17 Incident at The Restaurant

After the waiter put their food on the table, they started enjoying all of the food they had ordered earlier. The food was excellent and with the cheap prices, he now knew why many students ate in this restaurant.

"How is it?" Alicia asked about Alex's opinion.

"It's good, especially with such affordable prices. It's worth it. Now I know why many students choose this place to eat."

"That's true," Alicia smiled, "Now that we have finished eating, what should we do next?"

"Hmm... I think we have already visited too many places these past weeks, should we go back and prepare for tomorrow?"

"How about we stroll a bit and go home after that? We don't have to visit any specific place, just walking around on the street?"

He thought a bit, and he didn't mind it going along with Alicia's suggestion so he nodded.

"We can use it as a light exercise after eating, so you don't get fat."

A dark aura suddenly appeared from within her body. She now looked like a demon.

"I'm not fat," She stated, refusing any other option.

"I never said you are fa..." Alex tried to argue, but Alicia just smiled at Alex. Many people were looking at Alicia's smile and were mesmerized by her beautiful smile while Alex can only see her smile as scary.

"I...I..." Alex was scared. But suddenly there was a young man who suddenly approached them.

"My my isn't this Princess Alicia." The young man said.

Alex just stared at the young man and he looked like the typical noble with a rather handsome face. 'Don't tell me…'

"You are…" Alicia looked at the young man.

"I'm Nito Pondria. The second son of Marquis Pondria. Please, nice to meet you, Princess Alicia." Nito introduced himself.

"Good day to you, Mr. Nito Pondria." Alicia returned the greeting.

Nito sent a glare at Alex.

"May I know who this gentleman is?" Nito said while looking down at Alex. He confirmed his guess up to here. 'The Nasty Young Master character.'

"This gentleman is Alexander Sirius." Alicia introduced Alex to Nito.

"Sirius? I never know any family or house with the name Sirius."

Before Alicia spoke any words, Alex interrupted, he wanted to see what would happen next.

"Because I'm only a commoner."

"A commoner? Based on your status, you don't have the right to sit with Princess Alicia. Break one of your arms and scream now." After hearing Alex was a commoner, he looked at Alex with disdain. He then looked at Alicia.

"Princess Alicia, with your status, why are you sitting with this lowly commoner? Rather than sitting with him, how about you stroll around with me?"

Nito was jealous and envious, he hated Alex for having the chance to sit and talk with Alicia while he was only a commoner. Alex didn't just hang out with Alicia, he also had to receive nicer treatment, and her sweet smiles here and there. Nito got so angry for that fact because he too was mesmerized by her smile after looking at it earlier.

Alicia was stunned by the way Nito treated Alex.

"You..." Before Alicia had any chances, Nito continued.

"Guards, break this lowly commoner's limbs and throw him away," Nito ordered his guard with contempt.

Looking at the guards who approached Alex and started to attack him, Alicia shouted.

"You, who do you think you are? Who I want to meet with and who I want to eat with is not your concern. And these guards, what do you think you are doing?"

Nito was surprised by Alicia's response. He was jealous of Alex and glared at him angrily, wanting to kill him.

"Do it, don't just break his limbs. Take his lowly life," he shouted.

The guards who stopped after Alicia's shout, started attacking Alex once again after hearing their master's order.

"You... Stop." Alicia shouted again.

The guards didn't pay any heed now, with Nito's order, they wanted to grab Alex and kill him outside.

"Rank 1..." looking at the guards' strength, Alex shook his head.

Looking at the guards approaching him. Alex just snorted. He effortlessly evaded the guards. Alex punched the two guards in front of him. After receiving Alex's punch, the guards were seen flying a few meters. Luckily, there was no spectacle like tables, Alex too didn't want to break anything in this restaurant.

Usually, the noble guard was a rank 1 or rank 2. While the captain was usually on rank 3 or rank 4. So these two rank-1 guards who wanted to kill Alex who was a rank 3, just came to look for their own miserable faith.

Alex then glared at Nito,

"You..." Nito was shocked by Alex's strength.

Alex said nothing and slowly approached him.

"Don't you know who I am!" Nito was shocked.

"Yes yes, some Marquis second son," Alex replied nonchalantly.

"You.. who do you think you are... I'm Nito Pondria. My father is Marquis. You dare to hit Pondria's house guards. You better be prepared, you lowly commoner."

"..." Alex ignored him.

"You...don't come.."

After Alex got in front of him, he slapped him.

"You... dare to hit me. You are so done and you will soon die."

Alex wanted to hit him once more, but suddenly Alicia grabbed Alex's hand. Alex looked at Alicia, she shook her head. "I will inform father about this. Let me handle this, let's go back."

Hearing that, Alex just nodded and followed Alicia to leave the restaurant.

Looking at the couple who were leaving, Nito can't help but shout.

"You.. you can't leave. I will kill you now, your life's on the hand of nobles. So your life is in my hand. Get here now, kneel to me, and I will leave your body intact."

Hearing this, Alicia frowned, many others on the scene started to frown. Not only commoners were looking at Nito angrily but also some nobles.

"It's not right for you to say that…Their lives are theirs, not on us. We nobles got the power to serve the kingdom and help the citizens." Alicia shouted angrily, "And also Alexander was the guest of my father. It seems that Pondria house is planning to challenge our Rizertia house."

"I...I... how could I dare to do that?" but Nito once again pointed his hand toward Alex. "But he hit me, a lowly commoner hit me and what right does he have that a lowly commoner like him became the guest of your house!"

"If you point your finger toward him once more, I will take it as the challenge to my Rizertia house, and who do you think you are to question my father's decision? the grand duke's decision," then she looked at Alex "Alex, let's just go back. I will inform father, so he will deal with this."

After they left, many commoners looked at Nito angrily. While the nobles just looked at him with disdain.

The guards stood up and approached Nito to help him leave the scene.

"That lowly commoner... that lowly commoner, I will kill him," Nito roared since he was not satisfied with how things ended.

Alex and Alicia decided to go home instead of strolling the street. The atmosphere between them was very awkward.

"Alex... what he said wasn't the view of nobles of this kingdom. So..." Alicia tried to explain. Even when she explained to Alex, she still said the Acacia kingdom. This showed her pride and love for the Acacia kingdom. Other kingdoms can be seen as bad by others, but she wouldn't let her kingdom be seen in such a negative view.

"..." Alex only maintain his silent

"Alex..." She tugged his arm.

Alex just shook his head "I don't care about that, Princess. He was right, I'm only a commoner. Even looking at my origin, I was clearly coming from Zircodina kingdom with commoner status and not this kingdom."

Hearing what Alex said, her heart shattered. She noticed that Alex started to call her 'Princess' again. And he kept saying he was just 'Zircodina's commoner'.

"Alex... Listen to me..." Alicia wanted to explain to Alex.

Alex shook his head. He recalled when he was summoned for the first time into this world. The ministers and nobles who were present at the hall admired him and the others as heroes, but when they looked at his weak strength and potential, they looked at him with disdain. He wasn't obligated to call her by her name too, so rather than getting some problems because of that, it was better to play safe.

"I just remember something, without status and strength. The other will look at you with contempt."

Alicia and Alex recalled when they met for the first time. Alex showed his strength, saving them from the orcs. It was only a particular Nobles like Rizertia that didn't mind it that Alex was just a commoner. But if others saw a commoner like him having a talk with Alicia who was a princess, they can only say that Alex was being 'rude'.

"Alex...Let me explain..."

Alicia was trying to explain to Alex, while Alex was not saying much the entire time. Not long after that, they arrived at home.

"Well, then Princess. I will excuse myself." Alex politely said to Alicia.

"Alex..." Looking at Alex's back, becoming further and further away, she bit her lips. She went to report today's incident to her father.

…

"Father!"

"Oh.. you are back, my darling daughter. How is your date with Alex? Why do you look so upset?" Seeing Alicia's stressed face, the grand duke asked.

She calmed herself down and started telling her father what happened at the restaurant and Alex started distancing himself from her.

"This... How dare him, what kind of manner does Marquis Pondria teach to his son? Damn!" The grand duke was angry.

Meanwhile in Alex's room,

Alex sat on the sofa in lotus pose, he then calmed himself and started to focus. He started his qi training according to the basic cultivation manual that he got from the system.

After 4 hours of cultivation, there was a sound on the outside.

'Knock Knock'

"Sir Alexander, it's time for dinner," the maid outside said.

Alex stopped cultivating a bit, he opened the door and saw the maids.

"Please tell the duke, I'm still in the middle of my practice and I can't join. Please proceed without me."

Looking at Alex, who was apologizing for not able to join the dinner, the maids didn't know what to do. But after Alex closed his door again, the maids had no choice but to leave the room and deliver Alex's message.

After Alex closed the door, he sat on the sofa once again.

"System, are you there?"

[Yes Host]

"If I'm going to the academy, then how can I get a ticket?"

[Host can dismantle your items. If there is a chance then the tickets will appear]

"...Why you never talk about this, System?"

[System thought it wasn't the time yet Host. At first, System wanted to inform Host about this after Host use more than 500 tickets]

"How many tickets have I already used?"

[493 Tickets]

"..." he sighed.

"I want to dismantle."

[Please choose your items to dismantle]

"Hmm... What should I dismantle? I think I only need one manual each, so dismantle any manuals that are more than 1."

[Process]

[Ticket 12x]

"Then dismantle any tools that I have more than 5."

[Process]

[Ticket 19x]

"Then dismantle water bottles. I don't think I will need that much."

[Process]

[Ticket 1x]

"…Only 1? How come I only got one ticket after dismantling 134 water bottles?!" Alex snapped at System.

[Water bottle was the lowest item in the system, it is the same as junk. Host, you are already lucky enough to get one ticket]

"...."

"But, you are the one who gave me that much!" Alex is angry with the System.

[Host, System is a gacha system. What's matters are your luck, not me]

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