Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

30 – Retreat (6)

Cruise arrived at the island, but did not dock right away.

It was to spread the students evenly throughout the island before the retreat began in earnest.

Left alone after Adele passed away, Lucy was in the midst of tossing snacks to the occasional geese as Cruise passed by and looked down at the water parting like her tail.

“I see…… Why did I tell Adele to team up with her?”

She was still brooding over Adele’s question. She

She said it herself, but she still couldn’t figure out why she did it, so she could only guess how she felt.

“Why do you look so worried?”

Turning her head at her snarky voice, it was Chiron, her friend just like Kyle.

He saw the sighing Lucy, smiled as if he had found something interesting, and came to the side and leaned against the railing.

“What is it? If you’re going to say something weird, just go.”

By the way, Chiron has been having fun teasing Lucy for a while now.

Looking at Kyle, Lucy, and Veronica as her third person, the air currents flowing between the three were unusual.

I’m not sure what the parties were thinking, but I knew roughly that Kyle and Veronica were hanging out and Lucy was uncomfortable with not being able to fit in.

“Let me guess why you are like this today?”

Chiron opened her mouth, ignoring Lucy, who waved her hand at her, telling her to go.

With her resigned face, Lucy tapped the potion Adele had handed her with her fingertips, as if to say, ‘Ehh, talk as you like’.

“Doesn’t someone keep coming to mind even when you don’t want to think about it?”

“… ….”

It was true to some extent, but she didn’t bother to answer.

However, at that moment, Chiron, who realized that it was the correct answer with a reaction that caused Lucy’s lips to twitch, continued her words.

“Do you think you don’t like it or not?”

It’s true that it’s because of Adele, but…….

Something sounded strange.

As if there was a gap between Chiron and himself.

“Your heart is stuffy, as if your heart is blocked. Right?”

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Lucy stared at Chiron quietly.

Chiron smirked and patted Lucy on the shoulder.

The slender body swayed back and forth excessively.

Lucy’s forehead was on the verge of forming blood vessels.

Like a parent leaving a child in her arms, Chiron pretended to wipe the tears from her eyes.

“Now you realize her feelings. Do you know how frustrated I was while watching you all this time? Listen carefully. That’s love–“

I wondered what bullsh*t he was talking about, so Lucy kicked Chiron in the shin as if she wouldn’t listen anymore.

With a short scream, Chiron grabbed her shin with both hands and stumbled as if she was about to fall. Lucy grabbed her by the collar and helped her up.

“Stop talking nonsense. There’s no way I would do that to Adele.”

“…… Adele, not Kyle?”

“Yes, Adele.”

Lucy explained to Chiron what just happened.

Chiron, who had been quietly listening to the explanation, opened her mouth.

“Isn’t that what you did because you wanted to be together?”

“…… What?”

Her head was pounding for reasons she had never thought of.

I was on the verge of getting angry because I wondered what kind of bad joke it was to say such a thing while knowing everything about what happened with Adele.

Recognizing that, Chiron hurriedly added.

“You said that. I heard that Adele has been helping me lately? Maybe that’s why I’m a little interested…… Aww!”

Before he could finish what he added as an excuse, Lucy nervously stepped on his foot.

Pressing down on his toes with his heels, he tilted his head and looked up at him as he groaned.

That face was expressionless.

Chiron’s body seemed to get goosebumps at that face that seemed to be broken by the anger that had crossed the critical point.

He hastily withdrew his foot and limped off his feet as he stepped backwards.

“Ah, come to think of it, this wasn’t the reason I came.”

A blatant attempt to change the topic.

The intention was obvious, but Lucy said “Hmph.” I made a sound and decided to go over to that intention.

“Wouldn’t you like to team up at the retreat…… I was trying to ask Well, since I decided to do it with Adele.”

“So, is it already late?”

Lucy flatly refused, crossing his arms in the shape of an X.

Although the purpose of coming here was not achieved, Chiron happily turned around.

If I had touched Lucy’s temper this much and walked around with her during the retreat, I would have had to feel the tension as if I were walking on thin ice.

“Well then, I need to find a team quickly, so I’m going.”

“Oh, yes, I’m going.”

Lucy waved at Chiron, who was leaving as if he were running away.

And hey, I sighed and leaned against the railing.

“I said I wanted to team up with Adele?”

While talking, I got ridiculous and caught his snort.

Me?

Adele, who has been terribly tormented until now?

“He saved me from a few crises… ….”

Some of them even risked their lives to help.

“I was treated a little better… ….”

A bit contrary to Kyle, who was not interested in himself for various reasons.

Although she was a little too friendly?

“That’s why I teamed up with Adele… ….”

A word I said while giggling and laughing because I was so dumbfounded.

The moment she tried to deny Chiron’s guess, she couldn’t finish it as her chuckle disappeared.

I thought she wouldn’t want to team up with Adele, but when she thought about it, the reluctance was unexpectedly less.

Even if there was no reason to make Kyle jealous, if Adele asked to join the team, he would have accepted it.

“Oh… ….”

Bewildered, Lucy’s head tilted forward without stopping.

By the time his chin touched his chest, Lucy’s body had shrunk like it had fallen into a hole.

It suddenly collapsed.

“Crazy… ….”

After muttering so much, Lucy hugged his knees and put his head down.

“Forget the bullying that Adele did to her…… ?”

Lucy chewed on it, not wanting to admit it.

The bullying that Adele did to herself and Kyle.

It was my intention to fill my heart with anger in order not to give a place for those emotions that do not know how to sprout.

“… ….”

However, the resentment that seemed to burn forever has now turned to ashes, and there was no firepower like before.

* * *

This unnamed island artificially created for the retreat is a bit unusual.

In the east, magma surges through cracks in the land, and it is a barren land with no trees or grass, but in the west, snow that does not melt throughout the year is piled up to the height of an adult’s knee.

The north is a jungle where huge trees that can be dozens of times taller than normal trees and grass much taller than a person grow thickly, and the south is a desolate desert where even moisture in the air is dry.

Various environments and various monsters suitable for them.

It was because of the education policy of the head of the academy, which was to be able to deal with any monsters encountered in any situation.

Like that, it was Lucy’s turn to get off the cruise, and when she got off, she arrived in the north of the four directions.

A jungle inhabited by man-eating plants that devour people and animal-type monsters who don’t know when and where to target me.

“After… ….”

The students who got off with me just a moment ago disappeared.

The only thing you can see nearby is the gurgling sound and the grass moving.

To be honest, I couldn’t even tell if it was a monster or a human.

“It’s hot.”

It feels like being steamed alive because of the hot and humid air.

As I was wiping away the sweat that flowed uncontrollably as if I had been hit by rain, I could feel the moisture draining from my body.

Lucy walked, flapping her sweaty shirt.

The place we are heading to is the place we were supposed to meet with Adele.

“Did he know I was going to get off here?”

The place he asked to meet was under the tallest tree in the north of the island.

If I had gotten off somewhere other than the north, I would have had to walk a long way, but I don’t know what the reason was for asking to meet there.

When you’re walking on the muddy ground that sinks in like that.

Crush, rustle.

The sound of the bushes shaking nearby.

Unlike other sounds that get further away, this was a sound that was gradually coming towards you.

‘A monster.’

If it’s a monster that lives here that’s huge beyond common sense, it’s only natural that it’s that much bigger.

Lucy activated the trait, nervous that a distracted tiger might pop out.

The forest, which was filled with hot and humid air, was covered with frost and turned the surrounding area white.

Crush, rustle…….

The sound of getting closer died down.

I looked around to see if there were any swaying bushes nearby, but the surroundings were as quiet as a dead mouse.

Lucy swallowed dry saliva and took a posture as if she was doing boxing that she had never learned.

“Were you here?”

“Huh?!”

I jumped like a frightened cat, shuddering at Adele suddenly jumping out from behind.

After realizing that his perception of Adele was slowly changing on the cruise, he was surprised by such an insignificant act.

“What are you so surprised about?”

Adele calmly approached Lucy, who spread her distance.

Lucy backed away for nothing and held out her hand as if telling her not to come closer.

Why, isn’t there such a thing?

There is a saying that if the physical distance is further, the mental distance is also further.

Since Adele hadn’t officially apologized yet, Lucy, who had no intention of forgiving, was doing it because it was difficult as her anger was almost waning.

Because otherwise he didn’t even apologize to Kyle and himself, and he felt like he’d forgive them on his own.

“Why but.”

But Adele approached her whether her Lucy did or not.

In this heat, it was by her side that she felt cool, like sticking her head in her refrigerator.

“Rather than that, it is all reflected because I am drenched in sweat. Wear something.”

Adele approached her before Lucy, who rolled her eyes here and there and came up with a plausible excuse, said that and wrapped her coat around her.

And the fact that Adele took off her overcoat meant that the veil that covered his sweaty figure was gone.

“…… Huh, it’s hot.”

Adele tucked back all of her hair, which was dripping with sweat reflecting sunlight.

His sleeves were unbuttoned, revealing his arms with prominent veins, and similar to Lucy’s, his shirt was wet with sweat, and his muscular body could be seen clearly in Lucy’s eyes.

“… ….”

Thick blood vessels and fine muscles.

Pectoral muscles faintly visible through the white shirt.

For some reason, with a body that perfectly suited her taste, Lucy had no choice but to look down at him, blushing involuntarily.