Council Affairs Interlude

"Hooh~ so you're a member now, Junior?" Alice asked, her tone tinged with curiosity.

"Basically," I replied with a nod.

"That's kind of unexpected… I heard Rose was going to invite someone in, but never in a million years would I have thought it would be you, Junior."

"Do I look that unreliable?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not exactly… But you don't exactly look like the type to bother with troublesome things like this. After all, you're quite the training freak, and honestly, the image of you handling papers wasn't exactly vivid in my mind."

Was she subtly calling me a meathead? Well, it wasn't like she was wrong.

There was a typical stereotype in this world that knights were often seen as brawny and less inclined towards intellectual tasks, while mages were considered the smart ones.

Being a mage herself, the notion of a knight student like me joining the student council was quite rare.