Chapter 60 – Midterm Exam (4)
Whimper.
Sasha wipes Anna’s eyes, which were shedding tears like chicken poop, with a tissue.
“Huh…”
Kheung.
Even the sound of swallowing your nose.
A bit embarrassing How should I react here?
“Princess. Pop.”
“Push…”
I’m going to have a good time.
Anyway, it didn’t take long for Anna, who had been crying for a while, to stop her tears.
As soon as I realized I was watching, the tears stopped in an instant.
“…”
Quiet.
Anna glances up at me with her new blush, then bows her head again.
She watched her for a while and thought that if she continued like this, her conversation would stop forever, so she decided to continue her words from me.
“…”
What more do I have to say?
I think you’ve done everything to praise. Swordsmanship is not an area I dare to mention.
The rest of the story is right before the exam, Why are you having a hard time with me? It would be something to say
“Sniff…”
Wouldn’t she cry again if I said that to this lady who’s flirting around?
No. It must be worrying for nothing. Although the princess of Kroychev wouldn’t be like that.
When I see the scene in front of her eyes, I am worried about that…
“Anna?”
“Sigh… Yes.”
When she carefully calls her name, she responds faithfully even though her shoulders tremble.
With a soft smile on her lips, she spoke softly, as if she were talking to a small child.
“Why are you so surprised, Anna? What did I do?”
“No, that, four… No…”
Is this a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’?
As if Anna recognized her own mistake, her face blushed red.
“Oh, no. Just call me by name, by name…”
Name?
Ah.
“Anna?”
“It’s muddy.”
As she called her name softly, her Anna’s shoulders shook again.
“Yes yes…”
“… You mean she was surprised to be called by name?”
“Yes…”
Right.
Recently, when she addressed Iris, she called her by her name without hesitation, so when she called Anna, she didn’t give much thought to calling her by her first name, which must have been very irritating to Anna.
When she says stimulating, she has a strange tone.
“If you don’t like…”
“Oh no! I don’t hate it!”
Just in case, she lifted it up a little, and this time she cut it hard.
It wasn’t that she didn’t like being called by her first name, it just seemed embarrassing.
No. Yes, there are few women who would not like it if a man with a crush called her in a friendly way.
It’s a little bit that the target is me.
It’s embarrassing to push him away from such an honest and direct crush.
“… Then, no more… May I call you?”
“… That.”
This time, Anna moved her lips as if she hesitated.
Noticing her request, I gave her a nod and nudged her.
“Please speak.”
“… It’s okay if you don’t respect me, it’s okay… ?”
Perhaps because he was nervous, his pronunciation was slurred at the end.
…
To be honest, it was an irrelevant proposition. I don’t know if it’s special for Anna to feel that I use short words.
But.
Iris is officially dating, but is it right for her to tell Anna first… ?
I heard such a concern for a while.
“Then, I will.”
She nodded.
I was sorry that I had neglected Anna so much until now.
It’s nothing else, it’s just nonsense.
I’d be fine with something like this.
“… !”
Anna is also very happy.
What is good is good
“Anyway. So.”
“Yes?”
“Why did you avoid me?”
“Eh.”
Are you going back to that story here?
As I said, Anna’s eyes widened and looked at me,
“Why are you looking at me… ?”
As she asks Sasha for help, she looks at Sasha, but she is bitterly rejected.
“That is…”
See me again,
She gripped the hem of her skirt with both hands.
“… If I, Your Highness, get along with you, I’m afraid it will become a nuisance…”
“… Lung?”
What a lung…
Ah.
“There are rumors about the princess and a young girl named Cristina, but if I get involved… Because it’s bad…”
Is it.
Come to think of it, it seemed that the time when the rumors about Iris spread inside the Awareness Academy overlapped with the time when Anna avoided me.
“The rumors with the princess… , It’s quiet because everyone is hesitating… , If even me becomes the target, then…”
The imperial family, Kroychev, and Friedrich and Chepesch, which form the balance of the empire, may completely collapse.
Even if I had no particular intention of doing so, everyone who heard the rumors would think of such a possibility.
“So preferably… Keep your distance… Tell me—”
“Scarlett.”
“Ugh.”
Stuttering, he interrupted Anna, who was carefully following her.
Surprised face.
Is this the Anna who at first challenged her to a duel because she couldn’t even speak properly?
Iris and Anna are like that. After I’ve known her for a long time, I get to know aspects of her that I didn’t know.
No Rather, maybe this is their true self.
“Swing… ?”
“Call me Scarlett.”
“…”
How will Anna answer here?
With a slightly mischievous heart, he stared at Anna while hiding her pounding heart.
Indeed.
“… I heard that Her Highness’s dating the princess is also because of the curse…”
Are you pretending not to hear?
This is fine as well
I smiled and nodded. Even if I don’t point it out anyway, Sasha, who glances at Anna from her side, will feed Kusari later.
Anyway.
“Thank you.”
It was a more admirable answer than I thought.
To think of her as her admiration, there is not a big age difference between me and her.
There isn’t much of an age difference though.
Maybe.
Really.
“Yes.”
“I guess you’re saying it’s nothing.”
Instead of Anna, who hung her head and pursed her lips, Sasha with her wry smile spoke to me.
I smiled and nodded.
“Thank you, Anna.”
“… Black!”
Ah.
Cry again.
*
After finishing the conversation with Anna, I left her dormitory.
At first, she thought that the woman she had in her arms was too much for her, but isn’t Anna okay these days? She thinks that too.
It’s okay until Anna, it’s not okay.
Well, when such thoughts continue to bite their tails, the conclusion that usually comes out is ‘I’m a fucking scumbag’, so I cut it off moderately and went to Christina’s dorm instead of preparing for tomorrow’s exam.
“Oh. Are you here?”
Cristina, who was drying her wet hair with a towel as if she had just finished washing, saw me suddenly appearing in her shadow and she smiled.
Even though he went to visit her without saying a word, Cristina was not taken aback and opened her arms in her stead.
“Hmm.”
As if asking what he was doing without being hugged, he even glanced at me.
Anyway, as the days go by, only these things line up.
She hugged Christina, and she gave her a gentle pat on the back.
“I missed you.”
“Me too.”
“Really?”
Hmm.
I deliberately delayed my answer for a while, but before Christina’s expression turned grumpy, I put my lips on her cheek.
“Of course.”
“Really. Spitefully.”
Cristina pouted her pursed lips and smiled softly as she carried me onto the bed.
Sitting on her hips on the soft bed.
The two of us were silent for a long time.
Without saying anything else, holding each other’s hands.
It seems like that would be good.
“… There are rumors going around these days. You know?”
After a long silence, Christina spoke first.
“That I am a lamb?”
She replied, tickling the soft back of her hand with a slight movement of her fingers intertwined with hers.
Back.
Power entered her grip.
“Isn’t that too casual?”
“It’s not wrong, but what?”
To be honest, it was not an honorable act.
Aside from Sister and Daisy, who could be called hidden women, the fact that a man was reaching out to both Christina, a daughter of a high-ranking aristocratic family, and Iris, a woman from an imperial family.
No matter how much I was a Chepes who could crush all the noise with my power, I couldn’t even change my moral concept at all.
“It’s just because of me.”
Christina was worried.
It was unthinkable for me to tell the truth to my sister and Daisy and then hide it from Christina, so it was after I had already told everything.
Cristina, who understood her whole situation, turned a blind eye to accepting her Iris.
And now she was rather worried that her affair with herself might be preventing her from meeting Iris.
“Why do you say that?”
“That’s it. It cuts your face.”
“That’s you.”
“… You are the head of Chepes.”
Power went into her hand that held her against her.
I don’t know if she gave her power or if I gave it to her hand.
I pushed Christina.
Dump.
She collapsed on the bed, messing her long hair, and climbed on top of her staring blankly up at me.
As if chewing, he vomited out each word from within.
It sounded like a growl of an animal, a very harsh voice for me to hear.
“Before that, I’m your man too.”
So stop being silly.