episode_0040

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After ending my date with Assyria, I returned to the Academy with an uneasy feeling rather than a happy one due to an unexpected encounter with Rashia.

How anxious I was, wondering if I would ever meet Russia again…

Fortunately, we didn’t meet again.

Although it is our fate to meet anyway, I would like to postpone meeting Russia as much as possible.

“Hey, you’re here now?”

“Oh. Here.”

When I returned to my room, I saw Raon lying on the bed.

Raon spoke with his chin resting on his hand and his eyes narrowed.

“…..How was your date with the beautiful senior? Was it that good? Did your mouth seem more open than usual? I’m dying, dying. Our cute Jodell?”

The tone of voice is clearly affectionate, but why does the content sound like a complaint?

I looked at Raon as if every word he said had a thorn in it.

Raon was smiling.

Although he was clearly smiling, his eyes were filled with pain.

Well then, that’s right. It was obvious even without looking.

He wanted to become friends with Assyria, but he seemed very angry that I had snatched the opportunity.

“It was just like that.”

“How can you just do that! Being with a beautiful senior… It must have been great. Isn’t it? Even when I asked you to go with me, you didn’t even see me and just walked away…! You traitor!”

“…..That’s not it. Ah, I’m sleepy and tired. I should go to sleep.”

“How was your day? Don’t lie down and talk!”

Raon, who keeps nagging, seemed like a wife nagging her husband who came back from cheating. Is it just me?

I felt like it would never end if things continued like this, so I told him a brief summary of what happened today.

“We just walked around the shopping district, ate, had some tea, and then parted ways. We didn’t do much.”

“…..Really?”

“Oh. Nothing like what you expected happened. We were just hanging out together.”

At my words, Raon shut his chattering mouth.

I thought I could rest now, but Raon, who seemed to be worried, spoke quietly.

“….Then come with me.”

“…what?”

What does that mean?

“I was lonely today without you~ Let’s go out and play together. Okay?”

“….What are you guys doing that’s so disgusting.”

I said it with a blush. I meant it.

Besides, there are so many people going, so why are you making a fuss about going with me?

The protagonist of a harem drama who will live a happy life surrounded by beautiful women in the future…

“This, this, this… You’re a guy who only cares about women! Are you just a guy with a cute face? ”

I was treated as a womanizer by the protagonist of a harem drama.

I looked at Raon as if it was absurd.

Whether it was because I refused or for another reason, Raon turned around as if he was upset and lay down.

Puberty, huh? It’s so hard to adjust. Seriously.

I nodded as if I had finally lost.

“Okay, okay. Let’s go, let’s go. I went with my senior, so let’s go together. Okay?”

“….Okay. Okay. ”

Raon looked at me again at my words and smiled brightly.

You told me all about this place in the webtoon anyway, so why do you want to go with me so badly?

Do you think of me as a love rival?

I wanted to tell you that it was not a trivial worry and that you were the main character, not me, but I couldn’t believe it, so I swallowed what I wanted to say.

‘….Now that I think about it, has your relationship with Lara progressed at all?’

The episode would progress as the relationship between the two progressed and both Rashia and Sola would make their full-fledged appearances… but somehow, the progression felt a bit tangled.

Suddenly, an hourglass came to mind.

I got up from my bed and opened the drawer under my bed.

I put it in here just in case. The hourglass was halfway down.

Wait, what happens when this all goes down? Do we go back to our original timeline?

Hmm, I don’t get it.

I looked at the hourglass. I was so out of it that I didn’t think to look it up until now, but I wondered if there would be a book about this hourglass at a library or something.

Even though it looks like an ancient relic, isn’t there something there?

I put the hourglass back in the drawer.

I think I should go to the library tomorrow.

I slowly closed my eyes, hoping that there would be some clue about the hourglass.

* * *

“Jodel! Let’s duel!”

…..What the heck, why is this kid in someone else’s classroom?

“…..I’m in class.”

Assyria quietly went back. The professor didn’t pay any attention to Assyria.

“Jodel! This time, let’s have a real duel!”

“…..It’s break time. Break time is for resting.”

I shook my head and said to Assyria, who was running towards me naked, as if he was just waiting for a break.

This time too, Assyria seemed to think that what I said made sense and quietly turned around and walked away.

….He won’t come now, right? The sight of him backing up was quite uncomfortable, but since he had rejected me twice, I figured he would be tactful and not come.

but…..

“Jodel! It’s lunch time now! Don’t run away, duel!”

ha….

I couldn’t hold back the sigh that was welling up in me.

“….You have to eat! Don’t you know how to eat, how to eat? Don’t you have any classes, senior? Stop coming! I told you I’ll do it later! What time is it now?”

Eventually I had no choice but to raise my voice.

Assyria, not knowing why I was angry, shouted at me in a counter-argument.

“Later when! Tell me the exact date. Jodell!”

“…So later!”

I’m so bored, really.

I said I would leave quietly without mentioning the duel yesterday, but it seems like I had planned this from the beginning.

Asiraa came to visit me with utmost sincerity, starting from class time, through break time, and even lunch time.

Even Laon, who had a crush on Assyria, shook his head and chattered his teeth as if he was sick of this behavior.

“Then let’s eat together and fight.”

We’re not communicating….

I turned my gaze away from Assyria and spoke to Raon.

“Ha…. Raon, let’s go eat.”

“Yeah.”

Let’s ignore it. Ignore it… It’ll go away.

“Take me too!”

I walked on, ignoring Assyria. Raon also followed me calmly.

Assyria followed me quickly as if not wanting to let me go.

All the children’s eyes were focused on us.

I was clearly trying to be an ordinary extra, but why on earth do the main characters get tangled up like this? This isn’t good…

“Huh?”

I stopped walking ahead and quickly looked around.

“Huh? What’s wrong, Jodel?”

“What’s going on?”

‘…..to live. Was that what you just said to live?’

Who is it? Whose life is it?

There were no children around except for those talking and chattering among themselves and those watching and looking in this direction.

It was a murder that passed by in the blink of an eye, so I don’t know who the culprit is.

Am I mistaken? No. I couldn’t have been mistaken about my life. It was too vivid to be a mistake.

“Why is that? Are you sick somewhere?”

“Want to go from the health room, Jodel?”

“…..No. It’s okay. I thought someone was calling, but I guess I misheard. Let’s go.”

I walked ahead again.

To find the culprit who gave me a murderous feeling while making my senses sharper than usual.

* * *

“Sigh, fuck….”

Hans, a plain-looking brown-haired man with freckles on his cheeks who came running down the stairs roughly and panting, gritted his teeth as he recalled Assyria, who had been chatting affectionately with Jodell earlier.

His idol and first love at first sight.

When he was struggling with the bad gangsters in the village, Assyria appeared and saved him like an apostle of justice.

From then on, Hans fell in love with Assyria at first sight.

In order to become close to her, I walked around the training room without any interest in swords, brought her a lot of food, and pretended to be close to her…

The girl who would always be on guard and ask who I was whenever I approached her, but now she goes up to that guy who looks like a parasite and pretends to know him, and even goes out to eat with him…

What’s so good about that guy!

Hans couldn’t understand it at all.

‘….Never leave me alone. Never.’

Is there any way to get that kid away from Assyria?

How Assyria will be sick of that bastard…

It was at that moment. Something fell on my head… I grabbed my head and looked around wondering what it was, but there was no one around.

“What is this…?”

At that moment, a white business card caught my eye on the floor.

I was curious to know what it was, so I looked inside and saw that it said there was a number to request an assassination and that it would help with efficient assassinations.

Is this a business card? No, but it’s still an assassination…

Hans didn’t like Jodel monopolizing Assyria’s attention, but he didn’t think assassination was the right way to go, so he crumpled up the business card and threw it on the floor.

The moment Hans was about to start walking again, his steps stopped.

My gaze kept looking down.

Yeah, just in case, let’s take it with us. It’s okay to just have it.

Hans rationalized in his mind, crumpled up the business card, put it in his pocket, and quickly ran away after making sure no one was around.

“Heh heh~”

Hans never noticed that Rasia, who had been hiding while keeping her mouth shut, was looking at him with an expression that seemed to be dying of amusement.