Two Disguised Heirs, One Heated Floor novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Deputy's Son
The whole academy stood in the training yard before the sun was up.
Three hundred students stood in grey robes, with the instructors in a line.
The Dean waited at the head of the steps with his hands folded in his sleeves.
In front of them stood a heavy man in a green Alliance coat, with a litter behind him and four guards at his back.
He had a broad jaw and a slicked-back head of hair, and the jaw was Chang-min's jaw.
Tae-gang stood in the second row with the bite under his ear showing.
Seo-hwan stood at his shoulder, with a jade hairpin holding up his hair.
"My son has been expelled," the deputy said, loud enough for the back rows. "For using a numbing salve in the Ranking Duel. A salve that, I am told, a scholarship boy found in a locker."
"The salve was on his sword," the Dean said mildly.
"By whose word?"
"By the word of three hundred people, and the instructors who stood at the ring."
"Then I want the registry ledger. Today. I will find out who put this slander in a farm boy's mouth, and which of your students is hiding what."
A whisper rippled across the yard.
Tae-gang's stomach went cold.
"The ledger is sealed," the Dean said, "and it stays sealed. You signed that rule yourself, Deputy. Or your clerks did."
The deputy's face flushed.
"I am the Alliance."
"You are one deputy of eleven."
A stir, a snicker from the back, quickly swallowed.
The deputy's gaze swept the rows and stopped on Tae-gang.
"You. The one who broke a sword with his bare hand."
"Good wrists," Tae-gang said.
"Do not make a joke of me, boy. My son's blade was good steel. Who are you?"
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