Bullied but Popular

47 – Duke Hamel

“What’s going on? You called me to practice first.”

“Fufufu, this bulcho disciple has finally mastered the teacher’s technique.”

“Hoo.”

Having mastered the new skill of the deep sea, Aren immediately became arrogant and called Tristan to practice.

“Then let’s get started right away.”

Whoop, come in.”

At Tristan’s words, Aren laughed meaningfully and immediately used the shore.

coastal waters

As the mana spread around Aren, Tristan immediately swung his fist.

Shik Pan!

“Hoo.”

“Whoop whoop.”

When Aren easily dodged his fist, Tristan gave an exclamation as if he was slightly surprised.

pod pod pod pod

wink wink wink

To see Aren’s reaction, Tristan started throwing blows, but Aren dodged them all.

A smile forms on Tristan’s face.

“You’re really avoiding everything.”

“Huh hu hu hu hu hu can you do it a little faster?”

“Then don’t.”

tristanetic second acceleration

Aww!

“Kwaweeaek!!!”

Suddenly, Tristan’s fist flew at a tremendous speed, and Aren had to make another pig-picking sound.

Either way, Tristan continued punching.

“What are you doing? Get out of here.”

puck! puck! puck! f*ck!

“Teacher! Gap! Wrong! Ahhh! Well done! Hold on! Wrong! Wrong!!! Kwak!!”

“hahahahaha! It’s still a long way! I won’t even make a sound like crying like this!”

“aaa!”

puck! baek! pop! puck!

Even today, Aren’s screams echoed in the gymnasium.

***

“Oh, Aren…”

“… uh… uh…”

Seeing Aren in tatters and crying, Lirina was restless around him, not knowing what to do.

“I-I’ll treat your wounds first.”

“… ugh…”

‘… cute.’

When Aren nodded in tears at her words, Lirina thought he was cute.

“Hmmm! Can you look over here for now?”

“……”

nod

‘town!’

Aren didn’t answer and nodded quietly, and Lirina had to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out.

“……”

“……”

There was an awkward silence while Aren was being treated for a moment.

‘What am I going to say?’

‘I want to embarrass myself… Whip.’

Lirina didn’t know how to talk to the crying Aren, and Aren couldn’t raise his head, feeling embarrassed that he had cried.

Lirina opened her mouth first to make Aren stop crying.

“Yeah, but Aren was great! Chu, you avoided all of Tristan’s attacks at first!”

“…Thanks to that, I need another training session…”

Principal Tristan left the gym after mopping Aren and saying that he would teach him hyperacceleration next time.

Thanks to that, Aren’s mentality was very weak.

“I want to go home…”

“Keuheop…! Hmmm.”

At Aren’s childlike voice, Lirina had to hold back her laughter again.

“I’m laughing now.”

but got caught

“Ah, no… anyway! Aren has mastered the art of evasion, so if he gets faster now, he should be able to dodge all of Teacher Tristan’s attacks!”

“… It must hurt, right?”

“……”

Practicing with Tristan hurts.

It was so imprinted in Aren’s mind.

Looking at Aren’s depressed face, Lirina smiled brightly and said,

“Aren’s training is over today, so why don’t we go out and eat something?”

“… Bob?”

“Yes! Let’s eat what Aren wants to eat!”

At Lirina’s words, Aren pondered for a moment and then nodded.

“I’m hungry…”

“It’s big!? … Then, could you wait a little bit? I’ll change my clothes and come back…”

“Yes, I’ll wait at the school gate.”

At Aren’s words, Lirina quickly left her seat and burst into laughter.

On the other hand, Aren headed for the school gate with weak steps.

trudge trudge trudge

‘… want to go home.’

Apparently, this time the psychological shock was too great.

Exaggerating a little, no exaggerating, now I felt more afraid of Teacher Tristan than the emperor of Britannia.

“Do I have to train this far in the first place?

Aren tried to calm down his gloomy mind and stopped walking when he saw an unexpected person the moment he approached the school gate that was now starting to show.

“… Tia?”

“Aren!”

Tia was entering through the school gate.

Aren looked at her with a surprised expression.

“What are you doing here?”

“What, can’t I be here?”

Her expression frowns as if she doesn’t like Aren’s question.

“There’s still half a vacation left, isn’t it strange that we’re here?”

“Aren, are you here too?”

“If I could get out right now, I’d run out.”

“…what’s wrong?”

Tia looked at Aren’s haggard face for a moment and asked.

I don’t know what happened, but Aren’s face was cut in half.

“Are you on a diet?”

“…involuntarily …more than that, what’s really going on?”

At Aren’s question, Tia blushed slightly and said with a sigh.

“… I came to practice.”

“What training?”

“Since I am also an Auronite, I have to train my Auror.”

“Can we do it at home?”

Tia was annoyed at Aren’s continued careless remarks.

“I’m here to train with you!”

“… okay?”

When Aren stared at her in surprise, Tia blushed even more and averted his gaze.

“Uh, anyway, since I came all the way here, you…”

“Aren?”

While Tia was talking, Lirina was approaching the school gate in plain clothes, as if she had finished her preparations.

“…Princess Lirina?”

“Tia Cloud?”

When the two looked at each other awkwardly at the sudden meeting, Aren opened his mouth instead.

“Is Lirina here?”

“Ah, yes, but Mr. Cloud…”

“He said he came to see me.”

“hey!”

Tia shouts at Aren’s wit.

“Aren! If you go around talking nonsense, I know you’ll get beaten to death!”

“also?”

“Yes! Again!”

When Tia confidently declared that she would defeat her, Aree looked at her physical condition and said,

“I don’t really want to get hit right now, so I’ll be careful.”

“You mean you want to be hit normally?”

“… that’s how it goes?”

Aren decided to change the subject and said to Lilina.

“Lilina, can Tia come too?”

“Yes? Ah, yes…”

With Lirina’s permission, Aren turned his gaze back to Tia.

“Tia, is it dinner yet? Let’s go eat together.”

“Huh? What are you going to eat?”

“It’s still stable, let’s look around and decide.”

“Uh… Then… Shall I go too?”

So, Aren, Tia, and Lirina headed to Kuzen for dinner.

***

The downtown area of the city, Kuzen.

“Come to think of it, no one knows anything about Kuzen, right?”

“So Aren, you have no reason to go? You have no friends.”

“…Who was it? I didn’t have any friends.”

“…Who was it for?”

Aren also answered Tia’s facts with facts.

Aren, who had been arguing for a while, said to Lirina.

“Lilina, do you want something to eat?”

“Oh, I’m anything…”

“It’s okay, so tell me, I have a lot of money.”

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As Aren speaks like a man, Tia, who was next to him, inflates her cheeks and interjects.

“Why don’t you ask me?”

“I forgot it because I hated it. What do you want to eat?”

“Small men aren’t popular.”

“Lilina, what do you want to eat?”

Ignoring Tia’s flirtatiousness, I asked Lirina again.

“Actually, I don’t know much about Kuzen either.”

“Hmm, then shall we look around?”

“yes.”

So the three of them moved to the area where the restaurants were gathered.

Then, Tia steps forward and speaks.

“I know something about this.”

“Where is it?”

“That big building over there.”

“…is it a hotel?”

When Tia looked at the building she was pointing to and said something dumbfounded, Tia said affirmatively.

“Yeah! It’s a high-end hotel over there, and the steak is good!”

“Why leave the restaurant and go into the hotel?”

am i weird?

I don’t think it would be strange if I told someone else…

“Where else?”

“I don’t know.”

“Yeah, let’s just walk around.”

Aren briefly concluded and moved his feet again.

“……”

“……”

‘Is something awkward?’

Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a scene where the two are talking.

Aren looked back and said.

“Aren’t you two familiar?”

“……”

“……”

‘Looks like they don’t know each other.’

As Aren’s question made it even more awkward, Tia opened her mouth.

“In the first place, I’m in Management Department and the princess is in Magic Engineering, so do you think there will be a close battle?”

“That’s true too.”

“Oh, over there…”

While listening to Tia, Lirina opened her mouth.

“Mr. Cloud, instead of princess, could you just call me Lirina? I guess that title stands out too much.”

“Ah! Then just call me Tia, Cloud is too long and manly.”

“Whoops, please take care of Tia.”

“Yes, that’s me.”

‘It looks nice.’

It’s a simple self-introduction, but why does it look so dazzling?

Seeing the two beauties with different styles talking, the eyes of passers-by began to gather on them.

“…Hey, aren’t the girls kidding?”

“Shall we go?”

“Is there a man next to you?”

“Looks like nothing’s wrong?”

‘Do you want to fight?’

The contents of the conversations of the men around him were also heard by Aren.

Of course, the conversation could also be heard from the women right next to Aren.

“Puha!”

“Huh!”

“… You can laugh at Lirina.”

As soon as Aren finished speaking, the two women began to laugh excitedly.

“Puhahahahaha!!”

“Ahahahaha! hehehe!”

“……”

Aren watched the two women smile for a moment, then moved on with a sad expression.

“hahahahaha! Hey! Hey! Go with me!”

“Ahahahaha! I’m sorry Aren!”

“……”

***

The mansion of the Duke of Nerestia.

“Long time no see Leah.”

“… Yes, long time no see, Duke.”

Cecilia was now facing Duke Hamel in the office of the Duke of Nerestia.

“It’s not a public place, so you can call me oppa like before.”

“……”

Duke Hamel spoke softly, but Cecilia just stared at him in silence.

At her cold response, Duke Hamel shrugged his shoulders and said in dismay.

“It’s sad, I used to like that…”

“Why did you call me?”

As Duke Hamel’s editorial became long, Cecilia cut him off and got to the point.

Originally, it was extremely rude, but both of them didn’t seem to care and went straight to the point.

“The dungeon was discovered a while ago.”

“……”

“According to the information, Frey found it, but it must be a lie…”

“……”

Despite his words, Cecilia did not respond.

Duke Hamel glared at her in frustration and said,

“If I’ve told you this far, you know what I want, right?”

“If there were tears of phoenix, I brought them myself.”

“Then what else?”

saaa

As soon as Duke Hamel’s words finished, the air in the office seemed to turn cold.

The two looked at each other for a while, and among the two, Duke Hamel was the first to speak.

“I guess there was.”

“……”

“Give it to me, I’ll pay the price…”

“None.”

oh oh oh

As soon as Cecilia finished speaking, an enormous amount of mana flowed from Duke Hamel’s body.

However, Cecilia is also one step closer to becoming an Aura Master.

Coercion alone could not subdue her.

Duke Hamel, who glared at her for a moment, lowered his momentum and spoke in a calm tone.

“You’ve improved a lot, Leah.”

“……”

Despite Duke Hamel’s praise, Cecilia just looked at him with an expressionless expression.

Watching her reaction, Duke Hamel continued.

“Cecilia.”

“……”

“As you know, my brother is about to die.”

“… Awesome.”

The first cracks appeared on her face, which had been consistent with an expressionless expression.

Duke Hamel continued observing her reaction.

“I really don’t have time this time, I’ve tried every method, but I heard it’s going to be hard to get past this month.”

“……”

“Please save me… no, save Luna.”

Tears form in Cecilia’s eyes at his last words.