At that,
Prince Ganlongdao followed the voice and saw a stunningly beautiful girl.
Her features were exquisite.
Her skin was as white as mutton fat.
Her graceful figure had the perfect proportions of a sculpture carved by the heavens.
Not an ounce too heavy or too thin—her figure was every bit as stunning as a celebrity's.
Her black hair fell to her waist, with a slender braid tied at her left temple. Beneath her white pleated skirt, glossy black stockings clung tightly to her thighs, leaving a deep indentation in her flesh.
Prince Ganlongdao's eyes lit up.
"Oh? And you are?"
"Horikita Suzune, Class 1-D."
Horikita Suzune crossed her arms over her chest, her expression cool.
"Etiquette dictates that you introduce yourself before asking someone else's name. Do you not even know that?"
"Allow me to introduce myself. Prince Ganlongdao, Class 1-C!"
Prince Ganlongdao walked around Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, hands in his pockets, and stopped in front of Horikita Suzune, looking down at her from above.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka, standing nearby, was speechless.
Damn.
He'd talked with Prince Ganlongdao for ages, and the guy still hadn't told him his name.
Put simply,
he hadn't even treated him like a person, had he?
"Someone's preparing to give a speech onstage, and you're down here dragging someone into a shameless conversation. Don't you think that's rude?"
However,
Horikita Suzune didn't seem to care,
and looked up at Prince Ganlongdao with an unmistakably hostile gaze.
She was furious.
Horikita Manabu, standing onstage, was her own brother!
The reason she'd come to this university
was to follow in her brother Horikita Manabu's footsteps.
But compared to him, she was far too weak. Horikita Suzune didn't dare call herself Horikita Manabu's sister, afraid she'd bring shame upon him and make him hate her.
Horikita Manabu's strength had already subdued every student in the Gymnasium.
Horikita Suzune sincerely admired him for it.
Her brother was as strong as ever.
She hadn't expected
Prince Ganlongdao to come barging in out of nowhere.
Being late was one thing. Then he'd arrived and started chatting away with Ayanokoji Kiyotaka without a care for the atmosphere, completely snubbing Horikita Manabu.
Watching someone treat her beloved brother with such indifference and disrespect was more than Horikita Suzune could stand. She had to teach Prince Ganlongdao a lesson.
"Exactly!"
Just then,
Tachibana Akane came out from backstage and went to stand beside Horikita Manabu.
Her youthful face was turned toward Prince Ganlongdao below, her expression hostile.
"Do you know who's onstage? He's Horikita Manabu, the Student Council president at Advanced Nurturing—and your senior! Can't you see that President Horikita is about to give a speech?"
At that,
Prince Ganlongdao looked Tachibana Akane over, and his eyes lit up again.
There was no denying it.
The girls at this school were exceptionally beautiful.
And yet,
two beautiful girls had taken a stand against him at the same time.
But
that was fine.
He'd always been generous toward beautiful women.
Meanwhile,
Ishizaki and the others were dumbfounded.
After school yesterday,
they thought they'd heard
that the Student Council at this school held extraordinary power.
The taciturn guy onstage was the Student Council president? On only their second day here, they'd already offended the president of this university's Student Council.
At the thought,
Ishizaki glanced at Horikita Manabu and the others with an awkward expression.
He was filled with unease.
It went without saying that offending the Student Council president couldn't end well.
"So what?"
Prince Ganlongdao looked toward the stage, met Tachibana Akane's gaze, and tilted his head in confusion.
"What does his speech have to do with me?"
"You!"
Tachibana Akane glared at him with her big, doe-like eyes.
Her youthful face had none of the authority one would expect from the Student Council secretary.
She looked more like a child pretending to be an adult, probably imitating Horikita Manabu.
Ishizaki was even more stunned.
Even after learning that the other guy was the Student Council president, Prince Brother still didn't take him seriously at all.
If they got retaliated against for this...
At the thought,
Ishizaki felt his legs go weak.
"This is a club fair."
Fortunately,
Tachibana Akane was quick on the uptake. She glared at Prince Ganlongdao and said,
"If you're not interested in clubs, please leave. Disrupting the speech like this will only waste everyone's time."
"Oh?"
Prince Ganlongdao raised an eyebrow.
Not bad.
A classic straw man fallacy:
she'd distorted his position, then attacked him based on that fabricated argument.
He'd said that Horikita Manabu's speech had nothing to do with him, so Tachibana Akane had concluded that he wasn't interested in clubs and told him to leave.
As a member of the Student Council, she naturally had a duty to keep order at the fair.
Her reasoning was sound, her target clear, and she even knew how to win the crowd over.
No doubt about it.
Tachibana Akane had some skill as the Student Council secretary. Horikita Manabu must be quite capable, too.
However,
the means of controlling Prince Ganlongdao
were far too weak!
"So what?"
Prince Ganlongdao still seemed confused as he said,
"Why should I care if I'm wasting their time? If we're talking about wasting time, doesn't your Student Council president waste more of it?"
"Is there a rule saying you can't come if you're not interested in clubs?"
"The Gymnasium is a public space for students. If the Student Council has the right to kick people out at will, I'll have to take that up with the school."
"Besides, there's a student standing right beside me who isn't interested in clubs but is still here. Are you going to kick them out, too?"
"Uh..."
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka hesitated.
Prince Ganlongdao had dragged him into the Student Council's opposition for no apparent reason.
He wanted to argue back,
but he was also curious to see how things would develop,
so he quietly put some distance between himself and Prince Ganlongdao.
After the last remark, the people around them seemed to be getting annoyed.
"Hey... what's with that guy?"
"He doesn't care how we feel at all. Does he think our time can just be wasted?"
"That's so selfish!"
The people around them glared at him.
Why should he care if he wasted everyone's time?
How could he say something so self-centered?
As soon as one person spoke up, others followed.
One hot-tempered new student waved his arm and shouted,
"Get out!"
"Hmm?"
Prince Ganlongdao turned around.
His gaze locked onto the man with the precision of a scope.
"What are you looking at? You're not interested in clubs, but we want to join them. Get out."
The man glared fiercely at Prince Ganlongdao.
With so many people around, he didn't believe Prince Ganlongdao would dare to lay a hand on him.
Besides,
this was a chance
to make a good impression on the Student Council.
A deal with nothing to lose.
With one person leading the charge, even more joined in.
"Exactly."
"Get out."
"What are you, to talk to third-years like that?"
Quite a few third-years spoke up coldly.
In Sakurajima,
because of the seniority system,
older people naturally felt superior to those younger than them.
They were even angrier than the new students that someone would dare disrespect their seniors.
Seeing this,
Prince Ganlongdao smiled, looking amused.
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