Just the question of the president made Leonn unable to answer.
He promised Yuri that he would try his hardest to keep the other students from spilling any information about him having a colored element.
Although he was really doing it and don't have any idea about backing out of his promise, he can't just ignore the person that has the most authority in the whole academy.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Exactly as i asked. Why, is there no one?" The president asked, her expression is bright.
"I am not really paying any attention when we were discussing about that. I am thinking about something else." Trying to avoid the question, he simply answered with full truth behind his words and at the same time, not answering the question of the president.
"Hm?~~ Really?~~" She asked, her index finger from her right hand was on the right side of her face, while his middle finger from the same hand is under her jaw.
"...."
Just waiting, the best chance to leave, he didn't talk again to not prolong the conversation any more longer.
Leonn isn't really a big liar.
Lying is the thing he hated the most, that's why he don't trust someone when they look like they keep to many secrets.
That includes Yuri, but that doesn't mean he would ignore his promise when there is no definite reason to. He is a rational and honest person.
"But based on the report that i got from the professor, you are ve~ry focused though?~~" She said, again with the bright smile and expression.
"...." Leonn now really is unable to answer. Not because he don't know what to say but because he felt something from a far.
"....I give up. The one that caught my attention is Lady Hana Landivory and the Princess." He finally said.
Trying to end their conversation now to confirm what he felt a little bit earlier, he finally answer the president's question.
Not a lie, and half truth.
"Oh! Ms. Hana and our beautiful princess, huh? Of course! They are ve~ry talented atudents~~"
"Just from academic performance, they are already considered as geniuses. Not like they are being called like that only when they started to enter the academy though~~ They were already being called a genius inside their own households~~" She answered.
"Being able to summon all the natural elements at such a young age? They are really deserving of being called a genius!~~" She added.
'!' But because of that statement from the president, it made Leonn confused.
When did she know that the both of them manages to summon all of the natural elements when he he didn't recall saying anything about their elemental aptitudes?
He was about to ask a question but then he immediately discarded the idea when he recalled.what the question the president asked him.
'Is there someone that especially caught your attention?'
She never said that she didn't already know what all of their Elemental Aptitude was.
"Yes. I agreed."
...
Suddenly, an awkward silence enveloped the surrounding area, which gave Leonn the perfect chance to end their conversation and get out of this awkward situation.
"It is nice having to talk to you, Ms. President. If you may excuse me now, I have some important things to do." He started and then tilting his head a little.
"Oh! Yeah, it was nothing! Thanks for chatting with me Young Master Leonn~~" She said, and a cold suddenly appeared.
The air suddenly gone that Leonn quickly get out of the place.
'....She's so cold.'
By that, he didn't meant about her personality. She probably has the most bright and lively personality in the whole academy.
When he said that, he mean it literally.
Just when he was when he was about to go out of the place and go back to his dorm because.the rain keep on pouring, he felt a presence.
He looked down at the person from the tree and saw a women in a maid's clothing.
He wondered if she was the maid assigned to assist Yuri Sworde.
"Are you the one assigned to him?" He talked which alerted the women and looked at the direction of where the voice came from.
"Young Master Leonn, How are you doing?" Shs asked and then lower her head a little as respect.
"Just visitng a friend." He answered, descending from the tree.
His descend to the ground didn't produce a single sound.
"As for your question earlier, if you are talking about Young Master Sworde, then yes."
"You are a week late though, is everything okay?" He asked again while secretly examining the appearance of the maid.
Her face looks serious, she has a long black hair reaching the end of her waist and she also has a bangs. She has a red sharp eyes. Too sharp for a maid.
"Yes, thank you for asking. I am late because of personal reason, it is a circumstances you need no attention to pay." She answered, her answer involves too many information for his suspicion about her to be true.
"....Come back here in an hour or two, if you hear a sound of a blade swinging around, continue to assist him."
"But if you didn't hear anything in the next two hours, come back tomorrow at dawn." He instructed the maid and then dissapeared without a single trace.
The maid watch the continous pour of the heavy rain, closed her eyes, and then bow her head towards the direction where Leonn was standing before dissapearing.
"I understand." She said and then left the place, along with the vegetables she was sipposed to cook for Yuri as a sign of asking a forgiveness for being late.
***
THWACK
SMACK
SMACK
"Fist of the Martial King..."
At the training hall of the academy, a training hall for the Average class students, there's a student training.
He was one of the student who was not happy about the result that a certain someone had gotten.
"First Impact: Seven Deadly Strike!"
Seven powerful strikes hit the metal target and each one of those strikes had delivered an explosive amount of power.
"Haaa... Haaaa....." He breathed heavily.
'Goddamn bastard....!'
"Haaa!" He then delivered one powerful punch, his fuat up to his forearm got covered in stone and as he punched towards the direction of the target, a stone thorns.pierce through it.
'I swear I'll beat the hell out of him!!'
The guy training there is none other than Ralph Winslow, the guy that challeged Yuri into a duel.
His anger towards Yuri hadn't yet subsided, but instead it lit up even more, like pouring a gasoline in a already raging flame.
"Because of him, not.only did.my father scolded me for not being able to enter the great class, my big brother even looked at me with those eyes of his....!"
Dissapointing his father, getting looked down by his older brother and not getting eniugh attention from his own mother.
What else can hurt him more? He was basically excluded from his family at that point.
"I'll prove to them that i am worthy of being the son of the Martial King....!"
"Just you guys wait....! I'll make you eat those words that you said to me, and i am the one ended up having to look down at you from the top....!"
He once again gathered his energy to his left forearm, and then punching towards the stone thorns.
"RAGNA WINSLOW!!!"
BOOOOOOOM!
***
Outside the kingdom of Auraville, inside a forest a little bit far from the battlefield where Yuri fought Neev, there a man with a strapping and muscular physique, he has a long spiky hair with a bangs that's covering his eyes.
"All of the woods i gathered are now wet....tsk."
he was inside a cave, along with a fire from his lamp to atleast make a light inside this dark cave.
Thankfully, there are some dry branches and sticks inside the cave so he manages to start a fire.
He has a long black cloak. It is so long that he is using it as a blanket to sleep.
He had removed his chest plate and boots and put it aside, along with his great sword whose almost as tall as Yuri.
Speaking of Yuri, he was also sleeping, using his cloak as a blanket to make a heat, along with the fire he started.
His long hair and bangs civering his eye as he sleeps.
He planned on getting back at the academy at dawn to lower down the number of people who can see him.
As soon as his back touches the cold ground, as if his spine got electrified and made him so sleepy that he sleep as soon as his head touches the ground.
Just like before, his pitch black vision had regained colors, a familiar view had greeted him.
Along with a hug coming from someone from the back.
"How are you doing?" Hestia asked him, hugging him from the back.