The meeting square with a large fountain in the very center of the academy.

After learning that they had a common acquaintance, the two agreed to talk a little longer.

In order to have a long conversation, I sat down on a bench without an owner with a drink in hand and started talking.

“I didn’t expect to meet my older brother’s acquaintance as soon as I entered the school. There are so many things in the world that are rare.”

“Yeah, that’s right. It’s really strange that you’re Conrad’s sister… .”

Unlike Delfina, who skillfully spoke politely, Lulu showed a slightly awkward attitude.

It was her instinct to always be wary of people she saw for the first time, so the fact that she was a friend’s sister 2 years younger was not enough to overcome her shyness.

It was Delfina Perdalos, the daughter of Viscount Perdalos’s family, who continued the conversation so that even she could have a natural conversation.

“Isn’t Lulu-senpai a friend of my older brother?”

“Well, that’s how it is… .”

“If you won’t be rude, would it be all right if I ask how my brother is doing at the academy? People in the family don’t talk about their time at the academy.”

In reality, she always listened to her brother’s life at the academy, to the extent that she would ask questions through letters as well as vacations, but she deliberately mixed up lies to create a natural atmosphere.

After all, she knew that the older brother she knew wasn’t the kind of person who would take offense over trifles like this.

“Bo, usually we just have lunch together, and on the weekends we work part-time and sometimes go out hunting, right?”

“Looks like my brother is always taking care of me.”

“W-what are you talking about! Rather, I owe my debt to your brother. Even if we go hunting together, it’s your brother’s role to be in charge of firepower.

I’m looking for monsters around me and dismantling monster materials from time to time, well… .”

“You mean they work together to make up for what each other lacks, join forces, share tasks, and so on? What a wonderful thing!”

“Well, thank you for thinking that way, but… .”

Creating an opportunity to praise in an ordinary conversation and boosting the mood of the person you are talking to.

It was Delfina’s specialty to make even the most vigilant opponents affected by the atmosphere.

Seeing Lulu sip the drink in her hand as if to cool off her blushing face, it seemed as if the conversation would continue smoothly and smoothly.

Until right before Delphina’s words came out of her mouth, embarrassing Lulu.

“Since you’ve been dating such a pretty and kind girlfriend, it’s understandable that your brother has suddenly improved recently.”

“Kuheuk, kuk, kuk, kuhheuk… !”

“Senior Lulu? Are you all right?!”

Lulu was able to calm herself down after hearing Delphina’s unexpected bombshell remarks and coughing several times.

“I’m sorry, senior. I told you when I was not good.”

“Oh, no. It’s not really like that… .”

“Your pretty face is messed up. Please stay still for a moment.”

Delfina took out a handkerchief with her own embroidery from her pocket and wiped it around Lulu’s nose and mouth.

After her soft touch was over, Lulu’s embarrassed mouth opened again.

“Co-I don’t really have a girlfriend-like relationship with Conrad, so don’t get this weird misunderstanding.”

“Yeah? Really? I naturally thought that senior Lulu was my older brother’s lover.”

“Thank you for thinking so… . Because it’s really nothing… .”

There was something bittersweet on Lulu’s expression when she said that.

“I-I’m not particularly noble, I’m not from a good family, and I’m not enough as Conrad’s lover, huh… .

The fact that he’s been ridiculously strong lately has nothing to do with me. It’s only because he’s sincere… .”

It was a short conversation, but Delfina was able to grasp Lulu’s feelings for her brother at once.

A relationship that feels good with the opposite sex, but cannot be easily connected due to the difference in social status.

Although the rank of viscount was in the middle, it was inevitable that there would be a gap with the common people anyway.

In the academy, where students of all ranks, from the royal family to the common people, gather in one place, problems caused by the difference in social status appeared especially in the relationship between men and women.

No matter how different the classes are, if you stay together, friendship is bound to arise.

In addition, in the academy, where the sense of status has faded, a considerable number of noble and commoner couples have been created every year.

Most of those couples break up within a few years of graduating.

It was an unavoidable reality.

Since he was born as a nobleman, each and every act of that person had to be influenced by the choice and judgment of the family rather than individual choice.

Of course, it was absurd to waste that valuable opportunity, especially in matters of engagement and marriage, which solidify the bond between families.

In the end, it was to accept the reality that could not be connected and put an end to their relationship.

When a woman was a commoner, there were instances where she was sometimes taken in as a concubine, but her words were not very good.

Being discriminated against by the original wife, being pointed at by family members, and even having children, it was a reality that it became a seed of conflict.

The reason Lulu couldn’t actively approach Conrad was because she had guessed that such a future would exist.

“… … .”

And Lulu’s sorry attitude was enough to make Delphina’s heart move.

Even if the younger sister couldn’t get involved in her older brother’s romantic partner.

At least as a favored person, I didn’t want her to feel like giving up early for this reason.

Even if they couldn’t actively cheer, it would be possible to give them a very slight push.

“I see. In my family, my father was a commoner, so I never really cared about that, so I didn’t know.”

“Yes? that, right? How is that possible?”

“He said that he had no choice but to be granted a title of nobility and a fief because the credit his father had made in the war 20 years ago had grown so much.

That’s why I’m not sure whether my older brother’s marriage partner is an aristocrat or a commoner, as I’ve never given much thought to it.”

It’s a lie.

For a noble, a marriage partner would be an important card in the management of the estate, so of course, her brother’s marriage partner was also a part she could not help but pay attention to.

Of course, Delphina intended to respect Conrad’s choice as much as possible, but apart from that, it was also true that she was putting it up as a negotiating material that could be used someday.

That’s why, if Lulu was just an ordinary girl who didn’t know where she was going, she would have objected as well.

It was after Delphina’s mind had already calculated that she was not that bad of a marriage partner for her older brother.

It was possible to locate the monster, dismantle the material, and even use poison.

There was no doubt that he was an indispensable talent for the current Perdalos estate.

“So, even if my older brother said that he would marry a commoner woman one day, I don’t think my family would be particularly opposed.

My family tends to respect individual choices rather than family.”

“Yes… Goa… .”

Watching Lulu’s face brighten little by little, Delphina also quietly smiled in her heart.

She would have to find out later what her brother thought of Lulu, but at least Delfina expected her brother to have a crush on her too.

In the first place, he was an older brother who had little relationship with women.

If the first friend he made at the academy was a cute girl like Lulu, then of course he also had feelings of love.

“Ho, I’m just saying that just in case!”

“Yes, please.”

“Ko, do you know anything about Conrad’s favorite ideal type? … Ta, I don’t mean to ask in a particularly strange way, just, tea, for reference… .”

Lulu’s reaction, which is easy to recognize at a glance, even made Delphina, a master of expression management, raise the corners of her mouth.

The moment he tries to answer her question, imagining how Lulu might live with the Perdalos family someday.

“My older brother’s favorite female figure is probably… .”

“What are you doing here, Junior Lulu?”

“… … .”

Delfina stopped what she was trying to say and watched the situation as a new face suddenly appeared and intervened between herself and Lulu.

“draft… .”

“draft?”

“Sian, senior… .”

“yes.”

Looking at Lulu’s expression that looked like she would bite her at any second, Delfina quickly began to comprehend the situation unfolding in front of her eyes.

A beautiful woman with green hair and emerald eyes.

From the long, pointy ears and the aura of her outfit, it was immediately possible to guess that she was an elf from the World Tree Forest.

Since the word senior came out of Lulu, who will soon be in the third grade, it was possible to guess that she was probably a preliminary fourth grader or a graduate.

“Elf… .”

I always heard about it through fairy tales or word of mouth, but it was the first time I actually encountered it.

Delphina forgot face and muttered inadvertently as she gazed at that mysterious figure.

“Have you ever seen an elf?”

“I’m sorry. I made an excuse.”

“it’s okay.”

Xian passed over Delphina’s slip of the tongue without much questioning.

There was a perception that elves were basically arrogant and authoritative, so this attitude of Xian felt fresh to Delphina.

In the first place, among the elves, Xian was the one with the least sense of selectivity, so he went to the academy and accumulated knowledge like this.

“What are you here for?”

“Lulu, who is very shy, seems to be talking to someone for some reason, so I came to take a look because I was interested.”

“Lee Nam. No matter who I talk to or what I don’t.”

“Besides, I heard it at first glance, but it seems that the name of Conrad’s junior is also mentioned, and it bothered me a little to just pass it by.”

“… … .”

“therefore.”

Xian’s body returned to Delphina’s side and her eyes met.

“What kind of relationship do you have with junior Konrad?”

It was a look of strange tension.

In the eyes of Xian facing Delfina, she felt a strange wariness towards her.

First of all, he was quite surprised by the fact that his older brother knew about the elf, and it was a really unexpected situation to even try to figure out that human relationship.

Despite being an elf who doesn’t have much interest in other races, he had to try hard to hide his surprise at the fact that she was interested in her brother.

Delfina, slightly nervous at Xian’s eyes, introduced herself so as not to be rude.

“Hello, Senior Xian. I am Delfina Perdalos, who will be entering the spear club this year as a freshman.”

“… Perdalos?”

“You seem to have a close relationship with my older brother, Konrad Perdalos, is that correct?”

As soon as she introduced Conrad Perdalos as her brother, her eyes changed from wary to friendly.

At the same time, it was the moment when she intuited the chaos.