if talking to a monster.

Ignoring him, I looked fown again, taking a deep bow, Tessia was the one who came back up while tucking part of her hair behind her pointed ears, her face emotionless as a doll's while Elizabeth stayed with the line behind.

"My name is Tessia Eralith, and I am honored to stand here as this academy's Student Council President."

Murmurs started after the crowd once again cheered for our beautiful president. Next to me, a scrawny human boy spoke excitedly to his friend beside him.

"That's the Princess Eralith I was talking about. My older brother told me she's been on campus since last year as a direct disciple under the Director and will start formally attending this year with us!" Someone leaned into his friend so only he could hear but the volume at which he spoke betrayed him.

"Th-That means she was the first non-human to set foot on this campus. Wait... she's only a first year and she's already the Student Council President? Is that even possible?" His friend, whom I couldn't really see, spoke louder and louder with each word, causing the neighboring students to hear as well.

"Yeah, I heard of her as well! She's supposedly a super-genius of some sort, right?"

"Exactly, and did you see that girl behind her, she's her twin sister. She is a genius too with super strong healing abilities!"

"Why the hell are these two so damn pretty when they're talented as well? This isn't even fair..."

"I wonder what I would have to do to get them to even look at me?"

The audience was filled with different talks about Tess and Eli, but while for the males it revolved around how much of an unobtainable star they were, for the females, it was a mixture of admiration and envy.

"Woah..." Elijah, who I had stopped paying attention to, firmly gripped my arm with both of his hands as if he needed me to support him from fainting.

"Woah." He repeated. For how smart he looked, he sure acted like an idiot at times like these.

"You okay there buddy?" I lightly nudged his head but it just bounced like a bobblehead toy.

"...Art...I think I'm in love." He suddenly released the hands that had firmly gripped my arm to link arms with me, as if to imagine I was Tessia.

"In love after seeing them once? *Sigh* Sorry to break it down for you but you do not have a chance buddy, not a single one of them."

"What do yo mean Arthur? So you think I don't deserve to be with one of them huh? Im gonna show you that I too can get girls just like you." He replied with a condemning look.

"Well I'd like to see you try, but you will understand when the time comes." I simply replied.

As the crowd settled down enough for Tess to start speaking again, Director Goodsky silently disappeared.

Tessia spoke eloquently enough to surprise even me. She was only thirteen, yet she had the ability to draw the crowd's full attention with her unadorned words filled with maturity.

She spoke about the principles of this academy, how this was a holy ground where students should feel safe to walk freely around. Well she always was like that, she was the girl to always speak up and talk her mind, while Eli is the shy type.

Tessia emphasized the discipline one would face if anyone hurt another student outside of a consented duel.

"While I may be a first year as all of you are, having given the privilege to be inside the academy a year longer made it all too apparent to me that there is deeply embedded discrimination against the scholar mage students by the battle mage students.

I, for one, will not tolerate any sort of aggression or bullying based on the trivial fact that one is a scholar mage student." Tessia's voice never wavered as she stood behind the podium.

The crowd grew a little noisy at this statement, as everyone present had heard rumors of the hardships one may face as a scholar mage student.

"Starting this year, while uniforms and the upper courses required may be different, for the first two years, general education, that contains a mixture of both scholar mage classes and battle mage classes will be mandatory, for better assimilation between the two different types of students.

After the two years are up, one may choose to switch their education specialization by taking a test, although it will be quite a difficult one." This last statement drew in dissatisfied complains from amongst the students in the crowd.

While both Elijah and I didn't have to take a test due to my special connection with Director Goodsky, most students, regardless of background, had to test for either a scholar mage or battle mage position.

Now it was finally Elizabeth's turn to speak, with her soft voice and expression, silencing the crowd with a just moving her hair towards the back of her long ear.

"My name is Elizabeth Eralith and I am your Student Vice President. As the President mentioned, this year contains many changes. Along with the assimilation and freedom to move between the two student types, there will also be no limit on how long a student can attend this academy.

While in the past, the professors here pushed students to graduate after four years, it is becoming more and more apparent that many graduating mages capabilities are becoming less than satisfactory. Therefore, the Director has declared that instead of a time limit on graduating, in order to graduate from Xyrus Academy, one needs to fulfill a list of requirements and pass the graduation exam.

While the conditions to graduate have become many folds harder, the time limit to graduate has increased to ten years. In that time, we fervently hope to produce top class mages in both theoretical and combat fields. We welcome everyone here, humans, elves and dwarves alike to this Academy." She finalised her words with a shining smile making the whole crowd starr again.

"Oh my god shes so fucking cute!"

"Just what is she, an angel?"

"I think im in love guys, she is just too sweet!"

"Mommy!" One of the student replied making everyone around him stare daggers at him as they proceeded to beat him up.

The last part of the announcement wasn't exactly news for any of us. It was announced quite recently though, which made me think that it had something to do with the new Continent. Was this Academy being used to produce higher quality mages in case of a future battle against the new Continent?

"Just what is she, a sort of angel or something?! She seems so cute and innocent making me want to protect her at all cost!" Elijah shouted, alongside most of the people present.

The students were all excitedly chatting amongst their peers, getting to know new people. Walking deeper within the campus to where the dorms were, I saw a few female students pass by Elijah and I, doing a double take back at us and giggling with their friends.

Elijah sighed. "I feel like I become significantly less better looking when I'm next to you." Elijah's shoulders hunched as we walked along side by side, Sylvie pitifully patting Elijah's head from on top of mine.

"Well, even if most come after me, some of the girls will have to eventually settle for you, right buddy?" I teased, giving him a playful wink.

"Screw you." He hit me on the stomach as the both of us laugh.

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