Although half of her blood was commoner, her magic skills must have humiliated Lilith. The newspapers were always full of stories about her bullying her half-sister and causing trouble.
"Maria!" she shouted as her maid, standing frozen beside her, looked at her startled. "Get the cabin attendant in here at once and throw this insolent woman out of here!"
She was shaking so much with anger that her jaw was clenched from clenching her teeth and the veins on her face were bulging. When her maid immediately nodded and rushed out, I looked at her, keeping my face calm.
"I've never seen anyone as arrogant as you!" she laughed in anger. "No one has ever dared to speak to me like that before."
"It must hurt to hear the truth from a stranger."
"You-"
"But Lady Cloeden," I spoke coldly, and she looked at me, startled as she felt the horrifying aura emanating from me. "Acting like a child and hurting those around you will not erase your unskilled and incompetent behavior. It will only drag you deeper into the mire than you already are."
Although the words I said calmly were harsh, I meant them. Although people saw her as the symbol of evil, she was only eighteen years old and had a long future ahead of her. She could change and build a new path for herself. As long as she realised her mistakes and regretted them, she would have another chance.
I don't know if she felt the sincerity in my words, but she averted her eyes and remained silent. I thought she would continue to insult me, but this silence was quite good.
***
As I continued to read the newspaper on the train traveling in silence, Lilith Cloeden cleared her throat and my gaze turned to her.
"By the way, where are you going?" she asked with a shameless face, and she must have been frightened by my cold gaze, for she quickly continued. "Can't I wonder where the shameless passenger who continues to sit in my cabin has gone?"
'Look at this shameless brat! The brat who just made a fuss about me leaving the cabin is now trying to chat with me.'
"I'm going to Luthenberg," I said in an apathetic voice as I picked up the newspaper and held it up to cover my face.
"I'm going to the Arcane Magic Academy too," she continued in a flurry when I looked at her over the newspaper.
"After all, I come from a family full of magicians."
The Greatest Magic Academy of the Empire and Continent <Arcane>.
Arcane Magic Academy accepted students with magical talent at the age of fifteen and gave them a seven-year education. It was like a combination of high school and university.
It was a breeding ground for the future, where all kinds of wonderful children from all over the continent gathered and carved the jade that would turn the world into jewels.
Of course, the students gathered there were only the most talented children, and the teachers who taught them were carefully selected accordingly. Although she had no talent for magic, there were others like her who entered the academy because of their money and family status. However, after a while, such people would fail the exams and be expelled from the academy. It was clear that the girl in front of me would also experience this future.
Because there was no way they would allow an incompetent like her to graduate from the academy. Even though the Duchy of Cloeden's sponsorship of the academy was the reason for this, if she did not prove herself, she would be expelled from the academy.
"By the way, what do you think of the Kingdom of Zackar?"
I was surprised that the girl in front of me suddenly changed the subject again, and why was she trying to bring up an irrelevant topic again?
"I don't understand what you mean by that question, Lady Cloeden?"
"The civil war is finally over and Princess Heylina, who was responsible for it all, has been executed."
"So?"
‘I don't understand what you're trying to get at.'
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