<h4>Chapter 243: I like you.</h4>


    He quickly put on his clothes and dashed towards the canteen, but on entering, the students in the area stood up and began pping. In no time, he was receiving a standing ovation from all the students in the canteen.


    ''What the hell is going on here?'' With his mind focused on pleasing his belly, ke was stunned and confused by the reaction of the students.


    [It is quite surprising to see even the nobles apuding your performance.] The system said.


    ke had most likely saved a friend or someone rted to the nobles. But knowing how much hate they had formoners, he hadn''t expected them to apud him.


    ''So how am I to react?'' ke couldn''t help but ask because he was feeling awkward just standing and doing nothing as the students pped.


    (AN: Have you ever been in such a situation and you end up pping for yourself. Lol.)


    [I don''t know. It isn''t as if you care about them, but make sure not to p for yourself.] The system said.


    ''Thank the heavens you said that on time cause I was this close to doing it.'' ke thought as he used the system''s detection skill to locate Luciano and the rest.


    By the time ke had gotten to the group''s table, the students were done pping and had continued with their meals.


    "What''s going on guys…" Just as ke greeted his friends, Tessie stood up and gave him a tight hug.


    ''What the hell is wrong with everybody today?'' ke thought.


    [How will you react when the person you like risked her life and was unconscious for hours?] The system shook its head.


    "You don''t have to worry, I am fine now." ke gave in to the hug and wrapped his hands around her.


    After a few seconds, ke saw she had no ns of letting and their actions were getting a lot of attention. "Well, I won''t be alright if I don''t get to eat."


    His words snapped her out of her reverie, and on seeing the number of students that had their eyes on them, her face turned beet-red.


    ''Yup, she didn''t think of how people will react before acting.'' ke chuckled when he saw Tessie''s reaction.


    "How are you all doing?" ke asked as he took a seat and began ordering dinner.


    "We are the ones meant to be asking that question." Luciano said.


    "Apart from my grumbling stomach, I am fine." ke said with a smile as he began digging into his ale-zed beef.


    "Are you sure because mana exhaustion is quite serious?" Luciano asked because during all the fights he had noticed that ke was using almost twice the mana of a student.


    He was worried because once one exhausted the store mana in his stars and continued to cast spells. They would be draining energy from their life essence to cast spells and that would lead toplications that might even cripple one''s cultivation.


    "Yeah, I am sure. I have been through worse so you don''t have to worry." ke said with a stuffed mouth.


    The reason he was surprised when he found out that he was knocked out for 6 hours, was because there had been multiple asions where he was unconscious for almost an entire day.


    Most of it urred when he was in the underground facility. There, he had been pushing both his mental and mana capacity to the limit.


    The reason why he had such a grievous headache was that he had used mind boost for a long and was now experiencing the bacsh.


    That was why Castiel and Brian weren''t that worried about him because he had really been through worse.


    "So.. who won the survival exercise and why haven''t I received any points?" For his performance in the exercise, ke was meant to receive a chunk of exchange points. But when he checked his exchange points were still the same.


    "ording to principal Lovren, you were the MVP of the test. So you have to regain consciousness before anything happens." Castiel exined.


    At that moment ke who had his head down stopped eating and looked up. "He said that?" ke asked in a shocked expression.


    "Yeah." Castiel nodded.


    "That is new…" ke said as he continued eating.


    …


    After dinner, the group had chatted for some time before they all went to their rooms.


    When ke got to the corridor where his room was located, he saw Cami and it seemed she was waiting for something.


    "Were you waiting for me?" ke was confused because practically nobody hade looking for him in his room. And even if there was someone Cami was way done in the list.


    "Yes." Cami nodded.


    "Alright. So how can I be of help?" ke asked.


    "I came to thank you for saving me and my brother." Cami said.


    "Serhan is your brother?" ke was shocked.


    [Here is an image of the 2nd year rank 1.] The system reyed a memory of Serhan. From the time Serhan had tried to cause trouble till when they attacked him with lightning reinforcement active.


    ''Wow, I didn''t get the chance to notice the resemnce.'' ke thought.


    "Yes, he is and I am here to thank you on both our behalfs." Cami bowed.


    "Let''s take a walk before passersby begin thinking of something else." With that ke and Cami began walking down the long corridor.


    "You know I don''t care if you thank me or not. Also, by now you should know that I am not na?ve and your tricks can''t work on me." ke said. "So, why are you apologizing?"


    "Because it is the right thing to do." Cami answered, but from ke''s expression he sure wasn''t buying it.


    "Alright, I will say it. For the fact that even though the nobles are against you, and you still risked your life to save them means you don''t deserve the injustice from the nobles." Cami said. "This is why I want to sincerely apologize for every time I have wronged you or your friends."


    "Finally…" At this point, Cami paused and even stood still. "I… I… like you."