Chapter 29 – Episode 29. We Need to Talk About the Same Things
Training is only during the week, but on the weekends, I usually have free time.
However, Astrid doesn’t like to spend time just playing aimlessly, but today, the 2nd week of training, Sunday, I kicked out Eranya who was lying on the bed from the morning and took out all the bedding and lined it up in front of the parade ground to dry in the sun. .
Sitting on the bench next to it, staring blankly at the bedding, in case someone might steal it, it would be really boring, and I wondered why I was doing this.
‘What else do you do in the afternoon… ‘
I finished the laundry yesterday, and if I have to dry it in the sun from morning, now I’m worried about what to do in the afternoon.
‘Ball… Well, prom next week… ‘
On Saturday night at the end of Week 4, there is a prom.
It was a graduation ceremony or something, but there Leopold and Astrid had to dance to announce the beginning and end of the prom.
It’s a dance that needs to be performed twice like this, so it’s not understandable that Akhemilla wants to hand over the beginning dance.
‘You can’t say it out loud like that. It’s really not cheap.’
It was like that all week.
Even in the training that was mixed with the squad, he was so flirting next to Leopold that Astrid was dying from a fever while watching.
But to show it off, I hated it because it was training and it seemed like I was revealing my private feelings, and I hated it even more because it seemed like it was because of Leopold.
‘Why am I doing this? What’s the matter?’
There is definitely a sense that he is a man.
But somehow, when I see Akhemilla flirting with Leopold, I get a tantrum.
I want to go right now and complain about what I’m doing, what kind of romance I’m trying to do at the sacred academy…
“Oh, isn’t that the squad leader?”
When she looks up, Astein is smirking.
“… Astain, are you at the concession stand too?”
Astrid, like Leopold, was a year older than Astein, so they were talking naturally.
“Yes? Oh no. I ate a lot for breakfast.”
“Okay… You still have a bit of common sense.”
Compared to last week’s Eranya, Astein’s reaction is common sense.
“I am a bit common sense. Squad leader, what are you doing here?”
Without asking if she could sit down, Astain casually sat down next to Astrid. The series of actions were so natural that Astrid didn’t even think it was strange.
“… I was just basking in the sun.”
It’s an excuse.
However, since it was impossible to tell the truth, Astrid made an appropriate excuse, but it seemed to be a failure.
When I saw that face that seemed to have closed her eyes as the corner of Astain’s eyes lifted slightly, Astein must have been thinking about something else.
“Do you know something strange, squad leader, from yesterday?”
“I? What?”
It was hot on the inside.
Because it was weird She didn’t want to see Arkemilla fawning over Leopold, and she was annoyed.
That was the look on her face.
Astrid said she had a poker face. That’s why it’s difficult. Astrid thought to herself that she needed to manage her facial expressions and pretended to be nothing.
“Ah, that’s a disgruntled face. Aren’t you in need of a conversation partner?”
“Not at all. I’m not the type to raise troubles.”
Strangely, everything Astain said fits perfectly.
Astrid had been thinking about why she had changed like this a while ago, why she was annoyed whenever Leopold talked to Archemilla, and whenever he neglected her.
“Okay, Squad Leader. Didn’t I say that you seemed worried?”
“…”
This is why smart wizards are like that.
Astrid clicked her tongue and licked her lips.
“Ah, aren’t you worried because you can’t solve your worries alone? I’ll listen to you, so why don’t you try talking to me?”
‘No, what do you see through?’
Astrid doesn’t think he’s simple, but Astein’s words were a bit tempting.
‘Maybe, if I just do some counseling, I’ll get better?’
What’s the use of worrying and moaning on your own?
Astrid thought for a while more, then opened her mouth hesitantly.
“… It’s not about me, it’s not really about me, it’s about my friend.”
“Oh, squad leader, did you have a friend?”
“Hey.”
No friends
But to tell the truth like this makes me feel bad.
If Ashley is also a friend, then he is a friend. Even if it’s a bloodless brother.
If you’re like friends, aren’t you friends?
“I have some friends too. Anyway, I’m talking about my friend.”
“Yes, the squad leader’s friend.”
Astain leaned back on his bench and twitched her fingers.
“No… My friend is also a woman, but she’s engaged anyway. Okay?”
“That’s right, I’m a commoner, so I don’t know much about it, but I heard that it’s normal for nobles to have fiances. So anyway?”
“Uh… But, she and her fiancé must be on bad terms, right? We are not interested in each other, we are not interested in anything… Like a cow and a chicken.”
“See cow chicken? What else do you mean by that?”
Ah.
It seems that these words are not used here.
“It’s a proverb among the northern immigrants. When you say people who don’t care about each other. Anyway, that’s what it is.”
“Hey, so what are you going to do with your married life? If we get married, it will be difficult for both of us.”
“That, that’s none of your business!”
She was strangely embarrassed.
It was obviously about a friend, but Astrid had a feverish face on her face and thought she’d rather stop talking now, but she thought it would be better to just keep it until the end.
“So what? A man and a woman who are not interested in each other, they are engaged. So?”
Astein was also laughing at her single single.
“Anyway, anyway, but my friend, strangely, has no interest in the fiancé. Just no emotion, just like we know each other, just like that?”
“Yes yes.”
“But she said that the engagement brags somehow made us stick together. But then it’s a bit inconvenient and that’s it. Yes?”
At Astrid’s words, Astain tilted her head.
As if she heard something incomprehensible.
“I don’t have any feelings, but is there anything that makes me uncomfortable? Can’t we just live like everyone else?”
“No, because it is not. Anyway, that’s why Leopold doesn’t pay attention to me, and then I get angry and annoyed. Do you know what I mean? Do you understand?”
Astain stared at Astrid.
Now this beauty wonders if she knows what she’s talking about.
Leopold told her that when she didn’t take care of her, she was angry and annoyed at her, but she didn’t seem to be aware of it.
Astrid, who was staring at Astein with her face clenching her fists and asking if this made sense, was hard to believe that she was the woman who had attacked the monster from the front with her strength.
“Anyway, so what?”
“So what is it? He said he didn’t understand why he was in a bad mood, annoyed, or angry because he didn’t take care of him, even though he obviously had no feelings.”
“Ah… You did. But usually that… “
Astain smiled and said to Astrid.
“They say it’s jealousy.”
“… What?”
Astrid, who had been talking feverishly, stopped at that moment.
“… Jee, Jealousy… ?”
“Yes. He said that the squad leader’s favorite Cadet Leopold takes care of a different woman than he, and then he gets angry and annoyed.”
“Muh, what are you talking about! … Town.”
Astrid tried to exhale and scream, but blocked her mouth while watching the gaze around him.
“My, not me! You said it wasn’t about me!”
“Ah, it was. Anyway, the squad leader’s friend said that he gets angry and annoyed when his fiancé takes another woman. That’s jealous Is it normal?”
“Gee, support, jealousy… !”
Leaving Astrid with a bewildered look on her face, Astein stretched her and stood up from her bench.
“I’m going to hang out the laundry. Tell your friend something.”
“What, what are you saying?”
At Astrid, whose face turned red, Astein smiled and said,
“I just want to catch it quickly. Originally, it’s a man and a woman, and the fastest one wins.”
“…”
“Good luck, squad leader.”
After saying that, Astein’s back slowly walked away, Astrid stared blankly.
*
“Oh, isn’t it Cadet Leopold?”
“Ah… Sister Veracien. See you here.”
Leopold sat blankly on the flower bed on the way to the restaurant.
And Vera Shien, who was returning to the church, saw that and spoke to her.
“What are you doing here? It doesn’t look very pleasant.”
Without anyone’s permission, Vera Shien also sat on her bench, next to Leopold.
“There is no such thing as worry.”
Veracien’s purple eyes drew a soft arc.
“Oh, I didn’t say if you have any concerns.”
“…”
“Pretend you’re confessing, confide in me. What’s your problem? Concerns are solved quickly when shared.”
“That is… Hmm.”
Leopold thought for a moment.
Are you a nun? War nun. If it’s a confession, wouldn’t it be okay?
Finally Leopold made up his mind.
“… It’s not about me, it’s about a friend of mine, but my friend has a fiancée he got engaged to when he was young… “
