Chapter 35: Claire and Maddie
Claire brushed her finger over the application, looked at Mick and nodded, "That's a good point." ”
Mick smiled back, "Thank you, President, for the compliment." ”
"However, since that orc is already a member of the student council, I should have the power to transfer him, right?" Clal still seemed unwilling to admit defeat and said to Mick.
It clearly stipulates that the student president shall not take any personnel changes such as appointment, dismissal, transfer, and expulsion without reason, and if you want to transfer a member of a certain department, you need to make it clear to the minister in writing, and if the minister does not agree, at least ten ministers of the student union need to participate in the voting decision. President, you don't want to go through such a lot of trouble, do you? ”
To be honest, Claire really hasn't memorized these details in detail, and usually has Maddie on the side to remind him, so he doesn't bother to memorize them, but he didn't expect that today he capsized in the gutter and was used to use these rules to kill himself.
"President, I hope you can give us a written explanation and ask the Discipline Department to return Ming to us." Mick walked over to the round table and looked at Krar from afar, with only a look of calm in his eyes.
Claire stared at him for a long time, then nodded, "As you wish." With a stroke of his pen, he wrote a simple written explanation, and then pushed it to Kenneth, who was standing next to him, and said flatly: "If you want to convince me, this is a little bit like this." ”
Kenneth took the note from the table and nodded, "Okay." ”
Brandon was pleased to see this, and walked with Kenneth to Mick.
"Mick, you're so handsome!" Brandon shouted, and Kenneth stood proudly.
"Let's go back to the dorm." Mick blinked, "This time it's thanks to Jasmine and Kevin!" ”
"Okay, let's go back and talk about it." Kenneth beckoned to everyone, and the four of them huddled out the door.
And just as Mick was about to walk out of the president's office, Claire's voice came faintly: "You should know that this is a hot potato, right?" ”
Mick stopped, looked back at Clall and nodded.
"You should know that I have a way to stop you, right?"
Mick nodded again, after all, as the student council president, if Clal was determined not to let go of Ming, then the-for-tat just now would continue, and the final victory would be achieved through the vote of the student council.
So Mick asked, "Then why did the president give up like this?" ”
“…… Because I want to see, how far can you last? Of course, I can't say anything about you. Claire smiled expectantly, but quickly reverted to her usual non-smiling smile and said, "You can go." ”
Mick nodded, then walked out the door, closing the door behind him.
Behind the door, Kraal sat alone in the empty office, took the "Basic Regulations of the Student Union of Lutheran School of Magic" in his hand, and looked through it, and muttered, "It's really a shame......
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After more than an hour, Claire looked up at the owl on the right-hand shelf in the office, and after communicating with him with his mental power, he learned that it was already twenty-one and twenty-four.
Claire pinched her eyebrows tiredly, and when she heard the "grunting" sound of her stomach, she remembered that she hadn't even had time to eat lunch in order to receive Earl Brooke, so she got up and put on her trench coat, and prepared to go back to the dormitory to make something to eat for herself.
As a child of a commoner, even if Krar is now a baron, his style of life is still monotonous and simple, some people say that this is a material pursuit that will be spiritually fulfilled and not unexpected, but those who really know Krall know that he just doesn't know how to enjoy life at all.
Claire walked back to the dormitory, where the word "Ness" was engraved on the door sign. He took out his school registration card from the spatial ring and swiped it on the dragon's head at the door, and the door opened.
But when Krar walked into the house, he smelled an appetizing scent. Claire raised an eyebrow, changed her shoes and walked into the house, and saw Maddie in pink loungewear hurriedly cooking in the kitchen, smelling it, it seemed to be tonkatsu?
Claire took off her trench coat and put it on the back of her chair, but she didn't see any of her roommates, and there were candles and scents lit on the table.
Claire approached the kitchen and leaned against the door, clasped her hands on her chest and asked, "Is it an important day?" ”
Maddie turned her head, her long hair was tied in a ponytail casually, dangling around her waist, full of lazy atmosphere, and her usual capable appearance was completely hidden, looking gentle and amiable.
Maddie looked at the man who was still as calm and heavy as a mountain as usual, raised a helpless smile and pouted, "Dear Elder, it's all at home, don't make me feel like I'm still in the student council, okay?" ”
Claire looked at Maddie's almost coquettish appearance, her heart moved slightly, and her facial expression softened unconsciously, and said, "Did I make you feel depressed?" ”
Maddie pinched the end of the spatula and carefully flipped the four golden fish steaks in the pan, but the back of her right hand accidentally splashed oil spots, so hot that her hand shook like an electric shock, and a small red spot suddenly appeared on the back of her white hand.
"It's obviously a pampered eldest lady, but you have to cook it yourself and taste the bitterness, right?" Seeing this, Claire frowned, a staff appeared in his hand out of thin air, and then he took Maddie's right hand indifferently, and a blue third-order magic array appeared on the top of the staff, only to see that the blue light point surged to Maddie's right hand after passing through the magic array, and then the burn on the back of Maddie's hand healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, which was the third-order magic of the water system - "Restoration Technique".
Maddie blushed but quickly returned to normal, but her face couldn't hide the look of happiness, and she said coquettishly: "Didn't I deliberately want to surprise you?" ”
"I get it, but let me do it next." Claire took the spatula from Maddy's hand and flipped the steaks over one by one without splashing grease.
Maddie stood aside, looking at Claire who was expressionless and dealing with the fish steak in the pot, with a happy look on her face that only a small woman has, although she was very impulsive to reach out and hug Claire's broad waist, but the lessons of countless previous failures made her calm down, just quietly enjoying this moment of tranquility, and her nose was a little sour.
"This is a snow dragon fish that is a specialty of the Geraldine region?" Claire took a closer look at the fish in the pot and asked with some surprise at Maddie.
Maddie smiled and nodded, "I heard that you like fish cuisine very much, so I specially asked someone to bring it from Geraldine Region." But I'm just going to make the most simple fish cutlet, you don't like it, do you? After speaking, he playfully spit out his fragrant tongue.
Claire shook his head when he heard this, and had a new understanding of the tyrannical nature of the eldest lady in front of him. The Arowana is a lake fish endemic to Geraldine, and is named "Snow Arowana" because it only grows in the Snow Dragon Lake. The peculiarity of this fish is that it grows in very cold conditions, and it only takes three months from eggs to adulthood. Spawning in February and July every year, and then adulthood, spawning and dying, the best period of its meat quality is only a short fifteen days, once missed, or the meat is as tender as mud, or old as beef tendon, only in those two seasons of thirty days of the best meat quality, fish meat such as tender veal tenderloin, both the freshness of the fish, but also with the unique sweetness of coolness. This unique taste makes the fish dish of Arowana a favorite of aristocratic banquets, and a single Arowana can often be sold for 5,000 gold coins in the market, which is a top-quality ingredient. The best way to cook it is to simply slice it and eat it raw, while frying is the worst option.
"It's really not a good family, I don't know that oil and salt are expensive. I remember when I was a child working in a nobleman's house, I once secretly tasted their leftover Arowana soup at a nobleman's banquet, and I still remember the taste...... I didn't expect it to be used by you for fish steak today, what a waste. ”
Of course, Maddie knows what kind of past this man from an ordinary and even lowly background has in front of her, although there are still some pasts that she has not even found, but he can get his current status because of his talent, hard work, and even blood and tears, which makes her heart feel sad.
It's just that Maddie is a very smart girl, and she knows that Claire doesn't care about getting sympathy from others at all, so she just feigns anger on her face: "What's wrong? Miss Ben just can't cook, you bite me. ”
"Hehe," Claire let out a low chuckle, glancing at the color of the fish pie, and said to Maddie, "go get the plate, it's time to cook." ”
"Is that all right?" Although there were some doubts, compared to her own poor cooking skills, Maddie naturally chose to trust Clal's judgment, so she quickly took out two plates from the cupboard and handed them to Carral.
Claire serves two fish cutlets to each plate, Maddie carries the tray to the living room, and Claire pours a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet for the two of them.
The two sat opposite each other, then looked at each other and smiled.
Unlike Maddie's natural elegance, Claire looked closer to Kenneth when eating, cut off a piece of fish steak and threw it in his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, fortunately these two Arowana were big enough, otherwise he would have eaten them all in only four bites.
Generally speaking, Claire, who is already a baron, naturally would not show such an indecent appearance in front of others, but now there are only two people, he and Maddie, so naturally there is no need to pay too much attention to it. And Maddie is obviously very satisfied with Clal's attitude towards her, and occasionally looks at Claire with the same eyes as ordinary wives.
Claire wiped her mouth after eliminating a fish steak, then asked Maddie, "Has Earl Brooke returned?" ”
Maddie raised her head, put down the knife and fork in her hand, shook her head, and said, "No, I said that I would observe our academy more." Moreover, when he heard that our sports meeting was about to be held, he seemed to be very interested, and it seemed that he would stay in Luther City for another month or so. ”
Krar frowned and shook her head, "It seems that those nobles no longer take a completely supportive attitude towards us as they used to. ”
Maddie shrugged and said, "After all, in last year's 'Imperial Magic Competition', our academy lost to a little-known small academy in the Western Region, and was squeezed out of the top ten, so it's no wonder they wavered. ”
Claire snorted coldly, her eyes full of confidence, and said, "This year, we will definitely be able to wash away the shame of last year." ”
Maddie smiled and asked, "So confident?" ”
But Kral said no more, and took the rest of the fish into his belly like a whirlwind, then wiped his mouth and said, "You'll know then." ”
Maddie couldn't help but look angry at this trick, and Claire just chuckled and walked upstairs.
"Oh yes, I forgot to bring my clothes with me...... Maddie shook her head helplessly as she looked at Claire's trench coat that had fallen on the back of her chair.