Early the next morning, Felyn got up early to make breakfast.
Daiyi seemed to have stayed up late last night and was still sleeping.
Felyn drew a heart with ketchup on the toast and left a note for Daiyi.
[Miss Daiyi, today's world has become even more beautiful because of you]
Arriving at school, Felyn saw a group of people gathered around the notice board at the classroom entrance, discussing something.
"This year's celebration is actually being held together with Lanchester Academy!"
"How wonderful! Lanchester Academy has so many cute young ladies!"
"Are you saying our academy's girls aren't cute?"
"Wow, they're even inviting that super cute idol Zervanie to perform?!"
"Look, Lady Serafina will also attend. The [Serafina] luxury brand named after herself is super popular and beautiful. She's so talented."
Hearing these two names, Felyn unconsciously touched the back of his head.
"Will Lady Adeline come? I really want to meet her."
"Me too! If I could partner with Lady Adeline, ahhhhh!"
Adeline's perfect appearance and gentle personality attracted both men and women at Saint Andros Academy.
Felyn's gaze scanned the announcement, roughly understanding what was happening.
The academy advocated for commoners and nobles to partner together for the celebration activities jointly hosted by both schools.
But the requirement was passing the joint examination.
Felyn felt this might be difficult for him.
"Felyn, Felyn."
Felyn turned around to see only a hand reaching out from around the corner, beckoning him.
"Eh, Teacher Sofia?!"
Sofia looked around, and after confirming no one was nearby, patted Felyn's shoulder.
"Teacher has thought it through. I think you and Viloti have potential."
"Huh?"
Hey sister, which eye told you that?
"You like Viloti, right? I see Viloti's attitude toward you is unusual too. You little rascal, you really have skills at pursuing people! Teacher was wrong about you before."
Sofia leaned close to Felyn, speaking in whispers.
"The school established study groups for this joint exam, having students help each other. I don't know how it happened, but you and Viloti were assigned together. Isn't that coincidental?"
What?!
"Hahaha, what's with that expression? Too surprised to speak? Getting paired alone with Viloti—your luck is really good."
Felyn felt somewhat dazed.
These past few days he'd gained three beautiful girl teachers who took turns tutoring him day and night.
In some sense, was he also lucky?
Though he knew saying this was a bit pretentious, having so many beautiful girls around him was really overwhelming.
Fifth floor of the teaching building.
Afternoon sunlight gently spilled into the classroom, carrying a hint of drowsiness.
Wind chimes swayed gently by the window, making crisp sounds.
In the small classroom specially approved by Teacher Sofia, only Felyn and Viloti were present.
Viloti, an excellent noble student, was tutoring Felyn, a poor commoner student.
"Let me explain it once more."
Viloti's pen scratched across the paper.
Though Viloti's expression was very aloof, her tone was gentle.
She was the only beautiful girl teacher so far who hadn't given him that strange look asking "Are you really from this world? You don't even know these things?"
It might also be because Adeline had already taught him a lot of basic knowledge.
A ridiculous thought suddenly popped into Felyn's mind.
Adeline was like an ex-girlfriend who had taught Felyn everything she should, making things easier for Viloti.
If Adeline knew about this thought, she'd probably die on the spot.
Contacting former clients was indeed troublesome—Felyn didn't really want to do this.
But he couldn't afford any tutor; all his money went to debt repayment and his sister's medical treatment.
Having an excellent student who'd been accepted early to the Royal Capital district teach him for free—being picky would be excessive.
Plus Teacher Sofia had practically dragged him here; he didn't know where she got such strength.
While thinking about these things, Felyn's gaze unconsciously drifted to Viloti.
Today she wore a light pink dress, her school uniform jacket neatly placed aside. The waist tie gently outlined her slender waistline, while the cuffs were slightly puffy bubble sleeves, adding girlish charm.
Viloti wasn't wearing stockings today. Below her skirt were slender legs that could be called works of art, wearing cream-colored sandals.
Her toes were painted with light pink nail polish, making her tender feet look like freshly baked peach bread from a bakery.
The tops of her feet showed slight redness from the sandal straps' pressure, revealing an adorable pink color.
Felyn had to admit Viloti's feet were very beautiful.
Those cute toes suddenly curled up, shyly shrinking back.
"Fe-Felyn..." Viloti's voice carried a tremor. "Pervert..."
She'd noticed Felyn's gaze fixed intensely on her feet for quite a while.
"Eh?!"
Felyn looked up at Viloti in panic, only to find her biting her lip with a flash of embarrassed annoyance in her eyes.
"Your feet are indeed very beautiful. Today's nail polish is cute."
Oh no.
The general-to-specific praise method!
Felyn had accidentally blurted out his professional vocabulary.
Viloti's expression instantly froze, her gaze wandering around in panic.
She instinctively hid her feet under her skirt hem, then seemed to think of something and slowly moved them back out, placing them within Felyn's line of sight.
Whether it was Felyn's imagination or not, those feet seemed even more pink and tender.
"Cough cough, sorry Viloti. I've been studying too long and got distracted."
Having looked, he'd looked—he wouldn't say things like "I wasn't looking" or "I don't know" or "Who likes looking at that?"
But at this time, he needed to quickly change the subject.
"It's getting late. Shall we eat first?"
The aroma of food drifting from the classroom, mixed with summer's unique grassy scent, made this noon particularly quiet.
Watching Felyn pull out his lunch box from his bag, Viloti's eyes flickered.
"Felyn..."
"Wow, Miss Viloti, your lunch looks so delicious. It's definitely much better than mine. Mine's made with scraps and completely unsanitary."
Spare me.
After taking money last time, Felyn had gone home and deeply reflected.
If Viloti kept doing this, wouldn't he still be essentially cooking for her?
If Silafiel knew his silly daughter spent a thousand crowns daily on ordinary meals, he'd definitely go berserk.
Absolutely couldn't take money.
Felyn believed that except when faced with money's power, his principles were quite firm.
"I... I'll show you..."
"What?"
Viloti buried her head, extending her legs toward the outside while twirling her hair with her hand.
"Look at feet."
?
??
Viloti squeezed her eyes shut, her face nearly merging with pink.
Young lady, do you really think I, Felyn, am that kind of lustful person?
He didn't notice his hand had already pushed his lunch box toward Viloti.
In the end, Big Felyn defeated Little Felyn.
No trade.
Viloti whimpered softly and somewhat disappointedly pulled out her super luxurious premium lunch box from her bag.
Her portable third-order heating seal brought the lunch to a stable 45 degrees.
This was premium stuff costing 100 each.
In comparison, Felyn's heating seal wasn't so stable—2 crowns each, often heating lunch boxes until they deformed.
Looking at Viloti's lunch, Felyn again marveled at why his moral standards were so high.
He should have just swapped his lunch with Viloti's earlier.
He could both look at feet and eat premium lunch.
Perfect accompaniment to rice!
Viloti was completely unaware that Felyn beside her was conducting moral judgment on himself.
Today's tutoring session gave her another chance to spend time with Felyn.
This brought peace to Viloti's heart.
Just like... like before...
Viloti stole a glance at Felyn and took a big mouthful of rice.
What Felyn didn't know was that whether now or previously during their contract period, Viloti had always secretly watched Felyn while eating.
For the same reason as Felyn's thoughts.
Perfect with rice!
Felyn was like a lighthouse in a storm, letting her know not everyone detested her.
Only seeing Felyn could she confidently appear in others' sight.
Only watching Felyn could Viloti eat relaxedly.
If only Felyn would fail exams for life—then such scenes would repeat forever.
Felyn wolfed down his food, not noticing someone beside him was cursing him.
Viloti lowered her head, trembling nervously just thinking about what she'd do after school.
(End of Chapter)