“Li is my fiancée! It’s unfair that only Li gets to start her own extracurricular activity!”

The Crown Prince shouted his self-indulgent complaints from the center of the classroom.

“Precisely because I’m Li’s fiancé, I must establish my own extracurricular activity!”

Red nodded vigorously, driven purely by momentum.

“No, rather I myself should create an independent extracurricular acti—baaaoo!”

With a strange cry, the Crown Prince’s body spun in a spiral through the air.

Everyone in the classroom thought the same thing.

‘She’s done it now.’

The culprit was not Li, but the Saint.

The Saint had trained at the Temple for seven years.

During that time, she had also been taught martial arts as a means of self-defense.

In other words, she was a monk of the martial type.

Slowly releasing her stance, she sharply pointed a finger.

“Stop picking on Li every single time! It’s unsightly! You’re the Crown Prince, so act like it and carry yourself properly!”

“Th-That’s disrespectful!”

Brown stole Red’s usual line.

“Shut it! You’re supposed to be the ones advising him!”

It was perfectly reasonable.

That such words would come from the Saint’s mouth left the classroom stunned.

The silence that fell over the room was shattered, as always, by Li.

“Wait! You just said Li, didn’t you? Li!”

Li grabbed the Saint’s hand with sparkling eyes.

“Huh? Huh?”

“Once more, please! Go on, call me Li.”

“Huh? Li? Is that fine?”

“Kyyaaaaa!” Li hopped in delight.

“She called me Li! She called me Li!”

Watching Li rejoice, the Saint let out a sigh.

“You’ve got it rough too, huh. Fine, I’ll call you Li. B-But in exchange! You call me E-Erika.”

“Eee-Erika?”

Li tilted her head cutely and for a moment the Saint forgot to breathe.

“E-Erika! Not Saint, Erika! Got it?”

“Yes. It’s a pleasure, Erika.”

Li smiled brilliantly.

The destructive force of that smile made the Saint feel as though she had coughed up blood.

“S-So cute…”

Alberta did not miss that murmur.

She slipped close to the Saint and whispered softly.

“Welcome to this side.”

“Th-That’s not it! It’s not like that at all!”

“Hehe.” Alberta gave a fearless smile.

“That’s quite alright, Saint—no, Erika. Please call me Ally.”

Following Alberta’s lead, Patricia stepped closer.

“Me too! I’ll call you Erika, so call me Patty.”

“Fine. But you two should call her Li as well.”

“That’s impossible!”

Their voices overlapped again.

They would not waver.

“Li-sama is Li-sama. We cannot possibly drop the honorific now.”

“She is Li Onee-sama!”

The Crown Prince and his group had been completely forgotten.

Then the male instructor’s voice rang out.

“Settle down. Extracurricular activities aren’t about winning or losing. Once you’ve got the numbers, file the application.”

“Sir, may we take His Highness to the infirmary?”

At Blue’s request, the instructor nodded and the entourage escorted the Crown Prince out of the classroom.

“You’re making a big deal out of it…”

The Saint muttered irritably.

She had merely forgotten to hold back a little.

With healing magic, he would recover quickly.

Still, she worried it might cause trouble for her adoptive father or the Temple.

“It will be fine, Erika. I have a small connection.”

Li sensed the Saint’s unease and offered reassurance.

More precisely, she had already prepared to do so.

Proof of that was the small shikigami bird perched on her shoulder, summoned in the dungeon.

She would simply send the bird to inform her father of the situation.

After that, the adults could decide what to do.