Patience

"Hmm?" Asura jolted, before asking slowly, "Weren't the dormmate assignments supposed to stay fixed until we graduate?"

I broke out into a grin, beaming at her. "Well, I'm not sure about the details, but Masera wanted to dorm with Clare, and we made an agreement. And the dorm supervisor also agreed."

Of course, it wasn't easy as it sounded, but I didn't exactly lie to Asura either.

It was true that I had a little talk with Masera—her dormmate—and a little chat with the dorm supervisor as well.

VA random note: *Insert slightly smiling emoji

I've been continuously watching the situation within the school, and with a year that had already passed, I expect that the guard around me would've been lowered at least a little by now.

Besides, it wasn't like I stayed mysterious all this while.

Marude was known for their lack of magic, and with my blatant (typical) infatuation with Asura as well my friendliness and openness with everyone, the higher-ups won't look at me like a sizeable threat.

In fact, the only thing that would cause their attention to drift to me was my close proximity to Asura, who is the well-known princess of the Claremont Duchy. But as long as I'm careful and not too unlucky, it should be alright.

I linked arms with Asura, resting my head on her shoulder. "I'm so happy to live with you that I don't even know how to describe my thoughts with words! Hehe. But then, I can't hog you all day anymore… You are just so great, so I can't be so selfish as to claim you for myself day and night. Everyone wants to spend time with you! In fact, I bet they're all jealous of me right now, getting to room with you and spend so much time with you…"

Hugging her, I whined a little before reluctantly letting go and walking her to her next class.

In all honesty, when I first hugged her, I hadn't expected Asura's reaction to be so dull.

Well, there were turbulent emotions in her eyes—such as disgust and objection, but… she didn't push me away, nor tell me off. In fact, she didn't act like she disliked my actions at all!

She just smiled gently and calmly.

In such a situation, everyone around us would've followed a similar line of thought; that Asura was enjoying the hug!

With this assumption came many other, more outrageous assumptions that followed behind—not that I minded.

But after coming to an understanding about Asura, I knew very well that the reaction she showed to me was the reaction she would've offered to anyone else—it's just that no one had ever been so audacious as to hug her so far like I did. Hence, no one else knew the truth.

Realizing that I wasn't making any substantial progress in my mission to conquer this queen of queens, I was fired up even further.

Indeed, obstacles like these are part of the fun! And to solve them, I must be patient.