'Oh, that's right. I still haven't thanked His Highness,' Dahlia suddenly realised, so she swiftly bowed before him to thank him, but she suddenly felt Orion's hand on her chin as he slowly lifted her head so her gaze could meet his.
Dahlia was left speechless and she was even more surprised when she noticed how close he was to her face at that moment. She could still feel his fingers as he lifted her chin and her cheeks reddened instantly when she noticed that he was leaning closer to her.
"Did you have fun with your new friends?" Orion asked and his question caught Dahlia by surprise.
"Y-yes, Your Highness."
"So, how does it feel to have friends who are elves just like you?"
"I-it feels nice," Dahlia stumbled over a reply, but she had a smile on her face. She recalled all the fun she'd had with the girls and how they quickly had become close.
It was a weird experience for Dahlia because it was her first time being friends with her own kind or even having friends at all.
Although the girls could be very lively and loquacious, they were definitely fun to be around and could lift anyone's spirits.
Dahlia also remembered how eager they had been to know more about her and how it felt to be a vampire elf, and her smile widened even more at the memory of how the girls cried after hearing about her sad past.
Dahlia was still lost in her thoughts with a smile on her face when Orion dragged her out of memory lane.
"You're smiling."
"Huh?" Dahlia suddenly realized that she had actually been smiling since she stepped into Orion's bedroom and she nodded her head with an even prettier smile on her face. "Yes."
"This is good. I like to see my beautiful elf smiling at me."
<<Greetings Students, I'm Professor Daisy Minotaur, and I'll...>> It was a recording made by Daisy.
Unfortunately, she couldn't attend the class because she was currently busy with something else, so she wanted the students to take the books she left on the desk and use them to practise any of the dishes written in the book.
The recipes were described in detail, and this meant that even a novice could easily use it as a guide to make what they wanted with or without the professor standing next to them.
Orion looked at the desks in the classroom and noticed that there were no other books in the room, and he wondered if he was the only one taking the class.
He knew he wasn't late to class because he had arrived right on time, so if there were others offering the class wouldn't he have seen them by now?
Well, it didn't really matter to him if he was the only one taking the course or not, all that mattered was that he earned enough merit points to graduate early from the academy, so Orion kept the recipe book in his inventory before turning towards Dahlia.
"Where are we going now, Your Highness?"
"To the art class. I want to clear my head a bit," Orion replied and walked out of the classroom with Dahlia trailing behind him.
Art class wasn't that far from the culinary class, so Orion preferred to walk over to the art classroom rather than teleporting into the class.
It didn't take them long before they arrived at their destination and walked into the room. Then Orion sat down with a canvas placed in front of him.
He took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly before picking up a pencil and moving his fingers on the canvas as he began to draw on it.
Meanwhile, Dahlia stood behind him, watching as he drew for quite some time and seemed to become more relaxed with each passing second.
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A/N:- Thank you so much for the power stones, the golden tickets and gifts. I really appreciate it. You guys are the best.