Under Sophia's murderous stare, Jolin's body shook like a sieve.

Her hands gripped tighter and tighter, creating deep creases in the papers.

"I'm sorry, Miss Celitia! I was too presumptuous!!"

Jolin suddenly pulled back her project materials, bowed deeply to Celitia, pushed through the crowd, covered her face, and ran away.

The people surrounding Celitia also scattered with a whoosh.

Beauty was important, and grades were important, but if they were killed by the princess, that would be a total loss!

"..." Celitia didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

She silently gathered her materials and walked to another empty table, beginning her preparations alone.

Looking at the girl's lonely figure, Sophia immediately regretted her actions.

She really extremely disliked seeing Celitia have any partner other than herself.

But forcibly driving away others like this—what was the difference between that and isolating Celitia?

Sophia regretted it so much her intestines turned green.

She couldn't care about anything else and was about to rush over to find Celitia.

Charlotte couldn't let things develop in that direction and immediately grabbed Sophia's arm tightly:

"Sophia, we're about to start. Let's quickly prepare."

"But—"

Sophia still wanted to struggle, but the instructor walked in at that moment, clapped the table, and signaled for everyone to be quiet.

"Are you all ready? Then let's start class now."

Sophia had no choice but to stop.

Staring at the materials in front of her, she fell into complete dejection.

Charlotte was very pleased with herself.

It seemed that although she had shown weakness, Celitia still didn't dare compete with her.

Hmph, don't think you can act arrogant much longer!

Charlotte happily arranged her spell formation and continued her research according to her previous notes.

After an unknown amount of time, two unexpected people suddenly walked over.

Shanie and Benita came over with their notebooks and surrounded Charlotte from front and back.

Shanie acted completely at home, directly taking Charlotte's hand and flashing her a big smile.

Charlotte's expression immediately changed.

A mere commoner—who gave you permission to touch this young lady?

However, considering that Sophia treated Shanie as a friend, Charlotte reluctantly endured it.

As if not seeing Charlotte's expression, Shanie said with a smile:

"We encountered some problems and wanted to ask Miss Charlotte for advice."

"Ask me for advice?" Charlotte asked in confusion.

Charlotte still had some self-awareness in this regard.

Her theoretical knowledge wasn't very solid. If they really needed advice, shouldn't they go find the teacher?

If they really wanted to discuss with students, they should find Celitia.

Although reluctantly, Charlotte had to admit that in terms of magical theoretical knowledge, Celitia did have some level of skill.

"That's right!"

Shanie and Benita exchanged glances.

"I know that Miss Charlotte has done some research on my project."

Shanie continued with a full smile, "More importantly, we both actually want to get along well with you."

Charlotte suddenly understood.

So that's it—they had discovered that Sophia had abandoned Celitia and chosen her, so they immediately came over to curry favor.

Thinking of this, Charlotte raised her neck and became even more smug.

"Is that so? Then I'll reluctantly take a look. What problems do you have?"

"It's like this..."

Shanie handed Charlotte the paper she was holding, and taking the opportunity, she turned back and gave Benita a meaningful look.

Benita quietly stepped back half a step and, while Charlotte wasn't paying attention, started tampering with the basically completed spell formation on her table.

Sophia had been daydreaming since class started, hadn't touched her assignment at all, and didn't notice what they were doing.

Shanie's ability to babble was first-rate. As she talked, she had already moved from questions about magical theory to the delicious food of Cassia, speaking quite eloquently.

Just when Shanie was getting parched from talking, Benita finally looked up, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and made a gesture to her.

"...This is especially delicious. If there's a chance next time, Miss Charlotte must try it!"

Getting the hint from Benita, Shanie decisively ended the topic without lingering even one extra minute, smiling as she waved at Charlotte.

The two left shoulder to shoulder from in front of Charlotte.

Charlotte stood in place, looking at their retreating figures, quite bewildered.

What exactly had they come to do?

Had they just found an excuse to specifically come talk to her and build rapport?

How strange...

Turning around, Charlotte began working on her magical spell formation again.

Before Shanie and Benita came over to interrupt, Charlotte had basically finished and was preparing to start the experiment.

Staring at the magical formation in front of her, Charlotte vaguely felt that the faintly glowing runes seemed a little different from before.

But Charlotte's knowledge in this area was quite shallow—she couldn't tell what changes had occurred.

Forget it, she'd know once she activated it.

Injecting magical power, the magical formation slowly operated, and faint light enveloped Charlotte.

Charlotte only felt her eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and the glowing runes in front of her gradually enlarged and twisted into various strange shapes.

This was bad—this seemed like hypnotic magic?

Her eyelids felt heavy as if filled with lead, involuntarily slowly closing. Charlotte's body went limp, and she collapsed onto the table.

Accompanied by a loud crash, Sophia jumped in fright: "Oh my?!"

She stared dumbfounded as Charlotte lay sprawled over her magical formation, her chest rising and falling, sleeping very soundly.

"Charlotte? Charlotte?"

Sophia shook Charlotte a few times but couldn't wake her up.

Teacher Roshan, who was wandering around the classroom, heard the commotion and hurried over:

"What happened?"

"I don't know either," Sophia looked completely bewildered. "Just a moment ago, Charlotte suddenly fell asleep and can't be woken up no matter what."

Supporting Charlotte and revealing the successfully operating magical formation beneath her, Teacher Roshan looked down and couldn't help but twitch at the corner of her mouth.

"This is hypnotic magic. Charlotte hypnotized herself."

As soon as Teacher Roshan finished speaking, suppressed laughter immediately filled the classroom.

"I can only say that Student Charlotte's hypnotic magic was quite successful."

Teacher Roshan frowned, both amused and helpless. "Since Charlotte's project has already succeeded, let her sleep well for a while."

Teacher Roshan then picked up Charlotte and took her somewhere else to rest.

"Hahaha, hahahaha!!"

After Teacher Roshan left the classroom with Charlotte, Shanie's explosive laughter echoed throughout the entire classroom.