"Wow! It's Greg Sass!"
"I heard someone say they saw him at the Academy again yesterday, but I thought it was just a rumor... I never expected him to actually come back!"
"He looks fine... Those rumors about him going missing or even dying really were false."
"Then what the Academy news said before... about him killing a Demon King Cult officer and rescuing the kidnapped first-years-was that actually true?"
"Hard to say... Maybe that Demon King Cult officer was already badly wounded and barely alive, and he just happened to swoop in and land the finishing blow? Otherwise, there's really no way to explain it..."
"But, but... why is he walking with the president now?"
"I think I heard an upperclassman mention it before. Greg Sass... apparently once had a... marriage agreement with our president, Princess Vivian?"
"Oh! Now that you mention it, I remember too! That did happen! But wasn't it called off later? Supposedly because Greg Sass was just... well, too much of a disgrace."
"But seeing them walking together now... even if they aren't really talking, could they be..."
As he walked beside Vivian Kahn along the broad, tree-lined avenue leading to the Academy's main teaching area, Greg could clearly sense the scattered conversations around them rapidly converging at the sight of the two of them together.
And inevitably, they settled on the former engagement between him and the blue-haired princess beside him-a relationship that should have been buried in the past.
Those hushed whispers, unable to conceal their excitement, buzzed into Greg's ears like countless tiny insects.
Though his face remained expressionless, maintaining an almost numb composure, a subtle, inexplicable awkwardness stirred within him.
After all, having people publicly discuss how his engagement had been broken off because he was such a disgrace was hardly