48 – Misunderstandings lead to misunderstandings
Because I had to improve my skills as much as I could before the exchange meeting, I played Mari hard for four days.
At first, he was just an opponent of our Dalian, but as I expected, the number of defeats gradually increased, and he himself expressed his intention to join this group.
Somehow, it seems that I have succeeded in properly touching the tip of his hair, the desire to compete latent in his mind.
“Whoa, you both worked hard.”
“You worked hard too.”
Today, after school, the three of us gathered at the gymnasium and finished our work, congratulating each other on our hard work.
Always first started with Aden, then me, and then.
“Chi, you can’t win today…. Something must be wrong with this!”
Over there, the guy struggling on his legs in the distance. This was our standard greeting order.
Even though Hannom is busy chatting away today, let alone say hello.
“Cultivate your skills while denying reality. How can you be called Class B if you can’t beat even two students from Class E?”
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he touched Marie’s inner feelings and smiled.
In the first place, I had no intention of accepting his complaint.
My basic mentality is that if you twist it, you’ll do well.
“That’s weird! I don’t know because you’re originally a weird guy, but what the hell is that guy! There must be some trick!”
“Ahahahaha….”
At my provocation, the guy who had been swearing at my provocation until yesterday, saying that he would show his true self tomorrow, started complaining in earnest today.
Anyway, it’s too much to say that he’s a strange guy.
Rather, the strange side is that guy who is doing his best even though he is covered in the main character correction, not me.
It was the same as Aden who was dumbfounded when he saw Marie lying on her bed and complaining of resentment like a child who had been defeated by the scabbard.
I think I know what you want to say, but I decided to ignore it.
Since he has a good personality, he probably wants to ask why he brought a guy like that to Dalian, even if he can’t bear to say it.
To be honest, if I add a bit of exaggeration, Mari’s current skill is two numbers below Aden and me.
It is true that he is not suitable as an opponent to improve his skills, and considering that he has to prepare for the exchange meeting in a few weeks, it may be even more ambiguous.
However, I couldn’t tell Aden. The reason I brought Marie in the first place was to help her improve her skills, not to have her match.
I don’t know if there’s one more person who can be a match for me and Aden, but surely at this rate it might not be enough to develop our skills.
‘I’ll have to come up with a countermeasure.’
So sorting out the current situation, I glanced over the three-only training room.
As long as I can’t figure out the opponent’s strength, in the end, no matter how much I develop my skills, it just feels like it’s not enough.
Possibly, Aden and I would be able to go up a bit more if there was an opponent that we could compete with, not just each other.
After all, is it a lack of manpower?
‘Even if I seduce Marie somehow, the rest is a problem.’
Lorne is still unresolved with Aden, so he is reluctant to bring her.
Of course, if you ask them to come, they will come, so let’s make an offer.
Tina is inferior to Marie in terms of power, so it’s out of the question, and her best person is Elisha, but she seems so busy that I don’t dare to ask her.
But, since my nose is dead, I have to put out the fire first, so I have no choice but to put my face down again and try to speak.
“Anyway, let’s finish today at this point and go. It’s already pretty late.”
After leaving my seat, I went to the shower room with Aden and washed my body in hot water and rolled my hair alone.
I told Aden about the facts, but she said there are things she can discuss and there are things she can’t.
* * * *
Elisha recently got a good informant.
Of course, she didn’t infiltrate her maid, Kelsey, or her family as operatives, but her friend, Marie, played the role of an informant.
If so, wouldn’t there be information that can be extracted as much as it is called an informant?
It was none other than the news about Bell.
‘It’s a bit like using a friend, though.’
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Her guilt pierced her heart weakly, but Elisha tilted her teacup, thinking that Marie would tolerate this much.
Recently, Marie has gotten really close with Bell.
If you actually say this to yourself, you’ll jump out of your seat saying there’s no place to get close to a guy like that, but it’s an undeniable fact when you look at it from the perspective of an objective third person.
Even from the perspective of Elisha, it was clear that she harbored more affectionate feelings beyond the friendship between her friends.
So she took advantage of this in reverse.
When a person falls in love, they tend to be busy telling stories about the other person.
For example, what that person wore today, what he said yesterday, or what we ate together today.
Even if you give her a little luck by asking her if she met Marie and asked if she didn’t meet Bell today, is she busy talking about herself?
And according to the news recently obtained through that informant, a rather mysterious act caught Elisha’s eye.
‘Dalian.’
The three of them, a tortoise from class E that Bell has been with often, and Marie, are sparring after school and on weekends.
Of course, the situation itself is not strange.
As a cadet at her academy, devoting time to honing her skills is not strange, but rather sincere.
But what Elisha thought was a little odd was Belle herself.
First of all, judging from the circumstances, it is a self-evident fact that he is the successor of the sword castle.
With that premise going in and looking back at her memories, she can see what happened and how it went when Bell suddenly did something she wasn’t expecting.
Yes. The Wizard’s Forest Incident.
He predicted that the incident would happen early on, and used the tour ticket to infiltrate Class C’s class, and solved the incident that almost turned into a major accident.
It must be because of that that she had been taking lessons from her and her Marie and had been on a long journey to break through the seats in her mock exam.
Now let’s change the perspective again.
Isn’t there something similar to that time?
Of course, it could be speculation. However, the reason Elisha puts her trust in this reason is that there is one more similarity to that time.
‘Exchange meeting. That was it.’
Elisha’s eyes shone sharply as she retraced her upcoming schedule.
The exchange meeting was brought forward due to the circumstances of the academy.
Like the exploration of the Wizard’s Forest, this is also considered one of the biggest events of the year.
If there is a slight difference, it would be that the exploration of the Wizard’s Forest only applies to the 1st year C class, and the exchange meeting is applicable to all academy cadets.
Anyway, the difference between that time and this time is that his course of action has changed ahead of a certain big event.
That the event is an event in which academy cadets are more likely to be exposed to outsiders than usual.
These two things were the reason Elisha couldn’t lightly pass on the news she had heard from Marie.
‘There’s a good chance that you noticed it beforehand this time too. Then this time from this side….’
I have no choice but to give you strength.
Elisha nodded her head firmly and set her course of action from her tomorrow.
* * * *
Marie’s partner for lunch is usually fixed.
Occasionally, she eats with the other girls from class B, but most of the time, it’s a cozy time with Elisha, her best friend.
Even in her A class, it was not difficult to summon cadets from other classes to her A class exclusive terrace, using the privilege given to her as she is at the top of her class.
“What? Elisha, will you do it too?”
Today, while sitting on the terrace where the warm sun shines through, we continued to knife together.
Mari’s thin voice broke and her eyes blinked a couple of times.
The wave that Elisha caused was quite large.
“Yes. It can not?”
Marie shook her hand in bewilderment as she looked at Elisha who asked her casually.
What Elisha said she wanted to do was sparring, which the three of them have been doing every day.
There’s nothing wrong with adding one more person to it, and even though she may not be the organizer of the meeting, when Marie presented this proposal to Bell, she expected him to readily accept it.
But what I was curious about was what caused the sudden change of heart.
First of all, Elisha has a personality that doesn’t like hanging out with others. Marie knew this better than anyone else.
She accepted all of the sparring she did after entering the academy because her opponent requested it, but she never stepped forward and competed.
But, what kind of wind blew this time?
‘Even if those two were strong, they wouldn’t be as strong as Elisha.’
If the reason Elisha wanted to join this gathering was because she considered the two to be of the same level of strength as her, then Marie wondered if that was going too far.
Of course, those two are strong for class E.
To be precise, as a shy class B cadet, he was so strong that he couldn’t even hold out his business card. It should be at least equivalent to Class A.
I don’t know where two of those monsters came from and blended into class E, but I thought they would be somewhat inferior at least compared to the Elisha Crozel that Marie remembered.
Elisha hates this very much, but she is the blood of that red sword, not anyone else.
Mari’s guess was that there would be a wall that couldn’t be crossed fundamentally, and a strength that couldn’t be compared.
Even so, she dares to blend in with the crowd, even wasting her time.
Perhaps there is another reason beyond that.
‘No way?’
Continuing her thoughts, Mari felt her uneasiness overtake her and cast her gaze at her friend, who continued her knife sharpening.
Come to think of it, Elisha has been strangely interested in Bell since before, and has shown her favor.
Although she had never brought her closer enough to see her, she often showed little hints of her desire to get closer, asking Marie about him in a subdued tone from time to time.
And today, he even brought up these words.
Maybe this.
‘Elisha saw that fool… ?’
Continuing her guess, Mari tried to put the small piece of meat into her mouth, but it hardened like a stone statue.
Falling in love with her expression, Elisha in front of her just continued her meal with her calm face.