I'm not cut out to be the heroine

A Useless Girl (13)

Cyrus Fyodor's POV

I'm having a great deal of trouble figuring out whether Olivia is an idiot or a genius. Is her care-free attitude a clever ploy or genuine foolishness? When I looked into her background I found practically nothing. Apparently she was always  kind and sociable as a child, she was intelligent and well spoken. Beloved by all who encountered her, her smile brought joy to the world... 

This information conflicted with my own interactions with Olivia. Most of the emotion she emoted were negative, she seemed angry and tired. Not to mention she had no regard for Proper etiquette. Obviously she was lying, but what was she trying to gain with her peculiar actions? It simply didn't make sense that she would be well-mannered as an unimportant orphan, but rude as a student of The Royal Academy. She should be focused on making connections, unless she somehow knew that her actions would cause me to become interested. 

Or I suppose it is technically possible that Olivia grew tired of acting and decided to be honest, but I seriously doubt that possibility. 

Despite her puzzling motivations it couldn't be denied that the results were impressive. She had managed to become allied with me, an incredible feat, and seemed to be on friendly terms with Lucina- but I suspected that there was something ominous going on there. When ever Lucina was involved things turned out inconvenient for me. And maybe the most concerning was her strange connection to the prince. 

Now that was truly puzzling, the more I thought about it the less it made sense. 

For now I was pretending to be her friend, but how exactly should I use her. Olivia's too involved with my rivals to simply manipulate with just emotions, I could threaten her, but she didn't seem very scared of me...also I don't really l want to hurt her. 

This is quite perplexing, how do I control someone without using fear or violence? And why don't I want to? I suppose for now I should just keep acting friendly, it's pretty fun actually and easy. I just say what I'm really thinking. 

What's most important right now is making her trust me, so I can get more information. I can tell that there's a wall she puts up that won' be easy to get through. 

"Sir Fyodor! Sir Fyodor!" A student who is one of my underlings called out to me. 

I closed the book that I had been pretending to read and stared icily at the student. "What?" 

"It's the crown prince, he disappeared with Ms.Erem!" 

What? So she wasn't joking about that? "Explain." 

The student swallowed nervously before continuing "This morning the prince was seen talking to the commoner, when he apparently started crying. Then they both left school together." 

"Started...crying?" How peculiar, prince Julius was far too cold-blooded for that, and he was alway conscious of his public image. Could this have something to do with his sudden change? And it's involving Olivia too...what should my next move be?

Julius was allied with Lucina before, but obviously didn't like her. Maybe his change in personality could lead to him joining my side. There's the dilemma, should I attempt to save Olivia so she'll owe me at the risk of making Julius upset? 

Olivia is my link to Julius, but...

The best option would be to have someone rescue her with no obvious relation to me. Then to tell Olivia it had been my plan. Still there is some risk involved, I should wait and see how things go. It's important not to jump to conclusions, maybe Olivia will be back at school tomorrow.