The Lady Wants To Rest

In other words, if we were to look only in the Western regions of the continent, he was one of the most skilled magicians that could be counted on a single hand.

However, there was a different reason for why I dreaded this situation.

‘This won’t become a cumbersome event in the future, will it?’

[Why? Am I not allowed to fall in love?]

I recalled the words of the Crown Prince. Though his tone was light and filled with humor, his gaze was sincere.

‘How bothersome.’

Not to mention, I was attending the academy at the same time as my fiancé the 4th Prince.

If the Crown Prince started to become involved with me as well?

I didn’t even want to imagine it.

‘Ah, please, let me rest. Just leave me alone.’

I suppressed my anxiety and let out a sigh.

***

After parting ways with the Crown Prince, I headed back to the dorms to get some sleep.

However, was today fated to not be a restful day?

Once again a figure that stopped my steps in their tracks appeared in front of me.

“Ah, what is this. What’s with cleaning?”

“I know, right? What do they see us as?”

The rough tone of voice, the swaying attitude, and the crooked expressions.

In front of the annex located near the gardens were two students who appeared to be street bullies no matter how one looked at them. They held cleaning utensils as they exuded their frustration.

‘What is this? Were they assigned cleaning as punishment?’

It seemed like it at just a slight glance.

The most common punishment after having violated the academy rules was, after all, cleaning the campus.

“Visner, say something. I don’t know about you, but don’t you think the two of us aren’t people who should receive this kind of treatment?”

The last person was someone who gave off a totally different impression.

He had light red hair and soft brown eyes, which made others think of a deer. He was a youth who incited feelings of protectiveness from those around him, but currently his face was filled with bruises.

The unnamed rebellious student 1 poked the doe-like youth with his elbow.

“Hey, why aren’t you answering? Huh? I’m asking you. Does this body suit the act of cleaning?”

“Y, yeah. T, that’s what I think as well.”

“Right?”

Having roughly understood the situation, I frowned.

They appeared to be students from the Faculty of Knights, but they had received the punishment of cleaning the campus as a result of an incident of physical assault.

The two rebellious students didn’t appear to have seen me, as their actions only grew worse.

“You agree as well, right? That we don’t suit cleaning?”

“Y, yeah.”

“Then, that’s done. Since you’ve agreed as well.”

Clang.

The two students handed over their cleaning tools to the doe-like youth.

“Cleaning should be done by someone who fits the role. I’ll leave our portion in your care, alright?”

“…….”

“Why aren’t you answering? Didn’t you hear what we said?”

Anyone could see that the youth was gritting his teeth.

I crossed my arms and watched as the situation proceeded.

‘Look at these fellows?’

At the Academy, a wide variety of different figures all came together, so there was a wide array of different happenings.

Commonly, they called it the miniaturized version of society, as there were just that many irrational incidents between students.

In particular, the students in the Faculty of Knights were similar in nature to the students of military schools of other nations in that military discipline was very strong, order of rank was emphasized, and very serious incidents were very commonplace.

‘Such happenings are very common.’

The persecution of the weak by the strong.

It could appear to be merely immature bullying between students, but this was something that happened no matter where one went in the world.

‘Even so, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see such things.’

A vague discomfort surfaced and was expressed on my face.

The incident of the aristocratic girl pressuring the commoner girl not too long ago, and this one as well, both made me feel rather uncomfortable about the fact that it was occurring in the Academy the children and I had suffered so much to build 200 years ago.