Masquerade

Chapter 20: Royal Beauty

Never in my life in I heard that there were princes and princesses in the Royal Academy. I was surprised to learn that besides being friends and counterparts, they were seen as rivals and worse, nemesis and enemies.

Not only in the Royal Academy but many students from the other schools, who had no opportunities, adored and admired the "Princes and Princesses". One of the students was my former classmate back at Music Academy, Yuzuko Kemmotsu. When she learned that I was studying at a school that I should not have studied, she quickly transferred to another school. Instead of focusing on studying, she constantly annoyed me so much by forcing me to follow her and help her get close to her Prince, that I had to disguise myself as my twin brother and vice versa to take time for me to escape from her. Moreover, to make it worse, Shiuhua, Cheol-hwa, and Nicolas, to my shock and horror, were some of the Princes that all of the students admired, so it was no surprise that I had to face jealousy from all of them. Even though I had had conditions, I was a normal young man with a normal appearance that I was proud of. I was so confident that even when I was accused of my seduction toward their "Princes" or "Princesses", none of them could criticize my positivity. Even Sakutaro had to admit that I was "too positive for the negative."

Speaking of all of them, I overheard that there were three students, who were also students of the school. Despite being our senior, one year apart, like them, they were excellent, and most importantly, beautiful. I was so dazed that I thought that I thought I would have fainted in front of the school gate. I also learned that they had connections with them, which I admired for their achievement. However, according to them, I was also one of them. They have never denied their statement, particularly when it came to my background and the mysterious past they had not known about me. I tried my best to hide from them so that my mistakes would not affect them in any aspect...

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I should have thought earlier than what I had to do, especially today. Nicolas told me to be more careful than usual, yet I never thought that I was too confident for that statement.

Unlike the other days, today was a special day, yet I had forgotten about the day that I should not have considered to be normal. Like the other day, I always prepared for the school day. However, no one was there. Did they go early? However, when I looked at the clock, it was eight past thirty. Thirty minutes later than... our standard days.

Yes. Today was Monday. Our official first day at Royal Academy.

"AH! Oh no!" I shouted. I couldn't believe that I got up late on my day at school. " Stupid me! I should have known what I had to do, stupid me! Now what?!" I cursed myself.

Despite being quite late compared to the others, I managed to get to school on time. To my surprise, there were several students arrived at the playground. Not to let anyone notice, I quickly ran to the crowd, despite knowing I was quite short and seeing people in the front would be not easy.

" What is going on? A special event?" I wondered as I looked around to see the scene.

" Hadn't you heard the news?" A student asked.

" What?" I asked.

" Sir Yukito is arriving at our academy today!" - Shouted one another. " I can't wait for that moment!"

" What do you—"

" LOOK! HERE HE COMES!" She shouted and pointed at the limousine which came forward to the gate.

Opening the door revealed the beautiful sparkle around the handsome young man with brownish purple hair and wearing another type of school uniform which was different from us. His appearance made the others so attractive that no one, including me, could avoid his beauty. I was so focused on him that I did not notice something covering my eyes from behind and being pushed quickly.