115 – Storm – 9
“Kyaaah!”
Seol-ah collapsed with her screams.
“Keah!”
And I fell behind her, frowning, and rolled on her ground. The two of them suddenly collapsed and were in pain, so it was clear that everyone was embarrassed. It’s not because I’m sick, and if I’m to question the reason, it’s not me, it’s Seol-ah who’s lying down next to me.
Of course, I didn’t really fall down in pain. Fortunately, neither I nor Seol-ah suffered from complications that could lead to heart attacks, and no one poisoned our meal. Both are physically extremely healthy. Nevertheless, I grabbed my chest and frowned. Of course it didn’t hurt at all. And maybe Seol-ah, who grunts in the same posture as me over there, will be fine too. How can you be sure of that?
It seems that no one but me saw it, but before Seol-ah collapsed, she gave her wink so that only I could see her. If you combine what I said earlier, maybe don’t panic here and show a cool side, I think it means something like that, but there’s no way. I had no intention of adapting to her. But it’s also strange that she ignores her here. The result that came out after thinking about it is to collapse together.
“Keep it off!”
Thanks to this, the result is a mess. I groaned as I lay on my stomach so that I could not see my face as much as possible. Everyone except me said that I couldn’t act, so I had no choice but to come up with a method. And it went surprisingly well. Because no one else doubted me.
Excluding Seol-ah and I, the three of us seemed quite embarrassed by this situation. Even for Hestia, this situation seemed unexpected. I thought the two of us had agreed beforehand, but isn’t that the case?
The princess was the first to step out in this great chaos. I could see in his serious expression that he was quite sincere and worried about me and Seol-ah. My conscience was pricked by the different attitude I usually show towards me. Like this, the triangle in my heart is wearing out again.
The princess strode over to Seol-ah, put her ear to her chest, and put her wrist on her wrist. She wasn’t just taking form. She nodded in doubt for a moment, then instructed Hestia and Cordelia.
“Uh, uh, what should I do?!”
“This is strange. Both pulse and breathing are fine for now. But just in case you don’t know, go quickly and call someone.”
I don’t know where she learned it, but the princess checked Seol-ah’s condition in a more calm and professional manner than I thought.
This is where things get a little messy. When someone else starts to come, things get a little too much to pass by as if nothing happened. When is the best time to wake up, why doesn’t he want to wake up? I eagerly glanced sideways at Seol-ah.
In the midst of continuing my own mind game for a while, I shuddered with a sudden chill. The weather in the middle of the day in early fall was hot enough to be a mere chill. And after that, I felt an unpleasant presence, like a snake flicking its tongue.
A chilly sensation down the spine, as if the limbs are slowly tightening. Intuition sounded the alarm. It was too spooky to simply pass it off as a mood. Whether it’s the main character’s privilege or not, the hit rate of my intuition was quite high. I jumped up from my seat when asked when I was faking an illness. Cordelia, who was running out to call someone, suddenly stopped. She exclaimed with a slightly brighter expression than she had before.
“Mikhail ?! Are you okay?”
“It’s okay, so quickly get him up and come behind me with Hestia and Your Highness!”
“Huh? That, but….”
“I’m not kidding, so hurry up!”
In an instant, Cordelia pushed Hestia and the princess behind me, then lifted Seol-ah and carried her away. Soon, a composition was created where I protected the four excluding me.
“I’ll take it in a minute.”
I stole her practice sword from the princess. Seol-ah was still down. After a series of unexpected situations and missing the timing to wake up, she lay in a vague state, unable to get up and shamelessly pretending to be sick. It was foolish to look at the situation with one eye narrowed, as if he had completely given up on acting.
“I know you’re paying attention, but get up quickly. It could be really dangerous. You know you’re the number one target if something happens, right?”
Only then did Seol-ah stand up from her seat. It’s obvious that she’s going to be the crown prince again, that idiot-like bastard. And when she thinks about the baby, she is still strongly obsessed with her Seola. It is rather rare for Hestia to be kidnapped like last time, and if something happens, Seol-ah is her first target. I stared into the air. Where are you? Where are you coming from
“Mi, Mikhail. What the hell is this… ?”
“Wait, shh.”
I covered Hestia’s mouth and raised her senses as sharp as possible. I don’t think it’s an overreaction. Rather, we were too complacent.
“… “
“Mikhail?”
I confronted the empty space like that for a long time. And how much time has passed I felt cold sweat run down my spine. The tension in the body that was so tense was released and the sweat flowed.
Why… , Why nothing happens? No, nothing happens is of course the best thing. At first, the expressions on the faces of the others, who were startled by my shouting, gradually began to raise doubts.
“Oh, wait.”
“Mikhail? I guess I need an explanation.”
The snake-like presence that had been strangling me also disappeared at some point. It took an instant for my doubts to turn into doubts. Along with Hestia’s words demanding an explanation, stinging glances poured toward me.
Is it really gone? With such a dangerous momentum? Without saying a word, I took one big sweep of the entire gymnasium.
‘There really isn’t.’
This time, too, I felt cold sweat running down my back. This time, I was really anxious, so I was sweating. That thing that flows when you sense that it’s so-called X.
I shook my head hard. How the hell am I supposed to explain this? Even if it was just my misunderstanding, there was nothing to say about lying around in pain. I thought about just ignoring it, but looking at the eyes of Princess Hestia and Cordelia, it seemed like it would be difficult. After a long thought, I lowered my head.
“Mikhail?!”
“Sorry.”
Putting the apple first always makes sure the worst is averted. But the others didn’t seem to be content with apologies.
“No, you want me to explain?”
“That… , Miss Lily? Why do you stand there as if you did nothing wrong?”
I grabbed Seol-ah, who quietly stepped back as if she had nothing to do with it. All eyes were on her.
“Uh… , ahahahaha… , Yes.”
Seol-ah laughed awkwardly as if she was speechless for a moment, then immediately lowered her head and came to my side, bowing her head side by side. With her hands gently brought together in front of her belly button and her perfect posture, she fished out her Hestia just as I did her.
“Miss Hestia! Miss Hestia is also coming.”
“Yes? Me too?”
“Then who is it!”
Hestia pointed at herself with a puzzled expression. She seemed a little unfair, but she also came and stood next to us due to her strong attitude. At first, it seems that she was going to deny it stubbornly, but she wondered if she was being stabbed, or she was swept away by the atmosphere.
“So, can you explain now?”
The princess put her hand on her forehead at the number of criminals that suddenly increased to three. I opened her mouth with the feeling that it would be better to be beaten first.
“Well, where do I start?”
“It’s okay, from beginning to end.”
“First of all, it was because I really felt that way that I made a fuss right before saying it was dangerous. In the end, nothing happened.”
Should I say I’m glad nothing happened? Obviously, I felt very dangerous.
“What?! No, heck Please continue.”
Realizing that they were being scolded for no reason because of me, Seol-ah raised her head with a loud noise, then came back to her senses, cleared her throat awkwardly, and assumed the original polite posture of a student scolded by the teacher.
“It may be embarrassing, but my gut was screaming that there was something dangerous. There’s nothing wrong with being careful, right?”
“Well, there is nothing wrong with being careful when you think of our opponents. Then, before that, you grabbed her breasts and rolled over?”
I shut her mouth and stared at Seol-ah next to me for no reason. It’s a bit embarrassing to say honestly that she’s mean. However, since things had gone so wrong, there was no way to hide them.
“Well, before Miss Lily collapsed, she told me to take care of it, and she told me to pretend to help her by adjusting to herself. I didn’t want to do that, so I just pretended to be sick.”
“Yes?”
The princess asked back as if she didn’t understand what I was saying. She looked like Cordelia didn’t know either. The most impressive was the expressions of Hestia and Seol-ah. Those two are probably closer to not understanding my motives than not understanding my actions themselves.
“It is a tragedy caused by a lack of communication.”
“Please explain so I can understand! So you’re saying that neither of you are sick, but you’re faking an illness?”
“… Yes.”
It was a clear summary of Cordelia. I lowered my head, unable to see their faces. Not only the two of them, but the faces of Seol-Ah and Hestia right next to her were also unbearable to look at. After putting it all together and spitting it out, I thought it must have been a rather strange behavior.
“I’ll ask why you didn’t want to do that later… , Then Miss Lily please explain this time. Why did you pretend to be sick when you’re not sick?”
“That… “
Seol-A muttered as if she had a harder time answering the princess’s question than I did.
“She thinks Her Highness, the Princess, has a particular dislike for Mikhail….”
“So what?”
“Now, as a comrade on the same boat, stop thinking that it might be of some help to improve his image….”
“Then why did you keep praising him from lunch earlier?”
“Yes….”
“Haa… , What the hell is this bruise… No, whose head did the poor plan come from?”
This time, Hestia trembled so much that everyone could tell. The gazes of the princess and Cordelia turned to her.
Although the princess softened her words in the middle, it was clear that she was trying to say that it was a stupid plan. And I feel a little sorry for the two of them, but I strongly agree with that story. When I asked what he meant by saying something incomprehensible to me, it turned out that he was making such a dainty plan. From now on, we should strictly forbid the two of us from conspiring on something. Did you really think that something like that would work?
“I thought Miss Hestia was a smart person. Did you really think that a third-rate play like this would work?”
“Third-rate theater… !”
Hestia must have been quite shocked by the princess’s third-rate play, as she repeated the word third-rate play with a bluish face. She seems to have been confident in her own scenario, but she honestly doesn’t know what kind of confidence she is. Is it because the self-made play she did last time against her father was a success? But later on, it turned into a real hostage play instead of a self-made play. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know the source of that confidence.
While I was harshly criticizing Hestia’s ability to write scenarios, the princess’ target was changed to me again.
“Then, turning around again, why the hell did you not want to be in that play? There was nothing to lose anyway.”
“The order is reversed. I didn’t know you two were thinking such nonsense. I didn’t explain what it was, and I didn’t like asking for it to be correct. If I had known you were thinking such a noble thing, I would have guessed.”
“Ha… , Are these people really giving Wilhelm a shot?”
The princess let out a sigh as the ground was very low. Cordelia, too, must have been offended, with the tips of her eyebrows strangely raised. She grumbled at us.
“It’s too much, really. Except for me, they are plotting strange tricks among themselves.”
“Are you mad about that?”
“No! Do you know how worried I was? I thought something was really wrong!”
“I’m sorry.”
But Cordelia was always the same Cordelia. She was a little relieved. Meanwhile, the princess was packing her own luggage. She declared in her chilling voice.
“I became an idiot for worrying sincerely even for a moment. I will go back first.”
Although it is autumn, the sultry midday air still fills the gym where she left. After a long silence, I brought up a question that I had been curious about but couldn’t ask in the end.
“So, why does Your Highness hate me?”
“Ah. I should have asked.”
Seola’s launching ceremony exploded.