Chapter 1568: The President Knows

The two of them relayed the new idea to the other girls and for some reason, all of them were quite supportive of the idea.

I need to remind everyone again... You girls are really supportive of the idea of doing things to make me into a villain. Without any context, this sounds especially bad.

I suppose I shouldn’t complain, given that I already approved of this idea and my girls are literally helping me fulfill my own desire.

Anyway... It was the second day of the club recruitment and I was back in the Student Council room once again.

They didn’t exactly tell me what time I had to go there today but I figured that I should be there before the other students started heading out to set up their stalls again.

My girls would once again be going around looking at the clubs to see if there were any that caught their eyes.

For some reason, they seem much more enthusiastic about doing it this time than before.

I stepped into the room and blinked in surprise when I found only president Liareu there, the place completely empty aside from her.

And what’s more, she was in the middle of dressing herself.

She was facing the door when I opened it and stepped inside so both of us were staring at each other when that moment happened.

She was in the process of putting on her stockings and had one foot up on a chair with only a bra being the only shred of cloth that was on her body when I saw her.

I was expecting her to scream or start panicking at herself being caught like this but she simply went back to pulling up her stockings like it was no big deal while she greeted me.

"Ah, Lady Aster. Good morning. You’re quite early aren’t you?"

I blinked at her, "Good... Morning?"

She chuckled, "The rest won’t show up till maybe an hour or two from now, Lady Aster. The stalls are not expected to be manned until late morning. You’re already here even before most of the Academy wakes."

I finally rationalised that she was completely fine with being seen by me since she thought I was a girl and quickly cleared my throat to try and explain to her.

"President Liareu? You know that I am a futa, don’t you?"

She placed her other foot on the chair and started pulling up her other stocking casually, "Hmm? I am aware, yes. Is there a problem? You’re not going to tell me that you’re not actually one, are you?"

"No... But are you fine with this? I mean... I can wait outside if you want?"

She chuckled, "Fufufu~ You are free to stay and watch if you want, Lady Aster. If I had a problem with it, I would be screaming and not wishing you a good morning. Come in and shut the door please."

I did as she asked, figuring that I might as well just roll with it instead of trying to dig myself into a hole by arguing any further.

She moved on to put on her panties before giving me a sideways glance, "I must say, Lady Aster. You are more considerate than you let on."

I mentally smacked myself as I realised I was really bad at being a villain. If I was a real villain... I might have just come late or even just barged in here like I owned the place and not even bothered asking her if she wanted me to leave until she was done.

But here, I showed off my capability to improvise as I sniffed at her, "Considerate? I simply did not want to invite any misunderstanding to the situation."

She paused in the action of putting on her inner shirt and a smile appeared on her lips, "I see."

I wasn’t sure if she saw through my ruse or she was simply finding my words amusing and I didn’t bother to ask.

Instead, I decided to try and salvage it by asking, "So why are you changing in here? Unless this is meant to be your private room outside of working hours?"

She buttoned up her shirt, "Fufufu~ I suppose it’s normal that you are not aware of this since you are still a first year... But this place also serves as the place of residence for the Student Council members, Lady Aster. And before you ask, yes, you can stay here as well instead of your dorm after you have become a full fledged member of the Student Council."

I paused for a moment, "I assume that invitation is only extended to me specifically and not anyone else?"

The president moved to pick up her skirt to step into it before pulling it up her waist, "Yes. So I’m afraid you won’t be able to bring your harem in here to stay. At least, not unless you take over the position of President and write in a new rule for that."

"In that case... I’m afraid I probably wouldn’t take up on that offer."

"Understandable. It’s not required of you to do so after all."

She then finished putting on her skirt before turning to get her jacket off the back of the chair to slip it over her shoulders, which finally made me wonder why she would even choose to change inside the Student Council room instead of her own room before coming here.

As if reading my thoughts, she spoke up without looking at me, "Just to clear up any misunderstanding, I had come here early in the morning to sort through some paperwork but I was wearing my pyjamas since I didn’t want to change into my clothes that early. I only just finished the work and then you came right as I was changing out of my pyjamas."

She then gestured towards the side and sure enough, there was another set of clothes folded neatly on top of the couch which looked like the pyjamas set she was talking about.

I said nothing and simply nodded in return.

She then moved to sit down at her table, pulling out a small standing mirror from one of the drawers to start doing her hair while addressing me.

"So... I assume you are here to continue your work as the probationary member of the Student Council, correct?"

"I assumed you would want me to help out considering the fact that you guys seemed to be understaffed yesterday. And I assume there would be more work to be done today with it being the weekend."

"Fufufu~ You really are quite dutiful, Lady Aster."

I scoffed, "Don’t misunderstand, I am merely doing this because this position allows me to beat up students as much as I like without any repercussions."

She paused in doing her hair to peek at me before going right back to looking at the mirror.

"Don’t mind what I say next, Lady Aster... Take it as someone who is rambling while doing up her hair... But a bad person doesn’t usually announce their true intentions to show that they are an evil person to clear up a misunderstanding. Not that I know anything about it, of course."

I stared at the President, feeling a little miffed that she basically just showed me that she knew my entire villain persona was a ruse.

She chuckled, "Fufufu~ Like I said, that was just ramblings from me, I wasn’t talking about a specific person or anything. And besides... I don’t intend to go around spilling other people’s secrets, at least not secrets like this. I’m already in my sixth year here, I’ve seen plenty of other outrageous things and people in the school, some of which I still wonder to this day if it was real or not. After all, there is only one thing that this Academy really cares about and that is results."

So she’s pragmatic. I guess seeing that she’s the eldest child of her family and most likely the heir of it as well, she had her fill of needing to deal with noble politics too so she’s used to eccentric and odd people around her.

I decided to just accept her consideration and not mention it after that, moving to sit on the couch and change the topic instead.

"So on to the issue at hand... Are we expecting a lot more students and problems today?"

"Oh definitely. There would be students who had chosen not to visit the booths yesterday because it was still a school day and they wanted a break. But today, pretty much everyone would be out and about. And not only that, there will also be merchants coming in from outside to take advantage of this event to peddle their wares to the students so there will be even more people today as compared to yesterday."

"Are we expected to police the merchants too?"

"We can if we want to, but our main focus is on the students. Aerialla Academy has its own security forces after all. But we will, of course, work together with them for this event."

Oh right... That Meslatar guy I met on the first day here. The Sky Guard or something? And also the ones who stopped me from flying around...

Wait...

"President? Is it possible... For you to grant me a flying permit?"

Hey! I got to ask, right?!