Chapter 9 – Interlude
If you go a little deeper into the alley of Jejedo Restaurant Street, you will find a restaurant.
Satisfaction beyond that for a reasonable price. It is usually a hidden restaurant.
When I first found this restaurant, there were 3 people. What is he going to do
It is a restaurant with many memories made by the three of us. Cry, laugh, fight, and reconcile.
So what are you doing in this place with lots of memories
I was drinking to become a dog.
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Did you say that alcohol amplifies people’s emotions?
Emotions that would normally have been overlooked flare up as if fuel was poured into the fire the moment alcohol is added.
Edward and Heina, who are drinking in a place of memories, will not be much different.
“It reminds me of the old days.”
Those were the words of Edward, who had become somewhat drunk.
There is not a single person and there is alcohol, which was not there at the time, but the drunkenness circulates through the brain once and passes.
It didn’t matter to them.
“What is he doing?”
His name was William Strass, but his close friends called him Bill.
Well, there were only two people sitting here.
“He? He’s probably going to be taking an heir class after graduating and going back to the estate and getting married.”
“To be honest, I still don’t know how we got to know each other. He’s a real aristocrat, but he’s from a different world than us.”
“I thought I was crazy at first? Of course, not all nobles are like that, but I didn’t know they were that easy-going.”
It was sharp, but it was Heina’s words that were not wrong.
“But seeing him hang out with us so casually, I thought he must have come to the academy because he would go crazy if he stayed in the real estate.”
Normally, it would have been correct to say something good at this point, but it was her words that did not deflect the direction.
It just proves that they are close friends.
Did you say that people who are really close don’t remember how they became close?
They were also going together at some point with three people.
“How did we really get to know each other?”
“I don’t remember very well, but at the beginning, each group was doing something.”
Their first meeting started with group formation for a group assignment.
Randomly placed numbers, by chance or fate, landed the three of them in a row.
Right now, Edward Weiss can be a little relaxed with a little bump, but
At that time, Weiss lived as if there was no way for him to study.
One student in a group who doesn’t even notice except studying,
One of the world’s most optimistic students
A student who was thinking about dropping out due to family problems and aptitude problems.
If you ask the question, “Describe how these three became close,” The error rate will probably skyrocket.
At one point, the three of us were walking around together.
And that’s already been 7 years.
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“By the way.”
Heina’s face conveyed the meaning of whether someone had something to say to me.
Before that, they were the ones who ordered additional drinks without anyone saying anything.
“Don’t you have anything to say to me?”
Usually, this is a word that comes out when someone is wrong between a man and a woman in a romantic relationship.
The two weren’t even close yet.
Both of them are in a state of being drunk and saying nothing.
“About tutoring?”
“Then what else is there?”
Actually, she wanted to talk about something else, but it was still a story of one-sided feelings.
Edward, who was drunk, was even less aware of it.
“Tutoring? Nothing special. He started geometry now. Come to think of it, didn’t you learn geometry from me too?
Anything else, I don’t understand.”
A pain came half a beat late into Edward’s arm. It was the result of the pain being blunted by drunkenness.
“No talking about the past.”
“Okay. Instead, don’t go talking somewhere.”
She trusted me, hey, and Edward thought she wasn’t the type to go out and talk, so it was a formal remark.
“Two weeks ago? I was living like an unemployed at home, and the professor called me.”
It was a bonus to say how he knew where I lived.
“The Fellowes family is looking for tutoring, but they say I’ll be a good fit.”
“So I didn’t go to save you, but they called you?”
She asked again with an expression of incomprehension.
If the person concerned did not understand, there is no way others will understand.
“So I’ll pay for the travel expenses, so she stopped by once and told me to go, so I went.”
“I went and talked to the parents, but a student just arrived, so they told me to talk to them and go.”
“Is it a girl?”
Edward felt cold. But I just assumed the weather would be the weather and passed it on.
Edward, who was a schoolgirl, wanted to say that he hadn’t said it the other day, but he was afraid of the other person’s momentum, so he couldn’t say anything.
“Uh.”
“So.”
At some point, a dot, not a question mark, was being put on the mother, but Edward was clueless.
“But as soon as I first saw him, he talked about himself, but he unilaterally talked about something that made him feel bad.”
“I don’t think it’s a situation to talk about right now, so I went to the next time because I thought I’d do it next time, and then I decided what to do. That’s all.”
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Turn the time back a few days ago
The day Edward Weiss gave his first class and went for a drink.
Heina Thor Lern had a stressful day in her life.
It didn’t matter too much what made her, her grad student, full of her annoyance.
As a matter of fact, the majority of graduate students’ stress was derived from their advisors and professors.
She was, in fact, a decent person, as long as she was her advisor.
Compared to other professors, she rolls more than twice as many graduate students, but that’s the result, as she’s put it, after her follow-up.
However, she was already in her second year, and there was no room for such thoughts in her head.
Today, she just spends the day feeling herself becoming something other than a person.
I don’t know what happened, but she was able to leave work early today, so she was only full of thoughts that she had to drink today.
How did she come to graduate school?
She left the darkened college campus and headed to her favorite bar.
The three of us… It was really rare for one person to appear, so there was only one person who actually went often.
The problem was that none of them knew where they were and what they were doing.
As she passed her annoyance on the missing person, she said she had arrived at the bar before she knew it.
“Welcome.”
As she guided the waiter to a table for two by the window, she noticed that someone had already taken her usual seat.
She tucked away and dropped the bag she was holding in her hand.
A friend from the academy, whom I hadn’t seen in three years, was sitting there.
“Uh…?”
Only the words came out of the mouth without passing through the brain.
All kinds of emotions came and went here and there, such as pleasure, resentment, and irritation, but none of them took the lead.
There are only emotions left unexpressed.
“Why are you acting like someone who saw something you couldn’t see?”
Bad guy, I wondered if that was something I would say to someone I had seen for the first time in 3 years.
However, I thought I wouldn’t be able to say anything if I stayed like this, so I decided to spit out whatever I said.
“If it’s like you, the chief of the department disappeared without saying anything after the third year, but run into it at the bar you went to by chance.”
The words that came out at the end of the long story were like this, even thinking to myself was stupid.
At one point, without realizing it, I was sitting in the seat in front of him.
After asking for a glass, he poured himself.
I did it because I thought that if I didn’t do anything, I would be doing nothing and acting like an idiot.
My feelings right now are amazement or bewilderment.
Or is it joy?
First of all, you have to listen to what you’ve been doing for 3 years before guessing.
“So what are you doing these days?”
The old tone came out again, you goblin bitch.
“Tutoring.”
Tutoring? Is he No, I also learned from him, so he teaches surprisingly well, but tutoring?
“Actually, I was unemployed until two weeks ago.”
I poured a drink and raised a glass, so I listened together.
“I started tutoring through the introduction of Professor Rosalyn.”
Why are you suddenly tutoring when you say you have a topic you want to study?
Let’s hear the before and after. There must be a reason why he did it.
“So who are you?”
“The second daughter of the Faroes family.”
“So why did you do it? What about preparing the thesis?”
He didn’t say anything, just made a circle with his finger.
It’s because of the money.
I wanted to ask what had happened, but now didn’t seem like the right time.
“Let’s have a drink and go.”
He said he was going to the bathroom.
“Goodbye.”
I guess I even did the math.
You seemed cold from the old days, but you were considerate like this without words.
“I’ll live next time. See you again.”
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After he left, I stood in a daze and watched where he left.
Silent care, even though you say that you are a friend
Aren’t you That there are people who are comforted by that quiet consideration?
Both at the academy and at college.
It was so nice to be there quietly laughing, crying, and comforting you all the time.
If I tell you, as always, you’ll say there’s no particular reason.
I didn’t know much at first. Is this simply a crush as a friend or is it some other emotion.
But I didn’t see you for 3 years, so I only knew then.
This is love
Although I, a coward, cannot speak right now
Someday, I will definitely tell you in front of you.
Love you.
