Zoemi could barely keep himself on his chair through the class, the anxiety and horrible feeling in his guts were telling him that something very dangerous was merely a single step away from actually happening and he merely had a handful of clues to figure out how to stop whatever it was from happening – he needed more information – and to gather those, he stood up from his seat as soon as the lesson finished.

"Zoemi...? Where are you going...?"

Miriette reacted immediately as soon as the black-haired boy left his spot - as if she was afraid that her attendant will just disappear on her...

...which made Zoemi bow his head towards her with an apologetic smile...

"Excuse me, my lady, but I need to deal with a small personal matter."

"Ah, oh... I see. Of course, but come back as soon as you will be done."

He apologized and gave a vague reason and judging by the dark-haired girl's expression, she misunderstood what he actually meant – but even that wasn't bad at all.

With a free reign over his time, the black-haired boy turned away and walked towards the door.

"...ek-hem..."

When Zoemi was going past the heroine he 'accidentally' bumped into her desk while clearing his throat.

"...?!"

The heroine looked up at him with frightful eyes, Zoemi didn't change his indifferent expression but he motioned at the door with his eyes and walked away acting as if nothing happened.

"...eh...?"

"..."

The blond heroine tilted her head in confusion but then Zoemi glanced back at her and stared at the door.

|Wait up...! Is that an event?! Now?! No way...! Is this whole terrible situation just one big event for him?!|

Burushiitto clenched her fists and gritted her teeth.

She honestly didn't wasn't to follow after the black-haired boy – his all of his events – or what she thought of as events – was dangerous and way darker than anything she knew from the game.

In her previous life, she would be all over that broody and gritty atmosphere as it added the thrill and dangerous charm to the scenario while painting the capture target in a more desirable light even with the scars and whatnots – but now it was different – it wasn't a game, she wasn't merely controlling the actions of the character on the screen – she was the character!

And honestly, even in this game-like word, there was no way that she would be willing to check whether checkpoints are a real thing or not – and only a fool would risk their live to make sure about something like that.

..

But since there might be no checkpoints and the events that had something to do with the black-haired yandere boy, did she even have an actual choice in the matter?

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She knew characters like him from other games – she was absolutely sure that if she neglects him too much he would kill her off in a vengeful rampage without a moment of hesitation – and since the magic examination Burushiitto knew that the black-haired boy would have no problem with killing her, even with all the healing magic she knew – after all for a spell to work she had to cast it – and it was impossible to cast anything if she was already dead...

Therefore...

...she stood up and left the classroom after the black-haired attendant with an ugly burn-scar disfiguring his right side of the face...

"...that big-titted wench...!"

Miriette clenched her fists and grumbled furiously, staring daggers after the leaving blond-haired girl.

"My love, what's with that commoner girl following the Zo...? Oh...!"

Horeo raised his brow at the sight of Burushiitto leaving right after Zoemi, and turned towards Miriette with a question but then he changed his mind after seeing the dark-haired girl's reaction.

Miriette's hair was standing on its ends and gave off the air of sharpness, her face was frozen into an expression best described as 'a personification of wrath' and she was breathing heavily as if she was an angry bull.

|Uh-oh, yeah... she also noticed that girl leaving after Zoemi...|

The first prince thought to himself and decided to not pick the clearly dangerous subject.

"Never mind..."

Horeo quickly turned back and ignored the newly born goddess of fury that took the form of the dark-haired girl who also happened to be his fiancee.

God only knows what would happen if he irked her now - and the first prince wasn't stupid enough to partake in that outrageous gamble with such low odds of winning.

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Zoemi was leaning against the wall next to the classroom waiting for the heroine to arrive – it definitely took her longer than he expected, but she end up showing up – thankfully.

"S-sir Zoemi...?"

The blond girl nodded her head timidly in a bashful greeting and Zoemi nodded back at her.

"Miss Burushi, let us talk outside."

The black-haired boy suggested and started walking without waiting for the answer.

"...I'm only doing that to not get killed though..."

The blond heroine followed him with a pitiful expression as she was sighing completely dispirited.

At that point, Burushiitto was convinced that it was the time when Zoemi's route was properly starting to get the momentum going- from her perspective and with the information at their disposal, it looked like Surou's affection had to be on a certain level to open this new capture target's route properly – and the sudden kiss she received from the blue-haired second prince must have been just the right trigger.

|In the end - all the weird and scary things happening as well as the reversed event from the day before must have been the starting point of his storyline kicking in... I only hope that I will not get locked into his route... I seriously only want Surou and graduate the academy in peace...! The Slutiette can go and be the queen of whatever as long as I will be able to live a long fulfilling life in peace...!|

The heroine thought to herself taking a deep breath, bracing herself for whatever might result from following the black-haired boy...

...what if she actually messed something up already and he was leading her away to kill her off...?!

"...!"

A new and very unpleasant thought appeared in Burushiitto's mind and almost paralyzed the girl with fear.

But could she really stop now – if she started running, she might not be able to reach Surou before the black-haired bo would riddle her back with holes poked in by the scary darkness blade he used during the magic examination – which she certainly watched just in case.

When they finally got out of the building out in the open, Zoemi looked at the heroine with an indifferent expression that slowly melted into something that looked almost like concern...!

"How are you dealing with all this stuff?"

The black-haired boy asked rather awkwardly but the heroine understood that he must be talking about the bullying and the general disdain towards her – which she half expected but it was still a little bit surprising as the capture targets weren't all that bright when it came to situations like that – taking Surou for example who was sure that kissing Burushitto n front of her entire class, he would put a stop to the bullying....