81. summer vacation (1)

The story in the interrogation room didn’t take long, so I quickly returned to the academy.

As long as the elf side got into the tail cutting and the case was over,

I just checked to see if the information spit out by the severed tail matched mine.

[For Schmitz students… All I can say is I’m sorry I may be able to take care of something personally, but… ]

[It’s okay, dean. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.]

The dean bowed to me and handed me an apology.

I understand the unavoidable ‘adult circumstances’, so I just let it go.

Besides, according to the stories I’ve heard, their evidence destruction is top-notch.

If we whine to the academy any more than this, it would only be mutually embarrassing.

Of course, I’m not giving up.

All you have to do is find the evidence step by step and put pressure on them.

The dean’s sorry feelings can be used to get the help you really need.

Actually, the real problem was different.

The academy’s lower class classroom that has returned after a long time.

During lunchtime, in a peaceful atmosphere where many stories of students come and go…

There was only silence in the back seat by the window where I was located.

“I, lady… ?”

“…”

“My lady, I have something to tell you. Do you have a good time-”

Along with the noise, Arlott left the classroom with a firm expression.

I wanted to follow him as he led the wheelchair, but I felt like a chimney.

In the morning, the image of the bluff was lingering, so I put my butt back on the chair.

[Did you bring such a dangerous item without telling me?]

[…I brought it to use in case of emergency. The risk of the operation failing was extremely low.]

[Then why did you write the will?]

[that’s… ]

[done. Do not say. I have nothing to say with a liar.]

It was a conversation I had with Arlot when I went to school the next day after the interrogation.

It was my fault for not telling her even though I knew the danger of the item called the Orb of Cold.

I told her it wasn’t dangerous to reassure her, but I was beaten back…

Angry, Arlott avoided me all day.

‘Why did you show me the will… ‘

I get the illusion that Ryan is looking at me with one corner of his mouth slightly raised.

It’s a dark history that poured out all these words because I thought I was really going to die, but I didn’t know that I would spread it to everyone.

It would be better to wait a little while until her anger subsides.

If you can’t wait a day or two… Maybe I should buy something as a gift or put some doggeza on it.

As I was washing my face with a mixed feeling, I could feel the gaze in front of me.

“…Miss Koyono?”

“Yes.”

The woman who sat quietly in the front seat, Torino Kyoyono.

She was secretly glancing at me.

“Could we talk for a moment… ”

As soon as I opened my mouth, Koyono jumped up from her seat and tried to run away.

While Arlott insisted, ‘Don’t talk to me for a while’,

Koyono hasn’t spoken a single word since that incident.

So I grabbed her wrist.

“About what happened that day… And I have something to tell you about what happened in the past.”

“……”

“I would like to talk to you for a moment.”

Koyono kept staring at me, but never met her gaze.

Considering that reaction, I wonder if she also wants to talk to me.

“…Ah, I see.”

With her gaze fixed on the wrist I was holding, Koyono’s eyes twitched slightly.

Fortunately, he accepted my offer to talk.

“Since you have a lot of time, how about taking a walk together?”

“Cow, your hand… ”

“I’ll hold you in case you run away.”

I left the classroom holding her hand.

She hangs her head like a criminal and follows me.

When I saw Koyono, my heart was disturbed as well.

‘Actually, I’m the guilty one… ‘

After all, it was my fault for not telling her even though I knew her identity.

I couldn’t fulfill her innocent wish to meet ‘me’ whom I met in the ordeal history…

Even if Koyono got angry with me or gave me a contemptuous look, I had nothing to say.

‘But let’s listen.’

It’s my fault, so I should accept Koyono’s reprimand for him.

It is a natural logic that says, ‘I made a mistake, so I take responsibility’.

Still, if possible, I’m praying for an amicable end-

I started walking around Koyono and Academy.

* * *

‘What should I do… !’

Koyono kept her head down and looked at the ground as she walked.

I think it’s already been 10 minutes since I started walking around the academy with Schmitz.

My head went white, not knowing what to say.

She couldn’t sleep well after seeing Schmitz’s ‘imprint of flame’.

I barely understood that the person I wanted to see so much was actually very close…

I couldn’t quite figure out what face to face him with and what to talk about.

I wanted to talk to you, but I didn’t know what to say, so I just watched…

“Miss Koyono. I’ve already been circling the same place for the 5th time… ”

“What?!”

Schmitz’s voice broke through the silence.

Koyono was startled and then raised her head,

He realized that he was spinning around the giant fountain in the center of the academy.

“I thought you were starting a diet again.”

“Uh, what… ”

“It’s a joke.”

“Ugh… ”

As usual, his playful jokes were captured in his field of vision.

I wanted to say something, but my mouth wouldn’t come out.

However, a light atmosphere was created, and I was finally able to bring out the questions I had buried in my heart.

“”there… ””

Perhaps Schmitz had the same idea, and the two opened their mouths at the same time.

He smiled shyly and gestured to her to speak first.

Koyono closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths.

He looked at him with serious eyes and opened his mouth.

“A few years ago, you lived in a temple called the Trial Temple… Is there?”

“……”

A story I’ve been wanting to ask ever since the entrance exam.

Schmidt’s expression hardened at Koyono’s question, which he barely showed.

Seeing that expression, she was taken aback.

“That’s right.”

Soon, with a warm smile, Schmitz replied.

That smile gave Koyono even more courage.

“Then the 10th level trial is… ”

“Fortunately, I made it through. The imprint of the flame… You must have seen it, right?”

Koyono nodded as if possessed.

Schmitz appeared to block Sherald’s attack.

A fox-shaped pattern was clearly drawn in the center of his chest.

“For Princess Arlotte to recover from her illness, ‘Imprint of Flame’ was needed.”

“So, the ordeal in a short time… ”

“That’s right. Are all your questions answered?”

Koyono tried to nod again reflexively at Schmitz’s words.

She stopped moving for a moment.

I could tell that the ‘guy’ I met in the ordeal was Schmitz, but…

There are still many things I want to ask Schmitz about.

He also cleared his throat as if he noticed Koyono’s expression.

Schmitz opened his mouth before she could speak.

“The fact that Mr. Koyono was the ‘silent sower’ I saw at the ordeal… I just found out.”

“Yeah, but why didn’t you tell me… ?”

“When Koyono-san was in the ordeal… Didn’t you think like an idol? I didn’t say anything because it seemed to break the illusion. sorry.”

Schmitz bows and apologizes.

Looking at the top of his head, Koyono was lost in thought.

How did he realize that I was the ‘silencer’ of the ordeal?

At that moment, Koyono remembered what she had said to Schmitz in the northern mansion.

[The girl will help the relationship between Lord Arlot and Lord Schmidt, Lord Schmidt… Please find the girl’s ‘guy’.]

[He is… A nobleman whom the girl met when she was in the ordeal. And, the name was also ‘Schmitz’.]

[Find the ‘guy’ you met in the ordeal. I think that way the girl will be able to forget about Schmitz-dono.]

‘ah… ahh… ‘

Feeling her cheeks burning, Koyono covered her face with her hands.

The ordeal’s ‘Schmitz’ and Arlot’s exclusive butler ‘Schmitz’ are the same person.

In such a situation, to say such a thing to Schmitz in a serious way… !

Koyono let out a pained sound and cooled her hot face for a while.

Schmitz, who glanced at him, was clearly at a loss for what to do.

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Just as if he was waiting for her to calm down, he sent a worried look but didn’t make any gestures.

Effortlessly erasing the embarrassing memories of the past, Koyono spoke again.

“I don’t particularly hold grudge against Lord Schmitz. The girl also did not recognize Lord Schmidt… ”

“Thank you for your consideration.”

“just… I want you to know the girl’s heart, her sincerity.”

Koyono smiled and turned her back to Schmitz.

“Today’s unresolved question… It will be solved in the east during summer vacation.”

“Is that the East Coast you were planning to travel to?”

Now that the final exams are over, summer vacation is just around the corner.

It was a situation where everyone had promised to go to Dongbu, Koyono’s hometown, to play together when the vacation approached.

Koyono felt that she couldn’t say everything right now.

‘I haven’t been able to properly organize my mind yet… ‘

I knew Schmitz’s true identity, but I was confused.

It was because he had mixed feelings about ‘Schmitz’, who was Arlot’s exclusive butler, and ‘Schmitz’ whom he met in the ordeal.

Now, even if I convey my feelings to him… It didn’t seem like it was sincere.

That’s why Koyono postponed her time to summer vacation.

“Well then, let’s go first!”

“…thank you.”

Leaving behind Schmitz’s faintly audible thanks,

Koyono hurriedly left the fountain.

The relationship between the three people, who had been at a standstill like that, begins to change little by little starting from summer vacation.