It was the first time in a while since he's been able to train alone. During their journey, Cecil would always be accompanied by Lucia and Silver during his morning routine.

After his stretches, he began running. He had no particular route, so Cecil decided to just run a couple of times circ.u.mnavigating the entire academy district.

Unexpectedly he met up with a certain silver haired fox girl during his run. It seems that Lucia also had the same idea as him, but it was unexpected since Cecil thought that considering Lucia's sleeping habits, there was no way for the two of them to meet up so early in the morning.

"Hey, Lulu... I guess you're not skimping out on training huh? I thought you'd be relieved that I wouldn't be there anymore to monitor you." Cecil teased.

"Hmph. It's not like I need YOU to coerce me to train!" Lucia snapped back and then continued softly,

"...I thought you'd be lonely if you trained by yourself, it's not like you would take the initiative to invite Ainz... anyways, be grateful that I took the time out of my beauty sleep to train with you!"

"Haha! Thanks Lulu, but that's not a bad idea! I guess I should invite Ainz next time!"

The thought had never crossed Cecil's mind until Lucia brought it up. He thought that what Lucia said was true and it did seem pretty lonely to train alone, since Lucia was no longer sleeping in the same room as him and Silver was staying back at the Ironforge Smithy.

Cecil decided that he would surely invite Ainz to train with him in the morning. Maybe this way he could also get along better with that loud roommate of his. With this thought, he thanked Lucia once more in his mind and kept on running.

"..." Lucia kept silent and smiled at him. 'This idiot!!! Invite Ainz and I'll turn morning training into morning ma.s.sacres!'

Back at the boy's dormitory.

"ACCHHOOOO!" Ainz was woken up by an intense sneeze. He looked at the clock and saw that it was only half past five. He immediately went back to sleep since the academy's morning a.s.sembly didn't start until 8.

"Too early..." he mumbled. A minute later his snores were what rang throughout his room.

Back to where Cecil and Lucia were, the two of them had finally made one lap around the whole district, but the sun had finally risen above in the horizon.

Cecil took a look at thought that their run took up a whole lot of time. The academy district was pretty big so of course it would take very long. However, he wanted to go for another lap, but decided against it since the other inhabitants of the district had probably already woken up by now.

"Tsk... our run took too long... we couldn't even train our forms or meditate."

Lucia heard him and suggested, "Why not just do our forms while we run? This way we'll still have a bit of time to meditate and cultivate our mana stages."

Cecil brightened at the suggestion.

"Hrmm... instead of just training our forms and stances let's also spar along the way by only using our martial forms! I mean, it'd be pretty embarra.s.sing if people accidentally saw us running around the district just practicing our forms! It'd be much more acceptable if people accidentally saw us sparring instead."

Lucia didn't think of that and thought that it would look strange and embarra.s.sing if people saw the two of them practicing only their martial forms while running around the district. Her face flushed a bit and she hastily said.

"Y-yeah! Let's do that!"

"Okay! Remember not to be late tomorrow morning! Or else I'm going to leave you behind!"

"Tsk, with you dragging along a deadweight I won't be surprised if I was the one waiting for you!"

"Deadweight? Ah, Ainz you mean. Well, that's if he agrees to join us of course."

"Whatever... I'm heading back now. It's probably 6 already and I have to practice that speech for later."

"Oh! You mean the 1st year's representative speech for the morning a.s.sembly?"

"Yeah, that one~ I'm not used to doing something like this, so I guess I should go practice. I don't want to embarra.s.s myself after all~"

"Okay, off you go then! But, I for one think you'll do just fine!"

"Thanks Cel~ bye bye~"

Lucia walked off while waving at him. Cecil smiled at the receding figure of hers and thought that he should also head back.

'Although we did say that it'd be better to stand out a bit, but I didn't think that she'd stand out like this!'

Lucia had placed first and he second on their entrance exam tests. So it was already a given that the two would have some degree of fame when cla.s.ses started, but now that Lucia would be presenting herself in front of the entire student body, everyone would know about her after that.

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Inexplicably, Cecil grew irritated at the thought.

'Weird... I'm happy for her, but it's making me irritated for some reason...'

The irritation sprouted after Cecil had thoughts of how everyone would have their eyes on Lucia once she presented herself as the academy first year's number one.

He was number two so similarly he would also receive some attention and notice, but he didn't feel anything from it. However, the thought of people buzzing around Lucia just because she was number one irritated him.

It was just like back at the guild when their abilities and prowess were exposed and their t.i.tles were finally acknowledged by everyone. Cecil thought nothing of the attention directed at him, but the attention directed at Lucia caused him to feel irritated for some inexplicable reason.

He couldn't explain why though because he himself didn't understand why he was irritated. Cecil stopped himself from thinking about it since he only felt anger brewing in him if he continued to keep his mind on that.

"Whatever, I'll just punch away the source of this irritation when the time comes." A Cecil-like conclusion was reached after Cecil spent his entire time walking back to his dorm thinking about it.

If Lucia found out about his thoughts she would no doubt be very much elated and irritated at the same time. Elated because the effort she spent on the idiot weren't in vain and irritated because the muscle-head didn't understand where that feeling of irritation and anger came from.

When he arrived at the front of his dorm complex's admin building, he saw a group of people unloading boxes into the building and the building's staff moving about and unpacking the boxes. From where he was standing, he saw that the contents of the boxes were the academy's uniforms.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot! Our uniforms would be delivered this morning! I wonder if mine's already arrived."

Cecil rushed into complex and quickly arrived at the front of his dorm building. He dashed straight to his room on the second floor at the thought of his academy uniform finally arriving.

Cecil had only seen his siblings wearing school uniforms and it greatly interested him since he thought that the uniforms were so much cooler than his training garments.

Cecil never experienced school life or a childhood that any normal child would go through because of his family's unreasonable tradition, so he was very much looking forward to experiencing academy life here at Arks Royal Academy.

If the transfer never happened, Cecil wouldn't have had the opportunity to experience something any other normal child would have already gone through.

Although the circ.u.mstances that led to him being here were somewhat unfortunate and that it was also regrettable for him to be separated from his family, deep down he was also somewhat thankful.

Cecil was looking forward to all the colorful experiences he would go through now that he was away from his family.

Anastasia would probably cry an ocean if she knew what her beloved son was thinking, he wasn't crying somewhere in a corner, fretting over whether he would be okay or his family would be okay. Instead he was taking his time enjoying his newfound freedom.

Somewhere faraway from where Cecil was at, a man was abruptly awoken by the loud sobbing cries of his wife.

"UWAAHHHH!!"

"W-what is it honey?!!!"