The Only Male Student in the Academy

071. Exception (4)

“Ariel, Miss Marie wants to talk for a minute?”

“What is it all of a sudden?”

Free time after dinner. The door opened without permission, and Claire naturally entered my room.

“Is this your house? When others see it, what do they come for?”

“Ariel, are you an idiot? It’s exciting that people might see it.”

“…I apologize for making a common sense comment.”

With a sigh, I closed the door Claire had opened.

Strange rumors may arise if you and Claire are in the same room, but…… , …… I don’t know anymore.

Should I say that the one who cares loses….

I’m tired of just paying attention…….

“By the way, why are you coming when Marie wants to talk?”

“Is that so, are Miss Marie and I friends?”

“What are you up to?”

I asked, narrowing my eyes.

No matter how you think about it, Claire isn’t the type of person who would want to be friends with someone else. She doesn’t seem to like someone like Marie, much less.

There must be some purpose.

“It’s a plan? I just want to be friendly with Miss Marie?”

“Don’t tell obvious lies. You can’t be that kind of person.”

“It’s not a lie~. It’s real~?”

Claire said teasingly.

I swung my arm.

– Pair!

Claire’s head turns with the sound of flesh hitting.

One side of Claire’s cheek was burning bright red,

Claire looks at me slowly in disbelief.

Eyes meet.

“Whoa… Whoa… Whoa…”

She is shaking.

With frightened eyes.

With such a trembling yet extremely excited expression.

She is looking at me with a clumsy smile on her lips.

I grabbed Claire by the collar.

“Tell me.”

“Kuhk, kuhk…”

Claire suffocates when she lifts her collar.

But never lose a smile.

Looking at me endlessly with a happy expression,

I glared at Claire and threw her into a corner.

Just in time, there are several potion bottles on the table.

Throw one of them at Claire.

The bottle breaks and the contents spill out,

As the potion soaks Claire, the swelling on her face gradually subsides.

“I wanted to see Ariel’s face like that…”

Claire slowly raises herself.

No, to be precise, it was only the upper body that caused it.

He only lifts his upper body and crawls on all fours until he reaches my feet.

Claire hugged my leg.

“As expected, Ariel doesn’t care about her Miss Marie…?”

“Claire.”

“It’s okay. I really won’t do anything to Miss Mary. I just want to cheer her up.”

“Cheering? What are you talking about?”

“I mean. Miss Marie knows who she likes.”

Claire rubs her face on my lap with a face that is very hot.

As if imitating a dog.

“I’ll connect Miss Marie and that person… Then I’ll be very excited…”

“What nonsense are you talking about? What is the relationship between Marie’s love affair and your s*xuality?”

“Because, for me, he’s the only one… So if Miss Marie goes out with that person, she’ll be very excited…?”

“You…”

I let out a sigh.

Apparently, Claire…… Beyond masochism, he seems to have opened his eyes to NTR as well.

…… Dizzy

After leaving Claire, the night is getting deeper.

In my bedroom alone, I was looking down at my palms.

“…I feel embarrassed, really.”

He hit the girl.

Of course, there was a time when I swung a sword against Claire, but compared to that, it might be new blood.

But isn’t there a difference between confronting and hurting Claire and just using violence?

I feel like I’ve done something I shouldn’t have done.

‘… But I can’t believe I have to do this to control it.’

In the first place, Claire seems to be doing that to get hit by me a few times.

Anyway, when I hit him, Claire also calms down and does what I say.

…… Something seems terribly wrong in direction.

That’s why I didn’t intend to hit you like this.

But.

‘Touching Marie was over the line.’

I am surprised even to myself who thinks so.

But if you think about it internally, it’s not particularly strange. Marie seems to be feeling the grace of me, but in reality it’s the exact opposite.

Without Marie, I wouldn’t have been able to level.

Without Marie, we wouldn’t have been able to defeat the Blatta Dungeon or the Underground Water Dungeon.

I wouldn’t have been able to beat Claire.

It can be said that the reason I survived until now is thanks to Marie.

So risking her life, I saved Marie.

And I think it has become an equal friendship with no debt to each other.

It is a precious existence.

Because he was the only person who helped me in this lonely world.

‘… Well, it seems that Claire understood it too.’

He really doesn’t seem to have any intention of hurting or destroying Mari.

Rather, it seems that helping Marie works to Claire’s advantage.

But it’s hard to trust completely.

The relationship between Claire and I was dissolved, albeit in a bizarre form.

Whether Claire will build a good relationship with Marie is a different story after all.

Only sighs come out.

‘No big deal.’

From the beginning, Claire and I decided to party only during vacation.

Claire herself has a separate party, so when her vacation ends and the second semester comes, she will return to her own party.

This is a story where Claire doesn’t do strange things to Marie during the Catacombs dungeon clearing period.

In other words, you must be careful during this attack period.

“Shall we go?”

When I looked at the pocket watch, it was already 2 o’clock.

I got up from my seat.

-“Why is Miss Marie calling Ariel? It sounds like she’s worried about something.”

-“Why don’t you go listen to Ariel?”

As I left the dorm, I was thinking of Claire’s words. I’m worried about Marie…….

There are not just one or two strange things. Why is it at 2:00 in the morning? I wish we could meet and talk during the day.

Also, it’s strange that Marie didn’t come in person and Claire delivered her words instead.

Actually, I think it was a joke.

The one waiting at 2:00 am isn’t Marie, but Claire. Maybe she’s trying to do something strange.

It was reasonable to think so.

It was reasonable.

Marie was there.

“Uh, uh, Ariel…?”

Marie looked at my face and made a surprised expression.

This is the one who wants to make a surprised face…. There really was Marie.

“What’s the matter, Marie?”

“Uh…? Eh, what’s going on with Ariel…? This, at a time like this…?”

“That’s what I’m going to say. What did you call me at this late hour?”

“Huh…?”

Marie makes a puzzled expression.

… Something doesn’t fit

“Uh, I, I… I came because Miss Claire told me to come here…?”

“Did Claire tell you to come here?”

“Uh, yes… I thought I’d see you here at 2:00 am…”

“Any other stories?”

“Hmm…?”

Marie doesn’t understand this situation and she is restless.

I only understood when I saw Marie like that.

‘… Son of Claire, you lied.’

Based on common sense, there’s no way Marie would call me to a place like this. If he had something he wanted to say, he would have come directly, or he would have conveyed the matter while going through the dungeon together.

From the beginning, everything was Claire’s handiwork.

I look around.

What Claire looks like…… Invisible

‘… What kind of plan is this?’

I understood that he was trying to get me and Marie to meet. But what are you trying to do by letting me meet you?

If it was Claire in the past, she might have spread rumors while filming the scene where Marie and I were having a tryst. Doing so would create a scandal between Marie and me, and would further diminish my standing at the academy.

But now, I don’t think Claire would do that.

Claire won’t get any benefit (= pleasure) from putting me in a corner.

-“It’s okay. I really won’t do anything to Mary. I just want to cheer her up.”

-“I mean, Miss Marie knows who she likes.”

-“I’ll connect Miss Marie and that person… Then I’ll be very excited…”

“Um…”

I remember what Claire said earlier. Come to think of it, he said that Marie has someone he likes.

I felt that fact subconsciously. Even when I was hospitalized the other day, I must have said that I wanted to prove that I was better than her older sister as a love interest.

“Marie, do you have any concerns?”

I asked.

Then Marie is startled.

“Go, worry…? Uh, I don’t have it…”

Marie’s eyes shook as if an earthquake had occurred…. Really can’t lie

“I heard from Claire that you have concerns. Apparently, Claire sent me to listen to your concerns.”

That was all I could think of.

Certainly, it seemed that Marie had been thinking about it lately.

Since I’ve been talking a lot with Claire these days, I can say that I often saw her feeling left out. It felt like his expression hadn’t been very bright since Claire came.

But maybe it’s not just a sense of alienation.

“Are you worried about the person you like?”

“Uh… That, that’s…”

Marie couldn’t meet her gaze as if she was nervous.

Judging by the reaction, it seemed that he got it right.

“I see. It may not be an easy relationship for sure. But Marie, you’re not lacking either, so it’ll work out.”

“Hey, hey, Ariel…? Ho, by any chance, Miss Claire told me who I like…?”

“I didn’t hear that.”

But I can make some guesses.

-“Because, I’m the only one there… So if Marie goes out with that person, she’ll be very excited…?”

Claire clearly said that. That means that he is related to Claire.

However, few of Claire’s associates seem to have contact with Marie.

‘In other words, it is highly likely that Mari’s love feelings were derived from longing.’

Marie also cannot be said to have a wide range of human relationships. If so, wouldn’t the opponent be an idol-like being?

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An existence that is not easy to approach and can only be watched from a distance. She would look up to her just for her lofty performance, and that’s why she must have felt that she wanted to connect with that person.

However, Mari is troubled because her own existence is too small for her to be side by side with that person, she says intuition as an aspiring manga artist.

Then the opponent….

“Do you like the student knights vice-captain, senior Jaca Ancilla?”

“Oh, that’s not true…”

“No.”

I properly stepped on the wrong leg.