After returning to the real world from the domain, they settled everything, and everyone started walking back to the entrance.
Prince took the monster’s head with him as evidence of such an existence.
Although he didn’t carry it all the way, he simply asked someone else to carry its head.
As Prince and others made their exit from the dungeon, which was supposed to be the C rank dungeon, they saw a female coordinator with greyish eyes and black hair, highlighted with a deep blue color, and some knights standing guard nearby.
It was still the young night of the same day, and they entered.
She was Co-ordinator Lumina. As soon as students saw her, they waved their hands at her, letting her know that they had completed the dungeon raid.
"What took you guys so long?" Co-ordinator Lumina’s eyes ran at the head of the crimson red monster, carried by a student.
Behind her, the knights stiffened, spears creeping up an inch as if the severed head might still lash out.
"No— wait! Why is this monster here?" her expressions quickly twisted.
She took a close look at the monster, as if finding a small clue that would make her believe that the students of the 4th year really took down an S+ rank monster.
Whispers of "S+ rank" spread through the gathered knights and even the ones who hadn’t seen the fight went pale just hearing it.
"Who defeated this monster and how!?" she asked, frowning deeply.
Prince raised his hand and walked to her, maintaining his royal status.
She frowned, stunned that the prince... had actually killed an S+ rank monster who was also famous as the lout prince of the kingdom.
"Lord Prince, did you kill it all by yourself? No, that can’t be possible—"
Prince interrupted her. "Yes! I killed it with the help of three students, Snow, Princess Lacy, and Yella."
"B-but what class B is doing here? They are assigned to different dungeons, so why are they here?" she asked.
"We got trapped inside the dungeon in an infinite illusion, and we don’t know how our dungeons got interconnected with each other," Lacy said.
Yella explained everything necessary in detail to Miss Lumina, the co-ordinator of class A.
[Greed of Dragons unlocked]
He moved closer to her.
Lumina’s hands trembled at her sides, her usual composure nowhere to be found.
Prince let the silence stretch at first, watching the color drain from her face little by little.
It was almost funny, how easily an adult crumbled in front of a teenager the moment they realized exactly how much power that teenager was holding over them.
She said in a low voice so that only he could hear that, "ohh I-I, I’m sorry for the trouble I caused you, Lord Prince. It was my job to check the dungeon. Please don’t report this to the king."
"So you better come to my room tomorrow night, and yeah, use the windows to come inside, unless you’d rather get expelled from the academy, or maybe the empire." He said calmly, behind her ears, in a low voice.
The mage behind the knights created a teleportation gate to the academy.
Everyone entered the teleportation gate. Some students were still afraid of that monster, some were tired, and some, no, not some, but only one student wore a malicious smile, as though something evil were turning over in his mind.
***
Next morning
The next morning, he quickly dressed up and went outside, near the notice board of the academy, to check the results of the previous task assigned to all four classes.
Class C has won task 1.
Class A: 10+ Hours.
Class B: 10+ Hours.
Class C: 2 Hours.
Class D: 7 Hours.
’Hmm... 2 Hours?’
Two hours to clear a C-rank dungeon with a full class, it was totally absurd.
Even in his previous life, Prince would’ve needed longer than that dragging a class of fourth-years behind him.
He turned his back to the notice board and began walking towards the training ground.
There was still plenty of time for the next task, so he decided to do some practice in his free time.
As he walked by, he heard some whispering coming from the latest rumours about the dungeon task.
"Do you know, Lord Prince’s new girlfriend is that traitor’s child, Snow?"
"Is Lord Prince cheating on Elisha?"
"Don’t forget, he is the prince of the empire, he has the power to make his own harem."
"He even dragged the monster’s head back himself, just to flex on the whole academy."
"I heard Snow only got picked for his group because Lord Prince likes playing with Ice."
Yep, he could clearly hear the whispers roaming around.
"Hey, keep your mouth shut, idiots. I can clearly hear that." Prince replied to them. "By the way, the first one was true."
He turned and started walking again till he was stopped by someone calling his name. "Lord Prince, wait."
He stopped near the cafeteria’s door. The voice belonged to Yella, who’d stopped him mid-stride.
"Lord Prince, it is really sad that we weren’t able to win the task," she said.
"Ohh yes, you are right, Miss Yella." He replied.
She leaned closer to him, close enough that her chest rubbed against his. "Why are you speaking so formally to me, Lord prince?"
Prince’s jaw tightened, painfully aware of just how many eyes were on the two of them right now.
In his old life, he would’ve pushed her off without a second thought.
But this time around, letting the rumors run wild might actually work in his favor. ’Let them talk,’ he thought.
Everyone nearby looked confused; they hadn’t expected that she was also a member of his harem.
"Ugh... Yella, everyone’s watching us."
"Do you really care about them? Lord Prince?"
She quickly stepped back and turned her back to Prince. "Ahh right, I’ve got some urgent work to do, see you later." And with that, she flew off.
’Ugh... she’s unexpectedly bossy.’