93 Truth (2/2)

She was referring to Raven.

”Yes, Young Master?” She asked.

”'First of all…” Raven sighed in helplessness. ”Will drop the act already?”

Needless to say, Alice was stunned on the spot as she heard his words.

”M-my apologies Young Master, but I-”

”Like he was saying…” Ellen interrupted her before she could continue, ”Drop the act. We know that you're just forcing yourself to appear polite and humble before out presence, but instead of masking your true intentions, you stick out like a sore thumb.”

Alice shivered in disbelief after hearing Ellen's words. Fear flashed on her face as chaotic thoughts started appearing on her mind. She bit her lips hard while lowering her head down and clutching the hem of her uniform.

”Girl…” It was then that Anne's pleasant voice rang onto her ears. ”Don't be frightened. We just want you to act naturally since it's too uncomfortable to see you force yourself doing something that you clearly don't like doing.”

Alice's guilt was quickly rising, her silence was a tacit agreement that their observations about her were correct. After a long time, she finally stopped biting her lip and just accepted her fate, there's no way out for her anyway. She raised her head and smiled, but her smile was that of helplessness and defeat.

”Well…” she said after while, ”You got me. I guess after this, I'll get what I deserved for deceiving you.” She heaved a deep sigh and continued, ”Whatever, I'm not too optimistic in the first place anyway. If you have any more questions then ask away, I'll answer whatever I could.”

Seeing her attitude switch made the rest quite guilty, from the tone of her voice, the situation that she's in might be more serious that they thought.

”You…” Hesitating for a bit, Raven threw out the assumption that he had for a while now. ”Were supposed to be our classmate, correct?”

Seeing her body shook and her eyes widened in disbelief, was already enough to confirm that his assumption was correct, from her on out, the truth shall be more or less revealed.

”Y-you…how did you know?” Alice uttered after recovering from her initial shock.

”Quite simple actually.” Raven smiled wryly as he answered her question. ”First of all, your acting was good, but not enough to fool us. We had a fair share socializing with people who does the same thing, albeit better than you could. So you see, it's not really hard to point out.”

”Next, is the way how you treated us. You know that we'll be a part of the genius class from the very beginning and it's quite obvious that you're wary of us. But at the same time, you awfully know a lot about the Genius Class for being just a regular Inner Branch student. So I made a bold assumption that you must've had first hand experience with those benefits that you mention, but how could that be possible if you're 'just' a regular Inner Branch student?”

”And the final hint that I saw, was on the way you looked at the abodes earlier.” Raven gazed at her sternly as he proved his point further. ”We saw several abodes upon getting here, but you stared at one specific abode and never looked at anything aside from that, you only looked away when it was time for you to lead us somewhere else. That was previously yours, correct?” Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please clickfor visiting.

Alice was speechless. She found it hard to believe that this guy was actually observing her actions closely without her even realizing it. From observation skills alone, she could confidently say that she can't compare with this guy. In the end, she could only chuckle helplessly and say:

”Usually I'll say something like 'As expected of someone from the Genius Class' but, you're clearly above that.”

Without any way out, she could only smile and let loose of the worries that she had on her heart. Worrying about those was useless anyway so she figured that it's better for her to come out clean and drop the pretenses. She cleared her throat and bowed to them once more, with a serene expression on her face, she introduced herself once more to the people in front of her.

”Greetings. My name is Alice Endrun, a demoted student of the Genius Class, pleased to meet all of you.”