Chapter 161: A Surprising Substitute (2/2)

"Huh? What if it's just souess, but it's a pretty rare surnah," Arthur said

Arthur was lost in thought for the rest of the trip, he thought he had heard that na a hard tiroup made their way towards the classroo, their teacher had arrived They were let inside and their first lesson had begun

The first class waswhat they would be doing that year and what they should expect from the curriculum They went into some basic math problems, but the class quickly ca once nalling the arrival of a horde of teenagers as everyone rushed to get to their locker so that they could get what they needed for their next class

After a troublesoet into their lockers, Arthur had put his books away, but realised

"Ah, I forgot to packso"

"Let's just hope our new teacher isn't as uptight as the last one," Quinn re out his sports uniform Arthur turned to see that Holly had her uniforets his uniforhed as she closed her locker and squeezed out of the crowd, the other two followed

The group eventually h the school faculty had just finished packing away such a large ay their way out of the building, all except for one

The one teacher who re red hair The wole a soccer ball, but it didn't seeood at it, as on her third kick the ball bounced out of her control and rolled away

"I guess that's our new teacher," Quinn muttered as he watched the woman chase after the soccer ball "It doesn't seeht about her being a princess? Oh well, at least it isn't another creepy guy"

"She'd easily beat you in an archery coh," Arthur remarked as he trailed behind the other thich caused his friends to turn to him with a confused look What the tas Arthur with a sorin plastered on his face

Before his two friends could ask him what he was on about, they quickly received a response to their question from the new teacher's mouth

"Merlin?" The redhead woman muttered out loud

His friends turned to stare at Arthur once ave the redhead, who happened to be someone he was very familiar with, a friendly wave

"Wait, you already know the new teacher?" His friends asked hiether," Arthur said with a playful tone "We're basically best friends"

Rowan, their new sports teacher, approached Arthur's group with a nervous expression

"I had no idea you were a teacher, uhh Miss Nyilas" Arthur said, unsure if it was okay to call her by her first nah "This isjob, I was a student-teacher up until the end of last year"

"Oh, Mason and Lia at another high school while Lia as a primary school teacher"

"What about Alvira?" Arthur asked out of curiosity

"She's still in college," Rowan answered "She is the youngest out of our group, but I think she wanted to ith kids like her cousin"

"Her cousin?" Arthur asked with a curious expression

"Her cousin is Liam, didn't you know that?" Rowan asked, to which Arthur shook his head in response

The other two had eventually joined the conversation, introducing the

"Why didn't you say anything if you kneho our teacher was?" Quinn asked

"I actually wasn't aware of her faured it would be sonise" Arthur muttered, "The Nyilas family is a major contributor to my father's company, so they received an invitation to the first wave of New Genesis That's where we met"