91. event (1)

Around the time Schmitz and Hannah were enjoying their date.

Arlott, who would normally have spent time in the dormitory-

I was walking around the academy mall by myself.

“Turn it off… It’s still hard.”

Arlott sits in a suitable cafe and bangs his legs.

The wheelchair was nowhere to be found, and he was holding only a thick cane in his hand.

It was because he could walk with the help of a cane thanks to the acupuncture he received during summer vacation and Schmitz’s blood.

“Is it still too much to walk for a long time… ”

Arlott blankly looked around at his wand.

A top-notch staff requested by his father, the Grand Duke of the North.

It was a great item that could improve fatigue, reduce gravity, and be used for magic in case of emergency, but-

Even so, it was difficult for Arlot to walk for more than 30 minutes.

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“I can’t stop here. Let’s try harder… !”

Hitting her own cheek, she burned her will again.

Father, Koyono, Koyono’s teacher and her mother, and…

‘Schmitz… ‘

He inflicted several wounds on Schmitz during his painful and difficult days.

I used pain as an excuse to bully him, and I said hateful things many times.

He comforted me as if he was trying to reassure me that he wasn’t hurt, but… The burden on my heart did not go away.

All you can do is recover your leg as quickly as possible.

It was also what Schmitz was hoping for, and more than anything…

Get out of being sick and needing help… It was the desire to restart the relationship from an equal opposite-sex friend.

‘I’ll try, Schmitz…’ what?’

Was it because he kept thinking of Schmitz in his head?

I caught a glimpse of Schmitz through the window of the cafe.

I wondered if it was an illusion, but when I looked closely, it was really Schmitz.

Schmitz, who appeared in the back alley of a gloomy shopping mall, looked somewhat uneasy.

It’s like constantly looking around, should I say it’s an atmosphere of being chased somewhere?

I don’t know what’s going on, but I wanted to meet and talk.

“Schmitz is also out. Shall we go together after a long time… ?”

Even though I couldn’t walk for a long time yet, I was able to keep walking if I took a little break like now.

It seems that Schmitz also came out to the academy mall on business, so wouldn’t it be nice to go out together, or even go on a date?

… I don’t know if I can hug Schmitz because my leg hurts in the middle.

Arlott spread his embarrassing delusion and shook his head.

His pace was slow, so he had to move before Schmitz went anywhere.

Arlott, who was busily trying to get up from his seat while holding his cane, stopped moving when he saw something.

“Here are two wrappers of blueberry muffins… what?”

Arlott, who was trying to wrap blueberry muffins for Schmitz, was caught off guard.

I couldn’t see who it was because it was hidden in the shadow of the building, but I saw a woman in a dress talking to Schmitz.

I couldn’t even see the scene of making a covenant because I was busy moving.

However, seeing the two of them going somewhere with arms folded affectionately… Arlott witnessed it clearly.

“Will the blueberry packaging be right?”

“…”

“customer?”

“…sorry. Please do something that never happened… ”

Arlott sat back down on the chair as if collapsing.

Arlott’s mind became complicated as he weakly bit the clerk who had packed the muffins.

* * *

“…that’s what happened.”

“I guess that happened.”

A woman who listens to Arlott with a serious expression.

Wearing sportswear with her usual ponytail, she was Torino Koyono.

While exercising, I was about to run to the cafe at once to consult with Arlott.

After tapping the table with her fingers for a while, Koyono opened her mouth.

“What did you do after that?”

“What the heck… I just ran away.”

Koyono’s movements stopped abruptly.

“That, no way!”

“Ugh! Why are you like that?”

Arlott almost spilled his tea when he suddenly banged the table.

As I calmed down my startled heart, Koyono was trembling with her head down…

“If the kinship increases beyond this… ”

“…Miss Koyono?”

“- No, Schmitz-dono shouldn’t end up on a bad road!”

“Yeah, it is.”

… I think I muttered something strange.

Arlot swallowed the momentary question into himself and focused on Koyono’s words.

“It can’t go on like this. Prince Arlott.”

“Then what should I do… ”

“It’s a special move!”

Koyono raises her index finger and speaks passionately.

Looking at the glowing eyes, Arlott thought quietly.

If I had worked with such passion in class, I would not have come to the intermediate class…

“The special number is… It is a dot!”

“…Well, what do you mean by dots…?”

A completely unexpected suggestion made a dumbfounded sound.

I tried to fix it in a hurry, but Koyono didn’t seem to care.

Before long, he put his mouth to Arlott’s ear and whispered something.

After Koyono whispered for a while, Arlott suddenly pushed her away.

“No, that is nonsense! A lot of that… Absolutely impossible.”

“Prince Arlott lacks initiative. That’s why people keep asking Schmitz-Gong… That, it’s not going to overdo it.”

“that’s… Ugh.”

Koyono felt remorse even as she spoke to herself, but managed to hold on.

Arlot now didn’t know that he liked Schmitz.

If that were the case, he wouldn’t have been able to ask for advice like this to himself, who could be said to be a rival.

That’s why Koyono is a little more brazen… I decided to push Arlott’s back.

‘Because a girl is satisfied with being a wife and a concubine… ‘

Koyono did not give up on Schmitz.

Following the old adage of the East, one step back for two steps forward, he decided to help Arlot.

For Koyono, Arlot was both a romantic comrade who loved the same man, and the first same-sex friend she made at the academy.

Despite Koyono’s aggressive dash for conspiracy plans, Arlott was not very reluctant.

“I’ve been causing trouble with my sick care until now, but I don’t want to oppress Schmitz any more… ”

Arlott had a desire to connect with Schmitz, but at the same time he also harbored a sense of guilt for Schmitz.

Schmitz always says it’s okay, but even objectively, Schmitz devoted a lot to Arlot.

It was Arlott who couldn’t possibly say ‘Dedicate yourself more because I love you’ to the person who devoted himself to him.

“It is not up to Prince Arlot to decide whether or not to become a burden.”

“…Yeah?”

“Do you think it’s a nuisance, or do you think it’s something you’re thankful for just being alive… It’s up to Lord Schmitz to decide.”

Koyono’s heavy voice hit Arlott’s ears.

Unlike Arlott, whose guilt over Schmitz’s commitment prevents him from taking active action,

Koyono resolved to get out of the shield that covered her and start an active offensive.

Even if Schmitz had said that he had no intention of dating anyone now…

Koyono will not give up and will continue to wait for Schmitz to look at her.

I had a firm belief that there would be no tree that could not be felled by taking 10 shots.

“Lord Arlot, the judgment of Lord Schmitz is only up to Lord Schmitz. We must do what we can.”

“…Koyono-san, your eyes are scary.”

Of course, Arlott, unaware of this before and after, was afraid of Koyono, who was different from usual.

… Especially if it’s a situation where you’re heating up in someone else’s dating counseling.

Arlott swallowed dry saliva and slowly held Koyono’s hand.

“I see. the operation… Let’s think more about what to do with it.”

“I will do my best to help.”

Arlott and Koyono are so determined.

The conversation between the two of them at the café grew deeper and deeper.

The strategy meeting between the two did not end until the ice on the car had melted.

* * *

“There was nothing out of the ordinary.”

The week after I went on an unintentional date with Hannah.

Hannah and I put on each other’s gloves and started going to school.

It was the same black gloves that Arlott had given her as a birthday present.

He didn’t like covering Hannah’s traces with Arlott’s gift, but

There was no way.

[Schmitz, why are you suddenly wearing gloves?]

[I started wearing it because I didn’t want to just display it in the dormitory. It is equipped with a temperature control function, so it can be used even in summer.]

[Whoops, that’s right.]

… It was hard to bear seeing Arlott’s brightly smiling face.

It was a lie to hide the ring, so it could be said that his conscience was pricked.

Hannah also went to school roughly wearing gloves, but Arlott had no doubts.

‘There are about two big events left.’

One is the ‘episode of the appearance of demons’ that I am constantly on the lookout for.

To be precise, one of the characters in the intermediate class becomes a demon and destroys the academy.

It would happen before the midterms, so it wasn’t strange when it happened.

One left…

“Schmitz, you’re here.”

“miss.”

While walking around the academy, I happened to run into Arlot.

She walks hard with a cane in one hand.

Arlott has been practicing walking with a cane rather than a wheelchair these days.

“Are your legs okay?”

“Yeah, it seems to be getting better. rather than that… ”

As I was pleased to see Arlott’s legs, she slurred.

“It’s my birthday in a minute.”

“We have contacted the North and are preparing for a banquet. Do you have any presents you would like?”

Arlott’s 20th birthday is coming soon.

According to the customs of this world, birthdays are held grandly every five years.

That’s why I contacted the North and was preparing to hold a banquet like five years ago.

“I-I want to spend this birthday just the two of us in a simple way… ”

“…Yeah?”

Arlott muttered something with an excited expression.

In a moment of embarrassment, a half door came out, but I understood her.

‘Maybe what happened five years ago remains as a trauma.’

Reminds me of a terrible birthday five years ago.

When she briefly closed her eyes for a surprise party.

As if something had been the catalyst, Arlott lost both eyes.

“sorry. I couldn’t take care of her. We will cancel the banquet right away.”

“Yes? uh… okay! Do you know that once? I will prepare it.”

I doubted that he was preparing for his birthday, but…

Arlot left only those words and left the seat with his cane diligently.

I don’t know what she’s thinking, but I’ll have to follow her first.

Watching Arlotte’s back as she walked away, I erased the thought of her birthday from my mind.

… Without realizing the consequences of this choice.