Chapter 090: Cornelia Yielded to Temptation
“No, no, we, we are from Class A.”
Cornelia seemed very nervous when facing her newly acquainted classmates, stuttering quite a bit while talking.
“What? Class A? Then how many classes have you skipped to be required to attend remedial classes?”
Flora asked with surprise.
Her gaze grew increasingly serious, as if she had encountered some troublesome students.
This made Dekan couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.
Do you even have the face to say that about us?
We two are the face of the Knight Academy!
“We, we…”
Cornelia was trying hard to explain.
However, Flora, with one hand resting on the table, watched Cornelia’s expression with a smile.
“Ehehe, feeling guilty, aren’t you? But no matter how much class you skip, it won’t be as much as I do. I’m quite confident in my ability to skip class!”
Flora said it with pride.
“I, I…”
This completely baffled Cornelia.
She didn’t know how to explain to Flora the fact that they were actually good students who followed the school rules.
And since she came to the academy, she had never been so kindly treated by a girl.
She thought Flora was a good person, but 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 increasingly anxious and found it harder to organize her thoughts.
“Dek, Dekan, help, help me!”
Cornelia grabbed the corner of Dekan’s clothes helplessly.
“Uh…”
Dekan was about to explain, but then reconsidered and thought it was a good opportunity for Cornelia.
Cornelia needed to practice her language skills more.
Moreover, the anxious look on Cornelia’s face was not something he saw often.
Flora naturally didn’t give them the chance to explain, and continued with a grin:
“Hehe, no need to explain! Everyone understands. Who here isn’t a bookworm, or which class doesn’t have its slackers? From now on, the three of us will form the ‘Class-skipping Squad’!”
“No, Cornelia, we, we haven’t skipped any classes!”
Cornelia managed to say one sentence with much effort.
“Wahaha, don’t be stubborn. But your clumsy acting is quite adorable! Dekan, don’t you think so too!”
Flora laughed joyfully, as if she had already become very familiar with the two of them.
“Indeed.”
Dekan nodded.
“Ho ho, admitted, didn’t you? The two of you are the king skippers in Class A!”
Flora seemed to have misunderstood the meaning of Dekan’s “indeed”, or they just weren’t on the same wavelength.
Cornelia seemed to have figured out a way to properly explain to Flora.
She prepared to organize her thoughts, write a good paragraph on paper, and then hand it to Flora.
Thus, she bit her lips and bent her head to write with much grievance.
Flora watched Cornelia write so slowly and nodded with satisfaction.
All of us are indeed bad students.
“On a side note, are you two really willing to sit here all day! Today’s weather is particularly good!”
Flora was clearly the type who wouldn’t let her desk-mate study in peace.
Her words never ceased.
“What do you have in mind?”
Dekan asked with a smile.
“I intended to stay here and sleep for this class. But, after seeing the two of you, my free spirit started to tremble again!”
Flora stood up suddenly, looking at Dekan and Cornelia with a gleam in her eyes.
“How about the three of us skip class together!”
She finally said what she had wanted to say all along.
“No, we can’t, skipping class is not good!”
Cornelia dropped her pen immediately and advised against it.
“Together! Dekan, Cornelia, let’s go eat a Parfait, bask in the sun, and play with the cats!”
Flora had already left her seat now, swaying as if dancing in the sunlight streaming through the classroom window.
“Um…”
Cornelia had absolutely never considered skipping class under normal circumstances.
But.
It was rare to meet a girl so enthusiastic towards her, and Cornelia didn’t want to refuse her.
The most important thing was cat-playing!
How to choose!
It was so hard!
She was extremely conflicted.
“I, I…”
Cornelia seemed to be gradually getting confused, and looked at Dekan again.
She needed a processor.
“Our remedial lessons are not mandatory, so strictly speaking, if we leave right now, it won’t actually count as skipping class.”
Dekan helplessly smiled while explaining.
He knew that if Cornelia didn’t go out and play for a bit today, she would regret it for the whole day.
Even if she stayed to study, she would probably be distracted all day.
Sometimes it was like that.
When you meet a like-minded friend, no one could resist the temptation.
“Jingle jingle!”
The bell rang.
Even though the teacher hadn’t appeared, the time for contemplation was almost up.
It’s now or never!
However, before they could make the final decision, Flora had already pulled the window open and jumped out from the third floor.
Her decisiveness shocked both Dekan and Cornelia.
No wonder someone who didn’t know a single classmate after two months of school!
“Kei: Ban?”
“Ban: Retreat!”
Cornelia nodded, feeling excited, a little scared, and also slightly excited.
She immediately stood up and ran to the window to prepare to jump down.
But then she suddenly remembered something.
She was about to leave her brain behind.
Thus, she immediately ran back, picked up Dekan, and jumped down together.
“Wow!”
Flora stood by the building and cheered when she saw Cornelia and Dekan also come down.
“Good! Let’s run!”
Flora sprinted to the two of them and shouted excitedly.
Dekan and Cornelia looked at each other and both showed an expression of helplessness.
Even though Flora was strange, they didn’t dislike her.
Who would refuse an energetic girl who invites you to skip class and have fun?
“Hahaha, this meeting is historic for our truancy group!”
The three of them walked freely together in the campus and Flora said, laughing.
She was now sure that the three of them together probably couldn’t amount to a whole brain.
Cornelia should have good physical abilities, but poor academic performance.
And Dekan not only had abysmal academic performance requiring remedial classes, but also poor physical health, besides good looks, he had nothing.
But who cares as long as playing together made them happy!
Happiness doesn’t require brainpower!
“…”
Dekan looked at Flora’s bright smile and started to frown.
He could roughly guess what Flora was thinking.
It was definitely not polite!
Dekan had never been considered stupid!
But talking about it reasonably, Dekan couldn’t truly be angry at Flora, this pure, natural fool.
“By the way, aren’t you afraid of being expelled for skipping class this way?”
Dekan couldn’t help but ask.
No matter how you look at it.
Even in the Knight Academy, skipping class for two months was excessive.
He felt that even Dekan and Cornelia, the top students, would surely be seriously called in for a talk if they skipped class for two weeks.
“No problem. My family has great influence! I have a baron father! Moreover, he and the principal have a great relationship.”
Flora openly admitted to being a relation without any concealment.
“Besides, if I could really be expelled, that would be great!”
The tone in which she mentioned expulsion was at least seventy percent happier, as if she couldn’t wait to leave the school.
“No, Flora, we can’t, leave.”
Cornelia had just met a girl friend who got along so well.
Her social circle in school was mostly limited to Dekan and Chloix before.
Although there were other classmates she could talk to, most were just acquaintances met during greetings.
She couldn’t accept Flora being expelled from school.
“Relax, I’ve skipped class for two months already, but I only need remedial classes. Skipping for another year won’t lead to expulsion!”
Flora explained quite confidently using her strange logic.
Dekan originally thought that the nobles of this country were mostly sane.
Like Trecia, Chloix.
Even Flata, that playboy, was at least a hardworking bookworm.
At least he looked like a nobleman.
He didn’t expect that there were still freaks like Flora.
Their modes of behavior were totally unlike what a young noblewoman should do…
…
The three of them chatted while walking towards the dessert shop.
When Flora’s chatter started, she wouldn’t stop, narrating her stories to Dekan and Cornelia.
She was forced by her family to take an entrance exam.
Her family originally didn’t have much control over her; she had been raised freely and happily for a long time.
But her brother was rebellious and went wandering the world.
So, as the eldest daughter, Flora started to be strictly disciplined.
Of course, the main reason might be because her family realized the consequence of free upbringing and feared she might wander off like her brother.
So, they stopped her free upbringing.
“You’re actually the daughter of the stern Earl, General Hannover?”
Dekan couldn’t imagine that Flora was also a baron’s daughter from such a respectable family.
“Yes, yes, my full name is Flora Hannover.”
“Then why can’t your brother be captured and brought back by the family? What if he, an earl’s son, isn’t afraid of being bound?”
After all, not being part of the same family can’t lead to the same door.
Both of you are embodiment of freedom.
That the family didn’t fall apart is a miracle.
He privately commented in his mind.
“My brother might not be good at fighting, but he has a unique talent in communication and strong commercial acumen. He doesn’t have to worry about money at all, unlike me who’s so dumb…”
Speaking of this, Flora pouted her cherry-red lips, looking somewhat aggrieved.
“Is he smart?”
“Yes, all my intelligence has been passed on to him.”
Dekan looked at Flora’s face again, and the feeling of familiarity grew stronger.
“How much older is your brother than you?”
“Two years.”
He finally understood something, frowning and asked:
“Does your brother look very handsome, appears gentle and friendly, but if you observe his eyes attentively, there’s a hint of danger?”
Dekan summarized his impression of someone in his memory and asked.
When he first saw Flora in the classroom, he felt somewhat familiar.
Especially her eye and hair color.
Almost identical to his impression of that person.
“Yes, yes! Have you met my brother?”
“…… Isn’t his name Morion?”
“Yes! Are you a friend of my brother?”
“※! Ah, not… we can say we’re friends. When we were in the Kulan Border Territory, he stayed in our town for a while.”
Dekan gritted his teeth when thinking of this guy.
Damn swindler!
The only person in this world so far who dared to steal from Dekan!
He bought that batch of “Bandit Goblins” at 100 coins each!
Then this guy had the nerve to run away to the Capital City, a bustling place, to sell that batch of cards, escaping from being caught by his family!
Yet, no one discovered him!
What a guy who values money more than life!
Thinking of Morion, Dekan unconsciously clenched his fists.
“By the way, does your family have any reward for bringing back your brother? How much would they pay?”
“Of course there is. If you could bring back my brother, my father might be so happy that he would immediately betroth me to you!”
Flora touched her lower lip with her index finger, smiling innocently.
“No no no, don’t joke around.”
Dekan quickly waved his hands.
The family that raises both Morion and Flora, Dekan didn’t want anything to do with them.
After a pause, Dekan asked again:
“Are you sure your father would be that pleased?”
After all, from Flora’s answer, it could be heard that Earl Hannover took the capture of Morion very seriously.
It might even be the case that the marquess would pay the equivalent reward for this foolish daughter.
Flora nodded:
“Yes, father always says that the biggest regret he would have in his whole life if he passes away with remorse is not being able to severely beat my brother to death.”
Well that’s interesting.
My thoughts exactly with your father!
This unscrupulous swindler, it’s unacceptable for him to continue his carefree life!
It’s not for any reward that I, Dekan, will do it, but to uphold justice!
“Flora, rest assured, it’s our duty to help the marquis catch Morion!”
“Again, work!”
However, Flora shook her head with regret:
“Don’t joke around. There’s no way the three of us can capture my brother!”
“No, I have an important clue. Hmm, let’s visit someone first, then go to the dessert shop together.”
Dekan smirked with a slight upturn of his lips.
Reasonably speaking, Morion sold the popular card “Bandit Goblin” last time in the capital city.
If someone knows Morion holds a large stock of these, they will definitely ask him about the creator of this cursed card.
Then he would be traced back to the border town.
But the reality is that “Bandit Goblin” became extremely popular for a while in the capital city, and no merchants managed to find the border town where Dekan is based.
This indicates that Morion was very cautious while selling the cards.
He doesn’t casually interact with many people.
But eventually, only the destitute baroness Trecia went to the border town to find Dekan, bought the “Goblin Sheriff”, and brought him to the capital city.
This indicates that Trecia likely met Morion!
And Morion trusted Trecia a lot to have shared so much with her!
