1 Roxanne of the White Pearl

"That embodiment was your idea wasn't it?"

Roxy asked while sitting and had her legs crossed. Rai on the other hand was drinking his tea.

"To be honest I didn't even think that, that guy would even think of using it. What's worse is that he swallowed a small orb"

"He could've killed the other guy, if I didn't interfere"

"Well I was on standby in case something come to worst"

"What's with this atmosphere? Is this a fight between a married couple?"

The headmaster thought as he look at them bickering with each other.

"Is this a married couple's fight?"

Amber said with a serious tone.

The two of them stopped at Amber's words.

"I'm sorry. I just can't believe Smoke would teach a regular student a dangerous technique"

"Correction, I didn't teach him, yet."

"Yet. So you plan on teaching him later then?"

The others were just listening to them. Charles and Kael were in the doctor's clinic and still resting.

"I was wondering, why do you call Rai smoke?"

Verette broke the ice and asked Roxy. The details were not relayed yet,so the others were curious as well.

"Smoke is his adventurer name, but for a while now I've been wondering why his name is not known here."

Rai just faced the other way when Roxy looked at him.

"Known?"

Charlotte muttered after hearing Roxy.

The others were surprised as well.

"Why would he be known? Because he is strong?"

Taro asked Roxy with seriousness behind his voice.

Roxy was confused about them.

"You really don't know who he is?"

Roxy scratched pinched her ear.

"Of course we know him, he's Rai Raze"

"And more importantly, who are you?"

Clara and Harris started to speak to Roxy.

Roxy laughed after hearing their response.

"Hahaha, this is hilarious! Hey Smoke, have you been hiding your identity from your country?"

Roxy continued to laugh while she glanced at Rai who was annoyed by whats happening.

"They don't need to know. And shut up,I've been doing well keeping it a secret. And I don't want you to just ruin it"

Rai answered with a few nerves visible in his forehead.

After hearing Rai's angered voice, the others besides Roxy kept their serious face. Well we have one exception though, the headmaster started sleeping after the others started to speak to Roxy.

Amber just looked at her father with disgust in her eyes.

"What a failure of a headmaster this guy is"

She thought as she glanced at him sleeping on his desk.

"I figured you common people wouldn't know me."

Roxy stood up, her thick legs were long and her curved body were visible to others. In simple terms, Roxy possesses the perfect body any women dreamed of. Her body intimidayed the girls and attracted the boys with her curved body. Rai on the other hand still looked the other way with his arms crossed. Verette glanced at Rai with a worried look in her face. Roxy saw her and introduced herself.

"I am Roxanne de Granren, princess of the White Pearl Kingdom. I'm sorry for my late introduction, nice to meet you everyone."

She bowed as she covered her cleavage with her right hand.

Her introduction shooked the faces of the others, they were shocked about the identity of the woman who they just spoke to.

Roxy sat down with her legs crossed and looked at Rai.

Verette was not sure why Roxy kept looking at Rai like a lover would do.

"Smoke, my father told me to ask for your answer and misses you. He wants you to pay him a visit, apparently he likes you"

"That old man"

The others looked immediately at Rai after speaking with an annoyed tone, but what surprised them more was that Roxy didn't got angry at Rai after acting like that towards her father.

"That reminds me, where is he?"

"You know him, hitting on girls is like breathing for him"

Rai answered in a boring tone.

"Rai, what is your relationship with Roxy?"

All of the sudden a knock was heard from the door. Rai about to tell Verette the answer but the knock interrupted him. Charles and Kael entered the headmaster's office and saw the others.

"This is Roxanne de Granren, princess of the White Pearl Kingdom"

Charlotte introduced Roxy to the two. Kael bowed to Roxy but Charles only looked at her briefly and then turned to Rai.

"Nice to meet you"

Greeted Charles but he didn't bow.

"Hey mind your manners"

Kael said to Charles while bowing.

"So what if she's royalty?"

Rai smiled and looked at Charles with admiration in his eyes.

Charles walked towards Rai and passed by Roxy.

"Rai, you should have told us about the payment for that damned technique."

"Well, who told you to use it in the first place?"

"Come on, how am I gonna win if I didn't?"

"Beats me"

Their comedic scene made Roxy laugh which took everyone else's worries. Rai and Charles looked at Roxy.

"So there's someone like Rai in his circle of friends. I bet you both get along well, and if you add that womanizer with you. I'm sure you three would make a good comedy trio"

Charles patted Rai's shoulder.

"Why is a princess from a far away kingdom doing here?"

"Ask her-"

"Was she charmed by your eyes too?"

Charles said while glancing at Verette.

"Charmed by Smoke's eyes?"

"Yeah, Verette here got charmed"

Charles pointed at Verette who was looking down to hide her embarassment. The others looked at Verette in unison.

"So that's why"

Roxy stood up and walked towards Rai and stopped in front of him.

"His eyes are alluring, I admit I love Smoke but I was never charmed by his eyes. I only love him for who he is"

Roxy's words surprised everyone especially Verette whose mouth was wide open.

"So you came here only to see Rai?"

Charlotte spoke in shock.

"Yes, but unfortunately Smoke is deprived of his romantic feelings. If I remember correctly, it's because of something that happened to him two years ago"

Charlotte's eyes widened as Roxy stated that, that event on Rai's life changed him drastically.

Roxy knew who was involved in the turning point of his life.

"Can we just stop talking about it?"

Rai said with seriousness in his voice.

"That was the past, but it doesn't mean you should continue to pry on people's past."

"Rai and I have an important matter to discuss, so if you excuse us. We'll go on our way"

Charles grabbed Rai's clothes and dragged him away.

Verette stood up and followed them. Harris and his group did the same as well. All that's left as Charlotte, Amber, Kael, Roxy and the headmaster.