Academy Ankle Reaper

96. Hey laugh

Judge

I walked out of the hallway and was walking aimlessly.

“Hey hey, don’t make eye contact.”

“Oh, bloody… What happened today?”

The male students I ran into in the hallway avoided looking at each other, probably because I had a very urgent expression on my face.

The more I did, the more urgent I became.

From behind, Casey was glaring at me with a sullen expression.

‘I don’t even have a single friend of the same sex!’

I was stabbed to the point.

I thought there were quite a few in Expedition to the Snow Country, but neither the knights nor the academy had ever properly made friends of the same sex.

I didn’t try to make it, so that’s the result, but the more fundamental cause was the bad environment.

Except for the fact that there were no men my age in my family, during my apprentice knight days, there were only those who quarreled, and we fought every day.

After my bloody apprenticeship, where I endlessly cut my legs, smashed bones, and threw thrush, and became a full-time knight, naturally, my classmates and seniors felt uncomfortable even making eye contact with me.

There is no such thing as a red flag that they pretended to be victims while they quarreled first.

After becoming an official engineer, he soon became a master, and he traveled all over the country with Master, so there was no time to make it.

And at the academy… It’s like apprenticeship days.

A group of people appeared in front of me when I felt the gaze from behind gradually stinging me.

A group of about five or six people came across a wide hallway.

At the forefront was a handsome man with long blue hair.

This is Jik Albion, who leads the 2nd class gang.

“… !”

As we walked facing each other head on, it seemed as if we would collide if we took a few more steps.

Albion’s gang did not back down first and tried to push forward honestly, but Zeke Albion, who was at the forefront, saw my face and moved aside.

There was a small wave between the 2 class gangs, but no one was dissatisfied with the choice.

Because I’ve already seen what happens when you get into a fight with me in the hallway.

‘Do you think he will work?’

But before we could pass each other, I stared at Albion.

Sensing my gaze, Albion turned his head slightly away from his gaze with his blue long hair fluttering.

If it were this guy, wouldn’t he take it in moderation even if I suddenly said bullshit?

No, you will have to accept it.

I turned and strode toward Albion, reaching his arm up and placing my hand on his shoulder.

“Who is this, my friend Albion!”

“What?!”

Albion’s body trembled as soon as his hand touched it.

I was embarrassed because he suddenly pretended to be friendly.

“You… !! What are you trying to do to Albion!!”

“Everybody stay still!”

As soon as I touched Albion’s body, the students from Class 2 quickly spread out and threatened to attack me at any moment, but Albion snared it.

“Hey, what happened all of a sudden in the hallway… “

Albion was taken aback because he didn’t understand my actions.

I don’t understand either, so how can a third party understand?

But when I caught my eye, Zeke Albion had to be compelled to go along with it.

Pressing his shoulder, lowering his vision similarly, whispered softly into his ear.

“Hey, smile.”

Albion’s eyes flashed open at the very cold words he uttered, and a response came immediately.

“Ah..Ahahahaha.”

“Ah.. Lord Albion??”

Hearing my words, Albion laughed, so he looked this way in surprise, including the students from class 2 and the students passing the hallway.

“hahahahaha, yes, you have to laugh.”

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”

He laughed endlessly like crazy people.

Since I was laughing, Albion also laughed along.

“Ha… hahahaha!”

“Kolkal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal kal

“Ahahahaha”

As that continued, the students from Class 2 started laughing one by one.

Are you under pressure to laugh?

There was no particular reason for just laughing.

Once I caught him, I just laughed because I had nothing to do with him.

A hallway full of students laughing mechanically, as if the laughter bell rang, was full of madness.

“Why is everyone doing this??”

Someone broke that strange situation.

“Edgar..!”

Edgar Lemnos also wandered around with a book in one hand as if the lecture had ended.

He had an absurd expression on his face as he saw the hallway full of laughter.

Originally, the gang carried all of their luggage, but these days, they know what kind of change of heart has come and carry it around.

“Edgar!! This is not…”

“Hey, Edgar is here too! Nice to meet you, friend!”

As Edgar, unaware of anything, tried to come this way, Albion tried to warn him, but he jumped first.

Edgar Lemnos still couldn’t understand what was happening right before his eyes.

“What?? What is it all of a sudden!”

“Why are you like that, my friend?”

“What? Me with you?? What are you talking about all of a sudden!”

“Isn’t it the friendship that swordsmen forged by swords against each other over and over again? Uh! I’m sorry if it comes out like that!”

Edgar was horrified when I laughed out loud.

I didn’t do it because I liked it either.

But we have to be even more shameless.

After putting an iron plate on his face and spewing out plausible sophistry, he began to show a puzzled attitude.

“… Is it..?”

Edgar didn’t just refuse.

“No, I am a wizard, but why am I… “

“Just laugh.”

“Ahahahahaha”

A smile blossomed in the hallway again.

For a while, laughter was blooming in the hallway again, so another victim appeared after hearing the sound.

“What is it? You’re doing something fun, join me too.”

Feeling interested, Nivas Ferda crawled around and started laughing alongside Albion.

Albion forcibly laughs, Lemnos wonders if he’s a friend, and even Ferda cries for looking funny.

Three of the five pillars came together to create a strange picture.

‘What a mess.’

Casey, who was watching the series of situations with her ax eyes open, also didn’t say anything, but she seemed to be thinking about that.

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“Oh yes, it goes in well.”

I grabbed it in moderation, made a fuss, and sent it all away.

As I watched the five pillars shaking wildly, ordinary students feared me as if they were seeing a monster.

The thing I’ve been forgetting lately is the fact that those five are prestigious families representing the nobility of the empire.

“Ugh… sore throat….”

Forced to keep smiling, Albion ran away first with a disgusted look on his face.

Looks like he thought he could do it again if he got caught.

“A friend… I….”

“hahahaha, I laughed a lot and felt refreshed. Call me next time.”

Edgar Lemnos continued to think deeply about something.

I think I’m still thinking about how to accept being called a friend.

After leaving all the way to Pergia, I felt relieved.

I spoke confidently to Casey.

“How are you?”

But of course Casey didn’t believe me.

“This is nonsense. The first person I saw was scared of you, the second person was confused. The third one didn’t seem to make much sense.”

“This is nonsense. Originally, that’s what friends are. I think it’s strange because you don’t have any friends.”

“….”

“If you think what I just showed you is weird, make friends with me and tell me what part is weird. Then I will humbly admit it.”

Casey said that she seemed to have a lot to say, but she was actually right that she had no friends of the same sex her age, so she couldn’t argue.

“I’ll think about it.”

With that said, Casey went back to class.

Casey checked her back as she turned and shuddered.

“Oh, I’m really crazy.”

She shuddered at what she had done and turned her head away.

There is still some time, but it’s time to go to the next class.

“Oh!”

“… “

“… “

Then, at a turn in her hallway, I saw her golden and red hair hiding behind her back wall.

“……… “

She choked.

She didn’t know what to say.

I want to run away right now, but running away from here would be more troublesome.

I grabbed my throbbing head and stood still, then the heads of two people hiding behind the wall popped out again.

It was Amy and River.

“… Where did you see it?”

“From the beginning..?”

I wanted to die.

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As Edgar Lemnos strolled through the corridors, he pondered what had just happened.

‘Why are you friends?’

Atlas told Edgar he was a friend.

I thought it was bullshit after beating myself up like that until now, but after hearing what you said, I changed my mind.

‘Isn’t it the friendship that swordsmen forged by swords against each other over and over again? Uh! I’m sorry if it comes out like that!’

There are also friendships that come from fighting each other sword to sword.

Edgar knew that there was such a form of friendship, having heard from the knights in the family.

But that was a far cry from Edgar.

He was Edgar, who swung his sword every day, but he had only a handful of people who could be called friends.

There were people who claimed to be subordinates, but at most Zeke Albion was the only one who could be called a friend… Even with Albion, who used magic, the topic of conversation often diverged.

‘Is that so..?’

The duel between Atlas and Edgar was not fought with a grudge against each other, nor was there an emotional resentment left behind.

Edgar once thought that Atlas, who was so old and had tremendous skills that reminded him of his father, was great.

Lemnos, who was taught to always run ahead with the sword of the empire, but it wasn’t that he never thought it would be nice to have a friend who would run beside him, no, in front of him, not behind him.

When I thought of Atlas as a friend, it was better than I thought.

As a swordsman who is superior to himself, looking at it now, he is on good terms with the other five pillars.

It is assumed that he is the bastard of Nemea… But if you look at his skills, he is a person who can make a big difference even by himself.

He was the perfect friend of the Lemnos family.

“I… Was Atlas’ friend…?”

It’s a strange feeling, but since Atlas said it himself, Edgar thought that he should consider it that way too.