211 – 211 – A Nail Named You #12
211 – A Nail Named You #12
What do you do when the boys get together?
In the world I lived in before, it was almost the same.
We go to PC rooms, eat, and just hang out.
If you think about it now, you might think it’s trivial, but isn’t it when you’re a student that everything is fun when you’re with friends?
“Checkmate. Melvin, with this, your win rate converges to zero.”
“Oops, lost again! Jin, this kid is so good!”
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Jean and Melvin played chess.
Since Jin digs the brain and Melvin digs the body, of course Melvin was not a match for Jin.
The same goes for cards such as one card or poker.
“Damn it, do I have to buy another lunch tomorrow?”
Apparently, these guys were betting like this often.
I don’t know if I should say that I’m relieved because it’s the same as the one I saw in D&A.
Maybe that’s why, despite the fact that it’s my first time coming here, a sense of security filled my heart as if I had been here for a long time.
I like the laughter of girls that I usually hear in the club room.
After all, men should have their own time and their own space.
“So Viktor, how have you been during your vacation? I hear you got caught up in some kind of incident. The ship also sank and drifted to an uninhabited island. You said it wasn’t even a fuss? Would it have been fun?”
Luke, who was shuffling the cards, asked me.
It’s a bit strange that people come up with the idea that it must have been fun to hear the story of the ship sinking and drifting on an uninhabited island.
That much is the way to become the main character of an adventure story.
Why, even in a dungeon that is spooky to others, you have to take the lead with the words “It looks interesting, so let’s go in!”
At that time, Diarmid said.
“Luke and Viktor. Does it pass without hesitation more than I thought? I thought it would be awkward. Why, you guys had a big fight back then. A disciplinary committee will also be held.”
Dearmid seemed quite surprised by Luke’s openness to me, and how I didn’t feel uncomfortable with him.
But in fact, there was no reason for me to be uncomfortable with Luke.
Viktor got his head broken once by him, but that was the old Viktor, not the present me. So there is no resentment.
In the first place, I spent about half of my life as ‘Luke’.
What can I say to be looking at this guy, but it’s rather strange that the image I’ve been dreaming of seems to be coming true.
I would like to get an autograph.
About this, Luke said.
“Victor is a good guy. Also, I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but this guy has a similar atmosphere to someone I know, so I’m friendly. Although Yumi hates it.”
chyle.
The name intrigued me for a moment.
“Is Yumi your childhood friend?”
“yes. We grew up together in the village. More like siblings than childhood friends? Of course, that guy is on the sister’s side. But, if you say this, you will get angry, so keep it a secret.”
“is it.”
Are you a typical childhood friend heroine?
that’s cool
A hometown friend who shared the joys and sorrows together since childhood.
Isn’t this a cheat key for the royal road development?
Suddenly, I wondered which route this guy was taking.
Looking at the items worn on her body and the state she can feel at first glance, it seems that she has been growing smoothly in her own way.
“Luke, what have you been up to lately?”
“me? Of course I went on adventures here and there. This Island Ludens is so awesome! There are dungeons everywhere and all kinds of monsters are swarming! The world is so big!”
Lively.
It seems that he is enjoying his own healing life.
If I had no debt, I might have acted just like this guy.
Thinking that way, just when I started to feel slightly regretful, someone cleared his throat.
It was Jin of the student council.
The form of closing the game board and clearing your throat is awkward.
Soon, Dearmid and Melvin started to notice me.
When I wondered if he was trying to bully me, Luke looked around and said,
“Now is the time to start slowly. Uhm. Since Viktor is here, it seems like everyone is paying attention. Viktor, can you make a promise from now on?”
“Appointment?”
“Things to come. Promise never to talk anywhere. Here, you too will become a member of us, the ‘Secret Society – The Watchers’.”
What are you doing with this form?
Even more so, the watcher.
I didn’t know that this secret society had such a name.
Soon Melvin urged.
“Victor, you can join us too. is it awesome? You won’t regret it.”
I felt very serious when Melvin, who was already big, was about to say it with a serious face.
What are you planning on making me swear to?
Are these guys trying to conquer the world?
I said.
“I don’t know if I will be a member. I promise to keep quiet about everything that happens here.”
The atmosphere loosened up a bit when I nodded. Deermid sighed as if relieved.
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Just then, Jin pulled out a dagger from his waist.
“Swear. By drawing blood on the palm of your hand.”
No, do I have to go that far?
What kind of secret is this place?
At this point, I’m rather curious.
“I get it.”
I lightly cut my palm with the blade.
It hurt, but it was tolerable compared to the scars I had suffered so far.
drop, drop.
dripping blood.
With that, all the tense eyes that were looking at me were relieved.
Now they acted as if they were looking at me as their ‘comrade’.
It was then.
Beep-beep-beep—I woke up to the sound of a whistle blowing from somewhere.
It seems to be coming from the outside of the old school building?
To be precise, it is on the playground side of the old school building.
said Luke.
“You came today. Open the window.”
Luke slipped open the window from the basement to the ground.
Then, what you see outside is—.
“What is this?”
When I was slightly embarrassed, Jin raised his glasses and said.
“They are seniors in the 3rd year of the cheerleading club. Since the main playground is always full of people, we practice in the old school grounds, which are sparsely populated.”
The guy who said that was fogged up for some reason.
If it’s a ‘cheerleader club’, I know it.
Sometimes they randomly appear across the map and give cheering buffs.
It’s a buff that increases René’s acquisition amount and combat power, so it’s quite nice.
By the way.
What does that have to do with the consciousness just now—.
no.
I was able to figure it out right away.
these guys.
You must have been watching the 3rd year seniors from this basement, who practice at the old school grounds at the same time every week.
Is that why the name of the secret society is ‘those who watch’?
“… … .”
There are so many things I want to say, but I don’t know where to start or how to say them.
Normally, he would have cautioned, saying, ‘This is not correct behavior.’
But.
For some reason, my gaze was directed to the calves of the seniors in the third year stretching under the fluttering tennis skirts.
How could he even go round and round with such thin ankles?
* * *
It was around the time the sun was setting that people left the old school grounds.
Everyone is silent, probably lost in the afterglow of the amazing sights that just happened.
But there is already friendship between us… No, comrades-in-arms—what could be called, was sprouting. The feeling of crossing a rough line together.
“It was great. It was a great technique. The one that falls while rotating 1080 degrees from the 3-story human tower… ! It won’t be possible except for Yolgar senior from the 3rd year… !”
Melvin exclaimed in great excitement.
Was Yolgar in the 3rd year a female warrior-type cheerleader with impressive solid muscles?
Then Deermid frowned and shook his head.
“Melvin, you still don’t know what. Teacher Nagi is the best. You are as graceful as a swan. He must have talent in sword dance too, for sure. The map is strict… !”
Nagi seems to be a woman with slender limbs and her hair tied with a ribbon.
Was it the guidance teacher who wore a gym suit and blew a whistle on a plain face?
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Just a surprise
“Dearmid, I didn’t know you would be interested in women.”
Wasn’t he a guy who was popular with women but had no dating news?
Deermid then raised his eyebrows.
“What are you talking about? How can you not be interested?”
Then, Melvin giggled.
“This guy is a terrible old man. They say that she can’t be seen as a woman unless she’s older than herself, maybe because she was raised by her older sisters from a young age!”
Half-jokingly, there was talk about whether or not I like men, but it seemed like it wasn’t.
To say that Deermid was older.
A group of girls will be sad.
“Iris, in her third year, is in great condition today. However, the possibility of spraining the left ankle is high.”
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Jin nodded with his arms crossed.
Was Iris in the third year a bit of a bad-looking blonde pierced girl?
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Jin guy, do you like that type of sincere look?
But.
The thing that surprised me the most was Luke.
Luke is an insensitive main character who is insensitive enough to hear the sound of ‘Goja’.
To think that a guy like that was hiding and spying on my sisters cheerleading.
Should I be very surprised?
However, Luke clenched and opened his fists tightly, as if raising his spirits. Then, bang the punching bag and hit it.
“great. I am full of energy today. After all, free cheerleading is the best. In this state, tomorrow’s dungeon raid will be no problem.”
“… … .”
Is there a different way to be happy about something?
As I was puzzled, Dearmid shook his head.
“Luke, what should I say to that guy? it’s a bit weird It is questionable whether it is the bloody age of eighteen. It sounds like you’re not interested in that in the first place.”
Then, Melvin laughs hahahaha.
“Well, isn’t that the same for Viktor? This guy, he’s a guy who has built a wall around dating and opposite sex. There’s no way I’d break up with Victoria without doing that.”
“Is that so? It seems so. Breaking up with Miss Victoria? To be honest, a man can’t do that in his mind.”
Deermid nodded as if he understood something.
Soon, Jin said a few words while wiping the steam off his glasses on his school uniform shirt.
“Selected as a Ludens male student. The top 3 students you want to date the most. Victoria Arclight. Breaking up with Victoria, more than 50% chance of being neurotic or asexual.”
no, that’s it
More than that, Ludens selected male students as ‘the 3rd most desirable student to date’.
It was a more specific number than I thought.
Who are 2nd and 1st?
Diarmid said.
“Come to think of it, there are a lot of really cute friends around Viktor. So Viktor, you. Which of them is the best? Be honest. If you’re a man, isn’t there at least one girl you like?”
“… … .”
who do you like best? I had never really thought about it.
It was then.
“Victor, would you mind sparring with me? My body is hot enough right now. Deal with it.”
Luke spoke to me holding the scabbard in his hand.
It’s an unexpected request, but I nodded.
“good.”
I wanted to get out of this awkward truth game where you ask who you like.
I also wanted to find out how much this guy has grown.
Maybe because I was cheerleading, I felt like my blood was boiling for some reason.
Should I say I couldn’t stay still?
* * *
ㅡ Caw, gaak, caak… !
Time for crows to cry under the sunset.
When I returned to the club room, someone was lying on my blanket and sleeping soundly.
At that moment, I wondered if a crow had come in through the open window and was sleeping.
It wasn’t a crow, but Enio, a girl with black hair.
Seeing that the bowl of Tteokbokki, which I had been saving for dinner, was empty and the fruit basket had become lighter, I must have eaten it on my own.
I wonder if the dwarfs felt exactly like this when they found Snow White who broke into their house and gave them something to eat.
“Enio, this is not your room.”
I tried talking to him lightly to wake him up.
However, the guy seems to be sleeping deeper than expected, so he doesn’t respond.
new, new… .
Even though the skirt was rolled up and the thigh part of the stocking was barely visible, I didn’t notice it.
Looking at such a careless appearance, who would think that this guy was the daughter of a duke?
At that time, what comes to mind is the story I heard earlier in the secret society.
‘Victor, you. Who is the best among them?’
I had never been conscious of it.
However, my heart is strangely agitated, perhaps because I heard useless noises.
“… … .”
I can’t.
close your eyes
It’s blocking your view.
So I closed my eyes
Seek as much coolness as possible.
This is because of the quirk.
Because of 《Boiling Blood》, which Therese planted.
So don’t panic and stay calm.
But it was harder than I thought.
Blocking my view, I can feel the faint sound of breathing or the warmth that definitely exists next to me more clearly.
Should I say that the image of Enio lying on my blanket is engraved in my head as if it were being printed?
I couldn’t relax so I opened my eyes again.
It might be better to face it clearly.
“… … .”
So I looked at the sleeping Enio.
Although he had a side of him who fell asleep in the club room, his appearance shines like a star.
What stands out in particular are the long eyelashes.
Enio seemed to have longer eyelashes than anyone I knew.
At this level, it wouldn’t be strange if dewdrops formed on the eyelashes.
A fact that you could never know with the dots of the game.
Suddenly, it came to my mind very vividly that this place was ‘reality’.
A world that actually comes alive and moves with warm warmth.
Should I say that I feel more alive than ever that I am proudly existing there?
I’m really in the middle of D&A.
therefore.
even I did not know.
It was when I inadvertently stuck out a finger toward that eyelash.
Shuk.
When my fingertips carefully touched the eyebrows that were thinner than I thought.
through.
I opened my eyes and ruby red eyes met my gaze.
“… what… ?”