"Why is this getting more and more ridiculous, hey..."
"No no no, both you and Miss Rossweise are smart people. Even with a relationship expert, you might not tell the truth—"
Leon closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Vice Principal, that's enough!"
He finally couldn't help but interrupt the vice principal's immersive analysis.
If he kept deducing like this, by tomorrow Leon would be filing for divorce with Rossweise.
The old man adjusted his single-frame glasses, expression still grave, "Mr. Leon, you're also very eager to save your marriage with Miss Rossweise, right?"
Faced with the vice principal's endless questioning, Leon suddenly felt a surge of fire in his heart.
This fire shot straight to his skull, "No, Vice Principal, my wife and I are doing just fine."
"Stop lying to me, Mr. Leon. I can see it. You and Rossweise already—"
"I'll prove it to you right now!"
"Eh?"
With that, Leon bypassed the vice principal, pushed open the cubicle door, and strode toward Rossweise who was still waiting in the hall.
Seeing Leon coming at her with such momentum, Rossweise thought she must have said something earlier that upset him again.
"Hey... Leon, what are you doing? If you have something to say, say it—mm? Mmm mmm!"
Under the stunned and bewildered gazes of the surrounding parents and the vice principal, Leon wrapped his arm around Rossweise's waist and kissed her soft lips without hesitation.
Their lips met, entangled with deep emotion.
Rossweise was stunned and didn't react at first, giving Leon's arm a couple of symbolic pats.
But she quickly sank into this sudden kiss.
Even though she didn't know what was going on… who could refuse the sudden manic kiss of a man in a frenzy?
"What happened? What's going on? Since when is this part of the family interview?"
"Wow... isn't that the dragon tribe hero Casmodeous and his wife? As loving as the legends say!"
"Indecent! Indecent! Quick, call the Disciplinary Committee!"
"Quiet, the Disciplinary Committee is shipping them too."
"..."
The kiss didn't last long.
Leon quickly let go of Rossweise.
A flush spread across the beauty's delicate face. After recovering slightly, she said in a daze, "W-what happened? What's going on?"
"He kept saying our marriage was in crisis."
"...And then?"
"Then I had to prove to him that our marriage... wait... has no problem at all!"
Rossweise blinked, then chuckled in anger and poked Leon's chest, "You impulsive idiot... doing this just ruined all the performance we just put on in the interview..."
A now calm Leon also realized belatedly and quickly let go of her waist.
But before he could explain, they heard the vice principal shouting in delight behind them,
"My shipped couple, has revived!"
———
Outside the school building, Leon and Rossweise sat on a bench.
Rossweise held the orange-flavored ice cream Leon had just bought her, looking down at the tips of her shoes and smiling softly,
"The vice principal said that little episode just now wouldn't affect our interview score, so... our 'no public death' plan still succeeded."
Leon looked up, watching the passing parents.
Everyone was talking about that crazy kiss he had just done inside the school building.
"Did it really succeed... why do I feel like everyone's talking about us even more?"
"Then who do you think caused all that attention with a moment of impulsiveness?"
"Sigh..."
'Life's tough,' Leon sighed.
The queen raised her hand and patted his shoulder, "It's fine, you're only in your twenties. Being impulsive is normal. When you reach my age, you'll be calm."
"When I reach your age, that won't be calmness, that'll be dead calm," Leon said, "Like ashes sinking to the bottom."
Rossweise lightly bumped him, "Hey, don't talk nonsense."
Leon smiled helplessly, "Well, anyway, our interview score landed right where we needed, so we don't have to worry about dying socially again at the entrance ceremony."
Rossweise nodded, "Mm, as long as the girls perform normally, there'll be no problem."
The couple finally let go of their worries—
But... can they really let go?
———
At the same time, in the hatchling testing room, a certain pink-haired girl had already found the next huge drama to enjoy.
———
Twenty minutes ago, the first subject of the hatchling entrance test ended. There are still four subjects to go.
Little Light sat in the back of the classroom, looking at the little examinees of various races, thinking about how to find some fun in such a serious test setting.
Just then, Luna walked up to her.
"Little Light."
"What's up, Second Sister?"
"Are you feeling unwell?", Luna asked seriously.
Little Light blinked and shook her head, "Nope, Second Sister, why do you ask?"
"During the test, I saw you lying on the table resting for half the time. Isn't that because you're not feeling well?"
"Ah, that... it wasn't half the time, that's exaggerating. At most a quarter~"
Seeing her little sister could still joke around, Luna wasn't too worried.
But she still reminded, "If you're not feeling well, be sure to tell the proctor teacher right away."
"Mm mm, got it, Second Sister."
Actually, Little Light wasn't slacking off on purpose in the exam. She was doing a "big thing"— Score Control.
As the name implies, score control means controlling your score within a desired range.
It's usually something done by bored top students to show off.
But Little Light wasn't doing it to show off, she simply wanted to place herself in the "middle" range.
Everyone knows, if you want to watch drama, no matter the field, you absolutely cannot be the one in first place.
Because all attention will be on the team's "leader".
And the more attention you get, the higher the chance of embarrassment, and the deeper the social death.
Little Light's goal was to "watch the drama," not "become the drama."
So some parts of her answer sheet were just filled with random stuff, just to lower her score and avoid becoming the spotlighted "first place."
On the other hand, her senior and biological sister Noah was first in everything, and as her younger sister, if she also became a top regular, people would definitely talk about her more than they talk about Noah.
Little Light didn't know what her second sister thought, but personally, she didn't want to be talked about all the time.
So controlling her score a bit was very necessary.
And she had already calculated in advance.
Even if her parents overturned the interview table and got a super~ low score on that side, it wouldn't matter. Her controlled test score would still be enough to pass the entrance exam.
Then, once she walked into the classroom with her little backpack, she could immediately lock onto the class's brightest "leader", the source of all drama would deliver itself to her door.
'I really am a silver dragon born to manage fun,' Aurora thought to herself.
But she didn't share this idea with her second sister.
Not to mention whether Luna would understand her drama-lover mentality, Luna joined the academy to catch up to Big Sister Noah's footsteps, and to prevent other girls from snatching Big Sis, so controlling scores was probably not something she'd do.
Anyway, Little Light's score control was going smoothly. As long as she held back a little more, she'd probably end up with a mid-tier result.
"This year's test questions are really hard."
"Yeah, I had no clue on so many questions, just wrote randomly."
"I heard from older students of our race that this year's test is definitely harder than previous years."
"Eh? Why?"
"No idea... maybe the academy wants more talented hatchlings."
"..."
The other hatchlings were discussing how hard the exam was.
Luna and Little Light happened to hear their conversation.
"I also felt the questions were hard this time," said Luna.
Little Light nodded in agreement, "Yeah, for sure."
That was true.
Watching drama was one thing, but Little Light still answered seriously. Only by doing so could she make sure the questions she answered were correct.
Their dad's previous test drills were not as hard as what they just did.
Many questions were even totally different types from before, requiring the child's own understanding of magic and knowledge to answer, really testing independent thinking.
Little Light thought only she found the questions hard, but turns out everyone felt the same.
"But Dad taught us really well. I answered everything, including the ones I'd never seen before. I'm not sure I got them all right, but at least I found the basic approach," said Luna.
Little Light gave her a thumbs up.
She trusted her second sister's ability.
Although most of the time, her second sister appeared as a "chill mascot," Little Light had realized long ago. Luna wasn't just chilling randomly. She only slacked off after finishing all her tasks.
As for why she always looked like she was slacking, it's simple: she finished everything really fast.
The law of work-rest balance.
"This time I definitely won't score high. Ah, it's over, no way we'll be rated as this year's model family!"
"It's okay, it's okay. Passing the test is enough. I, for one, don't really care about being a model family."
"Thinking back to the past three years' model families, all of them were top-notch. Especially that senior from three years ago, Noah K. Melkvei, they say she still gets full marks in every subject."
"..."
The conversation shifted from test difficulty to model families.
Little Light perked her ears and listened attentively.
"Second Sister, what's a model family?"
"Oh, model family? Every year, Saint Heath Academy holds two entrance tests, and each one selects a highest scoring model family."
Luna crossed her arms, tail swaying behind her, ahoge bouncing on her head, and proudly said, "Big Sis and Mom and Dad got first in both the written and interview back then, and were named the model family that year."
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