26 – Entrance Ceremony (2)

Roz looked around her head in her entrance examination room and thought she had made a mistake.

Well-groomed black hair.

Fiery red eyes.

Pure white skin and pretty features that are not manly.

That’s because, as far as he knew, there was only one man in the world with that appearance.

But that man, Carmel, was somewhere in the Viscounty of Darmien being tormented by an old woman who I don’t know if was his teacher.

That’s why. She said that even as Rose glanced at the man, she thought he might just be a look-alike man and that’s why she tried to move on.

I said so. He certainly did.

-“Camel Hyacinth.”

The man walking on the training ground was indeed the Camel he knew.

How surprised I was back then. She screamed in place so much that she had to get glares from the children sitting next to her.

Honestly, I didn’t care what other people thought. What mattered to her was that Carmel came to take her entrance exam to Arden Academy just like her.

Friends I grew up with in my hometown,

The benefactor who saved him from the lumps of desire.

She was able to attend the academy like Carmel. Rose was so happy and excited about that fact that she had trouble sleeping for the past few days.

Well, the memory of her grabbing her head during her test came to mind, so there were a few times when she kicked the blanket in her sleep, but it didn’t really matter to her. Because she herself had grabbed the head of her old woman. She didn’t lose, so she was okay.

Rose said, sniffing her nose at Camel’s back.

“It’s a real camel.”

“Then it must be fake?”

Camel answered as she carefully put herself down from her back.

She looks blunt as always. So, the person standing in front of her was definitely Carmel.

Camel had become blunt as she reached puberty, but Rose had no doubt that she trusted Camel.

One day, Carmel will become her own real escort.

This was the reason why Rose gritted her teeth and trained her swordsmanship and magic.

If an ordinary viscountess went around with a knight like Camel as a guard, she would definitely be criticized by other nobles.

In fact, it is not such a big mistake for the daughter of an ordinary self-made family to have a bodyguard with her.

But what if she is a Camel who lacks everything as an escort knight?

It was as bright as looking at fire. Other nobles will woo Camel in all kinds of ways and try to take it away from him.

Pointing fingers is just one of the means to achieve this.

Rose didn’t want to be inferior to her knights, and she didn’t like being ignored by other nobles.

She especially hated losing Camel to someone else, so Rose, who had worked hard, put her regrets behind her and came here, to Arden Academy.

In order to become not an ordinary daughter of a homemaker, but someone who would feel comfortable having Camel by her side.

Is it because the goal is clear? When Rose came to Arden Academy, she was able to achieve better results than she had hoped for, placing third among the freshmen.

That too at Aden Academy, the best educational institution on the continent where only those who fly and crawl gather.

Naturally, Rose was overjoyed after receiving her grades. To be honest, she wanted to run to Carmel right away and brag about her.

But when she actually faced him, she felt strangely sad and her lips became pouty.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“What?”

“Coming to the academy. Didn’t you really do it too much? I told you this a year ago. “If you had told me in advance…”

“What if I told you what?”

“That…”

At Carmel’s harsh question, Rose was speechless and chewed her lip.

For some reason, she felt like she was just complaining. And she was disappointed by Carmel’s calm attitude, unlike her extremely excited self.

She said she didn’t come here for this.

She clearly came running because she was happy to see it.

Rose didn’t like this situation, which was going differently than he thought.

“We would have come together in a carriage…”

Rose, conscious of her surroundings, lowered her head and muttered.

I was really sad about Rose. If she had known in advance, she could have come all the way to this faraway place in her carriage, just the two of her, without the old woman worrying about her. Carmel said she didn’t give herself any hints.

“Well… There were circumstances. “I came out without Master’s knowledge.”

In the meantime, I heard some very welcome news.

“Secretly? Carmel, did you run away from home?”

“Yes. To be precise, I escaped.”

“Then it won’t go back?”

“Yes.”

“Good!”

Upon hearing Carmel’s answer, Rose felt relieved as if her insides were being hollowed out, and her own disappointment melted away like snow.

Is that why? Rose was able to ask Carmel a question in her more subdued voice.

“But couldn’t you have told me?”

Then, Camel seemed to have finally realized that she had done something wrong, and she responded with an expression like a puppy that wants to poop.

“I’m sorry, Rose.”

“What are you sorry about? “If you’re really sorry…”

Rose answered curtly, but she felt her voice completely loosen and the corner of her mouth twitch.

Because, it had been a very long time since she had seen Carmel fidgeting with her.

I guess you can watch it at this point. Since we have time until her entrance ceremony, should we go to a dessert cafe together?

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Rose was thinking this and was about to open her lips.

“I think Professor Dian should call me separately and go first. See you later. Oh, congratulations on third place.”

Camel poured out her true business like a rapid-fire gun.

“You are the chief…”

Unfortunately, Rose’s words did not continue. Camel had already left the spot in an instant.

Opening her eyes and missing Carmel, Rose let out a deep sigh of her own.

“Ha.”

“Hey hey.”

A deep voice spoke to Rose while she was doing so.

Rose turned her head and looked at the blonde male next to her, sticking out her tongue.

“It’s no different than unintentionally eavesdropping on a conversation.”

Rose had to do her best to impress her with her brown tanned skin and grumpy attitude, which made her look like the perfect example of a gangster.

“Rather than a friend like that, how about walking with me? As for me…”

Rose, who probably didn’t see her own expression, didn’t like the blonde man who kept talking and saying only what he had to say, so she asked in a quiet voice.

“What is your name?”

“It’s Gmite Niang.”

“Gmite Niang, listen for a moment.”

When she asked, she immediately lowered her posture.

“···Okay?”

Rose quietly whispered something to Gmite and then left her position.

“···.”

As soon as she heard Rose’s whisper, Gmite, her body frozen like a stone statue, looked at the pretty girl who was moving away from her sight.

The girl was scissoring in the air with her hands.

Gumi Te swallowed her dry saliva and thought as her body trembled.

I don’t know about other children, but I told myself that I should never touch that child.

****

Rattle.

As I opened the door to the professor’s office and entered, a middle-aged man with light blonde hair who had been staring at a stack of documents looked at me with a happy expression.

“Are you here?”

“Uh, you…”

I knew from the beginning that the person who received the entrance exam notice was Dian, but I deliberately pretended to be surprised and hesitated.

It was an act that didn’t need to be done.

The reason why I pretended to be surprised is simple.

‘Because I want to look good.’

Dian is from the warrior party and is one of the most talented players in the academy, and is a major character in the game. He was also an NPC in the game who gave hidden quests and rewards so good that he was called a honeypot.

That’s why I acted. Because Dian liked the sight of the main character being played by his own boring pranks.

‘The problem is…’

I’m not good at acting. It was like that a while ago. Stiff body and voice, consistent tone of voice. It was an awkward performance no matter who saw it.

“Okay. This is Professor Dian. First, take a seat. Looking at his expression, it seemed like he was embarrassed, not because it was his first time seeing me. “Are you very surprised?”

And yet I didn’t notice? Dian seemed completely fooled by my acting and acted calm, twitching the corner of his mouth.

“Yes. “To be honest, I was very surprised.”

“I would like to ask for your understanding. “For a professor, I tend to be humorous, so I often pull pranks like this.”

“Ah, yes…”

It was a lie. Dian’s sense of humor was by far the worst in [Harem Academy], And most gamers skipped conversations with Dian, saying it was too off-putting.

I also wanted to do that, but in reality, there was no skip.

“May I ask why you called me separately?”

So I had no choice but to ask a question first. I want to get out of this situation as quickly as possible.

“Seeing as you are asking questions, it seems like you have made up your mind. “Okay, then tell me straight.”

“···?”

What did I prepare for? Are you trying to say something serious that I don’t know about?

“Congratulations, Senior.”

“···Thank you.”

“I’m kidding. “I have something else to say.”

“···hahahaha.”

Where on earth did I think this was a joke? It was something I really couldn’t figure out, but I laughed because Dian was twitching the corner of her mouth.

“hahahaha.”

Then, Dian bursts into laughter with a very satisfied expression.

When I saw that, I had a strong desire to leave my place and go outside.

I was very afraid that I would end up like that if I stayed here just a little longer.

“Ask the real business. “It’s straight-forward, so be prepared and listen.”

Dian put on the weight again and looked serious, and I swallowed dry saliva, feeling extremely nervous.

I’m afraid this guy will tell some kind of boring joke again.

Dian, who was looking at me intently, soon asked with her eyes shining.

“Carmel Cadet. Have you ever seen an evil spirit?”

“···No.”

Contrary to my expectations, I answered the serious question by shaking my head.

“Ask again. Have you ever personally seen the being that appeared before you during the entrance exam?”

“No.”

This time, I answered by shaking my head. I felt Dian’s eyes looking right through me.

“···I see. “I understand.”

Dian trailed off and fell into thought for a moment.

‘I’m sure my head hurts.’

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand Dian’s attitude like that. No, to be honest, if I were in Dian’s position, I would have thought about it a lot.

A candidate summoned an evil spirit during the entrance exam. How could it not be a pain?

While I was thinking that, Dian’s eyes lit up again and he began to open his lips.

“Then let me ask you something else.”

“Yes.”

“You…”

Dian hesitates and trails off. Seeing that, I tilted my head, and Dian immediately asked me in a firm voice, as if he had decided on something.

“What is it?”

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