A Sunny Entrance Ceremony

Author: Unicoon
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8138gc/23/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

A clear sky, flowers in full bloom.
The day of the entrance ceremony had come at last.
Romulus Academy bustled with people.

The new students enrolling that day, and their families.

“Look at this white uniform! It’s the mark of the advanced class!!”

“I’m advanced class too! Does it suit me?”

“Lucky… I’m general class, so mine’s black…”

“A black uniform is fine, isn’t it. If you’d been lower class, it would have been a navy uniform, you know? Navy is unsightly.”

The uniforms the new students wore differed in color.

Those who had passed into the advanced class wore white blazers.
Those who had passed into the general class wore black blazers.
And the lower class Lady Ulrika had passed into wore navy blazers.

Before the ceremony, new students and families alike were in high spirits.
Among them, one new student was especially lively.

“The entrance ceremony~! I’m looking forward to it~!!”

Lady Ulrika, wildly excited.
In her navy uniform, she ran around making a racket.

“Lady Ulrika~, please wai~t”

“I can’t wait~!”

Lady Ulrika frolicked; Olivia hurried after her.
Charlotte and Natasha watched, smiling.
The two of them wore navy uniforms to match Lady Ulrika.

The four of them looked like they were having fun. The gazes around them, however, were cold.

“Look, lower class…”

“Princess Charlotte… so it was true she went into the lower class…”

“I hear she lost her mind… they’re calling her the Mad Princess, apparently.”

“Rumor is His Majesty abandoned her too… poor thing…”

Heartless words came one after another.
In that uneasy air, someone came running at tremendous speed.

“Lady Ulrika! I’ve been waiting!!”

Headmaster Neumann.
He leaped, took a kowtow pose in midair, and slid in right in front of Lady Ulrika.
Exquisite movement even a first-rate knight or warrior would find difficult.

Then King Zenon and Queen Victoria joined them, escorts in tow.

“Ulrika! Charlotte!”

“Everyone~, sorry to keep you~”

At the suddenly gathered, overly luxurious faces, the new students could not close their mouths.

“Hoh? It suits you rather well.”

“You’re all adorable! Lovely!!”

Queen Victoria squeezed the three enrolling, and Olivia while she was at it, in a tight hug.

“We’re so glad you came all this way!”

“Of course. It’s my daughter’s entrance ceremony.”

“Fufu… Zenon was desperately finishing his official duties from last night, you know. He said he was absolutely going to the ceremony.”

“Hey, don’t say extra things!”

A harmonious family scene.
From the new students around them came looks mixed with envy and jealousy.

“The king and queen, and even the headmaster… what’s going on?”

“Aren’t the royal house and the academy on bad terms…?”

“Wasn’t Princess Charlotte abandoned by the king? This is the opposite…”

“Even though they’re lower class… what’s going on…”

Gathering attention, the group went into the auditorium where the ceremony would be held.
Along the way, Lady Ulrika suddenly stopped.

“…Mm?”

“Ulrika? Is something the matter?”

“Hmm… go on ahead. I have a little business.”

So saying, Lady Ulrika walked to the middle of the schoolyard.

“O~i!”

She looked up at the sky and waved big.

“I’m going to school~!!”

She shouted it at the clear sky.
Then she winked, snap, and went into the auditorium.