Chapter 8
As I was cursing the professor in my mind, Lina looked at Marie sitting next to her and greeted her politely.
“Marie-sama was there too. It’s been a while.”
“Yeah. It’s been a long time.”
Apparently, the two knew each other. But, unlike Lina, who is smiling, does Marie have a dissatisfied expression on her face?
It is possible that Marie is talking nonsense because her family is responsible for the founding of the Minerva Empire, but if you look closely, Marie is openly displeased with Lina. Although Lina doesn’t really care.
Lina continued to smile despite Marie’s blunt greeting and moved her gaze back to me. As soon as I met her gaze, I pretended to be as calm as possible.
After that, Lina showed a brighter expression than before and introduced herself in an elegant voice.
“I’ll introduce you formally. As Isaac-sama knows, I’m Lina Urmi Christine, the first princess of the Minerva Empire. Please call me Rina comfortably.”
“…My name is Isaac Ducker Michelle. It’s an honor to meet you, Princess Lena.”
“Ducer Michel?”
When I got up from my seat and introduced myself formally, Lina’s eyes widened slightly. Then I looked at her hair and her face alternately and muttered in an audible voice.
“Red hair and golden eyes… I thought I was familiar with it… But it’s literature…”
“Yeah?”
“No. Anyway, call me Rina without the princess. Cecily? Would you like to say hello to Cecily too?”
“Oh, yes!”
Lina skilfully turned it over and called Cecily from behind. Although she hasn’t seen each other for a while, it seems that she has become quite close in the meantime.
I looked straight into Cecily’s face as she stepped forward. Cecily also looked at me with a nervous expression on her face.
‘Really, all of them are unrealistically beautiful.’
Marie, Lina, and Cecily.
All of them are unrealistically pretty, so it doesn’t really make sense to me. It feels like a character drawn with sincerity, not a person, has popped out of reality.
Not to mention, Cecily is a demon. They were reincarnated into this world and they met for the first time.
The jet-black hair is familiar, so I can ignore it, but the blood-red eyes and the horns protruding from both sides of the head were truly foreign.
More than anything…
‘…The shirt is clamoring for help.’
It’s a bit exaggerated, so my chest is the size of my head. She is boasting a sense of intimidation that cannot be hidden even if she tries to cover it with a school uniform. Lina, who is standing next to her, is also quite large, but it is not enough compared to Cecily.
On the other hand, Marie is… moderately large. The first two girls are too big, never too small. Since he was originally a nobleman, it is only natural that he grows well as much as he eats and sleeps well.
Speak-
“Hello. My name is Cecily Drat, Eisilia Bean, Princess of Hellium. Nice to meet you.”
As you heard in the speech, Cecily introduced herself in her characteristic alluring voice. She put her hand to the heart of Hellium Bay and bowed her head politely.
Thanks to Lina, I gained confidence, so I could feel a little lively atmosphere in her voice.
To this, I answered, fixing my gaze on her face somehow. Gaze processing is also difficult.
“As you may have heard, my name is Isaac Ducker Michelle. It’s an honor to meet you, Princess Cecily.”
“You can call me Cecily as easily as Lina.”
“Okay. By the way…”
I took turns looking at Lina and Cecily and brought out the main topic.
“What are you two doing to me?”
As he asked, he glanced around. As expected, many students’ eyes are focused on this area.
Most were full of curiosity, but there were also a few hostile gazes among them.
In particular, Yeong-sik, the countess, who immediately fell in love with Cecily as soon as he arrived. Maybe his name was Jackson. I don’t even remember him well.
Anyway, he was looking at this side with a deadly force, and I think he will be called out sooner or later. It was annoying rather than scary, so I’ll have to be careful not to notice him for the time being.
Meanwhile, Lina heard my question and spoke with an elegant tone.
“I was impressed with the presentations in class. It was an answer I hadn’t expected to say that knowledge is power. It was really cool.”
“It’s overrated.”
“No. I’m not exaggerating at all. Then I suddenly wondered. Why did Isaac have such a thought?”
If you’ve lived on Earth, you’ve probably heard it at least once. Princess.
Of course, I couldn’t say the above directly. I rolled my eyes and quickly pondered what kind of answer I was going to give.
“Why don’t you sit and talk instead of standing all the time? I think I’ll sit next to you next time.”
Then, in the middle, Marie’s blunt voice came in. She turns her head for something, and Marie rubs her chin with an annoyed expression on her face.
Her gaze was directed towards Lina, and she didn’t seem to like her at all.
“Oh. I’m sorry for this. Shall we take a seat then?”
“…Yeah.”
Somehow, Cecily, Lina, I, and Marie were seated in that order. Even if she looks to the right or to the left, it is nice to have a beautiful woman, but the pressure is not a joke.
Sure enough, the daughter of the duke is sitting on my left, and the princess of Minerva and the princess of Hellium are sitting on the right side by side.
If I play with my mouth wrong, not only will my throat fly away, but the house will also disappear into dust.
Could this be the feelings of the soldier who was caught between the president of the United States and the president of South Korea? He was pretending to be as calm as possible, but his chest was pounding hard with tension.
“So what’s the answer?”
While I was very nervous, Lina asked the question again. His eyes shining like sapphires were filled with curiosity and anticipation.
‘f**k. What do we do.’
No matter how much I think about it, I can’t think of a proper answer. I have only heard that saying in my past life, because I have no idea how it came about.
Still, it’s better to be honest than to lie. For some reason, if Lina digs in, she’ll have to come up with another lie.
I opened my mouth calmly, barely soothing my pounding chest in a different way.
“…I do not know.”
“Yeah?”
“I don’t know. I just thought so. There’s no way to explain it.”
“You just thought so…”
Lina opened her eyes and muttered shakily. I don’t know if she’s disappointed or surprised, but she’s probably closer to disappointment.
But all this was purely my imagination.
“That’s great.”
“…Yes?”
“You’re really amazing. You’re saying that Isaac always thought of knowledge as power, right?”
no. Why is the story like that? What kind of misunderstanding did you make to come to such a conclusion?
While I was bewildered, Lina’s eyes brightened more than before and asked directly.
“I’m sorry to say this, but Isaac doesn’t have any physical talent, right?”
“Uh… yes. My father gave up halfway through.”
“That’s right. I wondered why Sir Hawk’s son had entered literature rather than uneducated school… Now I understand. Sir Hawk must have told him to build up his intellect if he couldn’t build his armed forces.”
“I… Lina? Is Isaac’s father a great person?”
Cecily, who was listening quietly, asked Lina. Naturally, I was curious because I also didn’t know how great my father was.
His father was originally a commoner, but when he was working as a knight, he achieved a great feat and became a nobleman, but he does not know exactly what kind of achievement he achieved. He replied vaguely that even his father was reluctant to tell me, and that his mother would know when he grew up.
But now that I hear it, it is expected that she is such a great woman that even the ears of a princess, that is, the royal family. At home, he is just a father with a warm and friendly image.
While I was thinking, Lina looked up at Cecily and spoke out the story of my father, Hawk.
“Have you ever heard of Minerva’s red lion?”
“If it’s a red lion… maybe?”
Cecily opened her eyes as soon as she heard Lina’s question and looked at me. They only know each other and I don’t know at all, so it’s frustrating to the point of going crazy.
“Ah, somehow. I’ve heard of a castle with red hair, so he was the son of a red lion? His eyes are golden.”
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Even Marie seems to know. I don’t know my son.
I blinked once and asked Marie with a questioning expression on her face.
“You know?”
“Huh? You don’t know? Even though he’s the son of a red lion?”
“I don’t know. I asked my mother, but she didn’t tell me.”
“Surely it is. Sir Hawke was not happy to let others know of his achievements. He was originally entitled to the title of Earl, but he deliberately granted the title of Baron, saying that the position was excessive.”
Lina explained it instead. I removed her gaze from her Marie and looked at her.
Her eyes became more burdensome than before, and Cecily next to her has a more curious expression. If you don’t know anything else, you can guess that things are going strangely.
‘What the hell were you doing when you were on active duty?’
He said he almost got the title of count, so he said he was also the commander of the Navy Knights.
For reference, the Navy Knights are the most famous and most powerful Knights in the Minerva Empire. As I have only lived in rural villages, if I knew how great it would be, I would be able to guess at a glance.
“Sir Hawke has made countless achievements as the commander of the Navy Knights. If it had not been for his will to rest comfortably, he would have kept the position of the knights commander silently for several decades.”
it was real
“Anyway, he’s the son of that Lord Hawk, so he’d usually tell you to build up your strength just in case, right? Sir Hawk always told the knights to develop the ability to prepare for the changes.”
“…Yeah.”
Things have turned out strangely, but for me it’s a good thing. Thanks to her having a wonderful father, Lina was able to judge her own way.
After hearing my answer, Lina smiled deeper than before and spoke to me with anticipation.
“You said a while ago that you were definitely considering history, theology, and biology? Anything else?”
“Perhaps… Philosophy and the humanities?”
“It’s a philosophy… I’ll look forward to it.”
I’m not saying I’m asking you well, I’m saying you’re looking forward to it. I realized the meaning contained in it. It means to show performances that match your expectations in the future.
If you look at it, it looks like it was photographed properly. It’s better than a bad picture, but it feels like the burden is pressing on my shoulders.
Well, what can I do? For now, as long as I somehow don’t find out that I am the author of Zeno’s biography, that’s enough.
“Oh, by the way, Isaac?”
“You can talk comfortably.”
“Okay. Isaac. I have a question for you before.”
“Please speak.”
“this.”
Lina pointed at my finger. To be precise, it was the calluses on the middle finger of her right hand, that is, the ‘pen-hock’ side.
When she had a little doubt about him, Lina opened her mouth with a curious voice.
“That callus, don’t I have to use a pen often?”