The Return Of The Exiled Villain-Chapter 199: The Academy Of Sword & Magic

"...Chuup!♡~"

Opening his eyes, the first thing Gray woke up to was the sound and the warm, damp feeling of someone sucking his neck hard, making his skin tingle.

"Lyra, what are you doing so early in the morning?" he mumbled sleepily, rubbing his eyes while yawning deeply before he gently pulled Lyra away from his neck.

"Hehe~," she giggled.

"I was just marking you, of course!" She grinned widely while sitting on his stomach, her body keeping him from sitting up in bed.

Her golden eyes looked down at him with a satisfied and proud look.

She lifted one hand and adjusted her messy bed hair slightly, then leaned down and snuggled her head against Gray’s chest.

"I love youuuuu!" Her words were muffled against him, but they were loud enough for him to hear clearly.

Gray smiled faintly, planted a kiss on the top of her head, and replied softly,

"Love you, too."

Rustle!

She suddenly lifted her head and glared at Gray with a dangerous look.

"...I love you, too."

"Mhmph!"

She shifted her position quickly, then wrapped her arms around his neck and clung to his shoulder.

Her nose brushed against the nape of his neck as she started sniffing his scent again and again, clearly satisfied.

"Haah..."

Gray slowly sat up, picked her up with a single hand, and stood from the bed. Lyra didn’t resist at all, staying wrapped around him as he walked to the bathroom.

He handed her the toothpaste, then grabbed two toothbrushes.

Squish...

Lyra put toothpaste on both of them before placing the toothpaste back on the table. Gray handed her one of the toothbrushes.

Scrapeee...

They started brushing their teeth together. Lyra clung to Gray like an octopus, her arms and legs wrapped around him as he lifted her easily, just like holding a child.

Gray held her waist with his hand and used his arm to support her buttocks.

Because of that, her massive chest pressed close to him, brushing against his face more than once as she moved slightly while brushing her teeth.

"Pfttu!"

"Pffu!"

After brushing their teeth, Gray leaned forward to wash his face.

As he bent down over the sink, Lyra almost slid off his body, but her octopus-like limbs tightened around him, holding on firmly as if it were natural.

Splash...!

Gray cupped water in his hands and splashed his face, droplets running down his jaw and dripping into the sink. Just as he wiped his eyes, he felt a small poke on his cheek.

He turned his head slightly.

Lyra was staring deeply at him with half-closed, sleepy eyes.

...Splash!

Without hesitation, Gray flicked water at her face as well.

The cool droplets hit her skin, and instead of protesting, she let out a small hum, sounding oddly satisfied.

However, the next part of his routine was changing his clothes.

He opened his dimensional storage and picked out the clothes for himself and Lyra, before settling down neatly in the bed.

"Lyra, get off me. I need to change clothes," he said, lightly tapping her forehead.

She was clinging to his back now, her legs wrapped tightly around his waist. She had shifted positions earlier when she nearly slid down while he was washing his face.

"Noooooooooo~, I want to be close to youuu~" she whined in a spoiled manner, kissing his shoulder multiple times.

Gray simply sighed.

It had only been two days since they got back together, and yet, she had managed to become unbearably clingy.

Not that he minded, but he really wanted to change his clothes, as in just a few minutes, they needed to head towards Clarintine’s Sword & Magic Academy.

"Lyra, we need to go to the academy."

"...Fuck the academy, I just want to be close to you, mhm~♡" she muttered lazily, before she snipped the back of his neck once again.

At her words, Gray simply waited a few seconds.

...Click!

A realization suddenly got into his mind.

"Wait, today is the day we will go to the academy?!" Her eyes snapped wide open in complete shock and surprise.

She instantly let go of him and fell backward off his back, landing neatly on the floor with her hands.

"Why didn’t you say that sooner?!"

Without wasting a second, she started taking off her clothes right in front of him and quickly put on the special academy uniform Gray had already taken out for her.

Gray turned away slightly and changed as well.

In less than a minute, both of them were fully dressed.

"The academy’s just on the next street," Gray said with a small chuckle as he watched Lyra struggle with her bed hair. "Relax a little."

Lyra ignored him completely, staring at herself in the mirror with a serious expression.

Seeing this, Gray stepped closer, took a hair elastic, and gently started tying her hair into a ponytail.

"G-Gray...?" Her face flushed slightly as he turned her face toward him and carefully began adjusting her bangs with his fingers.

He smoothed them down, fixed a few loose strands, and stepped back after a moment.

Gray nodded with a satisfied smile.

"Perfect! Let’s go now."

At his words, Lyra took a look at the mirror, and seeing her hair neatly arranged, she hummed happily and slipped her arm around Gray’s.

Just as he had said, the academy entrance was on the next street, and already there, they saw the others waiting for them.

"You guys are finally here!" Selina exclaimed, but as soon as her eyes fell on the fact that Lyra was sticking much closer to Gray than normal, her eyes showed a small hint of coldness.

"...Looks like they had a good night," Selene added dryly from the side, letting out a soft scoff.

Faced with their barely concealed jealousy, Lyra only grinned wider.

"Indeed..."

Mischievously, she reached up and tugged Gray’s collar down just slightly, revealing the faint hickeys along his neck.

The effect was immediate.

Both Selina and Selene stiffened, their expressions darkening as the urge to punch Lyra surged almost simultaneously.

"That aside," Gray interrupted immediately.

"Who’s supposed to be meeting us again?"

At his question, Leon, standing beside Adrian and Maelis, spoke up casually.

"The Student Council President, I think."

"YOU MEAN THE FIRST PRINCESS?!" Ronan shouted in pure excitement, causing everyone to look at him almost instantly.

Even several nearby students frowned and turned to stare as they passed through the academy gates, heading toward their respective classes.

Realizing the attention he’d drawn, Ronan coughed awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

"Hehe... sorry. I’m just... really excited to meet her," he admitted, trying to sound modest but failing miserably.

Adrian raised an eyebrow.

"She’s that impressive?" he asked, clearly puzzled.

"I mean... what’s the big deal?"

Ronan straightened immediately, as if that question alone demanded a proper explanation.

"Seraph Mirevant Étoile-Noire," he began with a strange reverence.

"The First Princess of our kingdom. She was declared a Sword Prodigy and awakened her sword aura at the age of fourteen. There are even rumors that she’s already manifested Sword Qi! Something only King-level swordsmen are supposed to achieve!"

He took a quick breath, then continued without pause.

"And on top of that, in the beauty rankings made by commoners and nobles alike, she was crowned the most beautiful young woman in the kingdom. Only the Northern Duchess Evelyn surpassed her, and that’s mostly thanks to her mermaid bloodline!"

Ronan kept rambling enthusiastically, but Gray barely heard him.

After all... her name gave him a sense of nostalgia.

Seraph Mirevant Étoile-Noire was his first love, actually his true first love, during the age when he was the most innocent.

When... his love was truly pure.

However, everything ended when he was sixteen, when his family told him to start acting like a scumbag to distract the Royal Family from their own.

Because of this, Gray decided to break up with her, not wanting to hurt her anymore.

She refused, saying that if he died, she would only love him.

At that moment, Gray was truly smitten with her, but he swallowed his emotions and simply said they were over before starting his scumbag spree.

Since then...

He had never seen her again.

"Oh, wait," Adrian suddenly interrupted Ronan’s monologue, pointing off into the distance.

"Is that the person you’re talking about?"

Everyone turned to look, including Gray.

For a brief moment, his eyes widened before returning to their usual state.

Clack, clack...

In the distance, walking toward them with a perfect posture, was a woman who immediately drew the eye of any man nearby.

She had long, pure silver hair that shone faintly under the morning light, and icy light-blue eyes that seemed sharp enough to cut through anything.

She wore the academy’s official uniform, black accented with deep blue, its emblem displaying a crossed sword and staff over her chest.

A band wrapped around her upper arm bore clear lettering:

Student Council President.

Her figure was tall and well-proportional, and her chest seemed to be of an average size. But... that is just for the naked eye.

When they were around twelve-years old, both of them would talk about their own bodily changes to each other, since that was the age when their body started to mature.

Seraph at that age was much taller than Gray, even looking more than three years older than him, and that wasn’t the only thing that was big about her.

At that age, her breasts had already reached the D-cup size!

Not to mention how big they should be now!

She was probably wearing bandages over her chest to hide her size, just like she started doing when she was fourteen.

Other than that, she was quite tall, even taller than the average male.

It looked like she was around 183 cm or six feet tall.

"......"

Their eyes met for a brief moment, causing both of them to freeze momentarily.