Chapter 176
The end of everyday life (1)
The morning classes were over and it was lunch time.
About 30 students in the class left the classroom in groups.
Of course, not everyone was like that.
As if waiting for lunchtime, a group of students gathered around Elizabeth.
Of course, while maintaining social distancing.
… … Saying this makes me feel like a pathogen of some sort.
“Elizabeth, would you like to go out to lunch together?”
Elizabeth’s background as a foreigner, especially as a red-blond, blue-eyed, white-skinned princess, was enough to attract people.
Attracted by that sweet background, the guys annoyedly hovered around Elizabeth at every break.
There were exactly three breaks before lunchtime, but not once did I see an empty space around her.
The moment I try to get up from my seat, quietly looking sideways at the seat next to me.
‘Tuk-tuk.’ There was a hand tapping lightly on the back of my arm.
“Taeyang~, let’s go eat. I’m waiting in front of Riedo.”
The owner of the hand was Anya, a gorgeous blonde-haired girl.
She was just turning in front of me and touching my forearm.
I follow her opposite hand, pointing at the front of the classroom with a raised thumb, and see Desiree standing in front of the classroom, looking at me and Anya.
yes yes. I’m going No wandering around at night, no crossing the ocean, just going to a restaurant together, there’s nothing I can’t do.
Looking at my brain working on useless things, I finally felt like I was back to my daily life a little bit.
-Druck… … .
Desiree, who met my eyes as I got up from my seat, licked her lips.
With the shape of her mouth as if she was saying something with silence, she narrowed her eyes in an awkward posture as she stood up from her seat, then looked closely.
‘L. lee. ruler. hemp cloth. S!’
Elizabeth… … ?
I spread my palms out to her and assumed a posture of ‘What, what should I do?’
I know roughly what it means, but how can people understand it if I just say the subject… … .
‘place. ryo. and. yo. this.’
I nodded to Desiree, who muttered eagerly and pointed her finger at the seat where Elizabeth was.
I had something to ask her, so when I said I was going with Elizabeth, she rather agreed.
I get up and look at where Elizabeth is, and I can’t even see her hair because of the crowd surrounding her.
… … I waited throughout the break, so I won’t be resentful for taking it out once during lunch.
He sighed and turned his gaze to Anya. Anya, who alternated between me and Desiree eagerly, pursed her lips.
“No, would you like to wait outside with Desiree?”
“outside? why?”
“To take Elizabeth. Given the situation, I think it will take a while.”
“… … okay.”
I got up from my seat and looked at Anya’s back as she headed toward the church where Desiree was in front of the classroom, then turned toward the crowd filling the seat next to me.
The situation was inferred through the voices that occasionally leaked out among the crowd.
After listening to it roughly, the battle between the crowd pushing hard and saying ‘I want you to go together’ and Elizabeth skillfully spilling their words is quite long.
Originally, it was normal to give up after one or two rejections, but the persistence of the guys clinging to her was not normal, as if she coveted the title of British princess.
It really couldn’t have been a princess who needed a lot of hands.
You can see someone’s back in your eyes.
He tapped the boy’s shoulder with his hand.
His body turned towards me.
It was a rough movement with a little irritation.
“No, it’s an important point right now, but who… … .”
But that harshness immediately turned to tenderness when he saw my face.
Sharpness wrapped in softness, so maybe everyone had the talent of a swordsman? The useless sentiment called is a bonus.
“… … nine. Oh, it’s the sun… … ?”
“Oh, yes. It’s me, man.”
The commotion disappeared in an instant.
The gaze returns to me in an instant.
There was no distinction between men and women.
Looking at the situation, it was a necessary reaction, but… … .
… … It’s kind of sad.
The corner of the mouth of the guy standing in front of me was half-raised, and the tip of it twitched.
I was dumbfounded by the sight and sighed.
To the sound of my breathing, the atmosphere that was like the market floor is straightened out at once.
No, if you’re going to lower your tail so easily, why did you look back so powerfully… … ?
Thanks to the guys who were dazed in front of me standing aside, there was a way between Elizabeth and me before I knew it.
Still, the corners of his mouth twisted upwards at the satisfactory result.
As if Elizabeth hadn’t expected this situation, it caught my eye that she was making a blank expression.
Well, there was no way there would be a blonde tanned bully who dominated the class at the Royal Academy of England she attended.
‘Eh, I don’t know.’ I wanted to step forward, stepping in front of Elizabeth.
Then he grabbed her wrist and grabbed it.
“Hey, let’s go.”
“Uh, huh?! uh?”
Before she could respond with a dazed expression, I grabbed her arm and pulled it with force, and Elizabeth, guided by my strength, jumped up from her seat with a ‘poof’.
hmm… … . The children’s expressions are disgusting.
Literally, there was not even a hint of mercy on the faces of the classmates around him. However, it wasn’t brutal.
The reason I said this was because the classmates around Elizabeth were looking at me as if they were watching an evil dragon invade the palace.
… … .
In an instant, who Elizabeth was, her identity was recalled.
Maybe I didn’t know how to express it correctly.
Anyway, what was in my hand was the princess’s wrist, and I was leaving the place as if I was running away after snatching their princess.
I had dug through the castle walls made of people and grabbed the princess hidden inside in my hands!
The guys who made up the wall stared blankly at me and Elizabeth with bewildered, literal, chicken eyes.
However, none of them bravely stepped forward, so it was far from getting the princess back from the hands of the evil dragon.
As I passed halfway through the classroom, leaving Elizabeth and I in the back row, I looked back at my classmates for a moment.
And he smiled with the least amount of sincerity.
“Can I take him? Any complaints?”
Among the dazed crowd, someone opened their mouth as if they had finally come to their senses.
“uh? no, sleep… … !”
“thank you! Shall I take some?”
But I didn’t want an answer like that, so I cut it off refreshingly and took Elizabeth’s hand.
It’s a bit out of focus, but isn’t this the standard of HIT AND RUN?
… … no, don’t
* * *
A lunchtime diner arrived after almost plundering Elizabeth.
A strange current flowed between Anya, Desiree, and Elizabeth.
Maybe Anya is awkward because today is her first day with Elizabeth, and Elizabeth and Desiree are still in Avignon… … , is it because?
One saved, and one was saved.
The relationship between the two is complicatedly intertwined, so it will take quite a while to unravel.
In the end, I was the first to speak.
do you have any stars? There’s no one else to talk to first but me.
“Kuhmm, so no, what about Kanghyuk and Andrew?”
“Andrew’s chicken breast for lunch? He said he would make up for it, and Hyuk must have gone to the club room for training?”
“… … I am eager.”
After the finals, our team became disconnected.
No, it was right to see that it was cut off.
In a way, this is a natural result.
Because he was just a personal friend with Andrew, and his relationship with Kang Hyuk was completely ruined because of Yeriel.
He put his hand beside the plate and flicked his index finger.
Maybe it’s because they ate so luxuriously in France, but today’s school lunches weren’t unusual.
Let’s just fill the water pail.
Thinking of that, I lifted the glass of water.
“… … They went as two, and came as three.”
“—!!!”
I almost spit out the water I had just swallowed in my throat at Anya’s small muttering while sitting next to me.
No, there’s nothing a child can’t say… … ?
After taking a breath, I turned my head and glanced at Anya, noticing that I was glancing at her as she stirred the soup with her spoon.
And perhaps because Anya’s voice was so low, the first two didn’t seem to hear it.
“by the way… … Miss Elizabeth?”
“huh? why?”
“How the hell did you get in?”
“Ah, is that?”
Elisabeth, who pulled out a tissue placed next to her and wiped her mouth, put down the spoon.
All he had to do was put down the spoon, but the form of making tongs using the index and middle fingers and thumb and putting them down elegantly was not a posture he had practiced for a day or two.
“How did you do it, with Juf… … .”
Elisabeth stopped talking, looked at Anya, and then turned to me.
Realizing what she meant, I met her gaze and replied.
“It’s okay because I’m not a kid going anywhere to talk. yes?”
At my words, Anya nodded.
Elizabeth scratched the back of her head and cleared her throat with a clearing of her throat.
“It doesn’t matter if you vouch for it. I made a deal with the Korean ambassador to France, no. To be precise, we did business with the Korean and French governments.”
“… … A deal?”
“Yeah, deal. Mother, in contact with Her Majesty the Queen, the British Royal Family agreed to the Korean military operation in Far East Siberia.”
“… … The British government won’t sit still?”
At my words, she smiled and replied.
“No matter how much the royal authority has been reduced, he is the monarch of a country. opening parliament, appointing generals, etc. There are still many things the royal family can do.”
After taking a deep breath, she continued.
“And even if you look like this, you’re a princess? It’s quite a popular body in Korea, but I haven’t done anything wrong, so do you think the current regime will be maintained safely by touching it like this? I’m glad I don’t get impeached sooner or later.”
“… … .”
I was speechless at her attitude of confidently assessing her own worth.
isn’t that It’s true, but it’s a bit difficult to say with your own mouth… … .
“France, well, they seduced you with money. It is said that the British royal family is going to use the funds to rebuild the cathedral and to support the Avignon restoration project. Well, other than that, I passed on some cultural and economic interests, but it’s a little too much to say that this is a secret related to the direct control of the royal family.”
She said it casually.
Perhaps the economic gain she was talking about was the permission of the French Awakened to the gates of the royal domain? guessed that
“… … Was it handled well enough?”
At my words, she elegantly took a sip of water and leaned comfortably against the back of the chair.
“That’s right, who handled it… … .”
– Chi-jik, chi-jik.
It wasn’t until she finished her words that I heard the voice that announced the end of my short-lived daily life.