Chapter 79: Meanwhile (1/2)

ARTHUR LEYWIN'S POV:

"Hey, Art I thought ere heading to your ho we'd taken a different turn on the way back to Helstea Manor

"There's a place I need to stop by first Don't worry, it'll be a quick detour," I answered, quickening my pace even with Sylvie onbehind me "Wait up!"

When we reached the destination, I couldn't help but let out a disappointed breath, ht so," I mumbled to myself

"Xyrus Elixirs? Did you need to buy soht; of course it's closed" Elijah cupped his eyes over the front glass door, hoping to spot so Let's head back ho, a shi+ny object, caught in the crevice of the aged alley leading to Xyrus Elixirs, caught my attention

As I kneeled down to retrieve it, my eyes narrowed It was an orb similar to the one used on Tess, except, instead of rainbow speckles inside, there were golden flakes floating within Attached to the small marble-sized orb was a crudely written note:

Your little Princess will probably need this

"What are you staring so intently at?" Elijah leaned over my shoulder to see

I crumpled up the piece of parch

"Let's head back hoht have to miss a couple more days of school Go back to the academy tomorrow and tell everyone that I'ave hi smile in response to his concerned expression

"Don't worry, I'll tell you about everything after" With that, Elijah gavenod back

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KATHYLN GLAYDER'S POV:

After finding out what had happened down at the dungeon from my brother, I was shocked I almost wanted to blame him, to blame Professor Glory, to blame someone but I kneasn't anyone's fault

Arthur is going to be okay, right? He's just that type of person No matter what situation comes up, he always returns with that lazy smile on his face that, for so foolish, Kathyln," I berated myself as I walked down the hts lingered on Arthur as I i hi to snap out of my delusions "No, no It's not my job to look after him Besides, he already has the student council president"

A few faint giggles fro up to my cheeks as I veered in another direction

I'm confident that he'll be okay! I convinced myself I'm sure of it…

"Gah!" I heaved out before I quickly covered my mouth, surprised that I'd let out such a barbaric sound After checking that I was alone in the alleyway between two buildings—a shortcut I had discovered to the disciplinary committee room—I exhaled a sharp breath of relief

Maybe it was from the stress these days as a disciplinary cos would stay quiet after the for if ere even needed—but recently soht to our attention

Claire Bladeheart, our leader, pulled each of us aside a few days ago While explaining the cause, she implied that Arthur was an undeniable factor that led to this

I wanted to rebut then, but I decided to hear her out Claire had been secretly gathering information with Kai, who specialized in stealth Froroup dissatisfied with the direction the acaderoup was made up of only hulih-up noble families

One particular noble that had been spotted was named Charles Ravenpor His father was on rather close terru with Mr Ravenpor because of how ill-mannered and self-centered he was

While I was jealous of Claire's unwavering confidence that Arthur was still alive, she was also relieved that Arthur wasn't here at the moment because he was supposedly one of the roup had started There was a big faction fro in this acaderound The fact that he was a professor on top of having the privilege of taking upper division classes fueled the already built-in hatred that some of the envious royal students had

We weren't allowed to confront them as of yet because of the lack of evidence, and the fact that they hadn't really done anything bad yet, but from the looks of it, there were even so it all the more difficult to rashly h, that soroup members started to act Denton, one of my classmates that shared the same period in Arth—Professor Leywin's class, was the victily opposed Professor Leywin teaching a class that was so i foundations as this However, he'd warmed up to hi up on a storage crate to clear the fence, I looked down at the isolated building of the disciplinary co behind, I could see the tip of the statue where Denton had just been found three days ago, battered and naked while hung upside down, for all of the passing students to see, a note covering his privates instructing him to drop out of the 'plebeian's class' if he didn't want this to happen again

It turned out that he had been taken to one of the narrow alleys between the back buildings and beaten up by the radical group From what Claire told me, they wanted to "teach" him how to properly use h to nurture the "potential" that he had Denton ended up becoet dummy for various spells when he resisted

Director Goodsky was still away so her assistant, Tricia, and Professor Glory had ended up pulling hi sure he was okay