144. night walk
A clean-looking boy wearing glasses who introduced his name as Hanerk led the students one after another, like Anton Signir and May Plov.
However, it is not a close friendship like May Plov, nor an atmosphere dominated by violence like Anton Signir.
The feeling of a group that is perfectly organized, gathered together for their own benefit.
Personally, I didn’t like the atmosphere.
Anyway, Derek smiled and took a chair and sat in front of me.
“Names, Bedelment and Daniel MacLaine. Right?”
“How else did you know that?”
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Just knowing my name that I didn’t reveal already doesn’t make me very happy. Whether you know this feeling or not, the other side raises her glasses and looks at me with her legs crossed proudly.
“I saw you fighting over lunch with Anton Signir today. The way he threw the water bottle was impressive.”
“Oh, I didn’t mean to please you.”
Where are you putting your feet, annoying.
I’m talking with a snarl for no reason, but the guy continues to say what he has to say in an extremely cold and businesslike manner.
“I have a request. Give Anton Signir a rough push on the bridge of his nose.”
“Why don’t you ask me to kill you?”
These aren’t any jokes right now. It feels like children are imitating adults, so it makes me laugh out loud.
“Whoa, I don’t want to ask you this either. However, our entrance exam class is also troubled by Anton’s recent behavior. I want to study quietly, but they keep arguing with me.”
In fact, the students in the entrance exam class standing behind were either sighing or showing dissatisfaction with Anton’s actions.
“Palace Academy is deep in the mountains, so there is no one else I can ask for such a favor. Even if I tried to tell the professors, it would only end with a simple warning.”
“If I hit you a few times, nothing will change, right?”
“No, that’s fine. With the graduation of the 5th grade approaching right around the corner, it is enough to step on Anton once.”
Derek folded his arms and gently turned his head. Then, as if one of the students had prepared it, he brought a large bag and opened it in front of us.
Inside were piles of banknotes, an amount that students could not take carelessly.
“Ugh!”
Bedelment and his companions open their mouths and their eyes begin to roll quickly. He knew right away that if he pressed Anton, he meant that he would give me that huge sum.
One of the things I’ve learned while living in the Forest of the Demon World is that you have to be more careful with mushrooms or berries that look appetizing.
Because they decorate the outside to be as plausible as possible to hide their poisonous self as much as possible.
As I saw it, it was the same with this bundle of banknotes.
I had a strong intuition that it was not at the level of an upset stomach if I ate it.
“If you knock down Anton and prove it, I’ll give you all of this. It’s the money that our students in the entrance exam class made by collecting all the pocket money they received from their parents.”
Were you kidding me with the money sucked from your parents’ blood, not the money on your children’s noses?
In particular, Palace Academy is different from Aeos, and commoners accept it if they have skills. Just by looking at it, it was the money that the parents shed in the fields to study hard for their sons and daughters.
“Do it in moderation. Anton tells the professors.”
I think I don’t need to listen anymore, so I jump out of my seat and walk out. Bedelment and the others drooled and asked if they were really going to let it go, and yelled in annoyance to come quickly.
“It’s okay, don’t spend money, collect it and buy some nice clothes for your parents, you immature bastards.”
Say a word and go out. Bedelment kept his mouth pouting and glanced at the door.
“How much is that just now?”
“If you beat Anton once, you think you can hit it with a hot sword?”
“I heard a lot of new clothes in Harley’s store this time.”
“Don’t even think about it.”
After warning me not to get caught up in strange things, I leave the hotel. The guys follow me while watching me, and then look at the night sky and complain.
“Oh, I thought I’d go out with a girl today.”
“Can’t we just say no and then finish playing with the girls?”
“I felt like the orange-haired girl had really gone crazy with me.”
“It was a blind date after a while.”
I don’t want to be with them anymore, so I start walking a little faster, starting with Bedelment and impatiently following.
“Oh, I want to meet a girl.”
“Is there anyone I can introduce you to?”
“Ahh! Tee!”
“You crazy bastards! Don’t follow me!”
Now I’m just running, but they grit their teeth and follow me. I was speeding up quite a bit, but I could feel the tenacity or sexual desire of the male students as they clung to me even while exhaling.
“Hey, Daniel! Grace to us!”
“Please introduce me to a woman!”
“The blind date together failed, please help me!”
These guys are now holding on to my arms and the crotch of my pants and praying. I thought I would just knock it all down and be done with it.
“Huh?”
A slightly raised hum was heard.
I looked up and saw that I had arrived at the hotel where AOS was staying.
Rin, wearing an overcoat, stares blankly at me and rushes towards me. For some reason, it felt like the darkness outside, where the light couldn’t reach, naturally wriggled in line with her steps.
The Bethelment gang kept their mouth shut.
Since they are so sensuous, they seem to have realized that it was the right time to run away without saying anything due to the atmosphere.
“Well, then we go!”
“hi!”
“Thank you!”
The guys who pass by Rin and go into the hotel. I wondered if they would be caught, but Rin just let them go as if he hadn’t seen anything.
“Would you like to go for a night walk?”
Lin approaching with a smile. The eerie feeling that had just been felt is gone, and the night air and the softness of the hotel lights are reflected.
“I just visited…”
“yes?”
In combat soccer, it is important for the defender to narrow the space where the opponent stabs and enters. Rin doesn’t even play combat football, but uses a similar technique in real life.
He felt his tongue dry out and had no choice but to nod his head.
In the end, I went back the way I came, but the feeling was completely different. Until before, it just felt like the darkness outside of a normal magic lamp was growling, telling me to behave well.
“What do you mean by blind date?”
And Rin, who is the main body of the darkness and is no different from the master, turns her head and looks at me. I was taken aback by the sudden extension of my hand, but I just crossed my arms.
“I was just fooled. I had no idea there was such a thing.”
“Huh?”
Rin snorted again. I wondered if something made her feel uncomfortable, but instead she smiled.
It’s not a creepy or unsettling smile, but a feeling of genuine joy.
“Sorry. It would have been nice if Daniel had actually gone on a blind date.”
“uh?”
unexpected answer.
Of course, I thought that the usual Rin would tell me not to show my face in places like that, or that if I go to the Bedelment guys and dye me, they won’t let me go.
“why?”
Even now, I can feel the affection and kindness towards me from the hands that are clasped in arms.
I thought it was strange, but Rin answered right away.
“Because it’s a story that Daniel has definitely forgotten Eris-sama.”
“……!”
My steps stop without my knowledge.
Then Rin also stood in place, stepping into my feet and looking up with a soft smile.
“I am confident. If Daniel doesn’t like anyone, I’ll be him.”
Rin, who had a mischievous smile, was the same as when she was very young, running around the mountain behind the village together.
The appearance that made me embrace my first love a little early in my young heart.
Now, while receiving unwanted power from the god of death, it has become a huge evil called the end of the continent.
It was literally a kind of natural disaster.
A girl named Lin was still innocent, bright, and always smiling.
“So Daniel, don’t worry too much. I understand the confusion and pain because of Eris-sama. But don’t worry. sometimes.”
“……”
Rin pinches my cheek lightly as if she can’t stop it.
“There are times when giving up leads to better results.”
“Lin…”
“Daniel Ball, soft. Hi-Hi.”
Rin puts it in a different language for fear of complicating my mind.
She takes a step back, puts her hands behind her back and grunts.
“Daniel seems so lucky. I have a childhood friend who will always be with me and protect me, but I only see other girls.”
“……”
I had nothing to say.
I wasn’t ready to forget Eris and accept Rin, and Rin knew that too.
“It’s okay, no matter what wounds you get, I will always be by your side. I will never, never distance myself from you like Eris-sama.”
Rin suddenly bursts into arms. It’s warm and at the same time, the scent of her shampoo tickles my nose.
“I will stay with you.”
My hand, which has nowhere to go, is just stiff around her, as if wrapping it in a circle.
Squeak, squat.
at that time.
A strange sound resounding quietly.
Hearing the sound from the alleyway behind him, Rin leaned into my armpit and checked behind me before I did.
“Oh!”
Embarrassed, Rin burrows into my arms right away, but she turns her head slightly and checks again and again. Wanting something, I also twisted my upper body slightly.
In the alley, a red-haired girl and a blonde boy were kissing quite intensely.
The important thing is that both of them are faces I know.
“Me, that. Ares and Arni?”
Rin asked me to confirm, and I touched my forehead to remove Rin and gently pushed my back.
“You don’t see things like that.”
“Wow, Ares being the first of us to grow up. Well, he seemed like it.”
He listened to me saying that he should go somewhere else, but Rin kept glancing back at the alley where the two were standing, saying he was curious.