episode_0067

The chairman started walking aimlessly.

I headed west to the lakeside next to Baekyang Dormitory, then turned north again.

A walking trail that goes clockwise around the edge of Quain Island.

“… ”

“… ”

There were many things I wanted to ask, but I kept my mouth shut.

I thought it would be better to let the chairman speak first.

After walking for a while, she opened her mouth.

“I guess you could see me and Tangaroa fighting from outside.”

“I was probably the only one who saw it. I was the only person at that window… ”

“Ha.”

Take a deep breath.

“It’s my fault.”

“How can it be the chairman’s fault that he overturned his desk just because he got excited during an argument?

The Chairman could have been hurt… ”

“I asked Tangaroa. I ask you to stay at Funforge for a few more years even after you graduate.”

“Male… Dani?”

Suddenly, Priestley’s words came to mind.

Tangaroa did not remain here of his own accord.

“I made a promise to Tangaroa when I entered the academy.

Instead of helping me by coming into the Blue Dragon dormitory a year later, he said he would send me back to my hometown when I graduate… ”

“… Vice President, can’t he go home on his own?”

“Yes. Since my father died, no one knows about the sea route… ”

The road gradually turned into an uphill road.

“Tangaroa flatly refused the request to stay longer.

I said, how could it not be possible since we have a bond that we have built up over time?

It’s not that they won’t let you go at all, they’re just delaying it for a few years… ”

her.

Lilac must have read my expression, and sighed.

“ Now that I think about it, those words were really insensitive.

Emotions got so strong that we got into an argument, and I told Tungaroa that I could force him to stay in the empire.”

“Can’t you just let people go instead of catching them on their way?”

“Something that will require Tangaroa’s abilities will happen soon.”

“What happened?”

There is no answer.

As the uphill road got steeper and steeper, I had no choice but to focus on climbing the hill.

“We’re here.”

A night view of the Academy embroidered with lanterns that appears as you cut through the tree branches.

The exteriors of the dormitories are covered in colorful decorations, and the central lecture building sparkles with festive lights.

Students gathered in groups of twos and threes, setting up sleeping bags, preparing for camp, and enjoying the last night of the social festival.

“How about it?”

“It’s cool.”

“It’s the only place in the academy where you can see your dormitory all at once.”

beautiful. But you probably didn’t call me out to show me this.

“Coleman.”

“Yes.”

We looked at each other.

The chairman stared into my eyes for quite a long time.

But for some reason, only my lips move and I cannot open my mouth.

“What you want to say… Do you have one?”

She blushed and turned around.

The words continued in a trembling voice.

“Yes, Coleman. Until I turned six, my place changed every year, sometimes every month.”

“Is it because of the civil war?”

“Looking back, I think my dad was a person who dreamed too big…

It would have been easier for both my mother and I if we had just caught a suitable covenant leader and had a face-to-face meeting.

You asked too much from the soldier you were indebted to.”

The chairman smiled bitterly.

I wish you wouldn’t laugh like that.

“If you raise taxes and squeeze the people, they criticize you for being cruel.

However, if you passively do not step up to your own territory, you are not a great vessel and you will be criticized.

As a result, I ended up being a wanderer moving around the territories of various military leaders… Later, people with a grudge attacked the wagon train that my mother and I were in.”

“It must have been difficult.”

“But because I still had mom and dad. I didn’t think it was that difficult.

I haven’t experienced any major battles myself… ”

The chairman’s body becomes stiff.

Instinctively, I put my arm around her shoulder.

“I think in the end, Dad decided to give up on the domestic military leaders and raise troops himself.

Using their mermaid blood, they brought in funds and troops from overseas across the sea.

and… ”

Lilac closed her eyes tightly.

“A battle broke out.

Dad went out to lead the soldiers, and Mom and I stayed behind and waited.

I’m waiting like that… ”

Rapid breathing.

I supported her.

“Chairman. If you’re having a hard time, don’t say anything.

i know. My father died in battle, and it’s still hard… ”

“That’s not it. There’s more… ”

The chairman leans on me as if he’s about to collapse and barely manages to speak.

“I was so scared of the gunshots that I went into the carriage and hid.

But then my mom came and held my hand.

We lost. I need to run away quickly… ”

“Chairman.”

“So I held my mom’s hand and ran away.

But suddenly my mother hides me in the bushes.

He said that no matter what happens, you must never come out…

It wasn’t long before Creus approached.”

Creus I. The current emperor of the empire.

“I asked the mother where she hid her daughter.

Mom responded that she didn’t even bring me in the first place.

So, I nodded, raised my knife, and killed my mom… Mom… ”

After that, the chairman continued speaking.

However, none of them were grammatically correct and there were no words that were easily understandable.

All I could understand was that she ran away as soon as Creus left, and on her way back to the mansion, she met another hero who came to save her, and soon became the emperor’s adopted daughter.

“Your Majesty then… You don’t know.”

“No one knows… I’ve never told this to anyone but you…

no. Everyone thinks I don’t even know that His Majesty participated in that battle…

Actually, I saw it all. I clearly saw him raise a knife and kill my mother… ”

I hugged her tightly.

“Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.

… Cry so much, let’s go down.”

“… I didn’t come here to say this.”

The chairman slowly pushed my body away.

Her tears sparkle in the moonlight.

“Coleman. I told a lie last time.”

“Yes?”

“The day you slept in my room, I didn’t sleep in the chair, I slept next to you… ”

My heart stopped beating for a moment.

“I slept really comfortably that night.

Originally, my mother appeared in my dreams, my father appeared in my dreams, and His Majesty also appeared in my dreams…

That day, the only person who appeared in my dream was you, so I slept really comfortably… ”

“Chairman.”

The chairman is biting his lips and trembling.

There are tears in my eyes again.

But somehow, I had a gut feeling that this wasn’t crying because it was sad.

This. These tears come out of fear.

“Coleman… Coleman… In the future… Can you stop me from having nightmares?”

After saying that, the chairman closed his eyes tightly.

wait for a sec.

So this is a confession.

The Crown Princess likes me? me?

That kind of tea… I continued to pay until now.

But I ignored it because I thought it made no sense.

I didn’t think he would consider the Baron’s second son as a serious romantic partner.

But you really like me.

And at the same time, I realized.

I also like lilac.

It bothers me when Lilac cries, I hope she doesn’t cry, I hope she smiles brightly when she smiles, and I hope she doesn’t make a fake or painful smile.

I care about being praised by other men, and I hate being criticized even more, and I want it to be just for me.

okay. Then that’s it.

Now I can go up to him and say, ‘I like you too, Chairman.’ Just say that and it’s over.

Come on, come on-

Don’t go too deep.

My brother’s voice rings in my ears.

“Coleman?”

That doesn’t matter.

I don’t want to live a life of risk hedging like my brother.

If you die with Lilac, you die. so-

Don’t you think that the relationship between you and the Crown Princess is similar to the relationship between Everad and me?

I had no choice but to stop when I heard my sister’s voice.

“Coleman… ”

I desperately searched for a counterargument.

It’s a sophistry that was once debunked.

It’s better to try and get frustrated than to give up and have regrets.

Try it…

But I couldn’t say that this time.

Because you can’t take that gamble with Lilac’s heart.

I buried my face in my hands.

“Call… far… ”

Lilac’s voice cracks.

“Give me some time to think.”

“… ”

“I’m not refusing. I just need some time to think… ”

“Yes. I guess so. Time to think… You’ll need a lot… ”

For some reason, it occurred to me that the chairman was speaking from somewhere far away, not here.

“Hmm. Coleman. I’m going to do some business down there.

You don’t have to follow me because I’m not going far.

I’ll be back soon… ”

“Chairman.”

“I’ll be back soon.”

The sound of the chairman coming down the hill.

I continued to think about the Crown Princess’s confession.

Is this relationship really similar to the relationship between my sister and Everard?

Wouldn’t the chairman be attacked politically if he were to date a baron’s son?

Or is it possible to just keep it a secret until graduation, or just remain as an affair partner?

Well, thoughts like that.

When I looked up, all the lights in the academy had gone out.

“Huh?”

The positions of the constellations are different.

How much time has passed?

The chairman still hasn’t returned.

All I see is-

Traces of tears left on the way down.

“Chairman!”

I quickly ran down.

There is no answer. I went down the hill to remember.

Several times I got stabbed by branches and got caught on rocks on unfamiliar mountain trails.

There was something that stopped me.

A Silade model that I painted that fell on the side of the road.

“Chairman. Chairman Lilac!”

I searched the way I came, but there was no trace of the chairman.

At the lakeside and near Baekyang Dormitory.

When I called Baekyang, who was not sleeping yet, and asked if he had seen the president, he simply said that he had not entered the dormitory.

Could it be that they went into an underground passage?

But without a map, I had no way to find the way.

How long has it been since I’ve been running here and there with only a desperate heart?

I headed to the student center with my last hope.

“… As expected.”

The student council room was a complete mess.

I flopped down on the chairman’s chair.

Even if you say no when you say no, you shouldn’t have said no like that.

How did the chairman view me? When I confessed, he buried his face in his hands…

“Grrr… ”

“Be quiet.”

“Grrr… ”

I raised my head when I heard the sound of the leash being dragged.

Little Silade was pointing at something.

Chairman’s Red Notebook.

When I quickly picked up the notebook, a bead immediately flowed out from between the pages.

I have seen it. A top-of-the-line crystal ball that projects the opponent’s image.

The orb buzzed, looked around with a beam of light, and illuminated an illusion.

no way… The contact method the chairman left for me?

Sure enough, the president’s face was immediately projected.

My heart was pounding. and… It soon froze.

Because the president in the video was unconscious and in a container.

“Let’s start the game, Cantor Coleman.”