1. The First Letter (36)
Celine and Seria’s silence continued for a while.
Two hands were holding me. It was as if the two women were fighting a war of nerves with me in between. No, if I wasn’t mistaken, it wasn’t a metaphor, it was reality.
Both Celine and Seria were lovely girls who were admired everywhere. The fact that those two like me so much is something I’m proud of, but seeing their cold gazes made me feel sick to my stomach.
Not only Celine, whom I had grown up with since childhood, but also Seria, who was just learning about human relationships, were friends I couldn’t help but fall in love with. I’ll be a close friend to them both, so I could understand why they didn’t want to be taken away.
Even if it is not a romantic relationship, there is a desire for exclusivity. Although such a sense fades with age, it was the time when Celine and Seria still had such feelings.
To be honest, it was embarrassing.
That was the first thought that came to my mind in the midst of tension like a thread pulled tight. It wasn’t easy to take anyone’s side as of now.
After all, Celine was the one who unilaterally intervened between Seria and me, but it was still implicitly that we always ate breakfast together. Still, it was impossible to suggest that the three of them dine together in such a cold atmosphere.
In that case, the atmosphere like a thin ice sheet would not even digest properly. No matter how ignorant I was, I wasn’t that ugly.
When I was breaking out in a cold sweat, it was Celine who broke the silence.
She had a soft, gentle smile. It was a smile that reflected her sociable tendencies. But the smile she had now was different.
The eyes don’t smile, but only the lips draw an arc.
There was still a cold light in his tawny eyes. The first words Celine threw at Seria, who had been ignoring her until now, were as follows.
“Huh, Miss Yurdina? Do you have something to do with ‘our’ Ian?”
Then, Celine gently clung to me as if she was hugging my arm. I looked at Celine with surprised eyes, but she only glared at Seria with a cold expression.
On the contrary, he gave a smug snort as if he was bragging. The soft touch of a woman’s body touched her arm. Celine was no longer a child.
As usual, the moment I was about to cut off Celine, Seria’s hand gripped the hem of my dress, and her strength went into it.
Her aquamarine eyes sank deeply. It was a dramatic reaction, as if the clear sky was covered by clouds. The blue eyes, which were always clear and clean, gradually resembled the dull darkness of the deep sea.
She spoke to Celine in a cold, determined voice.
“… … You fall.”
“why me?”
However, Celine’s reaction to Seria was plain enough to be shameless. She snorted, shrugging her shoulders.
“Ian oppa and I used to be like this. How many days have you been clinging to Ian? Ahaha… Come to think of it, I get fed up.”
Celine, who burst into laughter unexpectedly, slowly erased the smile from her face.
The smirking eyes subsided coldly, and the corners of the mouth that drew a soft arc twisted with hostility. she whispered softly.
“What are you, are you interfering with me and Ian oppa? Aha, do you think you’ve gotten a little closer with Ian oppa now?”
“Celine.”
I called Celine’s name in an increasingly serious mood, but she didn’t even listen, as if she was very angry.
Rather, he pulled me like a hook and pulled me towards her. Seria was still holding the hem of my dress, so she and Celine were even closer.
The physical distance was like that. The distance of the heart seemed to be far away for a long time.
Celine muttered in a cold voice.
“Ian oppa played with you because you had no friends and looked pitiful. Don’t you know that too?”
“I told you to stop, Celine.”
“It’s like clinging to Ian oppa out of excitement without knowing that, puhehe… … .”
As if she couldn’t stand it, Celine covered her mouth and burst into laughter. He didn’t care about my repeated restraints.
There was no change in Seria’s expression. As always, it was a cold face. Her pupils sunk deeper and deeper, unable to read even the smallest fragments of emotion.
I looked at Seria with worried eyes. Celine’s verbal abuse was too harsh. Even if one of the two of them later resents it, I felt like I should hold it back.
But Celine was faster than my determination.
“hey.”
Saying that in a threatening voice, Celine brushed off my arm and approached Seria. Seria hadn’t let go of my clothes yet.
With a bloody look on her face, she approached Seria and crossed her arms. Seria was taller, so she looked up at her, but Celine didn’t flinch at all.
As if mocking, Celine twisted the corner of her mouth and said to Seria. As if to vomit all the emotions that have been clogged up.
“Is it all about Yurdina? Please pay attention… huh? You don’t have the right to say anything between me and Ian oppa, and you don’t even care. Since Chinta Nyeon wants to see you, it’s really… … !”
“Celine!”
Eventually, a high-pitched scream erupted from my throat. Celine trembled as if she thought she was overexcited, but she didn’t show any signs of reflection.
Rather, she smirked and avoided my gaze. fat face.
“Whoa,” I sighed. It was inevitable that a voice mixed with sighs would come out of my mouth.
“I told you to stop, I! And Seria, don’t worry too much about Celine. I didn’t play with you because you were pitiful… … .”
“It is him.”
Assuming that Seria was hurt, I was trying to calm her down, but I was surprised when smooth words flowed from Seria’s mouth.
My wide open eyes were proof of my astonishment. Seria talking to strangers without chewing her tongue?
Come to think of it, Seria was like that from the beginning. Wasn’t that why her nickname was ‘Yurdina’s slut’? A cold, haughty, and strong image.
And returning as such a woman also meant that Seria would make a ‘nonsensical’ remark.
“I didn’t know at first, but when I heard the voice, I knew. I wondered where I heard that sharp voice, but it seems like he was hiding in the crowd and swearing at me.”
“… … Aren’t you the only one who cursed at you for not being cheap?”
Celine, who initially trembled at Seria’s point, immediately responded with an irritated frown.
Hostility flared up in her tawny eyes. The reason why he had been ignoring it all this time was probably because he knew that he and Seria would end up like this in the first place.
That much Celine hated Seria. Although I couldn’t figure out the cause.
“How can I be sure that my voice is among them… … .”
“Are you afraid of Yurdina?”
“Tuk,” Celine’s words stopped.
It was a clean cut, like silk being ripped by a blade. Celine, who seemed flustered for a moment, narrowed her eyes again and asked again.
“… … What?”
“Yurdina asked if I was scared. Isn’t that why you were whispering behind your back?”
And Seria tugged at the hem of my clothes and took another step. My body leaned slightly toward Seria. The distance between Seria and Celine is now close.
When a woman one head taller than her body strode forward, Celine almost inadvertently backtracked. I couldn’t do it because of my pride.
Celine gritted her teeth and glared at Seria. The gaze of Seria looking down at Celine remained the same. Those eyes that are like frostbite.
“Then why don’t you keep whispering behind your back until the end? Don’t show your ugly inferiority complex in front of senior Lee Ahn.”
Celine caught her breath, as if surprised by the verbal abuse beyond her imagination. Her eyes widened, and soon a bloody momentum began to rise.
“Ew,” Celine gnashed her teeth.
It is true that there is a gap between high-ranking and low-ranking nobles in the academy, but this has never been explicitly mentioned. First of all, it was because the academy, at least on the surface, was aiming for an equal space free from class.
A remark of this level was sufficient as a reason for disciplinary action. Celine shouted in a voice full of emotion.
“Hey you… … !”
“And, did you say that Senior Ian would play with me because I was pitiful?”
Celine’s face was young with anger, but Seria’s eyes were still cold. It was like seeing fire and ice. I can’t get to know you or get along with you.
Even if they are together, in the end, both of them will only run to ruin.
I was dumbfounded by the verbal abuse of the two women and was in awe. It was stupid.
Seria took another step, bent her upper body and brought her mouth to Celine’s ear. I heard her cool whisper.
“… … Then, I will be pitiful in the future. So that Ian-senpai and I can stay together forever.”
Eventually, Celine exploded at that point. Her hand reached for the sword hanging from her waist. It was the same behavior as a prosecutor’s instinct.
“I wonder if this chubby bitch didn’t receive much home education, really… … !”
It was an immediate situation. It was then that I stepped out.
Until now, it had been nothing more than a verbal fight, but it was a different story when it escalated into violence. Especially in a situation where the two of them were emotionally widened like now.
someone could get hurt. I don’t know if they fought with the sheath like Tean and I, and if the blade was pulled out, that day would be a catastrophe.
I immediately burst into a roar.
“You both told me to stop!”
Actually, I never told Seria to stop, but I needed a stronger expression to stop the two now. And maybe it was thanks to that, Seria and Celine both stiffened their bodies and gave me a puzzled look.
In particular, Seria’s reaction was dramatic, and her eyes trembled violently when she recognized my anger.
Oops, the face I want.
There was a deep fear in her dark blue eyes. Even so, my irritation did not subside, and I had no choice but to sigh and say so.
“… … Calm down both of you, and go to your inn. I need to rest too, so don’t look for it for a while.”
My head hurt to the point of throbbing. I’ve been through so much lately. However, Celine and Seria even quarreled, so I first got the impression that I was tired.
I wanted to rest somewhere. It was meant to cool my head for a few hours. Just that, a simple story.
However, at those words, Seria looked desperate as if she had lost the world.
Yandere ?