Shiina Mashiro quietly ate her baumkuchen and responded while holding her shoulder bag.
Seeing Shiina Mashiro turn and head toward the arts department building, Rita ignored the curious looks from the people around her... her soon-to-be classmates, took out her phone, and headed for the principal's office.
After finding the principal's office, Rita stood at the door and knocked. Only after hearing someone inside say, "Come in," did she push the door open.
The principal's office was much larger than those of the other teachers, and everything inside looked far more upscale. At the moment, there was only a balding middle-aged man in his fifties sitting before a computer, apparently busy with something.
Only when Rita entered did he turn around.
"Hello, Principal. I'm Rita Ainsworth."
For ordinary students and teachers, facing the principal would bring a sense of imposing pressure that made people unconsciously afraid. It was not some domineering aura, but a bearing cultivated through years in a position of authority. The identity of a principal in particular... could inadvertently make students and some teachers feel intimidated.
But Rita remained neither servile nor overbearing. She introduced herself politely, even giving the principal a faint sense that she was unfathomable.
"Miss Rita, welcome to our school. Although Suimei Art High School is not especially famous internationally, our strength in the arts is no weaker than those schools that care only about appearances..."
Seeing how Rita conducted herself, the elderly principal nodded inwardly. As expected of someone from an aristocratic family. Especially since she seemed to be the marquis's only child; the family estate would likely fall into her hands in the future.
It was not particularly rare for women to inherit titles in England. After all, England's queen had been on the throne for so many years.
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