‘Huh, is it over?’

Zhang Dong called out with a sleepy voice while Beatrice was going down from the stage. The speech that she performed was rather long-winded and took quite some time. He as well as some other students had dozed off during it. He could even see good old moss head and carrot top barely keeping their eyes open.

‘Mr. Leigong… that’s mean…’

Beatrice started pouting while carrying a stack of papers. She had spent quite some time preparing this speech that she was very proud of. From Zhang Dong’s perspective, it was a bit too much. He was also someone that performed some declarations or lectures. Thus he always made sure to make it swift and not divert too much from the main theme. His contractor on the other hand recounted most of the academy’s history while also thanking all the instructors she had studied with.

‘I told you that you made it too long… hope no one will hold a grudge....’

‘Why you!’

He laughed while safe in his soul dimension. It looked like the girl was slowly opening up her heart to him and treating him more as a friend than a great spirit. Being seen as an equal and not as some otherworldly being of power was something he was aiming for. After many years of that in his sect, he was a bit tired of being placed on a pedestal.

‘Now go take your new key and let us depart towards the library, we will be studying a lot!’

One of the perks of being a white uniform was getting a new dorm room. It would be more of a full apartment that she would have to herself. Her old roommate took the news rather well as she now could experiment more without worrying about any poison fumes getting to Beatrice.

The time started to pass, Zhang Dong was sure to use the library pass to get through each book that this place had to offer. There weren’t that many books and scriptures if you compared it to his own sect but for a world much smaller than his this was quite a lot.

His own family was constantly on his mind but he couldn’t do much about it due to his poor state. His power was limited as he couldn’t even map out the area he was in.

In his regular body, he was able to scan everything for multiple kilometers in all directions but now he could barely squeeze out 200 meters. His system just wasn’t working correctly with the limitations that were put on him here.

This left him wandering around the whole academy with Beatrice as his guide. The Principal didn’t get back to him with those special locations so this was the only thing that he could do. One of those dimensional cubes could be in this very academy or even under it.

The problem was that he couldn’t see any empty black spots on his map. Like before the zones where these cubes were at showed up as those black spots. After going through all the places in this academy he didn’t turn up with anything.

“I think that was all of them Mr. Leigong…”

Beatrice called out to him while looking at a large statue of a long-dead hero. Spots like these were visited by him throughout the entire school area. The only places left were outside this well-guarded academy. For that, he would need the permission of the one in charge and that would probably only come after he returned the favor first.

“Mm, let us go back to your class for now.”

There was not much else to do here. Zhang Dong felt dejected as he just wanted to return home. He couldn’t just leave Beatrice though, the girl was far too weak for her current predicament. The other students weren’t looking favorably at her and he had an idea why.

Isabella Hohenberg, she was probably the villain in this story. Her looks also fit with those long drill-like locks that she possessed. She was the typical lady villain that people could read in various stories or games. She continuously ran into Beatrice and him while they were trying to search for some clues or read books.

Sometimes it would be some other students that picked fights with Beatrice. His cute summoner didn’t know it but he had marked this drill blond the last time they encountered her. Zhang Dong knew that she was always sneaking glances from afar while using some kind of hiding spell. It wasn’t hard to spot for someone of his caliber but regular students would find it hard to notice anything.

The ‘bullying’ was quite standard, this whole academy was built like one big high school. The classes were larger with fewer students but the whole feeling was the same. In the cafeteria, they would try to put some diet pills in her food. While there were swimming lessons someone would try to steal her clothes or put tacks in her shoes.

It was all very childish and made him feel bad for the girl that he was contracted with. Luckily for her, she had him around to spot things like this. Though even he started to get annoyed by how these teenagers were behaving. If this continued he would need to punish them in some way. The reason why he didn’t do anything yet was that Beatrice asked him not to. She was far too afraid of the higher nobles acting up if something bad happened to their children.

‘Glasses guy is giving today's lecture but I’ve already gone through the whole library so this will be quite boring…’

The instructor that was giving the lecture was also quite characteristic. His hair was blue and he was quite the handsome young man. He was an elf of an unknown age but his beauty made all the girls in here blush.

‘Together with carrot top, moss head, and glasses guy that would make it three capture targets… there might be another hidden one… maybe an exchange student will also arrive later…’

He was thinking in terms of an otome game now. These people looked quite flashy and were all gathered in one classroom. This all fit in a setting of a lesser noble like Beatrice being stuck with snotty higher nobles.

In games like those the player that was playing someone of lower status would try to befriend the capture targets. Things like events would pop out here and there, then depending on the player’s choice one of the capture targets could come to like her more. In reverse, they could become more antagonistic if they went with the wrong route.

Isabella fit in as the person that was getting in the way of Beatrice’s progress with the capture targets. She was the fiance of the prince which kind of made some of her reactions justified. No girl would like to see their future husband go after other ladies.

This made Zhang Dong look at the prince with less favor. He was already taken but he was still lusting for other women than his own fiance. Isabella was quite the looker but she didn’t seem to be good at talking to this prince of hers.

From what he had seen she remained stoic and reserved while Beatrice on the other hand was more animated. She found it hard to talk to this young pretty boy and the prince looked quite happy at the awkward reactions that she gave him.

‘That prince guy is no good… he is too much of a ladies' man not sure if he is playing dumb or is doing this on purpose… reminds me of ol’ gramps… at least he hasn’t gone over the line yet…’

He was prepared to give the youth a good thrashing if he attempted anything funny. The only problem was that if he did that then Beatrice would have the whole kingdom after her. It would be fine in his eyes to leave this place but he didn’t really want to destroy the life of this young girl.

“So then if the relationship with your spirits increases you will be able to perform spirit fusion…”

The lecture continued, this teacher was also a summoner. Most of the lessons that had been going on now were all theories but later there would be some practical classes where he would also need to participate.

‘Fusion huh?’

Zhang Dong already knew the theory behind this but wasn’t sure about trying something like this out with Beatrice. This technique was a strong one but it put a lot of strain on the summoner. It would increase his power by quite a lot, the problem was the backlash to Beatrice’s own soul.

The summoner needed to be at a similar level as their summon. If they weren’t then the magic-user could be injured as they would need to contain the force given to them. He was already someone far ahead of anyone here, even the so-called Principal that was the top mage here couldn’t reach his toes.

‘I should probably spend some points to see if I could better this technique… maybe with a better grade the strain on little Beatrice’s soul will be lowered.’

“Beatrice Hohenberg please report to the Principal’s office after the classes are finished.”

He perked up at this notification that everyone in the room heard. This class consisted of about fifteen people all of them of high birth and status. Most of them looked with scorn at the blond daughter of the Baron. No one was willing to believe that an upstart like this was taking away their own glory.

‘Good… think we can move things along now…’

Zhang Dong cheered as it was finally time to do some work. He had made an official contract with the Principal of this school. After helping them with finding all the stray demons in this school he would be allowed to leave and check out the world. They would provide him with a flying ship and some protection.

The only problem in this plan was Beatrice that was feeling skittish. This was quite the normal reaction as they would be traveling all over the kingdom. Luckily he had managed to somehow convince her, her mana was improving day by day.

“Hey Bob, go look into that fusion technique will you?”

“Affirmative.”

His system had started to evolve as well, this AI program that he was now stuck with could actually perform some simple tasks for him. He could just tell him to combine skills to improve some techniques and it would carry out the order to his specification. He was still unsure what this program was but he was stuck with it for now. If it would still be there after he got his regular body back was still left to be seen.

‘Let us go, Beatrice!’

After the lecture had ended a little ball of light appeared in the classroom. The students here had been surprised the first time they saw him but now he had been accepted as Beatrice’s unique summon.

“Make way you fools, the Lightning Emperor is coming through!”

He shouted out which made all the snotty students cringe. While they were being rude to Beatrice he made sure to return the favor twice fold. Taking on an overbearing persona was something he was familiar with. Since his little arena bout, he was seen as a powerful summon that shouldn’t be messed with.

“Please Mr. Leigong don’t make a scene…”

Beatrice just blushed while quickly leaving the room. He on the other hand made it sure to glare at each and every person in the room. Though due to his cute appearance it could have been seen in another way.

“You’re no fun Beatrice… fine let us get some demons!”