The Only Male Student in the Academy chapter 106

106. End of Summer Vacation (5)

“Yes. Tell me something first.”

“Actually, there’s nothing I want in this shopping district…”

“I see. Then where shall we go?”

“That, that’s what I mean…”

Marie was nervous for a moment.

Can I really say that?

It is…… Could it be Ariel’s rebellion?

But, I only found out after watching the play together today.

Actually, Ariel…….

“I want you to draw a picture…”

With that said, Ariel opened her eyes wide.

After she said it, her heart thumped.

For some reason, a sense of guilt beats in her chest.

– “Ever since she was little, she wanted to be a cartoonist. But she wasn’t really liked in the family. So she had to draw secretly.”

-“It’s all in the past. I don’t have any talent. So I quit.”

That’s a story Ariel told me earlier.

I don’t know what a cartoonist is. I don’t know how that differs from a painter who draws a picture.

But she probably likes Ariel, she likes to draw. She

She thought she still loved art, and she still wanted to be that ‘cartoonist’ she thought.

Ariel said she had no talent herself.

At that time, she said that Ariel’s drawing of her was very surprising to her Marie.

She said she wanted to affirm herself.

She thought so.

“… As for the painter, I heard that she is near a park a short distance from here.”

“Eh, I like Ariel… Ah, that, I didn’t mean to say that I liked Ariel, eh, I meant that I like Ariel’s drawing…”

“I know. You want me to draw it.”

Ariel sighed.

She is a face that seems to have no confidence in her somehow.

“Isn’t there anything else you’d like to have? Clothes or a necklace…”

“…….”

“…I don’t know why you want to see my painting, but I knew something.”

Ariel hesitated a little, but nodded her head.

After that, Ariel and Marie went into a nearby paint shop.

There, I bought a sketchbook, pencils, a pencil sharpener, and some art tools such as an eraser.

“If I had more time and space, I would have bought paints, but today I want you to endure with sketches.”

Sketch…… I don’t know what this is, but Marie nodded her head anyway.

After that, Ariel went into a nearby restaurant with the items she had bought at the art supplies store.

Midway through, Ariel said, “Is it like a cafe?” I could hear her muttering, but I’m not sure what a cafe is. She sometimes uses words that Ariel doesn’t know, but she seems more knowledgeable than she looks.

“Uh, eh, Ariel… Are you okay…?”

She orders her food in moderation and sits across from Ariel.

Across the table, Ariel grabbed a sketchbook and a pencil.

When she saw that, Marie was terrified.

“What do you mean?”

“That’s about painting…”

“You asked for it, right?”

“Yeah, but… Er, if it’s something Ariel doesn’t like…”

“It’s okay.”

-Sukseuk.

Ariel moves her pencil.

Pleasant sounds echo from the sketchbook,

Lines begin to overlap one by one on the white drawing paper.

“Actually, that was at that time. Even I felt myself not satisfied.”

“That time…?”

“When I drew your face. She hadn’t painted for a while, so her skills weren’t good enough, and she didn’t have the right tools for painting, so I thought it was a bit embarrassing.”

“……That’s right.”

“I’m sure my skills are still very low, but my fire tools have gotten better.”

The afterword did not follow.

Ariel soon becomes a cold gaze and begins to focus on her painting.

Lines meet and become planes, which leads to texture.

A volume is created in the two-dimensional space, and then a sense of weight appears and acquires vividness.

Ariel was free on the drawing paper.

Sometimes it stretches out like a bird with wings.

Sometimes, like a delicate sculptor, he moves in detail.

Move your hands carefully in the white world on the drawing paper with eyes like a matchmaker.

Ariel raises her head.

You must have looked this way to observe the picture model,

At that moment, many things are exchanged through their eyes.

“…….”

Ariel lowered her head again and even carved a picture of her on her drawing paper.

Marie looks at Ariel and thinks of her.

-“Isn’t that enough? Ariel’s first friend.”

-“Everyone hated Ariel, right? But, like Miss Marie, she became Ariel’s friend. That was enough.”

Be first.

Miss Claire said that was enough for her, and Marie also felt a strange sense of superiority.

But little by little, people start to recognize Ariel.

It was both happy and sad.

Now, this time is completely yours alone.

If Miss Claire or her older sister…… If a better person appears in front of Ariel, this time might belong to someone else too.

I want everyone to know that Ariel loves art and that she draws well.

A strange obscene desire to make this fact her own only arises in her.

This may be the feeling she feels because she has had difficulties in socializing.

Even if it’s my best friend.

For that person, I may not be your best friend…… Such anxiety.

Will she be able to remain Ariel’s best friend in the future?

A great person like Erana Jay Carr appeared in front of Ariel one after another, and even Miss Claire, who had cornered Ariel into her predicament, was reformed.

Will he be able to remain number one?

“…….”

Perhaps, he may not be such a nice person.

Even though she cherished her sister as her family.

On the back side, she harbored an ugly sense of inferiority, and traces of it still remain inside her body.

It’s like he’s never the kind of person who can stand by Ariel’s side.

Even so, Ariel was burned by her fire. She

If she had been reaching out her hand to herself.

-“I have to admit. I seem to want to cherish you.”

If that is true.

“I drew everything.”

Ariel held out her sketchbook.

It was a little embarrassed, but it was a worried expression.

Her own face was drawn on her sketchbook.

A face almost identical to the one I saw in the mirror.

All of her textures were simply expressed and filled in with the lines of her pencil.

Of course, if someone who knows painting well sees it, they may evaluate it as somewhat insufficient.

As expected, Ariel was greatly affected by her blank space, which she hadn’t painted in the past, and because of that, her senses were somewhat disturbed.

Nevertheless, Mari thought that the painting was completed with that.

It’s not just because I don’t have knowledge about painting.

Although Ariel was a bit unsure, she did her best to draw it.

Even at this moment, I’m looking at you anxiously as if I’m worried about the quality of the painting.

Her hand is smeared with the grime of her pencil.

The eraser lying on the table is no longer sharp.

Because Ariel’s worries lie within this.

Because it can be completely her own.

Because she knows that.

“I… Like Ariel.”

Marie said.

“I’m not saying I like Ariel’s paintings… I’m saying that the person I like is Ariel…”

Returning to her dormitory, Errea found Lapiska.

“It’s a strange thing. I never thought that junior Erua would ask me to meet him.”

She smiles and Lapiska offers her a seat. She had just returned from County of Findelnerca.

Even if you want something, if you can’t get it in her hands, she has no choice but to borrow someone else’s hand.

However, she had never borrowed someone else’s hand until now, and she was strong enough to do so without much problem.

That’s why, to Er-A, her human relationships were very thin.

Er Ah’s human relationships have always been centered around her teacher.

She only had very weak ties with the clan members of the clan founded by Master.

Other than that, at the academy…… She only knows Lapiska at best.

‘… Although there is one more.’

I thought of a girl who claimed to be her rival over Er Ar, but since she is always hostile to herself, it would be difficult to expect her help.

Unexpectedly, Lapis Carr, who was aiming swords at each other, seemed to think she looked good on him.

So, the only person who could ask for her help was Lapiska.

“Want to welcome Ariel Beheritt as her sister?.”

“Yes.”

Lapiska was slightly surprised by Erea’s words.

Meanwhile, Lapis Cara remembered what happened when she fought the ‘inferior Marie’.

The way she took Marie to the point of getting hurt was by no means unreasonable.

As you can hear, Lucius, Rose, Ron, … Even Tia didn’t seem to have a bad reputation.

“I thought it would turn out like this.”

She somehow thought that her feelings were similar to Er Ah.

Therefore, I thought that the boy would become entangled with Erea sooner or later.

Errea is strong, but she also has no tact.

It may be natural for her to come looking for herself like this.

“It’s a relationship with junior Ariel Beheritt…. I also made Lucius my younger sister a while ago, so it’s not like I can’t give you some advice.”

Lapiska grinned.

“Okay. I’ll help junior Erua.”