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113 – Isn’t This a Date Course? (Revised)

113 – Isn’t This a Date Course? (Revised)

Opening the door, Helen was indeed standing there.

Helen, who had come to the shop, was dressed a little differently than usual.

Instead of the academy uniform she often wore, she was in a dress.

It wasn’t that she had never come in a dress before, but the dress she was wearing felt a bit more extravagant than the ones she usually wore.

It was adorned with frills and decorations here and there, giving off a sense of putting in a lot of effort.

On top of that, she was wearing a wide-brimmed blue hat decorated with feathers to shield herself from the sunlight.

It was a look that suited Helen’s sparkling silver hair well.

When I came out, she smiled awkwardly and looked at me.

“Ha, haha…”

It was a complete contrast to the sharp expression I usually saw on Helen’s face.

I was always impressed by her eyebrows, which pointed to 11:10 when I first met her.

A haughty and irritable noble lady.

That was the most representative image I had of Helen.

“What do you need?”

“Ah, well, you see.”

Helen hesitated for a moment before slowly opening her mouth.

“There’s a place I want to go, and I’d like you to come with me.”

“Pardon?”

“It’s a bit embarrassing for a woman to go alone.”

“Where is it that you say that?”

Helen’s face turned bright red.

She cleared her throat for a moment, choosing her words carefully.

“I heard that a new cafe opened in the artists’ district recently. I heard that the canapés and Mont Blanc bread they sell there are really delicious. The ladies I go to the academy with brag about it so much. But it’s a bit much to go to such a cafe alone…”

“Why don’t you go with those ladies?”

“…”

Helen pursed her lips tightly.

“Are you not on good terms?”

“I-It’s not that we’re not on good terms! It’s just that I don’t want to go with women who only brag about useless things.”

It seemed like they weren’t on good terms.

And she didn’t seem to want to say it out loud.

It couldn’t be helped.

Given Helen’s personality, she probably didn’t get along well with others.

Even in the illusion, she often looked down on other students.

She even looked down on professors who lacked ability.

For Helen Silvesta, who was like that, the other students who were talking about the dessert shop were probably not people she wanted to keep close.

‘And the nobles who tried to approach Helen for no reason must have been a nuisance.’

The Silvesta family was one of the most powerful families in the empire.

Even if she didn’t take an interest in other students, her family was so powerful that everyone would come to her on their own.

She probably didn’t only hear good things.

Helen was praised as a genius at the academy.

Jealousy from others always follows overwhelmingly intelligent geniuses.

Even if they didn’t show it outwardly, many people probably put up a wall because of Helen’s family and her brilliant grades.

On one side were people who put on fake smiles to win her favor.

On the other side were people who envied her and put up awkward walls.

To survive among them, Helen must have become tougher than anyone else.

‘They say that people in absolute positions are lonely.’

Of course, it didn’t seem like Helen was the type to approach people who were less capable than her in a friendly manner.

“Anyway, it’s not good to go alone, and it’s awkward to only take servants, so you’re the only one who came to mind.”

“Couldn’t you go with Veron Silvesta?”

“H-How can I go to such a place with family! If other students found out I went there, they’d think I was weak.”

Helen shouted.

“They’d see you as affectionate siblings, wouldn’t they?”

“N-No matter what! Brother is busy with the Knights, so he can’t go.”

“…I see.”

I had also heard of the cafe that had opened in the artists’ district.

It was a recently opened cafe that was famous for selling not only coffee but also pretty desserts.

The desserts weren’t just ordinary desserts, but they were designed to perfectly target the aesthetic tastes of noble ladies, so they were incredibly popular.

I knew it was a place where noble ladies went together, or where a noble lady went with a partner.

Suddenly, I thought, isn’t this completely a date course?

That thought popped out of my mouth.

“H-Huh?”

Was it because I was tired?

I accidentally blurted out words that I would have normally kept to myself.

Yesterday, I was dragged to the Knights and spent the whole day with Yuris, and then I spent the whole night inputting the information I felt at that time into the Magic Circle.

I was about to finish the work that had been going on all night and take a rest, but Helen came to visit.

My body and mind, which were exhausted from fatigue, momentarily escaped my control.

“D-Date! I-It’s not like that! I just felt like I was falling behind the trends, so I’m asking you to go with me. I-I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“…I see. I’m sorry. I didn’t get much sleep, so I was talking nonsense.”

A slightly awkward silence followed.

Helen stared at me and asked.

“You have dark circles. Didn’t you sleep at night?”

“Yes, I was working all night.”

I couldn’t bring myself to say why I had stayed up all night.

“Ah…”

The moment she heard my words, a deep disappointment settled on her face.

Only then did I see the effort Helen had put in to dress up and come all the way here.

Just as Helen hadn’t properly seen my tired face, I was only now able to face the effort she had put in to come here.

The extravagant dress and wide-brimmed hat that she would never normally wear, the handbag she was holding, and the makeup that seemed to have been applied with more effort than usual.

I could see the efforts of a genius student who had been working hard to improve herself her whole life to keep up with the trends of the noble ladies.

“…I’ll get ready soon.”

“A-Are you sure you’re okay?”

“I’m fine. I’ve stayed up all night studying several times when I was studying at Magic school.”

“…Okay. I’ll wait.”

“Please come inside. I can’t leave a guest waiting outside.”

“Alright.”

Helen followed me inside.

“T-This is the first time I’ve come in like this. I’ve always come in for other purposes.”

She followed me in with an awkward expression.

“I’ll get ready soon, so please sit down for a moment.”

“Ah, okay.”

Helen, who was sitting in the waiting room where I always had guests sit, fidgeted, not knowing where to look.

First, I should wash up.

‘I’m tired, but I have to try.’

Whatever the reason, I didn’t think it was polite to just send back someone who had dressed up so much to meet me.

We were in a relationship of guest and owner, but even before that, we shouldn’t do that in a relationship between people.

Besides, Helen and I had mixed bodies.

Whatever the reason and process, I knew better than anyone that it was something that couldn’t be easily overlooked.

‘Maybe that’s why Helen dressed up like that.’

So I couldn’t just send Helen, who had come all the way here, away.

Swish.

I sorted out my thoughts while taking a hot shower.

What to do.

After washing up, I put on the Siranda silver glasses that Helen had given me.

And I stood in front of her wearing the most expensive navy suit in my house, which matched the luxurious glasses she had given me and the bakery she had asked me to go to together.

“Are you done?”

Helen, who was waiting for me in the waiting room, looked at me when the door opened.

“Wow…”

She looked at me with her mouth open, as if she was speechless.

“Is there a problem?”

“Ah, no. I-I’m fine.”

“…Your tone has changed again.”

“Ah, sorry. I-I was a little flustered.”

Slurp.

I heard someone swallowing somewhere.

Surely Helen wasn’t doing that?

Helen, who saw Max wearing glasses and a handsome suit, swallowed her saliva without realizing it.

She had never even imagined that he would stand in front of her looking so handsome.

When he put on his glasses, the dark circles under his eyes created a strange sense of decadence.

He looked like a genius professor who was exhausted from research all night.

That appearance was very fatal to Helen.

She was breathless and stared at him blankly for a moment.

So much so that she only realized later that saliva was flowing from her mouth.

Helen needed a lot of determination to come here.

When she first mixed bodies with Max.

When she mixed bodies in reality, not in an illusion.

Helen went home and had a lot of thoughts.

Reproach for herself for not being able to overcome pleasure and being swept away, the pleasant sensation she felt that day, and the shame that swept over her later to the point where it was difficult to look at his face.

She wondered why she did that, but she also felt good and wanted to do it again.

Even when she wanted to see an illusion, she was satisfied by remembering what she had done with Max at that time and masturbating alone.

She wanted to visit him soon, but she had no opportunity to see Max’s face.

-Have you ever been to the newly opened bakery, Miss Silvesta?

Then a good opportunity came to her.

The story of a certain bakery that started to become popular among the young ladies.

Many young ladies visited, and some were said to have visited with their partners.

It was said to be a difficult place to visit, as you had to wait in line for a long time if you didn’t make a reservation.

-Sister, I heard this place is so delicious. Go with your classmates. I heard the young ladies like it so much?

Veron handed Helen a ticket that allowed her to enjoy the bakery without waiting in line.

A good opportunity came for Helen to go to the bakery, and she didn’t want to miss it.

‘If I miss this opportunity, I don’t think I’ll be able to visit again.’

So Helen hurried.

After receiving a ticket that allowed her to visit the bakery without waiting in line, she went straight to Max.

She was in such a hurry that she visited early in the morning, but she didn’t realize that until she had already arrived at Max’s shop.

Max, who was exhausted and haggard.

Max, who asked if this was a date.

Max, who told her to come in.

The sound of him washing up, and then the sight of him neatly dressed in a suit and glasses after washing up.

Helen couldn’t take her eyes off Max.

“Shall we go?”

Helen felt her face burning as she looked at Max’s elegant hand and smile, which perfectly followed the etiquette of the nobility.

“Ah, yes.”

She unconsciously treated Max with respect.

As if she had met a dance partner at a social gathering.

Helen, who was embarrassed, took his hand and left the shop with Max.

The weather was very clear.

Author’s Note

I’m sorry. I mistook the 114th chapter manuscript for the 113th chapter and uploaded it.

Therefore, I will revise the 113th chapter manuscript from now on, and I will additionally upload the 114th chapter that I uploaded earlier.

Thank you.