Starting With The Sefirah Castle In The Anime World-Chapter 156 - : He is a Teitan Student

Several makeup artists didn't quite understand what was going on, but Kazumi, who was aware of the situation, had already figured it out.

Even so, she still found it hard to believe.

She couldn't believe that Toshihiko would actually go through with this.

But she also understood that this was an inevitable outcome. As long as Toshihiko didn't take any action, nothing would happen. Today's wedding would remain just a wedding.

However, the moment Toshihiko did anything extra, he would be plunging himself into a desperate situation—into the abyss.

Yet, Kazumi didn't stop it.

She supported Sayuri's decision.

If Toshihiko really went through with it, he would have to pay the price.

Thinking this, Kazumi simply watched from the sidelines.

The two who had been drinking lemon tea set their cans down on the table, Sayuri's was placed inside, while Suzuki Sonoko's was on the outside.

"Ah, Matsumoto-Sensei, could you lend me your straw?"

"Sure, no problem."

Sonoko took the straw from Sayuri's can and placed it into her own.

All preparations were complete.

At that moment, the two makeup artists also finished their work.

"Ms. Matsumoto, we'll be heading out now."

"Yes, thank you for your help."

After the two makeup artists left, Sayuri turned her attention to the students she was meeting for the first time.

"Ran, Sonoko, are they really in the same class as you?"

Sayuri's gaze landed on Nagi and Isumi.

Judging by their age, the two of them looked, at most, like junior high school students.

"Well... their situation is a bit complicated."

Ran glanced at Nagi, finding it a bit troublesome to explain.

"Matsumoto-sensei, they skipped grades."

"Skipped grades?"

Sayuri looked at the two girls in slight surprise. Given their appearance, they must have skipped several grades.

However, does Teitan High School even allow grade skipping?

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"Teitan High School actually has a policy for skipping grades? That's surprising."

"Uh... they were originally students at Hakuo Academy, but they recently transferred to Teitan High."

"???"

This answer stunned Sayuri even more.

"From the most prestigious of aristocratic schools... to a public school? Someone actually chose to downgrade?"

She suddenly felt that something wasn't quite right.

Teitan High School had no such grade-skipping policy, but Hakuo did.

After all, Hakuo was an elite academy with an incredibly strong faculty.

Having a few super-genius students there wasn't all that surprising.

However, Hakuo had a strict rule, only nobles could enroll.

That meant the two girls standing before her were undoubtedly from noble families.

Beyond her initial surprise, she now understood why these students could so easily take the afternoon off.

Then, Sayuri's gaze shifted to the girl with black hair and red eyes.

If she remembered correctly, the blonde girl with the side ponytail had been standing next to her earlier.

"Then, the others... were they also transferred from Hakuo?"

Noticing Matsumoto-sensei's gaze, Sonoko smiled and shook her head.

"Ah, these two weren't. And the one who just stepped out wasn't either."

"The three of them transferred from Shuchiin Academy to Teitan."

"Shuchiin???"

One from Hakuo, and now another from Shuchiin?

Sayuri felt like her head was about to explode.

"What's going on here? Why are students from Hakuou and Shuchiin transferring to Teitan High?"

"Has Teitan suddenly become an aristocratic school?"

How was it that Teitan, an ordinary high school, was attracting so many upper-class students?

"Hey, Matsumoto-sensei, you don't have to overthink it."

"Let me introduce them properly."

"This walking ice block over here is Shinomiya Kaguya."

Ice block?

That term was a little... impolite.

Moreover—

Sayuri observed Kaguya carefully. Though she did have a cold demeanor, it wasn't to the point of being unapproachable. Calling her a "walking ice block" seemed excessive.

"She's not cold at all."

Sayuri blurted out without thinking.

Kaguya's eyes shifted slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her previously expressionless face.

"Matsumoto-sensei, nice to meet you."

"Ah, hello."

"Please ignore what Suzuki just said. I'm just an ordinary young lady raised in a sheltered environment, not very good at socializing."

"My coldness is simply a protective shell."

That explanation made a lot more sense to Sayuri.

But Sonoko felt her eyelids twitch.

This woman... she wasn't like this before.

And calling it a "protective shell"?

That wasn't what she said back when she was freezing people with her gaze.

Still, Sonoko chose not to argue at the moment.

"Next, this girl beside me—I knew her even before she transferred here."

"Fujiwara Chika, a good friend of mine."

"Hello, Matsumoto-sensei."

Chika's smile was so bright that it immediately lifted the mood.

Sayuri could feel the positive energy radiating from her—it was the pure, youthful vitality of a high school girl.

"Hello."

Sonoko continued.

"And those two students you thought looked too young for high school?"

"The blonde twin-tailed girl is Sanzenin Nagi."

"The one with the elegant, princess-like hairstyle is Saginomiya Isumi."

"Anyway, just don't treat them like kids—their thinking is actually quite mature."

"As for the blonde girl with the side ponytail who left earlier, she's Kaguya's personal maid, Hayasaka Ai."

"And this one, the more mature-looking one, is Nagi's exclusive maid, Maria."

Both a noble lady and a personal maid.

Even without digging deeper, it was clear that none of them had simple backgrounds.

So, Sayuri decided not to overthink it.

Finally, her gaze landed on the bespectacled boy standing quietly to the side.

"So, he also transferred to Teitan?"

"He didn't."

Sonoko smiled and shook her head.

"He's actually a student of Teitan High School, just like us. He's just not in the same class as Ran and me."

(To be continued.)