Chapter 840: It Has A Very Gentle Soul

True to his word, Theo talked to Alex when school ended.

"Miss Cassandra has already talked to me about this matter," Alex said. "Do I really look like a troublemaker to you, Mr. President?"

"Yes," Theo answered without hesitation.

"How rude."

"I can’t help it. You are always at the center of the trouble here in the academy."

The memory of Alex’s singing voice from the Battle Choir in the inter-academy tournament that ended recently didn’t help him feel assured either. It had been too horrifying. Not to mention, traumatic.

Many even wondered whether that was part of his strategy or not.

His singing voice sounded angelic during the Singing King tournament, so many believed the young man had purposely unleashed hell upon the world to defeat his two opponents during the Battle Choir event.

Theo also felt skeptical.

But in the end, he figured that Alex would have no reason to sing anytime soon, so he didn’t have to worry about an incident related to it anytime soon. At the least, he hoped Alex wouldn’t sing at all, even if only for fun.

"So, do you promise to behave during the stay of the students from the Aetherion Empire?" Theo asked for confirmation.

"I promise to behave as long as they don’t mess with me," Alex replied. "Frankly, I’m not even interested in interacting with them. I just hope they don’t bring some troublemakers of their own. If that really happens, then you better be ready to protect our students, Mr. President."

"I understand." Theo nodded. "Don’t worry. Just because they are from the Aetherion Empire doesn’t mean they could bully our students. If they really do something bad, I’ll make sure to give them a piece of my mind."

"Great." Alex smiled. "Is there anything else that you want to discuss with me?"

"Actually, there is one more thing that I want to ask you." Theo crossed his arms over his chest. "Do you think it would be a good idea if Dim Dim and his friends stopped patrolling the academy during the student exchange program?"

"Why would they need to stop?" Alex frowned because he didn’t know why the student council president would even ask this question. "Dim Dim and his friends haven’t harmed anyone during their patrols. In fact, I can’t imagine a scenario where Dim Dim would actively hurt people. It has a very gentle soul."

"True." Theo nodded in agreement.

While he had only interacted with Dim Dim a few times when they met during their patrols, he simply couldn’t think of the little bun as someone who would take the initiative to harm others.

In fact, when some of the scholarship students were on a tight budget and wanted something good to eat, they would often look for Dim Dim to ask him for food.

The little bun was more than happy to feed them without asking anything in return, which was why it was very popular with everyone.

"Sorry," Theo apologized. "It’s just that this exchange student program is making me anxious. Frankly, I don’t have a good impression of the Aetherion Empire."

"Me neither," Alex replied. "Well then, President. If that is all, then I’m off."

"Okay." Theo smiled. "Thank you for your time, Alex."

After that meeting ended, Alex headed straight to the clubroom in order to spar with Latifa’s Alters.

He had asked all of them to fight him at the same time.

Perhaps understanding his desire to become stronger, Lotte, Lumi, Lulu, and Lala agreed to his request.

Their first spar happened yesterday. Truth be told, those four thrashed Alex so badly that he wasn’t able to get up for nearly half an hour due to how exhausted he was.

Lala’s ability to put debuffs on her opponent, alongside Lotte’s ability to buff her allies, was truly a deadly combination.

Alex tried to eliminate them first, but Lumi and Lulu both specialized in close combat.

Lumi fought him unarmed, while Lulu would attack him with many kinds of weapons.

From swords to spears, to maces and the weapon that Alex dreaded the most... a flail.

Lulu had this uncanny ability to make the flail ignore his shield and directly target Alex’s head.

Thanks to that, he had learned a few ways to counter those attacks. Even so, Lulu’s flail still managed to land a decent hit on the other parts of his body, which brought him great pain during their sparring matches.

"Endure it, Alex," Lulu said to him back then. "This is what you call ’tough love’."

The young man didn’t have any comeback because he was the one who had asked them for a sparring match.

Renard and Charles also busied themselves with training.

Both knew that when the members of the Aetherion Empire arrived, there was a high chance they would ask for sparring partners.

The two of them were very eager to test their mettle against unknown opponents.

Even Vaan, who specialized in using the spear, had asked a blacksmith to make him a custom swordwhip.

Back when they were in Hy-Brasil, he noticed how proficient Reverse Vaan was with the whip, so Vaan thought that this might be a good idea for him to try a different weapon.

He even went to ask the Magic Knight Professor of the Academy for special lessons on how to wield this kind of weapon.

When Alex arrived at the clock tower, he was surprised to find Aeris casually sipping tea as if she were part of the club.

But since there was no reason for him to turn him away, he greeted her with a smile.

However, Aeris had something to say to his greeting.

"Your smile looks very forced, Alex," Aeris said. "Don’t do that. You look creepy. You can only get away with it because you are handsome."

"Thanks?" Alex blinked because the elven princess had easily criticized and praised him at the same time.

"Welcome home, Papa!" Lala didn’t hesitate to say such endearing words while asking Alex for a hug.

Naturally, the young man wholeheartedly accepted this request and even kissed her right cheek, which made the young lady smile happily.

"That’s it." Lumi cracked her knuckles. "I’m not going to show you any mercy later."

Lotte smiled faintly, but her eyes looked very determined to teach Alex a lesson or two.

As for Lulu, she shamelessly asked for hugs and kisses as well, which made Lumi look at him as if he were a dead man.

Aeris found all of this quite amusing and followed them to one of the secrets of the clock tower, the special domain.

Needless to say, Alex found himself besieged from all sides. And to be perfectly honest, Aeris had also snuck an arrow or two at the young man, aiming especially at his butt.

Fortunately, Alex was able to summon his shields in time to block the attacks coming from his blind spot.

When the spar ended, Alex took a quick shower and asked Lala to give him a lap pillow.

He then made a vow in his heart to give Aeris a proper spanking on the day that the elven princess was looking forward to the most.