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Chapter 1511 Chapter 145. Graduation Ceremony
Is the princess still a princess?
This is a philosophical question, and it may even extend to areas such as the id, ego, and superego, where one can confuse oneself.

But it is simple and complex:

In the eyes of outsiders, the princess is still the same princess, the princess with memories of the past, the princess who guards the City of Strange Stories.

In the princess' eyes, she has always been herself, but she lost her memory for a period of time and just woke up.

Only in the eyes of a true princess, it was just another soul born from her own body.

But now, the princess is indeed not a princess - she has to wait until the Skeleton King unlocks her memories before she can recover everything she had in the past.

The good news all came on the same day. Tomorrow is the graduation ceremony of Liberty City University. Annan doesn't want to miss it and is worried about who to entrust the princess to.

"Let me do it, you go to the graduation ceremony." The eldest sister offered.

"Aren't you going?"

Idilia nodded: "You go in place of me and Olmedo. The students want to see you more."

……

Spring, 1003 Saint Laurent calendar.

Mrs. Ram looked at her son, who was wearing a school uniform and standing tall, and wiped her tears. "I am proud of you, Soren. The proudest day in a woman's life is the day her son goes to college."

"Mom, I graduated today."

"It makes no difference, it both means you are an adult!"

"I'm already twenty-one, I'm already an adult—"

"Shut up! Are you the father or am I the father!" Mrs. Ram grabbed the broom. The words were a little wrong, but the mother's majesty was immediately established.

Fortunately, they had a good teacher - Aunt Susan who trained Lord Annan.

"Okay, 'Dad', I'm out."

Soran said helplessly as his mother sent him out the door and watched him walk until he turned the corner.

I met up with a few classmates on the way and went to Liberty City School together.

The huge playground was already filled with students, wearing the school uniforms of their respective colleges, allowing those with obsessive-compulsive disorder to sit comfortably in their seats.

As all the students arrived, the singers took the stage to perform.

The students must have looked familiar, because they were all contestants of the "National Singer" that had swept Middle-earth not long ago. After the performance, Vice Dean Professor Swarlow took the stage to give a speech.

Even at the graduation ceremony, Professor Swarlow still had a stern face and was serious, even more like Professor Snape than Professor Snape.

The atmosphere that had just been livened up by the performance was so depressing that it looked like water could be squeezed out of it.

"Don't think you can get rid of school after graduation. If I find out that any of you have violated the law or done something shameful... you know the consequences."

Professor Swarovski glanced coldly at the students in the audience. Wherever he passed, the students lowered their heads, not daring to look him in the eye.

"I'm done."

Professor Swarlow walked off the stage, his wizard robe lifted up like a giant bat gliding along the ground.

As if a heavy object had been lifted, the students became active like springs, eagerly waiting for "that person" to appear...

Soran was among them. If he didn't come, the graduation ceremony would be a pity for them.

"Here he comes! Lord Annan is here!"

A tall and strong student stood up from the back row of the Warrior Academy.

Professor Swarovski snorted coldly, but didn't say anything like "500 points deducted from the Warrior Academy".

Annan walked up to the podium amid the students' standing up and cheering, and stepped onto the small wooden chair hidden behind the stage.

"First of all, congratulations to you... Liberty City's first batch of college students."

Hua Hua Hua——

The students clapped their palms until they turned red, and their enthusiasm was completely different from that of Mr. Swarovski before.

Annan had a sunny smile on his face. After the students finished applauding, he said, "I also heard what Mr. Swarovski said just now. You are about to graduate. Some misunderstandings are not suitable to be brought to your future work, so I will tell you a secret..."

"Don't be fooled by Mr. Swarovski's stern face. He has long regarded you as his most outstanding children. If he had a tail, he would have been wagging it with joy."

Mr. Swarovski stared at Annan, considering whether to give him a pig's tail.

The vice-president’s influence was still there, and the students wanted to laugh but didn’t dare to, and there was only a burst of suppressed laughter.

Annan sighed with emotion: "Time flies by so fast. It feels like you just walked into the campus yesterday. You even have to count on your fingers to solve problems like 1+1."

The students smiled more often.

"Liberty City University was very simple in the beginning. I just wanted my people to learn to read and write. But as I experienced more outside, I had higher hopes for the school..."

"What is the world like outside? The nobles live a life of drunkenness and debauchery in their manors, while the common people struggle to survive in the streets full of sewage. No one makes decisions for you, neither the officials nor the lords. He is more like your creditor. He doesn't care about your life or death, but only whether you pay back the money on time. As for where the debt comes from?"

Annan spread his hands and said, "You are owing the lord money every minute you stand there."

The smiles of the professors sitting on the edge gradually turned serious.

"The more I come into contact with them, the more I hate 'them'." Annan raised his hands, bent his index and middle fingers, and made a quotation mark gesture: "'They' are not specific people, but an aristocracy composed of vested interests."

"Evil drips from every pore of their being. I've been to the Broken Mountains, where slave traders and mine owners work together to capture civilians and sell them to the mines, while the lords who are supposed to protect their people hide behind and count the money.

"The youngest slave miner was only six or seven years old, and his leg bones were not as long as my arm. I also saw a child as young as two years old being hung down the chimney to clean the flue, just because the nobles had their annual cleaning day."

The students clenched their fists.

With an average age of 15, nearly half of them are refugees and lower-class students, and they have a deep understanding of the evil deeds of the nobles.

"The more I came into contact with them, the more I hated 'them', so I wanted to change all that."

"If you want to change all this, you first need to have the power to change all this."

“This is destined to be a road full of thorns, because you are carrying a heavy fate: we will need a few years or even a dozen years to catch up with the efforts of others that took hundreds of years.”

At this point, Annan paused and said, "Let me tell you a story about the Tortoise and the Hare."

"The story is very simple. There is a tortoise and a rabbit in the forest who want to race to see who is faster. As the race begins, the rabbit jumps out instantly, while the tortoise can only crawl slowly. Soon, the rabbit leaves the tortoise far behind. It thinks the tortoise cannot catch up with it, so it takes a nap in front of the tree stump."

"Unexpectedly, the tortoise did not give up, and gradually caught up with and surpassed the sleeping rabbit. In the evening, the rabbit finally woke up and remembered the race. It continued to run forward, but when it reached the finish line, it found that the tortoise was already waiting for it at the finish line."

(End of this chapter)