Bullied but Popular

74 – Explore Rachel

“Rachel, where do you want to go this time?”

To Tia’s question as they were going around the academy together, Rachel thought for a moment and said.

“Um~ I want to see an albino now!”

“Albino? Okay, let’s go!”

At Rachel’s words, Aren tackled Tia as she tried to move on.

“Do you have anything to do?” Now I’ll take you alone, so you guys can stop going.”

As Aren spoke while looking at Tia and Anna, Tia’s expression crumpled.

“It’s been very noisy since before. You just quietly follow me? Why are you talking so much?”

“…Hey, wouldn’t it be a bit strange if you and I went together?”

“what?”

As Aren looked around and spoke, Tia naturally looked around as well.

And I could understand the meaning of Aren’s words right away.

All the eyes of the students around them began to focus on Aren and Tia.

The two became more famous after the exchange battle, and Tia’s popularity was reaching the pinnacle of her life.

When Tia walked around with Aren, she naturally drew attention, and Rachel, who noticed her gaze, hid behind Tia as if she was a little frightened.

Seeing that, Tia’s expression naturally hardened.

“…just their eyeballs.”

“Rachel is there.”

“… what about the pupils?”

Tia, who hastily changed her words, reassured Rachel.

“It’s okay, Rachel! Because you’re stronger than them? If they bully Rachel, she’ll punish you.”

“Is your sister strong?”

“Then~ Unnie is the strongest here!”

“Really!? Better than my brother!?”

“Then~ take a fist!~”

‘He’s laughing.’

Aren, who overruled Tia’s bluff, said to her.

“Stop talking nonsense and let’s go to the annex. There’s an albino.”

“Ah, have you guys been raising them lately?”

The albino who had been living with Cecilia had grown so much lately that it was difficult to stay in her room.

So he had no choice but to bring him to Aren’s annex and leave him there for a while.

Aren sighed and said.

“Because that cat eats a lot these days? Can’t we just send it to your house?”

“Why are you telling me that? I have to tell my sister.”

“I told her, but she firmly refused. No, why are you confidently entrusting it to me?”

Aren and Tia ran into an unexpected person the moment they left the main building while chatting.

“huh?”

“Aaron?”

“……”

Aaron Valentine, who had not yet been released from probation, stood in the way of Aren.

“Aren’t you still on probation?”

“……”

Aren spoke to him, but Aaron stood in the way of Aren without saying a word.

Sensing the ominous look again, Aren carefully tried to pass by Aaron, but Aaron turned and blocked his way again.

Tia frowned at the sight and said.

“You know that if you get into an accident again, you’ll be expelled, right? Let’s just pass by quietly, right?”

“Tia.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Aaron turned his head and spoke to her.

“Likes.”

“…!?”

“I really like it.”

‘oh! Have fun!’

‘what!? what!? I love this!’

At Aaron’s confession time, which started again, Tia was taken aback, and Aren and Anna took a step back and began to watch the two of them.

Then Anna spoke to Aren in a meaningful voice.

“Is Aren okay? Tia is being confessed?”

“Why do you keep asking when you guys know each other? Did you make it?”

“No~ I’m just a little worried~”

“what?”

I thought I was talking quietly, but I guess I heard a voice. Tia looked at the two and growled lowly.

“Shut up.”

“……”

“…Rachel shouldn’t learn bad words.”

Aren said worriedly, but Tia ignored it and looked at Aaron.

“I told you before, I have no intention of marrying you.”

“Yes, I know. But that’s just how it is now, right? Due to my personality, I just can’t give up.”

Despite Tia’s repeated refusals, Aaron did not back down and continued.

“You just keep saying no, because I’ll like you in my own way.”

‘Why is he like this?’

Tia took a step back as if she was a little taken aback by the way Aaron spoke in a cool way.

At that time, Aaron’s sincere confession is about to turn the atmosphere around pink.

“I can’t…”

“…?”

“…?”

People’s eyes were drawn to Rachel’s murmur as she held Tia’s hand.

Rachel then spoke in a more terrified yet clearer voice.

“Tia unnie… she’s my older sister… she’s going to marry my brother…”

Hearing Rachel’s small voice, Aaron sharpened his eyes and began to growl.

“This damn kid is now…”

“hey.”

As Aaron continued to speak, Tia’s cold voice cut him off.

“If you expose your life to this kid… you will die.”

“……”

At Tia’s reaction, which was pink and nabal, and more bloody than expected, Aaron’s life turned to Aren.

“you…”

“… Could it be me? Why me again?”

It was obviously in a good mood until just now, but suddenly it was 10 seconds before the duel.

Aren asked back as if he was dumbfounded, but Aaron didn’t care and continued to say what he wanted to say.

“Isn’t it about time to decide? Let’s stick together.”

“Is that the sound again? Why is everyone looking at me and saying that?”

“Why? Were you scared?”

As if trying to provoke him, Aaron made a sarcastic remark, and Aren nodded his head broadly.

“Yeah, I was scared? Can we not fight?”

“… this bastard.”

As Aaron’s expression grew more and more threatening, Rachel, who had been clinging to Tia, hugged her even more.

Feeling that, Tia glared at Aaron and said.

“If you want to be expelled, run at it.”

“……”

When Aaron couldn’t move at those words, Tia looked at him and said sarcasticly.

“And if we fight, can we win?”

“… what?”

At the end of this time, Aaron looked away and glared at Tia, as if he couldn’t pass it.

Either way, Tia continued.

“Haven’t you seen it too? Interaction exhibition.”

“so?”

“If you want to challenge Aren, don’t you have to speak after defeating Baltos first?”

Aren, who was listening to Tia’s words, made a tackle inside without realizing it.

‘What are you talking about?’

I don’t know why, but I thought it would be interesting, so I let it go.

Tia continued talking.

“When you fought Baltos last time, it was boiling. Can you beat Aren?”

“… ha… that’s funny.”

After listening to Tia’s words, Aaron glared at Aren again and said,

“Then, if I step on the Valtos, then you’ll join me.”

“… Huh? Hold on.”

As the story progressed strangely, Aren urgently opened his mouth.

“Why do I have to fight you? I don’t want to fight?”

“Your situation is not my part-time job. Wait, right now.”

Aaron glared at Aren and continued talking when a voice interrupted.

“Because I can’t.”

“Carl?”

“……”

Karl Valescia, who suddenly appeared, looked at Aaron and said.

“Is Aren going to fight me first? Why are you upset?”

“Haa~ These are really…”

As if Carol’s words had gotten on his nerves, Aaron let out a deep sigh and killed Carol.

“I originally wanted this bastard first. Get to know the subject, before I really kill you.”

“You came out after figuring out the topic? If you really don’t want to be expelled, why don’t you figure out the topic?”

“Ah, I’ve changed my mind. I’ll have to step on you first.”

“Good idea, I don’t want to quarrel with you anymore, so let’s make sure.”

oh oh oh

Why did this happen?

Aren felt a headache when he saw the two fighting over him.

‘Why does this only happen to me every day?’

He was just taking a walk with Rachel, so how could he be in such an atmosphere?

Aren glared at Tia, who had brought the situation to this point, with irritated eyes, but Tia escaped Aren’s gaze and ran away with Rachel.

***

A month after Aaron and Carol’s war of nerves.

Aren’s annex.

“White baby! Eat a lot!”

“Kaang!”

Rachel took out raw meat from the food storage and served it to the albino for lunch.

It was an albino cat that was less than half a year old, but it was a cat that had already learned the taste of raw meat thanks to the characteristics of the white tiger.

Wow Wow

“hehehehe, eat well.”

When I handed out the uncut raw meat, the albino began to eat the meat while fixing it with its front paws.

Thanks to that, the meat flowed out of the bowl and the floor was covered with meat grease, but there was no one to dry it because there were only Rachel and the white dog in the house now.

After watching the albino’s meal for a while, Rachel soon felt hungry and looked at the food storage.

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growl

“I’m hungry too.”

Rachel got up from her seat and stopped in front of the food warehouse door.

“… Shall we go to a restaurant?”

In the food storage, Aren had bought food for Rachel and Rai in advance, but Rachel suddenly thought that she was going to a restaurant.

“…now we can go.”

In the meantime, thanks to walking around the academy with Aren, my antiphobia has improved a lot.

It wasn’t that severe in the first place, and it was only to the extent that I was a little shy in front of people I was seeing for the first time.

And these days, Rachel was overflowing with confidence because she had properly greeted people she hadn’t seen before.

After thinking for a while, Rachel opened the window and shouted out loud.

“Brother~!”

“…?”

Rai, who was wielding a wooden sword in the annex yard, stopped his sword at Rachel’s call and looked away.

“why?”

“Let’s go to the restaurant!”

“restaurant?”

Rai asked, tilting his head.

“Why are you in the restaurant?”

“I’m hungry!”

“There are a lot of them in the food warehouse.”

“I want to eat at a restaurant!”

After thinking about Rachel’s words for a while, Rai swung his sword again and said.

“Then let’s go later, it’s time for class to end, so there are too many people.”

“No! I’m hungry!”

“Then take out some bread and eat it.”

After Lai said that, when she focused on training again, Rachel’s cheeks became full.

‘it’s okay! I’m not going with you!’

Rachel turned her head and looked at the albino still struggling with the raw meat.

“White-headed~ Let’s go to a restaurant with your sister.”

“Rung garrung.”

Despite her own words, when the albino focused only on the meat, Rachel pulled the albino by the tail.

“Let’s go, white-headed kid! Turn it off!”

“Rung garrung.”

The power of the albino is stronger than I thought.

The albino, who had grown to the size of a puppy, endured even when Rachel grabbed her tail and pulled it, focusing only on the meat.

“Woo! I’m white! I’m going to go alone!”

In the end, Rachel, who was pushed by the white man, came out alone and moved toward the main building of the academy.

knock knock knock knock

As I moved a little further, the main building of the academy caught my eye.

cluck

‘Go, I can go.’

I’ve been on a lot of walks with my older brother over the past few weeks, so I’m somewhat confident.

But when I was about to enter the academy, I couldn’t help but feel nervous.

“Here!”

Rachael, who partly raised her courage by shouting loudly, moved briskly toward the restaurant.

knock knock knock knock

“Hey, are you here? … Is this here?”

I’m sure I’ve been on this road several times, but I started to get confused when I got there.

tototototot

Naturally, Rachel’s steps became faster and her anxiety grew.

The central staircase that catches the eye at that time.

“Ah! Here!”

I definitely remember walking with my older brother.

Rachel hesitated for a moment, then moved on and started climbing the central staircase.

At that time, the students’ voices could be heard from the top of the stairs.

“really?”

“That’s right! So I…”

‘Sah, it’s a person!’

Rachel’s legs stopped naturally at the voice coming from above.

It was fortunate that they didn’t come down the stairs. After a while, the students’ voices began to fade away.

“Whoa… let’s go back.”

That’s all for today!

I came a lot just by entering the academy by myself.

Rachel agreed, then moved on and went down the stairs.

tadak

“…huh?”

I look around on the stairs, but I don’t know where I am.

“Uh, where…?”

As Rachel’s uneasy mind spurred on, her legs naturally began to quicken.

ride and ride

to do do do do do do

“Hey…”

I wandered around the hallways, but couldn’t find a place I remembered.

She wandered around and ran into a few students, but when the strangers got closer, Rachel got scared and ran away, unable to ask for directions.

“Oh, oppa~ hee…”

As she became more and more uncomfortable because she couldn’t find her way, Rachel eventually began to search for Aren with tears in her eyes and a voice of concern.

“Oppa~ Heeing… Aren oppa~”

The moment when Aren was nowhere to be found no matter how much he searched for it, he was about to cry out loud.

“Hmm, was your name Rachel?”

“Huh?”

The two look at Rachel.

Einhart and Kana were there.

Looking back at the two, Rachel felt an unknown sadness and eventually burst into tears.

“Ahhhhh!!”

“…!?”

“…!?”