20 – Lily’s Shady Plan – 1
A low hill located behind the academy grounds. It’s outside the fence, but it’s owned by the academy anyway, so the academy manages it diligently. A walking trail was created for people to take a walk, and a landscaper was hired to decorate it like a kind of garden.
Of course, it is to manage diligently so that students can relax and relieve stress. Students often called it Hill Garden. It’s a really straightforward nomenclature. The hill garden is always open except during weekday classes, and sometimes it is open during classes for some classes. And today was just such a day.
“Today’s class is outdoors because it’s such a nice day. Everyone please follow me.”
The couple’s understanding class was an outdoor class. When the teacher started class and confirmed that all the students had arrived, he led everyone outside. It was still early March, but the day was warm enough to have a picnic.
“Thank you.”
“What is it?”
“I asked to take this class.”
I was extremely grateful to Hestia. She chats over tea and has a picnic in the garden on a nice day. All of these classes are credited. Even taking into account the condition of being a pair of men and women, where else is such a good lecture?
When I entered the hill garden, an assistant was waiting with a mat in his arms. There is a teaching assistant in this class too. I was a little surprised. The teacher smiled and said to the students who were staring blankly at him.
“Everyone can enjoy a picnic freely.”
Then I sat down on the mat and started reading. Aren’t you taking an outdoor class because you want to read a book outside?
I got a mat from my teaching assistant and found a good location. It is a place where you can see the spring flowers blooming right next to it with moderate sunlight.
“The weather is great today.”
“I see.”
I spread a mat and sat down with Hestia. She doesn’t seem to be in a good mood. It’s not that she doesn’t talk, but it doesn’t lead to long conversations.
“Is there anything you would like me to do for you?”
“I don’t have anything in particular right now.”
“Don’t do that. An opportunity like this doesn’t come often.”
She rubbed hard to cheer her up.
“Would you like a massage?”
“A massage?”
“Yes. Aren’t you tired of studying?”
There is no specific negative intention. Really. After thinking for a moment, she accepted my offer. She must have been really sick.
“Okay. Then can I lie down like this?”
“It’s not that serious. Just turn your back and sit.”
She stopped as she lay on her mat as she assumed her prone position. I don’t know how to do it, and even if I do, it’s a bit embarrassing to do it in a place where everyone else can see it.
“Tell me if it hurts?”
She placed her hand lightly on Hestia’s shoulder. Her flowing hair reached my hand. I brushed her hair slightly to the side.
“Is her hair a hindrance by any chance?”
Before I could answer, Hestia pulled out her rubber band from her pocket, put it in her mouth, and tied her hair up. Naturally, the white nape of her neck caught her eye. Involuntarily, I stared at him. She felt my gaze and her face blushed slightly.
“It’s embarrassing to look at you like that.”
I suddenly turned my head. It’s embarrassing to find out what I was staring at. My earlobes are burning with embarrassment.
“I’m done.”
After a while she voila and showed her hair in her ponytail. Her voluminous silver hair was tied neatly into a so-called ponytail. I gently combed her tail, which swayed rhythmically on the back of her head as if possessed.
“It suits you very well.”
“Touching is okay, but please touch me gently. Even a little bit of strength hurts.”
I let go immediately. Can’t be sick
“Then massage me again.”
She smiled slightly. Did my reaction make you feel a little relieved?
I put my hand on her shoulder, thinking hard about not focusing too much on her neckline. If you apply too much force, the pain may outweigh the coolness, so I added or subtracted moderately.
Her shoulders popped up. It seems that there is a lot of energy in her body.
“I can’t give you a massage if you’re pushing so hard.”
“But it tickles me. Wait a minute. After, again! I won’t give you strength this time.”
She lowered her raised shoulders again and took a deep breath. I’m just getting a massage, so there’s no need to be so nervous.
I put my hand between her neck and shoulder again. This time, I deliberately held it a little closer to her neck in order to slowly release it from the direction of her neck.
“Hee hee! Wait a minute!”
As soon as I raised her hand, Hestia struggled away from me.
“You’re not doing it on purpose, are you?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Aren’t you tickling me on purpose to play a joke on me?”
She stared at me, crouching over her body. I was dumbfounded and laughed. He went up to her side and nudged her side with his index finger.
“Hyat!”
Then she jumped up with a scream she had never heard before.
“Mu, mu, what did you do!”
I stuttered as if I was a little surprised. She had thought that Cordelia didn’t get tickled as much when Cordelia was poking her with her elbow before, since she sat there casually, but it didn’t seem to be the case.
“It’s not that I tickle you, Hestia. I think you tickle me too much, right?”
“Then why are you stabbing my side?!”
Hestia stamped her feet.
“No, I didn’t feel anything when I was stabbed by Lady Deneb last time, just in case.”
“Miss Cordelia feels like family.”
“Am I not family?”
“Not yet. And it feels different from Miss Cordelia.”
“Are you shy?”
Hestia didn’t answer, but her ears turned red. Her ears are more candid than her mouth.
“Anyway, the massage is over.”
Hestia took her seat. She gave up on getting a massage and this time she didn’t turn her back and she just came over and sat down.
“I felt like an idiot when I was feeling bad about something.”
“Hestia. As I said before, I will just stop if you ask me to.”
No matter how much Lily is a welcome person from another world, she and I are strangers. If Hestia continues to struggle, she will quit and find another way. Hestia is a much more important person to me who decided to live in this world anyway.
“No. How can you tell me to stop seeing something like that?”
“Hestia.”
“Stop. Let’s stop talking about this.”
I wasn’t very convinced, but Hestia wanted to end this story. She quickly changed the subject.
“Rather than that, I never dreamed that His Highness the Crown Prince would be such a person.”
Hestia rubbed her forearms as if the mere thought gave her goose bumps. Fortunately, she doesn’t seem to have any romance with a man who beats and bites like Cordelia.
“Really? Doesn’t anyone feel bad?”
“Who is it? Are you the Crown Prince?”
“Yes.”
She made a face that didn’t understand what I was saying. Why not? Isn’t it a bad and shady bastard who can see it? It’s because everyone hasn’t experienced Wilhelm’s glare at me even once.
“You kept arguing with me for insignificant reasons. And a gourd that originally leaks from the inside leaks from the outside, so there’s no way a guy who’s been so rotten on the inside can’t be fine just because it’s on the outside.”
However, it seems that other students think very differently. Hestia explained Wilhelm’s public image among ordinary students.
“First of all, His Highness the Crown Prince is handsome.”
“Did you just compliment that person’s face in front of me?”
“Ugh, Mikhail is more handsome in my eyes.”
“I am satisfied.”
She shook her head at my childish reaction.
“And I had both literary and martial arts. Rumor has it that he is good at handling swords and has excellent knowledge.”
“I use the sword better.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll praise you hard later, so please listen quietly for now.”
She continued her explanation. She said she was a child of my childish reaction, and since she kept giving me bruises, I decided to put up with it even though her mouth was itching. Strangely, when only Wilhelm is involved, emotions take precedence.
“I don’t have any siblings to threaten Your Highness’ position right now. Her only younger sister, Princess Yuria Leonhard, has given up her right to succeed to the throne.”
You had a younger brother. Not true the first time Will Wilhelm’s sister really know that her brother is such a pervert?
“The reason why members of the royal family enter the academy is not only to build personal connections, but also to give the common people a friendly image. However, even before the crown prince entered the academy, he received tremendous support from the common people. Before that, I had built up a good image while doing relief activities and volunteering. I have a good relationship with many other nobles as well.”
“Lady Deneb and I are there.”
Not only the Grand Duchy of Sirius, but also the Duke of Deneb are one of the greatest noble families in the empire.
“That’s right. Prince of Deneb, who has already gone wrong. Anyway, why is Mikhail so hostile to you? Are you jealous too?”
I had already told Hestia the whole story of Wilhelm’s quarrel with me.
“Isn’t that what I did on the eve of Lady Deneb’s issue?”
“According to what I have shown so far, I would have apologized the day after the eve and wanted to build a good relationship with you. But it didn’t.”
“You don’t have to go that far. Anyway, Her Highness said that she gave up her right to succeed.”
“It’s not just that. It’s an open secret that Her Highness’s ambitions are extraordinary.”
No matter how much Hestia is a member of the count family, she is the ambition of the imperial family, who knows even one academy student. It’s ridiculous. No, then does Wilhelm know about it but just watch it?
“Leave it alone?”
“Yes, what. It must be that he is resourceful and has never been caught by his tail. Because in the eyes of ordinary people, I look like a princess who works hard in everything just like my older brother, Her Highness the Crown Prince.”
“Then, in order to keep Her Highness in check, she would have wanted the crown prince to be friendly with me?”
She said yes.
“It makes sense for someone who has no interest in politics.”
“You don’t have any interest, do you?”
“Are there any facts I just told you that you knew?”
“… No.”
“You see that and say you have no interest in it.”
I was fooling around and couldn’t even find it.
“To conclude, the Crown Prince is an extreme romantic who kicked off his engagement to the Duke of Deneb and kicked off his relationship with the Grand Duchess of Sirius because of love.”
“What is the conclusion? It’s a waste to be called a romanticist.”
“Then what do you mean?”
“Are you crazy?”
“I will not deny it.”
Just a few days ago, Hestia, who had been running all over the world, saying that even talking about being a jerk was an insult to the imperial family.
“His Highness’ love is one-sided and violent. It is the love of a madman.”
“So what about me?”
She smiled at my question.
“Once you know I’m not a madman. Elementary love?”
“What do you mean?”
I think I know that it means not so good.
“The kind of elementary school kids ask their teachers to compare them one by one… Ah, no! Mikhail! It tickles me, so stop!”
After that, I attacked her side to the fullest. Who is elementary school?