Becoming Number One with Confession Attacks - Chapter 56

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#56

Until now, Aiden had tormented Sonnet quite a lot. He would suddenly appear when she was happy and make her depressed, and suddenly appear when she was unhappy to make her even more miserable.

Even now when she was almost forgetting him, Aiden still tormented her. Now even blocking her dreams.

Sonnet clenched her trembling hands into fists. Tears suddenly welled up, but she bit her lips and held them back.

Professor Aldoren let out a light sigh and opened his mouth.

“Think it over carefully. The deadline is in two days.”

The moment the professor turned around, Sonnet shouted.

“I’ll go.”

The professor looked back at Sonnet with a puzzled expression. Gellen also had a surprised face.

Sonnet didn’t care about their gazes and spoke with emphasis on each word.

“Because I can’t give up on my dream.”

She had always wanted to beat the nobles. Now Sonnet wanted to throw away her inferiority complex and live peacefully. To do that, she had to become a special member of the academic society.

Because then she would have equal status with the nobles. Once that happened, nobles would no longer be able to look down on Sonnet.

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The First Kingdom Army garrison was located in the center of the city. It was close to downtown, and Gellen was already excited and couldn’t take his eyes off the carriage window.

“Wow, I don’t think we’ve ever been this close to downtown before.”

Sonnet looked around outside the carriage window and then leaned back. When she thought about it quietly, she couldn’t give up all opportunities just because Aiden was there.

As Professor Aldoren said, the dungeon temple was far from the central headquarters, and it didn’t seem like Aiden, the commander, would pay any attention to it at all.

Then Gellen turned to look at Sonnet with a lively face.

“Did you happen to see today’s newspaper?”

“No.”

Sonnet hadn’t read newspapers for quite a while because Aiden appeared whenever she opened them.

Gellen smiled brightly and continued speaking.

“Aiden has now been appointed as the First Kingdom Army commander.”

Sonnet nodded indifferently. Anyway, Aiden being appointed as the First Kingdom Army commander was a natural course of events.

‘The person at the very top wouldn’t bother with something like a mere dungeon temple.’

Even if he did care, someone below him would handle it. Besides, there was no reason for the commander to personally appear in front of the dungeon temple.

If he came, his subordinates would come out to guide or speak. Until now, Sonnet’s research hadn’t been particularly welcome to high-ranking officers.

To them, it was bothersome work and unwelcome guests.

So Aiden wouldn’t try to meet the research team over trivial matters or show interest.

Thinking this way, Sonnet felt relieved. Most of all, she was glad she didn’t miss the opportunity.

The carriage ran through the bustling downtown roads and slowly came to a stop. Gellen still couldn’t take his eyes off the carriage window and opened his mouth.

“It’s definitely large in scale since it’s the First Kingdom Army garrison.”

Sonnet leaned forward slightly to look outside the carriage window. As Gellen said, the iron gates were almost triple-layered, and soldiers with guns were patrolling and standing guard all around.

At a glance, the security was tight. As Sonnet was watching them for a moment, the iron gate beside them opened wide. Shortly after, a black carriage roughly entered through the gate.

Unlike Sonnet’s carriage which had to wait, it moved at quite a fast speed. All the soldiers around turned their bodies and saluted the carriage. It seemed to be a carriage carrying someone quite high-ranking.

When the carriage disappeared, they straightened up and closed the gate. Then the middle door of the carriage opened.

“Excuse me, they say there’s a problem.”

Gellen immediately spoke toward the middle door of the carriage.

“Didn’t we already submit the documents they’re asking for?”

“They say several are missing. Especially they say the researcher certificate is needed…”

“The certificate should have been included in the documents we already submitted, right? And…”

Gellen stopped speaking and looked at Sonnet.

“Senior, I’ll go out and check for a moment.”

Sonnet nodded. Sometimes this happened. Especially in military facilities with strict access control, they were quite picky.

Sonnet wrapped herself in the blanket that was on the seat due to the chilly cold. Wondering how the situation would turn out, she looked outside the window and saw Gellen explaining something earnestly as if frustrated.

The soldier in military uniform showed no change in expression. Gellen explained while waving his hands widely by himself, and several soldiers came to listen to his words.

Even though Gellen explained with large gestures, the situation didn’t change even after 20 minutes passed. Finally, Sonnet wrapped herself tightly in the blanket and stepped out of the carriage.

“So we already submitted them, I’m telling you! And the researcher certificate is only required when the school keeps documents in storage, and we can actually prove it with this that we have.”

Gellen showed the square nameplate he was wearing on his pants. It had the kingdom’s seal stamped on it and was written in ancient language saying Royal Ancient Research Institute.

One of the soldiers said coldly.

“Even with the kingdom’s seal stamped on it, it hasn’t been confirmed yet, so…”

“We are researchers under Professor Aldoren.”

The gazes that had been directed at Gellen poured toward Sonnet. Sonnet continued speaking without any change in expression.

“Should I bring Professor Aldoren here now?”

The soldiers looked at each other with flustered faces, reading the situation. Professor Aldoren had quite a lot of connections with the royal family and held the honor of being able to enter anywhere in the kingdom. Of course, places like this were no exception.

As the soldiers only looked at each other, Sonnet said to Gellen.

“Gellen, get in the carriage quickly. We need to bring Professor Aldoren.”

As Gellen was about to get in the carriage, a soldier quickly said.

“You can just go in.”

Sonnet asked with a puzzled expression.

“Didn’t you say it wasn’t enough even if we submitted our researcher certificates?”

“No. You’ve already proven everything you need to, so you can go in.”

Sonnet got in the carriage. As Gellen also quickly climbed up, the carriage that had been stopped for a long time began to move. Gellen looked at Sonnet with a bright smile.

“Senior, I didn’t know it would be this convenient to mention the professor’s name.”

“Don’t use it often, just occasionally in times like this.”

“Yes.”

Unlike the expressionless Sonnet, Gellen gazed out the carriage window with a face full of smiles. After passing the huge iron wall, a wide open space appeared along with the headquarters building.

The headquarters building was a dignified square building with a notably well-ordered garden in front.

Since it was winter, the green grass wasn’t visible, but the small trees around were neatly trimmed without any protruding parts.

In the center of the building, the flag symbolizing the First Kingdom Army and the flag symbolizing the Royal Family hung side by side, and the large building created quite an intimidating atmosphere.

Gellen looked up in admiration.

“Wow, the First Kingdom Army really is different.”

Military units were usually located near cliffs with caves, so they were quite closely connected to natural terrain.

The military units she had visited before were small local garrisons, so they weren’t very large and were modest.

Sonnet was also looking with curiosity when people in military uniforms passed by around them.

“I want to go to headquarters now. Would he have been considerate if it were the Princess?”

“The commander doesn’t seem to like the Princess that much either.”

“Ah, how do we please the commander? Since he just arrived, I really don’t know what he likes.”

They looked gloomy as if they had a lot of worries. As Sonnet was watching them intently, Gellen called her.

“Senior, don’t we need to make visitor passes? There seemed to be a gate on the dungeon temple side too.”

Sonnet nodded. While they were lucky to get in this far, they couldn’t do this every day.

Since visitor passes had to be made at headquarters anyway, Sonnet entered the building.

Inside the building was warm. It was so cozy that the cold air was forgotten, and people were busily coming and going in the large lobby.

Gellen looked around curiously and then spoke as if he had discovered something.

“Senior, isn’t that person the commander?”

Sonnet was momentarily startled and turned around. Aiden was just coming down the stairs. His tall height and black uniform suited him better than anyone.

Many people followed around him, and Aiden had a cold face that felt indifferent yet like a wall.

Sonnet wondered anew if that was Aiden’s true appearance.

The memories from Rosefield now felt truly like a dream.

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