On the day of the full moon festival, the academy’s celebrations were held as planned.
The campus was decorated with lanterns and colored banners. The students of the clubs were busy with activities organized by their respective clubs, while the staff of the academy was busy receiving the guests from outside and managing various activity venues. The whole academy was bustling with noise and excitement.
And I…
“It’s better to go back inside and read.” I just glanced at the brightly lit Academy buildings in the distance, then turned around and went into the house.
As the dean, Rolanna has been very busy with festival activities, these days she has barely summoned me, and even if I try to look for her, I seldom see her. For today’s celebration, she only told me, “be honest and don’t come out of the dorm.”
Of course, even if she hadn’t said that; I wasn’t stupid enough to participate in the festival activities held by the elves. Even if the students and teacher in the academy are somewhat adapted to me walking around, if the exchange students and female elves coming from outside saw me walking around; no matter how I think, I felt like something would happen.
So tonight I’m going to stay in my dorm as usual.
A few minutes after I picked up my book, I vaguely heard footsteps coming from outside the house.
I immediately closed my book and pricked up my ears.
It was not an illusion. There were indeed footsteps sound, and they were not of wild animals. It was the sound made by walking on the ground while wearing shoes, and it sounded like someone was walking towards the forest.
At this hour, there shouldn’t be anyone approaching the dormitory and the forest behind.
I stood up alertly, went out of the room, and looked in the direction of the sound.
The other side also noticed the movements, stopped her steps, and turned to look back.
“Classmate Brock?”
“Huh? Classmate Alyssa?”
Our eyes met, and under the light of the moon, we recognized each other.
“Do you live here?” princess Alyssa looked surprised.
It seems that she only got to know that I live on the edge of this forest, which means that she didn’t come here to visit me.
“Yes, Dean Rolanna has arranged for me to live here.” I nodded to her, “you, why are you here at this time? What about the play of the drama club?”
Princess Alyssa wore a blue top and a long yellow skirt, which she has never worn before. Her hair and makeup had been carefully done, it was clearly prepared for the play.
I think there should be only a few minutes before the drama club’s play starts.
However, at this time, she appeared in this remote corner of the college, holding the skirt, and rushing towards the forest with an anxious face….
“Oh!” I suddenly understood, making a fist with my right hand and gently hitting the left palm, “ you want to go to the toilet, right?”
After all, there were a lot of visitors from outside visiting the festival at the academy today, it is normal for toilets to be full, so her highness decided to go quietly to the woods to settle her matter.
Princess Alyssa was surprised for a moment, then blushed: “No, it ‘s not that!”
It’s understandable that she would deny it. I remembered hearing it that in both human and elven cultures, going to the toilet seems to be a little embarrassing to mention and instead would use words like, “ reliving” or “picking flowers”.
However, in our Orc tribe, it was not like that. It’s good to say openly, after all, it’s normal physiological needs and everyone understands it.
Therefore I showed her a kind and understanding smile: “you don’t need to worry about it, I can understand. After all, people need to answer the call of nature. I will treat it as if I haven’t seen anything, and I won’t tell anyone. Please don’t worry.” I said and turned around, then I suddenly remembered a thing and turned back, “by the way, do you want a paper? It doesn’t look like you have one.”
“It’s really not that!” her highness stomped and violently denied, and then began to explain anxiously, “it’s Angelica, classmate Angelica, she..”
“Angelica?” only then did I realize that I really misunderstood her, “please calm down and speak slowly. What actually happened?”
Princess Alyssa took a deep breath, calmed herself down a little, and then said again, “Angelica, she has been tied up and taken into the forest by Felina and others!”
“What?”
“I just heard from one of the girls that Felina and some of the students broke into Angelica’s bedroom, tied her up, and took her to the forest.” princess Alyssa said hurriedly.
It turned out that she was rushing to save someone.
The side I live in directly faces the academy building, and the student’s dormitory was in another direction. They should have entered the forest from that side, so I didn’t notice it.
“Unexpectedly this kind of thing happened…” After a brief pondering, I made a decision “your highness, you go back. I will go to the forest to find them.”
“Eh?”
“The drama club’s play is about to begin, and you’re the leading actor, you can’t be absent.”
“This… it’s true…” princess Alyssa’s face was troubled.
“I have been hunting in the forest these days, and have clearly figured out the paths inside. I can go in blindly, so let me go instead of you. ”
Besides, there should be at least one fierce predator in the forest. These days I’ve been seeing more claw and bite marks, but I still haven’t been able to find it. The night is the time for wild beasts, and it would be very dangerous to venture into the forest if you are not a skilled hunter like me.
“But, Felina opposes you..” Princess Alyssa was still worried.
“Please don’t worry. I’ve already taught that fellow a lesson before. She can’t do anything to me.” I smiled confidently.
“Is it okay?…” the princess calmed down, thought about it, and finally nodded, “All right, classmate Brock, please be sure to rescue Angelica!”
“Leave it to me!” I nodded solemnly, “you can go back now.”
“Okay, thank you.” she bowed towards me, then turned and ran towards the direction of the academy building.
After seeing her leave, I closed the door of the room and rushed to the other side of the forest.
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