Seeing the cold smile on her face, I just nodded my head as again, I literally had no interest in the chaos that might broke loose, all I was certain off, is the fact that they might have already had me marked as one of their target .
Those at the Headless Dragon or as like to call themselves No Head Dragon, were very much responsible for the attacker from before, whether was it for testing the water or for the objective of assassinating me or maybe them trying to send a message through me, all that they will be able to find are blank recordings of us walking leisurely that day .
As for whether the No Head Dragon members were acting on their own accord or tasked with such operation by someone else was of no concern to me, I will continue my life as before, as they would keep pushing me to the edge, I will pull out all of their roots and purify the world from their existence once and for all .
You did a good job today .
She said this and ended the call, I couldn't help but look at the now dim screen and wonder whether did I hear her say those actual words or not, what could she have meant,what did I do today .
She couldn't have possibly know about the situation with Erika, there couldn't have been any way for her to find out, then what exactly was she praising me for .
Could it be because what happened at school, she did indeed told me to show a little bit of what I can do without going overboard of course, I already expected to be reprimanded for what I pulled off today, but weirdly enough, she ended up praising me instead .
Could this be the reason for the praise, I can't think of doing anything else to receive ' a good job today ' from her, so maybe this all that was their to it, but if this was indeed true, it make these words even more suspicious .
After all, it's so out of character for her to say something like that without explaining what good job exactly did I do, why it's always frustrating to talk with her, each and every time, well, whatever her reason was, I don't need to dwell much on it, since this would only frustrate me more and from the start it was quite meaningless .
Unbeknownst to Yotsuba Maya, the words she said casually had ended up causing more troubles and confusion to him than what the No Head Dragon and the Great Asian Union combine could have even imagine to cause .
~ The Following Day ~
I woke up on time as always, lately I had been having those wonderful dreams about living in a lush green area that had a wonderful view of a sunrise, but the dream would always end the second I go to my wood cabinet and open the door leading inside .
The dream would be over and I would wake up feeling surprisingly refreshed, even though the end of the dream seemed to be quite ominous, but I had already learned that in this life of mine, I should always try to appreciate the smallest exciting things in it .
With that thought in mind, I couldn't help but clutch my head as I felt a headache coming, yesterday I hadn't had the chance to take Juvia out of what she intended to do, her going with that uniform to school would be extremely inconvenient no matter how much I thought about it .
Not only will it be an inconvenience to the school, her, even me, but it might make the other guys look at her in a wrong way and for some reason the thought of that happening, anguished me and had me sigh out of frustration .
I even thought of skipping today, but I then remembered that the Club Recruitment Week wasn't over yet and I might be ignoring a lot of responsibilities and it won't be that long after I did something like this, for my mom to hear about it and once she does and she will surely do .
I will be in far more troubles than I bargained for, so the only other option is to try and dissuade her, as I finished organizing my thoughts, I couldn't help but wonder whether Erika had seen my message and that piece of memory from my point of view, this should be enough to clear every misunderstanding between the two of us .
After all from my point of view at that time, nothing at all seemed to have happened, but whether she actually believe that or not is no longer in my control, if even after this, she continued to pester me, then she and I could better not to reconcile .
Taking my time in washing up, I stepped out of the bath to see Juvia full clad in her formal black maid attire, I thought that I was about to encounter nightmare this morning, but what appeared before me was a complete contrast to what I had anticipated .
" Good morning, Juvia .
She gave a slight bow and greeted me back,then seeing how she kept fluttering happily like a butterfly in the kitchen, I couldn't contain my curiosity and was about to ask her about her outfit, but she beat me into saying :
Ryuu-sama, how do you like my outfit ? .
" Your outfit, what about the other one you showed me the other day ? .
She seemed to be recalling something, then with a blush on her face she said :
Oh, that one, umm, since Master said that he liked maid cosplays, I decided that with your permission, I would wear it in when we are in the house, what do you say ? .
" And your current outfit ?! .
Yes, this is the one I decided to go with to school, do you like it ? .
I nodded my head involuntarily and seeing how happy she looked, I couldn't help but pat her on the head and say :
" For me, you are always a brilliant and beautiful Juvia .
The girl blushed even more and maybe feeling a bit uncomfortable, she directly started to shuttle in the kitchen doing all kind of chores, looking at her getting herself busy like that, I couldn't help but sigh briefly in relief, but then I remembered something and I directly said to her :
" 2 Times .
She tilted her head towards me and I again gestured the number two with my finger and told her, that the other uniform can only be worn in the house for two days a week, I didn't want her going around wearing it .
Not to mention that my mother is calling daily, so it could make things quite awkward, I was able to sense how unwilling she was with this decision of mine, but in the end she gave me a slight bow again and said :
Yes, Master .
I went ahead and had brief breakfast, then put on my school uniform and we headed to school, I had already made the arrangements for the driver to be only responsible for delivering us to social events, parties and such, unless we asked him to take us to school, he will stay put .
As we finally reached the school gate, I began to see that people looked at us, me and Juvia a bit weird, the admiration was still there, but there was something more in how they looked at us now, maybe it was because of Juvia's clothes, perhaps .
I then happened to see a nervous Mizuki, standing all alone in the corridor and seemed to be quite shaken, as I noticed her, she noticed us as well and directly came with greetings and for some reason she had a grave expression on her face as she held my hand and her eyes began to accumulate tears and at any second now, she might start crying .
After a few minutes passed in comforting her, she finally told me what was going on with this sudden outburst of emotions, I hearing what he have to say, couldn't help but stare at her with bewilderment .
Mizuki current predicament was because she and Erika, Leo as well were talking about what their goals in life was, but when it was her turn and even though she wanted to be a Magic Technician and Engineer, she found herself hesitant to speak her mind out, afraid that they might not take her seriously .
It seem to me that Mizuki had to deal with quite the rough upbringing, she could be said to be quite talented with magic, not to mention that her eyes can show her a lot of veiled things in the world, so I spoke what's in my mind to her .
" Mizuki you are quite talented in theoretical Magic and for you to show the full extent of your talent need to trust yourself and your friends a bit more .
" I don't think no one among our group or even across the whole school would find any issue with you declaring your goals, don't you agree Juvia and if someone dared to ridicule that goal of yours, just let me know his name .
I gestured with my clenched fist and she thought I was trying to be funny and chuckled slightly while wiping her non-existent tears and she start fixing her clothes and glasses with a blush on her face as she nodded at both of me and Juvia .
I thought things would be over, but didn't expect that she suddenly wanted me to close my eyes, I did as she told me to, then a cold sensation hit my cheek, I couldn't help but open my eyes, only to see a clouded golden pair of eyes that only seem to become clear after locking eyes with me .
She directly panicked and without even waiting for me to say or do anything, she directly started running in the corridor while crashing with almost everything that came in her way, I felt a bit mixed feelings regarding what she just did .
But even without taking those emotions seriously, I still couldn't help my curiosity and I stared at Juvia to see her reaction first, but weirdly enough Juvia reaction was that of happiness .
I thought that she would be all jealous and angry or something, but this didn't happen, which was weird, emotions were getting more and more difficult for me to comprehend, but I felt this was actually a good thing somehow .
We reached our classroom and Juvia went to her Student Council duties, she was responsible for logistics and well, helping the student council to perform more efficiently, I sat down in the class and saw that I was still the center of attention and even with Juvia leaving, the weird gazes didn't left me .
I searched around me for answers, my thoughts accelerated and I analysed the issue thoroughly and saw that one of the girls here was talking about a list of some kind and I was in that list and that this list was not lying .
Going to the school least news edition, I saw that my picture was there and under it there was a line of words, ' the most handsome guy on campus ', under that picture, there was a remote voting session that took place early this morning and there was a list of guys included in that list, Even Tatsuya was there, he managed to get 17 votes .
As for myself, I got 95 percent of all school students voting for me, that what made this silly list and post become official, since the whole school was voting, who would dare to say that this was illegitimate .
Well, for starters, I want to be the one doing that, this was indeed illegitimate, since the person who made this article didn't leave a name, he shared it anonymously and let all the school vote .
I wanted to see if I could find the culprit behind this, but class had started and Juvia returned and reported to me that she got asked if she know which food, drinks, hobbies I like by tons of girl and if not for her sulking, I would have suspected her to be an imposter .
" There is nothing much that we can do about this, just focus on the class everything should soon be settling down on its own .
She nodded solemnly, her eyes had a sharp glint as she scanned the faces of the girls here who were stealing peeks at her Master, more frequently than usual .
After the class, the stares continued to follow me for some time, even when I was patrolling the school, I saw Tatsuya helping a few guys out, I reached him and I felt like he was pushing me away .
Well, this was quite logical, since girls around us all glared at him and looked as if they were ready to skin him alive, this was starting to become an entirely different kind of headache, me and Tatsuya was suddenly called to help with a situation that required our support in the school building and in one of the School bathroom .
Two situation happening at the same time, I couldn't help but found this quite suspicious, but even after I scanned the whole school, I didn't found much issue in the call for support, he beat me into picking the closest place and instantly went there, asking me to do help with the other call for support .
Sighing, I started moving towards the school building again strolling away from the crowded courtyard, only for Tatsuya to call me a few seconds later and telling me that he was about to be ambushed and that I too should be wary .
We communicated telepathically as to not let people know what are we taking about, since this wasn't the kind of information one would want to share, I went to the location they gave me, already aware of it being nothing but a decoy, a bait to lure me here .
Then as I went inside the designated bathroom, I saw that someone had indeed used Magic to submerge the bathroom, it took less than a second for me to restore everything back to how it was before .
Then without a warning, a few guys appeared in my perception, I finally understood why I couldn't find anything wrong before, the people in front of me were the school janitors, before I searched roughly for anyone or anything suspicious, so I discarded the thought of those guys being suspects .
But now that I looked at them, my scanning showed that these guys were being mind controlled, this was the work of a specific type of Mental Design Interference magic, Called Evil Eye, the janitors all had bracelet that was identical in shape and colors .
I snapped my fingers and the brain washing disappeared, the janitors woke up and all had questions mark on their faces wondering what was going on .