Chapter 10: Tsun Tsun Tsun Tsundere
Alice walked to the bedside and looked down at him from above.
Her cool voice carried merciless teasing as she casually pulled out an exquisite crystal bottle engraved with the Akshia family’s phoenix crest from her sleeve and lightly placed it on the bedside table near him.
“This is my family’s healing medicine. It’s somewhat useful for treating external injuries. Don’t misunderstand. I just don’t want you going around with a pig-head face and embarrassing our Holy Church State.”
Ah.
Classic saying one thing and meaning another.
Looking at that priceless top-grade recovery potion, Luo Lin suddenly felt warmth spreading through his heart.
Although he could be a little dense, he understood perfectly well.
After repeatedly reading romance novels in his previous life, he was extremely familiar with this sort of thing.
This was textbook tsun tsun tsun tsundere behavior.
A good childhood friend secretly caring about someone!
“Thank you for the gift, Princess.”
Luo Lin grinned shamelessly and couldn’t resist teasing her.
“But I heard from the butler that on the day I was attacked, Your Highness urgently mobilized the Royal Knights overnight…”
“Shut up! Who was worried?!”
Alice instantly reacted like a ragdoll cat whose tail had been stepped on.
The delicate tips of her ears hidden beneath her pink hair instantly turned red enough to bleed.
She bit her lip and turned her head away to stare fiercely out the window.
Her calves wrapped in white stockings unconsciously pressed together slightly.
“I was merely fulfilling the responsibilities of the Holy Church State’s heir by purging cultists!”
Watching her puffed-up appearance, Luo Lin nearly burst into auntie-like laughter internally.
Great.
Sure enough, at this point in time, his friendship with Alice still hadn’t broken apart.
Princess Alice, don’t worry.
In this life, their friendship would last forever and remain unshakable.
Tsunderes truly were humanity’s greatest treasure!
“Enough. This princess doesn’t have time to listen to your nonsense.”
Alice forcibly suppressed the heat spreading across her cheeks.
She turned around and took out a gilded parchment envelope from the pocket at the side of her skirt before slapping it directly onto Luo Lin’s chest.
“What’s this?”
Luo Lin froze momentarily.
“An entrance examination qualification letter for Serah Academy.”
Alice suddenly became serious.
Her cold eyes stared directly at Luo Lin with genuine intensity.
“Half a month from now, take this and participate in the examination at the Holy Mountain.”
“Serah Academy?!”
Luo Lin was so shocked he nearly bit his tongue.
That was the number one academy on the entire continent!
A gathering place filled with the continent’s most monstrous geniuses and lunatics!
More importantly, according to the original owner’s memories, it was the grand stage where all the destined female protagonists gathered together.
It was where Lucia’s crystal palace officially began.
And also where he, the villain, started getting endlessly brutalized.
Scenes of himself being endlessly bullied by the destined female protagonists began replaying inside his mind.
During the written examination, he had secretly passed cheat notes to Laura and got caught red-handed by the genius disciplinary committee president, forcing him to loudly introduce himself in front of every examinee.
During the practical examination, he attempted to ambush Lucia only to get hung upside down from a tree and spun around like a top.
…
“N-no… Alice, look at me! I’m practically half-paralyzed right now! And I’m a completely magicless ‘Null Mage’!”
Luo Lin’s face was filled with resistance.
What kind of international joke was this?!
In his previous life, he studied himself to the point of vomiting.
After finally transmigrating into the body of a top-tier rich second generation, his only wish in this life was to slack off, eat and wait for death, and peacefully enjoy life!
And now she wanted him to go study again?
Study my ass!
Seeing Luo Lin’s completely hopeless and lazy attitude, Alice’s anger instantly exploded.
“Luo Lin Mozart!”
Alice suddenly leaned close.
Her breath carrying the faint fragrance of sacred flowers brushed against the tip of Luo Lin’s nose.
Clearly, she was genuinely angry now.
“Exactly how long are you planning to keep rotting away like this?! Do you think exposing one Saul means those venomous snakes hiding in the shadows will let you go?! If the heir of the Mozart family is a useless weakling without even the ability to protect himself, sooner or later you’ll be devoured until not even your bones remain! Do you even understand that?!”
Alice tightly gripped the envelope.
A layer of mist appeared within her cherry-pink eyes like spring sakura flowers hidden beneath fog.
Her slightly trembling voice carried furious disappointment.
“I don’t care what method you use. On the day of the examination, you absolutely must appear before me! Otherwise… otherwise I, Alice Akshia, will never speak to you again for the rest of my life!”
After finishing those words, Alice suddenly turned around and rushed out of the room in a panic-like escape, her little leather shoes clacking rapidly against the floor.
Only a faint breeze carrying the fragrance of sacred flowers remained behind.
Along with Luo Lin, who sat there completely dumbfounded.
Outside the room, the wall lamps along the hallway cast dim and hazy circles of light.
The old butler of the Mozart family quietly stood beside the doorway while watching the princess, whose eyes had turned slightly red from anger.
“Princess Alice…”
The old butler slightly bowed.
The wrinkles across his aged face carried the gentleness of an elder.
“You are clearly more worried about Young Master’s safety than anyone else. From the moment he disappeared, you pushed aside all Church affairs and personally searched around Mist Forest for two entire days and nights.”
“During the time Young Master was unconscious, you also remained by his bedside without leaving even a single step. You didn’t close your eyes once until after he awakened and you pretended to leave.”
The old butler paused.
A trace of puzzled sighing filled his aged voice.
“Why… do you refuse to tell Young Master these things?”
Alice’s footsteps suddenly halted.
Two highly alluring blushes appeared upon her usually proud and peerlessly beautiful face.
She slightly turned her head and deeply hid those crimson ears that looked ready to drip blood beneath her waterfall-like cherry-pink hair.
“You talk too much…”
Night quietly descended, driving away the evening glow.
Luo Lin lay sprawled across the bed in a starfish position while staring blankly at the ceiling.
“Go take the Serah Academy examination? But I really just want to be a useless bum…”
Just as Luo Lin sighed endlessly and drifted toward sleep—
His vision suddenly blurred.
The height of his perspective abruptly dropped several levels for no reason at all.
The silk pajamas that had originally fit him perfectly instantly lost the support of broad shoulders.
The collar tilted sideways and slid directly down his small rounded shoulders before bunching around his elbows.
His chest was completely flat.
There wasn’t even the slightest sign of development.
The thin body belonging to a young girl looked empty and loose within the oversized men’s pajamas.
Luo Lin instantly jolted awake and lowered his head.
Following that snow-white delicate neck downward, a pair of slender pale feet peeked out from the oversized pajama pants and stepped upon the wool carpet.
When the night wind from the window brushed across them, his toes curled slightly.
Like a panicked little rabbit, she scrambled and rolled her way toward the full-length mirror.
Within the mirror appeared a petite silver dragon loli with waist-length silver-white hair, crystalline dragon horns atop her head, and ice-blue eyes.
Selena!
“WHY?! Didn’t all those cultists already die?! Why am I suddenly transforming in the middle of the night while staying safely at home?!”
Selena grabbed her silver hair in utter collapse as she let out a soft miserable wail.