65 – Grant me a wish – 3
“Then, after all, me and Lady Adamas, whoo… no. Even though Lily has a deeper friendship than you think, she hides it from those around you, are you saying?”
“What are those words, what are you talking about as if it were someone else’s business! It’s true!”
Cordelia yelled at me as if I was dumbfounded when I tried to sort things out with a casual attitude. I continued speaking while remaining as calm as possible. Thinking that she didn’t know the most important fact about me and Seol-ah’s real identity anyway made her feel much more comfortable.
“Half true, half lie.”
I swallowed a single gulp and started reciting an excuse I somehow managed to squeeze out. Please don’t let my voice tremble.
“As you know, there was an unsavory relationship between me, Lily, and that pervert.”
The pervert here means Prince Wilhelm. It’s not a title I gave it, it was Cordelia’s. After the incident was over, she got to know the circumstances, and as if it was a very unpleasant thing to give him a decent title like Wilhelm or the Crown Prince, she dropped the crane and started calling him a pervert.
“So?”
At my words, Cordelia folded her arms and put on a happy expression, as if she would listen to her excuses for a moment. I’m very spoiled, but since I’m at a disadvantage right now, I’ve decided to put up with it.
“I haven’t spoken to Hestia or Cordelia since then, but there has been tangible and intangible harm towards Lily. It is too unfortunate to be a coincidence.”
“Really?!”
Cordelia was instantly excited about my story. It’s too easy.
I feel a little sorry for Wilhelm, who was the target of an excuse for nothing, but Cordelia and Hestia don’t have a lower level of understanding anyway, so it wouldn’t matter.
“Yes. There are people who are quarreling for no reason, or when passing by a shopping street, a potted plant falls somewhere….”
“It’s dangerous!”
Cordelia was indignant at the damage cases I had improvised. I feel sorry for Cordelia if she trusts her so perfectly. She feels like she’s doing something she can’t do. I’m covering up a lie with a lie, so it’s right that I can’t do it.
“Yes. Anyway, it happened because of me, so I was helping out a little. Maybe because of that, we became ‘a little’ closer.”
I put a special accent on the word a little. It means that the relationship between me and Seol-ah is by no means what you think Cordelia is.
“Then why did you hide it from us?”
“Isn’t it dangerous to get involved? Besides, Lily said that we should keep quiet about this.”
“Mikhail… !”
From what I said, Cordelia was genuinely moved.
Stop it! Don’t look at me with those eyes! I’m such a piece of trash! I had to struggle internally with guilt
“Of course, thank you for thinking of us! Still, I think it would have been better if I had been honest. Friends are more important than me or Hestia or such trivial dangers.”
Her words touched me quite sincerely. For me, Lily, and Cordelia, even though it was only a short relationship, they thought so much.
But why does such a nice kid behave so unreasonably when Hestia and I get involved?
I decided to roughly wrap up the story here.
“Anyway, that’s how it was. It is by no means the strange relationship Cordelia thinks.”
“Okay, okay. So what can I do to help?”
Cordelia suddenly asked an odd question.
“What are you talking about?”
“Of course you mean how can I help Lily?”
“Yes?”
Cordelia answered my stupid question as if it were natural.
“What, then you thought I was like that even after hearing this and went back as if nothing had happened? It’s not that I don’t know, but I can’t stay still even when I know that Lily is in trouble. I will help.”
“No, you don’t have to. It’s also quite dangerous.”
“What, then, is it okay for you to take responsibility for such dangerous things all by yourself?”
“Can I protect myself?”
“Wouldn’t you have known if you didn’t know, because now that you know, you have no intention of staying still?”
Even when I said it was dangerous, Cordelia was reckless. As she said, if Cordelia is the kind of person who would stay quiet after hearing such a story, that would be absolutely not the case. No matter how hard I try, I’ll stick my face in somehow.
I gave up. I think I need to tell Seol-ah everything as soon as possible and kiss her.
“Good. There’s nothing we can do.”
“Yeah! Then what should I do now?”
Cordelia let out a shout of her victory. What’s so exciting about this that I like it so much?
What should I do now, and her eyes twinkled, I decided to give her the first task.
“Then, first,”
“Once?”
“Let’s finish the training we are doing now.”
At my words, Cordelia put on a very disappointed expression. Did you know you could do something right now? There is no such thing, Cordelia.
“Right now, I’m only doing malicious and petty tricks, but I don’t know when something dangerous might happen. Developing one’s own skills is also very important.”
“Wow….”
She picked up her training sword again with the corners of her mouth drooping at my sermon.
“If you are thinking of this job as a hobby, you should stop.”
“No, no! I will work hard.”
She jumped up when I pounced on her attitude.
Perhaps he felt quite a sense of crisis, and his posture was clean and unnecessarily incomparable. As expected, you did it on purpose because you just wanted to cheat on me. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.
I rolled her non-stop until it was time for her lunch.
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“Thank you for your hard work.”
Cordelia made a gesture of good work with one hand as she drank with one hand. She didn’t stop, as if her throat was quite dry, and she gulped down endlessly.
“If you drink too fast, you get sick. Eat slowly.”
As if not listening to my advice, Cordelia finally dropped her mouth from her canteen after pouring out all the remaining water in one shot.
“Kiya! Great job!”
“How would you like lunch?”
Cordelia pondered for a moment.
“Shall we go out to eat?”
“As you know, eating too much can interfere with your afternoon training.”
In the afternoon, I plan to sparring with her in earnest. If you shove food all the way down her throat, there is a chance that she will reveal what she ate for lunch at the gymnasium. I’d prefer it to be as light as possible.
“If I don’t worry so much, I won’t eat much.”
Cordelia snorted at my words. She certainly didn’t eat much for her height or her usual amount of exercise. Rather, Hestia was closer to a glutton.
“Let’s put this away and go.”
Cordelia arranged the place for her juseom juseom singing her hyung and her hum. I also stood by the side.
She was going to come and use it again in the afternoon anyway, but she insisted on putting it away. In this respect, she was surprisingly stubborn.
“I’ll come back in the afternoon anyway, but you’re sincere.”
“What if someone comes and writes while we are away for a while? And if you write it, it’s only natural to get rid of it.”
She thought that it was rare for students to skip lunch and show up at the gymnasium at this time, but after all, she was right, so she just kept her mouth shut.
“End! Shall we go?”
After roughly tidying up, we were about to leave the gymnasium when a familiar voice caught our feet.
“Wait a minute!”
“Hestia?”
“Lady Adamas?”
What Cordelia and I faced was Hestia and Seol-ah holding a fairly large picnic basket. Where the hell did you get something like that?
Hestia was smiling awkwardly and Seol-ah seemed uninterested. Did Cordelia feel half happy and half annoyed?
It was bigger than that. In fact, Hestia’s coming here itself was within the expected range, but Seol-Ah’s coming was unthinkable.
If Cordelia brought up a strange story here and she finds out that Seol-ah and I don’t agree, the thing she’s been trying so hard to put together will explode even bigger.
“What is Lady Adamas doing here….”
“I asked to go with you.”
It was Hestia who answered my question. Seol-ah turned her head and yawned as if she was still sleepy even though the sun had risen in mid-sky.
“I didn’t come here because I was worried about what the two of them were doing. It’s the weekend, so I thought it would be nice to have lunch with the four of us, so I prepared it.”
Hestia explained in detail how she was stabbed, why she came, and carefully put her picnic basket down. She opened the lid of her basket. It was full of sandwiches.
I don’t think I bought it at a store.
“Did you make it yourself?”
“Yes. I asked the maids, so they lent me the kitchen.”
She replied shyly.
I stared at the sandwich for a moment, then opened my mouth without saying anything. Hestia, who looked at me for a moment asking what she was doing, immediately blushed, and then she carefully took out her sandwich and fed it to me. It was a delicious sandwich with fresh, crunchy vegetables and salty ham.
Cordelia and Seol-ah looked at her with expressions that they saw something she couldn’t see.
“Sorry. As you can see, my hands are a bit like that.”
Eating something with the hand that used to touch the handle of the sword drenched in sweat just now is a bit odd.
“Then you can wash your hands before coming back.”
I praised her sandwich, letting Cordelia’s scolding go through one ear.
“It’s so delicious, isn’t it?”
“Thank you.”
“Then, did you go in after the workout and make it until now? You must be very tired.”
“I can’t stand it. I am not tired at all.”
Hestia lifted her thin forearms and pretended to make her biceps. She was of course she was thin but pouty without anything. No, how could such thin arms come out of that chest? There is no mystery.
Perhaps Seol-Ah, who was taken aback by Hestia and me, interjected.
“I’m hungry. Shall we sit down?”
She gave off a hint of her being forced to come out, even though she was sleepy. He seems to want to take a break after eating and cleaning up quickly.
Even if it were me, I could understand it because it would be like that if I forced myself to go to sleep on the weekends, but with a strange reason that my friend would notice going somewhere alone.
Since there were quite a few students eating simple meals prepared in advance at the gymnasium, there was a simple washbasin and water fountain in the corner. In fact, I saw some students who stayed at the gymnasium and chewed hard on something in the corner.
When Cordelia and I washed our hands in the washbasin, they were waiting for us with a mat on which they had prepared it.
“I’ll eat well!”
Cordelia ate her sandwich before she even sat down. Hestia nags her to pretend, but she doesn’t listen this time either.
“Yeah, it’s delicious.”
Cordelia also gave her thumbs up. As if Hestia wasn’t used to compliments, she smiled shyly.
All the while sitting and eating, I thought about how to convey what happened earlier to Seol-ah. Glancing at her sandwich, he squinted at her.
However, in this situation, there was no chance. The four of them are seated in a circle with a basket in the middle, so no matter what they do, they stand out immediately.
I tried to express something through glances and hand gestures as little as possible, avoiding Hestia and Cordelia’s eyes, but in vain.
Seola looked at me with a puzzled expression, wondering what the hell is he doing. Well, it would be impossible to explain such complex content with only glances and hand gestures.
It would be best to just make sure Cordelia never brings up the story in the first place.
“Come to think of it, Lily. If that happened, consult with us too… “
“Dangerous!”
Cordelia was about to ask Seol-ah about what she had just done before I could stop thinking, but the words didn’t come to an end. Because I ran over her and blew her away.
“Die! You slut b*tch!”
The sword stuck where I blew Cordelia away. Stone crumbs and dust from the floor made a mess of the sandwich Hestia had worked so hard to prepare.
“Stand back! Cordelia! Just like the people I was talking about! Aiming at me and Lily!”
I screamed as I stepped forward. Seol-Ah is quite quick to notice her, so even if she listens to this much, she will be able to guess the words roughly after the situation is over. Exactly, I hope so.
The ones who attacked us were the students who were quietly eating their meals in the corner earlier. In their eyes, Lee Ji-ran was already invisible. Excessively swollen muscles and disgustingly prominent blood vessels. It’s the same symptoms as the student who hurt Cordelia before.
It can happen once, but if it happens twice, it’s hard to see it as a coincidence. No matter how you look at it, it seems that there is something really aiming at us.
f*ck, why is this real?
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This is a rough illustration of Hestia Von Gracia! I also posted it in the notice!