The storage box where the outer shell of the coil mouse was stored was empty and empty.

Confirming the scene, Lulu was the first to show a puzzled expression.

“What, what? There’s no way it will go away?”

The outer skin of the coil mouse.

It was the skin of the monster that pushed Prince Antonio’s party to the brink of annihilation, so it’s needless to say its hardness.

Contrary to its hardness, it was a ridiculously light material, so it was clear that any collector would covet it.

That’s why Conrad repeatedly emphasized to Lulu that she should keep this material until she comes back and asked for trust.

It was a material that the high-ranking aristocrats who appeared after hearing rumors paid more money for the material or even threatened it by holding on firmly and defending it.

She felt embarrassed that the outer shell of the coil mouse she had cherished and defended had disappeared.

“Oh, no… .”

Even if you put your head inside the locker and look around up and down, left and right.

Even if you search every nook and cranny of the locker by illuminating the inside with a light magic tool.

The vague hope that he hadn’t seen it wrong gradually turned into an uneasy reality and started to change her.

“Chi, calm down. It was just a simple mistake.”

Perhaps someone mistook the archive and moved the material to another archive.

Maybe you’re mistaken for a storage box.

Lulu tried to suppress her uneasy feelings in that way and opened the lock on the other cabinet with trembling hands.

one. And yet another one.

Each time she opened one by one, each time she saw an increasing number of empty storage cabinets, Lulu’s heart burned little by little.

“Please, where did you disappear to… .”

Eventually, when the last storage box was opened and it was confirmed that there was nothing in it.

Her anxious psychological state eventually reached its peak.

“Ahhh… .”

What do we do.

The outer shell of the coil mouse I kept has disappeared, what should I do now?

It was an important mission that Conrad entrusted to me, but I ruined it, so what should I do?

I didn’t have the confidence to face his face when he returned.

Maybe you are blaming yourself for not handling such an easy task properly.

Or is it not that they insist on using a slave contract to compensate for the price of the lost material?

No, probably the Konrad Perdalos she knew wouldn’t act that way.

After giving her a friendly smile as usual, he would rather comfort her feelings together rather than saying, “It could be that way.”

As soon as the obvious future that can be imagined without seeing came to mind, Lulu’s emotions fluctuated even more irregularly.

I thought that he might not have expectations of himself after defining himself as ‘a person who can make mistakes’ in his mind.

Being unable to take responsibility is more burdensome than being accused of being responsible.

I don’t know if someone will ridicule it saying it’s a good idea to sell it, but to Lulu, there was no problem as important as this.

Lulu managed to calm her raging heart and calmly analyze the situation she was in.

Unless the material has legs. There was no way the outer skin of the coil mouse would disappear overnight.

It was the most rational and reasonable judgment that someone stole it without their knowledge.

A person who can go in and out of the decommissioning workshop as he pleases, but who is worthy of attempting a foolish act of recklessly stealing materials.

A reasonable doubt that bloomed in Lulu’s head led her to the 4th grade dormitory.

* * *

“Oh, right. I sold it.”

In response to Lulu’s questioning, who suddenly burst into the dormitory, Gauwell calmly admitted his guilt.

“I beg your pardon?”

“A bitch with big ears can’t understand it right away. what mouse? That material was sold by me.”

As if nothing had happened, he even yawned and mocked Gauwell’s words.

“Kuk-ku.”

“Look at his expression. The dog is crazy.”

And as soon as he heard the ridicule of the other seniors who shared the same dormitory, he immediately understood the situation he was in.

That they deliberately sold the material silently to make themselves in trouble.

“Are you kidding me? I made it clear that the shell of a coil mouse is a material that cannot be sold!”

“Is that so? I don’t remember. Has anyone heard anything like that?”

“What are you talking about? I haven’t heard of anything like that either~?”

“And I already sold it, so what can I do? What a funny bitch, really.”

Voices of mockery directed at oneself can be heard from all over the front.

Her patience was starting to reach its limit.

“Without a sales contract… . On the topic of selling at will… .”

“Ah, the contract is here. I forgot to give it to you because I was so busy. Do you understand?”

A contract for the sale of coil mouse material that Gauwell handed over to her.

It contained the contents of the contract traded at an absurdly low price and a signature that did not appear to be his own at all.

Recognizing at once that it was a forged contract, her expression contorted with anger.

“It’s a fake contract no matter who sees it! Who sells rare materials at such ridiculous prices! And it’s obvious that the signature was done by a completely different person… .”

“Ah, what? How do I know what your signature looks like? I just got a contract and sold it, right?”

“Isn’t the position of general manager originally meant to manage things like that? You don’t know much about parachute greetings, do you?”

“And you can sell the material cheaply~. How can the market price be fixed every day, huh?”

“Oh right. This is the price of material.”

With Gauwell’s mocking tone, the fairy tale bag fell at Lulu’s feet.

At least he sold a material that could have been sold for 30 gold coins if he had sold it properly, for only 50 or so fairy tales.

No, it can’t be.

There must have been some extra money taken from the double deal.

Otherwise, there was no way I could have laughed so leisurely in the current situation where I couldn’t get the dismantling cost.

“Do you think you’ll get over it safely after doing this?”

“What if it doesn’t go over safely? Are you trying to reach the proud young master of the Perdalos family again?”

“Look at how loyal they are to their masters, in case someone isn’t half-animal. Do you think you’ve become a nobleman’s lover because you’ve been beaten a few times by the young master?”

When he heard remarks ridiculing not only himself but also Conrad’s honor, a violent response along with abusive words came out of Lulu’s mouth.

“What the f*ck is that bullshit! What did I do with Conrad!”

“In common sense, if you have a head, there’s no way you’d take a half-assed bitch like you to a party. It’s normal to think that he gave Master Conrad a leg or two.”

“Will it be once or twice? Kuk-kuk.”

“Sounds like shit… !”

“Anyway, after graduating from the academy, this bitch who will be eaten and thrown away doesn’t even understand the topic and keeps climbing up to the seniors.”

“How long do you think that noble boy will protect you? Have you never seen what happens to a commoner who has a crush on an aristocrat in the academy?”

“Anyway, if we are in the same technical field, we will make a living as dismantlers in similar places later, but what are we going to do when we see our faces in society? Calm down, huh?”

“Abandoned by parents and abandoned by a noble boy. If you don’t want to be abandoned by society later and win the triple crown, just quietly take the money and leave.”

The mocking voices from five or six people made Lulu’s heart beat mercilessly.

The follow-up was already good.

I just want to make the snouts of these humans in front of me shut up somehow.

The point at which she fixed the dagger on her left waist and put the memorized note in her right pocket on her fingers.

What made Lulu stop her actions was a sentence that Gauwell muttered with malice.

“A lucky year that goes well.”

Unlike other false speculations or raw criticism, this word quietly penetrated Lulu’s heart.

Because, the fact that she was working with Conrad for an accidental reason was a fact that she also felt keenly.

More than a hundred words of ridicule or ridicule, this one sentence broke Lulu’s heart.

“… … .”

Lulu, who lost the will to fight back with a cold heart, quietly turned her steps and moved out of the 4th grader’s dorm.

He trudged back to his room as he heard the sounds of contempt and laughter echoing through the hallway.

* * *

Lulu’s uneasy feelings and psychology became more extreme as Conrad’s return schedule approached.

I wasn’t sure how to look at his face.

I couldn’t figure out that the material in the storage box was stolen from the subject who was in charge of material management.

In the mission made to overcome shyness, the discord with other students only deepened.

He even thought that his honor would be tarnished together just by going with him.

It would be nice if I could somehow go to the aristocrat who bought the material and get it back, but that person was a high-ranking aristocrat with a position that even Conrad, let alone Lulu, looked down upon.

Atier Chenwerner of the Marquis House of Chenwerner.

There was a difference in status that was wider than the sky and the earth between the Marquis Confucius, who belonged to the pension department, and the commoner Lulu, who belonged to the technology department.

Even if I went in alone to claim a counterfeit contract, I was fortunate enough to come out unharmed.

Lulu moaned hundreds of times in the face of a situation that was already beyond her control.

And every time the future of meeting Conrad and explaining the circumstances approached, I became more and more afraid.

Should I be honest about the situation I went through? Should I apologize for not performing properly?

What kind of answer should he give to forgive himself?

None of that convinced her.

So, deliberately avoiding the opportunity to meet Conrad, I erased the words of apology and excuses in my head several times and rewrote them.

Even though she knew that her actions would make the situation worse, Lulu didn’t have the confidence to face the disappointing look Conrad would show her.

In the meantime, the last words she heard from Gauwell were gradually driving Lulu’s mind in a negative direction.

‘Luckily good year’

A trivial relationship that started when Conrad saved his life in the academy monster attack two years ago.

Now that I think about it, I didn’t even know that I was hanging out with him by attaching meaning to the act that would have been a simple daily routine to him.

Excluding himself, there were countless people whose lives were saved by him, and rather, he was just a commoner orphan among those people.

Maybe it wasn’t me who wasn’t able to figure out the subject of his kindness.

Wouldn’t the ordinary daily life with him, which I had taken for granted until now, was too much happiness for me?

Every time she saw the navy blue bracelet on her left wrist, Lulu thought negatively several times a day.

“Do you know that I am Lulu from the 3rd year of the technical department? … Yes, he is a black cat beastman.”

Hearing his voice searching for her near the Technical Department building, Lulu quietly moved away from him.

She knew in her head that this shouldn’t be the case, but her heart was already in a very unstable state to make a rational decision.

So, if possible, I went into a quiet alley and hid myself to avoid being noticed by him.

As if saying that the back of this dark stage was originally where he should be.