I Became an Outcast in the Academy

5. Return (4)

Recently, the cadets attending Loutra were clearly feeling the small and insignificant changes that had taken place around them.

‘Xian disappeared from Loutra.’

In fact, the cadets couldn’t say that the situation was very unexpected.

Because most of the cadets knew what the outcome would be from the moment Cian trampled Ricardo to the point of mercilessness in a duel.

Nominally, all cadets within Rutra were equal regardless of rank. But some cadets were more equal than others.

And Ricardo, the Crown Prince of the Empire, was no different than a person at the forefront of that ‘equality’.

In that sense, it wasn’t all that strange that Xi’an ended up being ‘missing’ after being accused of hurting the royal family.

“So you should have looked for a place to lie down and stretched out. No matter how angry you are, where is the guy who rams the crown prince from the front?”

“You haven’t even heard the rumors about him? Even if half of those rumors are true, Xian is really insane. And if he was such a madman, he might not have seen anything like the crown prince.”

“Actually, I didn’t hate him that much. Behavior that is different from rumors is calm, and I have never seen you cause trouble to others.”

“Come to think of it, Her Highness, the princess who has always been with him besides Xian these days… No, Cartesia was also hard to see in Loutra? Did something happen in the imperial palace?”

“Okay. From that point of view, Ricardo is still intact here.”

“But since you’re the princess, there must be some circumstances we don’t know about. And if it’s that urgent, news will come to us sooner or later.”

And as if to support the thoughts of the majority of the cadets, the news related to Cartesia, which had been hidden for a while, began to sweep the whole of Lutra.

It was rumored that the reason Cartesia hadn’t been seen in her lutra lately was that she might be due to have her engagement ceremony.

“Cartesia’s engagement… Well, Cartesia is also reaching her adulthood now, so in a sense, it’s natural news.”

“What kind of lucky person will be engaged to the former princess Hara? I really envy you. If I had been my fiancé, I would have the confidence to live with Her Highness for the rest of my life.”

“With your face? Wake up dream Even if you are a prince from another country, you cannot marry Cartesia with your face.”

“… Do I know that much? Can’t I say something?”

Because of the big topic of Cartesia’s engagement, the ‘minor’ news that Xian didn’t show up in Loutra was forgotten in people’s minds.

… No, to be precise, it was meant to be forgotten.

At least, she certainly would have been if it hadn’t been for Cartesia, who had returned to Loutra after a long absence, proudly walking around with her Xian and her arms crossed.

“… What, what? What are they doing now?”

“Cyan and Cartesia, weren’t they just her friends? Could it have been like that? So, did the two of you really run away from love?”

“Aren’t you just pretending? That… Like a joke or something… “

However, seeing the scene where Xian was making an expression as if he was holding back a sigh, while Cartesia was clinging to him with a happy face, it didn’t seem to be a very credible hypothesis at all.

Just when the other cadets were just staring blankly at Xian and Cartesia walking down the street with their arms folded openly, as if they were showing off their relationship to everyone. There was one person

“Cartesia? What the hell are you doing?”

It was Ricardo.

“Oh, brother. See you again after a very long time. Therefore… Is this the first time I’ve seen you since you collapsed on the floor with your legs giving out like an idiot that day?”

“… Kut.”

Cartesia’s blatant sarcasm makes Ricardo’s face red with shame.

For him, the experience of being stunned by Xian’s murderous intent and collapsing on the floor was no different from the most embarrassing memory in his life.

But that wasn’t the point right now.

At least, compared to the madness Cartesia was doing in a place with so many eyes like this, it was really nothing.

“You… Are you really crazy?”

“Oh, what kind of rudeness is my older brother saying?”

Cartesia sighed and smiled like someone who expected Ricardo to appear like that.

“I thought you were a pretty smart woman. She thought that at least she was a woman who could tell the difference between good and bad. But what are you doing now? At this point, when rumors were circulating that she was engaged to someone else, walking around the world with the arms of such a lowly thing and ruining the honor of the imperial family. Are you really sane?”

Ricardo also only heard rumors floating around, but he did not know anything about whether Cartesia was really engaged or, if she was, who she was engaged to.

It was because on that day, Ricardo had been ordered not to go anywhere near the imperial palace for a while after he had earned the Emperor’s wrath for something related to Arietta.

But even if he didn’t know anything, that didn’t mean he couldn’t infer anything about the situation like an idiot.

‘I don’t know about anything else, but one thing is certain… It is true that Cyan is not Cartesia’s fiancé.’

Ordinary aristocrats may not know it, but those who are in a position of the imperial family are unable to marry at will.

For the imperial family, marriage isn’t made out of love, it’s just a political union with someone else.

Ricardo was one of the people in the world who knew the character of his father, the Emperor, better than anyone else.

And the emperor he knew was never one to let his daughter, Cartesia, marry a mere commoner.

Before talking about their status, it was because there was no ‘benefit’ to be had by Xian and Cartesia getting married.

So, Ricarod was able to assert.

Cyan, that guy, was definitely not Cartesia’s fiancé. No, she couldn’t be her fiancé.

Ricardo was just about to say something to Cartesia with that certainty.

“Ricardo is right. What the hell are you doing with that woman right now, oppa?”

“… Ellie?”

The fact that Ellie, who was making an expression as if something was absurd, approached Ricardo.

Ricardo and Elira. To be honest, it was a combination that didn’t suit them at all, so Xian looked at the two with a questioning look.

However, Ellie’s expression looking at Xian was somewhat different from usual.

She always had an expression that she was not interested in everything, and she didn’t have much interest in Xian, but her current Ellie was something different.

The current Ellie was making a contemptuous expression towards Xian.

She said, “I asked what the hell were you doing with a woman who even had a fiancé now. The oppa I know is not someone who will belong to a woman who already has an owner. Why, did she even promise the woman to be her backstory to her brother?”

“What if?”

Xian smiled coldly at Ellie, and she replied.

“This is all because some people have been working tirelessly to get me out of Loutra. But what about this? I don’t want to be kicked out of here, so shouldn’t I struggle somehow?”

“… By struggling, does that mean hanging out with her?”

“At least it’s better than being blinded with your eyes open like this. And since it happened like this, I am more happy and happy to be by Cartesia’s side like this now than when I was with you guys.”

“… What, what?”

For a moment, Xian didn’t miss the hardening of Ellie’s body.

“Do I have to say it with my own mouth? I mean, Cartesia is a much better woman than all of you who have not been helpful in my life.”

“Brother!”

“Actually, making a comparison like this is a pity for Cartesia. Do you know what Cartesia has done for me? She didn’t even get rid of her damn sins once and for all, she casually gave me a present worth more than the money I earned in my entire life. Those who were her sisters were busy reaching out to me.”

Xian saw what kind of emotion lingered in Ellie’s eyes at what she said.

That feeling was definitely an inferiority complex.

An inferiority complex about the situation in which a man whom he had taken for granted up until now had gone to a woman far superior to him.

“… It seems that my brother is doing this now as revenge against us, but he will regret it later. No matter how well you wrap it up, what your brother is doing right now is nothing more than an affair. Now that woman may bite and suck her brother, but to that woman, my brother is nothing more than a toy that she can throw away whenever she gets tired of it!”

And that was then.

“Oh, no matter how open your mouth is, your words are a bit harsh. Ellie, don’t you think it’s a little vulgar to talk like that about a subject you don’t know anything about?”

Cartesia, who had been quiet in the conversation between Xian and Ellie until now, began to refute Ellie’s words with a grin.

“What is the relationship between me and Xian biting and sucking… That’s true, but everything else is wrong. In particular, I absolutely cannot agree that I think of Cyan as a toy that can be thrown away at any time.”

“… What?”

Cartesia opened her mouth again and again toward Ellie, who was looking at her with her absurd eyes.

“I have no intention of denying that I have a fiancée, but I am still the kind of person who values my current future far more than my future fiancée. At least, I think it’s much better than how you treat your brother.”

Saying that, Cartesia clung to her Xian even more tightly than before.

It was as if they were showing off their affection for each other.

“… That, that-“

“Can you believe this alone? Then how about this one?”

Saying that, Cartesia put her arm on his shoulder and hugged him, then kissed him on the lips.

And Xian, too, doesn’t dare reject Cartesia.

Tongue and tongue entangled. Each other’s saliva, which stretched for a long time, stretched like a thread.

When Ellie forgot what to say in that enchanting scene where a pair of snakes got tangled together, Cartesia opened her mouth with an outright sneer at Eli.

“You can understand this well, right? I mean, I mean it. Unlike the likes of you, who at best played family games and abandoned your brother casually at the end of it.”

“You, you… !”

“So don’t mess around in front of us and get out of here. You are no longer qualified to talk to Xian like this. Because… “

Cartesia spoke her Eli’s voice in her ear, quietly so that she could hear her make it, but clearly so that she could hear it.

“Now Xian’s only family… It’s me, not your years.”