''Oh, that''s right. I still haven''t thanked His Highness,'' Dahlia suddenly realised, so she swiftly bowed before him to thank him, but she suddenly felt Orion''s hand on her chin as he slowly lifted her head so her gaze could meet his.


    Dahlia was left speechless and she was even more surprised when she noticed how close he was to her face at that moment. She could still feel his fingers as he lifted her chin and her cheeks reddened instantly when she noticed that he was leaning closer to her.


    "Did you have fun with your new friends?" Orion asked and his question caught Dahlia by surprise.


    "Y-yes, Your Highness."


    "So, how does it feel to have friends who are elves just like you?"


    "I-it feels nice," Dahlia stumbled over a reply, but she had a smile on her face. She recalled all the fun she''d had with the girls and how they quickly had be close.


    It was a weird experience for Dahlia because it was her first time being friends with her own kind or even having friends at all.


    Although the girls could be very lively and loquacious, they were definitely fun to be around and could lift anyone''s spirits.


    Dahlia also remembered how eager they had been to know more about her and how it felt to be a vampire elf, and her smile widened even more at the memory of how the girls cried after hearing about her sad past.


    Dahlia was still lost in her thoughts with a smile on her face when Orion dragged her out of memoryne.


    "You''re smiling."


    "Huh?" Dahlia suddenly realized that she had actually been smiling since she stepped into Orion''s bedroom and she nodded her head with an even prettier smile on her face. "Yes."


    "This is good. I like to see my beautiful elf smiling at me."


    "…."  Dahlia didn''t know what to say or how to react. Her heart was beating faster than it ever had before and she could only stare at the ground as she tried to give Orion a response. "I-I''ll try to…"


    Dahlia wanted to say that she would try her best to smile more for him, but she could feel Orion slowly stroking her cheeks and this made it difficult for her to say what she had in mind or even think.


    Orion didn''t force her to say anything else. He was just d to see his beautiful maid smiling and looking more vibrant than when he first met her.


    "Alright, Dahlia, we''ll talk about all the fun you had with your friendster. Right now though, we have to head over to the ssroom." Orion informed her and Dahlia nodded in response.


    Orion removed his hand from her cheek and the two of them suddenly arrived at the ssroom.


    Dahlia looked around and noticed that they were no longer in Orion''s bedroom, rather, they were now in his ssroom.


    She wasn''t new to the teleportation spell, so she knew that it was a spell that took a pretty long time for a mage to cast sessfully, but she never thought the prince could actually cast a spell without chanting the words.


    The girls had informed her about this before now, but experiencing it was apletely different feeling and Dahlia was speechless by how amazing her prince was.


    Dahlia wanted to say something but noticed that there was no one else in the ssroom.


    "Your Highness, are we in the right ss?"


    "Yes, we are."


    "But there''s no one here."


    "It is an elective ss, so not everyone might have an interest in it," Orion exined before noticing a book and a crystal ball beside it.


    He grabbed the crystal ball and channelled his mana into it. The crystal ball came to life with a glow before a screen was suddenly disyed in front of him.


    <<Greetings Students, I''m Professor Daisy Minotaur, and I''ll…>> It was a recording made by Daisy.


    Unfortunately, she couldn''t attend the ss because she was currently busy with something else, so she wanted the students to take the books she left on the desk and use them to practise any of the dishes written in the book.


    The recipes were described in detail, and this meant that even a novice could easily use it as a guide to make what they wanted with or without the professor standing next to them.


    Orion looked at the desks in the ssroom and noticed that there were no other books in the room, and he wondered if he was the only one taking the ss.


    He knew he wasn''tte to ss because he had arrived right on time, so if there were others offering the ss wouldn''t he have seen them by now?


    Well, it didn''t really matter to him if he was the only one taking the course or not, all that mattered was that he earned enough merit points to graduate early from the academy, so Orion kept the recipe book in his inventory before turning towards Dahlia.


    "Where are we going now, Your Highness?"


    "To the art ss. I want to clear my head a bit,"  Orion replied and walked out of the ssroom with Dahlia trailing behind him.


    Art ss wasn''t that far from the culinary ss, so Orion preferred to walk over to the art ssroom rather than teleporting into the ss.


    It didn''t take them long before they arrived at their destination and walked into the room. Then Orion sat down with a canvas ced in front of him.


    He took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly before picking up a pencil and moving his fingers on the canvas as he began to draw on it.


    Meanwhile, Dahlia stood behind him, watching as he drew for quite some time and seemed to be more rxed with each passing second.


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    A/N:- Thank you so much for the power stones, the golden tickets and gifts. I really appreciate it. You guys are the best.