The Mech Lord

"You don't need to call me Princess. We are friends after all."

The moment Rebecca said those words, Leo immediately felt the hostile gazes being directed at him increase. This made him sweat a bit. But, he still remained calm and forced a smile on his face before thanking her.

He then moved towards the seats, and began to look for an empty place.

Rebecca looked at Leo, and was planning to offer him a seat beside herself when Serina stopped her.

"How much more trouble do you want to cause him?" Serina sighed, looking at the clueless girl who had no idea about the consequences of her actions.

…

Leo took the same seat that he had taken yesterday, and finally felt a bit relieved with people no longer staring at him with a murderous look on their faces.

[You should have sat in front. I am not the kind of student to sit behind-nya.]

'But, I am not you' Leo shook his head. There was no way he was sitting in front allowing these people to glare at his back. That would definitely make him uncomfortable.

"We meet again."

A voice entered Leo's ear, and he turned his head to the side only to see a guy sitting beside him.

"Sh*t!" He immediately jumped a little back in shock. And his seat slid back causing a screeching noise to sound across the entire classroom.

"Krreeee!!!"

Everyone's gaze immediately shifted towards Leo, and he could only try his best to maintain a normal expression on his face.

The Professor didn't say anything thinking that it was just accidental, and he returned to teaching.

Leo let out a sigh of relief, and turned his face to look at the guy beside him. There was a deep frown on his face. He was obviously taken by surprise. After all, he didn't remember seeing any guy beside him when he took a seat.

Where in hell did he pop out from?

"I saw you here in the same seat yesterday as well. It's quite funny that I didn't recognize you at a glance, even when you sat so close to me." The guy shook his head with a smile.

Leo concentrated a bit on him to see if he knew the guy, and to be honest he didn't.

This person was a centimeter or two shorter than. He had a little pale complexion with short ash brown hair. There was a strange bandana with a little metal plate on it's front, hanging on his neck .

"Do I know you?" Leo asked with a frown when even Aiden failed to recognize the guy.

"I am Harry Ruse."

Leo's eyes dilated a bit, as an image of a guy in a shinobi's uniform overlapped the guy in front of him.

'It's him!'

The names were no coincidence, it was definitely the Shinobi guy from the club.

"Just tell me if you are from the club." Leo looked at him speechlessly. "I couldn't even identify you without that Shinobi outfit on."

"Sshh!" Harry gestured to Leo to be quiet.

Leo immediately shut his mouth, and glanced at Professor Benard from the corner of his eyes. But, he was busy teaching, and his entire attention was on the projection screen.

"Don't talk about it. A shinobi's identity must not be revealed."

When those words entered Leo's ears, he turned his head to look at the guy in disbelief. Was this the reason that he had asked him to keep quiet?

It seemed that he had underestimated the seriousness of his gimmick.

"Is it only you? Or is there anyone else from the class together with us?" Leo looked him with raised brows, not willing to dwell on shinobi stuff.

"No, we are the only ones here." Harry shook his head with a smile. His personality right now was very different from earlier when he was doing his ninja cosplay. Leo almost had a hard time believing it was the same guy.

"Biggie and Paul are in the same section like us. Others are all different. After all, only four of us in second year." He further added, while looking ahead at Professor. It seemed he was trying to pay attention to the class as well/

[Will you concentrate on your class-nya?]

'I don't get a thing, ok.' Leo retorted. He had to learn the basics first to understand a thing. He literally didn't understand half of the words that the Professor used.

'Record everything, Arthur. I will look at it when I have some understanding of this thing.'

…

When the class was finally over, Leo and Harry got up to leave for the next one.

"Who the hell is that guy? I have never seen him before."

"It's the ghost of our section..:

"Why is that weirdo with Aiden?"

"Who cares? They suit each other.."

Well, it looked like that Harry had some reputation in the class as well.

[So, he was the ghost of our section-nya?]

[People said there was always an extra in our class that no one knew about. And, later people started to call it a ghost. I can't believe it was this guy all along-nya.] Aiden seemed to have finally realized it as well.

As the two walked out of the classroom, they bumped into someone familiar.

Rebecca was standing outside the classroom alongside Serina. She seemed to be waiting for someone.

Harry immediately stopped and greeted her in a proper manner. He was also a Glorian after all. And, had to follow the tradition. He then looked at Leo wanting to leave, but Leo grabbed his shoulder and smiled at him.

Where the heck did he think he was going all alone?

"Is there anything you need from me, Princess?" Leo looked at her with an amicable smile on his face.

"Umn, are you free after the Academy hours?" Rebecca looked at him a bit nervously.

Serina stood there looking at Leo with a pitiful gaze as the people around him glared at him. There was a heavy stench of jealousy in the air, and Serina and Leo could clearly smell it except for the princess, who seemed to anosmia in this kind of situation.

[What's wrong with her? When did she turn into someone like this-nya?] Aiden had no idea that Rebecca's friends had put the idea of 'starting all new and better with Aiden' plan in her head.

Harry looked at Leo.

He had heard rumors about the Princess having a crush. And, had always felt that it was ridiculous.

But now, he was not sure anymore.