Chapter 140 – Coming Things (9)
“It’s a joke.”
Merende giggled happily. She was a girl who seemed clumsy at talking and being with someone, and she smiled naturally.
“I have no friends.”
Merande grabbed the front paws of the rabbit in her arms and spread them out to the left and right of her. She only saw the hare calling for hurrah, and she continued her words.
“Did you say Marey was 15?”
“Ah yes…”
“It’s a bit embarrassing to say that I’m only two years older, but… It’s kind of like a society here. In particular, since it is a school created by the governor and the emperor himself, people from influential families from all over the world gather there. It’s a place to learn and at the same time a place to build relationships that will be useful in the future. Mare de Par… Ah…”
Merendet let out a long sigh. And she realized something, bit her lip and closed her eyes tightly. She then kicks a stone at her feet and flicks it over her bush.
“…I’m saying this for your sake, but it’s better not to be friendly with me.”
“Yes?”
“There’s no way it’ll be useful in the future, and I think it’s going to be a nuisance to the future if we get along with each other.”
“What do you mean?”
Seeing Marey ask back, Marey smiled. Her almost self-deprecating laugh seemed so lonely, but her little boy, not knowing what to say, just stared at her.
“You will find out when you go through school life. Thank you for today.”
Seeing Merende’s sudden change of attitude, Marey stood up and grabbed her wrist. Her red eyes shook greatly, but Merande carefully released her Marey’s hand.
“If someone asks why you hang out with me, you can just say it’s because of Lee Ha-woon.”
“Melan? Why all of a sudden… ?”
“I guess she forgot her own situation and became a fool for a while.”
“That… Going to the principality… ?”
“Forget it. See you in the next class, Mare de Parwen.”
At the sight of Merende begging her not to follow her, Marey gathered up her courage and grabbed her once again.
“Still… The way down is the same…”
“I have an appointment with her sister, so I have to go. Heed my words You’re nice, so I hope you don’t get hurt.”
She disappeared into the woods with her words that her teacher would be there if she went back the opposite way. As if she knew the way, she blankly watched Merende moving confidently.
None of the things that happened today have been sorted out. No matter how much I brushed her hair, my thoughts wouldn’t drop, and even if someone wanted to tell me, it was like a long-winded lie, and even if I talked about it, it seemed like I would only get ridiculed. With her mother’s story in the way, she felt ashamed to even tell Ravela about it.
“I’m dying like this, did something happen?”
“Ah, Philia… Hello.”
“I saw you at lunch, what is ‘hello’?”
Seeing Marey’s unresponsive appearance, Philia no longer continued her words, but she immediately sat down next to her. A pleasant scent wafted from her silvery-purple hair that swayed in the wind as she swayed in her wind, and Marei carefully leaned her head on her Philia’s shoulder.
“It’s not usually the opposite… ?”
Philia grunted slightly as she moved her body subtly, lending her shoulder for her to lean on comfortably. Marey burst into laughter. She felt like an older sister. An older sister with not much difference in age. Of course, although she is actually older than Philia.
“I had a hard time. It’s a little… Hard to say… That’s why…”
“If you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to.”
Her philia leans her head over her head of her Marey, who borrowed her own shoulder.
“You will have to get used to it. A world overflowing with malice is pretty tiring.”
“I’m sorry…?”
Yes, Philia nodded her head.
“Whether it’s goodwill or goodwill, it rarely returns. Of course, I don’t want to. You should be glad you didn’t get stabbed from behind. Is it because of Gillia Marta?”
“Yes? No… It’s a different story.”
Philia’s head moved slowly, returning to her place.
“I’ve been fooling around. Well, as long as you don’t want to talk about anything else, that’s fine.”
“Yes…”
The wind was cold as she sat still. Philia silently shared her warmth. She stayed like that for a few minutes, then thought Marei was too much of a nuisance and carefully raised her body.
It was a story that could not be told all at once. Then, one by one, I thought it would be okay to release them. It will take a very long time. The warmth I felt next to me was so warm that I believed it.
“That… A friend in class with… The child… Senior…? I have.”
I guess you wanted to say Philia handled her words and answers at the same time, with a light nod of her head.
“She told me that it would be bad for me to be close to her,” She says. It’s a place to build relationships that will benefit the future, she says, while she… She said she would be in the way, she said, and I think she cares a lot about my name too…”
“He seems to be living a very boring life.”
More than me Philia struggled to add her backstory.
“Of course, there are a few kids who came with that idea. Because there are a lot of mature guys. It could be because it was what I was watching and learning. Still, it’s too breaking news to be close to make a relationship. Even if you bring a lot of those guys, it’s a specification. Marey, do you remember what I said?”
“Ah yes… I want you to love me…”
Philia’s face instantly turned red. And only after turning her face away and clearing her throat a few times, did the real woman speak again.
“Every time I hear it, I feel embarrassed and want to hide somewhere. Really… If a relationship was created with future benefits in mind, it sounds like it will be abandoned when the future benefits are gone. Well, that would be an extreme case.”
“Because it’s a spirit of collaboration, it’s cooperation, so while putting forward her words, she gives a bunch of group assignments. It also means to be friendly. They say that they are social, but in reality it means to get along well.”
“Friends are made only when they are equal. Not everything has to be equal, but being equal in some field has to be established. In that sense, a school itself is a place where a very artificially equal relationship is formed. Especially in the case of Walter…”
“Why are so many people wanting to come to this school that is only a few years old? You can’t get any benefit from just the name of an alumnus. If you divide people by whether or not they are in a beneficial relationship, who will be your friend and who will be your colleague? To say something like future gain… You just have to be content with the fact that you came to Valter…”
Philia continued her words without a break. She was looking at Marey and talking, but she was actually scolding Merende, which caused ripples in Marey’s heart. Filia stood up from her seat and spewed out whatever Marey wanted her to say.
“That friend?” Give me a big fuss Marey de Parwen says she doesn’t make friends for future gain, she just wants to be friends with you!”
Seeing the older girl grabbing both of her cheeks and stretching them out, Marei faithfully answered even her leaky pronunciation.
“…Yes.”
“If you are the fiancé of Philia the Blood, you should show such a spirit! Of course, there are some crap I have to watch out for because of me… Time… We’ll talk about that later. I have an appointment with my brother today.”
Marei, who wanted to be with Philia a little longer, jumped up, but she stood next to her. Filia, who said it was okay and lightly stroked Marey’s head, brushed the boy’s cheek a couple of times as if regretting it, and left her seat first.
She was a Marey who was stubborn with older women, but she didn’t want to be stubborn with Philia because she wanted to look oddly grown-up. She looked at her for a long time as she left, then turned her back to see her familiar face waiting for the boy.
Not far from the bench where Philia parted, Marey was walking along with Idrien. It was not long after her class ended, so the school was quickly crowded with many students.
Students carrying a lot of books in their arms, female students holding hands and chattering, male students sighing heavily, and even people carrying backpacks and walking quickly.
Most of the people were walking toward the school gate with a mixture of relief at the end of the day and deep tiredness on their faces. Excluding Idrien and Marey, I could count on my fingers the number of people walking backwards toward the nearby school building and the nearby alumni gate.
Idrien cradled her thick tome, Theory of Her Advanced Elemental Arts, in one hand, as she walked forward. Passing students greeted each other, but only a few greeted them with a light nod.
It was seen as rude, but people passed by as if they were accustomed to it, and Marei just silently walked behind Idrien. As if the sound of her shoes resonating exceptionally regularly and loudly is not an illusion of her own, people’s gaze continues and repeats ceaselessly toward Idrien.
Suddenly, Dedrien stopped her steps and turned around to see Marey. With her sharp eyes looking down at herself, Marai stands firm in her place without realizing it.
“You are slow.”
She made her face small, she mumbled what she had to say, then Idrien said only what she had to say and then turned around and started to walk in front of her.
The voluptuous skirt wrapped around the skirt that moves left and right with her gait catches the eye, and let’s look at the suit that fits her body so that the thin waistline is exposed above it. Even in the middle of a street full of people, Mare He couldn’t stand the blood rushing to her lower body.
Thanks to Idrien, who slowed her own pace while speeding up her pace, the two of them started to walk side by side before they knew it, and the eyes of the students were getting darker and darker.
“Are you used to school?”
“Ah, that… Yes. Little…”
Idrien’s usual way of swearing at her while looking at her own face, or carrying on a conversation with her so much that I couldn’t imagine her exhaling excitedly. Stuttered
“She said she knew very little about magic, but she was honestly surprised that she took Professor Illien’s class and mine. Is she confident, or is she not thinking…”
At her harsh rebuke, Marei lowered her head and silently moved beside Idrien. Glancing at her marey figure, Idrien patted her bent boy’s neck lightly with her palm.
“As a result of discussing with Professor Illien, a story emerged about how the two of them teach together. In any case, the basic theory side has a lot in common, so the two teach the class…”
“Yes?”
Marey, who didn’t know what she was talking about, raised her head and could see Idrien’s slightly reddened face. She could see that a face that might look a little angry if someone else saw it, but a little expectation and shame on the face of the boy who had talked dozens of times with his body.
“Hmm… Hmm… Nana and Professor Illien’s opinions are a bit right… Starting tomorrow, we will have classes together… It’s the first time I’ve heard of it, so I’m sure you’ll be embarrassed.”
“Ah yes!”
In the past, if Idrien intervened in the time alone with Illien, it would mean interfering with the relationship between the two. It meant a completely different meaning to her holding a book in one hand as she is now, with her hand full of strength, and glancing at herself with a blushing face.
Perhaps it was because she had grown accustomed to people staring at her, or perhaps because she had nothing to say, Idrien didn’t say anything to her anymore, and slowly slowed down her pace and walked to her laboratory with Marei.
“You know how absurd this is? The class isn’t even open, but it’s a situation where the class was created for one person…”
“Oh, that’s… Yes.”
In the case of Lee Ha-woon, teacher Valentine’s class, and swordsmanship class, Marey was already in the class. Classes related to Illien’s elemental magic and Julia’s tactics were no different than those classes held specifically for Marey.
She had been told by Gillia that in some ways she was privileged, and that she would never be looked upon favorably by other students. However, rather than worrying about that, Marei doesn’t think much about Julia and Illien’s hand gestures that fill her with lust right in front of her eyes…
Marey, who had entered her lab in her Idrien before she knew it, was talking to her face to face with her. Although it is accurate to say that she was only listening to the story. Seeing Idrien, who looked completely different from when she was struggling under her, Marais straightened her back as if nervous.
“There is a lot of talk among professors. She can’t openly because of the governor, but… Strictly speaking, this school is the personal property of the governor, but if you are still wearing the mask of an educational institution, you have to show some fairness.”
As if frustrated, Idrien let out a long sigh as he swallowed the full tea in one go.
“I don’t know what Miss Julia is thinking… Well, since he’s a stranger, it doesn’t matter. Important thing. It’s a situation where no good story came out because my sister opened the class for you like that… You wouldn’t mind any of that.”
“Sorry…”
Idrien, who snorted lightly at Marey’s apology, stared blankly into the void as to what she was thinking. Even the boy, who didn’t know what to say, sipped the contents while holding the cup with both hands in this awkward silence.
