92. event (2)

The academy’s training ground as usual.

Me and Ryan exchanged air and defense without hesitation, sharing sums,

The exchange of attacks, which seemed to continue incessantly, ended with me stepping back.

“Huh, then, as promised, we’ll end here today.”

“… Just do a little more and go. He couldn’t even sweat properly.”

Ryan looked at me with eyes that said something was missing.

Even though I laughed at her whining differently than usual…

I was giving the best of my time, so I couldn’t concede any more.

“Didn’t I tell you? Today is an important day.”

“only once… Let’s do one more three-minute sparring, huh?”

“sorry. I also have to go to the dormitory and wash up… ”

He bowed his head and politely declined her request.

“Anyway, I have a lot of spare clothes… ”

“… ”

I heard something mumbling, but I tried to ignore it.

Silently packing my bag and adjusting my clothes, I headed straight for the gymnasium.

“Is it your birthday today?”

“That’s right.”

“Princess, I’ll take good care of you.”

She tapped her shoulder and gave a big smile.

* * *

After taking a quick shower, I changed my clothes.

If it was originally, I would have spent some time rolling around in bed wearing comfortable clothes, but-

Today was Arlott’s birthday, so I couldn’t.

‘It’s nice to have a birthday party… ‘

Arlott refused even a big banquet or a birthday party with friends.

It’s not understandable if the trauma of your 15th birthday still lingers.

I just couldn’t care less about the message she left me.

[Come to my room in the dormitory by 8pm today. Understand? Should I come empty-handed?]

It was a request she left me before school ended.

I was a bit skeptical about having to come empty-handed, but…

The most puzzled part was the request to come secretly to the dormitory in the evening.

‘It’s not difficult to sneak in. but-‘

Since he had been trained as an assassin, infiltration itself was not a big problem.

Even before, I had been visiting Arlott’s room for reasons such as vampirism.

The problem was that she had never personally invited me, and it bothered me that she had called me late in the evening.

“There’s no point in worrying like this.”

I tidied up my clothes and went out through the window.

After performing covert maneuvers by moving between nearby trees, they easily arrived at the women’s dormitory.

Anyway, since Arlott ordered me directly, if there was no reason to refuse, I had to obey, so I just moved.

In an instant, I arrived at Arlot’s room and knocked on the window.

“My lady, are you there?”

“Yes. come in.”

Arlott came right away and opened the window.

But when I opened the window, strange smoke came out from inside.

“…”

“Shu, Schmitz. come in quickly It’s cold outside.”

“all right.”

At her urging, I entered the room reluctantly.

The room he entered cautiously had a completely different atmosphere than usual.

‘What is this… ‘

Mysterious smoke spread throughout the room, but it seemed to be scented candles with a sweet, odd scent.

All lights are off.

Only the light bed lamp remained, so it was completely dark.

There was expensive-looking wine and two wine glasses on the table…

In fact, Arlott’s appearance was the most shocking than all of this.

“Hey, princess… Those clothes… ”

“I wore it because it was a special day… Rice, is it not good?”

Arlott was sitting on the bed, looking up at me.

It’s a completely different look than before.

How was she dressed in the dormitory before?

It was a cute, fluffy fur pajama that was often worn in the North, with no exposure whatsoever.

However, now she seems to be almost completely transparent… She was wearing a see-through dress.

Thanks to that, I couldn’t see her properly.

“It’s not like that. Haona… ”

“Once, that… Sit down without saying anything.”

“…”

“Didn’t you decide to send it along? Running away like this… ”

As she tugged at my collar, I eventually sat down in a guest chair.

The image of Arlott sitting on the bed and pouring wine.

I felt a sense of separation from the usual in the alluring and alluring appearance.

I quietly put my hand on the chest of my suit.

‘…Let’s stay calm.’

A room with slightly wet hair and a dreamy, strange atmosphere.

The appearance of Arlott where you can feel the gap difference…

I didn’t want to be conscious of all this, but my heart was beating wildly before I knew it.

“Us… Shall we salt it?”

“…”

I quietly clinked glasses with her.

As I watched the wine spill over the glass, Arlott swallowed it in one breath.

“miss… !”

“Puha… Ugh, the alcohol is a bit high after all… ”

Arlott emptied his entire glass of wine before he had time to dry it.

She obviously… I was extremely weak to alcohol.

Arlott’s face, barely visible in the taillight, began to blush noticeably.

“Schmitz, hurry up and drink… ”

“My lady, why are you suddenly like that? It’s not like a lady… ”

A student of the same age, a dorm room with no one in it, strong wine, dark lighting and a strange scent.

Since Arlott is already drunk, if I get drunk too… It was obvious what would happen.

So I had no choice but to put my wine glass down and break the atmosphere.

“I just wanted to celebrate with you… ”

“Still, I’m alone with a man outside of me… Having a party like this… ”

“…is it too burdensome?”

Stunned by Arlotte’s words, I shrugged my shoulders.

It wasn’t that she didn’t like it or anything.

Exactly, it was closer to my side of the problem.

‘What should I do at a time like this… ?’

I was an adult male with good limbs, but I had never had a relationship with a woman in my previous life or in my present life.

There was no manual on how to respond to Arlott’s sudden change.

So let’s roll our eyes and work hard to come up with countermeasures.

Perhaps interpreting my silence differently, Arlott looked into the distance and shook his head.

“Because I’m poor compared to my peers… Even if you dress like this, you will not be attractive.”

Arlott’s words were spat out as if lamenting.

With that one word, her gaze went away to the body she had been trying not to see.

In conclusion, what she said was wrong.

Her body, which was exposed at first glance with naked clothes, was smooth without a single flab.

Even in the community, there was a history of being loved by many people, saying that he had a ‘slender’ body type.

‘In the past, I was definitely slower than my peers.’

In my early teens, my growth was seriously slow, making me look a year or two younger than my peers.

After the disease progressed, he ate well, so he was not noticeably different from other people.

… Apparently, she was expressing her dissatisfaction with her chest and pelvis and other femininity.

“…hehehe, aren’t you looking too hard?”

“Kuhm… ”

Oops, I thought for a long time without knowing it.

When I cleared my throat and looked away, Arlott looked at me with the corners of his mouth raised.

I was embarrassed and didn’t say anything, so she suddenly got up from her seat and opened the curtains.

Arlott’s dormitory room was on a high floor, so I could see the starlight clearly through the window.

She leaned against the window in silence and looked up at the stars.

“You know Schmitz. That I wanted to die because of the disease.”

“…”

It was heavy content for a face that seemed to be talking about something insignificant.

At her words, I quietly recalled painful memories from the past.

The time that made her lose an eye because she couldn’t move, afraid of the possibility of failure.

[me… kill me Us… We’re friends, aren’t we?]

[please… please… please… Whoa… Shu, Mitsu… … ]

Even now, when I think of that time, my heart aches.

Arlott, who considers me a friend, wanted to end his painful life as a friend.

I was able to come to my senses after I had turned away from Arlott’s pain.

“Schmitz brought me out of the painful days that I let go of my life.”

Her gaze turned from the starlight to me.

Those eyes shone brighter than the stars.

“You don’t have to be sick anymore. I can see ahead again. Coming to the academy, making friends, going to cafes… I can live like normal children of my age. … And I can walk like this.”

Her sincerity, which she speaks calmly, one by one.

Arlott slowly approached me with a cane, staggering, but with a bold step.

Her hand wrapped around my cheek.

The feeling of that hand was still cold, but her heart in it was warmer than anyone else’s.

“So this birthday, I wanted to celebrate the new life Schmitz has given me. Because I was able to be reborn into a normal life thanks to Schmitz, so… ”

“miss… ?”

Her legs came up on my lap.

Her face came closer and her breath touched my nose.

Embarrassed, I tried to step back, but the hands that had already wrapped around my cheeks wrapped around my back before I knew it—

“Go, you can’t buy a princess’s love with money?”

Arlott sat on top of me and gave a bashful smile.