40 – Cordelia isn’t a sucker – 2
“So those rumors are all lies?”
“Yes. To begin with, Lady Adamas and I are really not related.”
I was disappointed in their eyes as they looked at me at my explanation. No, what were these people expecting? Is it chivalry or gossip first?
“Sorry. It seems we have misunderstood the Archduke.”
“hahahaha…. I don’t really care.”
The female students bowed their heads slightly to apologize. As I lowered my head, I barely held back what I wanted to put on the top of each girl’s head, and greeted them.
And unlike what I said, I was actually very concerned. None of the rumors they asked me were clear. There were also rumors about how other people were seeing me. When I heard about the crazy rumor that Wilhelm confessed to me and then took a leave of absence due to a difference, I just wanted to clear my ears. On the other hand, there were rumors that were relatively close to the truth about a love triangle between me, Wilhelm, and Seol-ah.
Of course, he jumped up and denied everything. Either way, it was a rumor that didn’t seem to help my image very much. Especially rumors related to homos*xuality. No, there are so many people who have seen me sticking right next to Hestia for two weeks, but I can’t understand why such ridiculous rumors are going around. I feel like I’m getting engulfed in gossip just by standing next to you. Is this the life of a celebrity?
One of the girls, who couldn’t hide his disappointment at my firm denial, popped out and asked a new question.
“Then what about Miss Cordelia?”
“Are you talking about Lady Deneb?”
No, do you usually ask these questions with two people in front of you? They scolded the female student asking if she was crazy, but they couldn’t hide their curiosity from their eyes.
I casually looked at Cordelia. Her face was strangely contorted. It’s a really disgusting look. No, I didn’t even think about it, but something makes me cry. I decided to tease her a little bit because I thought she was offended.
“I think you are a beautiful and good person.”
“… ?”
Cordelia looked at me and tilted her head as if she was up to something. Even if you give me a compliment, that kind of reaction. I never thought we’d have this much trust in each other. I managed my expression as much as I could and continued with a very serious expression.
“He is tall and has beautiful red hair. He is also pure, honest, and knows how to care for his friends. He knows how to forgive others and sometimes has a mature side. I think he is a wonderful person.”
At first, Cordelia said, “Put out her breasts and praise me a little more proudly.” It started.
“That, stop. I’m embarrassed….”
I didn’t know that Cordelia was high in the sky and kept taking the plane. Her reaction was perfectly ripe. I decided to crash the plane at this point.
“But it is very far from my taste. As I said before, I like Hestia, my fiancé.”
In an instant, Cordelia’s face hardened as she fell from her stratosphere to the ground. When there are no other people by her side, I want to tease her so much what she expected.
-Puck
“Ah! Lady Deneb, what the hell are you doing? Doesn’t Hestia always say not to use violence?”
“Noisy! Shut up, just! Is it fun to tease you?”
“Yes. It’s honestly fun.”
“Profit!”
Cordelia stepped in front of me and kicked me in the shin. It hurts a lot because of the shoes. Seeing her blushing and fighting her spirit, she couldn’t stand it, so she teased me a little, and then, in her anger, punched me with her fist. I felt it before, but like Hestia and Cordelia, her hands were subtly spicy. I held her hand
“Now stop and let go of your anger. It’s nothing to be so angry about, is it?”
“If you can’t speak.”
Cordelia whimpered a few times before exhaling her snort. Something about her reminds me of her first meeting.
“Have you seen it? Lady Deneb and I are just friends. As I keep saying in the first place, I have a fiancé.”
I spoke to the women who were staring blankly at Cordelia and I. They look puzzled as if they are unfamiliar with us playing silly pranks and fighting. It was surprising to see the children of the highest aristocratic family in the empire, who were hard to talk to first only from their point of view, playing like children. I decided to clearly draw a line now that they are hurting.
“So those rumors are all nonsense.”
Once I drew the line, they didn’t ask me any more nasty questions or gossip. On the contrary, when they saw such rumors going around, they even said that they would come forward and correct them. Everyone is nice
And to be honest, it wasn’t a completely unpleasant and irritating time. Not to mention I and Cordelia, Hestia also has wide feet and isn’t a style that is open to rumors, so today I knew for the first time what was being said about me. If it is useful, it can be said that it is a useful time. From now on, be careful about your behavior and don’t go near a man. I sincerely thought.
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Me and Seol-ah’s tryst felt like a kind of regular event. It’s because I felt the need to have a conversation often, whether I like it or not, after the last incident. Every Monday at 8:00, we talk about what happened last week and what will happen this week in the back of the auditorium where people are sparse. Regardless of whether they fought each other or lost and roasted each other, it is a must, unless there are special circumstances.
Of course, thanks to the imbalance of information that only Seol-ah knows about the original work, I tend to keep my mouth shut and listen. I had nothing to lose, so I agreed.
“Nothing will happen this week. Oh, was the student council president election this week?”
“Come to think of it, there was such a story. Who will you pick?”
“Just to pick someone.”
“It seems that the content does not appear in the original work.”
Seol-ah didn’t seem interested in the student council president election. It seems to have been a minor event in the original story.
“I just passed by in one line. I’m not very interested, I just want to close my eyes and stamp anywhere and come out.”
“Originally, the student council president in a novel or manga like this is a very important person.”
“That’s true, but maybe it’s because you and Wilhelm had to grow influence in the original work, so he was no different from the student council president we know. Just a face madam role. He only works hard at useless meetings and nothing comes out.”
“It’s poignant.”
Seola said cynically. In fact, it’s also funny that she has a strangely strong power in the student council president at best.
“Anyway, it’s not that important. This is the end of this week’s special events.”
But when I think about it, this isn’t a prophecy of the possessor’s raw food, but isn’t it just an academic schedule? Seol-ah made an excuse as if she felt my gaze.
“I said it last time, but since Wilhelm took a leave of absence, I have no idea how the original work will go.”
“It’s a leave of absence. Any chance of coming back?”
“Will he come back? I bet you’ve seen kids who have accidents and take a leave of absence.”
“Yes.”
Looking at Wilhelm, she also seemed to think of a college student who had an accident and ran away on a leave of absence. Even in this world, taking a leave of absence is a national rule.
“When they finally calm down, they all come back and live quietly in school before graduating. Wouldn’t it be the same for Wilhelm?”
“I think rumors will spread if that student becomes the 3rd generation of a conglomerate.”
“Well, rumors are not our business.”
She dismissed my question in one sentence. Whether or not Wilhelm will have a quiet school life next year is none of our business.
A time to chat for a while after everything that needs to be said is over. I asked her a question she had been curious about since morning.
“I think you went on a date with Cordelia over the weekend. How was it?”
She smiled bitterly at her wordlessly. What the hell happened? My curiosity was further fueled.
“Why?”
“Honestly, it was a bit annoying.”
“Wow, Inseong.”
At my words, Seol-ah hurriedly added an additional explanation, waving her arms.
“No! I don’t mean that! I don’t mean that being with Cordelia is annoying! Of course, I feel sorry for Cordelia. Now that I have to say this, it may sound like a huge excuse, but when I was progressing through the original story before meeting you, I didn’t feel like I was myself. So, while deliberately provoking to get hit in the ear, I thought it was a bit pitiful, but I justified myself that I couldn’t help it….”
The words became more and more disjointed, apparently genuinely embarrassed.
“Okay, okay. I just said it as a joke.”
“Please don’t say that, even as a joke. I feel like I’m really obsessed with something To be honest, I care a lot.”
Her reaction is more intense than I thought. I asked just in case.
“Has anyone ever tried to send something away before Cordelia?”
“No! No, there are, but they were all worth going! He was a bad b*tch.”
Even her tears welled up as if she was really unfair.
“I think the writer wanted to write a novel in the beginning where an ordinary smart female protagonist gets rid of bad villains and wins love. However, during the Cordelia episode, the response was so good that I turned it into a direction that doesn’t distinguish between good and evil. So all the people I touched before Cordelia are villains. Illegal slave traders, rogue lords, swindlers and the like.”
“I’m glad.”
“Yes, so don’t talk about personality or bad b*tch. Wear a real joust.”
“I never even called you a bad b*tch, did you?”
“Honestly, I thought about it once.”
Is it a ghost? How did know. I closed my mouth and smiled bitterly. Even Seol-ah, as if she had no intention of saying anything more to me about this story, just quietly passed on. If you dig into it, it’s a topic that you’re at a disadvantage in the end.
“So what is that bothersome story about?”
From a simple question about how it was eating and drinking tea with Cordelia, the conversation went all the way up to here. I asked again what I wanted to ask in the first place.
“Have you ever raised a puppy?”
“No.”
“I used to raise them at home. I like it when the dog just runs at me at first. It’s just cute and nice, but after 10 minutes or 1 hour, it’s hard. It’s definitely nice, but it’s a bit annoying.”
I remembered Poongsan, who I used to raise at my grandfather’s house. It was a mixed dog with white fur, but when it was grown up, it was quite large, so it was difficult to attack it. Thinking of Poongsan clinging to him for an hour wagging his tail and licking his face would definitely be very annoying. Seol-ah was quite talented at metaphors.
“I think I know what you mean.”
“At first, when we reconciled and decided to meet up for a meal on the weekend, I thought that there were all these kind kids, that I was really crazy. Honestly, if I were him, I don’t think we would have been close friends even if we reconciled. But after we met and stayed together for a day, I couldn’t handle it.”
“Is that enough?”
“Yes! They said that I like romance too, so I didn’t get tired of reading novels and told me to die. It’s not something I would say after reading such novels and flying here, but it was really scary.”
You mean that much? When he was with me, he seems to have restrained himself a little because he was a friend of the opposite s*x.
“Still, please accept it. He must have been excited because he was a new friend after a long time.”
“The kid is cute.”
“Wow, you just looked so old.”
It was the tone of a senior who was in the 5th grade without graduating and looking at high school students visiting the university. Come to think of it, wouldn’t it be that much considering the real age difference?
“Hey! Twenty-five is still in full swing?!”
Seola screamed. I listened in one ear to the tirade about her age and youth that followed, and let it out with the other. Come to think of it, she remembered seeing the appearance of an earthling called Hanseol Ah that she had seen in her dream last time. I suddenly became curious.
“What did you originally look like, Seol-ah?”
“Huh? Why is she asking such a thing all of a sudden?”
“No, since I talked about my original age, I became curious. I saw it in a dream last time.”
“A dream?”
I roughly explained the content of the dream I had last time. Of course, all the parts like kissing and motels were omitted and dramatized, and explained as just friends as naturally as possible. It was a dream a few days ago, but I still remember it vividly, so I wonder if it’s just a dog dream.
Her face hardened as she listened to my explanation.
“Why? Do you have anything to grab?”
“You lied.”
“What are you talking about?”
Seol-ah flashed her eyes.
“The content of the dream, that’s not it.”
Crazy, how did you know?
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