50 – Midterm – 5
Cordelia’s eyes were different from usual. Should I say it’s magical, I took a step back from her, pressed by her momentum as if she was going to eat me.
“Tell me honestly.”
“What, what do you mean?”
She licked her own lips once with her tongue. What is it, what is going on? As I hesitated without answering, Cordelia urged me on again.
“There is only you and me here. So be honest. Did you really think we were just friends?”
Is he crazy? Then what else do you have besides friends?
“Didn’t Cordelia consider me a friend?”
“No, not that. Are you asking because you really don’t know?”
Cordelia thumped her chest in frustration. I was just as frustrated as her. No, if you’re going to say it, do it straight, or just be honest with me, but how do I know?
“Cordelia, I don’t know what to say, but I don’t know what to say if you don’t say it properly.”
“Wow, you really are. You want me to say that with my mouth?”
Cordelia glared at me with her pale eyes.
“I don’t know what it is, but just tell me. Because of this, my blood pressure rose and I ended up lying on my side.”
“Ugh, are you doing this on purpose?”
She made a groan as she blushed at my complaint. She looked straight into my eyes. I had nothing to prick, so she never averted her gaze. She snowballed with me for a while, and then she backed off as if she couldn’t help it.
“Okay. Open your ears and listen carefully.”
She took a deep breath. Sup… After…. She nodded her head as if she had made up her mind after taking five or six deep breaths. Soon, her mouth opened.
“Mikhail, I know that you like me, so tell me honestly. Did you really only think of me as a friend?”
Cordelia dyed her face red as if she was ashamed to say it herself.
Wait, what?
“What did you just say?”
“I told you to open your ears and listen carefully. Looking at your expression, I heard everything you said.”
“No, I did listen to what you just said.”
I thought you were joking. I swallowed the afterword. Cordelia’s expression was more serious than anyone in the world. Her face flushed with the color of her hair and teary eyes proved that she wasn’t joking about what she said.
“No, wait a minute, why are you crying?!”
“Who Cries?”
No matter how good it is, what should I do if I draw tears like this when I’m not in a fighting situation. I decided to soothe her once and for all. I haven’t said anything yet, but I’m already crying.
“No, stop crying for now.”
I handed her her handkerchief. The handkerchief she gave me earlier was still tied to Cordelia’s hand, but there was one more anyway. She blew her nose without hesitation.
“Because I don’t cry. Big!”
I wasn’t in the stage of crying out loud yet. To the extent that tears form and a runny nose runs after watching a sad movie? Still, I couldn’t say I didn’t cry. My eyes are red, what?
“If you say it in such a snoring voice, it is not convincing at all. One more sniff, please.”
“I can do it myself. Hi! Not a kid.”
I decided to keep the story that no matter how you look at it, it seems like a kid. She held her breath several times and hid her sobs to calm her down, then let out long breaths as if she had calmed down.
“Have you calmed down now?”
“Yes. Calmed down.”
“Then, can you explain why you are making such a claim?”
A delusion, delusion, misunderstanding. I wanted to use these words, but I changed my course to the neutral word claim. However, it seems that Cordelia cannot understand even the word assertion.
“A claim?”
“Yes. I’ll tell you in advance, I don’t have any rational feelings towards Cordelia.”
“Ah, don’t lie.”
Cordelia tapped my forearm as if telling me not to play around. But when she saw my motionless expression, she hardened her face as if she too felt something was wrong.
“Isn’t it?”
“I never lied.”
Her eyes shook at my assertion. Her tears, which she had tried to wipe away earlier, welled up in her eyes again.
“So, then why did you help me when we first met?”
“First of all, Hestia asked for help, and Wilhelm didn’t like her.”
“Then what were you friends with next?”
“Do you really need a reason to be friendly? After all, you were Hestia’s friend. And I also quite liked Cordelia.”
Cordelia’s expression twisted at my answer. Especially when she mentions Hestia by name. She started to fall apart in an instant.
“Then you made me a friend!”
“Cordelia.”
“You know, you complimented me back then. That she was tall, had pretty red hair, was nice and pure, and knew how to care for her friends! Was that all a lie?”
“Cordelia. I think you’re tall and pretty with burning red hair. Seeing you forgive Lady Adamas before, I thought you were a good and pure person. Hearing that Hestia struggled alone to be a place to lean on, I thought she was a person who knew how to care for her friend. It was a playful conversation, but the content was sincere.”
“But why!”
She screamed. I just felt guilty.
“Cordelia, I’m sorry. Obviously I look good on you and have a crush on you. But I have never considered you more than a friend.”
Cordelia eventually collapsed completely. Tears started pouring out of her big, good-natured eyes. I tried to come up with something comforting, but I thought it would hurt more, so I just quietly stayed by her side. Until she calms down completely.
“You bastard!”
She punched me in the chest with her fist, pouring out her tears and mucus. When you watch dramas, the main character accepts all of these things. I held out her breasts with such generosity. It was true that she was sorry for her, and she thought that if her heart would be relieved by just hitting my chest, she would just hit me.
“Ah, ah! Wait a minute! It hurts!”
“Be patient! Because I am more sick!”
Her really out of shape, I had to scream at her complaining of pain within 10 seconds of putting her breasts on her. Cordelia began to tuk-tuk with all her might, not lightly like the female protagonists in dramas and movies.
She works out every day, takes swordsmanship lessons, and even goes horseback riding as a club, and her hands have already crossed the line of being pretty spicy for a woman. It feels like a real bone sink. If she went around mana, she couldn’t use mana because her hand would get hurt. I endured her violence for a long time without moving.
“Did you cry? Ok What kind of hands are so hot?”
“Heeep! Huh. Hey!”
“I never knew you were such a tearful person.”
“Shut up. Hey!”
After beating me for a while, Cordelia finally wiped her swollen red eyes with the back of her hand, as if her tears had dried up. She gasped for a long time, holding her breath in until she finally exhaled hers. After washing her face for a while, she smiled dejectedly and opened her mouth.
“Do you know why I avoided you, Mikhail?”
“Why did you avoid it?”
“Don’t fall for me any more. Just said to hate me he. Are you stupid?”
She laughed like an idiot. Because of that smile, the traces of tears on her cheeks were more clearly visible for no reason.
“Yes. A little silly.”
“Really relentless.”
“If I really liked you in the first place, I wouldn’t hate you for that.”
“Then did you hate me?”
“Why is the story the way it is?”
“If you really liked it, you said you wouldn’t hate it. So, are you saying that you either really liked it or hated it?”
Is the story like that? I shook my head.
“I didn’t like it, but I didn’t hate it either. It wasn’t because I really hated it in the first place, I could see everything.”
“What, did you know everything from the beginning?”
“Cordelia’s ability to lie is on par with Hestia.”
“A lie.”
“Why am I telling this lie?”
Cordelia didn’t answer me. She just chuckled. Until recently, I was crying like the world had collapsed, but I’m glad it seems to be fine again.
“It seems that the pain of broken heart was not as great as I thought.”
She asked me what I was talking about. She completely changed her expression as if nothing had really happened.
“Lost love? What a broken heart?”
“Yes? If this isn’t a broken heart….”
Before she could finish my words, Cordelia hurriedly shut her mouth.
“Listen carefully. I have never been broken hearted.”
She continued her speech without removing her hand covering my mouth.
“Have I ever told you directly that I like you, Mikhail? Isn’t it? So I’ve never been broken hearted.”
After she had finished her own words, she removed her hand that was covering my mouth. It’s like if she has something to say, do it.
Coming to think of it, she never directly said she liked me. I just cried a lot over the fact that I didn’t like myself. But, no matter who sees it, isn’t this sophistry? At my bewildered gaze, she held out her breasts instead.
“What.”
“Then why did you cry?”
“I was just ashamed and emotional, so I did it! I didn’t cry because I really liked you!”
“Oh, yes.”
I was about to say something more, but she just shut her mouth because I thought this might be her way of defending her pride. Still, I didn’t forget to tease her to the fullest. Rather, it feels as if even the remaining bits of guilt have disappeared since it came out so brazenly.
“Cordelia never liked me, but cried out loud when I told her I had no feelings. What are you going to do now?”
She shook her hands as if her insides were boiling, but she couldn’t refute my words, perhaps because of what she had said earlier.
“What are you doing?”
“Is it going back the way it was before?”
Now that I know the reason why she avoided me, and I have resolved my mixed emotions, is it really the end of the incident? I felt a refreshing sense of release.
“Who is going back?”
A moist touch to the cheek. Cordelia’s pink lips pricked my cheek and ran away.
“What is this!”
“I don’t think it’s the first time since the last time Mikhail got this flustered. Is she really weak against attacks?”
“Cordelia, are you crazy?!”
Cordelia couldn’t lift her head, as if she was ashamed of what she had done.
“You know Cordelia, too. Wasn’t that why you just cried like that? We shouldn’t be like this.”
“It’s okay to just play with fire.”
I doubted my ears.
“Playing with fire?”
“Yes. I have no intention of interfering with you and Hestia’s married life. Because he is a dear friend.”
“Do you do this to your dear friend?”
Cordelia pondered over my words for a while before she brought up an out-of-the-box story.
“A very important thing to Mikhail… , yes let’s say there is a sword. If I ask you to borrow that sword for a while, will you not lend it to me? Of course, I’ll give it back right away, and I won’t even bother to ask for it from me.”
After thinking for a while, I replied. Is there any reason not to lend it?
“Maybe I can borrow it.”
“Isn’t it? It’s the same thing.”
“Where is the same?!”
Cordelia spoke confidently without any hesitation.
“It’s the same. Mikhail I am a dear friend to you. Right?”
“Yes.”
“And I am a dear friend to Hestia.”
“That’s right too.”
“To lend something precious to a dear friend for a short time. Are they the same?”
I already ran out of taste a long time ago. Deciding that I could no longer have a normal conversation with her, I decided to use her special move, knight writing. A complacent mind, thinking that if a knight values honor, it would work if he persuaded him not to do such a thing.
“Cordelia. Real knights don’t do that. Having an inappropriate relationship with someone else’s lover puts her and her partner’s honor in the mud….”
“Mikhail.”
“Yes?”
“I heard you read all of ‘The Knight and the Wolf’. Was that a lie?”
Cordelia smiled. Why are you bringing up that story all of a sudden? I lied that I had read it all to open her mouth last time, but in fact, I only read one book and still keep it on the bookshelf in my room. I felt my body stiffen.
“You mean the male protagonist there.”
She licked her lips with her tongue.
“I’m married.”
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