For Your Failed Unrequited Love

When Arkel screamed, Felix had no choice but to jump onto the window sill. He thought it would be best to get the cat and get out of this office quickly.

But he felt something pulling the hem of his clothes from behind. Looking back, Lucy looked terrified and was holding the hem of his jacket.

“Are you really going to jump again?”

Lucy’s eyes, asking with a panicked face, shook.

“Don’t worry. I won’t get hurt.”

Felix answered confidently. He was fine when he jumped out of the girl’s dormitory before.

Even though she remembered the incident, Lucy kept holding the hem of his coat with an uneasy expression.

“What if you slip off the roof?”

“I’ll be careful not to fall.”

After thinking for a moment, she went to Arkel’s desk and returned with a pair of leather gloves.

“Put this on. You could get bitten by a cat.”

“Keenon! Those are my gloves!”

Arkel shouted with a ridiculous face, but Lucy didn’t even pretend to listen. With the gloves she had forced him to use, Felix jumped down the roof of the second floor. It was a soft landing.

It might seem dangerous to the onlookers, but it wasn’t really that dangerous because he jumped from the third floor to the two-story roof. When Felix stood on tiptoe, he could see the inside of Arkel’s office through the window.

Felix peeped inside because he was worried about Arkel and Lucy, who were left alone.

Let’s say he called me because of the cat but why did he call Lucy? Is it really because she got two questions wrong on the exam?

As if answering Felix’s thoughts, Arkel called Lucy.

“Come here and sit down.”

He pointed to the tea table in one corner. It was just an ordinary table, but somehow it didn’t suit Arkel’s office.

Lucy, with her nervous look on her face, reluctantly walked over to the tea table and sat down.

Then Arkel strode to the office desk, took something out of the drawer, and returned to the tea table. What he brought was a glass bottle full of colorful candy.

Lucy looked at the object with a bewildered expression, it did not match Arkel at all. Felix could easily read the thought that immediately appeared on her face.

Is it poison in the shape of candy?

Arkel spat out a word to her.

“Here, eat.”

“Yes?”

“Did you go deaf? Go ahead and eat it!”

Arkel nervously shook a glass bottle of candy in front of Lucy. The candy clattered loudly.

Confused, Lucy took the bottle with both hands.

“Yes.”

“And this too!”

Arkel brought children’s snacks and chocolate, which he didn’t know why he had, and poured them onto the table. He was staring at Lucy, as if he was trying to make sure she ripped open the cookies and put them in her mouth.

Is that really a poison?

A curious thought appeared in Felix’s mind as he watched it carefully. It was clear that Lucy still had such doubts.

She looked at the cookies with a very suspicious look. However, Arkel was watching in front of her, so she opened a snack and bit the corner carefully.

Contrary to Felix’s expectation that she would frown, Lucy’s expression as she put the cookies in her mouth was calm. No, she looked down at the cookie with a surprised expression and put it all in her mouth.

“What do you think! It’s soft and sweet!”

When Arkel shouted something that she didn’t know whether it was a question or he’s just yelling, Lucy flinched and nodded her head. She hesitated and picked up another cookie, as if it weren’t a lie.

When he saw that Lucy was eating deliciously, Arkel gave her a satisfied expression.

What the hell is this?

Felix, who watched the scene secretly, was very confused.

But it didn’t seem like Arkel was being grumpy with Lucy, so he took his eyes off them and walked towards the sound of the cat’s cry. Soon he found a small hole between the wall and the roof.

Peeking into the hole, he saw a pair of amber eyes twinkling in the dark. The owner of those eyes looked at Felix and then ran away to the depths.

He thought getting the cat out would be troublesome.

At that moment, Arkel’s blunt voice came out clearly from the open window.

Thanks to this, Felix was able to overhear the conversation between Arkel and Lucy while lying on the roof and peering into the hole.

“……about your grades this time.”

Arkel seemed to talk about the reason why he called Lucy in earnest. As feared, he wanted to talk about Lucy’s grades.

“You didn’t write the answer to the last question properly, right?”

Arkel clicked his tongue.

“There is no one who got to the heart of the problem and wrote an accurate answer. Even the Roman guy who took first place this time. I was expecting you to write a satisfactory answer. I was very disappointed to see the blank answer sheet. Was the problem difficult?”

“That’s….”

Even if he didn’t see himself, he could imagine how embarrassed Lucy must have been at Arkel’s sudden interrogation.

Felix looked into the hole with a desperate heart. He thought he’d better get the cat and Lucy out of this office.

“Well, you can make a mistake once in a while. 4th place…. Yeah, it’s not that much of a slip. I hope you can get to the top again next time.”

Lucy answered Arkel’s question, but her voice was so small that it was hard to hear. Felix guessed that she probably nodded roughly.

“Great. The historical society is a difficult place for commoners to enter. But it’s not without a case at all. I’m sure you can get in. As long as you keep your grades good.”

However, their conversation began to flow in a strange direction.

“Society?”

Lucy also felt a strange feeling, so her voice rose.

“As you graduate, I would like to recommend you as a new member of the Beros Historical Society. You can probably study and learn a lot as a good historian.”

“W, wait a minute!”

“Hurry up and eat!”

He heard Arkel interrupting Lucy and pushing the cookie bowl forward. Before Lucy could question what she had just heard, he turned to another topic.

“By the way, I heard that you were able to attend the academy through a scholarship, what will happen to the scholarship next semester?”

Arkel cared so much about Lucy that it was embarrassing. Even Felix never imagined that he would bring up the scholarship.

“You didn’t get 2nd rank, but the 4th rank, so wouldn’t it be unreasonable to get a scholarship for the next semester? It will definitely go to Eric Roman!”

Hearing those words, Felix frowned as something soft touched the tip of the glove. It was the cat

The cat, who twisted to and fro avoiding his hand, finally crouched close to a corner.

Felix, who saw it, put his hand deep into the hole again and finally succeeded in grabbing the cat’s neck.

“Wouldn’t it be difficult for you to continue attending the academy if you don’t get a scholarship or something like that?”

Arkel asked another question. He was using a unique way of speaking in a way that he had no consideration for the other person.

“That….”

“If that’s the case, I think you should get a sponsor as soon as possible! If you can’t find it yourself, I can introduce you to someone I know!”

Damn old man. You’re too late.

Felix moaned inwardly and slowly pulled his arm out of the hole. Then a confused-looking cat soon appeared.

It was a blackened cat that could only be noticed after a few seconds that its original fur color was yellow. Unlike when it was dodging his hands in the hole, the cat that came out looked calm and gentle.

Felix, holding the cat in one hand and the other on the windowsill, jumped up gently.

“Thank you for your words, but I am already receiving support….”

Lucy, who was responding to Arkel, sensed Felix’s presence, and turned her head to the window.

Seeing the cat in his hand, Lucy and Arkel quickly got up from their seats. One quickly approached the cat with a bright smile, and the other stared at the cat with his back behind him from a distance.

Lucy quietly reached out to the cat in Felix’s hand. The cat, who had already moved into Lucy’s arms, was still “meowing” with a bewildered expression.

As Lucy gently scratched his neck, the cat squealed and closed his eyes.

“You’re so skinny!”

Arkel, who was watching him, raised his eyes and shouted.

“It’s only bone because they were busy hiding like a mouse and crying all night long disturbing other people’s sleep!”

He suddenly walked towards the fireplace, picked up a poker from the wall and pounded it on the floor.

“Bring me here right now!”

Lucy’s face, holding the cat in her arms, quickly turned pale.

<T/N: Poker – a metal rod with a handle, used for prodding and stirring an open fire.>Sienna