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"I am my world"

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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On her position in the Dining Hall, Cordilia ate the vanilla ice cream, savoring it's taste and closing her eyes and sighed in delight and satisfaction.

The top architects in the world specifically design the room. The room is circular and arranged in a certain way. The table where the teachers would dine was in the highest platform, by the wall in order to oversee the whole student population and to make sure no troubles will befall in the students or fighting while everyone is having their meals. In the curved table, the Headmaster sat in the middle seat and the two Master Teachers occupied the seat on each side. Then the teachers sat on the rest of the seat. The second highest platform is where the Supreme Student Government sat, indicating their position and making them really sticks out. The third platform is for the Gangs on their own side of the room with their own respective members, the last platform is for the other students.

Cordilia marveled that the room, the whole Academy, is a perfect place to shoot movies that is campus genre, truly.

She can feel the stares of the people on her, more like on the one sitting next to her, Heroine sama. She was obviously uncomfortable and the anxious and discomfort had shown on her face. It's that obvious.

"New girl, relax. If you give them an opening to scrutinized you, you'll be swallowed alive." Lily said, trying to be helpful, of course, however it resulted differently than she expected.

"Your name comes from the root word 'Victory' and supposed to be victorious in everything you do. Have confidence and keep your chin up" Cordilia said, taking a last bite of her vanilla ice cream and mournfully looking at the empty bowls piled up next to her

"Pres.....i....i " Victoria bit her lip, she was moved

"Are you going to eat that?" Cordilia looked at Victoria expectantly, then to the bowl of vanilla ice cream in front of her.

"......"

"......" Victoria silently pushed the bowl of ice cream in front of Cordilia who's facial expression did not changed but her eyes were sparkling in delight.

Cordilia looked up and narrowed her eyes, Leonard had came over and stalked towards her as if she was his prey, too bad, Cordilia is anything but a prey. Perhaps, she thought, the Law of Gravity between the Leads are really this strong. Cordilia licked the melted ice cream from the spoon and placed it down neatly , watching with alert and wariness as the rest of the Five Kings had stood up, following the Leader of the Phantoms.

Leonard, Cordilia deduced, deserve of his reputation of being the Main Lead. According to information from A'Yuan, he is quite the Playboy. Typical of the Male Lead's character setting in Campus Gangster Genre, it didn't help that Cordilia was stereotyping with him. Usually on earth, majority of the writers write out a playboy having the blonde and blue eyed or something among the lines. Of course, this is just Cordilia's opinion but in books she read, they certainly are.

Cordilia averted her gaze from Leonard who had stood infront of her and eyed her with such intensity in his eyes. It made her uncomfortable. Perhaps the stare reminds her of Elreste, in a sense.

"You won't even look at me in the eyes, Miss Westeria?" There is an edge in Leonard's voice, there is recognition in them.

'That is a strange one. I did not know him yet he knows me. This guy is not your typical student. This aura...the aura of an aristocrat!' Cordilia was alarmed, 'This is not good, if he is the same as I am....' Cordilia frowned.

"Alexander, 'Solar Eclipse" Cordilia said, Alexander nodded

"Yes, Miss President" he answered and pushed the button under the table, and immediately the room was enveloped by darkness.

"AHHH!!!!" panicked screams of the students in shock, taken by surprise

"The Lights! The Lights!"

"Light your flashlights!"

There was chaos, flashes of lights from the cell phones of the masses is like a beacon in pitch black darkness surrounding them. The first to gain their composure were the Gang Members, let alone their Kings. The Teachers were alarmed but hearing their Headmaster is not doing anything, perhaps it was not a bad thing.

When the lights had returned after half a minute, everyone finally got their bearings and enough time to calm down. The realized, the SSG had disappeared silently during the chaotic momentary of darkness. The only remaining occupant of the seat was Victoria who was not a member of the Group.

"What just...happened?" she asked nervously, looking at empty seats to her left and right,

"Where is Miss President? Miss Nika? Miss Lily?" she had expectantly looked at the Five Kings, hoping they would give her an answer.

"That....We also have no clue what had happened. It was so fast" Logan had answered the girl, feeling uncomfortable when those shining eyes looked like a kicked puppy. Teary eyed.

"They must have vanished just when the power source got cut off, taking advantage to get away" Gabriel had cut in, not wanting to deal with a crying maiden.

"'Get Away'? Get away from what exactly?" questioned Ezekiel out of curiosity

"Claire always was, and still is, a mysterious and unpredictable person, even as a child. Who knew what she has in her head. Either way, we should stir clear. She already made a silent yet arrogant declaration last night that she would take the Five Kings." Nathan spoke, taking advantage that he know of Claire's habits.

"Perhaps" was Leonard's reply as he smirked, chuckling in amusement, relief and delight.

'It's her! It's really her!'

No one knows better than him in this world about the masks and façade's Cordilia put. Behind that calm and collected disposition, he knows better.

Earlier, Cordilia looked at him with alarm and there was a flash of recognition, in a sense that is a bit odd. She knew he was not the Leonard she is expecting, she knew and noticed he is different from the others. She looked at him with slight scorn and disdain, as if Leonard had ruined a play she had set up just by being on stage without knowing his role and act and had the gall in replacing a character she envisioned to see.

Leonard always knew, Cordilia was different from other people ever since he had meet her in his past life time. He had not understand what t was yet, but now seeing himself in this tricky situation. He understood, in a sense. Cordilia was a transmigrator. Like the current him.

What Leonard did not understand, why is she still looking at me everything with uncaring eyes?

Leonard understood that look, it was like being the coach of the basketball team, involved in the game by not playing. She was looking at them with complicated and calculated gaze, filled with expectation yet disinterest. Standing by the side and watching them through tinted glass.

Leonard knew, from the lessons he learned for self defense and even as f now, he had felt it when he got near Cordiia.

There is danger. Leonard had know it ever since in his first life. Cordilia was dangerous and what even more terrifying is that she did not seemed to be aware of it at all.

'Danger? I am not afraid. Just excites me more. That would make the chase much worth it'