218 – Shadow (3)
#5
He was having tea with a female student at a cafe when an unexpected accident occurred somewhere in District 3.
“Because I really only get coffee.”
“Sure, then. I don’t mean anything bad.”
I sat down on the window seat and cupped his chin and waved his hand.
As if to be comfortable.
“You said you were a freshman, right?
“… Yeah.”
The schoolgirl was a pitiful girl with blonde hair. Her hair glistening in the afternoon sun is so beautiful.
She sipped her coffee cup, glancing at the man next to her. The man in the seat next to me was just staring out the window and smiling deeply.
‘He was handsome….’
From a female student’s point of view, he was quite handsome. I wonder if it’s like a nobleman with cute charms. He seemed to be of high status both inside and outside the frontier.
“What is your name?”
“… Ella, yo.”
Not having a surname means that you are a commoner.
However, the man continued the conversation without any hindrance.
“That’s a pretty name. I’m just asking, but do you feel uncomfortable? Are the seniors scary?”
“I’m still fine. Everyone seemed like a nice person.”
The situation a little while ago was like this.
I was standing in front of a coffee shop because my boyfriend, whom I was supposed to meet at the same time, seemed to have lost his way.
—That’s a troubled face. Can you help me
A handsome man with a sad face approached him and talked to him. If someone is waiting for you, don’t stand here, go inside and wait. I’ll buy you a cup of coffee, so let’s drink that.
I naturally refused to be with a stranger because I have a boyfriend, but maybe it’s because I haven’t come for over an hour. She was also a bit grumpy.
As a result, she naturally followed the man into the cafe, and has reached this point.
“Oh, you can’t tell just by looking at the outside. It’s common for an innocent kid like you to open his eyes and cut his nose. You have to be careful.”
“It’s okay. He will protect me if something happens to me.”
“Hmm? He? … Aha, that was it.”
The man who introduced himself as an Epic Class 2 student, his name is Carmelo Bagrid.
When I first heard about his affiliation and status, I was shocked to the point of shock, but he was showing a calm attitude, thinking that there was no need to treat him as if he were a master.
“You mean I made an appointment with my boyfriend, but he doesn’t come?”
“… I didn’t say anything.”
“If you pretend, you pretend. Is it okay to meet here?”
“Yes. I’m sure.”
“Hmm, when is the time to meet?”
“About an hour ago….”
“What? So, have you been waiting since then?”
“Yes. What is this….”
Carmelo listened to her girl, and she twitched her eyebrows and made a displeased expression. It seems like there are all these guys.
“What a rude friend. To make you wait for an hour.”
“… Please don’t disparage my boyfriend.”
“Ah, sorry. If I were in the same position, I’d be angry. Unknowingly, I sympathized. If it was rude, I apologize.”
If you are a person of high status both inside and outside the frontier, it is not strange at all if your pride and conceit pierce the sky.
However, this man treated himself very favorably, as he was only a freshman in the regular class. Even though he is a commoner.
It is a place where the status of a noble is meaningless… Wherever you go, discrimination exists.
Perhaps the fact that Carmelo’s face is easily liked by women also played a part, but she thought without thinking that even with him out of the way, Ella didn’t seem to have approached Lee with a black heart.
As long as the status of the senpai and her specifications are enough, she will be able to meet a pretty woman or a precious woman.
It seemed that she had no reason to keep an eye on herself, who was a commoner and not so pretty.
“… No. I was a bit annoyed, too.”
Perhaps that’s why Ella opened her heart just a little bit.
I don’t even know if that’s what Carmelo wants.
Carmelo said as if he was happy to have her consent.
“Isn’t it? You have to make sure you do this. I made the same mistake later, but you can’t just endure it. I believe that dating should be done in a mutually equal relationship. That way, it won’t end after one side gets hurt. Ella, don’t you think so too?”
“Um… I do not know. Just… I am in love for the first time.”
As I said behind the scenes, Ella’s boyfriend was her childhood friend. She says they met at the same school, had the same dream, and went to the frontier together.
After hearing Ella’s story, Carmelo said that it was a beautiful and romantic story and expressed her sincere admiration. She also said that she would like to have a relationship like that someday.
However, Ella expressed a question here.
“Senior Carmelo… Can’t we date whenever we want?”
“Me? What am I… Does it look like that? Ahahahaha.”
Carmelo smiles bitterly.
“Anytime you want, Ira… ….”
He continues.
“Actually, that’s the biggest shackle to me. I’ve never really wanted a woman from my heart.”
Ella continued to stare at Carmelo as she sipped her coffee cup. He continued to speak in an empty tone, whether or not Ella was watching.
“Every woman who has approached me has approached me after seeing my identity and face. You don’t even know the real me…. Not only that, but I have a fiancé that has been decided by the family…….”
As if realizing something about her, Carmelo stopped her.
She turns to Ella and smiles lightly.
“Ah, I’m so engrossed. Sorry. I wouldn’t have liked to hear this. I don’t know because you’re comfortable….”
“… No. I was fine.”
This was Ella’s sincerity.
“… Her senior’s face than that, didn’t look very good. Did something happen in the past?”
“Hmm? Thanks for your concern, but it’s okay.”
Carmelo shrugged her lightly.
“I found my own answer.”
“Ah…. Really… ?”
“Yeah, so it’s okay…. You’re even worried about people you’re seeing for the first time, you’re meticulous, Ella. I was moved.”
Ella thought to herself as she looked at Carmelo’s face, which was strangely bitter for saying it was okay.
Did this senior also have his own difficulties?
I had never heard of real love stories of aristocratic men. Because of this, she would pick and hold a woman as she wanted, and most of the people who enjoyed sex, I had inadvertently had a prejudice in my heart…….
‘Unexpectedly, he might be a genuine person.’
How can such a handsome aristocrat be a man who pursues innocence and romance?
The word family and marriage was a very stimulating subject for Ella, a commoner. Rumors about pubs or stories that can only be found in romance novels. It was as if the protagonist of such a story was in front of him. No, I really didn’t know that.
On the other hand, Carmelo said that she was definitely romantic about her and her boyfriend’s story.
But is it really so?
Looking back, Ella has been very disappointed in her boyfriend ever since she entered Frontier.
When I came out of the narrow water into the big water, my boyfriend’s existence seemed relatively dwarfed.
Sometimes, when she was supposed to protect herself, she was rather reversed…… Even just this time, didn’t we exceed the time we promised? She sometimes turned her attention to other women. I’m sorry.
‘… Thinking about it makes me angry all of a sudden.’
Unknown The accumulated dissatisfaction gradually surfaced through the face-to-face with Carmelo. Ella then unwittingly put Carmelo and her boyfriend on her scale and compared them.
… What if, it was really what if.
With Carmelo’s status and specifications, she would be able to become a strong shield to protect her, and even if opposition arises from Carmelo’s family due to a difference in status, Carmelo will somehow achieve her love with herself. I would not choose any method.
A man who would give anything for true love… In Ella’s eyes, Carmelo looked like that.
‘No way, senior Lee… interested in me…… ?’
Not to mention, he probably hasn’t had a one-on-one relationship with Carmelo yet.
Among all the people, the reason why he talked to himself, maybe…….
‘It’s easy to be fooled.’
—That was, of course, Ella’s misunderstanding.
‘It’s a pity that you are a girlfriend without chastity. A boyfriend whose name I don’t know. It’s your fault for leaving such an innocent girl alone.’
When Carmelo noticed that the nape of Ella’s neck and the lobe of her ear were burning strangely, she smiled inwardly. Work is progressing smoothly. I think it will come off if I persevere a bit more.
‘I have to change my mood like this.’
Stealing other people’s women. Want to steal
Or I want to tame a picky woman to my liking.
I want to corrupt an innocent woman with lust.
Carmelo’s desire was mostly like that.
Of course, in the end, the true love that Carmelo was lying about was nowhere to be found.
When she achieves what she wants, she just throws it all away.
And start all over again.
How many women have been consumed like that this year?
Carmelo can’t remember a single one of their names.
Because she is not worth remembering.
I don’t care if this woman’s name is Ellie or Ellie.
No ill feelings.
But Carmelo, just… She just wanted to see the expression.
The face of a dismembered man who took her woman away from her self. She is a woman who stops such men. The situation where the distinction between victim and perpetrator has become blurred. In the end, she abandoned the man she was dating and came to her, but she was abandoned once again and was unable to go anywhere.
Isn’t it fun?
It was really fun.
The higher the difficulty level of her attack, the higher Carmelo’s sense of accomplishment will be. That’s why she likes strong-tempered, tough women.
With my daughter-
How many conversations did Ella and Carmelo have with him?
“Ella, Ella! Here it is?”
The cafe door opened and the bell rang.
Ella’s childhood friend and her boyfriend Kherson came into the cafe to find his lover. I must have been in a hurry, but my clothes were damp.
“Herson?”
Hearing her voice lit up Kherson’s complexion. But… His face was bound to harden immediately.
A man sitting proudly next to my girlfriend. It seems that he was even holding his hand. Probably not It must be because of the mood. Kherson, struggling to deny what he had seen, exclaimed loudly.
“Hey! What are you?”
As soon as he saw the aristocrat’s slimmer face, Kherson became furious, stomped over and grabbed the aristocrat by the collar.
“What are you! What’s wrong with my girlfriend?”
“Oops.”
Carmelo shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand.
On the other hand, Ella hurriedly stopped my boyfriend who was suddenly violent.
“Kherson, calm down. This person is….”
“Ella! What are you doing! Is it okay to flirt with another guy like this just because I’m late?!”
Herson shouted, and Ella panicked.
Then, clenching her fists, she shouted the same.
“That’s what I’m talking about!”
“… What, what?”
“It’s not because you’re late! What are you doing without first apologizing for being late?! Get your hands off it right now!”
“Ella, you really… !”
“You have been like that before! It was so tight and inflexible! It’s a problem to get out of your hands like this right now! Why do you keep embarrassing me?!”
“Eh, Ella… ? I….”
“If you’re going to do this, break up! Break up with me!”
Ah….
That’s a nice sight.
‘I wish that friend could see this as well.’
Looking at the couple who started fighting loudly in the middle of a noisy coffee shop, Carmelo just smiled quietly.
— ….
Meanwhile.
There was a shadow somewhere in the coffee shop that was watching Carmelo carefully.
#6
“Here is yours.”
After leaving behind the dessert shop owner who sent us off with a greeting, Yuri handed me an envelope right after leaving the 「Golden Macaron」 Store.
“Ummm… ….”
I accepted the rustle.
Sug-
I quietly put my hand inside the envelope. Then, he grabbed something hot. Grab it with one hand and lift it up.
I sighed as I took it out with a slightly deflated face.
“I never thought that the identity of 「Golden Macaron」 Was like this…….”
From the side, Yuri pointed her eyes.
“Are you dissatisfied?”
“No, I don’t have one. The result is something more than expected…….”
“Oh, how hot… !”
With the bread in her mouth, Rubia shed her tears.
… So, what is this?
“It’s just cream bread.”
“No!”
Golden because the outer surface is yellow, so it looks like gold. Like macaron, it is called macaron because it has something similar to cream between meringue-like bread.
So golden macaroons.
“… ….”
It was a really baseless naming.
What is this?
Who made the recipe?
Is it really rare?
“What’s inside isn’t cream! Bread is no ordinary bread!”
“Oh, is that so? … Yum.”
I first asked for cream bread (estimated).
‘Mmm….’
Certainly, if you look at the cross section after biting it off, it’s not pure white cream, it’s filled with the opposite dull color.
As I mumbled something in my mouth, I bit into something.
‘This is beans… is it?’
It’s sweet, but I also write something.
It was a complex and subtle taste.
The shape of the bread wasn’t just round either. It had a certain shape, as if it was made by stamping it on a model frame, and it was a common fish.
So, this….
“It’s a fish-shaped cream bun.”
“So no!”
I tried to defend myself with all sorts of explanations, such as that it was made from something grown in the land imbued with magical power, and thanks to that, once you have the heat, it will never cool down, but in the end it was cream bread.
“Mu.”
“… ?”
“How are you? This.”
“… So so.”
Mu had eaten all three breads in the bag. Was it more delicious than I thought? I’m not sure….
Mummum─
Stella, who was munching next to Mu with bread in her hands, suddenly looked at me and swallowed what was in her mouth, as if she wanted to share her thoughts too.
“… Actually, I thought it might be a very expensive snack, but the price was also very cheap… I wonder if I have some kind of prejudice. Yuri must have liked these snacks. Above all, the taste is strangely addictive… Umm, I think it’s the taste that comes to mind when it’s cold. Should I say it warms my heart? Anyway, yes. It’s delicious.”
“Right, right? It’s not that I didn’t like it for nothing!”
Yuri is overjoyed that the favorable reviews have finally come out.
Actually, I didn’t know he had such an appetite, but… Still, everyone eats deliciously, so there’s no need to complain. It wasn’t even that it was tasteless.
I just wanted to be subtle.
Like Stella said, it was a snack that would sell better than expected if sold seasonally every winter…….
Anyway.
“I think I got some snacks, where are we going now?”
It’s time to decide where to go next.
“Um, first of all, from the first day to the third day, they said there was a fireworks display every night, so until I saw it… ….”
It was at the time when Rubia mumbled.
“There, you guys.”
Kung, kung—
A person appeared out of nowhere and approached him, stamping his feet.
… Actually, I was noticing.
Since a little while ago, he kept looking around us.
However, he didn’t approach us directly, so he was just saying that…….
Kung, Kuung—
He finally stood before us.
“I’m sorry.”
He was such a huge person that I had to bend my head and look up.
A gigantic knight wearing white armor and a helmet.
A very antique golden pattern was engraved on the armor, which seemed to never be damaged no matter what it was stabbed with.
“I need you to cooperate for a while.”
I immediately grasped the identity of the pattern.
‘This is…….’
There is no way you don’t know. Undoubtedly.
A pattern symbolizing the emperor, the legitimate ruler of the continent.
It is the pattern of the imperial family.
Then, this article in front of me is—
“This is the first sword of the imperial family, Gileon Astabelle. I have something to ask you about the accident that just happened, so please cooperate.”
For some reason, the captain of the Imperial Guard, who should have been in the epic class, was here.