Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero chapter 86

86 – Parade

Wednesday, after a short date with Instructor Lilya.

Titania has been visiting me since early morning.

To be precise, she was more like breaking into the room.

“Instructor! Did you wake up? Instructor Ion~♪”

Current time, 6 in the morning.

It’s a bit early for the day to start, and most people are in a deep sleep.

But that didn’t apply to me. Because of my long military service, my wake-up time was much faster than others.

I woke up at 5:00 am, jogged lightly and patrolled the surroundings, then returned to my room and finished taking a shower when I heard Titania knocking outside the door.

Her knock was closer to ‘bang bang’ than ‘knock knock’.

“Instructor Ion! Umm, are you still sleeping? Instructor! Wake up! The sun has already risen!”

“Tanya, it seems too fast anyway….”

“… I want to sleep again.”

“… ….”

There were several signs of popularity outside the door.

She wanted to ignore the knock, but Titania seemed unwilling to leave until she opened the door.

I opened the door with a slight sigh.

Titania wasn’t the only one on the other side of the door. I could see Titania and Gwynne, who had changed into street clothes as if they had already finished preparations early in the morning, and Oznia, who was making a statue to die as if she had been dragged from her sleep.

As soon as the door opened, Titania tried to smile brightly, but when she saw me, she widened her eyes in surprise.

“Instructor- Eh.”

“Wow, wow!”

“Eh….”

Since I had just finished taking a shower, I was wearing no top, just a towel around my neck.

My voice sounded a bit cold, probably because I was interrupted by an unprepared situation.

“What the hell is going on at this hour?”

It was a tone to scold the rudeness of the students who had been knocking on the door of the instructor’s office since this morning, but there was no reply.

The three female students just stood with their mouths open in a daze.

Titania froze in her smile, Gwynn covered her face but her eyes poked out from between her fingers. Oznia opened her mouth in a triangular shape, like a bird, with her eyes wide open in her astonishment.

Such a moment of silence continued for quite a long time.

As if to break her long silence, Titania, whose face was even more red than before, opened her mouth, rattling like her broken machine.

“Ah, ah, ah… uh, we… I’ll come back later!!”

She couldn’t find a suitable excuse and shut the door hastily.

The sound of the door closing was the hurried footsteps of the three schoolgirls and something almost screaming of shame and astonishment.

I let out a deep sigh and shook my head. Then I dried my wet hair and put on my top.

It was about 30 minutes after that when the three of them came back.

Smart-

It was a much quieter knock this time.

I answered in a calm voice.

“It is open.”

“… Excuse me.”

Titania opened the door slightly and pushed her face through the crack to check my appearance. Then, making sure she was properly dressed, she cautiously entered the room.

Following her, Gwynn and Oznia came in as if nothing had happened.

“What happened?”

“That, today… You promised to go to the festival together….”

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“Since early in the morning?”

“I-it’s better to go early…” ! If it’s late, it’s hard to get on the tram….”

Titania’s expression was filled with shame about what had just happened, but also excitement and anticipation for the festival.

It seems that it was a situation where she woke up early because she was so excited to see the festival, so she woke up her friends and came to see me right away.

Thinking back, we promised to visit the festival together, but we didn’t set an exact time.

And as Titania said, considering that she was in trouble because there were more people than usual when she rode the tram with Instructor Lyria yesterday, she had a point in her opinion.

But no matter how excited she was, Titania’s behavior was clearly rude.

I definitely made that point.

“From next time, make sure to set an appointment time and come.”

“Yes, sorry… I’m so excited, I stop without realizing it….”

“I wish I knew. Waiting for you at the front door. I will prepare and leave soon.”

“…… Yes!”

Titania couldn’t hide her delight at my words, and she smiled brightly.

***

Fortunately, there were no problems with the festival viewing with the students.

On the first day, there was a commotion in the back alleys while patrolling, but today I came out purely to enjoy the festival, so I wanted to pass as little as possible.

Titania seemed to have decided to relieve her regret that she hadn’t properly looked around when she had been to the market before, so she wandered around every corner of the island all morning.

Since it is impossible to visit every corner of the vast islands in one day, we only traveled around the central road with a large floating population.

Of course, there was no problem in enjoying the festival even if you went around that much.

“Instructor Ion! Look over there! What is that big white thing?”

“It is an ice statue. It looks like you carved a white dragon. You managed to prepare that much ice for this season.”

“Wow! Is that the white dragon Albnisis? Oh! There are so many people over there! What are you doing?”

“It’s a game of dice. Never mind. They are all scammers anyway.”

“Hmm, actually I didn’t look funny either. It was a bit strange to see people flocking to it.”

“… Is that strange?”

“Yes!”

Titania said with a bright smile.

“Because you don’t see so many people in the forest. It’s so amazing to see so many people getting together and enjoying something!”

“Don’t elves hold festivals?”

“Ummm… well? There is a festival to pray for the well-being of the family to the ancestors, but it’s not that fancy. The festival of the elves has a more serene and serious feel. That’s why these human festivals feel quite fresh!”

Titania said with a little regret.

“I wish Marianne and Elizabeth were there too.”

“… ….”

Unlike these three people who can enjoy the festival normally, students with high social status are not in a situation where they can enjoy the festival now.

It seems that Schurz enjoyed the festival in his own way until yesterday, but he seemed to have gone to help his father, his chancellor, today. Marianne had to stay at home for a few days as she had been called from her home, so she hadn’t returned to the dormitory since yesterday.

Not to mention the princess, Elizabeth.

Titania tried to smile.

“It’s okay though. We promised to watch the parade together on the last day.”

“Did you make that promise?”

“Yes. The last time I was in the break room, wait a minute. Everyone said they would make time somehow. It will be difficult for Elizabeth, but she will still be in the same place.”

“I see.”

Obviously, other students would mainly watch the parade, but Elisabeth would rather participate in the parade.

It doesn’t feel real when you see it in the dormitory, but anyway, she was the princess of this empire.

“We decided to watch Elizabeth at the parade together. I’m really curious to see what it will look like.”

Titania said with her expectant eyes.

“Will the instructor come to see you too?”

“Um….”

Is it a parade?

Actually, I had no intention of going to see it.

It was because there was a high possibility of meeting unwelcome faces, and he was not very interested in festivals from the beginning.

If I hadn’t been invited by Instructor Lyria or Titania, I wouldn’t have been able to see the festival like today. I wouldn’t have cared about what festival was going on outside, just focusing on my work as usual.

However, I couldn’t decide if it would be okay if I, the instructor, were the only one who participated in the event where all the students participated.

It would have been nice if I could ask Instructor Lilya for her advice, but because of what happened yesterday, her face was a bit uncomfortable.

“… When the time comes.”

“MUST! Do I have to make time for it? The Opal Black class decided to gather together, but I can’t do it without Instructor Ion!”

She was about to move on to a moderately ambiguous answer, but Titania seemed to take it as a sign that she would definitely attend if she had time.

If she didn’t go to see the parade, she had a clear future in which she would regret why she didn’t come.

While I was thinking about how to get over this, Gwynn and Oznia, who left for a while to wash her hands, returned.

But suddenly, in Gwynn’s arms, there was a huge teddy bear the size of a human upper body.

Titania was startled to see the doll, she asked.

“Gwynn! What the hell is that teddy bear?”

“Oh, this? Some guy over there is cheating with dice. So when I caught it, the man selling dolls next to me thanked me. I was at a loss as to what to do with it, but would Tanya have it?”

“Really? Is that okay!?”

“… ….”

She seemed to be referring to the dice game she had just seen.

That’s how Titania said she would repay Gwynn, and she took part in an archery competition and won first prize.

In the meantime, Oznia continued to be swept away by the crowds, and at the end there were small and small happenings that ended like slime, but it was a normal and uneventful day.

That evening, a letter arrived from Elizabeth.

On the day of her parade, it was said that she would be riding a fairway.

Titania regretted not being able to watch Elisabeth up close, but she was genuinely delighted that she would be aboard her flyby.

Thus Thursday passed smoothly.

Friday, the last day of Victory Day, is approaching.