I went back to my dorm. After entering the dorm, I went to my room and sat on the bed.

  "I never thought I would be asked to have a relationship with a Duke's daughter. 'Matchmaking Battle' huh? It seems very difficult for Charles because his partner has been determined by politics. Well, that's natural because Charles is a royal family and a noble, it's not strange that nobles always do political marriages for the benefit of their families," I said.

  "I wonder if Charles will be angry after finding out that his prospective partner is actually my partner, even though it was just pretend. Hopefully he won't be angry, besides I'm doing this for my own benefit," I said.

  "If this 'Matchmaking Battle' ?will still be held even though Irene already has a partner, it means that at least I will still be Irene's lover until this 'Matchmaking Battle' is finished. If I break up with Irene before this 'Matchmaking Battle';is held, Irene will definitely automatically become a participant in that event again," I said.

  "I hope my job as Irene's fake lover will go smoothly and without any obstacles. Well, even though it will only be published in 1 month," I said.

  -

  The next day.

  I went about my daily morning routine as usual. I woke up at 5 am then got ready to exercise and also brought my sword to practice at the first year training ground. After finishing jogging around the academy, I headed to the first year building to practice downstairs. When I arrived at the training ground, I met Irene who was practicing just like yesterday.

  "Good morning, Irene," I said.

  "Good morning, Rid," said Irene.

  I called her again as Irene and it seemed that Irene was not bothered by my call, she also called me only as Rid.

  "You do morning practice again, Irene," I said.

  "Yes, besides I like morning practice here because it's still quiet. In the future, I will continue to do morning practice," said Irene.

  "I see, I also want to continue morning practice in the future so we might meet often in this place," I said.

  "Besides, we also often meet in class," Irene said.

  "That's not what I meant, I mean we will often meet and chat here. Indeed, we also often meet in class but we don't chat," I said.

  "I see, you're right too. But in a month we can also chat anywhere, not just in this place," Irene said.

  "Yeah, you're right too," I said.

  "Then Rid, do you want to spar with me again today?," Irene asked.

  "Okay," I said.

  -

  "You gave up again, Irene," I said.

  "The sparring just now was enough so I choose to give up. Then I'll go back first, thank you for the sparring, Rid," Irene said.

  "Yes, see you," I said.

  Irene left the training ground, not long after that I also left the training ground to return to the dormitory. Then I took a shower and got ready to go to the academy.

  When I arrived at class, as usual if I was one of the students who came early, the class seemed quiet, then a few minutes later Charles, Chloe and Noa came.

  "You three always come together, huh," I said.

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  "Well that's because we made an appointment to come together, unlike you who always come alone, Rid," said Noa.

  "Well I do prefer to come early, so I'm sorry I couldn't wait for you. By the way, how were your fishing results yesterday?," I asked Noa.

  "I-I didn't catch a single fish," said Noa who looked sad.

  "Yesterday he was so upset that he didn't catch any fish, he almost intended to use magic in the lake to catch the fish," said Charles.

  "Hahahaha, well maybe yesterday wasn't your lucky day," I said.

  "Next time I will definitely get the fish," said Noa.

  Then a few moments later Mr. Alan came to class. Then the class began.

  -

  Then today's class has finished.

  "I don't know why the lessons in these three days only explained the basics of magic and Mana itself. Is it because it's just the beginning of learning at the academy so the easy material is delivered first?,".

  "Or is it that the lessons delivered by the teachers at this academy only teach the basics, the rest must be found out by the students themselves,".?

  "Come to think of it, during my time at this academy I've never visited the library. It seems like today I'll go there to see the books about magic in this library," I thought.

  "Hey Rid, what are you daydreaming about? Let's go to the arena, we haven't had our daily match today," said Noa.

  "Ah sorry, you're right let's go to the arena," I said.

  -

  Then we all finished our daily match today. I got another student opponent who happened to want to fight me and I managed to win again. They also got opponents from other students who proposed matches to them. And they all also managed to win today's daily match.

  "I'm hungry, how about we buy food first before going back to the dorm?," said Noa.

  "You keep buying food Noa? Aren't you afraid that the money given by the academy will run out?," asked Charles.

  "We get money from the academy every month, besides I don't buy expensive food, cheap ones are enough for me," said Noa.

  "Hmm, okay, I'll go with you," said Charles.

  "If you guys want to buy your food first, I have something to do somewhere," I said.

  "Hmmm, you suddenly become like Enzo, Rid. Suddenly there is a secret need," said Noa.

  "This is the first time I have something like this, right? Besides, I've never done it before. Don't worry, I'm only going for a while, I'll catch up with you guys later," I said.

  "Okay, then we'll go first," said Noa.

  "Yes," I said.

  I parted ways with the other Noa. Then I went to the library. Actually, I could have invited them to go to the library together. But I felt like someone was following us, judging from the aura, this was a new person I had never met before. I took the initiative to separate myself from them to check whether this person was following one of us or me. And it turned out that this person chose to follow me.

  "Since I want to go to the library, I might as well check who this person is following me," I thought.

  -

  I arrived at the middle building which was the canteen, I asked the staff there on which floor the library was located. It turned out that the library was on the ground floor, I immediately headed for the stairs to go to the ground floor.

  After going down the stairs, I was surprised by the size of the library. The library was divided into several levels/floors.

  "It looks like this library consists of 5 floors, but I didn't expect the library to be this big. Even from the top floor of the library you can see the floor below," I said.

  Then I decided to go around to find a book that caught my attention. Starting from the top floor to the bottom floor.

  "The books I saw were very interesting, there were books about engineering, magic and others. There were also books about world history and the races that exist in this world. I will read about those books later. But now I want to catch who this person is following me," I said.

  The person who had been following me had no intention of showing himself, he was just hiding behind the bookshelf. Because of that I decided to approach him first. I went to him but from behind him. Realizing that I was no longer in my previous place, he looked for me. I who had arrived behind him then held his shoulder. Knowing that his shoulder was suddenly held by someone. The person was surprised.

  "Kyahhh-," the person shouted.

  The person almost screamed but I quickly covered his mouth with my hand because this was a library, so I shouldn't be noisy. Then I noticed the person following me.

  "A girl huh?," I thought.

  After knowing that the person following me was a girl, I removed my hand from her mouth and apologized.

  "I'm sorry for startling you and being rude," I said.

  "A-ah it's okay, in fact I thank you for stopping me from screaming. I almost attracted attention," the girl ?said.

  "Is that so," I said.

  "Th-then, I'll excuse myself," the girl said.

  "Wait a minute, don't you have something to do with me?," I said.

  "E-eh?," the girl said in surprise.

  "So you've been following me all this time, right?," I said.

  "I-it seems like I got caught. Y-yeah you're right, I have something to do with you that's why I followed you but I didn't dare to talk to you so I've been hiding to just look at you," the girl said.

  "Now that I'm here, can't you just tell me what you want to say?," I said.

  "R-right, then allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Lillian Aurora Nielba," the woman said.

  "Lillian Aurora Nielba? Nielba, I think I've heard this name before," I thought.

  "R-rid Archie, I want to ask you a favor," the woman said.

  -To be continued