Chapter 28 – Episode 28. With Erania
Apparently, compared to other squads, Astrid’s squad and Akemilla’s squad blew away a lot of time.
In the morning score tally, Astrid’s squad was narrowly ahead of Akemilla’s squad and maintained first place, but due to the Helvey accident in the afternoon, the two squads without afternoon scores were counting at the end of the score quickly.
However, that did not mean that their skills were lacking, rather, they gained additional points such as quick judgment for retreating directly to the checkpoint and camaraderie between Leopold and Akemilla for trying to save Astrid, and the result came back as a vacation permit.
After completing the four-week training period, there is a one-month waiting period in the base.
During this period, I was able to move around Academy City without any restrictions. Of course, they couldn’t leave the city, but the vacation certificates that Astrid and Akemilla’s squad had acquired this time literally meant a one-month vacation, so they were given the privilege of going home for a month after completing the training period.
That afternoon after the results were announced. There were no training plans scheduled for that afternoon.
There had also been an accident the day before, and starting from the report that Astrid had defeated the monster, Kreuz von Einthafen naturally became furious and ordered a quick fact-finding after learning that the parties involved in the accident were Astrid, whom he had chosen as the daughter-in-law of Crown Prince Leopold. Thanks to that, the instructors were busy investigating the Honbibaeksan here and there as if they were on fire.
Of course, the cadets had no way of knowing such a situation, so they just enjoyed the break time thinking that it was a day off since there was an accident.
However, it was still forbidden to go out into the city, so the cadets could only rest at the inn or go for a walk around the area.
And right here, sitting on her bench, the silver-haired beauty, with her frown on her face, was oblivious to the gazes that were falling on her.
‘There’s no smartphone, no TV, and there’s really nothing I can do with this.’
There is one person here who cannot properly enjoy that rest, so it is Astrid von Mitterien.
She has no books to read, and she can’t even go to the academy’s library yet, so she can’t find a way to return to her original world, and when she’s in the dorm, there’s really nothing to do but roll around on the bed.
Reluctantly, Astrid had no choice but to go outside and sit on her bench and pass the time in a daze.
‘That’s strange… ‘
It must have been half a year and a few more weeks since she woke up here.
She hasn’t counted the days, so I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing it’s been that long.
Ever since then, she has never forgotten her true identity as Astrid.
‘You’re a man, um. I am a man I mean a man.’
Even though the body has become a woman, the mind is a man.
How devastated she was when she found out that she had a fiancé and that it was Leopold, the Crown Prince.
I’m a man in my head, and I’m still sure of that, but I have to get married sooner or later.
It’s absurd. It’s something that can never happen, it’s absolutely unacceptable, and it shouldn’t even happen.
As a result, I came this far, this academy. She had come all the way to the academy in order to somehow delay her marriage and to stay as far away from Leopold as possible, but that completely went beyond her calculations, and instead ended up sticking together.
‘… It’s kind of weird when you think about it.’
It wasn’t like this when I thought back to the time when I was living in the Northern Mitterien Territory, that is, when I saw Leopold in person only a few times.
Literally, I was able to do it like a cow and a chicken because I was just dumbfounded.
There were no emotions.
There was no excitement.
Yes, Astrid is a man.
There may be things that make a man’s heart flutter when he sees a man.
Even in Astrid’s eyes, it could be because Leopold was handsome and handsome with an atmosphere.
But Astrid wasn’t like that.
It was clearly a sexual preference for women, but what was there to be emotional about, and what was there to be inspired by? There was nothing like that at all.
‘In retrospect, since I came to the capital, did something strange happen?’
It must have been around the time when he and Leopold spent 24 hours together in the carriage after coming to the capital.
I was worried about Leopold’s actions and words, and from the time he was eating, I was worried about Leopold’s expression and things like that.
And ever since I came to this academy, and since the appearance of the cold-eyed Akemilla, every time Leopold does something strange little by little, I get annoyed.
‘It must be like this… ‘
I stopped thinking. He didn’t have the confidence to continue talking. If he said what would come next, it would be really big…
“Oh, Astrid. What are you doing here?”
When I looked up at the sudden voice, someone was standing in front of Astrid with their back to the sunlight.
If you look at the long hair that appears in the shadows, you don’t look like a man, but if you’re someone who can call Astrid by name, you’re right—
“Erana sister?”
Like Leopold and Astain, Astrid and Erania spent a week together and started talking.
Since the elf is a long-lived species, there must be a lot more Eranya in her age, and she herself says she is 25 years old, but she guesses that she probably subtracted one zero, and Astrid calls Erania her older sister. Reached an agreement Even though it was a half-forced agreement, the title of her older sister was quite common now.
“… Just basking in the sun.”
“Yeah, I thought you should get some sun. What is it with white skin?”
I thought I was talking to my in-laws.
Astrid originally had white skin, and since she rarely gets sunburned in the north, her skin is white because she doesn’t get tanned, but Eranya’s skin was fair as well.
“So what are you doing here?”
“Didn’t you say you were basking in the sun?”
Astrid didn’t know Eranya’s intention to ask her again exactly what she asked, so Astrid replied the same way. Then Erania grabbed Astrid’s hand and pulled it.
“What, what is it?”
“Let’s go to the store. The store is now open.”
“No, didn’t you just have lunch?”
Astrid brought a tray full of meat and ate it all as if it were natural for Astrid to ask if she would eat it all.
“That’s hungry. Women have a separate snack bar, right?”
“I don’t have anything like that, oh.”
Astrid was unusually strong, but she wasn’t weak to Erania’s strength either.
It’s only natural that if you don’t have the strength, you won’t be able to handle the bow properly, so she suddenly pulls Astrid’s hand.
“Then I will eat, so you just pay.”
“I beg your pardon?”
I wonder if all elves are like this, but when I suddenly thought about it, it dawned on me that the things I had been worrying about a while ago had completely disappeared because of Erania.
Because of that, Astrid also burst into laughter.
“All right. The squad leader gives me a treat.”
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Although it is called a canteen, the word PX would be more familiar to Astrid.
The structure of the first store I came to was like that. When you enter the entrance, you can see the cashier at the very front, and when you pass through the cashier, there are several shelves built up and full of products.
Starting with simple baked goods such as bread with sausage in the middle, muffins, and cupcakes, there was a fairly good assortment of baked goods such as cookies.
There was a bakery in the corner, and there was a drink bar next to it.
“It’s pretty serious.”
“Right? This is what I ate last week, and this was okay. You should try this too.”
Eranya snapped Astrid’s sausage buns into her basket without her consent. Astrid had no intention of eating anything in particular, but when she suggested it this far, she felt that she should still eat at least one.
– I thought, starting with sausage bread, cheese muffins and raisin cookies, snacks that look like dumplings with minced meat stuffed inside, and madeleine from the bakery, as well as cold black tea from the drink bar.
“… Did you know that this is more than I ate at lunch?”
Astrid took out a few coins from his wallet, counted them, and turned around.
“Erana sister?”
Looking around her, Eranya, already seated at her empty table by her window, was waving her hand at Astrid.
“Here, here!”
She left her calculations to Astrid, took her vacant seat, and had already started eating.
“Sister, I just ate lunch. Do you really know?”
Astrid laughed as she pulled out the table across from her, Eranya also smiled broadly at Astrid.
If you look at it like this, you can’t tell who is the older sister and who is the younger brother.
“If you eat well, you will train well. Would it be okay if the strong troops came with supplies? I only ate that crap for a week, but this isn’t enough to make up for.”
Even so, Astrid was dumbfounded as she watched Erania stuff her cheese muffin into her mouth.
And on that day, Astrid ended up eating only one sausage bun, and the rest went to Eranya.
