I look at her, Linda Brown. Now that I think about it, do I know anything about her at all?


    She is in the third year of the Academy, studying along with Lucas while she is a pro athlete excelling in various forms of sports activities. Her system is rted to sports as well, though she doesn''t like to talk about it.


    Her stamina and endurance are actually on a higher level, making her equally strong to that of a B-Rank system user. While she has a good presence of mind with an above average battle sense.


    She is a spear user, also specialising in archery. Her archery skills are actually good for someone who is on a nonbat end of the poption, besting many of thebat oriented archers.


    Regarding her personal life, all I have collected is that her parents live overseas, and she has another sister who visits her once every year. It has been a few months since shest saw her sister and will probably meet her again next year.


    As for her counselling, she does it for two reasons. One is because of her rtions with the Leeway family and the other is to earn enough money to live a high-profile life, which she fancies a lot. Her counselling business runs really well, so she easily maintains her ideal life along with keeping up with her academy life.


    With her money, she lives in an apartment, rather than the dormitory, and doesn''t have much interaction with people in the Academy. The teachers don''t seem to be bothered about this or, rather; they are not even the least bit interested in her life… on the surface, that is. Deep down, they resent her, all because of her rtions with Mark Leeway''s family.


    Though, nobody talks to her about it because… well, they don''t want to anger Leeways for any reason whatsoever.


    As for Linda''s personality… only she knows how it functions. On the surface, she is an easygoing girl with a free personality of sorts. She does whatever she wants without caring what others say about her, though she is cumtive with her days and weeks and would not tolerate anyone wasting her time when she is busy. As a matter of fact, even her free time is calcted.


    ...….


    "All right. We will be leaving now," I spoke as I stood up after eating the steak which Linda cooked. It was quite delicious, to say the least, and when I was eating it with a blissful face, I saw a tinge of victory on her face, which was kinda cute in a way.


    "Where are you guys going?" asked Linda as she looked at me and then at Irene with a questioning gaze. I could notice the slight sadness in her eyes as she gazed at Irene, who, in turn, spoke,


    "I don''t know… he is the one deciding for me right now."


    "I am taking her back to the castle. It would be better to tell her everything there for many reasons," I spoke and a disappointed look formed on Linda''s face, but before she could speak anything I continued,"you cane, if you want?"


    This statement made her a bit confused but happy as she looked at me before speaking,"Oh! I thought you were moving away from here because you did not want me to know about it."


    ? I looked at her sudden joyful face with an awkward face as I speak,"on second thought-"


    "Let''s go! Let''s go! What are we waiting here for? Every moment is precious," she kinda hurried us both and all three of us moved outside the house while I just kept looking at her, pushing us outside.


    Irene, however, found the situation a bit amusing as she smiled at the interaction which Linda and I had. Though I found Linda''s behaviour a bit annoying, I sighed before starting to think about the things I had to tell her.


    There is a way that one can use Lunar Energy present  in the atmosphere. It is a kind of a breathing technique that is especially designed for people with the blessings of the Luna Goddess and Lunas. I guess… if Irene uses that method, she might get powerful enough to be a potential S rank within this year and an SSS by her graduation.


    Though that depends on her own approach to ''getting stronger'' if she doesn''t work hard, she might not even reach A rank and if she does it wlessly she might even reach beyond SSS rank.


    ''Whatever the case is, I think I have just gained another strong candidate, powerful enough to reach the 12 seats. If groomed properly, especially after the Second Cataclysm, I think she could really reach that point,'' I thought as I added Irene to the list of people that I need to make sure they survive to the very end.


    This made me think about Linda… What should I do about her? Is there anything I can do to keep her alive without me or anyone strong around her during hard times?


    I kept my hands behind my head as I casually walked through the alleyway before reaching the marketce.


    While Linda and Irene were talking about this and that, I kept quiet and listened to their stupid conversation. Though after a few moments I ignored them and concentrated at the front.


    In the marketce there were a lot of people gathered near the centre and watching all themotion, I wondered what happened there. It wasn''t just me, but Irene and Linda too, saw themotion and moved towards the crowd.


    Watching Irene walking towards them, the crowd dispersed a bit to give her some space.


    ''Looks like Irene''s reputation precedes her,'' I thought as I saw the faces of those people looking awkwardly at her.


    "Reeve?!" I heard Irene''s surprised voice as she looked at the centre of themotions. A handsome guy was shoving an old man on the street with a prideful and angered look.


    I took a clear look at that guy and immediately realised who he was…


    ''Reeve Leeway, middle child of Cedric Leeway.''