The Retribution of the Ice Cold Maiden

13-Do you really not know?

"Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha....!!!!" Soul kept laughing, despite hearing about Selena's failing grades about 5 minutes ago.

"To think... The Ice Cold Beauty is as dumb as a donkey...!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha...!!" Soul's laughter made Selena felt depressed and annoyed.

This was her greatest shame. When she first started studying, her grades were average at the least. But two years ago, she failed in one subject in the mock-exams. As time went on, the failing subjects increased until she failed every subject out there. It seems being clever and quick-witted could not help her academic skills. However, the results of the mock-exam were kept private and were only known to students. Even the examiners didn't know whose papers they were checking in order to avoid favoritism. So she had escaped embarrassment for the time being. But when the true Aristocrat exam comes, everyone will know by then about Selena's awful academics.

Unlike Earth, for some reason, the Examination Hall does not send over the checked papers. So Selena had no way of knowing what she did wrong.

"Ha Ha Ha...!!" *Swoop* The Laughter abruptly stopped as Selena couldn't take it anymore and wore the ring given by the church which subdued Soul.

"M-My lady...?" The maid called out as Selena didn't respond for over a minute in the real world. Hearing her maid's voice, Selena snapped back to reality and replied with a calm expression as if she was not mocked harshly just now.

"Un... Invite teacher Walker in." Selena replied to the maid calmly.

"Yes..." The maid replied.

A couple of minutes later, a middle-aged woman walked inside Selena's room. She had wrinkles starting to form on her face and had a stern look. She also wore round Glasses and had an upright demeanor, as if she was military trained. She carried a bag with her that was filled with books.

"Lady Selena..." Teacher Walker greeted Selena without bowing. Even though Selena was an Aristocrat, Teachers were considered their beneficiaries, hence it is the student who bows down, irrespective of their position.

"Student Selena greets Teacher." Selena bowed and greeted her.

"Hm..." Teacher walker nodded in response before taking her seat.

"I hope that Lady Selena will pay good attention today, The Aristocratic Exam is after two months. I am pretty sure if you work enough, you may even pass in more than half of subjects... at least."

"Yes..." Selena replied bitterly as she took her seat too. Her Teacher, Claire Walker, has been teaching Selena since she first started learning. She felt awful to see her teacher's efforts wasted. Claire Walker was an Elite hired by her father, which meant that she taught every subject to her. From ranging to Academic subjects to proper manners of an aristocrat lady. She hadn't reported her failures to her Father because she worried that her Teacher might be held responsible for it and it would affect her Teacher's Career in the long run.

An hour passed painfully slowly...

Selena's brain hurt as she failed to grasp the Arithmetic Equation in front of her. Despite her teacher explaining it to her two times, she still failed to grasp it. She suddenly felt like going to the person who created Math and strangle him to death.

"Sigh... Never mind. Let's skip Arithmetic for today and concentrate on History. All you have to do is remember the major facts. I hope you will fare better with a memory-related subject." Teacher Walker rubbed her temples in frustration as she finally gave in.

"Ugh... Yes." Selena relented as well. She washed her face in the basin to calm down before returning to her chair.

"Let's start with the establishment of our Kingdom of Evergreen..." Teacher Walker stood up and paced around as she taught Selena the history of the Evergreen kingdom.