Emilia curiously looked at the back of Arya before quickly following her. The crowd parted ways as they both walked toward him.
The examiners quickly calmed down and began calling the next candidates. After all, it would be shameful if they let the others see their flustered expressions.
Orion felt someone approaching and softly turned his head. He softly smiled, looking at her calm expression. ’Oh? Finally here?’
Arya came and stopped in front of him. All the students stopped chatting and held their breaths, wondering what she would say to him.
"Brother Orion, would you mind coming with me for a second?" she said with an elegant voice.
The crowd silently looked at each other.
"Well, it’s not a surprise, I guess. The Helstorm House and the Royal House have been quite close since His Majesty’s generation."
"But I didn’t expect the princess to talk with him so directly."
"That’s our Princess for you. Would she be worthy if she was just some meek girl?"
The crowd continued to softly discuss the Princess among themselves.
[Kyaaaa! She is taking you with her, Master!]
Orion inwardly shook his head and calmly looked at Arya. "Let’s go somewhere more silent then. As for her..." His voice trailed off as he pointed at Emilia.
She raised an eyebrow and looked at him warily. She knew nothing about the nature of Orion; all she knew was that she had to defend her Princess at all costs.
Arya nodded her head. "She will come with me," she said, turning around and heading toward the exit of the Colosseum.
Orion looked at Emilia for a second before following after Arya.
’Now, don’t disturb me. Looks like the next part will be quite fun,’ he inwardly said to Lumi.
Emilia shook her head and followed after the two of them.
The surrounding students looked at their fading backs before turning back to look at the ongoing test.
However, there were also quite a few jealous gazes fixed on Orion’s back as he had such a close relationship with a member of the Royal Family.
But they couldn’t do anything for now, as it was the first day of the academy.
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All three of them soon left the Colosseum and arrived at an empty park. Arya looked left and right to make sure no one was present.
She turned around and looked at Orion with a beaming smile on her face. "Brother Orion! I didn’t expect to meet you here today!"
She took a step closer to him and spoke with excited eyes.
Orion chuckled, seeing her excited expression. "Not the princess anymore?"
"Hmph, stop making fun of me." She pouted and turned her head to the side. "I need to keep up the pretense as the Daughter of the King and the Sole Heir to the throne. I can’t act casually in front of others."
Orion gently smiled, seeing her act like usual. He was fearing some bullshit plot about controlling parents might happen here, but his fears were unfounded. "Yes, yes, I understand. So you really didn’t know about me coming here?"
She turned her head back and nodded. "Yes! Mother and Father didn’t even tell me anything and just said to go join the academy."
He softly chuckled, hearing her words. "Grandpa and Grandma also didn’t tell me you would be coming here. Looks like all of them wanted to give us a surprise."
Arya repeatedly nodded her head. "You don’t know how relieved I am that I finally have another friend in the academy. I don’t want to stay with those stinky nobles, all of them are greedy."
’More greedy than a Dragon?’ Orion thought to himself in amusement. "Well, if anything, you are the biggest noble in the academy right now."
"Hmph, I’m not a nobility," she puffed her chest out and proudly said, "I’m Royalty."
"Hahaha," Orion burst out laughing in amusement. "Yes, right, royalty. So, Miss Princess, how do you like the treatment of everyone?"
Arya’s face instantly became downcast. "Haa... The pressure is too much on me. Everywhere I go, people look at me expecting some divine miracle."
Orion nodded his head in understanding. He could imagine how much pressure she would be under as the sole heir of the kingdom.
Emilia looked at Arya with both a surprised and sad expression. ’Is she really so close with him? She never spoke about him to me...’
"Are your parents putting pressure on you as well?" he asked.
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