Zero to Hero (Prequel/prototype)

Chapter. 6 Progression

"Ken! Time to get up! I can't believe Lovetta does this every morning. Are you some sort of a king that needs maid to wake you up every morning?" Clare complained as she shouted for Ken outside of his dorm room.

As Ken got ready and walked out of his dorm, he was greeted by the pair of friends he has made since the start of his school life.

"Rare to see you here as well Clare, why aren't you waiting in the common room like you normally do?"

"I got hungry, and Lovetta won't come wake you up because it's Sunday and want to let you sleep longer even though she is starving herself, I can hear her stomach growling."

"And that is the difference between my best friend and a tagalong." Ken joked with a smirk while getting playfully smacked by Clare.

One month has passed since the start of the school year and the once mutually beneficial tutorship quickly grew into a friendship and the three have been hanging together ever since that first Sunday.

While Clare acted extremely cold and distant at first and seemed like this perfect and unapproachable princess who strives for perfection.

The real her behind that façade is actually quite immature and easily irritated while also extremely competitive.

From the very start, she and Ken developed this friendship where they would always be joking and throwing harmless shades at each other for laughs and giggles. It's hard to believe that the unapproachable ice princess would turn everyone's expectation upside down.

While everyone could see Clare laughing and joking with her two friends and many kept trying to get on her good side due to her status. Their efforts have all been ignored as the ice princess shows no mercy when approached by anyone else.

"Why do you act so cold to everyone Clare? I wish I could have people wanting to be my friends like the way they trying to be yours."

"They aren't trying to be my friends. They just want to get in good standing with my family. If my last name wasn't Yelwraek and my father wasn't the king, they wouldn't even look at me twice" Clare answered without hesitation.

"Now I know that's a lie. A girl as beautiful as you would definitely have people turning their heads and looking at you multiple times even if you are just a commoner like us."

Giving him a soft kick from behind, "You can't just say that to a girl like it's nothing." Clare murmured softly so Ken couldn't hear.

As the group got to the dining hall, they got their typical meals and sat together as always. Since Clare is not short of money and her luxury room alone costs 500 academy points a month. She has offered to buy the pair whatever they want but has always been turned down except for the extra free meal that Lovetta takes to save 3 points daily.

As Ken once said, "As much as I want to enjoy the luxurious lifestyle. I don't want anything I won't be able to maintain so until I can afford it myself with my own worth, I will just stick with the free meals."

As the group chatted and enjoyed their breakfast, a group of elves approached them.

"I see you are still hanging around those commoners from inferior races Clare. Oh, how much more will my wife be disgracing our royal elf blood."

Xandrian Nafluica, an elf in the class of 1998, is the most persistent detractor of the friendship between the three. From the kingdom of Nafluica, he is the son of a duke and self-proclaimed future husband of Clare due to the close ties between the two kingdoms as the two largest elf kingdoms and 2 of the 10 major powers.

"Xandrian, I will never marry you or have any intention of ever taking you seriously so if you could just leave so I don't have to hear your voice anymore." Clare snapped at the elven noble.