I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 97

Cecilia and Alice got off the shared carriage and stepped onto the busiest main street they could find.

The male student who had held the carriage for them waved his hand repeatedly even from afar, leaving Alice with nothing but the words “Please take care of it” over and over again.

While holding the carriage, the young man briefly introduced himself. He was one of the commoner students selected as a scholarship recipient at the academy.

He had earned his spot with excellent grades and a full scholarship, but he was already resigning himself to the discrimination and violence from noble-born students.

‘Then Cecilia stepped forward first. She suggested we report this together. I… hadn’t even considered doing something like that.’

The book radiating red light nestled inside a small bag—had it always been this heavy? Alice clutched the bag tightly against her chest, feeling its significant weight.

“Were you returning from an outing?”

“I was just coming back from visiting my father at the prison tower.”

Perhaps thanks to Liwena and the influence of their family elders, their visits to Rosen’s people—despite being falsely accused of treason—had been smoothly permitted.

While reflecting quietly on her conversation with her father, Cecilia noticed that Alice had remained unusually downcast.

Perhaps there was some pressing reason behind Alice’s choice to wander the streets disguised as a man.

Cecilia recalled the open discrimination against female students at the military academy.

Some professors bluntly told them that since they’d never be admitted into the Imperial Royal Guard anyway, they shouldn’t even think of intimidating others—claiming it was only fitting for them to merely serve tea to high-ranking officers.

No one in this world listens to women who cross established boundaries. Those who dare to challenge become “overbearing women,” and those who succeed are branded as “ruthless women.”

Maybe Alice’s decision to walk the streets as Alan stemmed from the same reasoning. Cecilia offered Alice a reassuring smile.

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