chapter 21
Melodin, Shan, and Layla (4) (complete with Bella)
“Whoa…”
Lyla von Altair, who had returned from meeting with Duke Berry, turned around the corner and in front of Hayes’ waiting room, leaning against the wall, exhaled.
As an observer, Lila, who had met the contestants of the honor duel and now came to see Heize, remembered what Belmont had said.
– That friend is never a student who would do such a thing to harm the princess.
– We recommend that we meet again. The friend had the talent to become an empire star.
– It will definitely help the princess.
“Hey, it’s still very clear how he came up to me and asked for an honorable duel, how could he do that, Sir Belmont.”
Before becoming a professor, he met Belmont as a knight first and knew him for a long time, so it was more natural for him to say “sir” rather than “professor”.
Therefore, Layla, who was originally going to face Heize only by looking at her face for a while or by sending an agent, took a step with a sigh.
“Are you okay?”
“Carl…well, I don’t know.”
“I will go alone. I don’t even dare to imagine what kind of insult he will give to the princess this time.”
A man like a sword standing next to Laila said with a heavy voice.
Carl Ernor.
Grade 4.
In other words, he belonged to the graduating class and was undoubtedly the best student and knight in the Knights Department.
After graduating immediately, Laila shook her head at his cool words, who were planning to join the Imperial Guard Knights and aim for the post of commander of the Knights Guard.
“No, we have to face it. And, frankly, there were some things that I overreacted a few days ago. Does it make sense to just slap me in the back of the head?”
“….sorry. If I had done it myself, I would have finished it in a neat and proper line…. After all, I wasn’t there-“
“Professional knight activity, graduating class activity, preparation for graduation ceremony, etc. I have a lot of work to do, so I can’t help it. But what can be corrected is to correct it.”
“I will assist you. If I run again this time…”
“Then I’ll leave it to Carl.”
“Yes, Princess.”
When a decision is made, and Leila takes a step forward.
“Oh my, it’s been a while. Layla.”
“…It’s been a while since I’ve had Melodine.”
Lyla, who faced Melodin and Ren, who approached right in front of them, greeted them awkwardly.
The meeting of the commoners and the imperial factions.
However, the relationship between the two of them was more subtle there, so the two just greeted each other and went their separate ways.
“Heize, I’m not that bad of a kid.”
“…Ms. Melodine is smitten in the back of the head, but she’s fighting her friend.”
“Well… I met him today and thought that the back of the head may have been Heize’s own thoughts.”
“…what do you think?”
“Shouldn’t the details be solved by meeting with the creators? Layla?”
“…I thought so. Then, have a good time.”
After a polite yet elegant greeting, Laila’s mind was complicated as she strode forward.
‘what? I knew that Melodin was kinder to commoners than anyone else, but wasn’t Heize? What are your thoughts?’
Melodin didn’t treat Heize as before after he left the commoners and joined the aristocrats.
The way she met him one step ahead of her, and then patted him again was enough to confuse Layla.
In addition, what Melodin said about ‘one’s own thoughts’ was also one of the main factors that complicated Layla’s head.
“…are you okay?”
“It’s okay, it’s just…just a bit of a headache.”
“I’ll see you.”
“I’m not speculating.”
When you organize and organize the thoughts that fill your head while being supported by the sword.
“Cahal Villair? Why are you with me?”
Seeing Cahal Villair standing in front of Hayes’ waiting room, Layla had to fall into confusion again.
“…I see the Crown Princess. The princess let me go because I had something to talk about alone.”
“…Shan wants you? why?”
“I don’t know. Only the princess will know.”
She frowned at the fact that Kahal Villair, like Karl Ernor, who had always been close with Shan, was not even separated from Shan, and that it was Shan’s decision.
‘Heize, Heize, Heize. Hey again What the hell is wrong with that man? For the past few days, we have been talking about him.’
Layla knew that Hayes’s academy life had been cataclysmic ever since she challenged her to an honorary duel.
A commoner who applied for an honorary duel to the princess.
A commoner who betrayed the commoners.
A commoner who applied for an honorary duel with the princess and was abandoned by the aristocratic faction.
In the first place, a sane, thoughtful being would not apply for an honorary duel to the princess just because she was flirting with her.
In addition, since Heize was envied and jealous of the commoners and aristocrats, it was clear that other students took the number and bit him harder.
However-
‘In less than a few days after that day, not only was his reputation changing rapidly, he captured Sir Belmont’s heart, and even Natasha, a first-year deity in the Knights Department and the attention of the entire academy, was on an equal footing. Even though there is a disadvantage that there is no mana.’
It took less than a month for the accusations and accusations to be reduced by nearly half.
Professor Belmont embraced Hayes.
Heize’s personality, consideration, and abilities that spread around the first-year knight department.
Finally, the fact that Natasha, who has the best qualities of the Academy, and Bella, the head of the magic department, 1st year, were by Heize’s side was great.
The biggest reason for the reduction in criticism and criticism was that, unless the two of them were blind, they couldn’t possibly be friends of Heize, a rare piece of garbage.
‘…I don’t know. The stupidity and stupidity of coming to the office of the Imperial Family that day and asking me to an honorary duel was definitely real.’
Without knowing anything, he came to himself and said, ‘Let’s do an honorary duel!’ How absurd must have been that Layla had applied for a duel with a tone like that.
In addition, there was no way he could not have known that Heize had turned into an aristocrat, so Lila knew roughly that Heize had been taken advantage of by Shan, so she treated it as just a stupid shogi horse.
No matter how good Shan’s words are, most people don’t apply because they know the weight of the ‘Honor Duel’, especially if the target is a princess.
Clearly, her choice was right, so Lila did not regret her choice.
‘…aa- I really don’t know.’
However, the current situation made it clear that Layla’s choice, who treated Heize as just a stupid chess horse, was wrong.
If it hadn’t been for the knife standing next to me, Layla would have been rolling around the floor, tearing my hair out.
‘Hey, Duke, why does he have to fight like this…’
Duke Berry.
A child I’ve known since childhood who said that he would get his honor lost by Heize, knelt in front of him, apologized, and then expelled him from the academy.
His heart is young and understandable, but Lila really liked things like that.
‘It’s exhausting and difficult just to fight with my sisters over the position of the Empress… What is my honor?’
When Heize applied for an honorary duel, his violent reaction was just a relief from stress.
To be precise, Heize poked the balloon that had inflated rapidly with a needle.
For Laila, the princess and one of the candidates for the next Empress, the Academy was just a passing path, and neither was her honor tarnished by losing or applying for an honorary duel.
Most of all, Heize was pitiful.
He was so stupid that he was only taken advantage of by Shan Andrea, he was just so pitiful.
He felt that he had solved his anger with Heize, but the situation was shaky for Laila, who became an observer of his honor duel with Heize due to Duke Berry.
“Come in.”
After thinking about it, I grabbed the doorknob and Cajal Villaire also moved it to the side.
It was because he thought Shan Andrea would come out soon anyway, and he was curious about the situation inside himself.
And the moment I saw the open door-
“Seeing…you come to me later!”
“You tied the bandages well, thank you. Senior, no. Thanks to Princess, I think we can win the duel today!”
“….Quiet!”
Shan Andrea, covered in embarrassment, ran out of the room crying.
“What… what look!”
Shan Andrea, who found out about her ugliness, got angry at Laila even while crying, and strode towards the audience.
“Princess! You must go together!”
“Follow me!”
“….ha. My Majesty the Princess, I’m sorry. So let’s go first. Princess!”
Shan Andrea, who ran blankly, running away from her usual arrogant and stubborn aristocratic appearance, not like the queen of the noble class, and Cahal Villair followed her in a hurry.
“I’m going to meet your Majesty the Princess.”
Laila waved her hand at the polite voice she heard while staring blankly at the two of them, refusing to say hello.
Hayes.
The owner of the waiting room where he came from, he was about to face an honorary duel with Duke Berry, and a week and a half ago, he applied for an honorary duel.
There was no great ill-feeling towards him, only the novelty and the regret he had used as the object of his anger.
“…it was goodbye. It doesn’t look like we’re going to say hello or exchange anything. But what happened inside that made Shan Andrea cry?”
“I just asked him to put a bandage grip on his hand because he could use his fists in the duel today.”
“…. did Shan Andrea really do that?”
Looking at Heize’s hands tightly wrapped in bandaged grips, Lila looked at both hands and Heize’s face with an absurd expression.
But that didn’t change the answer.
“Are you doing it? Perhaps I was sorry that I wrote it in a long language to insult the Crown Princess.”
‘…Did you know?’
Rather, Lila herself had to be surprised by the answer.
long term.
Questions kept popping up in her mind when she knew that Shan Andrea had used her as a chess horse to shame herself, the head of the imperial faction, but asked her to an honorary duel.
Until recently, I had no desire to talk to Heize, but not now.
‘Since when did you know? I knew why I was treated like a long-term horse. How did Sir Belmont hook you up? How did you restore your reputation? I’m curious about everything.’
A man full of doubts who approached him while he was fighting to become a queen as a princess.
The start was obviously not good, but the start didn’t matter to the current Layla.
When the thought of wanting to hold an honor duel, Nabal, and Heize and talk all day is soaring.
– The honor duel will start soon.
– All observers, please return to the audience seats.
-The honorary duel participants in the waiting room will be picked up by professors in charge of the judges who each wished to arbitrate.
– Participants, please wait in the waiting room.
“….ah.”
Layla let out a moan of regret at the voice of the moderator from the magic megaphone in the waiting room and hallway.
He himself didn’t know why he was doing this, but he was just sad.
What is Heize’s plan, who, despite knowing everything, chooses to eat after being insulted by everyone.
What was the method that stuck Shan Andrea?
What the hell does Heize know?
I was very curious about each one, but-
“…His Majesty the Princess?”
“Sir Belmont. You were right.”
“…Heh heh, I thought so.”
The moment she faced Belmont who had come to pick up Hayes, Lyla knew it was time to back off.
‘Because there is still a lot of time.’
He is a sophomore and Heize is a freshman.
There is still a lot of life left in the academy, and there will be plenty of time to talk.
With such thoughts in mind, Lila moved towards the audience.
She gave a slight smile to Belmont, who waved her hand towards her and saw her off, and as she walked through the audience, she ran into a dilemma.
‘…But if Heize loses, the Duke will expel him….Who am I supposed to cheer for?’
Duke Berrys, who requested an honorary duel for himself.
Heize clearly harbors something and makes him look forward to it.
As to which of the two to support, Lila had to hold her head in the end.
“…Princess? Are you okay?”
Karl Ernoa, who was not aware of this fact, was Layla’s guardian knight, and only cared for Layla.
It was when the start of the honor duel was just around the corner. It’s Bella’s illustration!
I’m thinking of trying to touch only the twinkle of the eyes.
By the way, Bella’s illustration was also posted on the notice, thank you!
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