68 – Uncut Stone
While everyone was enjoying dinner at the party, Charlotte returned to her dorm and was lost in thought.
She is no longer confident that she will remain by Ed’s side.
What on earth can I do?
Ed is getting ahead, and everyone else around him is outstanding.
Would someone like me catch their eye?
Charlotte let out her sigh.
Her long-held inferiority complex that had been hanging over her for a long time was eating away at her heart.
-Knock knock.
It was then that someone knocked on the door.
Surprisingly, the voice heard next was Ed’s.
Jump up!
Charlotte woke up quickly and looked around.
Could it be that she was hallucinating?
“Charlotte, are you inside?”
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But no.
It’s definitely Ed’s voice.
Charlotte hurriedly stood in front of her mirror and examined herself.
It was full of things I didn’t like.
“Uh, this is there… De, de, come in…”
Nevertheless, Charlotte had no choice but to let Ed in.
She was startled, and as she was busy moving around, things fell down.
She couldn’t pretend she wasn’t here.
– Jump up.
Soon Ed came in.
His face is always handsome.
That moment when I fell in love at first sight.
Compared to him, I am insignificant.
“As expected, you were at the dorm. “I didn’t see you at the party.”
“Ah… Well, I just want to rest, rest, rest…”
Charlotte said and covered her own face with her green curls.
Ed said with a smile.
“Well, the party was a little crazy, right? “For people like us, quiet places are better.”
Ed said that and sat down in an empty chair.
However, Charlotte was tilting her head at what Edgar had just said.
“Ooh, ooh, people like us…?”
“Yes. There are many times when I want to be alone too. In fact, most of the time I do research alone in the lab. “I think you feel the same way.”
···It was accurate.
She had been timid since childhood and preferred tending her garden to hanging out with others.
The ability to create the natural world passed down from generation to generation of the Verdian family.
If you use that ability to create your own ecosystem, the sun will set and it will be time for dinner.
“Charlotte?”
At that time.
I was distracted by Ed’s voice calling me.
Ed was smiling naturally at himself.
He said in a playful voice.
“You were thinking about something else, weren’t you?”
“···!!”
Is he using mind reading?
Charlotte’s shoulders shook.
When she lowered her head and muttered, ‘I’m sorry for thinking of you otherwise…’, Ed answered no, and she said,
“Actually, I do that often too. When I come up with a bright idea, I often lose track of the conversation. “Sometimes I go to Samcheonpo alone and often say strange things.”
Ed said this with a deep smile on his face.
It is reminiscing about the past.
When he was attending college on Earth, Ed would sometimes say stupid things.
Even during everyday conversations, when keywords related to your major come up, you get drawn into thoughts related to that field.
“Ah… That, that, that… I do that too often… hehehehe…”
Charlotte smiled brightly as she understood what she meant.
When I thought that Ed had similar aspects to me, I felt a sense of kinship.
“Charlotte, aren’t you hungry?”
At that time.
Ed asked while patting his stomach.
There was a growling sound.
Charlotte responded with surprise.
“Ah! “Ho, by any chance, ah, ah, you didn’t eat anything?”
“Yes. When I get nervous, I lose my appetite. “I was a little nervous because I was talking about diplomacy with His Majesty the Dwarf King.”
Ed had to restore the relationship between humans and dwarves by any means possible.
Because of that, he was starving all the time without eating anything.
Charlotte quickly got up and said,
“Okay, well, then! Let’s eat! Wait, wait!”
She smiled her exasperated smile and pulled out a container of her special seasoning sauce from her backpack.
The opportunity to present the other world-style shabu-shabu to Ed, which no one had been looking for until now, had no chance to be presented to Ed.
-Bubble Bubble Bubble.
Eventually, Charlotte finished her cooking in an instant.
Fresh vegetables were boiling in a light and refreshing broth.
“I will eat well”
Soon after, Ed ate the vegetables with the broth and raised his thumb.
Charlotte smiled happily.
“Hey, Charlotte.”
At that time, Ed’s tone of voice changed.
She has business to convey to her.
Charlotte could feel it too.
“Tomorrow, there will be a meeting related to the Emerald Mana Stone. “I really want you to attend that meeting.”
“······.”
Charlotte smiled bitterly at Ed’s words.
Soon, she looked blankly at the vegetables floating on the hot broth and spoke.
“Cha, cha, even if I were to attend… ah, ah, it wouldn’t be of any help….”
He knows what he can do.
It was all about vegetable stew or boiling.
While everyone else was performing with confidence, he was the only one who achieved nothing here.
“···Why do you think that? Preserving the Emerald Mana Stone is something that only you, who can use the natural creation technique, can do.”
However, Ed was questionable.
Isn’t tomorrow’s meeting her specialty?
Charlotte smiled bitterly and answered.
“I, I, I… Ha, I was always like that… Ma, I stuttered… Uh, uh, my face… Was ugly…”
Charlotte has a severe complex about her appearance.
This is because she was very hurt when she was young.
Charlotte still vividly remembers that moment.
-So, you like dogs too?
-Uh. It’s so f*cking easy. They say an ugly b*tch will die soon
When I think about that time, my breathing becomes rapid.
My shoulders are shaking and tears come to my eyes due to the tremendous sense of betrayal.
It was my first love.
He thought he had a lot in common with him, and he was a boy who always told him he was pretty.
-Kkkkkk. So you want to date?
-What, what did you see? Since it is a ruined family anyway, there is no harm in eating and throwing it away.
Your first love shows the exact opposite as if you flipped a switch.
It started when I happened to see him that day.
She started stuttering her words.
“Charlotte.”
At that time, my memories were interrupted by Ed’s voice calling me.
I hurriedly wiped my tears with my sleeve and muttered in a crawling voice.
“I’m sorry… I suddenly… Said something strange…”
Ed looks at Charlotte with pitiful eyes.
Finally, Ed opened her mouth.
“You are not ugly.”
“······.”
“It was just hidden. “Would you like to take off your glasses?”
Ed said that while looking at Charlotte’s face.
Eventually, Charlotte looked at Ed’s eyes and took off her glasses, and Ed said with a grin.
“As expected. It wasn’t a mistake. “Your eyes are pretty.”
Deer-like eyes with beautifully positioned pale in-line double eyelids.
She had bright eyes that harmoniously matched her good-natured appearance.
Until now, the body’s greatest strength has been obscured by thick lenses.
“My, my, me…?”
But Charlotte was an unfamiliar word she had never heard before.
Her own eyes are pretty.
“Yes. Everyone just didn’t know about her because she was covered by her glasses. “You’ve never shown anyone without your glasses, right?”
Charlotte thought deeply.
Now that I think about it, she has never shown anyone without her glasses.
Because she considered herself ugly, she had to cover her face as much as possible.
“And actually, her face has clear outlines, so she has a pretty face. The problem is that those vicious curls cover her entire face and make her look bloated.”
Charlotte’s viciously curly hair is messy and twisted as if hundreds of small twists are hanging from it.
Her green hair was spread out like a lion’s mane, which had the effect of making her face look wide.
She did the worst styling she could.
“I can’t do that. Wait.”
Ed said that and she disappeared somewhere for a while.
Ten minutes later, Ed entered Charlotte’s dorm again and said,
“Sit down. “I’ll decorate her hair.”
“Uh, huh?”
When Ed returned, there was a strange object in his hand.
It was the ancient period.
But she said, Charlotte, she had no idea what this was.
“Just styling her hair will completely change her image.”
However, Ed said that and made Charlotte sit down.
Then she started straightening her hair using ancient hair.
Every time Ed’s hand ran through Charlotte’s hair, Charlotte could feel her heart pounding as her face turned red.
“Well, how about it? “Is it really different?”
Soon.
Ed straightened Charlotte’s hair completely and then placed her mirror on the table to show Charlotte her appearance.
Murmured Charlotte, looking at her own face with an expression of astonishment.
“Uh… This person…”
A beautiful girl in the mirror.
Surprisingly, the girl was copying her own actions.
This is because the girl in the mirror is herself.
“I told you. “You always have a pretty face.”
“······.”
I couldn’t believe it.
Just by taking off her glasses and styling her hair a little differently, her image has completely changed.
“Charlotte, can you see this?”
At that time, Ed took out something from her pocket and showed her.
It was a stone.
“Rock…?”
“hahahaha. Does it look like a stone? “This is a rough diamond.”
“!”
Charlotte once again saw a diamond that looked like a stone.
Looking here and there, it looks like just a stone, but it turns into a diamond.
“Well, unless you are someone who has processed it, it will be difficult to recognize it right away. But this is definitely a diamond. “I know how to see.”
Ed said that and held out her diamond to Charlotte.
When Charlotte looked blankly at her diamond, she put it in her hand and said,
“I feel like I suit you for some reason. “I’m giving it to you as a gift.”
Charlotte looked at the diamond in her hand.
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On the outside, the gemstone looks no different from a stone.
However, if you process this, it becomes a sparkling diamond.
I could understand what Ed wanted to say to me.
“···Thank you.”
A feeling of tears welled up, but Charlotte held it back with great effort.
She knew that she too could sparkle, so she smiled rather than cried.
“I’ll do my best tomorrow…!” Please help!”
Although she still has a long way to go, Charlotte is determined to give it a try.
Just as Ed meant by giving this gift, in order to find your sparkling self, you have to collide with the world and craft yourself.
“Okay. Then shall we eat the rest? “If you eat the rice and eggs over there, it’s really delicious.”
Afterwards, the two ate shabu-shabu together and talked about various things.
The more Charlotte talked to Ed, the more she felt like her past wounds were being healed.
The night deepened.
pretty romantic