52 – Finn and Lily (3)

phut! phut! phut!

Whenever I recalled the memory, the sound of the kicking of a girl who couldn’t bear the shame and hitting the innocent bed resonated in the antique yet brilliant golden room.

‘Crazy, crazy…! How the hell did you do that so that you could look at your pinned face starting tomorrow, Lilysiana Ekaterina…!’

“May I ask what the reason you’ve been taking out your anger on a childish bed a while ago? Her Highness the Princess.”

The girl’s handmaid, Marianne Flonet, asked the girl with her usual sullen face and low-pitched voice.

Marianne, who had heard the news that the finals of the tournament would surely be held, could fully guess that the girl had easily won the victory when she saw the girl who returned early without even a speck of dirt on her. He couldn’t understand why he was doing something wrong.

“Kyaaa!!!”

As if she had no intention of answering Marianne’s questions, the girl continued to bully the bed.

Marianne feared that if she left the girl’s behavior unattended, a hole would be pierced in the bed that would cost even the aristocrat herself, so she spoke of the few possibilities she could think of.

“…Is it because of that knight named Finn?”

Originally, there would be no need to use honorifics for commoners, but this is an academy that judges the value of people based on their own individual standards.

Besides, since you can’t call someone who behaves in the same party as the host girl, Marianne gave the boy a respectful title even though he was a commoner.

flinch. The girl who stopped moving as if she had been stabbed in the middle of the day, and Marianne made a face that she knew roughly what had happened.

Then, the girl’s shaking eyes turned to Marianne, and Marianne asked again.

“What the hell happened with that knight, so…”

“I kissed Finn… No, I kissed Finn…”

dreamy dreamy.

As if not recognizing the voice transmitted through her eardrums, Marianne just stood there and stared blankly at the girl.

Then, astonished at Marianne’s stiff expression, she asked in a voice that could not hide her agitation.

“I-is what I heard true? Her Highness…the princess kissed you? That…to the knight?”

The girl shakes her head with her eyes full of anxiety.

Marianne clutched her aching head and began to think.

Why would a princess, that arrogant princess, kiss a commoner man?

It was a result that could never have been derived with the information Marianne had, so she tilted her head.

Who is the author of that pin? Originally using the name Berry, wasn’t he the one who babbled at the princess, who was single-minded with her fiancé, without even knowing the subject?

At least, I heard rumors that the princess had been saved from this commotion and the demon had been defeated, and the princess, who woke up in the healing room, hurriedly started looking for the pin, so it was known that the relationship had improved to some extent, but the relationship had progressed to this extent. I never even imagined that it would be.

‘Well… I’ve heard that he was an attendant who worked in the imperial palace before… but is that related?’

According to the academy regulations, even though Marianne was the only one who got the right to enter the academy by following the girl, the information she could obtain was very limited, so Marianne had no choice but to wrap her head around it.

One of the reasons for not knowing the details of the girl’s past was that Marianne was a noblewoman who had just been appointed as the girl’s maid.

As a girl who thought the boy was dead.

Of course, she couldn’t be around the young ladies who had encouraged her in the past, so Marianne Flonet, who was not a commoner but had never had a relationship with a girl before, was appointed as an exclusive handmaid at the academy.

I didn’t choose a commoner this time because I wanted to remember only boys.

Marianne Flonet. The reason for choosing her was because of the academy’s rules for accompanying students.

First. The age difference between academy students and their companions is limited to 7 years or less.

second. Only two people, including yourself, can register for free access to the academy.

third. Companions can only help with the convenience of the academy students’ lives, and no help with class-related items is allowed.

fourth. It is not allowed to change companions midway or to newly register unspecified companions. In other words, if a companion dies in an unexpected accident, it is impossible to bring a new companion.

In addition to this, there were many detailed regulations such as magic registration, companion’s living place, and radius of action, and among the ladies who met all the conditions, Marianne Flonet was the most outstanding, so she could be appointed as the girl’s exclusive maid.

“If you’re telling me about it now… you’re probably worried about something about it, right?”

The girl silently nodded once again.

In response, Marianne spoke with the thought that, for the first time in her life, she could do something worthy of the princess’ lady-in-waiting.

“Tell me anything. The only light of the Empire.”

* * * *

Every time I take a step, I feel people’s eyes following me.

It was a movement of gaze that I had experienced once, but now the reason was quite different from him, so I scratched my cheek trying to erase the awkwardness.

“When on earth will a prosthetic eye be made…”

The fingertips that had been scratching the cheek touched the eyepatch, which was still taking the place of the prosthetic eye, and it made me so nervous.

It was not enough that rumors had spread throughout the academy that the princess of that empire had given up her fiancé and chose a commoner as her mate due to the previous incident.

I was the only swordsman walking around wearing an eyepatch in the fencing department area, so I couldn’t stop gathering people’s eyes.

But is it because of the fact that Ian, who entered the tournament as the co-chief, was defeated in one shot?

It wasn’t too difficult for the guys from the same Faculty of Swords to anticipate that my senses were beyond those of humans, so unlike when I passed the main building, I didn’t hear a whisper.

However, the instinct of curiosity was not able to overcome, and even the glancing eyes could not be erased.

“Huh? Berry…! Good morning!”

As soon as Ian, our protagonist who is still a nice guy, spotted me from afar, I saw him waving his hand and running towards me.

Still, if he was the head of the academy, he would have hurt his pride at the fact that he lost in just one match, but that guy approached me with a smile on his face and said what was so good about it.

“You really became a popular person at the academy overnight… So how about it? How do you feel about taking over the heart of Her Highness, who was rumored to be like an ice field?”

“Are you kidding me right now? A person gave me at least one access right to the treasure chest… This is trying to wipe his mouth and repay the favor with an enemy.”

Yes, I actually knew why this guy was so sloppy. It was suggested by me first as an apology for breaking Ian’s sword, and now that Ian had defeated Bifrons, there was no doubt that Ian would definitely need that Durandal.

However, I treated Ian with a bit of annoyance when he asked without notice even though he could see in his eyes a look like a hukou without even a trace of pride, and an image of myself tired of the rushing gazes regardless of age or gender.

Then, Ian, who looked at me, turned his eyes toward the sky and seemed to be thinking of something.

“Ahaha…That’s not it, Her Highness the Princess seemed very happy from then on… I thought you weren’t always like that. Is this what it is? ?”

“…Let’s do it anyway, Ian. And, apart from the issue of happiness, what I’m worried about is the issue of whether the princess will gossip about people for no reason.”

“Ah…Come to think of it, Her Highness had a fiancé…?”

Ian blurted out the end of his words as if he knew only then.

It was impossible to explain me and Lily’s circumstances to people one by one, so our relationship now looks like me and Lily and Lily’s fiancé (me). It has become a love triangle.

There is practically no problem, but in this situation, who is going to gossip the most? Me who seduced someone who had an owner? A fiancé whose identity is unknown to anyone but the parties involved?

Of course, there was no doubt that it was Lily who was the most famous of the three, but who had a reputation and power to be discredited.

Moreover, it was a bigger problem that people who did not know the context could see that Lily had confessed to me and kissed me.

The princess, who had never opened her heart to anyone, saying she would keep her fidelity to her fiancé, suddenly abandons her fiancé and moves on to a new man.

Is there any other delicious thing to enjoy for people called humans who just like to spread gossip about others?

So, for the time being, it was the relationship between the servant who was an attendant and the princess who tried to maintain even the appearance, and the relationship between a commoner who swore to become a knight in the future and the princess who would become its owner.

However, our princess, sadly or happily, didn’t notice my consideration and loved me so much that she suddenly kissed my confession right in the middle of the arena where everyone was watching.

Thanks to that, I had no choice but to always pay close attention to my actions so that Lily’s gossip wouldn’t grow any further.