Chapter 359 – Week 7, Monday (7)
As Gillia took the piece of cake she handed her, Marei could only comfort her by scratching her cheek.
“Since Gilia is also a beauty, she should be able to date her in no time. She studies well, sings very well in the choir, and…”
“It would be embarrassing if you praised me in front of me like a confession. And dating… If I find someone I like, I think I’ll go out with them.”
“Is there anyone you like?”
Gillia nodded her head obediently. Like she was being naughty, she hi-hidden and then she cut off her own piece of cake and put it on Marey’s plate.
“It was hard to find someone I liked. When she was young, she was often scolded by her father for being the most naughty person in her family, so everyone dropped out of school. In Balter, as class president, I have to play a bad role, and she told me to enter the military academy for the sake of the family, so I didn’t have time to pay attention to whether I was studying or not.
Gillia laughed bitterly. Her dark eyes stared blankly at her cake.
“It’s been years since I’ve been this relaxed. In middle school, I only studied. While preparing for the military academy, her private tutors stayed with her all day. Then she changed when she came to Baltaire. I also got a letter of recommendation from Miss Julia, and Labella gave me a lot of preparation materials for the military academy. I had time to look around. “
“I heard Miss Julia’s letter of recommendation last time, and she said that it was preparation materials for the military academy?”
“Looks like Lady Ravela didn’t tell you.”
She hadn’t heard anything from Ravela. Most of the time, when she came home, she would pat her nasty penis into her childish womb and pat her, to make her forget the fatigue of the day. Of course, when she has time, she studies or swordsmanship, but she hasn’t heard anything about Gillia.
“I am going to graduate this year.”
“Really?”
“Anyone can take the exam at the military academy as long as the admission requirements are met. The same goes for Imperial University, right? Of course, a diploma plays an important role, but there are enough things to do instead. I want to enter the military academy next year.”
Gillia continued talking without removing the straw from her mouth.
“Miss Julia said she had enough for this year. She said that she and Ravela talked about strategy and tactics for about 3 hours and that she is still satisfied. Even if it looks like this, her father said that she would be a soldier, and she has been learning since she was a child.”
Gilia let out a long sigh and ruffled her hair. Her long brown hair was wavy. Her black eyes were fixed on the table the two of them were sitting at. It was like a confessional atmosphere.
“So, I want to graduate. If you enter the military academy, you will be allowed to take the graduation exam. Well, it’s a formality made by the principal. If you stick, you graduate.”
Gillia raised her head. She was smiling broadly. She looked nervous as if she was about to break, but she was moving forward. She was a classmate and close enemy, but she was so cool that way. When she saw her twinkling figure, she wanted to have it without knowing why.
“Oh, of course, if I fall, I will go for another year…”
Seeing Marita drooping her shoulders, Marei laughed. The emotions that were raging in her heart were scattered like lies.
“Ah! It’s too much to laugh like it’s so funny!”
“No no. Marita will be fine. She will pass if she says Ravela passes.”
“Still… Huh? Still, isn’t it a bit harsh to call Ravella-sama by her first name?”
“Ah, that…”
Out of habit, he called Ravela by her first name.
“Are you not on good terms with Ravella-sama?”
“Good good. I like it very much.”
They were close enough to connect as one without falling apart even when sleeping, including vaginal cumshots every day. Because I made a promise that I would never tell anyone else that I would raise her as a female in the future. Still, I felt like I should be careful with her titles when talking about her outside of her.
“Even if it’s not your real mother, she loves you so much and is trying to be nice to you. Understand him It might be hard to treat you like a mother, but it seems like she treats you more than her own child.”
“Ah, yes…”
Gillia seemed to misunderstand something. She didn’t seem to have to clear up this misunderstanding. Well, in the eyes of others, it must feel that way even if Marey calls Ravella by her first name. This misunderstanding wasn’t bad.
“Well, whatever. I’m thinking about admissions. Is Marey thinking about what to do next year or in the future?”
“I don’t know because there are so many things I want to do. I want to study magic at university, I want to join the Knights, and I want to work in the Inspection Bureau.”
“It would be nice to have a lot of options. Think carefully. Huh? But can’t you do everything?”
“Is it… ?”
There was an order of knights that Lauren had. She could go to college if she wanted to. It was the same with the Inspection Bureau.
“I envy your strong family environment, Gongja-nim.”
“You, don’t talk like that…”
“It’s a joke. Noble families all feel the same. You don’t have to be too scared. If I go to the administration side, there are many places to go, but I am having such a hard time because I am going to a county with no connection.”
It was lethal. It was petty even for Marey to think that she was benefiting from it. She didn’t even know it was cowardly.
“Cowardly. Do you think so?”
Gillia’s black eyes were looking at her gently.
“Ah, yes…”
“I don’t know what will happen in the future, but I think it’s okay for now. The Empire is suffering from a manpower shortage, and unless it splits, it will continue to be this way for decades to come. Even those who do not meet the standard are hurriedly recruited to work on the frontlines.”
As Gillia said, the Empire was in a period of extreme chaos. Continents were unified too quickly. The difference in volume between the kingdom management system and the continent management system was not so easy to fill.
Even if there was a system to manage the continent, there were not enough people to run the system. It was accurate to say that they were somehow enduring the feudal system of the countries that were absorbed-integrated-merged in parallel. There are even rumors that the Balter School is tolerant of early graduation for those who have the qualifications, and that it is supporting Balter because of that.
“Actually, Balter is also the most efficiently run territory, isn’t it? How did you bring in so many elves… I think there is credibility in saying that the Governor-General brought them under threat.”
I have often heard from Ravela that Balter has a relatively relaxed workforce. The territory is developing so well that it does not care much if the administrative personnel ‘produced’ in the territory are leaked to the outside. Lauren doesn’t care much, but they say that Balter’s popularity is higher than that of the capital among those who aim to become administrators.
“If the empire does not perish, at least a hundred years will be called the golden age. Because people are lacking, and those who have learned are even more lacking. Have you ever heard the statistics that show that nobles without succession have more children than nobles with succession?”
Many nobles died. However, the surviving nobles were more prosperous than before.
“I think this is an era in which what to do is not important. You have to think about what it will be us, no I am. The only way for me to survive was to be real.”
Speaking of her, Gillia left Marey out at the word ‘we’. Unlike herself, who had nothing to do with the succession of her title, the relative in front of her was the body that would become Baltaire’s master.
“Marey. Don’t even bother with that. It doesn’t matter whether you benefit from your family or what you do. As a result, try to get something that is difficult to compare with others. Isn’t it enough to win something great enough to be said to be the virtue of the family? Then who would say it’s lethal?”
“That’s great…”
“I want to be the commander in charge of the corps.”
Gillia seemed to have decided on the path he was going to take. That’s why she should be able to silently walk on her own path even in the eyes of those around her.
“What do you want to be, Marey?”
Marey couldn’t easily answer Gillia’s question.
“I am…”
Marais told her dreams that she remembered. Upon hearing her answer, Gilia Marita looked at Marey with a puzzled expression, and she was lost in her thoughts for a moment. Thinking that it might suit her better than she thought, she gave a small smile.
“Nice.”
Gillia was admiring the march of her knights. She was moving as if every thing she walked and every thing that moved was standardized. She heard the clanking of metal as the iron warriors moved.
She saw the governor’s carriage moving slowly. It was a different kind from the carriage that Ravella and I were indebted to on the weekend. A flag with a green dragon was fluttering on the roof of the carriage. Through the window of the carriage, he could see Lauren watching the street with his chin on his chin.
And immediately our eyes met. Marei quickly averted her gaze. The people following Lauren’s procession were crowded. The people following the slow-moving wagon, laughing and talking, seemed to be enjoying a festival.
It was noisy, but not an unpleasant noise. Rather, it was a sound that would leave a faint smile. I looked away from Lauren’s wagon and saw the people laughing and chatting. It was a comforting sight. Lauren seemed to know why she sometimes went around Valter in the name of inspection.
Soon the commotion subsided. Did Lauren leave? Marey leaned back in her chair and exhaled slowly, realizing that there was a strangely strange silence going on.
“It’s a coincidence, Marey.”
And at the sound of her own voice coming from behind her, Marai jumped up from her seat in a fright. Around the knights were building a wall in a circle. Inside the barrier made of people, there were only Gillia, herself, and Lauren.
“Ro, Mr. Lauren?!”
“Sit down. Didn’t you tell me before Don’t make me say it twice.”
At her command (?), Marei cautiously sat down in her seat. Lauren was treating Marey as if she had no feelings for her. Gilia jumped up and bowed her head in greeting, but Lauren dismissed it with a light wave of her hand.
Lauren looked at the slice of cake on her table and looked at Marey with a surprised expression.
“I’ll tell the chef the next time I visit.”
“Yes…”
Lauren sat without saying anything. Marey also kept her head down, hoping that this time would pass, and Gillia looked at the two of them nervously.
“Who is it?”
“Ah, four! This is Gillia Marita! It’s an honor to meet you like this!”
Lauren’s eyes narrow. Suddenly the air felt heavy. It was difficult for her to breathe. She felt as if her throat had been strangled. Gillia was trembling uncomfortably, clashing her teeth.
“Marey.”
She was asking herself her gilia. For some reason, she felt threatened that if she answered incorrectly, she wouldn’t do it. She couldn’t figure out why.
“A friend.”
“A friend… Friend…”
Lauren nodded her head a few times.
“I’m glad.”
Looking at Gillia, Lauren murmured.
What? What are you happy about? The boy and girl wanted to ask, but she swallowed her rising question as she realized that Lauren, who had immediately cut her attention from her Gillia, was staring at her Marey.
