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Chapter 7 - Meeting the protagonist

"This really is an medeival fantasy world.."

Lucien glanced outside the windows of the carriage. Mediaeval style buildings, shops and people dressed in mediaeval cloths.

"Even with Lucien's original memory looking at this beautiful site is really refreshing."

But will that event still happen as it happened in the game.

The game begins with a visual flashback of the protagonist's life till now, then the scene shifts to them standing in front of the gate of the academy.

When looking at the mesmerizing scene of the beutiful Astral Academy. Someone bumps into the protagonist who was standing on the footpath. That someone was a extra whose only purpose is to show that the academy life will be difficult for the commoner protagonist.

A minor noble who after seeing that the protagonist was a commoner. Instead of helping her up, starts cursing and accusing her of running into him.

When the protagonist being a protagonist argues back, Taking her stand she is pushed by the extra. Thus she falls infront of a noble's carriage.

'And guess who that noble was....Lucien'

Lucien stepped outside the carriage barking something about "who dare block this noble's way...blah blah blah"

Then their eyes met.

He recognised the protagonist at once, the sole living member of the researcher he stole the thesis from.

The protagonist too looks at the arrogant noble then at the noble crest of the house of Blackhart on the carriage. And quickly recognises that he must be Lucien.

'But the protagonist still didn't consider him a

Enemy at this point, But they are suspecting the so rumoured scoundrel Lucien.

'The reason is the protagonist doesn't know anything about what happened between Lucien and their father.'

'They don't even know the reason behind their father's sucide. The only clue..., they had seen Letters with the Blackhart family's seal at their father's desk when he was still alive.'

'An official letter sent by the Blackhart family would have a Raven, the Blackhart family's crest. But it had only a single feather of the raven.... meaning those letters were sent by the heir of the family meaning me.'

But what happened next made Lucien their enemy regardless of the matter of their father's death.

"How dare you block my carriage? Did the disgrace of your fallen house blind you as thoroughly as your coward father's final act?"

*Slap*

'damn what kinda scum was this guy not only did he insult a child 7 years younger than him with their dead father. He even slapped them.'

'Ugh....Well I won't act like that scum if that really happens'

*Creak*

The carriage halted suddenly.

The driver informed me that a child wearing the academy's dress had fallen infront of the carriage.

"I will handle it myself"

Lucien replied to the driver.

Lucien opened the carriage door and stepped out with grace. He walked to the front of the carriage.

And there he saw her, the protagonist lying on the ground.

Shoulder length beutiful brown hair slightly curly at their end. A pretty face that would put the idols from his previous life to shame.

With considerably big breasts, bigger than Isolde's. A seemingly perfect figure. About 165 cm height with Warm brown eyes meeting my jet black eyes. Wearing the academy white and black uniform with a skirt, with one gold strip on her breast pocket symbolising that she was a first year student from the mage depertment.

'Aria Dawn'

'The protagonist of this world, A former noble daughter now barely meeting ends as a commoner, A genius who will save this world.'

*.....*

Aria dawn stood on the footpath, in front of the gate looking at the beutiful Astral Academy.

Her gaze filled with determination and hope.

Hope to rivive her fallen noble family.

Determination to become stronger and uncover the truth about her father's death.

While she was busy with heavy thoughts she felt a force on her shoulder.

"Ack!.."

She fell forward.

She looked up and saw a man wearing the same the uniform as her but with a silver strip.

With two knight guards behind him.

'A noble from first year's knight department'

As she helped herself up.

"How dare you bumps into me, you commoner!"

She looked at him with a incredulous and dumbfounded look.

Then her eyebrows burrowed with anger.

"What are you even talking about I was standing still it was you who is blind and ran into me!!"

"How dare a commoner accuse me, Do you even know who I am, I am the second son of the house of Highmere, A COUNTY"

He then proceeded to push her. And him being a student entering the knight department made the girl fall hard to the road meant for carriages.

"Ouch!"

"What the hell is wrong with you, You Bastard!.."

*Creak*

A carriage halted just a meter away from her.

"Huh!"

The carriage door opened and a man gracefully walked out and approached her.

He stood infront of her.

'S-so...h-handsome...'

She looked at the man with jet black hair in an slick back hairstyle with some strands of hair on his forehead. Abyss like Black eye and a unparalleled handsome face, wearing a professional noble black suit.

Their gaze fixed at each other for several seconds then Aria looked at the carriage behind him.

A luxurious carriage clearly belonging to a high class noble with a black Raven crest.

'A raven....then that must mean, he must be...Lucien von Blackhart!?'

Her eyes widened as she looked back at the man.

Her heart started beating wildly.

'He the only clue I have about my father's death! A well-known scoundrel known for his arrogance and rudeness, someone who could be involved in my father's death.'

As she was thinking wildly the man moved one of his hand.

She flinched and raised her arms thinking he was going to hit her.

But irrespective of her wild imagination he just reached his right hand towards her with his left hand behind his back.

He asked in a slightly concerned and authoritative voice.

"Are you okay student?.."

"Eek!.Uh...n-no I a-am fine"

She looked nervously at his hands and after a few seconds of thinking she decided to take his hand.

Lucien helped her up and asked.

"Are you hurt somewhere?"

"N-no..s-sir"

She quickly retracted her hand from his hand.

"Why were you on the ground,student?"

"Uh..that"

"Sir Lucien, this commoner girl refused to admit her mistake and even dared to accuse a noble like me, so I punished her but look at her she even dared to block your path!"

Lucien turned his head towards the idiot extra speaking.

"You pushed her."

Lucien said in a cold voice making the extra tremble.

"T-that she b-bumped into me,t-thats why.."

"I was standing there you were the one who ran into me, you didn't even apologise instead you pushed me!!"

Aria said glaring at the extra.

"Y-you commoner how dare y-you lie, who do you think sir Lucien would believe, me a noble or a lowly commoner..."

*Slap*

A crisp sound attracted all the gazes from the surrounding.

Everybody looked at Lucien and the extra with a red imprint on his right cheek.

"I will believe her."

Lucien said in a cold voice while realising killing intent and mana.

Making both the extra and the guards behind him tremble with fear.

*Slap*

"How dare you push someone infront a moving carriage."

*Slap*

"Do you not know that by the decree of the Great Emperor, Every student in the academy is equal, whether a noble or a commoner?"

*Slap*

Blood trickled from his mouth but he dared not even move from the fear of death.

"Apologise and Get lost"

The extra trembled forgetting his original arrogance he was about to apologise but...

*Slap*

"ARE YOU DEAF?"

Lucien's voice grew loader and colder.

"APOLOGISE AND"

"GET LOST"

This time the extra didn't waste a single second.

"I-I ab thwary, p-leade pordive me"

The extra apologized looking like a swollen pig.

"Get lost"

The moment he heard Lucien, he felt as if he was pardoned from a death sentence, he quickly ran away with his guards fearing for his life.

Lucien looked back at the stunned Aria.

When his eyes met her eyes.

Her gaze tremble and she quickly thanked him while stuttering.

"T-thank Y-you P-professor Lucien, T-that.."

"You should leave now student, The entrance ceremony is about to start"

Lucien said in a flat tone as he walked towards the carriage and stepped into it without looking back at her.

The carriage rode of into the gate, leaving the dumbfounded Aria standing there.

'W-what just h-happened?..'

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