Chapter 7: The Mysterious Isla

"Lord Grayson?" A shy voice inquired.

Huh?

A girl with long, glossy, lilac strands of hair stood in front of me. She had large, round glasses as well as big grey eyes. She was rather normal; however, her height was around the same as mine! Normally, girls in this otome game stopped growing at 1.6 metres, however this mysterious girl's height was just shorter than me and was 1.75 metres.

"Hello, I'm Lady Isla." She introduced herself with a monotone voice, "I will be your magic tutor. I am in the same year level as you. She spoke quickly, as though she did not want to have attention placed on her any longer, and her eyes refused to look at anyone in the eyes.

"Wow you most be pretty powerful!" Miku gushed, and Lady Isla blushed and looked even more intensely towards the ground.

"Thank… you?" Lady Isla awkwardly muttered.

Oh, I knew who this character was. She was Lady Isla, oldest daughter of the ducal house, Leona, which was full of potential mages. She was like me, although I was a love interest, I was the easiest to capture, thus, the players aimed to capture Prince Aiden, the most difficult to capture. We were both side characters with little importance. She was also, unfortunately, in love with Prince Aiden.

"And I'm so jealous! It must be easy going around with your height." Miku continued to compliment sweetly.

I just remembered! Although Isla was competent in her looks, she was raised in the ducal house, Leona, to be the best, but no one ever complimented her and so, she became quite insecure due to her height. When she was young, she spent most of her time studying, and so, she became quite awkward around people and shy.

'Mhm…" Lady Isla smiled tightly, "I'll be best to go off now."

"Huh? Did I say something wrong?" Miku asked, her eyes darting towards us.

"Miku… Tallness is considered to be masculine and unfeminine in the high society." Eli smiled wryly.

"Then couldn't Lady Isla use an appearance altering spell to modify her height?" Miku questioned, tilting her head to one side, as though she was having trouble thinking of the answer.

"House Leona consider it immoral to correct their appearances just for vanity." Eli sighed, while Edward touched his eyelid above his abnormal scarlet eyes.

"What nonsense." Edward sniffed irritably, remembering how he used to be bullied often for his red eyes.

"Oh… well, I just couldn't help but blabber random things to Lady Isla!" Miku confessed, her feet shuffling on the ground, "I respect her so much since she made a type of healing potion which cured many people in my household."

"Don't worry about it!" Edward chirped, "We can go over to Lady Isla to give her a formal apology if that'll make you feel better, Miku! Anyway, class is starting, let's go!"

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It was the fourth period and we were doing self-studying.

Eli had done all the stacks of homework as soon as the clock hit five minutes but Miku was still struggling with her first booklet after twenty minutes, her other fifteen papers lay on the other side of the table, collecting dust. Edward was doing steadily, however, not as quick as Eli. Me? I had finished a few minutes after Eli, after all, I had already learnt most of this in cram school in my past life, and, Grayson was quite a intelligent person, even the questions I didn't learn in my past life, suddenly made complete sense in my head.

"Uwaaa! I don't understand this!" Miku groaned and buried her head in her hands, laughing sardonically at herself.

Eli gestured for Miku to hand her the papers, Miku looked at Eli with awestruck eyes and set on a determined face.

"I must become like you Lady Eli!" Miku declared, and Eli's stoic expression softened a fraction.

"I have to go now for my magic tutoring." I announced, packing my things into my satchel.

"You have to leave now?" Edward whined with grieving eyes, "Farewell Brother… I will remember you!"

"I'll come back, kay?" ruffling Edward's unnatural straight hair back into curls.

I headed off, to the west building. I eventually stopped at two, tall oak doors.

*Knock, knock*

"Come in" Lady Isla's voice called out.

The doors flung themselves open completely open by themselves and I steeped in the room. There was nothing extraordinary about this room, however, it looked exactly like my former high school's gym!

"Okay, let's start by battling each other." Lady Isla stated, her voice expressionless.

I nodded in confirmation and prepared my fighting stance. Thankfully, I had rigorously trained throughout all my years up until now. I was confident I could hold her off for a while, if not, win. I started by making mini-tsunamis and shadow magic, nothing too strong, I was scared I might hurt her. But she called for blackholes and light magic to completely defeat them. Obviously, she was incredibly powerful. I rested my mind and called for fire magic; neon blue flames licked at my hand.

I enlarged it and shot it at Lady Isla, the whole room was engulfed in blue light. Lady Isla simply flicked a finger and an exceedingly strong wind appeared out of nowhere to extinguish the fire.

"Game over." Lady Isla simply stated.

Huh?