Not a Villainess but a Maid

#051 Class Trial (2)

“All the testimonies that have come out so far are all fake.”

For a moment there was silence in the courtroom.

The students started to get upset, and Citrine asked with a puzzled expression.

“Clara, can you tell me in detail…?”

Instead of answering, Clara poured out the evidence on the podium.

“Here’s a notebook containing the team members’ plans and this contract we exchanged with them is proof of that.”

Citrine, who was looking at her evidence with an unusual expression, asked her.

“Based on these pieces of evidence and what you said… Does this mean you admit that you also participated in the plan?”

“Yes. This is something that the members of the musical instrument department and I planned. So, you could say he was an accomplice.”

Without any time for them to refute anything, they nailed Clara because she was an accomplice.

The ones who were more shocked than anyone else were all the members of the musical instrument performance department.

He was looking at Clara with a very embarrassed face, and she was dripping with cold sweat.

Although Citrine was confused, Clara read the evidence notebook she held out to her, and she stuck out her tongue at the meticulousness of it.

“If this continues, there will be nothing more to see. “I wonder if there is any need to continue the trial.”

Citrine’s eyes turned to the members of the musical instrument department, and they could not say anything except clenching their molars.

‘Clara, what on earth are you thinking…?’

The trial, which seemed to end with Ruby’s punishment, ended in a complete upset due to Clara’s shocking confession.

As soon as the trial was over, she ran straight to Clara and asked.

“Clara, why did you do that…?”

When I approached her, she looked at me with a tired look on her face and responded indifferently.

“What are you talking about? “Did you confess?”

“Weren’t you trying to get revenge on us? Why make that choice…”

To add to the exaggeration, if only Clara had provided additional testimony, she could have inflicted her punishment on Ruby.

She didn’t answer for a while, and only after a while did she open her mouth.

“It’s true that I really wanted to do that at first. Because I really hated you back then. “I thought every day I wished I were dead.”

I was a little taken aback by her so honest and explicit words.

Clara continued her sentence while glaring at me.

“But you don’t really hate me.”

“···.”

“I hate you so much, but you always make a fuss and bring me tea. “You don’t even know what I’m thinking inside.”

She was still glaring at me, but it felt like the venom was gone somewhere.

“So, no matter what I do, this boring girl won’t give me the reaction I want. That’s what I thought. So she changed her plans a little bit.”

“You changed your plan…?”

“The reactions of the members of the musical instrument club are more worth seeing than you, who are extremely boring.”

The members of the musical instrument club were all spitting out her six-character message to Clara, whose face was red.

“Look, there are no monkeys, are there?”

Clara was spitting out all kinds of curses in her anger for betraying them, but Clara didn’t even pay attention to them.

“But then Clara won’t get the results she wants…”

I knew she had a plan to push me away and stay with Ruby.

“···I failed anyway. As long as you are here, Ruby will not look at me no matter what I do.”

With a slightly bitter look on her face, Clara pointed with her hand to where the members of her free activity club were sitting.

There, her four followers were looking at us with puzzled expressions.

“And, those kids seem to like your trivial club. “If the manager disappears and the club closes, it will be quite lonely.”

“···.”

“If you hate me so much, why on earth…?”

Clara shook her head slightly at my question.

“I guess low intelligence was contagious to me because I was with Amber. Making all these stupid choices…”

Clara smiled slightly as she said that.

It was not the usual evil laugh, but a normal laugh.

“···And honestly, I don’t really hate it now. “A person like you.”

“···Yes?”

As she was talking with Clara, her student council officers came up behind her.

It seemed like he was going to take her to reveal her clear facts.

Clara looked behind her and said quietly.

“Congratulations. “You win.”

“···Ah···.”

Before I could reply, she turned around and walked away with her executives following her.

Citrine looked at me standing blankly and patted my back.

“···Why are you looking like that? “It turns out Ruby is innocent.”

I looked at her and asked with her confused expression.

“Will Clara also be put on trial?”

“···I guess so. I don’t think she’ll take it lightly. “She confessed, so she won’t be expelled.”

“···.”

As I looked at Clara’s back, a thousand thoughts ran through my head.

***

Immediately after her trial, she wanted to be alone for a while, so she talked to Ruby and went out into the backyard alone.

As I was sitting under the shade of a large tree, Diamond approached me cautiously.

“Amber. “Can I talk to you for a moment?”

“···Yes.”

Dia spoke to me in a calm voice.

“···Thank you for stopping me when I was in the courtroom earlier.”

She almost did something dangerous, but with my persuasion, she eventually changed her mind.

“If it weren’t for Amber, I might have crossed Clara’s line without even listening to her.”

“···.”

The image of her in the courtroom came to mind.

Diamond, whose eyes had eroded black, was using magic she had never seen before.

No, I’m not sure if it was really magic.

“What was that magic, Diamond?”

“···It’s not magic.”

“If it’s not magic, what is it?”

She hesitated to answer my question, but eventually opened her mouth.

“···That’s a curse.”

“Curse?”

“···Unlike magic that uses magical power, it is a spell that costs life force.”

Just hearing the explanation made me feel uncomfortable.

Was there something like that in the original game?

No matter how much I thought about it, she was still strange.

She slipped past it last time, but she was able to handle all 5 attribute magic, but this time she stepped into an area that was completely outside of magic.

“···How on earth can Diamond do something like that?”

I asked with doubt, but Dia shook her head as if she couldn’t answer this question.

“···I can’t answer. Sorry.”

“···.”

Again, she changed her words.

“You’re always like that. “Just avoid her important questions.”

When I turned away from her and stood up, Dia spoke.

“It’s all for Amber and Ruby…”

“For my sake…?”

“···.”

“Today, when you tried to kill someone in front of my eyes, it was for me…?”

Without realizing it, her emotions got stronger and I yelled at her.

“If it’s that way, I don’t need your help…!”

“···!”

The voice rang through the wind, and Diamond’s eyes filled with tears.

“···.”

She felt that her words had been too harsh for her, so she lowered her posture and faced her.

“···I’m sorry. “I’m a little excited.”

She looked at me, bit her lip as if trying to stop herself from crying, and then shook her head.

“No. Amber is right. I got impatient… “I couldn’t make a rational decision.”

When the tears in her diamond eyes seemed ready to fall, she turned her head away from her.

She spoke calmly, hiding her face.

“I’ll tell you everything when the time comes, Amber. “I promise.”

I had already turned my attention away from Diamond and couldn’t ask anything more.

I got over the crisis that came with the class trial, but I still didn’t feel refreshed.

***

A few days after the whole incident ended, the students in the dormitory began packing up their belongings one by one.

Because vacation was about to start and I had to go back to Sarka Mansion, I had to pack my bags in advance.

As I was organizing my clothes and the girl’s clothes, I kept feeling uneasy because I kept thinking about what I had shouted at Dia earlier.

As she was sighing and putting her clothes into her bag, Ruby spoke to her from behind.

“What’s going on, Amber? “I’ve been sighing ever since.”

“···Actually, I said something harsh to Dia.”

“That’s why I’ve been like that these days.”

Ruby came next to me and started packing the clothes I had been packing.

Seeing her look like that, I stopped her and said,

“I will do it, please rest…!”

“What are you going to do in such a condition? I’ll be doing it, so go see Dia. “I have to solve everything.”

“Lady…”

“Don’t hesitate, hurry up. “After this, she will leave.”

I was pushed by Ruby and seemed to have been kicked out of her room.

I knocked on Dia’s door, hoping she hadn’t left yet.

“···Dia?”

I knocked on the door once or twice more as there was no answer, but there was still no answer.

Apparently, she packed her bags and left first.

“···.”

In the end, I can’t even properly apologize and am going back to the mansion like this…?

It was when she took her steps back with a depressed heart.

“Amber? “What are you doing here?”

When I heard a familiar voice and turned around, I made eye contact with Dia who was walking down the hallway.

After awkwardly meeting her, I scratched her head and told her story.

“Over there… Therefore···.”

I felt even more strange as Dia looked at me with her curious eyes.

I continued speaking as calmly as possible.

“···Because of what happened last time. “I came to apologize.”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry. Are you okay.”

I was a little embarrassed because Dia accepted it so coolly and let it go.

“At that time, I just screamed and said something harsh…”

“Did that bother you?”

Dia came trotting towards me, and she smiled sweetly.

“No matter what happens, I’m with you and Ruby. “You two mean everything to me.”

“···.”

She was always kind. Sometimes, her kindness makes her want to cry.

I said, trying hard to hide the moistness around my eyes.

“Actually, I should have been angry at myself, not Diamond… Because I can’t do anything on my own… “

I was angry at the helplessness of having to rely on Diamond’s power after encountering a problem that I couldn’t solve on my own.

“I don’t have anything to say to you who are trying desperately…”

As he was looking at the floor and unable to raise his head, Dia held his hand tightly and spoke.

“That’s not true. “I was able to come this far thanks to Amber.”

She smiled brightly and made eye contact with me.

“Every time I tried to go astray, Amber always corrected me.”

He gently patted her shoulder and comforted me.

Before I knew it, she looked at me with tears in her eyes and said.

“Amber always has a positive influence on those around her. And that’s why I like you.”

“···.”

I was listening to her and sobbed.

“···I think I’m going to cry.”

“Really? Me too.”

As I held back my tears with a pitiful expression, Dia smiled and said.

“Shall we hug as a sign of reconciliation?”

I hugged her lightly and looked at each other.

Dia greeted me, wiping my face with her sleeve.

“I’ll just go in now. “I need to pack my bags soon.”

“Yes…”

“See you during vacation. Amber.”

After saying goodbye, I stopped her as she was about to go in.

“That’s right, me too…”

“Yes?”

I brought up what she couldn’t say earlier because she was crying.

“I like it too. Diamond.”

“···.”

After hearing what I said, Dia smiled, her cheeks turning red.

“···Yes. Thank you.”