68 – Omens (1)

“… ….”

Anastasia, who was about to go to the front seat, which was almost like a reserved seat, stopped her step.

She has blank eyes as usual, but her emotions, which she did not normally have, swirled in those eyes.

“What?”

At the front of the podium, Adele and Lucy were talking about something.

I can’t tell what the conversation is going on because of the distance, but I can see that Adele suddenly pats Lucy on the back as if in praise.

And Lucy snatched the test paper, got up from her seat, and ran out as if running away.

Anastasia’s eyes moved and she chased Lucy back to her seat.

“What is that? Why are you like that these days…….”

She says that as if she is ashamed, and she slaps her reddened cheeks with the palm of her hand.

“Lucy, what the hell were you talking about with Adele? Her face is red…….”

“Uh, huh? It’s not really red, is it?”

“Isn’t it really okay?”

“Yeah, it’s okay.”

She went back to her seat and chatted with the boy sitting next to her, fanning her hand in the face for some reason, but she didn’t like it.

She was staring at Lucy blankly when someone came over and whispered in Anastasia’s ear.

“After all, there is nothing left to replace her family, right?”

At that voice, Anastasia rolled her eyes.

A schoolgirl with her white hair braided into two braids was laughing with her teeth exposed. She is

She is not what you would call a friend, but she was a student whom I had met personally a few times.

“Erena.”

“What are you staring at? Anyone who sees it will know that I did something bad.”

“I didn’t specifically stare.”

“Ah, did you get nervous then? That her boy was taken away by another woman?”

“… ….”

This time she really squinted her eyes and glared at her Erena.

Seeing her bloody eyes, Elena lifted her hands and repeatedly surrendered and surrendered, and she playfully left the side.

Anastasia didn’t like that side of her.

She talks like she sees through other people’s thoughts, but she just spits out her words without consideration.

“Go away if you’re going to talk nonsense.”

“You didn’t say anything unnecessary, did you?”

As Anastasia tried to brush her way past her, she stopped her Anastasia with her words.

Anastasia, halfway down her steps, turned her head behind her and looked at her Elena.

“How long are you going to hesitate? Are you ready to bring your family back to life?”

“… ….”

Silence followed instead of an answer.

The eyes that were stubborn just a moment ago were slightly shaken by Elena’s words.

“Do you still think that shouldn’t be the case?”

Elena, who lightly leaped down her steps, came over and put her arm around Anastasia’s shoulder.

Then she seduced the hesitant Anastasia with a grin.

She dared to speak of memories of her family that she had barely suppressed but recently resurfaced because of Adele.

“But you felt it too. People who are not family cannot fully care about you. After all, you are a stranger to that Adele.”

“That person… ….”

“Will it be different? What evidence do you have that makes you so sure?”

There was no evidence.

She just had the belief that if she was the Adele she’d seen, she wouldn’t be.

“I have no reason to be responsible for you, and I don’t have blood connections with you, and I haven’t developed affection for you after seeing you for a long time. Why is he?”

I only listed the facts, but the facts made her uncomfortable, like a thorn stuck in her throat.

While listening to today’s lecture, going back to the dormitory and lying on the bed, even while sleeping, these words did not leave my head and seemed to keep getting in the way.

“Okay, stop it.”

Anastasia cuts off Elena’s arm because she thinks she’ll lose her mind if she listens to it any longer.

Elena spoke softly as she looked at her back as she walked to her seat.

“As your only friend, I’m doing this because I want you to be happy, so don’t hate me too much for saying bitter things?”

Sounds that are not even in the heart.

I know that’s a lie, but I also hope that you mean it when you call yourself a friend. Anastasia nodded her head without looking back.

* * *

“Bocchan…….”

Blah blah blah.

Tina’s whisper to Charlotte, her tiptoe almost inaudible, pierces the back of her head with a sharp gaze.

She was in the middle of reading quietly, but the air in her room was thick and she felt like she was choking, so she opened the window leading to the balcony.

Then the curtain rippled like a wave.

It would have been nice if the fresh air carried by the wind was cool, but it was humid and lukewarm, so it wasn’t refreshing.

It looks like summer is coming.

“Last night, a woman named Anastasia…….”

Ssukdeok sukdeok sukdeok sukdeok.

“… ….”

Are you doing that on purpose to listen to me?

I don’t know what happened to Tina as she reports what happened at the academy to Charlotte in front of me.

You glanced at the two standing by the door.

“And today, to a woman named Lucy… ….”

Tina, who glanced at me, raised her voice again partly.

Well, now I get it.

It was right that he did that on purpose to listen to me.

“I see.”

After hearing Tina’s report, Charlotte gave her a small nod.

Then she didn’t look at Tina with a hard face, as if she had excluded all of her emotions, but she looked at me and she replied.

“I’m glad you seem to be on good terms with your classmates.”

…… It seemed that Charlotte was losing her temper.

Tina, who doesn’t know the situation well, gave a biased explanation, so there’s a possibility, so she wants to explain something, but only then will it have the opposite effect.

Here, I think it would be better to relieve his anger by giving him what he has prepared for the past few days.

“This is the snack I promised you.”

Charlotte held out the bag of cookies to Tina from her arms.

Taking the pouch with both of her hands, Tina sat down on a chair near her and poured her tea, wriggling like an excited puppy at the thought of her snack.

That guy…… It seemed that they sold me for snacks.

I thought the kindness I gave Tina was deep, but that guy repays her kindness with her betrayal.

It is said that the ax that believes is stamped on the foot, and that the internal enemy is more terrifying than the external enemy, and there is nothing wrong with that statement.

Tina pricked up her ears, perhaps noticing my gaze with such a heart. She looked at me and clicked her tongue.

“This is more than cause and effect…… No see.”

He was an especially nasty guy with clumsy honorifics.

“Oh, Charlotte.”

I called out to Charlotte, gesturing to lighten the mood.

“Yes, why did you call me?”

After we slept together, there were times when we would stick together in a friendly way, like when she was younger, but Charlotte’s attitude now, after becoming Adele, was hard enough to remind her of Charlotte when they first met.

“…… I have something to give you.”

She opened her desk drawer, pulled out a small box she had kept in one corner, and held it out to Charlotte.

She took care of the packaging in her own way. Charlotte, who received the box with the ribbon tied, looked back and forth between the box and me.

“This is…… ?”

“Coming to think of it, I didn’t get anything special for your birthday. It’s late, but it’s my gift.”

Charlotte looked at her box for a long time, as if she were looking at some precious treasure, then she slowly untied the ribbon.

As the unraveled ribbon fell to the floor, she said Charlotte opened the box.

Seeing her contents, Charlotte widened her eyes and covered her slightly parted mouth with one of her hands.

“This is a ring made with the one I got from Tina. It has the effect of amplifying mana, so it would be nice to carry it around.”

She took Charlotte’s hand and put her ring on her finger.

When I held her hand, she made it with her senses in mind, so she was worried about what to do if the size didn’t fit, but fortunately, it fit just right enough to say it wasn’t too small or too big.

“Would it have been better to give it in money or something?”

She asked just in case, but she didn’t seem to need an answer.

Because Charlotte, who was expressionless until just a moment ago, was smiling bashfully, representing her feelings.

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“No, I prefer the one with the master’s sincerity.”

She didn’t like her running around like the Charlotte she saw when she was a child, but she showed that she liked her by touching her ring for a long time like her child.

Judging by the corner of her mouth, she had no intention of going down, it was a very good decision to give her a gift even if it was late.

“Then it’s worth making. To relieve the anger of the guy who was angry just a moment ago.”

She said with a chuckle and she said Charlotte opened her hatchet eyes and looked up at me.

But that’s only for a while.

She immediately looked at her ring on her finger and smiled innocently like an idiot as she seemed to like it no matter what.

“I am also worth being upset. I get angry, so the young master gives me a present like this.”

“Huh, don’t get upset because next time it won’t be cheesy.”

“Really?”

Charlotte purses her lips, perhaps acting out her pout.

Since she became an adult, she hasn’t shown such a fuss about keeping her body, but she seems to have been quite happy after receiving the ring.

You’d be ashamed if you made fun of me later.

“It is a lie. Don’t pout.”

“I knew it.”

“…… It’s the start of another frenzy.”

Tina’s words as she cracked a cookie with her tea.

The guy frowned as if he had seen something he couldn’t see.

I looked at him and gestured for him to come closer.

Tina pointed her finger at herself and rolled her eyes as she nodded that I was calling you right.

“Boss, were you offended by Tina’s swearing?”

He seemed to know that I called to scold him, but his ears were drooping.

“No, did I look so narrow-minded?”

I put my hand on the grouchy guy’s head and pulled out another box from the drawer and put it in his hand.

“I made yours while making the Charlotte girl.”

“Uh…… Uh?”

Tina looked at her, puzzled.

Leaning away at the box in her hand and Charlotte standing next to her, she suddenly said, “Hey.” She made a noise and closed her eyes tight as if she didn’t want to see anything.

Why is this guy doing this?

He didn’t open the box, so I opened it and took out what was inside.

“There is no need to be so burdened. Because this is your entrance gift.”

What I took out from inside was a necklace.

I don’t know how old Tina actually is, but she seems to be at her age, where she still has potential to grow, so it’s something that takes into account the change in the thickness of her fingers.

“And since it was left by Raviel, you deserve it.”

Let’s put Raviel’s large necklace on her necklace.

“You are an idiot…… ! Why are you doing this to Tina! Is she going to kill Tina!”

For some reason, Tina poured out words of resentment towards me.

Didn’t you like the gift that much?

She didn’t show it, but she was a little bit hurt.

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