Chapter 5

Asking the system for clarifications as she sloughed through her textbooks for the last few years, building up gradually to the current year.

She ended up spending most of the night working on problems.

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It took a lot of time and frequent assistance from the system to keep May's position in the class rankings. Once she was able to understand the work, she proved to herself that a woman can be just as good as a man in academics which was almost unheard of in her time.

As it was encouraged by society to do your best, be your best, and stay true to yourself, she, adapted to this mentality and pushed forward in the year ranking.

As a result of hard work and encouragement from society, May blossomed as she discovered herself as a person and left many dazed with her rising academics and indescribable beauty radiating from within. It did not take long for her to become the second year belle.

May had always been well known in school, mostly from her strange friends and secondly by her kindness. However, her academic rising and inner beauty added to her crown. At first, she did not notice the changes in the other students' gaze as she went to school and hung out with her friends, yet, her classmates greeted her with more enthusiasm than last year.

The new social order smacked her in the face halfway through the second term, her pen ran out of ink mid-lecture and, she asked for a pen, only to have her classmates fight to give ger a pen.

System: (◎_◎;)

May: (◎_◎;)

May's friends: (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

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It was like the dam broke, as the rest of her year mates tried their best to become her friends. To the dismay of her group of friends, she was too kind to shun their attempts at friendship, more people came uninvited to the rose room for lunch turning their private time, public. However, they never blamed her, as they had been together for ages, that does not mean that they did not blame the others as JJ and Amber proved.

JJ with, help from Amber, who was eager to help, started a mass prank campaign on people who tried to intrude on their lunch-time. It was a messy affair as the school descended into chaos from the spontaneous paint-filled balloons, slime-filled balloons etc.

The pranks intensified in attack until the school director put his foot down and banned pranking.

It was with the air of a solemn assembly that a harried-paint-covered director faced the student body declaring the new no prank tolerance policy. However, midway through the admonishment, the teachers sat down on whoopie cushions. Giggles and laughs burst forth as the teachers tried to find them. The solemn assembly was utterly destroyed and, the students went home with even more work to do.

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After the disastrous assembly, the student body president was called to the director's office for a conference on disciplinary measures. Once the news was shared different groups within the school, had different reactions.

The presidents' fangirls:

"Did you hear? The crown prince is coming in today!"

"Really?! I have to touch up my makeup!"

"Wait, what?! Im not wearing my best uniform today!!! What can I do?... Hey, Lindsey! lend me your sweater or blazer."

"No can do! I'm wearing it! Check the lost n found!"

"Noooooo! I'm doomed!"

Random Boy in class: "Girls chill, it's not that deep. So what if he's handsome and rich, you could say that for a lot of the guys here."

"Who said that?! Come out and fight! Our male god is not like the rest of you plebeians. He is perfect!"

"Yeah!"

"Come out for your beating quietly! Comparing yourselves to our male god, what a joke."

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The fanboys:

"I hope he notices me!"

"Same, I got a watch almost identical to the prince, I'm banking on this for a conversation starter with him."

"Lucky! Where did you get that?"

"Not telling "

"No fair! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻"

"Every man for himself.╮(╯_╰)╭

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The rest of the boys and girls:

"The madness shall begin soon."

"What do you mean?"

"It's not confirmed as an actual phenomenon, but whenever he comes in, something always happens.

"It's rare for him to come in though, so we have yet to prepare a formal analysis."

"So, at this point its just speculation? Meaning it maynot be true?"

"...Yes..." ORZ.

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May and her friends in the rose room, later at lunch-time:

"May? What do you think about the 'crown prince' coming in today?" asked Amber, fingers quoting the title: crown prince.

"Obviously, our May would never be interested in such a snob!" JJ said energetically, almost bouncing on his chair. "I mean, no offence but she did not look at our future president, Davlyn, so what makes him different?"

"I can kill you and make it look like an accident, Jubilatrix Jaunter." Davlyn said with a slight twitch, eyes shooting daggers at the bouncing JJ.

"What did you just call me?!" Jj said with fire in his eyes.

"Your name is Jubil-ack!" Davlyn said, only to be cut off as JJ had grabbed him, starting their usual tousle in the Rose room. Leaving an exasperated May and a gleeful Amber to watch their 'fight'.

"You know I kind of want to join them, it's been so long since I have had a good fight."

"Amber..."

"What?"

"Just...Never mind. Have fun."

"Jubilatrix and Mr.CEO, you two fight like pansies, haha," Amber said with manic glee as she hopped in place, lips almost reaching her ears as she rolled up her sleeves.

"What did you say you blonde midget?!" the two wrestling on the floor snapped in unison.

"Who are you calling a midget?!" she snapped back, flames shooting from her eyes, then pounced on the two, restarting the fight.

May, on the other hand, quietly had lunch as though nothing was wrong. If anyone dared to go into the Rose room, they would see the strange scene of a graceful girl eating lunch next to a tangle of limbs