128. waiting woman
“Are you going well?”
“Well? Did you go before?”
“…I came to see you.”
Belin Myas sits next to me watching the twins of Ben and Bathory. Dyna noona had been with me before, so I wanted to tell her, but she didn’t mean it.
“Yeah, what. How are you doing?”
After the lecture at 4 o’clock, my eyes were a bit stiff because I was just watching them until the sun went down.
They are twins who are busy preparing for the competition against the Palace Academy, but they gained a lot from practicing not only ball games such as combat soccer and mana volleyball, but also sword-wielding events like the King’s Game, which was the last test.
The twins saw me and Belin Mayas together.
At first, he waved his hand to Belin, and then gave me a middle finger asking if he was still with me.
When I smiled and reflected with my middle finger, Belin smirked and sat down next to me saying she couldn’t stop me.
“I’ll tell you just in case, but I’m not on either side of you or Tana.”
“Yes?”
“When I first told you about Dalian, I said it was to save Tana, but to be precise, it was because I wanted to give that child a chance. Just like being taken to a slaughterhouse for being a branch family, it’s so pitiful that you never rebelled.”
“Yes, I guess.”
I knew it wasn’t unconditional favor. The reason why Bellin proposed sparring in the first place was not to really want Tana to win, but to give her time to struggle, even if it was small.
“I will tell you for reference. If Tana wins, Bathory will be taken as the princess’s maid.”
“……”
“I don’t know why, but they said the princess requested it directly. It would be nice if we could provide a lady-in-waiting.”
“okay?”
“Yeah, that’s why I’m pretending I’m not even Bathory, but it must be quite desperate. That child is not a maid, but her dream is to become an excellent swordsman with her twin brother.”
Bellin is sweating profusely and looking at the same age as her and her sword-wielding Bathory. Following his eyes, I also look at her.
From the standpoint of seeing those children for a few days, the two of them certainly seemed to have passion and dreams. It was evident that he was very satisfied with his current life.
“I’m sorry, but this one is also miserable, isn’t it? I have no intention of having any sympathy.”
“Yeah, of course not. Now that there are three days left in Dalian, I was just saying this because I want everyone to do their best to prepare.”
Bellin got up from his seat while dusting off his pants. I too followed suit.
“yes? Weren’t you spying on our children?”
“It’s done. And now I need confirmation.”
“……Confirm?”
After sitting for a long time, I asked Bellin for one thing while loosening my creaking body.
“Let’s have a sparring with me.”
*
Three days later, on the day of Dalian.
After the lecture was over, they decided to borrow the academy’s sparring ground separately, so it took quite a while for the sparring to start even on the day of the event.
Maybe that’s why Tana was so nervous that even when she came to the arena, her deep breathing was excessively rough.
“Turn it off!”
Watching Eve move her body around, I thought she must have been stiff today, but a light blow landed on her side.
“Aren’t you just staring at Eve explicitly?”
It was Hayoon who came to support Dalian today.
“Yeah, I think Eve’s body is a bit stiff. I need to go and help warm up.”
“…Ehh, I’d rather hate it if it was explicit.”
“yes?”
If you move your body too much in a state of tension, you could get hurt. So I went and tried to help, but Hayoon grabbed my shoulder.
“I will go and help. And remember, the person you like is Eris-san. Eris-san is also waiting for you.”
“suddenly? Of course.”
what are you talking about, boy
“I’ve heard that flirting with other girls gives you feelings you didn’t have before. So don’t make room for nothing. I don’t want my friend to be a Casanova, right?”
“Oh, you didn’t hear it, you read it. Eve told me that the rental rate for dating books is quite high these days.”
Then, which is rare, Ha-yoon shouted out loud with her face blushing with shame.
“It’s because of you! Because they always give you dating advice! I’m studying something I don’t know well to help with that!”
“Yes, it is. Thank you, sir!”
“annoying.”
stroke! Ha-yoon turns her head and goes to Eve to help her stretch. I said this, but thanks to Hayun, I was able to get a firm direction along with various advice.
“Hey, I’m here to see you.”
As she approaches, she naturally avoids May’s hand, which tries to cross her arms immediately. He puts on an annoyed expression right away, but I reply with a master-like expression.
“Sensei Ha-yoon just told me that it’s wise to avoid excessive physical contact with other women, and I can’t break that.”
“It sucks.”
“……”
I didn’t expect you to say it so openly.
May narrowed her eyes and was careful as she watched Hayoon tore Eve’s leg apart.
“Hey, why don’t you just put your mind at ease? Originally, those who are in the position of supporters like that will stick out their teeth later.”
“yes?”
“It’s telling you to be careful. Don’t ask for help and put your head in the serpent’s mouth.”
He thinks of Hayoon the same as himself.
“It’s okay because he’s different from you. We are perfect friends.”
Mei clicked her tongue and took out a candy from her hoodie zip-up pocket and opened the wrapper to warn me.
“If you ask me to go somewhere for no reason, say no because you have to meet me. If you ask me to help you with practice, I grind my cheeks right away.”
“Is this a way to kidnap children? And what practice?”
“Sex.”
I looked at Mei with wide-open eyes and wide-open mouth from a momentary shock, and with a mischievous smile, he shoved the freshly rolled candy into my mouth.
I hit the throat with how hard I pushed.
“Ouch!”
“Heh, if you want to practice, come to my sister!”
“You, I told you not to use those words!”
Mei, who was expecting me to say something, immediately turned around and ran to the other side. Anyway, if the kid only matures in the weird part.
There must be a way to respond to that.
“……”
When I sneakily checked the presence behind me, a small white-haired girl was staring up at me.
“What you looking at.”
I felt like I was being shaken by May for no reason, so I said it with a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of Sen laughs.
“I know that? Is gambling going on at the academy right now?”
“Are you Meine’s gang again? Those bastards, even though I told them to stop acting weird the other day…”
“No, not that one.”
Sen shaking his head from side to side.
He relayed the information to me as if reporting to see if he hadn’t let go of his old Scourge habit.
“About who Yawang’s girlfriend is.”
“what?”
What did I hear now?
I didn’t mean to say it again, but Sen dared to say it again.
“Who is Daniel McLain’s girlfriend?”
“Crazy! Is there anyone who opens a gambling board like that? Who is it! What kind of guy are you!”
“I’ve already got one shot, so there’s nothing to worry about.”
Seeing Sen speak calmly again, I wondered if he was playing with me right now, but I’m glad he got it sorted out anyway.
“okay? Whoa, thank you.”
“For reference, Eve was the highest at 37%, followed by Lin.”
“Can I not tell you?”
I didn’t even want to know that.
“Sadly, I was 3%. I still have affection, so I let the students bet on me.”
“Why did you leave it there?”
At this point, I just ask in the stream of consciousness. It seemed difficult to expect a proper answer from Sen anyway.
“yes? These are the people who believed in me. So, is it a reward?”
“……”
done.
I don’t even want to get involved.
Since Sen said he had it sorted out anyway, he must have taken care of it in his own way so that it would not happen again.
“Okay, just go.”
As he waved his hand as if to chase away flying flies, Sen pouted his lips and headed towards Hayun. Tana and Eve were lightly swinging their swords as if their bodies were relaxed, and Hayoon was helping them.
“I’m here.”
“yes? Are you here too?”
“Then you should come. They say sparring is very important to Tana.”
Rin approached, brushing her hair by her ear.
I didn’t expect Rin to come, so after saying thanks on behalf of Tana, I wondered when the twins of Meias would come.
“But was it good?”
“……yes?”
It’s late summer, but summer is still summer.
The scorching heat was in full swing, but the nape of my neck was strangely chilly, as if someone had used ice magic.
“Is it good?”
Rin looked at me with a smile as if drawn in a painting.
It was a question I had been asked several times, so I didn’t ask what was good.
I just got used to it, so now my body responds as it remembers.
“It wasn’t good.”
“right?”
“……yes.”
I turn my head slightly and look towards the arena door.
There were royal servants coming in to take the loser of the day along with the twins of the Meias family.
‘Ah, I’d rather go as a maid.’
I felt skeptical about life at the academy, and I had strange thoughts without my knowledge.