43 – What is Mildang? Is it something sweet made from wheat? – 1
“Hello, Lady Deneb.”
“…… “
What is it? Didn’t you hear I greeted Cordelia again.
“Lady Deneb? Hello.”
“…… “
Cordelia ignored me again. This is intentional no matter who sees it. You can tell by the way I just heard my voice and winced. What is this doing?
I thought for a moment whether I had done something wrong with Cordelia. Was she kidding last time? No, that’s something I apologized for and moved on.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but I couldn’t come up with anything that I could think of. What did I do that is unilaterally ignoring me like that? Unless you really feel bad and want to break up with you, there won’t be a case of ignoring you openly like this. Cordelia ignored my greetings and went to Hestia to talk normally again.
“Lady Deneb, let’s talk for a while.”
I approached her talking to her Hestia and put her hand on her shoulder. She said Cordelia took my hand away. Her voice trembled.
“Don’t talk to me.”
“No, what if you suddenly do this? Shouldn’t there be a reason for that?”
Cordelia didn’t answer me. Hestia, who was talking with Cordelia, also looks dumbfounded as if she is embarrassed by this situation. She glanced back and forth between me and her, Cordelia’s, her face, and she whispered to me.
“Mikhail, what did you do wrong?!”
“I didn’t do anything!”
I was so unfair that I felt like I was going crazy and jumping. No i didn’t really do anything. I just came in the morning and said hello, but what am I doing to suddenly do this. I decided to use a fairly effective method to open her mouth.
“Lady Deneb, are you really going to never speak to me again?”
“… Yes.”
“Okay. If that’s what the young lady wants, I will respect it.”
I said it sarcastically, in the best way I could. My name is you live here, mom will go home op. Originally, when you insist on one-sidedly like that, don’t just keep pushing, but pull at once, and you’ll be embarrassed and follow.
Unsurprisingly, Cordelia’s expression obviously darkened. Her shoulders trembled incessantly. It was like a puppy caught in the rain, and I almost burst out laughing without even realizing it. I forced myself to hold back a laugh.
Cordelia looked pretty shocked by my words. If that’s the case, don’t ignore it in the first place. I decided to just keep quiet and watch. It is clear that he has heard another strange story somewhere. To be honest, it’s a bit embarrassing, but it’s within the scope of what I can take into account when I think of the jokes I’ve been playing on. If I wait, wouldn’t he come first, explain the situation, and apologize?
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“Is that why you came to see me?”
“Yes. Did you hear anything?”
Still, I’m curious about what I’m curious about, so I’ll have to ask someone else. You can wait for her to come, but if you can find out sooner, it’s easier to just find the cause and get rid of it. I visited Seol-ah during my lunch break.
Once we looked into it, Cordelia’s condition was more serious than we thought. I don’t know if I can call this serious. To my surprise, she seemed really distressed about ignoring me.
She came out and sat alone in a seat quite far away from Hestia. It doesn’t matter too much since I’m not taking classes in the classroom anyway, but I was worried about it for no reason. Besides, when we called to eat together during lunch right away, he shivered and forcibly ignored us.
Hestia seemed to be quite worried about Cordelia. She wondered if she was always preparing for the next class during her spare lunch break, sitting still and idly thinking about her.
Seol-ah shook her head as if she had never heard of my question. She seems to have heard nothing from Cordelia either. The case gradually falls into a labyrinth.
“Well, I didn’t hear anything either.”
“Really?”
“Why, you know those girls you introduced. Ask them I was with them yesterday.”
Seol-ah pointed to a corner of her classroom with her chin. Her familiar face must have been one of the group of women I introduced her to. She was talking to other female students. Come to think of it, judging from Cordelia’s ruinous human relationship, if it’s not me, Hestia, or even Seol-ah, the only ones left are them.
“Thank you. I will go and ask.”
I thanked Seol-ah and approached the female knight (Jin). She was talking with her back to me. Opposite her, that is, the direction in which I could see my approach, the faces of the female students became more questionable and perplexed as I took a step forward.
I was a bit moved when I saw their expressions. Their expressions are too distorted to be those of a classmate approaching during lunch. No, I really should ask Seria later, should I be treated like this if I just tell someone about what I did?
“What is it, why is that expression… Huh!”
“Excuse me. Let’s talk for a minute.”
She saw the expression on the faces of the students who were sitting across from each other and turned her head to me. I arrived right in front of her, and her eyes met. She was amazed as it took her breath away. I almost got hurt a little. If you see a ghost, you will be less surprised than that.
I waited a moment for her to calm her startled heart. After a while, she took a deep breath and faced me with a calm expression.
“Are you calm?”
“Sorry, it was so sudden I was a bit surprised.”
“It’s okay. Never mind.”
Actually, it’s not very good, but I passed it in moderation. Aside from my handsome face, it was not a very pleasant experience for someone to faint at the sight of me.
“There is something I want to ask about Lady Deneb.”
As she said Cordelia’s name, her expression changed noticeably. She couldn’t hide her embarrassment. The fact that her face changes from moment to moment is at the level of shouting that there is something stabbing. The corners of her eyes and mouth twitched out of place. As expected, Cordelia’s sudden change must have something to do with them.
“Ko, Ko, Cordelia?”
“I was talking about Lady Deneb, not Coco Cordelia.”
“…… “
“It was a joke.”
I thought I was too nervous, so I joked lightly to lighten the mood, but my cold eyes that seemed to freeze me came back. Even in the midst of embarrassment to the point of stuttering, it seems that he cannot forgive jokes that are not funny.
“Other than that, I want to ask what happened to Lady Deneb yesterday.”
“… Did anything happen?”
Her lips moved as if contemplating whether she should speak or not, and then finally let go. It’s the attitude of the person who happened, no matter who sees it.
“Can you tell me what happened?”
“Nothing happened?”
“Really?”
“Yes. It’s true.”
“…Once I get it.”
I’m sure there is something, but I can’t figure out what’s beyond, so I’m about to die because I’m curious. However, there was nothing I could do right now, so I decided to give up trying to find out more about her. Actually, she sticks to Cordelia all day long, and I wonder if she’ll come up with anything if you ask her.
I came back to my seat and sat down. Hestia, who was lost in thought for a long time, regained her consciousness when I heard the sound of dragging a chair.
“Mikhail, did you find out anything?”
“I don’t know yet either. First of all, the first thing I’m suspicious of is the female students in the swordsmanship class that I recently met. It’s just a heart attack, so I have nothing to say. Just Hestia, if you stay next to Cordelia and whine all day long, won’t I just teach you?”
It is highly likely that Cordelia has no feelings for Hestia, given that she and Hestia had a good conversation at first. The reason why she is avoiding us now is probably because she needs to see me too when approaching Hestia.
Hestia thought seriously about her proposal for a while, and then she shook her head.
“Miss Cordelia has always been extremely stubborn in strange places. No matter what I do, he probably won’t tell me right now.”
“Wonderful place?”
Hestia thought for a moment with her eyes closed, then she heard the story of her past.
“When she was young, she had been stubborn for a long time, saying she didn’t like red hair. No matter what other people said, I couldn’t think of listening to it. In the end, after starving for a week, the duke called in an expert in illusion magic and cast a spell to make it appear black.”
I thought of my cousin, an elementary school student who starved herself for several days to dye her hair blonde. One day, he was suddenly obsessed with dyeing and went on a hunger strike for days and days to ask for dyeing. In the end, my uncle and wife allowed me to dye my hair, saying that there are no parents who win over their children. After that, a week later, I was grimacing that I thought it was not good, but I was really beaten.
“I can’t imagine the dark-haired Lady Deneb.”
“I must have felt awkward myself. In the end, it returned to its original red hair in three days.”
The ending is also the same as her cousin’s. It’s a Cordelia-like episode. I laughed and Cordelia turned her head towards the seat where she was sitting. As if he had been looking this way, Cordelia’s eyes met hers. She startled and jerked her head away. It seemed that he was quite concerned about what we were talking about.
“You keep looking at this side?”
As a test, I slightly averted my gaze from Cordelia. Then she immediately started spying on us.
“Even if we leave it as it is, won’t it go back to normal sooner or later?”
If you look at the way you suffered while ignoring my words or the way you care about us like this now, you’ll probably come back sooner or later to apologize and go back to normal.
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It quickly became clear that I was wrong. A week had passed and Cordelia still refused to speak to me, let alone contact her. I had to admit that my strategy was wrong.
“Lady Deneb, let’s go together.”
“…… “
So this time we changed the strategy. It didn’t work because I pulled it, so I’m going to push it until I can push it this time.
Cordelia was taken aback by my words, and then she immediately went straight to the swordsmanship class, ignoring me. I quickly clung to it and caught her ignoring me and continued talking to her.
“How are you feeling today?”
“…… “
“Oh, by the way, I have read all of ‘The Knight and the Wolves’ that you lent me last time. It was more fun than I thought. Could you recommend another book?”
When the name of her favorite novel came out of her mouth, she paused for a moment as if she was agitated. She walks naturally again as if nothing had happened, but her hands and feet are coming together.
I barely held back her laugh and pointed it out to her.
“Lady Deneb, your hands and feet go together.”
“… !”
Cordelia’s face turned red in an instant. She gave me one prick and a glare, then walked back to her normal gait.
It definitely feels more effective to push than to pull. It seems that he has found a way to break through her hard iron wall. Anything is fine, so she listens and throws at her embarrassing words until she collapses.
I spoke in a low voice in her ear.
“You are more beautiful today.”
“… ?!”
Cordelia freaked out and turned to me. This time she blushed even more than when she pointed out that her hands and feet were going out together, and she started running.
“Lady Deneb! You can’t run in the hallways!”
Cordelia didn’t respond, but it was clear that she was chewing me to death inside.
Performance sure.
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