After crying for a long while, Anna finally calmed down.
Max lifted her in the princess carry and took her inside while Amara closed the door behind after she entered. All this while, she hadn't made any sound as not to disturb their reunion.
Max gently placed Anna on the bed and gave her some water to drink. Then, he asked while looking into her eyes, "Now tell me what happened? Why are you in such a condition?"
Hearing this, Anna's eyes moistened once again, but she held her tears back and didn't start crying. Taking a deep breath, she said:
"After you went away, Flavia slowly came to terms with her feeling for you and she wanted to confess to you as soon as you returned."
"However, just a few days ago, some people from Flavia's family came and forcefully took her away. We were powerless to stop them and even the academy had given them permission to take her away."
She paused for a moment before continuing,
"From what I could infer, they somehow found out that she is close to you. Because she is already promised to someone from the Dalton family, her to get close to some other man isn't good for either family's reputation. That's why they took her away."
"Her family is so bad. For their personal gain, they don't care about her feelings at all and want to force her to marry that Dalton guy."
Max's eyes flashed with a cold glow upon hearing this. Since Flavia had accepted her feelings and wanted to be with him, she was already his woman.
How dare they force her to marry someone else?
'Arasia and Dalton family? Good. Very good. If the upcoming war doesn't destroy you, I'll do it instead.' He swore.
When Anna saw his expression, she got worried.
Even though she had become very close to Flavia and wanted her and him to be together, she didn't want him to make an enemy out of her family, one of the top families of the kingdom. For this reason, she hesitated whether she should give her last message to him or not.
Her hesitation didn't get past Max's eyes as he asked, "There is something else that I need to know?"
Anna wanted to shake her head for a moment, but when she saw the look in his eyes, she sighed and nodded.
"Before Flavia went away, she told me she can make her family postpone her marriage for a maximum of three months. If you can become a five-star mage by, you can go save her. If you can't, forget about her and don't ever think of antagonizing her family."
'Three months? It won't take this long.' Max thought. He then asked, "Why are you like this? What happened?"
Anna's expression turned dark and beautiful eyes flashed with a cold light when she heard this question.
After briefly hesitating, she told him everything that happened after Flavia was taken away.
After Flavia was taken away, Anna was too depressed to do anything. So, she stayed in her room. However, trouble soon came knocking on the door.
The disciplinary disciple that Max had beaten up a few months ago arrived and told her she was living in Max's dorm without academy's permission and this was punishable.
He punished her by punching her a few times, that almost made Anna faint and left without saying anything about moving out of the room.
But he returned next and beat her up again because she was still staying here.
She was then challenged by an inner disciple to a duel which she wanted to reject, but the disciplinary hall disciple told her she could stay in Max's dorm room without any punishment if she accepted the challenge.
Since she didn't want to move out of the dorm room and the challenger was only an early-stage two-star mage, she accepted the challenge.
However,
It turned out that she was wrong about his strength because the man was a peak two-star mage. This resulted in her being beaten up so badly that even with healing pills, she had to stay in bed for two days.
But the bullying didn't stop. Even today in the morning, she was beaten by a group of three girls when she went out for some food.
"When I asked those girls why they were targeting me since I don't know any of them, they told me it was that disciplinary hall disciple who ordered them to do that."
Anna said, her fists clenched tight in anger. Although she had been a weak outer disciple for years, she was never bullied and humiliated like this.
Max's face was expressionless after he heard all this. Once she finished speaking, he stood up and said, "I'll be back in a while."
He then turned to Amara. "You stay with her and help her pack her stuff. We'll leave once I'm back."
"W-Wait Max." Anna came to her senses and shouted to stop him, but he had already left the room, closing the door behind him.
She wanted to run out and stop him, but because of the abuse for the last few days, she was currently too weak to run. So, she turned to Amara and hurriedly said, "Stop him quick or he will be in danger."
"What do you mean?" Amara frowned.
"He is going to confront that disciplinary hall disciple, but he doesn't know that he has an Elder backing him up. Quick! Stop him." Anna anxiously cried out.
Amara, however, didn't seem too concerned as she asked, "How strong is that Elder you speak of?"
"You!" Anna became angry at her reaction and shouted, "HE IS A MID-STAGE THREE-STAR MAGE!! Now hurry and stop him. He is their target."
"Then there is nothing to worry about," Amara calmly answered.
Anna's expression turned dark as she barked, "What do you mean nothing to worry about? Although they bullied me, Max is their target. If he does something against the academy's rules out of anger, that Elder will use that as an excuse and punish him or expel him from the academy."
Amara's lips curved up into a grin. "That Elder isn't strong enough to punish master and didn't you hear what he said before leaving? He is already planning to leave the academy."
When Anna heard this, a surprised expression appeared on her face as she asked, "Y-You are saying… he is stronger than a mid-stage three-star mage already?"
