I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 57. What Must Be Accepted

Adapting to change is more difficult than one might think. Especially when everything you knew has been turned upside down.

How much time had passed since Dane left? The uneventful days continued.

I wake up in the morning on an empty stomach and lightly circulate my internal energy, solidifying the depth of my abilities.

Then, I have a simple meal. Following that, I carefully cleanse my body and mind.

In that state, I circulate my internal energy once more, accelerating the flow of my neatly refined power to stimulate my body with Exalted Acceleration.

Once that was finished, the preparations for the day, which had begun in the early morning, were complete.

After that, if I meticulously put on my academy uniform and went out, it could truly be called a perfect start.

Finally, I would exit the forest and meet Han Doyun and Thrud, then safely attend the academy. That was enough to predict the day’s fortune.

That’s how routine my daily life had become.

But today, something was off.

Elsie Adorencia opened her eyes, bathed in the morning sunlight streaming through the clerestory.

It wasn’t like usual.

That was the first thought Elsie had as soon as she opened her eyes.

She didn’t know why, but she felt uneasy.

Feeling a little impatient with the inexplicable anxiety, Elsie got up and looked around.

“What is it…?”

It was her usual room. The same somewhat desolate room scenery as before she went to sleep, with nothing changed.

‘I don’t like it.’

Was it because she didn’t wake up refreshed? She didn’t like the plain interior of the desolate-looking room for no reason.

“What am I doing right now… Let’s get a grip.”

Realizing that she was strangely prickly, Elsie spoke out loud and patted her face with her hands.

Even if her awakening was a little different from usual, nothing particularly changed.

As always, she got up to circulate her energy as a warm-up.

She stretched leisurely and clenched and unclenched her hands, checking her physical condition.

There was nothing particularly wrong with her body, except that her chest felt a little more stuffy than usual.

‘I thought it was a problem with my condition, but was it just my imagination?’

The question was fleeting. Elsie soon closed her eyes and began to circulate her energy.

…

Thud!

Sitting on the sofa, Elsie ran her hands through her hair as if she felt stifled.

“Ugh…”

To put it bluntly, everything about this morning’s preparation time was the worst.

The unknown anxiety and impatience that had been subtly bothering her since she woke up.

Because of that, her concentration was impaired, and she couldn’t circulate her energy properly.

Despite that, her appetite was unusually good, and she filled her stomach heartily.

And now she had come to this.

It became clear when she put on her clothes properly.

Her chest felt more stuffy than usual.

Elsie, neatly dressed in her academy uniform, couldn’t shake this dissatisfaction.

She sighed deeply and went outside.

“Annoying…”

She staggered out of the forest.

Thus began Elsie’s strange day.

Elsie reached the intersection where the unpaved forest path ended and entered the street.

Spotting Han Doyun waving at her from afar, Elsie cautiously waved back.

“Hi, Elsie.”

“Hi…”

Doyun, who had keenly noticed Elsie’s unusual change, stared at her silently.

“Are you sick? You don’t seem to have any energy.”

“No, I just… I don’t know.”

She was subtly different from the usual Elsie.

It wasn’t certain, but it felt like she was worried about something.

Doyun, with his sharp eyes, watched Elsie, who was senselessly combing her long silver hair with her fingers.

Her vibrant white skin, and her blue eyes beneath her long eyelashes, were shaking restlessly as if she was a little uneasy.

Going down her straight nose, she was letting out a thin sigh from her beautifully parted, plump lips.

Doyun, momentarily captivated by her ethereal beauty, lowered his gaze as if possessed.

His concentration was at its peak.

His innate superhuman eyesight increased its precision even further at this moment.

Going down Elsie’s slender neck, there it was. He was captivated by the allure emanating from the firm, swollen breasts.

The beautiful curves that stimulated the instincts of men, including him, were nearly impossible to resist.

The outline of her bulging chest, precariously concealed by her clothes, swayed precariously each time Elsie took a step.

‘Somehow, it’s more than usual today… Is it just my imagination…? No way…’

Lowering his gaze, which had lingered there for a while, he saw her well-proportioned body, with its slender waist leading to her long, straight legs.

Elsie was subtly concerned about her relatively short height.

But it was a fantastic proportion that didn’t matter at all.

Perhaps sensing Doyun’s persistent gaze, Elsie frowned, placing her hand on her chest.

Doyun gasped at Elsie’s unusually prickly appearance.

“…What are you doing?”

“No… Sorry.”

“What are you talking about? What do you have to be sorry for?”

Elsie, tilting her eyebrows and looking up at Doyun, sighed.

“It’s not your fault that I’m feeling strange today.”

It was a really strange day since morning. Elsie, feeling stifled by emotions that were unlike her usual self, shook her head lightly.

As Elsie, with a prickly expression lost in thought, walked with her long silver hair swaying, the gazes of people walking down the street gathered one by one.

However, unlike usual, Elsie didn’t pay attention to those gazes.

Completely absorbed in her own problems, she only continued to be aware of the unknown anxiety and discomfort.

‘This is no ordinary matter!’

Elsie wasn’t aware of the gazes gathering. She wasn’t even giving them a glance, let alone showing any signs of embarrassment.

Doyun, who knew the usual Elsie well, was convinced that her condition was not normal today.

She seemed to be in a bad mood from the start, so was she sick somewhere after all?

Doyun’s worries were passed on to Thrud, whom he met shortly after.

“Elsie? What’s wrong?”

Her golden eyes stared silently at Elsie.

“I just feel a little strange… Ugh, it’s hard to explain… I should say I feel uneasy about something…? And my chest feels stuffy.”

Elsie explained with a complicated expression, as if she didn’t know herself.

Thrud, who had been quietly watching her, slowly hugged Elsie.

“Ugh…”

Even with Thrud’s surprise hug, Elsie’s reaction was more lukewarm than usual.

She was clearly embarrassed and showing resistance, but it seemed like she didn’t have any energy.

“Why is our sweetie like this today?”

Thrud, who was muttering quietly while hugging Elsie, turned her head and glared at Doyun.

Feeling pressured by her sharp eyes, Doyun waved his hands and denied it.

“Elsie was like that since I met her! I didn’t do anything…”

He had been glancing at Elsie a little obsessively, but that was something he always did, so it was unrelated to this incident.

Doyun was sure of it.

“Elsie, are you really okay?”

“…Let go for now. My chest feels stuffy. It hurts.”

Elsie pushed Thrud away while answering vaguely.

Then, Thrud grabbed Elsie’s shoulders and began to examine her closely.

“Elsie, don’t tell me…! Did you grow?”

“What are you talking about.”

“It’s a little more than usual… I can’t tell just by looking.”

Elsie, blushing at the sight of Thrud staring intently at her chest, tried to back away hesitantly.

But she couldn’t escape because her shoulders were being held.

“Why, why are you doing this!”

Was the unknown anxiety she felt right after waking up a premonition of Thrud’s strange behavior?

Elsie, who had become somewhat sensitive, was wary of Thrud’s sudden actions.

But Thrud’s actions exceeded Elsie’s expectations.

She slid her hands, which had been holding her shoulders, down and grabbed Elsie’s chest with both hands.

“?!?!”

Perhaps it wasn’t her emotions that were sensitive, but her chest.

Elsie, stimulated by Thrud’s light squeeze, let out an uncontrollable scream.

“Hyaaak!!!”

Elsie, feeling a slight tingling pain as if she was being poked, was startled and jumped up, covering her chest with her arms.

“Wh, what are you doing! Do you want to be beaten to a pulp?”

“I didn’t squeeze very hard…”

Thrud, wiggling her fingers and checking the sensation she had briefly grasped, trailed off.

Then, she stared silently at Elsie, who was panting and arguing.

“Why, why again…”

“Elsie. Didn’t it feel a little tight when you put on your clothes? Your bra size-”

“D, don’t ask. Don’t try to check… Please.”

“It looked a little tight from the start. I can tell now that I touched it.”

“How can you tell just by looking and touching it! It’s just… I must have gained weight.”

Thrud wiggled her fingers like an octopus and stared intently at Elsie. The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and it was obvious that she was teasing her.

“How much have I been with you until now? With my extrasensory perception, I can quickly notice such minor changes-”

“Don’t notice something that I don’t even know!”

Elsie stomped her feet and got angry. Then, she turned her head and looked up at Doyun.

“What does it look like to you?!”

“M, me…?”

As Doyun, who was suddenly pointed out, hesitated, Thrud poked Elsie in the waist.

“Elsie! How can you ask Doyun that? It’s embarrassing for him to answer…”

“What’s embarrassing about it? You touched me!”

“Elsie is so prickly today…”

“You’re always like this when you suddenly do that, right?”

“…Anyway, you shouldn’t ask a boy something like that!”

He had been keeping quiet because it was difficult to join in the girls’ secret conversation, but what was going on all of a sudden?

Doyun stared at Elsie, who was looking up at him with a prickly expression, with her hands on her waist.

She was cute.

Elsie was the first person whose charm changed from moment to moment depending on her tone, expression, and actions.

“Cute-”

So, he almost said “cute” to Elsie’s question without thinking, but he covered his mouth and widened his eyes.

“Cute… What?”

Elsie tilted her head, and Thrud’s eyes narrowed.

“Cu…te, why are you asking such a bothersome thing…”

“Hmph. I hate to admit it, but you have the best eye among us, right?”

Even so, how could she ask a boy how her chest was? She had too little sense of distance or caution.

‘Thrud’s common sense education has failed.’

Doyun shook his head and focused on Elsie, trying not to be too obvious.

‘Even if she suddenly asks how it is…’

He had been glancing at Elsie whenever he had the chance until Thrud joined them, so his answer was obvious.

If he had to answer creatively, it would be something like, ‘I never get tired of looking at you.’

Of course, if he really said that in front of the person’s chest, he would become a piece of trash who shamelessly harassed her, so he needed to refrain from doing so.

So, Doyun told Elsie his honest impressions of her chest armor, what he had seen and felt.

“Definitely.”

“Definitely?”

“It got bigger.”

Superhuman eyes that read information. The physical changes in Elsie that it guaranteed were certain.

“Keuk…”

Elsie lowered her head at Doyun’s cruel words, which spoke the truth.

It was just a coincidence that one of the top buttons on her chest, which had been tightly fastened, came off and fell.

Was this why?

Was this why nothing had been going right since this morning?

Even if she lowered her head, she couldn’t see her instep, and her chest was taking up half of her vision.

Accepting and acknowledging reality was not easy even after time had passed.

She was Elsie. Not as a player manipulating a character, but as Elsie in the literal sense.

A girl with beautiful features.

Elsie Adorencia.

It had already been several weeks, but it seemed that her heart had not accepted and acknowledged the truth, but had only been running away.

Elsie, who had become rapidly depressed, raised her head with a slightly tearful face.

And before Thrud and Doyun could reach out in panic, she deployed her skill.

Exalted Acceleration.

Baat-!

Elsie’s figure disappeared.

And exactly 2 seconds.

The moment the time limit of Exalted Acceleration ended, Elsie, who had appeared flickering in the distance, began to run away with her arms around her chest.

“E, Elsie!”

“Wait!”

Doyun and Thrud, who had been spacing out for a moment, hurriedly chased after Elsie.

“Don’t follow me! You stupid idiots!”

“How can we not go when the academy is in that direction!”

“Ugh…! I don’t know!”

Thrud glared at Doyun at Elsie’s prickly appearance.

“Elsie got sulky because you answered too openly!”

“Oh… Um…”

“Why is Elsie so prickly today… Su, surely…”

Thrud, who had guessed something, began to accelerate even more.

“Wh, what is it?”

At Doyun’s questioning, Thrud made a complicated expression and turned her head away from his gaze.

“Th, there is such a thing!”

“No, you have to finish your sentence-”

Paang!

Thrud, who had made a leap close to flying with her tremendous physical abilities, fell on Elsie, who was fleeing (going to school) to the academy.

At that, Doyun also quickly chased after the two with the moment of acceleration he had seen and referred to in Fenrir.

The guards who were passing by watched the three people going to school with all their might with admiration.

“The students these days are amazing.”

“Hehe, they’re diligent.”