Chapter 32: Collapse of Etiquette
Baobhan Sith, the heiress of the Fairy Kingdom, the precious daughter of the CEO of the Orkney Group.
She lightly smiled, and under everyone's gaze took away the nameplate reserved for Eikou.
"..."
When Baobhan Sith was still keeping to herself, no one paid her any attention, because everyone knew she held little interest in Eikou.
Everyone tacitly acknowledged that in this seat-grabbing war, her level of threat was the lowest.
And precisely because Baobhan Sith was completely underestimated, at the very moment she decided to act,
no one was able to guard against it.
So Baobhan Sith also wanted to take part in this battle?!
"Oh my, I just thought about it a little..."
Her pale, slender fingers lightly twirled the reserved nameplate, a mischievous, meaningful smile blooming on her lips,
"Though you all fought so fiercely just now, I suddenly feel like sitting with that trash fish, so this plate is mine."
Everyone present instantly widened their eyes in shock, the scene was so overwhelming it made them forget to even protest.
That unreasonable yet completely natural action—could this be the aura of a Fairy Princess?
"What the hell are you joking about..."
Jeanne Alter furiously widened her eyes.
Outrageous, this arrogant redhead... The seat we struggled over for so long, and she just silently sat there, only to brazenly snatch it and calmly place it at her side? Then what the hell does all our effort just now amount to?!
While all the others still abided by the unspoken rules, only fighting over the seat card in the shadows, only Baobhan Sith openly reached out and seized it.
This was indeed a corrupting influence that made etiquette collapse, wasn't this no different from flipping the board and starting over!
She was just about to scream out loud, but then forced herself to calm down.
No, now is not the time to object...
If she herself showed too much agitation, or directly opposed, wouldn't that be no different from revealing that she cared a lot about the seat beside Eikou?
Seen from that angle, wouldn't that be tantamount to openly admitting before everyone that she liked Eikou?
Jeanne Alter unconsciously blushed slightly, luckily she managed to react in time.
'It's better if I keep silent, anyway the others will definitely stand up to object...'
Sure enough, seeing Eikou's reserved nameplate being snatched away, Barghest—with her towering physique and overwhelming presence—immediately stood up.
"Baobhan Sith, what do you mean by this!" Barghest shouted angrily, "You neither have the will to study, nor a good relationship with Eikou, and even less so did you receive any order from Her Majesty the Queen. However you look at it, you are the one least qualified to sit at the same desk with Eikou!"
A barrage of harsh yet reasonable words, perfectly fitting Barghest's serious character.
However, reasoning with Baobhan Sith was completely useless.
"Hehe, that's right."
Baobhan Sith let out the adorable smile of someone who had just pulled off a successful prank,
"But when I thought about how you were all fighting so fiercely over that small fry while leaving me out, it felt really unpleasant. So I decided to make a move!"
Off to the side, Melusine suddenly raised her thumb: "Dumb and ugly, Aurora already has a successor!"
"How absurd," Barghest gnashed her teeth, in that instant revealing a feral expression, "I will not allow you to just snatch it away——"
"Hold it, hold it, Barghest,"
Baobhan Sith lazily propped her chin up with one hand, raising the other to stop her,
"Who said I wanted to snatch that guy away from you, didn't I still leave a seat behind? Over there it's still empty. You all still have a chance to sit beside him—of course, limited to just one person."
"What?"
"Not just you, the other girls here can also take that seat. Anyway, I've still got one chair left, you can all think carefully and choose."
The girls, already brimming with resentment, all shuddered at once.
And Jeanne Alter instantly realized just how malicious the heiress of the Fairy Kingdom really was.
This was… using one arrow to kill three knights?!
At this moment everyone would prioritize seizing the immediate benefit in front of them, rather than uniting to resist Baobhan Sith.
When she should have been attacked by the entire group, Baobhan Sith used just a single seat to divide them all.
So this was Baobhan Sith's true core objective—to exploit a single nameplate to heighten tensions, openly stirring up ugly conflict among all the girls.
But she did not do this to solidify her own gain, rather, she simply wanted to watch these girls tear each other apart.
"..."
Jeanne Alter immediately grew serious with respect, the opponent truly was a scum who would stoop to any means.
This girl might look like another kind of big idiot, but unexpectedly clever—in the art of playing dirty, she was truly an expert!
"..."
Marie Alter, Barghest, Jeanne Alter, and Melusine,
In those few short seconds, the four of them exchanged glances.
The atmosphere suddenly grew deathly still, like the calm before the storm, with only the faint, tense sound of breathing, as all of them instinctively shifted into their Servant armaments.
"I think——"
Barghest wanted to say something.
With her knightly spirit, she still wished to display knightly demeanor, to maintain order, and try to calm everyone down.
"!"
But Marie Alter struck at that very moment.
By now, as an Alter and moreover a Spirit Origin Avenger, she no longer cared whether this battle was dirty or not.
To be the first one to taste Eikou's "cream," that was what mattered most!
Because compared to the other girls, she herself had no real advantage at all.
She wasn't a member of the Britain class, couldn't see Eikou every day,
nor was she like Jeanne Alter who could forge a deep camaraderie in battle with Eikou.
If she didn't make her move now, she would truly lose everything.
Marie Alter had realized—this was the only chance in her entire life!
Love itself was also war, no matter how dirty and ruthless the means, she must protect the love that belonged to her!
Boom!
A stream of powerful, dense magical energy burst out, transforming into a fierce, terrifying guillotine!
It was the all-out strike of this Queen of France, landing squarely on Barghest.
With the reinforcement of Spirit Origin Alter and the Avenger form, Marie Antoinette, whose Spirit Origin was originally fragile and unsuitable for combat, now had her power forcibly raised by several tiers.
A battle between students would not result in death, but at the very least, it was enough to push the brawny female knight back a few steps, creating an opening to immediately seize the seat.
But in the very next instant,
The Queen of France parted her pink lips in surprise.
Barghest, who had taken the attack head-on, only swayed slightly. She showed none of the disarray that such a surprise assault should have caused.
Barghest merely said calmly: "Hmph, that really hurt."
"Now, we can finally begin a lawless massacre, can't we?"
Baobhan Sith's eyes immediately lit up.
Perfect—what she wanted to see was rivers of blood!