Chapter 1569: I’m Trusted With Solo Work

Heh...

Well... Long story short...

Heh heh...

If I were to become a full fledged member...

Heh heh heh...

She can grant me a permit to fly under the pretext of allowing me to fulfil my duties better.

Heheheheh~

Well, I can’t have it right now but this means it’s just a matter of time before I get it~ Since I already decided to join them anyway~

And that gives me something to look forward to in the future too, so I’m not complaining~

Sure, I still need to wait, but at least instead of waiting for a year, I only need to wait for a few more days~

That put me in a really good mood for the rest of the day and I even found myself humming a tune which I only caught myself doing because I saw President Liareu smiling at me.

Ughh... I should be careful about that... At least she already knows the real reason behind what I’m doing so I didn’t expose myself or anything...

Well... It was hard to control myself since there wasn’t really anything for me to do until the other members of the Student Council arrived, so I was just seated on the sofa staring off into space in the meantime.

To try and distract myself, I volunteered to help her with whatever she was doing.

She then tasked me with arranging some documents which was pretty easy for me to do so I focused on the new task and did my best at it.

The work was quite mundane and the time passed pretty quickly and soon enough, the next member of the Student Council entered the room.

The door swung open and Secretary Evelyne walked in, the Auto pausing in her tracks when she saw me.

"Oh? Good morning, Lady Aster. You are quite early."

I shrugged, "I thought that you guys needed the help, given what yesterday showed. You guys seemed to be really understaffed."

She nodded while moving towards her own table, "Indeed. It is unfortunate but not a lot of students join the Student Council since most do not qualify for it."

Honestly... I said what I said as a jab at how apparently unpopular the Student Council seemed to be as a way to try and be a little mean... But that seemed to sail right over Evelyne’s head and she even gave me a genuine answer...

Liareu even backed her up, "As much as we would prefer more manpower, recruiting students just for the manpower would inevitably lower our standards which we might not be able to recover from... And since events like these happen only occasionally, it is not worth the risk."

I made a noncommittal sound, not really caring since it wasn’t a decision for me to make anyway.

Evelyne took her position at her desk and she was already moving through the papers with speeds that made her hands look like a blur.

I guess there’s a reason why she’s the secretary.

"Lady Aster, you can hand over your documents to Evelyne to handle. There’s no need for you to do such work," Liareu instructed.

I hesitated for a moment before moving to pass Evelune the stack of documents I have yet to sort, the Auto receiving it quickly without batting an eye or slowing down her hands.

Now I was back to having nothing to do.

Liareu steepled her fingers and turned to Evelyne, "Where’s everyone else, Evelyne?"

"I believe they are still not up yet, President. After all... Everyone was working overtime yesterday to deal with the incident reports."

"Hmm... I suppose they might be late then... Lady Aster. Would you mind just going ahead on your own? There’s no need to wait on them before you start. You remember the way to the Enforcer Committee room, right?"

I straightened myself, "Of course. Should I go now?"

"It would be better than just having us waste your time making you sit here instead, so we might as well let you get to work."

"I take it that you want me to patrol the same area yesterday and handle the troublemakers the same way as well?"

"If you would, Lady Aster."

Well alright then~

I left the room and headed for the Enforcer committee room, expecting to see it empty but there was a group of them gathered in the room.

Judging by how they were crowded around one of the tables, it seemed like they were in the middle of a meeting to decide what they were going to do for the event today before I walked in.

I almost greeted them until I remembered that I was not supposed to be nice to people so I just completely ignored them and went ahead to pick up a red armband from the table to slip over my arm, having needed to put my egg on my tail to free my hands to do so.

One of them might not have gotten the memo about my membership as she quickly leapt to her feet to point her finger at me.

"Hey?! What do you think you’re doing?! Who are you?! Put that down right now!"

I turned my head to stare at her.

She was a Meslatar with blue scales and her tail was flicking around behind her aggressively, though her wings seemed to be folded in her back right now.

The thought of explaining crossed my mind but then I had a better idea.

I slowly tilted my head, "You have a problem with this? Come make me."

Her brows furrowed and she accepted that challenge, ignoring her colleagues who were trying to stop her as she leapt towards me.

She came at me with her hand outstretched, clearly intending to grab my neck.

I stayed where I was and waited until she was within my range, prompting me to duck under her arm and do a reversal by grabbing her neck to slam her down on the ground.

I then stepped on her chest, forcing her down and preventing her from getting up.

Of course, I made sure my egg was safe in my tail the entire time and only moved the egg back into my arms after she had been subdued.

I was honestly not going to do anything else to her since I was quite literally just using this chance to be a little more tyrannical. I was just going to show off a little before letting her go, after threatening her a little of course.

But just as I was about to mock her, I saw a figure rushing towards me from the corner of my eye.

I stepped off from her and leaned back to dodge the blow, twisting my body to shield my egg from the attack.

My attacker did not give up and tried to deliver a flurry of punches at me which I ducked and dodged, not allowing any of their punches to land on me.

I felt a little annoyed at the fact that they were so persistent so when they tried to punch at my chest again, I snaked out my tail to wrap around his wrist, stopping them from pulling back their hand.

When they finally stopped moving, I narrowed my eyes at the person, realising it was a guy who somehow looked a little familiar to me.

It took me a moment to realise that this was the same guy who had come to ’warn’ me after the twin tailed girl from the Student Affairs Committee tried to recruit me. The same guy who I thought was rude for pointing his finger at me so I ended up grabbing his wrist with my tail, exactly just like what I was doing right now.

He looked down at my tail that was wrapped around his wrist, his brows furrowing as if he couldn’t understand how he was stopped by my tail.

I tilted my head at him quizzically, "You have a problem with me?"

He looked up from his hand to frown at me, though he remained silent and refused to say anything.

Someone from the other group of Enforcers quickly took the chance to shout out, "Wait! Lady Aster is a provisional member of the Student Council! She’s been asked to help us out for this event since we were short staffed!"

The guy I was holding the wrist of turned back to look at the guy who shouted that out before turning back to me.

His body relaxed and I recognised that he was no longer hostile so I let him go.

The girl who I had slammed on the ground also got up on shaky legs. She should be fine since I didn’t slam her down that hard and the blow should only sting her at most. Nothing a quick healing spell can’t fix.

I didn’t even bother saying anything in acknowledgement and simply turned around to leave the room under the gaze of the other Enforcers.

Hmm~ Hmm~ I think that went pretty well~

Maybe I can actually do this villain thing myself after all~