Chapter 247 - Preparation for Social Week (8)

Haruka left the room in the middle of the night. Luke watched over my studies while he worked with Haruka. While entrusting the neutral fraction's doc.u.ments to Haruka, the pile of work was finally starting to appear like it was decreasing. Entangled inside all the work was the schedule that Luke finally finished arranging after discussing with Haruka.

Unfortunately, we had no break during the entire week. Due to attending all the events Haruka's fraction wanted in exchange for helping with the work, we had to leave in the early morning and return to Luke's mansion near the middle of the night. I stretched my arms, rising from my chair to get ready to sleep since our guest had left.

I had memorized all the information in my brain as I listened to their conversation. The neutral fraction's theme for all their events were flowers. While Luke's fraction decided to have their events revolve around a winter fairy tale, making everything seem magical. In addition to that was the Impalia fraction who went with the house of cards to go with their image of unpredictability. And lastly, Haruka's fraction had a celestial based theme around the constellations.

"Do we really need another set of outfits for Haruka's fraction?" I wondered, thinking it would be a pain.

"We'll need to coordinate our outfits since we're a part of their fraction now," Luke seemed equally exhausted from the fact.

"Can't you have your servants bring the clothes here?" I didn't feel like going to his mansion today.

"Let's go," Luke dragged me to the teleportation gate.

There was only one day till the start of social week. The campus was empty as everyone had already gone to their mansions to get ready. I groaned as we were inside another one of his mansions. I scanned the area as I noticed the barrier was fortified to the point it was almost impenetrable. It was better than the school barrier at this rate.

I relaxed a bit as part of the reason I didn't want to come was due to the faltering barrier last time. I didn't know how we would somehow change our outfits three times in a day when I struggled being in one for a day last time. I slid into the sofa as I was getting sleepy, not paying attention to the outfits Luke was starting to pick out.

"Is this fine?" Luke turned to me.

I slapped my cheeks to focus on what Luke had picked. This was bad. If I slept right there, I would be forced into wearing whatever he picked for me. Luke held black dress made from silk decorated with diamonds near the bottom, representing stars. The necklace was a white ribbon attached to a mana crystal, which I wasn't going to wear.

Mana crystals came from the blood and tears from the pitiful children in the second district. The shoes were white and black striped flats to match the rest of the outfit. I waved my hand, "not the necklace."

"How about this one?" Luke chose another ribbon with a large pink diamond attached.

"It's fine," I started to feel proud that Luke was choosing more comfortable outfits today.

Thankfully it only took an hour to choose the rest. I headed towards my room, yawning before slumping onto my bed. This was my only chance to get a proper amount of sleep as I knew I probably wouldn't get any, looking at that schedule. That was why I couldn't let go of my blanket when Luke attempted to take it away when I didn't even get four hours of sleep.

"I thought we already took care of everything," I groaned.

"We need to go to pick up some flowers for the neutral fraction, get some last-minute orders for my fraction in addition to Charles' fraction wanting us to pick up some more jewels to fix the mistake I found in the doc.u.ment," Luke wrestled away my blanket.

"Why can't the store just teleport it to them?" I complained.

"We're not going to the store since they won't accept any more orders. We're directly getting the materials ourselves," Luke sighed.

"There's no way we can do all this in one day," My mind went blank.

After I was dragged into the hover car, I found the car in front of a big flower field full of roses when I woke up from Luke shaking me awake. How were we going to pick all those flowers on our own? The field spanned for miles like it had no end once I got out of the car.

"We're not picking all of these, are we?" I looked around.

"Just the ones in this plot," Luke began to use his mana to rip them out of the ground.

Wanting to get it over with, I helped pull all the flowers in my end and placed them inside the inventory. It appeared all these varieties of flowers were grown to be used for parties like social week instead of a natural garden. Each plot either had a different species of extravagant flowers or the same breed in a different colour.

I couldn't be helped, I was excellent in plucking the flowers. Compared to transferring squirming bugs into the cage, it was nothing. Strands of my hair fluttered in the air from the sudden wind once we finished the cleanup. I shuddered as I carefully scanned my surroundings. It wasn't a foretelling of another monster, was it?