Still Needs Time

“Indeed, there’s no such thing as a free lunch in this world…”

… “Flora, heal him.”

Reen mocked, but his eyes were on Flora’s healing technique, watching carefully to see if he could learn something.

However, the situation was urgent, and Flora had already taken action before receiving Reen’s command.

The construction of the magic formula was too advanced for Reen to understand.

When the neutral student’s physical condition stabilized, Flora slowed down her casting speed and slowly demonstrated the finishing touch of the conditioning magic for Reen to observe.

“What happened?”

The teacher had arrived long ago, but dared not disturb the healing, and had been waiting nearby.

Flora truthfully explained the situation.

“We will thoroughly investigate this matter. You must not easily spread this matter.”

When teachers with healing abilities also arrived, the teachers all instructed Flora and the other three.

“Olivia, you also have to be careful.”

After the teachers left, Flora warned the silver-haired girl, “Recently, some people with ulterior motives want to take advantage of the bad public opinion surrounding the Blue Lion family to do something in secret.”

“I will pay attention.”

Olivia had already understood that this wasn’t something that normal magic medicine could do, and said with a serious expression.

After that, perhaps they didn’t want to make a big deal out of it, and the class soon returned to normal.

When it was time to leave class, three seventh-year male students, who claimed to be student council secretaries, stopped Flora and the other three, and invited them to the office to discuss matters.

Reen couldn’t help but show a look of disgust.

[Do we have to go?]

[Your Highness, this should be about what happened earlier.]

Flora analyzed, but on the surface, she nodded, “Alright.”

Not long after, they arrived at the student council office.

“My dear Xingrong, you’ve finally come to see me!”

As soon as he entered the room, a black-haired, purple-eyed young man enthusiastically greeted them and opened his arms to embrace someone.

Reen took a step backward in disgust, dodging him.

Of course, if the other party really wanted to embrace him, he could easily change direction and chase after him.

But Arnos was just pretending. He hugged empty air for a moment, and then lamented with a heartbroken expression:

“Xingrong, you’re too much. Why are you so cold to me? You know that brothers must work together to overcome all difficulties!”

“Get lost!”

Reen instantly returned to his previous cold state.

“This… what’s going on?”

Olivia was also startled by the interaction between the two.

Although she hadn’t had any interaction with them before, she wasn’t the first time she had seen Arnos.

In her impression, this second prince had been a gentle and elegant person, deeply loved by countless people, before becoming the student council president… What was this affected behavior now?

“Your Highness Arnos, please get to the point.”

Flora calmly reminded the other party.

Olivia was startled again, because there seemed to be a hint of blame in Flora’s tone, but before she could give the gold-haired girl a look, Arnos actually restrained that exaggerated expression.

“I apologize for making you laugh.”

Arnos slowly walked back to the desk at the deepest part of the office.

The other student council members beside him also quickly lined up on both sides of the room, standing straight with their backs, staring ahead, only using their peripheral vision to size up the three.

If an ordinary student saw this lineup, they might already be a bit afraid.

But Reen and Flora both had calm expressions, and infected by the two, Olivia, who originally felt a little uncomfortable, also gradually relaxed.

This few people are…

“This time, we invited you here for the sake of the competition in the practical training class…”

After beginning to talk about serious matters, Arnos was much more serious.

Seeing this, Reen couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows.

(This guy… actually has this side.)

Reen always found this third brother to be always in a state of bad intentions. Annoying…

…But considering that Arnos had a very good reputation in the world, he soon felt that it wasn’t strange. After all, people couldn’t praise a lazy guy, even with the favor of that old guy.

Of course, this also further showed that Arnos was deliberately trying to annoy him, which made his impression of this third brother worse.

And Reen could feel that Arnos was invincible, and whether it was hostility or goodwill, it could never be sensed.

Reen naturally wouldn’t say things like not knowing how to get along with others if there were no side effects, but if the target was Arnos, it was hard not to suspect that there was something fishy in his heart.

But with Flora present, even if Reen answered very coldly and uncooperatively, Arnos still got enough useful information.

“Thank you very much for your cooperation. Please keep this matter a secret…”

…Seeing that Arnos intended to end this meeting with public relations-like words, Reen was no longer going to cooperate.

“Wait a minute, don’t you have anything to explain? As the student council, you wouldn’t tell me that you didn’t receive any wind beforehand, would you?”

There was another purpose for doing this, that was, Reen didn’t want Flora to go to Arnos to collect information privately.

“There was some wind, but we don’t have accurate evidence yet, so it’s not convenient to reveal too much…”

Arnos said in the middle of it, as if he understood Reen’s intentions, looked at Reen and Flora deeply, and changed his words, “But as long as you can keep your promise and not spread it around, I can tell you some information.”

Tell you some information.

“Thank you very much, we will definitely keep it a secret.”

Flora took the lead in expressing her position.

Reen wouldn’t make a fuss about serious matters, and used silence to express his agreement.

Intuition told Olivia that she shouldn’t say anything superfluous at this time, so she just nodded.

Conos also had no objections; he followed the companion’s plan, introduced and let the people in the department retreat.

“As far as we know, a mysterious magic medicine seems to be circulating in the school. After taking it, it can improve the body’s concentration and perception, allowing people to steadily perform at 100% of their strength.”

Even Olivia, who had the least experience and average grades, knew that ordinary people were very hard pressed to exert all of their strength.

So the actual situation might be that a high-level knight could only exert the level of an intermediate knight, and a low-level knight might be fighting at the level of an attendant.

But the Royal Academy was, after all, the top school among the nobility.

As long as the students here weren’t truly useless, they would only reduce one grade at most.

If the body and mind were in an excellent state, Olivia could exert more than 90% of her strength… but if she was disrupted in the battle and panicked, that was another matter.

But this magical medicine could actually allow people to steadily exert 100% of their strength.

In the process of the battle, Olivia didn’t feel any emotional fluctuations in her opponent… it could be said that, without considering the side effects, this magic medicine was really too strong.

Just then, Olivia suddenly found a sentence written on the materials, and couldn’t help but exclaim softly:

“This magic medicine… has no side effects, but what happened just now? Could it be the negative effects of other magic medicines?”

“Yes, that muscle collapse wasn’t caused by the magic medicine in these materials.”

Flora said with a serious expression, “But this magic medicine should have side effects, it’s just that we haven’t been able to find them out yet.”