[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy":3,"chapter-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-463":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Strongest Student of the Weakest Academy",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1027284,1339,"Chapter 463: The Heavens Shall Fall (IV)","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-463",463,"\u003Cp>I turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thaliel reached me first, which was always how it went.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was tall, with the kind of presence that occupied more space than her physical frame technically required.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hair was black with a depth that didn’t behave quite like normal black, changing at the edges into something closer to the void between stars when the light caught it at certain angles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were a deep, depthless violet that shone when caught by, almost looking like two beautiful pieces of amethyst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her skin was pale in the way that things are pale when light doesn’t reach them often.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wore the academy uniform, and that only seemed to cause her curves to be explicitly shown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was, and I say this with full acknowledgment that the observation is inconvenient, genuinely stunning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emyria beside her was a different kind of stunning entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where Thaliel read as depth, Emyria read as beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hair was the white of something that hasn’t been touched yet, pristine and luminous, falling past her shoulders in a way that seemed to generate its own faint light rather than reflect anyone else’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were a soft, warm gold that shouldn’t have worked alongside that much white but still did somehow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her skin carried a faint luminescence that wasn’t exactly a glow, more like the suggestion of it, the way the air looks just before something is created inside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was slightly shorter than Thaliel and held herself with a composure so complete it read less as personality and more as nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Goddess of the Abyss and the Goddess of Creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing side by side, they looked like the opening and closing of something vast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thaliel and Emyria.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither of them returned the greeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at me the way they always looked at me, which was with an enormous hate etched on their eyes, as if I had truly stolen something precious to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well... I didn’t exactly steal Lunara, but they think I did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where is Lunara?\" Thaliel spoke first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Student council office,\" I replied, barely holding the urge to get the fuck out of here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Competition preparation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thalied nodded slighly at my words, humming thoughtfully while Emyria’s warm gold eyes stayed on me with their usual complete steadiness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And surprisingly, it was Emyria who asked the next question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When are you leaving her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The announcement hall continued its noise around us as I barely registered his words. I mean, who would ask someone to when they would leave her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like, at least give me something precious to make me leave her!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh!!!\" Kael, beside me, stopped breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Tyrian became very interested in a fixed point on the wall to his left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at Emyria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I mean... It’s not like I can leave Lunara. She’d probably follow me to the end of the Divine Realm, but well... I quite like her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...Maybe even sprouted love for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gold eyes didn’t waver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will eventually,\" she pressed on, with the specific confidence of someone who believes they’re stating something inevitable rather than something desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You always leave.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s an interesting thing to know about someone you’ve spoken to a handful of times.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve paid attention to your actions... and I also know about Selindra, who’s been missing for over a year. But it was said that you were the last one seeing her...\" her eyes narrowed slighly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selindra...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know that she’s alive since she gave me her life meter. But I guess... the mission that I gave her to find the Primordial Court’s main base was simply too hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was just taking longer than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the version I was going with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Selindra makes her own choices.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked to the other side and noticed that Thaliel hadn’t moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her depthless violet eyes were on me with the patience of still water, which was considerably more unsettling than open hostility would have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remember that the first time I met her, she tried to duel me for Lunara’s hand. Lunara was with me at that time, and simply outright refused her for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You collect women as trophies!\" Emyria stated, pulling my attention back to her. Her tone had changed, and even gained a colder edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Selindra. The ones at your base. The ones who follow you into things they shouldn’t survive... Lunara will become another one of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lunara is not a trophy- She makes her own decisions about where she stands.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She made that decision before she knew the full picture,\" Thaliel mumbled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First words she’d spoken in a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The full picture...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then she reached into her uniform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What she took out was not something I had been expecting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A stack of photographs, held together loosely, printed on what looked like high-quality divine paper that suggested someone had put genuine effort into the documentation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked at me for exactly one second with those depthless violet eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she threw them at my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWAP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of them, catching the air and spinning outward in every direction, some fluttering to the floor, some sailing past my shoulder, several hitting my chest and face before I could register what they were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Students nearby turned to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caught one and looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian and I, her hand in mine, walking through the capital. Taken from a distance with a good composition, actually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light had been doing something interesting that afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caught another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rose, at the café, was leaning across the table toward me with that small smile she had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lilith. I wasn’t going to describe that one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Christina, her golden hair catching sunlight, her arm through mine, somewhere I didn’t immediately recognize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the spread of photographs now decorating the hallway floor around my feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael had gone completely still beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyrian was looking at the photographs on the floor with the expression of a man counting inwardly and arriving at a number larger than he’d thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Aestrea,\" Kael called out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bent down and picked up one of Rose at the café.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The angle had genuinely caught something good. The way the light came through the window, and the way she was leaning forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I slid it into my breast pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was a good angle,\" I nodded with a faint smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hallway fell into silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael looked at Tyrian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyrian looked at the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The floor had nothing to offer either of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How many?\" Kael asked lightly, with the voice of someone who needed a number to finish processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even sound jealous or accuse me of something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t answer him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thaliel stepped forward, closing the distance between us by half, her voice dropping even colder than it already was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is what Lunara doesn’t know... yet,\" she stated, gesturing at the photographs still scattered across the hallway floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To those words, my lips curled up lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lunara has met all of them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hallway went very quiet in our immediate vicinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thaliel’s violet eyes didn’t move from mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Excuse me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She’s met all of them,\" I repeated, keeping my voice as neutral as ever. \"She knows who they are. She knows that they currently live with me... She knows everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emyria, who had maintained her composure through the entire exchange with the serenity of someone whose authority was literally the concept of creation, blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the most expressive thing I’d ever seen her do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thaliel’s jaw tightened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And she accepted that?!\" Her voice actually got louder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’d have to ask her,\" I smiled, deciding to mock her because of how annoying they truly were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But she’s in the student council office, and you’d be interrupting competition preparation, so I’d wait until after the announcement if I were you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thaliel stared at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A person like you doesn’t deserve her,\" she mumbled almost to herself, but I obviously caught it and quickly replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Probably not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That stopped her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But she disagrees,\" I added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And it’s her opinion that matters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I bent down and picked up one more photograph from the floor. Looked at it briefly. Put it in my pocket with the other one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I straightened, looked at both of them one last time, and turned toward the announcement hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The bracket’s up,\" I said to Kael and Tyrian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let’s go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael stepped over a photograph carefully, as if it might react to being stepped on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tyrian fell into step beside me with the specific silence of someone who had several hundred questions and was deciding which ones were survivable to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...How many?\" he finally asked, as we walked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tyrian.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m asking as someone who considers himself reasonably informed about your life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re not.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clearly!!!\" he uttered with remarkable composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"HOW MANY?!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Seventeen.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Kael and Tyrian stopped at my words, looking at me with the look of someone who practically wanted to commit murder right here and now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"SEVENTEEN?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"SEVENTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN?!!!!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them shouted loudly, gathering the attention of everyone. But since I was already expecting this, I instantly teleported away, leaving the two idiots there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Phew...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, onto this damned competition.\u003C\u002Fp>",1538,"2026-06-03T09:18:17.304Z","2026-06-03T09:18:22.613Z",1,"novelbin.me","49e4f94df1c7b645a051c94fcc406660dc7fabc683074f68b56d71605753c202","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-366","the-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-chapter-365",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-strongest-student-of-the-weakest-academy-cover.jpg"]