186 – Behind the Scenes (2)
Luna said nothing and returned her body, which was tilted towards me, to its original position. She then fidgeted and walked to the exit door. Then, as if she had changed her mind, she turned around and sat down in the caregiver’s chair next to my bed.
She then spoke in a calm voice.
“I… “I didn’t do anything.”
She didn’t even ask Luna first what she did, but Luna looked like she was being stabbed by something.
“Have you been here the whole time?”
“No… Yeah, so… Taking care here… “There was.”
“Just now…” .”
“I heard you say something faintly in your sleep… “To listen.”
“Did you hear what I said?”
“Just sleep, talk in your sleep…” “It was.”
She seemed to have missed something, but did not inquire further. Although Luna can be a bit clumsy sometimes, she wasn’t the type of person who would do anything strange to me.
“Rather than that, is it okay to stay here like this? “We can’t pretend to be that close.”
By the way, how long has Luna been here until this night? Did she just endure that boring time in silence?
Luna nodded her head confidently.
“Yes…. She’s the one who saved me… “If you stay still, you will be viewed more negatively.”
“… Yes, if I say that we have become friends through this opportunity, there will be no doubt.”
“Me too… “That’s what I thought.”
Now I see that she still hasn’t untied the ribbon on her handkerchief. She seemed to like it quite a bit.
I suddenly remembered her and asked her what happened to what she asked me to do.
“Olivia senior… “What happened?”
“I think it will be resolved well. “The children guided the principality’s ambassador to Senior Ruscus.”
She didn’t ask for anything special. All the spirits of Luna had to do was find a personal meeting place between Ruscus and Olivia and send the principality’s ambassador there.
Now that we are in a situation where our family’s honor will be tarnished, we can’t play around carelessly anymore. The seat next to the princess would have been gone forever.
Luna smiled faintly, as if everything had been resolved well. It seemed like I had personally met the violent criminal on the spot, just as I had intended.
“What about Olivia?”
“… I wasn’t seriously hurt. “Senior Ruskus will be referred to the disciplinary committee soon.”
I was tensing my neck without realizing it, but after hearing her words, I relaxed.
“But Luna, it’s late. Is it okay if I don’t go in?”
If you suffer a penetrating injury, even if you receive restorative treatment, the tissue does not heal in one day, so you had to stay in bed for a day. Because of that, I had to lie in a hospital bed bored, but Luna didn’t have to do that either.
“… Are you okay. When I return to the dormitory… “I have to be alone again.”
I was indifferent. Luna’s dormitory is also quarantined, so she will be alone when she returns.
“Then, do you want to eat cookies together?”
I picked up Hayley’s cookie box that I had left on the nightstand next to the bed.
“Good….”
But when I looked around, I saw another box the size of a fist next to it.
“I haven’t seen this before, Luna, but are you the one who put this?”
“No… “That happened even before I came.”
When I opened the box, it was full of candy. However, there was no name written on it as to who placed it. They say I went there while I was asleep, but seeing the contents was strangely disturbing. I’m sure it wasn’t left behind by someone who knew I was candy. Could it be Cecile?
“Why… okay?”
“Nothing.”
***
I sent Luna away before it got too late and I spent the night alone.
Most of the important things were resolved, but there were still things to think about. There was something I needed to interrogate Trisha about regarding Cecil, and there was also something I wanted to find out about the wooden sword that broke my enchantment sword.
I also worry about meaningful dreams that I don’t know if they are precognitive dreams or not.
And the schedule, more terrifying than the sparring evaluation, was already within arm’s reach.
Eternia… The prom event is about 15 days away.
Just thinking about it makes me sweat.
This is a truly cruel event. You have to get a partner and dance publicly in the ballroom.
I learned to dance as an attribute from Silverine, but there is no way if a song with a different tempo than the rhythm I learned comes up.
Moreover, I remember dancing with Sylverin and stepping on her feet about ten times. It was obvious that I would make a lot of helpless mistakes at this prom as well.
The biggest problem there was selecting a partner.
It was traditional for male students to choose partners.
In fact, no matter what culture you go to, it is rare for a woman to apply first, so I had to accept this, but the problem was that I had to choose my partner myself.
I was so worried about who to choose.
If Sylverin had been around, I would have asked her without any hesitation, without worrying about what others thought, but unfortunately, she is not here. How great it would have been if Princess Vivi had been a student at Eternia. It seemed like he could match her dance moves without difficulty. She did even more than that.
Troublesomely, the two who seem to be a good match for me are so far away.
It seems like it would be too much for Luna since it requires physical contact, having to wrap her hands around her waist.
Trisha is… To be honest, since she had to look at her face every day, she wasn’t confident that she could make serious eye contact and follow her steps.
I think the pressure will definitely be less if you are a senior in the art department like Xenia or Hayley. The only problem was whether they would accept my application. How can we know if those two have other partners?
In the morning, Trisha suddenly opened the door and entered before the nursing maid.
“Damian!!”
She came and sat in front of me with a large basket in her hands.
“What happened?”
“What the heck! “I brought some snacks for you, thinking of my stupid friend!”
Trisha placed her basket on her stomach and opened the cover. It was full of dried fruit.
“What do you think? “Good job.”
“That… “Well done.”
“Shall I feed you?”
Trisha looked a little excited.
“Suddenly?”
“Why? I’m embarrassed?”
“… “Are you embarrassed?”
“Come on! I will feed you. Ah!”
When Trisha suddenly handed me some dried fruit, I hesitantly took it and ate it.
She looked at me eating with a happy expression.
What is this sense of discomfort?
It was my role to mainly take care of Trisha, but is that because that has been reversed?
Did I cause another accident without my knowledge? Why do you suddenly seem to be nice to me?
“Trisha you….”
“Ah! Right. Professor Candinella said he would like to see you today.”
“… Okay.”
“Damian, you had so many accidents yesterday that people keep coming to me and asking about you. “That’s why I’m so tired!”
“… “You’ve been through a lot.”
“What if I just throw myself at someone like that?”
“I didn’t just throw it away….”
“I don’t know! I have to go to class! Goes!”
Trisha kept interrupting her from start to finish and only poured out what she wanted to say.
She then left in a hurry, like someone being chased.
“….”
I think there’s something there.
***
Knock knock.
I knocked on the door of the professor’s room where Candinella was. I think he is the professor I see most often after Professor Giorgia of the Candinella Art Department.
“Come in.”
As I entered the professor’s office, Professor Candinella, who was working, stood up.
“Our Masked Stone has arrived.”
“… “He asked me to see him separately, so I came.”
“Okay, okay, sit down.”
As I sat down on her living room sofa, she also sat in front of me.
“How about the art department? “Is it worth it?”
“Good.”
“What about Tricia?”
“No problem.”
“Can you tell me in more detail?”
“Which one?”
“What is it like with Trisha?”
“He is my closest friend.”
“Um… If nothing else, there are people who take care of Trisha in a far away country. They wonder how Trisha is doing. “She wants to know who the person she is closest to is.”
Facts that were normally forgotten surface again. Trisha knows that she is more precious than anyone else.
“Is it bad if we get to know each other a lot?”
She shook her head lightly.
“No, it’s the opposite. It’s good if we get to know each other a lot. “They don’t want Trisha hurt and they don’t want her to grow up wrong.”
“Even if I sometimes act incomprehensibly… “Trisha is not a bad girl.”
Why is she suddenly asking this? Could it have something to do with Trisha suddenly being nice to me?
“Okay. That’s good. Yesterday, we conducted an academic adjustment evaluation for each student in each dormitory. “It’s like a quick survey, and Trisha listed you as her best friend.”
“Should I do it too?”
“You seem to be adapting well, so there’s no need to do it. However… for a moment.”
She took out her papers from her bookshelf and rummaged for a moment.
“Damian, there is something suspicious about you.”
“Is there any problem?”
“When asked who their closest classmate or senior or junior is, there are 15 children who answered ‘you’.”
“… Yes?”
“Even if you think about it, those numbers are strange, right?”
“It’s very strange.”
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When it comes to people I’m close to, Trisha, Luna, and Cecil are seniors in the art department. There was no opportunity to build relationships with other characters.
“Yes, most of them probably just wrote it down because they wanted to get to know each other. Rather, the problem is….”
Candinella let out a sigh with her face becoming quite serious.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Most of those kids listed Trisha’s name in the list of friends who are difficult and uncomfortable to get along with.”
“….”
“If I were to express the hidden meaning of that question more clearly, it would be the student I hate the most.”