Chapter 30 – The Price. ( 2 )
Cashew went up to school, left alone.
I knew Efri had taken the cognitive-impairment ring, but I didn’t have time to worry about that.
She walked down the street without even a ring on. People who recognized cashews bowed their heads to show her respect, but she refused. She didn’t even realize that she was saying hello. Cashew’s eyes were fixed only on the front, as if he was bewildered.
Cashew Nut, who finally arrived home, mechanically unlocked the door in front of the house and entered. After she tossed the bag away, she sat down on the couch. With her arms wrapped around her knees, she started biting her nails, full of her anxiety.
‘What do we do?’
Cashew chewed on her previous situation.
She didn’t even feel the need to do anything and stood still, but Eph Lee stepped in and took all the blame. After she blackmailed herself, she added nonsense that she was raped.
The level is not a simple violation of school rules, but the realm of crime. Efri’s life could have ended.
Immediately after being kicked out of her academy, images of Efri being investigated came to mind. I could see Efrey, who would be harassed and cursed at all times for raping her princess.
Such a thing can never be tolerated.
She picked up her phone. She dialed Efri’s number. She called right away. He had to confide in whoever received it. Efri would have done it for himself, but he wanted to follow Efri’s plan as much as possible.
It wasn’t this. He had to share the pain.
The buzzing sound was repeated. Twice, three times. I sincerely hoped that I could hear the phone ringing in the midst of countless numbers, and that someone would say “Hello.”
But the only thing that came back was the announcement of the absence.
Still, I didn’t give up. I kept calling with trembling hands. He had ten barrels piled up, twenty barrels piled up, and at this point he thought it was time to receive it, but still the other party over the receiver didn’t say anything.
In the end, Cashew dropped the phone powerlessly.
‘Efri… ‘
As she sat on the sofa, she repeated Efri’s name. She knows it doesn’t make any sense, but she has to do it anyway. Because he had to resist his decaying heart.
Then time passed by, and by the time the sun had completely set and it was getting dark. Suddenly, a phone call rang.
I lowered my head weakly to check the screen, and the name ‘Epri’ was written on it.
“Efri?”
I reflexively shouted the name and immediately picked up the phone. She slides the call button and brings it to her ear, and she hears her voice right away.
“Cashnuts… “
There was a lot of water in her voice.
She felt her heart thump as she hit the water straight. She was prepared to some extent, but her resolution was useless for the pain she faced.
Trying to suppress the tears in her heart, Cashew asked calmly what she was doing.
“What’s the matter? Why are you crying?”
“Cashew nuts… I have nowhere to go… Can I go to your house?”
“My house?”
“Huh… “
At Effrey’s words that she would go to the residence of the duke’s daughter, whom no one but her family should know about, the cashew nut thought for a moment.
But what does that mean? Efri has nowhere to go. Efri is crying over her troubles.
She immediately opened her mouth and gave her confidential information.
“Skitron, Beshirak, lord street 23-4.”
“Thank you, I will be there soon… “
As soon as she finished speaking, the phone hung up, leaving Cashews to spend another eternity.
I couldn’t understand what he meant when he said he had nowhere to go. Epri often talked about his caring parents. I could just go home, but where the hell did I go?
I was afraid to face the future contained in Epri’s tears. Even when she was stamped and beaten by Lilia, even when all her energy was drained, she was the one who inferred a bright future in her own way. That she was crying without any hope. I had no idea what the hell was going on.
Time gnawed at Cashew’s heart and drained her spirit. Unable to bear the heat spreading through her body, she took a cold water from the refrigerator and gulped it down. She bounced back and forth, trying to calm her anxiety somehow.
But she was of no use at all. The only solution for her is to meet Efri.
Perhaps that wish had come true, the doorbell rang shortly thereafter. She immediately checked outside on the intercom. The brown ponytail and mustard green eyes, clearly visible against the porch light, were Epri’s.
She had no time to think. She immediately opened the door.
“Cashew nuts… “
In front of the door stood Efri in her school uniform, her legs trembling.
Efri, dazed, slowly approached the cashews. Coming closer to her, I could see the marks on her calves and thighs.
Soon after, Epri was embraced by Cashew Nut. The attraction was full of desperation. I could definitely feel the tears leaking from Efrey’s eyes, down the nape of her neck.
“Cashews, cashews… Give me a mana potion… “
Efri’s request for a medicine that could cure everything seemed worth it.
Leaving behind her melancholy, I opened her medicine cabinet. He had already consumed more than half of his mana potion by playing. But Epri is sick, he says it’s hard. Something like this once in a while.
I opened the lid and went to Efri. As soon as he held out his bottle, Efri raised his head and drank all the way through. His pale complexion returned, his bruises disappeared, and his panting breath became steady.
The power of the mana potion to heal the body and mind was truly amazing.
In the meantime, cashew nuts hastily put ramen water in the pot. Obviously, in that state, I wouldn’t have eaten anything until now. I felt like I needed to feed him something to make him feel a little more stable. I wanted to cook properly, but I didn’t have time.
I put ramen soup in bubbling boiling water. The soup water, which had been boiling violently for a while, eventually regained its stability. I put two noodles and a flake, and I made the noodles twisty by holding them up and down appropriately.
Two front plates, two pairs of spoons, and one finished ramen were placed on a tray. When I turned around with it, Epri was already sitting in front of the sofa, waiting.
“Efri, haven’t you had dinner? Let’s talk while eating this.”
“Yeah, thank you.”
Efri, who picked up the chopsticks, looked more normal than before.
The sound of slurping filled the house. The two of them focused on eating without saying a word, F. Lee couldn’t eat because of his hardships, and cashew nuts drained his stamina from worrying about this and that.
In an instant, two pieces of ramen hit the floor.
“So what happened? What was the beating? Were you beaten by the life guidance director?”
“That, that… Long, so to speak.”
After hesitating for a moment, Epri immediately began to explain.
While being dragged away, Epri noticed that he had made a mistake. Rape after blackmail means rape. The fact that he raped the duke’s daughter was a very outrageous statement.
Fortunately, Eni, head of the life guidance department, wasn’t that strict or strict. Although she was blindly fooled by Efri’s performance, she soon noticed the discrepancy between her performance and information and used her psychometry ability to find out the truth about her.
The fact that Efri lied to protect cashew nuts.
Eni wanted to hide the wrongdoing of the two somehow, but she already had her eyes and words when she came to the life guidance department, so that was impossible.
Like the original truth, her proposal to share the sins equally was blocked by Efri’s resistance. Then, Epri was steadfast even when I told him the cruel reality that you would be expelled.
In the end, Eni decided to report her case with her words moderated. Rape became attempted rape, and the word blackmail disappeared. Added to this is the fact that she had a crush on cashews instead.
But just because she purifies the words didn’t mean she wasn’t expelled.
Still, she didn’t think much of it until she left the living guidance room. But not long after, an overwhelming feeling of anxiety about her future after her expulsion took over her head.
Even when she was eating a meal prepared by her parents, she couldn’t pick up a spoon because of that thought. Seeing her unable to eat a single bite of her, her parents’ eyes filled with worry added to her guilt.
In the end, unable to bear the anxiety, Efri confessed everything about her.
For a while there was silence in the house. What followed immediately was her father’s trembling scolding.
“Efri!! Are you crazy?”
The faces of her parents, who had always seemed peaceful, were filled with all her fears and her worries about her daughter.
Her mother sobbed, and her father, unable to contain his emotions, put Efri on a chair. Soon, the hawks fell on her calves and thighs one by one, and Efri howled and received the hawks, gritted her teeth and endured them.
After being beaten, Efri was evicted from her home.
“Efri, don’t come home today.”
Efri, who lost her place to go, cried and cried on the bench in front of her apartment. What will she do with her life if she gets expelled? How should father and mother live now? What to do with throbbing calves and thighs?
Then, a friend of hers popped into her mind.
Cashew Nut Lüberg.
She contacted me as if possessed, and Cashew Blown away the address of the house, which she said was confidential.
So she came home like this. It was like this.
“Cashew, what should I do… ? Whoa, whoa… Oh my god… “
Recalling her memory, Efri, who became anxious, hugged the cashew nut again. Again her tears dripped down the nape of Cashew’s neck, making her collar wet.
This sadness that started again was unbearably painful.
Unable to bear her pain, the cashew nut said.
“Efri, I’ll just say I did. If that doesn’t work, let’s carry it together. Is that actually true? Right?”
“No, no… “
The truth she wanted to deny came out of her mouth as she shook her head.
“I am an ordinary person, but you belong to a ducal family… This is the best If you get involved, things get even bigger. It’s better if I wear it myself… “
Efri was right. This method was the best. If she gets involved, things will only get bigger. Paradoxically, taking on all her faults was the way her Effrie suffered the least.
She thought there must be another way, but now she didn’t know if it was true or not.
Frie, who had been sobbing in her arms for a while, looked at the cashew nuts with her moistened eyes and whispered.
“Promise me this instead, cashew nuts… Will you love me?”
The feelings we felt for each other, but didn’t share.
Love.
In this gloomy moment, it was a feeling that allowed them to endure.
“Love you.”
Cashew said, hugging Efri tightly.
“I will love you until I die. Even if you hate me, I will love you to the end. I won’t forget We will be together forever.”
Why does this confession, which I was going to make in the most beautiful and shining moment, have to be written like this?
The cashew chewed and swallowed her rush of emotion, closing her eyes.
