14. School Festival – 05

Time flew by and it was Monday morning, the first day of the school festival.

Before the school festival started, I was also very busy as an executive of the student council, going here to help, or going over there to submit documents, but after the school festival started, there was not much to do.

‘No, to be precise, the correct answer is that they didn’t give me anything to do.’

Of course, just because the school festival started, not all student council executives became unemployed like me.

I don’t know, but even at this moment, the student council president, Kayana, and the vice president, Celica, were busy taking care of the festival’s schedule, taking care of other students during the festival, and welcoming the outside guests who flooded in while the school was open. You must be having a busy time.

However, Kaya and even Celica only expressed disapproval at my request for help.

“No specifications. It’s because my mind would go wild if my juniors were flirting next to me.”

He was saying that because Kaya was next to him, but the sincerity he wanted to tell me through ‘communication’ was quite different from him.

“How could I entrust you with such a trivial task? Please leave this to me, the master’s servant, and let the master only enjoy the festival.]

Celica said so and flatly refused my help, and in Kaya’s case, she even said to me that she was taking me to a quiet place where no one else would notice.

“Seobangnim, to be honest, I don’t really want to receive your help that much.”

“… why? You know I’m not very trustworthy, but I think even a country like this can help you in some way-”

“No, that’s not what I meant. I don’t like that Seo Bang-nim has to work like me during the school festival.”

“… ?”

I can’t understand what Kaya is saying. Are you saying that there are many crazy people in the world who like to work?

Work is always arduous and irritating no matter who does it, and isn’t that why you leave someone else to do your work?

But to my great regret, that was not what Kaya was trying to say to me.

“do you know this? The fact that the students currently enrolled in Nineveh did not transfer this year like Seo-Bang, but have been educated here since childhood?”

“That’s it, I know.”

Since ancient times, education is the most efficient method when taught from an early age, so I was well aware that students, including Kayana Altina, attended this school from a very young age.

“As such, I have already experienced countless festivals like this. In fact, in a sense, it even feels boring. No matter how interesting and novel it is, wouldn’t it feel a bit banal if the number of times you’ve experienced it exceeds double digits?”

Kaya, who was talking so giggly, soon turned her gaze and looked at my face.

“But the West is a little different from me.”

“… why?”

“For you, this school festival is the first school festival in your life.”

Saying that, Kaya stretched out her own hands and grabbed mine tightly.

“I know. That Seobang-nim thought of me completely and joined the student council. And at least that he offered to help me in order to lighten the burden I was carrying even a little bit.”

But, saying that, Kaya gave me a slightly sad smile.

“For me, it doesn’t matter if you don’t enjoy the school festival or something. Because I’ve been through it countless times before. But for the West, this is the first time. As if this is the first time we are standing here at this moment.”

“…..”

“I want Seobangnim to have a little more fun and enjoy this life with me. I hope Seo Bang’s life is sparkling and shining. In the distant future, when I look back at this moment, I hope that you will smile with all your heart.”

Of course, I want to spend this time with you, but it’s just my greed.

And I will not commit such a thing as ruining your happiness by being swayed by my greed.

So, I-

“So please enjoy my share. So that these times you are spending right now can someday become your shining memories.”

“…..”

Saying that, Kaya pushed me on the back and asked me to enjoy this school festival. And in case others would think it was strange if I was the only one missing from work, he even went so far as to say that Shura and Midir were also given special leave.

In the end, I was taken care of by Kaya, and I ended up playing and eating leisurely like an unemployed man while everyone else was working to make everyone else fall down their backs.

yes, what All good. To be honest, that’s not a bad thing. I’m a kind of person who is far from being diligent by nature, and it wouldn’t be a bad thing to play leisurely like this.

But, except for one unfortunate situation that even Kaya didn’t expect.

– Even if you have free time at most, don’t you have a friend to watch the festival with in the first place?

Yes. From the first day I entered Nineveh, I had been harassed by all those who behaved rudely towards me, and I, who had no intention of hanging out with black boys in the first place, could not make friends until the first semester was over, and as a result, during the festival, I was alone on the bench. It has become the fate of Asa Chinta sitting forlornly.

“But it’s a bit awkward to visit Altina or Claire out of the blue… ”

Normally, we could hang out together or have a meal together under the name of ‘friends’, but strange rumors might spread after the school festival that a man and a woman would stick together alone during a festival like this.

Whatever it is, if Count Serias, who still remains in Nineveh in the name of wanting to enjoy the school festival with his daughter, listens to that nonsense-

“… It’s the worst.”

Thinking that I might have to cross swords with that daughter once again made my head hurt.

To sum up, it will be a miserable story that, no matter how much time I have, I end up sitting alone on a bench in the corner of the plaza without any friends and without enjoying a single festival.

– Anyway, that’s why I advised you from the beginning. Even if you didn’t enter Nineveh because you were interested in studying, it’s better to make friends. But instead of making friends, I was busy hanging out with women, so this is what I want…

“… I don’t think you’re in a position to say that. Is there no one you can call a friend?”

– My case is a little different from you. I’m not making friends forever, but aren’t you not making friends?

By the time I was sitting on the bench talking with Erekaya about pointless bullshit.

“there… excuse me.”

It was then. A woman wearing a very wide-brimmed hat covering half of her face and dressed in an elegant outfit quietly approached me.

“Are you busy? Judging by your outfit, you seem to be a student of Nineveh. If it doesn’t matter, may I ask you something?”

Judging by the way she speaks and the way she wears, she seems to be a woman from an aristocratic family, but she asks me a question in a polite manner.

“Ah, yes. Fine. I was just resting here.”

When I nodded and replied, she clasped her palms together as if it was okay.

“Oh my, my my. You are really kind too. Thank you very much. It’s been a long time since I’ve visited this place, so the surrounding scenery felt very unfamiliar.”

Whooping, she smiled elegantly, then quietly asked me a question.

“Do you know where the female dormitory for freshmen in high school is? I was supposed to meet my daughter there, but I couldn’t find the way at all… ”

“Are you talking about the girls’ dormitory?”

Let me tell you, it’s not that difficult. In the first place, even though I am now unemployed, I am also a member of the student council, and the student council executives also have the role of guiding outsiders who have lost their way.

“If that is the case, I will guide you there. Please follow me.”

“no. You don’t even have to bother with that. Just telling me where the place is is enough.”

“I would love to, but the road to the women’s dormitory from here is quite complicated. I think it’s the cleanest way to guide you.”

Wouldn’t it be so bad to relieve Kaya’s work in this way rather than sitting still on the bench anyway?

“… Hmm.”

However, the expression of her staring at me was a little strange.

“It’s just what I’ve been used to hearing. Gentlemanly, caring, and even kind. Is this the only way I can say that my daughter has no choice but to be so interested in it?”

“… Yeah?”

What else do you mean by this? Didn’t she just get lost and accidentally point at me sitting on the bench and ask a question? But now, what the hell is that tone of talking about knowing me in advance?

She had been showing a coy smile from before, but before long, she gently took off the hat she was wearing-

“… Claire?”

Surprisingly, the appearance hidden under the hat was exactly the same as Claire’s.

… No, no. To be more precise, although she has a striking resemblance to Claire, Claire still has a hint of youth, while the girl in front of her has a sense of maturity that Claire lacks.

So roughly, if Claire were two or three years older, would she become like this woman?

The identity of the woman who coexists with Claire’s original warmth and gentleness, as well as maturity and elegance-

“Ho, are you Claire’s older sister by any chance?”

“… Yes?”

Judging from his appearance, he doesn’t look like he’s only two or three years older than Claire, and since Claire once said that she had siblings, I think it’s a reasonable reasoning.

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Meanwhile, she was quietly listening to my reasoning, and as soon as I finished my words, she burst into laughter as if it was really absurd.

“This, Won. Now that I see it, it seems that my son-in-law had a talent for flattery, right? I never thought he would know so well how to please a woman with just one word.”

“son-in-law… ?”

son-in-law? who’s who? But wait, wasn’t the word son-in-law used to refer to the daughter’s husband?

If so, the girl in front of me, unlike her appearance, means that she is a mother with a daughter, and that she has a decisively similar appearance to Claire means—

“Nice to meet you, son-in-law. No, it hasn’t been decided yet, so should I call it a preliminary son-in-law?”

“For being so ‘close’ with my daughter.”

I felt like I fell into a situation where, without my knowledge, I had a meeting with my girlfriend’s parents alone without a girlfriend.