欲海三姐妹

Chapter 139: Men and Women Are Alike!

Mill heard the commotion outside the dorm room, so she put on her coat and walked out. She saw the familiar trio with sweat on their foreheads and didn’t know what to say. Meanwhile, the trio also looked at her with awkward expressions.

After a minute, Mill broke the silence by greeting the trio, “You’re finally here!”

“Y-Yeah. Here we are.”

Then it fell silent again. It was as if the utterly awkward situation would end the entire world.

This time, Moss broke the silence. “This is dorm B023, right, Mill?”

“Yes, what about you guys?” Mill also felt that something wasn’t right.

“W-We just finished registering our information, and the officer allocated us to dorm B023,” Moss explained.

“Why don’t you set your things over here first?” Mill felt embarrassed when she saw the sweaty boys outside the dorm room. After all, it wasn’t their fault the officer allocated them to the wrong dorm.

“Wait a second. I’ll tell the other two girls we have company.”

“There’s no need. W-We’ll leave our things at the door for now.” Moss was even shyer to enter the dorm when he heard other girls were there. “We’ll go and ask the officer about this later. They must’ve made a mistake.”

“O-Oh, then I’ll go with you.” Mill placed the trio’s belongings at the door and walked out with Moss.

They were familiar with the path this time, so the four quickly arrived at the registration counter.

“Excuse me, sir, may I ask if you’ve allocated us to the wrong dorm?” Baylon said as he handed the information sheet to the square-jawed officer.

The officer looked at the participants’ information and slowly raised his head to coldly reply, “This is correct.”

Alan became impatient as he rushed forward to say, “You put us in the female dorm!”

“Yes, sir, you assigned me to dorm B023 too,” Mill echoed.

“There are indeed males and females in that dorm! We only address you by serial numbers when you get registered, not by names or gender. There will only be names on your graduation certificates.”

“What matters is your strength, not your gender or name!” The square-jawed officer’s words remained frigid, and his expression became unusually stern. He stood upright, like an insurmountable mountain.

“S-So, how are we going to live together?”

“Exactly!”

The other students present also discussed with each other.

“Men and women are the same to me. You’re all rookies in my eyes! You can leave if you can’t accept that! Not everyone has the chance to participate in the elite training camp, but the exit is open for you to leave anytime!” Then the square-jawed officer sat down and continued busying himself by registering more participants’ information.

His cold and harsh words echoed throughout the hall.

“How disrespectful!”

“Indeed, we came here to improve ourselves, but not here to get humiliated. That’s it. I’m leaving!”

“She’s right. I’m leaving too!”

Then the female students carried their luggage and left while the other participants muttered amongst themselves.

Still, the officer did not even raise his head as he sat down. It was as if he had nothing to do with that situation.

Mill listened to the muttering for a while, then she turned around and walked toward the dorm.

“M-Mill…” Moss wanted to say something to her but hesitated.

“Mill isn’t leaving too, right, Moss?” Alan scratched his head.

“What did you say, Alan? Why would Mill leave?” Bass, who had just entered the registration hall, was surprised when he heard Alan’s words.

“Let’s return to the dorm for now.” After that, Moss walked toward the dorm.

“Bass, you should complete your registration. Come to dorm B023 and meet with us after that. We need to take care of some things first,” After saying that, Alan also hurried toward the dorm alongside Moss, leaving Bass with a dumbfounded expression.

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It was lively when they returned to dorm B023. Some of the other participants had already started arguing. Some even packed their luggage and watched the commotion, while others ignored their surroundings and handled their matters.

There was a tall boy with attractive eyes among them who attracted Moss’s gaze. Moss noticed the boy reading without a care in the world even though the dorm was noisy. The boy remained calm and neutral.

Alan saw Mill packing her things, so he went forward to persuade her, “Please reconsider your decision, Mill. Director Elroy fought so hard for us to be here. We’re the only second-year students who have a chance to participate. Won’t it be a pity if you just quit?”

“It’s okay for boys and girls to live together. I know it might be uncomfortable, especially for girls, but won’t you regret coming all the way here and leaving with nothing?” Baylon echoed.

Mill slowed down when she heard Alan and Baylon’s words.

Then Bass ran over after getting registered as he said breathlessly, “Mill, you can’t just leave. You’re throwing away a precious opportunity!”

Bass discovered Mill’s situation during his registration process, and when he heard Alan and Baylon’s persuasive words and immediately rushed over. He felt he needed to make Mill stay by any means necessary.

Suddenly, a six-foot-tall muscular boy wearing a black tank top swaggered over and said to Mill, “Don’t worry, beautiful. Come with me, and I’ll protect you from these bullies.”

The boy noticed Mill ignoring him, so he tried to speak again when a penetrating voice echoed from Moss’s mouth, “She doesn’t need your protection.”

The boy raised his eyebrows and looked at Moss disdainfully. He said coldly, “Oh? A second-year brat saying such things around here? What a joke!”

The boy instantly swung at Moss as soon as he finished speaking. The punch was so fast that Alan couldn’t even react. The boy thought he was about to succeed when his fist hit a transparent shield.

“You’re a knight?!” The boy cried out. He was about to throw another punch when a faint voice sounded from the sidelines, “That’s enough, Mark. Let’s take a walk.”

Then the boy, reading his book, stood up with the book in his hand. He called Mark and glared at Moss before quickly leaving with Mark.

“Are you okay, Moss?” Alan asked after he collected his thoughts.

“I’m fine.” Moss withdrew his shield.

However, he knew from the cracks on the shield that Mark was formidable.

‘It seems the training camp is indeed full of hidden talents,’ Moss thought. Then he looked at Mill and asked, “Mill, are you still going to quit?”

Mill answered with a question, “Will you protect me?”

“Of course.” Moss didn’t hesitate.

“Then you can sleep on my lower bunk,” Mill shyly said as she turned back around to unpack.

Moss nodded, then looked at Alan and the others and said, “Let’s all sleep in the bunks around Mill.”

Everyone nodded and quickly unpacked their luggage. Then Moss said, “Let’s go and walk around to understand our environment better.”

The Guardians responded and followed their captain out of the dorm. However, the rest of the participants in the dorm started discussing with each other.

“A second-year knight is participating too? Are the training camp’s standards that low?”

“It would’ve been difficult for a knight to get a spot in the training camp, right?”

“That move just now was so cool! I want him to protect me too!” One of the third-year female participants even became infatuated with Moss.