I Became the Academy’s Female Delinquent Chapter 74. Nóatún (6)

A cloud of dust swirled in the dark, damp space.

The man, who had been peering at the light seeping in through the bars, spat out a curse.

“Damn it! Damn it!”

Rigar, the supervisor of the Eastern Gate, was imprisoned.

This temporary detention might not last long, but it was clear as day that he would be standing trial if any more of his misdeeds came to light.

“Hymir…! If that bastard hadn’t shown up, I’d be…!”

Rigar gnashed his teeth.

What was wrong with extorting money unfairly?

What was wrong with coveting a beautiful woman he had his eye on?

‘I have the status and power to be forgiven for all of that! So why!’

The ugly rage burning within him did not subside.

He didn’t seem to possess even a speck of morality to judge what he had done wrong.

“It’s, it’s that girl’s fault! It’s all that girl’s fault! If only that bitch hadn’t seduced me…!”

He thought of the silver-haired girl from the academy who had aroused him.

“That seductive bitch! I won’t let her get away with this! I’ll crush her and break her…!”

Rigar’s mind, so twisted that he couldn’t even make rational judgments, was completely warped.

Hymir’s granddaughter, was it? But to Rigar, who was blinded by lust, that didn’t matter.

It was then.

Clap, clap, clap—

Suddenly, the sound of light applause echoed.

“Wh-Who’s there!”

Startled, Rigar stared into the darkness.

Could it be Hymir who had come looking for him? He tensed up at the thought.

The pain from his beating still lingered throughout his body, tormenting him.

He didn’t want to be unjustly beaten again.

“A very admirable personality.”

A man cloaked in black robes emerged from the darkness, ceasing his applause.

The eerie, jade-green eyes that peeked out from under the hood seemed to be bearing down on Rigar.

“Quite the corpulent physique for someone who once soared through the skies.”

Rigar’s face contorted at the unknown man’s nonchalant assessment.

“Wh-What the hell are you!”

As if amused by Rigar’s shameless and vile desire for revenge, the hooded man’s lips curved into an arc.

His ominous jade-green eyes fixed on the obese Rigar, he quietly opened his mouth.

“Do you want to take revenge on the silver-haired girl? Then I will lend you my power.”

With those words, Loki fueled Rigar’s dark desires.

To him, who had lived according to his desires, it was like an irresistible, sweet whisper.

Rigar swallowed hard.

He was already wearing a bitter smile.

A few hours later, the guards were in an uproar as Rigar, who had been detained, broke out of prison and escaped.

However, no trace of Rigar could be found anywhere.

Loki sat perched on the roof of a building overlooking the commotion.

He took out a pair of glasses from his pocket and swept back his white hair.

“You messed up my plans, so now it’s your turn to play along with my games.”

*

Starting with Elsie’s class, the academy’s carriages that had crossed Bifrost were entering Nóatún one after another.

Elsie, who had been waiting bored in her lodgings until all the academy personnel had arrived, perked up.

She was starting to feel limited by just looking out the window at a city with a different atmosphere from Glitnir.

She wanted to stroll through the city with its endless view of the calm sea.

Without realizing it, Elsie, in high spirits, flopped onto the bed and kicked her legs.

‘Come to think of it, I haven’t really enjoyed any proper leisure time lately.’

A simple life of repeating training to regain her full strength and traveling back and forth to the academy.

She had always thought that such rest was necessary after all the effort she had put in.

At first, she hadn’t thought much of it, but now that she had actually arrived, she felt a childlike excitement bubbling up.

With a faint blush on her cheeks, Elsie hugged her pillow and rolled around.

“Elsie, I bought juice—”

Thrud, who had entered Elsie’s room, knocked on the wall and called out to her.

“Elsie?”

Could it be that she couldn’t hear because the hallway was long?

Thrud peeked into the bedroom and found Elsie hugging a pillow and rolling around on the bed.

The sight of her humming softly and playing by herself was so innocent and cute that it naturally brought a smile to her face.

“…Thrud? What are you doing without coming in?”

Doyun, who had been following behind, tilted his head and asked, noticing Thrud’s behavior of peeking into the bedroom.

“Shhh—!”

However, Thrud only held up a finger to stop him.

“Wh-What is it?”

With a bewildered expression, Doyun followed Thrud and peeked into the room, his eyes widening.

He was momentarily captivated by Elsie’s defenseless appearance as she rolled around with a pillow, her face flushed.

He rarely saw Elsie looking so unguarded and playful.

‘So she rolls around so innocently when she’s alone…’

Doyun felt a different kind of emotion at the sight of Elsie playing by herself.

‘She seems a little too unguarded…’

The blazer she had thrown off, as if she felt suffocated, and the unbuttoned shirt.

And because of the skirt that had ridden up as she rolled around, her long, white bare legs were exposed.

Thrud, who had been warmly watching Elsie with a happy face, furrowed her brow.

“Elsie! You’re being too careless!”

Thrud entered the room and scolded her.

“Uwaaah! Wh-When were you there?!”

“Since you started singing!”

“Hic!”

Startled, Elsie glanced at Doyun, who was standing blankly behind Thrud.

Covering her exposed chest with her hand and pulling down her skirt, Elsie blushed with embarrassment.

‘They saw me singing?!’

What an embarrassing situation. She wanted to shrink away in shame.

Thrud, as if unable to help it, hugged Elsie and patted her, saying,

“If you’re too unguarded like that, Elsie, a pervert like Doyun might eat you! You have to be careful!”

Doyun was the first to react to Thrud’s playful warning.

“Thrud, what are you saying?!”

“Gasp-!”

Eat her? Elsie flinched.

It wasn’t a horror movie, but she thought it was too gruesome of a metaphor.

Swallowing hard, Elsie looked at Thrud, shrinking back.

“Eating me is too cruel. It’s not like Han Doyun is a cannibal…”

Elsie glanced anxiously at Doyun and Thrud.

“…Elsie?”

“Yeah?”

Thrud, with a dumbfounded expression, stared at Elsie.

Elsie tilted her head, wondering why she was acting like that, and stared blankly at Thrud.

“Eating means… never mind. Anyway! I was just telling you to be careful! You innocent thing!”

“Huh? Uh… Uwaaah! Stop hugging me!”

“You silly cutie!”

“Is that an insult or a compliment?!”

Thrud, who had picked up the struggling Elsie, looked at Doyun with sharp eyes.

“I need to get this idiot changed. If I leave her like this, she’ll go out wearing her school uniform like an idiot!”

“Y-Yeah…!”

Doyun, who had read the determination in Thrud’s golden eyes, nodded and stepped back.

He also wanted to see Elsie in casual clothes, so he left without any hesitation.

“Who are you calling an idiot! More than that, I don’t want to change yet! No! Han Doyun, you traitor, don’t go! Wait!!!”

“I can’t change you if Doyun is here?!”

“Ugh! Th-That’s! D-Don’t unbutton me! N-No!”

“Yes!”

Doyun, hearing the sounds of Elsie and Thrud arguing, blushed and went outside.

*

Students in casual clothes gathered in the central hall of the huge lodging that Njǫrðr had helped them borrow.

Perhaps conscious of the free-spirited resort atmosphere, the students, who were dressed boldly, were full of energy.

Some of them were already wearing swimsuits, thinking of going into the sea.

Among them, what caught Doyun’s eye the most was Elsie, who was dressed in a way that was even more revealing than usual.

‘Elsie…!’

Her bare legs, boldly exposed by her short pants, and the dizzying curves revealed by her clinging tank top shook his heart wildly.

Elsie didn’t seem to be used to the outfit.

She was walking hesitantly, wearing the pure white hoodie she had bought at the swimsuit store the other day.

Or rather, she was being dragged along by Thrud.

In any case, Elsie’s efforts might have given her a sense of psychological stability.

However, it only served to cause even greater agitation for Doyun, who was watching her.

“Aren’t we late?”

Elsie, aware that a lot of time had been spent fighting with Thrud, asked Doyun.

But Doyun, who was looking at Elsie with a dazed expression, couldn’t say anything.

The pure white hoodie that Elsie had put on to hide her shyness was so sheer that it was even more provocative.

He had liked her previous demure outfit, but Elsie’s current appearance was also directly hitting Doyun’s tastes.

Elsie, bewildered by Doyun’s silence, tilted her head.

Elsie approached Doyun and waved her hand back and forth.

“What are you doing? Snap out of it?”

Doyun flinched and lowered his head as Elsie’s white hand fluttered in front of his eyes.

Then, he met the blue eyes of Elsie, who was making a questioning expression.

His reflection was captured in her clear, jewel-like blue eyes.

Doyun, finding it difficult to meet her eyes because his heart was pounding, lowered his gaze slightly.

However, what entered his light brown eyes were two hills that created a large curve.

“Crazy!”

It was a force that could not be hidden by the thin hoodie.

Elsie’s firm and full figure was truly amazing.

Doyun’s gaze was completely stolen by the realm of instinct.

It wasn’t the kind of bewilderment that could be escaped with a natural eye for detail.

Rather, because his eyes were good, he could see it more clearly.

“Still not awake?”

Elsie, tilting one eyebrow, lightly punched Doyun in the stomach.

It was a light punch that didn’t feel like much strength.

Elsie sighed and looked up at Thrud, crossing her arms.

“Ugh-”

In the meantime, another exclamation, whether it was admiration or a scream, burst out of Doyun’s mouth.

She knew he was a strange guy to begin with, but she didn’t know he would become even stranger at the resort.

“What’s wrong with him?”

Thrud, looking down at Elsie, who was asking as if she couldn’t understand, shrugged her shoulders and pulled her away.

“I wonder why this pervert is acting like this?”

Elsie shook her head.

He seemed fine until a moment ago, but he suddenly turned into an idiot.

She couldn’t leave him alone like this, as it would be worrying.

‘I know you’re happy to be here, but you’re spacing out like a child…’

Elsie, who had completely misunderstood, called out to Doyun with the expression of someone taking care of a younger sibling.

“Doyun!”

“Uh… Yeah?”

“Thrud and I are thinking of looking around the streets, how about you?”

At Elsie’s question, Doyun immediately scrapped all the plans he had made so far.

In fact, he hadn’t really thought about what to do.

But even if he had something, it would have lost its meaning at this moment.

‘I think I was supposed to do something with Jaime and Pajolt, but what was it…’

Doyun, who had reached a conclusion in a matter of milliseconds, immediately replied.

“I don’t really have any plans, so together—”

“Silly! If you don’t have any… follow us!”

“Uh… Okay.”

As the saying goes, when you come to a travel destination, the best thing to do is to find food and wander around.

Elsie smiled, asserting that.

Doyun, who was staring blankly at her, could only nod his head.