Chapter 76 – 76. Interlude – The Duke’s Lady’s Strange Meeting
Sonia National Academy.
In this place where all the geniuses of the Isis continent gather, there is one girl who is currently attracting particular attention.
Refreshing impression with light blue short hair.
Always together ‘Female’Salamander.
Thanks to her ability to easily attract attention even if she just walks by, students who spot the girl rush over to say hello.
“Oh, Lady Duke. You have really beautiful eyes again. If it’s okay, would you like to have a cup of tea with me later?”
Among them, there was a date request that was so obviously dark that it made the girl frown,
“Dear Schubert! I challenge you to a rematch of magic sparring! Now, fight fair and square!”
There was also a challenge for a duel from a bun-haired countess with a strange way of speaking,
“Ah, Lady Schubert! Today we have fragrant chamomile tea! Will you come with us?”
There was also a desperate tea time invitation from followers who were always following the girl.
These boring days have already lasted several months.
The girl standing at the center, Elena Schubert, was slowly getting more annoyed.
At least because of her status as the duke’s daughter, she didn’t get angry, but she just wanted to chase them away by feeding them honey chestnuts.
Elena barely escaped the crowd and stood staring blankly at the statue of Goddess Isis in the very center of the academy.
The plaster statue, which is said to have been made to imitate the appearance of the goddess that the great saint Thesia encountered, boasted a quite beautiful appearance.
“If I were a goddess, would I have been able to face the saint every day? …”
Elena, looking up at the statue of her goddess, was strangely thinking only about her great saint, Thesia.
“Currrrm”
Sally cried softly and rubbed her face against her master’s leg.
The girl smiled bitterly at her gesture that seemed to comfort Elena, who had a faint look on her face.
“Are you comforting me, Sally?”
“Keeeuung.”
“Ahaha… After all, I only have you.”
Elena mumbled and gently patted the red Salamander’s back.
Sally calmly enjoyed her master’s touch, sparks burning in her tail as if she was happy.
It has been like this ever since her first meeting with her great saint.
Elena was completely captivated by her sweetness and gentleness, as well as her feminine charm.
It got worse day by day, and it got to the point where I even had a cheeky delusion of mixing my lips with that of a saintly woman.
Why did it end up like this?
The opponent is a legendary hero, even a woman like Elena herself.
Nevertheless, the girl fell in love with Tesia, who faced her as she was.
“Ha…”
Even the girl knows.
That this love cannot come true.
That’s why she tried several times to give up early.
『It may be proof that her saint loves her.』
『No matter what I do, I think of my other colleagues, and wherever I go, I want to be with them. Because that is love.』
Advice I gave to Daeseongnyeo whom I met by chance.
Because of her advice, which she spat out in an attempt to hide her own feelings, Elena only became more aware of her feelings for the great saint.
“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to face her feelings just a little bit.』
The saint’s face smiling beautifully under the moonlight.
It was clearly imprinted in Elena’s mind, making her still recall her memories of that day.
I want to meet Daeseongnyeo more.
I want to talk more.
I want to hold hands and enjoy a date together.
As that desire met the teenager’s unstable mind, the fire grew stronger.
But this is a dream that cannot come true.
The shackles of her position as the duke’s daughter will continue to shackle Elena and prevent her from even fully embracing her poor girlish fantasies.
Because Elena understood it well, she tried to ignore the overwhelming feeling of her first love.
No matter how painful or how difficult it is.
Elena swallowed the bitter taste on her tongue and left in front of the statue of her goddess.
She walked towards the main gate of the academy with Sally watching over the girl.
“Huh?”
At the edge of the girl’s field of vision, something strange caught her eye.
She was a strange person.
“Keuuuh, ummnya…” …”
She was a woman lying on the floor, sound asleep.
Judging from the fact that her face was bright red, she seemed to have been heavily drunk since midday.
She wanted to just ignore it, but she couldn’t.
Short, jet-black hair that is hard to find on the Isis continent.
Beautiful appearance and skin, and two fairly large chest pouches.
Blue pants that are short enough to reach her hips and a shirt with an unconventional design that exposes even her collarbone.
She was a beauty who strangely reminded me of the goddess statue that Elena had just encountered.
If a person like this were drunk and lying around on the street, it wouldn’t be surprising if he was kidnapped by some bad people.
“Okay… I can’t help it. Sally, can you help me out?”
“Kuiiing.”
After making her judgment, Elena, with Sally’s help, lifted the inebriated woman onto her back.
As she headed straight to her dormitory, Elena had to endure the smell of alcohol that assaulted her nose.
***
As soon as she barely arrived at her dormitory, Elena carefully placed the black-haired woman on her bed.
After taking off her shoes, he got a glass of water and put it on the shelf next to her bed.
“Phew…”
She felt proud that she had done a good job.
Sally came to Elena, who had wiped the sweat from her forehead, with a towel in her mouth.
“Ugh. Kieuung.”
“Lol. Thank you, Sally.”
I wiped the sweat from every corner of her body and roughly threw it into her laundry basket.
While she was sitting in her chair, catching her breath, Sally was sitting on top of the black-haired woman, staring at her face.
“Sally, come down. “First of all, you are a guest.”
“Keuung, kieuung. “Cry ring.”
“Uh huh, you can’t be stubborn. Come down.”
Elena tried to act angry, but Sally didn’t budge.
She wasn’t this stubborn to begin with, but she was just amazing.
It was at that time that she had no choice but to lure her with a snack.
“Ugh… It’s heavy…”
The black-haired woman mumbled with her slightly loose tongue.
She rubbed her eyelids and came face to face with Sally, who was sticking out her tongue.
“Yes… ? Why is Salamander here… ?”
It wouldn’t be strange for normal people to be surprised and freak out, but the black-haired woman was very calm.
If you consider their clothing and appearance, you can think of them as strangers who came from afar.
Only then did Sally get out of bed.
The black-haired woman looked around her room with a wrinkled expression, as if her head was pounding.
“Uh, what… “Where am I?”
“It’s my room. “He collapsed on the street, so I brought him here.”
“Uh… So? Thank you.
Fortunately, there seemed to be no problem with communication.
It was a little annoying to start speaking informally, but Elena decided to ignore it, saying it was a minor cultural difference.
As Elena looked at the black-haired woman taking a refreshing sip of her water, it occurred to her again that she looked very much like the goddess statue from the Academy.
For a moment she thought, ‘Perhaps?’ But she shook her head, saying that there was no way a goddess could be drunk and fall asleep on her street.
“Puhaa~! Ah, I will live! As expected, the water in this country is very clean! Is it thanks to Tesia?”
“Do you know Daeseongnyeo?”
Elena’s interest was instantly piqued by the stranger who naturally called the great saint’s name.
The black-haired woman shook her head and appeared to have completely shaken off the alcohol.
“Uh? Ah, um… Well, just a little.”
Was she something of an awkward subject?
The woman who resembled a goddess got up from the bed, awkwardly avoiding answering.
The woman came straight up to Elena and opened her mouth with a grin.
“Do you like Tesia?”
“… Yes!?”
What on earth is this person saying to someone they just met for the first time?
In contrast to Elena, who was embarrassed, the woman maintained her sly attitude.
“That’s right, that’s right. “She was completely smitten.”
“Oh, no! There’s no way you could have feelings like that for Daeseongnyeo!”
“Okay? Weren’t you the duke’s daughter? “I think your status is actually greater.”
The woman giggled as if she found Elena’s greatly embarrassed reaction amusing.
Elena couldn’t even guess how this woman found out that she was the Duke’s daughter.
There was no sign of any magic being used.
Her eyes rolled around because she was confused.
Elena pursed her lips and responded with her face blushing.
“And, we’re with the same women…”
“What does gender matter? These days, it is said that same-sex pregnancies can be achieved through magic.”
She had nothing to say because she argued like that.
Elena glanced up at the unidentified woman, her face turning bright red.
“How did you know? That I am the duke’s daughter… “I like the saint.”
“It’s natural because I am omniscient and omnipotent.”
She is still a woman who speaks incomprehensibly.
Believing that she had not yet completely sobered up, Elena decided not to ask any further questions.
“So, what are you going to do?”
“Yes? “What?”
“What? Confession, confession. “If you like me, shouldn’t I tell you how I feel?”
“Well, that’s…”
Elena also wants to convey her true feelings to her saint.
I’ve come to like you. I want to have a serious relationship with you.
But that wasn’t possible.
In her short teenage years, Elena didn’t even know how to react when her confession was rejected.
“Are you so scared of being rejected that you won’t even confess? “Isn’t that too arrogant?”
“Yes?”
The woman even saw through Elena’s heart.
She tried to ask how on earth she found out, but her woman was faster than I.
“There’s no way they’ll like you just because you like them. That’s natural. Because love begins as a one-way street.”
So, she continued her words.
“You have to make that child like you as much as you like him. It only has meaning if you make it conscious, make it look at you, and ultimately achieve it as your own.”
It was a strange thing.
For some reason, the words of the black-haired woman she had never seen before sounded as good to her ears as the voice of her great saint, Thesia.
“She won’t like you, so she’ll stay silent and not confess? So you think Tessia will like you just by standing around? “Where in the world can you find such an arrogant thought?”
“…”
“Think carefully. She might be taken away by someone else who stays still? If she’s a high school girl, she should know how to show off with the spirit of a high school girl.”
I didn’t know what the word “High school girl” Meant, but it was clear that it was at least meant to cheer Elena up.
That was correct.
If you stay still, nothing changes.
Only by moving forward can even the slightest possibility arise.
Even if her confession failed, it was clear that this was an opportunity for her to get one step closer to the great saint.
If she could somehow get closer to the saint she admired, Elena could be satisfied with that.
The nameless woman smiled at the girl who clenched her fist.
“People who like you appear randomly. But the person you like doesn’t come that easily. Work hard and try hard.”
After saying one last word, the woman immediately opened the door to her room and went out.
Just before the door closed, Elena quickly got up from her seat and chased after her woman.
“Hey, thank you so much… !”
However, Elena couldn’t even properly say thank you.
This was because the black-haired stranger who must have been walking down the dormitory hallway had suddenly disappeared.
He was an amazing person.
Closing her door and stroking Sally, who was sticking out her tongue, Elena rekindled her love.
… Just before the woman disappeared, she muttered, ‘Successful recruitment of harem members’.
