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"Wow, isn't that Princess Vina? Who's she pulling along beside her?"

Jiang Mu had been thinking too intently. He needed to be cautious about his future path, and it was only when people around him started shouting that he slowly came back to his senses.

When he did, he saw a head of silvery-white hair less than a fist's distance away, practically about to slap him in the face.

"Whoa, damn."

Jiang Mu startled and quickly pulled free.

"What are we doing? How did we end up outside?"

In Jiang Mu's memory, they had just been in the classroom, yet now they were outside, being watched by a crowd like monkeys in a zoo.

Saying that it was not awkward would have been a lie.

Vina turned her head, allowing Jiang Mu to see the faint blush on her cheeks.

"..."

Vina forced herself to speak.

"I was just taking you around the campus, letting you get a feel for the place so you wouldn't feel like an outsider."

"Hehe, you're afraid I'll feel alienated after being targeted because of my status, and that I'll leave, right?"

"That interpretation isn't wrong."

Jiang Mu narrowed his eyes as he looked Vina over from head to toe.

"Fine. I'm not going to leave over something this small."

"You seem close to him, to be persuading him like this. What rank is he? How strong is he? And what Martial Soul does he have?"

Vina raised a hand to touch the corner of her lips, clearly hesitating. "Trying to pry for information?"

Jiang Mu nodded. "Something like that. I just want to know his background or status, so if things really get out of hand and a conflict happens, it won't affect how I get by in the academy later."

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