14 – Class begins
Basic swordsmanship I class is over. Because it was my first class, I finished the class with sparring to test my skills without anything special. It is about 10 minutes earlier than other classes. I quickly changed into my school uniform and came out. I should put the training clothes in the cabinet for now and take care of them later.
“Cordelia, do I smell sweat?”
I didn’t break a lot of sweat because it was only sparring, but I asked just in case. The next class is ‘Couple Understanding’ with Hestia. I feel ashamed when I sit next to you and smell it.
“Anyway, do you ask Lady about that?”
Cordelia asked with a tired expression.
“Are you not a student in the same class? By the way, Miss Cordelia doesn’t smell at all.”
“Are you crazy?!”
She got mad at my joke. She patted my shoulder with her fern hand. Unexpectedly, my hands are dry.
“Just kidding. Joke. Since it was the first day, you didn’t do anything.”
“Even as a joke. If you joke like this with Hestia, you’ll fall in love with her.”
“Not for Hestia.”
“My heart is gone. Isn’t that too much?”
Cordelia was serious. Judging from her inability to hide the smile on her face, it’s a joke to anyone.
“I didn’t expect it to be this playful.”
“For me, the only one who jokes around like this is Lady Deneb.”
“It’s been less than a day since we met?”
“It’s like a little sister.”
Despite her tall stature and tough appearance, when she talks to her, it feels more like she’s talking to her sister than to her peers. Although she never actually had her sister, of course. She is honest with her feelings and her pure side makes me feel that way.
As she said, even though it hasn’t been a day since we met, it’s comfortable as if we’ve known each other for a long time. Is this your girlfriend?
“Did you have a sister?”
“No. Doesn’t exist.”
“Are you really out of your mind?”
At my words, Cordelia put on a puzzled expression.
“But doesn’t it really smell?”
“No smell at all.”
I had some more small talk with her. Before we knew it, we arrived at Cordelia’s next class, her destination.
“Because my next class is here. Bye. Wait a little bit.”
She waved her hand in greeting. I also gave her a gentle wave of her hand without saying a word to her.
Hestia’s classroom is right next to this classroom. She will pick her up and accompany her to her couple’s understanding class. I’m a little excited because it’s like CC.
I peeked into the classroom to see if her class was over yet. The basic swordsmanship class was finished quickly, so some other classes were still in progress. Some in the class might have seen me and whispered to the student sitting next to me. I ignored them and found Hestia.
‘I found it.’
Actually, I couldn’t find anything. She was sitting in her front row seat and listening intently to her class. It seems that something is packed in the notebook, so I took notes with such concentration throughout the class. He is also an exemplary student.
Besides, her appearance was outstanding compared to the students in the classroom. It is a face that turns all the people around you into extras. Anyone can see that she is the most prominent student in the class.
As if she didn’t notice me snooping outside at all, she’s only giving her eyes to her teacher and her notebook. I slipped away and decided to wait in the hallway. If you keep watching like this, you will disturb the class.
After a while, the classroom became noisy and students poured out of the door. Hestia is questioning her teacher with a notebook she has written on if she has any questions during class. The students who came out first flinched when they saw me waiting in the hallway, then looked at Hestia, who was still in the classroom asking questions.
“Mikhail! Did you wait? I should have told you.”
After a while, Hestia, who came out of the classroom with a satisfied face as if she had finished asking the teacher, exclaimed in surprise.
“It’s been a while. Don’t mind.”
“Even so. If I knew this was going to happen, I would have just come out sooner… “
Hestia mumbled as if she was sorry for making her wait even though her class was over.
“No. Because I hate being interrupted because you care about me more than waiting.”
“Yes. All right. Don’t be resentful if you’re late for the next class because of me.”
She laughed at my firm answer. Maybe because I told her I like her earlier, she seems to be smiling brightly today.
I headed to the ‘Couple Understanding’ classroom with Hestia.
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The ‘Couple Understanding’ class was different from other classes. First of all, unlike other classrooms where desks and chairs are arranged so that everyone faces the church in front, round tea tables are placed throughout the classroom. Refreshments are already prepared on the table. The faint smell of tea filled the classroom. It was 180 degrees different from the swordsmanship classroom that had been empty since all the desks and chairs had been removed.
As soon as Hestia and I opened the door to the classroom, we were frozen at the disparate appearance of the classroom.
“The classroom… , It looks peculiar.”
“Yes, I will.”
Hestia stuttered her words as if she was surprised by the appearance of the classroom even though it was the class she herself suggested.
It’s a nuisance even if the classroom door is blocked like this. I led Hestia to the seat. There are already male and female pairs sitting at some tables. I approached a well-placed tea table.
“Can I just sit down?”
“It was prepared for us to sit down. Others are already seated. Hestia sit down too.”
I pulled the chair in front of Hestia and pulled it out. She looked around a bit and sat down.
“Apart from me, I didn’t expect Hestia to be surprised either. She asked to hear it together, so I thought she would have researched it beforehand.”
“At that time! Oh no.”
At my words, Hestia raised her voice as if it was unfair, but then she blurted it out. What would happen then? I decided to dig a bit more.
“At that time? What is the difference between then and now?”
“Don’t ask.”
“Really not?”
I asked in a deliberately serious voice.
“No, at that time, I should say that you were making fun of me, but I thought I was going to talk about it because I thought there was an ulterior motive…. I brought up a story, but when I asked to listen to it, I believed it once, and when I said I didn’t like it, I was about to give up saying that nothing had changed….”
Hestia’s voice creeps in more and more as she speaks. Hey, what’s wrong with you I gently placed my hand on hers on the table.
“How are you now? Believe?”
“Kyaaak! Why suddenly hold her hand!”
Hestia was taken aback by the sudden touch and withdrew her hand.
“Is that such a surprise? You even crossed her arms yesterday.”
“Because this is more embarrassing than folded arms?”
Hestia pricked her face red. Women’s emotions are incomprehensible. No matter how much I think about it, my arms are more manly than my hands.
“So, do you trust me now?”
“So, to be honest, I didn’t know about this subject beforehand. It’s a story I came up with a little impulsively.”
“Do you trust me now?”
“From what I hear, the classes are practice-oriented, so I think there will be special preparations like this in the future.”
“I believe….”
“Believe me! I believe! Even though I told you that I liked you so seriously, I’m not cold-blooded enough to doubt!”
Hestia, who had been trying hard to ignore my question, eventually burst out at her repeated question. The way she blushes and screams is so cute.
“Why! Why are you laughing so much!”
“Just.”
I must have been laughing without realizing it.
They gossip while looking at Hestia from the surroundings. At least, if they spoke directly to Wilhelm, they did, but they didn’t whisper in each other’s ears like this. Just like when I was waiting in front of the classroom, it was very annoying.
“Hestia, did you bury anything on me?”
“No. Why are you asking that all of a sudden?”
“Since a while ago, everyone kept whispering when they saw me. It’s a bit annoying.”
I purposely said it out loud in order to listen and pay attention. A couple of pairs, who had been conversing in whispers, fell away pretending not to know.
“Are you asking because you don’t know?”
“Yes. I really don’t know.”
“I’m a bit ashamed to say it with my own mouth.”
I am more curious because she has lost weight like this.
“Don’t take it off.”
“Isn’t it because a man who is known for being quiet and not funny is smiling like this?”
According to Hestia, all nobles in the empire knew Cordelia’s hot temper and my reticence. No, to the point of being tied up with Cordelia, who was nabbing and trying to slap her on the eve of the festival? Shocking.
Anyway, the taciturn and cold-blooded Grand Duke of the North, who doesn’t talk and has no fun, waited for his fiancé to finish class and was laughing like a ball while chatting, so everyone looked at him in wonder.
I feel ashamed after hearing Hestia’s words. Big hum. I coughed for nothing.
“I told you that it was a bit embarrassing to say with my own mouth.”
Hestia smiled brightly. I feel like I enjoy seeing my shyness.
While I was having a conversation with Hestia, the instructor entered the classroom. She is a middle-aged female instructor who looks to be in her 30s or 40s. She is not particularly the owner of a great off-white color, but her impression is good. In her school days, she looked like a counselor teacher who handed out chocolate pies in the counseling room.
She opened the door cautiously, as if not wanting to disturb the conversation of her students, and without making a sound of footsteps, she quietly went and stood on the podium. Hestia and I saw that and stopped talking for a while. But it took more than three minutes for all of her babbling students to notice her and become quiet.
“Ah, did everyone share their thoughts?”
The instructor smiled brightly. Is she a person who behaves strangely, unlike what she looks like? I prepared for the next ‘It took three minutes for all of you to be quiet.’
“Then you can talk more.”
However, the instructor’s words were completely different from what I expected.
“Um, was it too sudden?”
She explained as she looked at the classroom, which had become quiet after he laid a mat on her so that she could make noise.
“Some of you may have recognized it beforehand, but there is nothing special about the couple’s understanding class. I’ll give you a practice topic and you can do it with your partner. My role ends there. Although I sometimes fight and help a pair that needs counseling. And today, my practice topic for you is conversation.”
She cleared her throat and opened her mouth again.
“Since this is the first class, there are sure to be awkward pairs with partners. So today I’m going to give you some time to have a slow talk with your partner. You can enjoy the prepared refreshments to your heart’s content. Then start!”
After she finished her talk, she sat down on a chair by her desk and sipped her tea, as if she really didn’t care about us.
“Do you get grades for this?”
“I-I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
Hestia said in a panic. Still, I thought she would do a minimal orientation, but there is none.
I looked around. Some pairs have already started talking, while others keep their mouths shut because they don’t know what to say. Looking closely, the latter is the majority. I realize that it is difficult for love to follow an arranged marriage. I’m lucky.
“Hmm, how was your first class?”
If you sit still like this, you will fall into a vicious cycle of awkwardness and silence that will cut off the conversation and make you awkward again. I forced the topic.
“Awesome! Even though it was the first day, I was surprised that the content of the class was very informative. I’ll show you what I wrote.”
Her eyes twinkle as soon as she mentions the class. It was definitely a class with a very long title, ‘magic circle design through the application of jewelry work’. She took out her notebook and showed her notes. To be honest, I don’t even know. She understood only that she was a model student who also took her notes very well.
“If you look at the notes here, the topaz powder has the effect of adding stability to this magic circle….”
“Oh, yes? That’s great.”
“Here, here too. Even though it is the same jewel, the effect is different depending on which stroke it is used for. .”
“Wow really?”
“The most amazing thing is the effect that appears when you design a magic circle directly on a jewel….”
“I see.”
Hestia was very excited and explained me the note taking one by one. I was moderately fit. I really don’t know what to do.
Hestia talked about it for a long time. Perhaps noticing my lack of answers, her voice gradually faded and then stopped.
“Maybe… Wasn’t it fun?”
“No! It was fun. It was fun, but now I understand….”
“I’m sorry. Since before, I can’t control myself when I talk about things I like….”
She looks sullen.
“Still, it was nice to see Hestia like this for the first time.”
I tried to wrap the conversation as well as possible. And honestly, it’s not even a lie.
It was the first time I had ever seen her run wild with such excitement. Come to think of it, there are so many things that she and I don’t know about each other. Looking at his appearance right now, he seems to have a hobby for magic, but he didn’t know that either.
I posed her question to her.
“Hestia, what are your hobbies?”
“Suddenly?”
“Thinking about it, it seems like there are too many things we don’t know about each other.”
“My hobby is, um, reading magic papers.”
“Thesis?”
“Yes. I subscribe to a related magazine, and every month a magazine containing papers comes to my house.”
You’re more academic than I thought. I was a little surprised.
“So, what are Mikhail’s hobbies?”
“A hobby?”
I pondered over how to answer Hestia’s question. Consider Mikhail’s life. After waking up in the morning, washing up, preparing for swordsmanship training, eating and studying, when the time comes, she goes back to sleep.
Uh, don’t I have any hobbies? If you think about it, in my previous life, I had no particular hobby other than reading web novels. Mikhail has one more drink and has no hobbies at all.
“Poison…… West?”
“Did you know that one of the hobbies that people with no hobbies really squeeze out is reading?”
Hestia let out a deep sigh.
“I have nothing to say even if rumors circulate that I am a boring man, really.”
I tried to say something back to her, but she shut her mouth. That’s all right. A man with no hobbies, how can he be so lazy? ;Cow;
“Good! Then today, Mikhail, let’s find out your hobbies!”
Hestia declared in a voice filled with her will.
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MADE FOR EACH OTHER!!!!
Damn i am envy for this couple