"Ouch!"
As Misha closed the door, a sharp slap flew. Her body was about to collapse on the carriage seat.
The Countess spoke in a cold voice, but her body was trembling.
"Because of you... Because of you, I'm going through this humiliation. Get out, you idiot!"
The Countess extended her hand and pointed to the door. Misha was left blankly outside the carriage, completely surprised and forgetting to shed tears.
Only after the carriage left the academy yard did Misha burst into tears.
Misha locked herself in her dorm room and cried and cried.
'Idiot.'
The Countess had never called her that before. Misha Loire had always been called pretty, elegant, sociable, and a musical genius.
She was a child who was born with all the blessings and deserved to enjoy them.
Misha felt as if the sky was falling at her mother’s changed attitude, but she also knew that if she knew her grades, it would be natural for anyone to do the same.
The only hope she had in this terrible situation was that her mother would keep a secret from her father. She prayed and prayed that her father would not know about this situation.
Up until now, Misha had been convinced that her grades would go up as much as she wanted on the final exams because she had studied hard. She thought that if she just did well on the final exams, everything would be solved.
However, when her mother found out about her grades up until now, her illusory hopes also came crashing down.
She still spent about a third of her study time looking up words in the dictionary. There were often words that she had misspelled in class and could not find in the dictionary. Then she had no choice but to guess the meaning and study.
It got a little easier after receiving help from her tutors, but it was realistically impossible for a student who was at the bottom to suddenly rise to the middle ranks.
The daughter of the third messenger who was in charge of the door on the Emperor’s left had failed in her first semester at the academy.
Moreover, if that had happened, she would not have the face-to-face Prince Kydel in the future. That was what bothered Misha the most.
'If it was the evil Lorisha, she would have held out here too.'
The thought that flashed through her mind was followed by a series of terrible thoughts.
Lorisha's notebook. The tutors asked if another teacher had come. When they entered the academy, the notebook was just like a textbook.
Misha realized that Lorisha wasn't the only one who had a notebook like that. The academy was full of bookworms like Lorisha.
Misha then thought of Kalin Ankart, who had her brown hair tied up as if she didn't want to be distracted from her studies but didn't want to dress up. She must have a perfectly organized notebook for Misha.
'Should I ask her to lend me her notebook?'
Misha bit her lip and shook her head. Why would Kalin be so kind?
Unless she was absent due to illness, the students felt ashamed to borrow notebooks. It was like admitting that they could not learn on their own.
As the daughter of the third lion, she could not behave in such a way.
Misha thought of the most familiar method.
'I'll borrow it for a little while. If I return it right away, it won't interfere with Miss Ankart's studies.'
She made up her mind and went to sleep.
Then she returned to her room early the next day and waited for the right time. When the students dispersed to study or rest, she headed to Kalin Ankart's room.
Misha sneaked in and searched Kalin's desk drawer. She found a notebook in the drawer that said 'For final exam preparation.'
When she turned to leave, holding it tightly, Kalin Ankart was standing in front of the door with a cold smile.
"Huh...!"
Kalin laughed calmly. Misha was used to that smile with cruel eyes and a soft curve in the corners of her mouth. It was like the Countess's.
That's why she was terrified.
Kalin closed the door behind her and said,
"Miss Loire, I can't believe what I'm seeing."
“Misunderstanding... No! Miss Ankart.”
“Misunderstanding what? That you sneaked into my room and rummaged through my desk? Or that you tried to steal my notebook? Hmm... Were you trying to cheat with that?”
“Cheating! Never! I would never do something like that!”
Cheating is immediately subject to expulsion and is prohibited from readmission. The reason for the cheating is even made public. It was the greatest crime in the Academy.
Kalin’s words contained sarcasm, suggesting that Misha might use the notebook as a cheat sheet since she wouldn’t be able to memorize it even if she looked at it, but Misha was too terrified to notice.
“Ah. So you’re just stealing? Heh...”
Kalin trampled on Misha in a quiet voice, as if she didn’t want anyone to hear this conversation either.
“I was so excited to be in the same class as the third lion’s daughter, but it’s such a shame that you got expelled. What do you think?”
She had no idea what to think.
Misha gritted her teeth and shook her head violently. Tears fell.
Kalin smiled gently and approached her, snatching the notebook that Misha was holding tightly. Misha held on to it as if it were her lifeline, but eventually let it go. Misha trembled with her lips and cried until she finally managed to make a sound.
“Miss Ankart, I... That’s not it...”
Misha fell to her knees in front of Kalin.
“I was just going to look at it for a moment and then turn it back! I didn’t know what to memorize, so I was just going to use it as a reference! It’s a misunderstanding. It’s all a misunderstanding!”
“Then can I go to the academic dean right now? So that Miss Loire can clear up the misunderstanding.”
“No!”
Misha crawled to her knees in front of Kalin and hugged her legs as she cried.
Please, don’t do that. Please look at me once, I was wrong. The sound of a child crying to a scary mother kept coming out.
Kalin waited until she stopped crying. During that time, she never lost her calm smile.
When Misha finally raised her wet eyes, Kalin smiled and said,
“I was wondering something. About your party. Why did you throw it?”
“That...”
“You, you don’t want to leave the Academy because of Prince Kydel, do you?”
Misha gasped.
“Anka, Miss Ankart...”
“If I let you stay at the Academy, if I let you see Prince Kydel, what will Miss Misha do for me? If I just lend you my notebook?”
“...”
Misha realized in her confusion that a huge and cruel hope was shaking before her. She had no choice but to grab it.
“What do you want? Anything!”
Kalin felt contempt for Misha at that moment.
If Misha had come to her and asked to borrow her notebook, she would have lent it to her. No one knew that Misha Loire was in such dire straits to borrow a notebook.
If she could gain the favor of the Third Lion Family, that kindness would be nothing to Kalin.
However, Misha Loire was too stupid to even know that. She didn’t know how to use what she had.
So...
Kalin pulled her skirt away from Misha and looked down at her like she was looking at a puppy.
“It’s been uncomfortable since I came to the Academy without a maid.”
“...?”
Misha thought, “No way.” She had noticed Kalin’s hint, but it was hard to believe.
It was impossible to imagine that someone would want such a thing from her, who was born noble and blessed.
However, Kalin’s smile clearly expressed her demand.
“Would you like to be my puppy or get expelled?”
Misha stammered and opened her mouth.
“I, if I help Miss Ankart diligently...”
“Of course, we have to help each other as fellow students. I’ll help you with your studies especially. You need your grades. Don’t you think so?”
She need a maid.
But Misha was an optimistic person who believed that what she wanted would come to her naturally. So she believed that this situation would eventually end smoothly.
So she answered,
“Thank you, Miss Ankart.”
Empress Leora M. Tagar was a woman whose age was impossible to guess. Except for the wrinkles that formed around her mouth when she smiled, she had no signs of age, so much so that when the royal family stood side by side, people joked that she was not the mother of the three Princesses, but the stepmother.
With her light pink hair neatly tied up, she sat on her chair in a posture that was neither straight nor lazy, and she looked like a picture-perfect beauty.
However, few people remembered her sincere smile. The relationship between the Emperor and Empress was dry to the point of being dry, and her interest and passion were directed only to the First Prince, Orl.
She had originally loved only her eldest son, but since he contracted a rare disease a few years ago, her favoritism had become more intense.
However, it was difficult to simply criticize her behavior.
Succession battles in the imperial family were often accompanied by bloodshed, and the results always brought about internal divisions in the empire and the weakening of imperial authority.
When she was the Crown Princess, she personally experienced the bloody conflicts between the brothers committed by the then Crown Prince, the Emperor. Therefore, the world interpreted that for her, organizing the hierarchy among the Crown Princesses was not only a strong necessity but also a duty.
This maid’s crime was not only ignorance of its importance but also stupidity in not even being able to properly do what she was told to do.
The maid of the Second Prince’s palace was brought before the Empress and beaten by the Empress’s maids.
As Misha closed the door, a sharp slap flew. Her body was about to collapse on the carriage seat.
The Countess spoke in a cold voice, but her body was trembling.
"Because of you... Because of you, I'm going through this humiliation. Get out, you idiot!"
The Countess extended her hand and pointed to the door. Misha was left blankly outside the carriage, completely surprised and forgetting to shed tears.
Only after the carriage left the academy yard did Misha burst into tears.
***
Misha locked herself in her dorm room and cried and cried.
'Idiot.'
The Countess had never called her that before. Misha Loire had always been called pretty, elegant, sociable, and a musical genius.
She was a child who was born with all the blessings and deserved to enjoy them.
Misha felt as if the sky was falling at her mother’s changed attitude, but she also knew that if she knew her grades, it would be natural for anyone to do the same.
The only hope she had in this terrible situation was that her mother would keep a secret from her father. She prayed and prayed that her father would not know about this situation.
Up until now, Misha had been convinced that her grades would go up as much as she wanted on the final exams because she had studied hard. She thought that if she just did well on the final exams, everything would be solved.
However, when her mother found out about her grades up until now, her illusory hopes also came crashing down.
She still spent about a third of her study time looking up words in the dictionary. There were often words that she had misspelled in class and could not find in the dictionary. Then she had no choice but to guess the meaning and study.
It got a little easier after receiving help from her tutors, but it was realistically impossible for a student who was at the bottom to suddenly rise to the middle ranks.
The daughter of the third messenger who was in charge of the door on the Emperor’s left had failed in her first semester at the academy.
Moreover, if that had happened, she would not have the face-to-face Prince Kydel in the future. That was what bothered Misha the most.
'If it was the evil Lorisha, she would have held out here too.'
The thought that flashed through her mind was followed by a series of terrible thoughts.
Lorisha's notebook. The tutors asked if another teacher had come. When they entered the academy, the notebook was just like a textbook.
Misha realized that Lorisha wasn't the only one who had a notebook like that. The academy was full of bookworms like Lorisha.
Misha then thought of Kalin Ankart, who had her brown hair tied up as if she didn't want to be distracted from her studies but didn't want to dress up. She must have a perfectly organized notebook for Misha.
'Should I ask her to lend me her notebook?'
Misha bit her lip and shook her head. Why would Kalin be so kind?
Unless she was absent due to illness, the students felt ashamed to borrow notebooks. It was like admitting that they could not learn on their own.
As the daughter of the third lion, she could not behave in such a way.
Misha thought of the most familiar method.
'I'll borrow it for a little while. If I return it right away, it won't interfere with Miss Ankart's studies.'
She made up her mind and went to sleep.
Then she returned to her room early the next day and waited for the right time. When the students dispersed to study or rest, she headed to Kalin Ankart's room.
Misha sneaked in and searched Kalin's desk drawer. She found a notebook in the drawer that said 'For final exam preparation.'
When she turned to leave, holding it tightly, Kalin Ankart was standing in front of the door with a cold smile.
"Huh...!"
Kalin laughed calmly. Misha was used to that smile with cruel eyes and a soft curve in the corners of her mouth. It was like the Countess's.
That's why she was terrified.
Kalin closed the door behind her and said,
"Miss Loire, I can't believe what I'm seeing."
“Misunderstanding... No! Miss Ankart.”
“Misunderstanding what? That you sneaked into my room and rummaged through my desk? Or that you tried to steal my notebook? Hmm... Were you trying to cheat with that?”
“Cheating! Never! I would never do something like that!”
Cheating is immediately subject to expulsion and is prohibited from readmission. The reason for the cheating is even made public. It was the greatest crime in the Academy.
Kalin’s words contained sarcasm, suggesting that Misha might use the notebook as a cheat sheet since she wouldn’t be able to memorize it even if she looked at it, but Misha was too terrified to notice.
“Ah. So you’re just stealing? Heh...”
Kalin trampled on Misha in a quiet voice, as if she didn’t want anyone to hear this conversation either.
“I was so excited to be in the same class as the third lion’s daughter, but it’s such a shame that you got expelled. What do you think?”
She had no idea what to think.
Misha gritted her teeth and shook her head violently. Tears fell.
Kalin smiled gently and approached her, snatching the notebook that Misha was holding tightly. Misha held on to it as if it were her lifeline, but eventually let it go. Misha trembled with her lips and cried until she finally managed to make a sound.
“Miss Ankart, I... That’s not it...”
Misha fell to her knees in front of Kalin.
“I was just going to look at it for a moment and then turn it back! I didn’t know what to memorize, so I was just going to use it as a reference! It’s a misunderstanding. It’s all a misunderstanding!”
“Then can I go to the academic dean right now? So that Miss Loire can clear up the misunderstanding.”
“No!”
Misha crawled to her knees in front of Kalin and hugged her legs as she cried.
Please, don’t do that. Please look at me once, I was wrong. The sound of a child crying to a scary mother kept coming out.
Kalin waited until she stopped crying. During that time, she never lost her calm smile.
When Misha finally raised her wet eyes, Kalin smiled and said,
“I was wondering something. About your party. Why did you throw it?”
“That...”
“You, you don’t want to leave the Academy because of Prince Kydel, do you?”
Misha gasped.
“Anka, Miss Ankart...”
“If I let you stay at the Academy, if I let you see Prince Kydel, what will Miss Misha do for me? If I just lend you my notebook?”
“...”
Misha realized in her confusion that a huge and cruel hope was shaking before her. She had no choice but to grab it.
“What do you want? Anything!”
Kalin felt contempt for Misha at that moment.
If Misha had come to her and asked to borrow her notebook, she would have lent it to her. No one knew that Misha Loire was in such dire straits to borrow a notebook.
If she could gain the favor of the Third Lion Family, that kindness would be nothing to Kalin.
However, Misha Loire was too stupid to even know that. She didn’t know how to use what she had.
So...
Kalin pulled her skirt away from Misha and looked down at her like she was looking at a puppy.
“It’s been uncomfortable since I came to the Academy without a maid.”
“...?”
Misha thought, “No way.” She had noticed Kalin’s hint, but it was hard to believe.
It was impossible to imagine that someone would want such a thing from her, who was born noble and blessed.
However, Kalin’s smile clearly expressed her demand.
“Would you like to be my puppy or get expelled?”
Misha stammered and opened her mouth.
“I, if I help Miss Ankart diligently...”
“Of course, we have to help each other as fellow students. I’ll help you with your studies especially. You need your grades. Don’t you think so?”
She need a maid.
But Misha was an optimistic person who believed that what she wanted would come to her naturally. So she believed that this situation would eventually end smoothly.
So she answered,
“Thank you, Miss Ankart.”
***
Empress Leora M. Tagar was a woman whose age was impossible to guess. Except for the wrinkles that formed around her mouth when she smiled, she had no signs of age, so much so that when the royal family stood side by side, people joked that she was not the mother of the three Princesses, but the stepmother.
With her light pink hair neatly tied up, she sat on her chair in a posture that was neither straight nor lazy, and she looked like a picture-perfect beauty.
However, few people remembered her sincere smile. The relationship between the Emperor and Empress was dry to the point of being dry, and her interest and passion were directed only to the First Prince, Orl.
She had originally loved only her eldest son, but since he contracted a rare disease a few years ago, her favoritism had become more intense.
However, it was difficult to simply criticize her behavior.
Succession battles in the imperial family were often accompanied by bloodshed, and the results always brought about internal divisions in the empire and the weakening of imperial authority.
When she was the Crown Princess, she personally experienced the bloody conflicts between the brothers committed by the then Crown Prince, the Emperor. Therefore, the world interpreted that for her, organizing the hierarchy among the Crown Princesses was not only a strong necessity but also a duty.
This maid’s crime was not only ignorance of its importance but also stupidity in not even being able to properly do what she was told to do.
The maid of the Second Prince’s palace was brought before the Empress and beaten by the Empress’s maids.
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