Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

Chapter 652 Dude, really?

The topic of discussion here was that he wanted to \'befriend\' a certain someone however, even with his pinnacle skill of wisdom and all the knowledge and experience it provided, he had no idea how to go about this specific person who, well, every single student in the academy knew very well at this point.

\'Ezra Penelope Zarak… the most arrogant, most selfish, most unfriendly, and perhaps the most unique student of the academy at the moment.\'

She was from a powerful royal family from the enemy empire of the Roxana empire and, the Zarak Orion empire, located right above the forbidden area, the labyrinth that covered the northwestern part of the empire\'s border.

It was an empire that rivaled the long-standing Roxana empire even after their short history in this world and the reason for their power and superiority were the many small demonic plains present on the other side of their borders, as well as the powerful individual born in that land.

It was a place that produced elites one after another and even the common citizens, conditioned by the harsher environment that they had survived, stood above the common folks of the safe common place like the empire.

They are special people by nature, and, this only princess of their whole big empire, the first in line for the succession, was no normal character either.

\'She was a regressor, or so my eyes had evaluated but, then again, the existence of the regressors in this world is a little different from all the normal known ones who travel back in time to achieve some kind of goal for some certain reason.\'

Just like reincarnations, other worlders, special anomalies, and beings of unique origins, the regressors are beings that have been seen many times throughout known and unknown history.

\'And usually, they are called the ones carrying (Curse of rebirth).\'

They have some specific trigger that causes them to return back to some certain time, or in simpler terms, their consciousness and memories go back to a previous body of theirs, and repeat a cycle that is not only annoying and painful, but also agonizing and frustrating.

It isn\'t in their hands when they will go back or what will happen to them at any point in their life and it is always certain that whenever they do go back, they will have to experience nearly the same things that they had previously… or perhaps not.

Perhaps those things change.

We don\'t know that, and that\'s not the point here.

\'The thing here is, even though some of us do know that she is a regressor, it isn\'t what makes her someone that everyone dislikes.\'

Her natural personality, the way she is all by herself most of the time, the way she insults anyone that tries to get close to her, and the way she just… hates everyone in this place makes her the worst person to \'befriend\'.

\'In over a week of our time in this academy, she has been involved in twelve different situations where, in three, the students involved had been sent to the infirmary along with some other students that were hurt as collateral damage.\'

In some incidents, some of the students\' families lost everything they had and it became news, some of the students were so badly injured that she was put into detention for two whole days, and right after she came out of it, she caused some more minor incidents where she carefully avoided the serious punishments by the careful way of committing those crimes.

\'Some students were poisoned, some were bedridden but never complied about the incident and instead buried it themselves, and sometimes, she publically badmouthed many of the common students for their \'inferiority\'.

If that wasn\'t all, she genuinely hated the people from any part of the Roxana empire, and she was a bloody racist when it came to students of another kind.

Her reputation spoke all about her, and, there was one incident involving her, Princess Isabella, and Prince Claudius, but details of that incident were better left undisclosed.

"Dude, really?"

"Of all the girls, ladies, women, and everyone else, you want to \'be friends\' with that disaster?"

"Why do you even want that… or have you fallen for her beauty or something? She isn\'t that attractive anyway."

"Ummm… Ginger, I think you should look at her once more. She might not be as attractive as Jen for you but she certainly is a maiden that stands out from most others."

"That\'s beside the point Alf. And shut up Ginger. If you don\'t wanna say something useful, just stay quiet."

"Meeeeeeeeow~! You boys have no idea how this poor fellow must be feeling, alright?! Just shut up and let him talk!"

Ah, right.

After we were halfway into our little talk, we saw Prince Claud walking by with his familiar cat generally known as Lady Ore whom Rein loved. 

\'She was a good advisor and knowledge of all kinds of things so I thought she would be useful here, but since her master, Prince Claud was having a difficult time with the topic at hand, she wasn\'t engaging in the deeper conversations.\'

She was offering small bits of advice but that was it… which was still effective nonetheless. She really was good at these things.

But still, the conversation was progressing nowhere.

"Alright people. Let\'s stop the arguments and think about the matter at hand here." I spoke up since nothing was going anywhere and we didn\'t have the whole day for this silly discussion.

He just wanted our advice and we were questioning about things, which wasn\'t something he wanted at the moment.

He needed advice and we had experience. So, all we could give was a little advice according to our experiences.

"Right. Lucifer would know about these things the most since he actually has a fiancée."

"Hmmm? Wouldn\'t Hide know more since he has been with more women than we know?"

"Heyyyyy! That\'s an inappropriate way to put it you know?! It\'s not like I go to them baring gifts and wearing pheromones to get them to spend time with me! They do it themselves!"

"Sounds pretty much the same to me… but whatever. what Lucifer said was right. We should focus on the thing at hand here."

Well, all of us knew here why he might want to befriend someone so… inappropriate. 

She would certainly prove to be a good weapon for his house if used well since she was super strong and possessed a ton of talents that she did not use at all. 

But, he wasn\'t asking us for advice on how he could utilize it as a resource, we all would have a list of good advice if the question was that but, no.

He wanted to befriend her, and, our own point of view aside, we couldn\'t figure out how we could even actually advise him about this thing.

\'The person he was talking about had created a very negative image of herself and, if I said so myself, it was a very ingenious and genius idea while looking at the whole picture.\'

But, we weren\'t talking about her smartness here. 

Our good acquaintance here wanted to befriend her and, he needed advice.

"Alright then everyone. How about we conclude this discussion with one last piece of advice that might actually be helpful to Prince Alpheus?"

"I agree, mewwooooo! I have work to do!"

"Right, let\'s do that."

"Hmmm. Hmm. So, who\'s going first?"

"Hide, take the honors."

"Why me?!"

"Because the last time I saw you, you were sitting in the middle of six girls all stuck to you like glue."

"We were like that since yesterday alright! And, they will go away at the end of today anyway-"

"Yes, yes. Do you have any advice for him or not?" Why was he being shy right now when he had all the confidence in the world when it came to flirting?

\'Haaa… these people are unbelievable.\'

We had put up barriers since this conversation was full of absurd things, and inappropriate ones that were useless for others. But, if they hear us discussing something so stupid, the others will think many strange things about us and, that we couldn\'t have.

The topic was bad on its own but, the talk itself was also no good thing.

"Hmmm… well, considering the type of girl she is, I personally thought she was the kind that was a show-off on the surface but a warm home on the inside. But, I was terribly wrong.

She is cold and hard inside out and, she is what she shows. Nothing is an act about her behavior or actions.

She enjoys putting others in their place, and she likes being around only the ones that acknowledge…"

All of us can tell from his face that he had tried but he wasn\'t acknowledged by her and instead was beaten to a pulp even before he could try and resist.

We knew about this incident that other students did not since we had seen him right after Ezra had passed by that place.

\'His healing abilities were good so no one noticed this incident but, he deserved it if I say so myself.\'

Many boys wanted to see this bastard getting beaten to a pulp, so it was sad that Celes\' clones weren\'t watching them at that time, or else I would have done my best to spread the video of him getting beaten.

"Hmmm… so, you mean I should not try and pretend to be something that I am not around her, right? Alright… that\'s one helpful thing."

Prince Alpheus nodded at him and thought about a few things before, looking up at the person that was next in line, Ginger.

"I don\'t know much about her but, since we are talking about a bully person that is practically bad, with all my knowledge of fiction and metaphysics, I would say however hard something is, if melted properly, the brighter it shines or the more smoothly it flows.

Perhaps she has some soft side to her that we don\'t know yet, so, finding out that might be helpful."

"Ohhhh! Nyaaaaaaaa! That\'s a very good advice! I would say you start from the observation, and then decide things according to your perception!"

"Hmmm… alright."

I knew he was thinking of how to implement this advice through his own devious plans, but, we had nothing to do with him and his quest for a forbidden friendship.

"Lucifer?"

Now, it was my turn to give him some advice on \'friendship\'. Yeah… he wasn\'t even asking for relationship advice and making things difficult for all of us by calling it friendship advice. 

Like dude? 

"Just go ask her if she wants to be your \'friend\'."

She would say yes if she wanted to and, the worst she could do would be insult him or beat him up a little but then again, he was the captain of her house so she couldn\'t just do things to him directly.

"Tell me something, Prince Alpheus."

"Yes…"

This whole drama was happening because he had no idea how to approach someone like her. And, also because he was thinking things too deeply and from a limited point of view.

"Have you ever talked to her yourself?"

I get that she was a regressor and had lived longer and had seen more of this world, but at the end of the day, she was also just a girl and mortal of this world. A miserable one at that.

All he had to do was start talking with her and things would begin after that.

What was the point when he hadn\'t even shared a few words with her?

Who knows, perhaps they might have been lovers or enemies, or at least acquaintances in some of her previous turns.

He didn\'t know that and even without having a word with her, he was asking for advice from us.

"Hmmm? Talk with her? No. I haven\'t approached her yet… that\'s why I am here in the first place. To ask how should I approach her to make the best first impression."

"…"

"Man…"

"Dude, really?"

"This whole friendship thing was about making a good first impression?"

"You are dumb you know?"

"Dude… you practically wasted a lot of time, you know?"

He just wanted to make a good first impression things were led towards love and whatnot. Haaa… I should have just guessed.

"Anyway..."

The pieces of advice that we were giving him would be just as much effective in that case as well.

It was practically the same.

\'A good first impression might lead to a good chance of friendship or a good enough chance to encounter the first sighted love as well. 

It was pretty much the same… hopefully.

\'We don\'t know how she might react to whatever he was going to do.\'

She might be impressed, which had a low chance of happening, she might punch him, which had a higher chance of happening, he might get beaten up or perhaps things will go well on their own… 

We don\'t know what will happen, actually. But, one thing I am certain was going to happen as soon as we finish this useless discussion here, would be a sudden surge of the ladies and their own opinions and suggestions.

\'We left them all by themselves and they forced Zoe, so she had no choice but to tell them about the topic of this whole dumb conversation.\'

They were waiting right outside of this barrier now, and were prepared to yell at all of us for this absurd discussion we were having but… more than myself, I was worried about Prince Alpheus.

What these gossip-loving, relationship-digging, romance-expert ladies will do to him, would be a sight to behold for all of us.

…if we were able to get out of the mess ourselves, that is. 

Or else we will also be drowning in a pond of questions, and negative yelling.