Chapter 103 - 96: Prelude To Chaos (1/2)

The girl-- no, Shio, for the first time in her life, someone treated her with no disgust on their face. Except for the matron in the orphanage, no one had treated her with kindness.

But now, it would be taken away. She killed those students, and those law enforcers would arrest her and lock her in an underground dungeon. She's sure that even the King wouldn't save a murderer like her.

”Why do you have that sad look on your face? C'mon, I'm not going away.” Hikaru said, smiling kindly at her and carrying her gently in his arms.

She looked away and said, ”B-but won't I be arrested for killing my classmates? The law enforcers in the Capital aren't exactly kind to people like me.”

Hikaru went silent for a minute before he laughed a little and said, ”Do you think that I'll abandon you? Don't worry about that, because from now on, you'll be treated like a princess.”

”Fueh!?” She reacted cutely.

He glanced at Cristoff and said, ”Hey, from this day forward, Shio will be a princess of my kingdom. Announce that later.”

Cristoff took out a notebook and wrote something there before saying, ”I've added it to the things I'll be doing later. But your majesty, shouldn't you be doing the announcement? You're the monarch of this country, it won't look good for your image if you have a lowly servant, like me, announce to the whole kingdom about such an important announcement. Appointing a commoner to become a princess isn't exactly that common.”

Hikaru thought about it, then smiled and said, ”It doesn't really matter. And besides, you're not exactly someone I look lowly at. You're my loyal subject, am I right?”

Cristoff then kneeled down and yelled, ”Yes, your majesty!” He had tears pouring out of his eyes. To be appreciated by the King himself, it was an honor for someone like him.

Hikaru just shook his head and thought, 'I should really get used to his antics.'

He then looked around him and saw a lot of people staring at them, they are mostly students though. There were some teachers there, but Hikaru thought that they would be a lot stronger than this. Almost all of them are in between Tier-7 to 8. At least the headmaster is a Tier-9, but he's supposed to be the strongest in the academy? What has the world gone to?

'Weaklings, all of them. Maybe I should change all the staff in school with powerful people? Adventurers should do it, I may be able to invite some diamond-rank adventurers to become the staff here.' Hikaru said in his thoughts.

He wanted to at least show off in front of all these people, but now his mood is ruined. He'll take care about the staff changing later, but for now, he's just going to wait in the castle for something exciting to happen.

He's just going to fight some bosses in the System, they're the only creatures in this universe that can possibly kill him, or at least injure him. Maybe he'll fight the Soul of Cinder next? He fought him once when he was weaker and died, but maybe he can defeat him now?

Well, nothing's going to change unless he tries.

He held Shio in his arms as he turned around and said, ”Let's go, Cristoff.” He then flew towards his castle while carrying Shio, and Cristoff followed along.

The students were left dumbfounded, and some of the teachers were fuming. Most teachers in the academy are from noble families. The Royal Academy was bribed by the noble families to treat their heirs or family members better than most students.

This entire academy is controlled by the noble families, making it virtually useless.

The Royal Academy was supposed to be for all people to join, even the people in the slums, as long as they have enough talent. But the corrupt nobles decided to change that along with the former King. The Royal Academy is now nothing but a place for the younger nobles to hang out. It was even a miracle that Shio managed to become a Tier-7 Wizard under all this corruption, because most of the resources given to the academy by the monarch was all used for the betterment of the heirs of every noble family in the Capital.

And the teachers and the headmaster get huge amounts of gold coins from the nobles after doing what they were asked for.

That's why the teachers were fuming, because once his highness decides to change something in the academy, they're all basically f*cked.

Hikaru didn't care about those students who were killed because of one thing, they were all offspring by those nobles. He knew all about this before coming to the academy, and was about to teach them all a lesson. That was the meaning behind his words ”I wanted to show off”. Basically, he was about to spank every staff member on the butt in the school.

But his mood was ruined when he saw the poor girl, Shio, like that. She just reminded him so much about Azumi that it was scary. Since taking her in wouldn't harm him in any way, he decided to make her a princess of this Kingdom.

(A Few Hours Later)

Hikaru now sat behind his desk in the office of the King. This room is the workplace of the King, it's where he does paperwork and stuff. But those things have already been taken care of by Cristoff, so this place is just for meetings and the like.

In front of his desk was Cristoff handing some doc.u.ments to him while standing.

Hikaru studied every doc.u.ment about the noble families in the Capital, and found something strange.