Conquering The Game's World

93  Mira's Curiosity!

When Luis opened his eyes, he found himself back inside the Dive Capsule.

'These two hours felt so long...'

Heaving a sigh, when he came out of the capsule. He saw the staff who was managing the capsules in his row before, looking at him with a wide smile.

"Congratulations! Candidate Luis!"

"Thanks," Luis replied with a polite smile. Then looked at the empty capsules around him. 'It seems the others have already left.' n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

When he saw Luis looking around, the staff member immediately explained. "The eliminated candidates have already been escorted out."

"You should also head out. Someone will be there to escort you to the stage at the exit of the hall."

"I see, thanks."

Giving a slight nod to the staff member, Luis left towards the exit of the hall.

Passing by the rows of empty Dive Capsules, when Luis arrived near the exit of the hall, he saw a familiar figure walking a few meters in front of him.

This person was none other than Alicia, who came out of her dive capsule just a few seconds before him.

When Alicia heard the sound of footsteps behind her, she turned back and wasn't surprised that it was Luis who was walking a few steps behind her.

Her feet stopped as she continued staring at him with a questioning look. But in reply, Luis just shrugged his shoulders with a smile.

Looking at his reaction, Alicia was speechless. She placed her right palm on her forehead and then shook her head while sighing helplessly.

Watching her reaction, Luis just smiled and said, "Let's talk about it later."

"Hmm-mn," Alicia nodded understandingly and started walking together with him.

No further words were exchanged between them as they exited the hall together.

---

"Hello, and Congratulations! You two. For being the first and second-ranking candidates in this year's entrance test."

"I am Mira, a second-year student of the Oracle Academy, and from now on I'll be your senior. Nice to meet you!"

Just when Luis and Alicia came out of the hall, they were greeted by an enthusiastic senior. This cute senior with big eyes seemed very excited for some reason.

Luis gave a polite smile and said. "Hello, Senior! It's a pleasure to meet you."

Alicia also nodded with a plain expression and said, "Glad to make your acquaintance."

Mira nodded while switching glances between the two with obvious curiosity. "I am the one tasked with escorting you two to the stage. So follow me."

Luis and Alicia also noticed her behaviour, but they didn't say anything about it.

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As the three of them were walking together in the long corridor silently. Mira continued glancing at the two of them, then finally she couldn't hold back her curiosity and decided to ask.

"Junior Luis!"

"Yes, senior?"

"You can just call me Mira." Mira smiled while glancing at Alicia, observing her reaction.

"Senior Mira." Luis noticed her weird actions, which made him wonder what was up with her.

Mira pouted, seeing that Luis was so stubborn, but then her eyes glanced at Alicia beside her and a knowing smile appeared on her face.

Getting close to Luis, she asked in a low voice.

"What is your relationship with Junior Alicia?"

Although she talked in whispers, it was loud enough for all of them to hear clearly. Even Alicia looked over, wondering why she would ask that.

Luis didn't answer and asked with a puzzled face. "Why is Senior Mira interested?"

"Just tell me!" Mira said with a stubborn look. Her expression said that she wouldn't stop asking until she got the answer.

Luis had a feeling that Mira was one troublesome senior. He sighed and answered after a few seconds.

"... Well, we are engaged."

"Really?!" Surprising both Luis and Alicia. Mira let out a loud exclamation.

Then she observed Alicia with a gossipy look and mumbled.

"So she is 'that' fiancee you were talking about. Huh."

*Sigh*

"You really can't tell people from their looks." Mira sighed, thinking that looks can be deceiving.

Alicia ignored Mira's rude remarks and focused her attention on her former sentence.

'Did he say something about me? And wasn't Mira meeting him for the first time now?'

She immediately turned to look at Luis with a questioning gaze.

Luis was also confused for a moment, wondering, 'What is she talking about?' but then he remembered something and gulped nervously, 'No way, it can't be, right?'

With a bad feeling in his heart, he asked while hoping that his assumption was incorrect.

"Um, Senior Mira, isn't this the first time we have met? When did I ever talk to you about Alicia?"

Mira tilted her head cutely, then with a clap of her hands, she exclaimed, "Oh, how rude of me! Did I say that out loud?!"

Seeing Luis and Alicia nod in unison. Mira's face blushed in shame as she looked at Alicia and apologised sincerely. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that."

Alicia shook her head indifferently and said, "It's fine. I'm not bothered. Just answer Luis' question."

She is well aware of her personality and knows that other people don't have good opinions regarding it. But she doesn't really care about the opinions of some unimportant people.

As long as the people she cares about don't hate her. It doesn't matter to her what the outsiders think of her.

...

Mira was still a little embarrassed, but seeing that Alicia wasn't angry at her. Her embarrassment eased a little.

Then, as Alicia asked, she answered Luis' question.

"We are indeed meeting for the first time. But I saw your performance on the screen. It was amazing."

Luis had a wry smile on his face as his guess became even more certain. Sure enough, the next moment Mira said.

"I am talking about your conversation with Prince Thomas before you accidentally eliminated him."

"When you told him and the two princesses about your fiancee. I got curious if junior Alicia is the one you were talking about and it seems like I guessed right."

Alicia was very curious about what she meant by him accidentally eliminating that bastard's brother.

But she understood that since those people were involved, something must have happened during the test that she was unaware of.

Creation is hard, cheer me up!

Dakshay