Volume 2 Chapter 64 - The Olsyvia Academy’s Opening Ceremony (2/2)

The large square at the centre of the Francis academy had been divided into five districts to accommodate the five branch’s students. When they arrived at the student reception, a beautiful looking archer received Bella’s group and told them that she would be responsible for taking them to the area occupied by the Filomina branch’s students as it would be rather hard to get around such a large crowd without the directions of someone who knew the way.

“Eh, president Britney, why are you a guide here? Even though this year’s opening ceremony is being hosted by the Francis branch but couldn’t you have sent the other members of your student council to receive this year’s new students? There’s no need for you, the student council president, to come down yourself.”

“President Lucia, I… we’re a little short-staffed today which is why I’ve come to help, this classmate here is Duchess Bellina, right? You girls can follow me, I’ll take you to where the rest of the Filomina branch is seated.”

“President Britney, I can show Bellina the way…”

“President Lucia, I insist that you let me be the guide!”

Before Bella could say anything, president Lucia who was behind her spoke to the beautiful archer. Through their discussion, Bella learned the identity of the girl that had been acting as their guide, she was rather surprised that the student council president of the Francis branch, Britney had come down and was working as a mere guide. Britney’s golden hair was done up in a ponytail that was both simple and natural.

There were rumours that Britney’s family used to be of the nobility as well but had gotten on the wrong side of someone with power and had their peerage stripped, becoming that commoner that they were today. One of the factors for the rumour was the fact that normal commoner families wouldn’t be able to have children with golden hair, which in this world, was a symbol of nobility.

According to the gossip papers that the News & Information Association and the Aesthetics Research Club pump out, this Britney was also one of the ten top-ranked beauties. As the student council president of the commoners’ Francis branch, Britney gave people a down-to-earth and sincere feel.

Of the beauties that Bella had met so far, apart from Angel and Mia, Britney was probably the most innocent of them all. When she had seen them earlier, Britney’s eyes had stopped on Bella for quite a while, her blue eyes unable to hide her secrets.

Those eyes were that of someone who had a request, Bella had seen the same look when Mia and Angel were acting like spoiled children and asking Bella for more new clothes. Bella didn’t know what this student council president wanted from her, but it seemed as if Britney wanted to wait until they were out of the public eye before showing her true intent.

“Classmate Bellina, I’m warning you. Don’t lead president Britney astray or teach her anything strange, she’s a really innocent girl!”

“Natasha, I’m a good person, so why don’t you believe me!”

“You don’t look like it, just know that I’ll be keeping my eyes on you!”

Britney led Bella’s group to their seats and then left with president Lucia. When she left, Britney had looked at Bella a few more times but could only helplessly leave due to the presence of Natasha.

The students in the Filomina branch all chose to sit around the people that they were close with and away from those who they didn’t like, the relations in the branch were quite evident. Bella had quickly spotted a few familiar faces seated at the back of the noble students. The Golden Legend and their president, Carlos, took up most of the seats at the very back, it wasn’t unnatural as this was already Carlos’ third Olsyvia Academy opening ceremony and he was probably already tired of hearing the same speech over and over.

Apart from Carlos, the more senior students all chose to sit towards the back, leaving the seats closer to the front for the new 1st year students. This was the first time that Bella had seen Carlos, the president of the enemy association who had constantly been taking land from the Rose Society. Bella had left in a rush back at the auction and hadn’t had the time to pay attention to the Golden Legend’s members.

Carlos looked a little different from what Bella had expected, he wasn’t exactly one would think of as being the scum he was at first glance. If one looked at him from a true female’s perspective, Carlos could also be considered quite handsome, after all, he was ranked in the top 10 male students by looks. If only he was also a member of the Brotherhood, then Bella wouldn’t have to make an enemy of him…

Seeing the arrival of Bella, there was no change on Carlos’ face as he maintained a casual conversation with the members of his association around him. Seeing that Carlos didn’t try and cause any trouble, Bella decided to ignore him for now.

Apart from Carlos, there was another group of students that caught Bella’s attention. At the centre of them was the normal class’ Scout, the youngest son of the Octavian Empire’s Brad family’s current head. Over the past few days, Scout had been secretly fighting against Bella(without her knowledge) to make the headlines of the school papers but had always lost, leaving him rather gloomy.

Scout had already gathered quite a number of lackeys after he had turned his life around following his fall from his mount last month, his power and abilities suddenly skyrocketing, earning himself the chance to attend the Olsyvia Academy after beating his eldest brother in a martial competition.

The young lady who had withdrawn her engagement with Scout due to his previous reputation as useless now seemed as if she wanted to turn back. However, Scout had adopted the ‘ignoring’ method of getting girls and hadn’t spoken a single word to her.

This was the first time that Bella had witnessed one of these cliche main characters rise to the spotlight, she decided to just keep observing him until absolutely necessary. Scout should one of those transmigrators that were arranged to enter this world by another dimension’s male Creator, meaning that he was naturally an enemy of Bella, who was backed by the female Creators led by Vianna. However, now wasn’t the time to fight with Scout.

Scout didn’t pay much attention to Bella either, there were many beauties within the Olsyvia Academy and Bellina could only be considered a typical beauty. Scout’s goal was to make all of the ‘10 schoolyard beauties’ part of his harem and didn’t have any thoughts about the comparatively normal Bella.

The third familiar face that Bella saw was the fake loli, Charlotte, who was currently sitting with members of the Brotherhood. After their last meeting back at the auction hall, for some reason, the fake loli had yet to speak to Bella again.

During the Olsyvia Academy’s opening ceremony, apart from the principals and other high-ranking members of the academy’s staff, the five branches’ student council presidents also made an appearance as VIPs. Beside the central platform, all of the VIP seats had already been filled. Due to the fact that Bella was sitting rather close to the front, it was quite easy for her to see all of the Olsyvia Academy’s student council presidents.

From a glance, Bella noticed that all five branch presidents were female, without a single male mixed in and even more surprising to her was that the main student council president was also quite the beauty. The VIPs made a sharp contrast with the elderly principals and staff on the platform beside them, it was fortunate that there were some beauties to look at during this ceremony, or else quite the number of students would probably ‘use the washroom’ in the middle of the ceremony and never return if they had to look at a bunch of old men the whole time.