Chapter 14
Chapter 14
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 14
Chapter Title: Is This Woman Crazy?
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The A1 Class lecture hall.
*Swoosh.*
As the classroom door slid open and new people entered, the students inside naturally turned their gazes toward them.
They were, after all, cadets who would be joining their classes starting tomorrow. Everyone looked, assuming they were classmates.
“Huh?”
“Isn’t that a C-Class uniform?”
But as they looked at Cheon-seong and Glacia, most of them were baffled.
Why was a C-Class student in an A-Class lecture hall?
Among them were Leonhardt and his companions.
As the students’ attention was drawn, Yumia, who had naturally followed their gaze, blinked.
“…Huh, isn’t that Glacia? Who’s the guy with her?”
As Yumia, who was stuck close to Leonhardt’s side, spoke, Leonhardt also turned his gaze to the two who had entered.
His eyes first lingered for a moment on Glacia’s stunning appearance, but the man who entered with her immediately caught his attention.
Black hair and black eyes. In a way, that itself was his defining feature.
He had sharp features, but his eyes, filled with curiosity, scanned the classroom’s interior in a rather peculiar way.
A very out-of-place feeling.
He seemed vastly different from anyone Leonhardt had ever encountered.
Yet, what stood out most was undoubtedly his uniform.
Within this lecture hall, only that man wore a different uniform. The mix of blue and black was clearly the uniform that symbolized C-Class.
“I don’t know. I’m curious who he is…”
“You too, Leonhardt? I mean, Glacia disappeared right away when she was with us. But now she’s with a ‘man’.”
As Yumia, with her short red hair, deliberately emphasized the word ‘man’, Leonhardt gave a slight nod.
Still, it bothered him.
How on earth was that man able to spend time alone with Glacia?
She was with him, and she was completely different from any other woman he’d met. It would be a lie to say he wasn’t curious.
*Step.*
As the thought crossed his mind, Leonhardt started walking.
“Huh? Leonhardt, where are you going?”
“Just to have a word with them.”
“…With a C-Class student?”
At Yumia’s words, which already implied class discrimination, Leonhardt gave a small smile.
“Even if our classes are different, we’re still students at the same academy. There’s no harm in getting to know anyone.”
Speaking gently, Leonhardt felt a pure sense of curiosity.
He was curious how that man could be with Glacia, and he thought that by talking to him and getting to know him, he might naturally learn the way.
*Step.*
As Leonhardt made his way down, Yumia immediately followed at his side.
And they arrived in front of them.
Leonhardt smiled lightly and opened his mouth.
“Hello, Glacia?”
“Yeah.”
“It’s even nicer to see you in the classroom. By the way, the student with you is… who is he? You two seem quite close. Could you introduce us?”
As he spoke gently, Leonhardt got a closer look at Cheon-seong.
Perhaps he was surprised by his sudden approach, or maybe he was nervous, but he just stared intently, which Leonhardt found quite interesting.
“…Han Cheon-seong.”
“Han Cheon-seong?”
At Glacia’s short reply, I looked at him, and the man slowly nodded.
“I’ll introduce myself. As Glacia said, my name is Han Cheon-seong. As you can see, I’m in C-Class… I was accompanying Glacia and ended up coming to see the classroom.”
“I see. My name is Leonhardt Rorient. Feel free to call me Leonhardt. And the person next to me is.”
“…Yumia. It’s Yumia. You, Han Cheon-seong, I’d rather you didn’t call me so casually.”
Watching Yumia reply in a way that was obviously hostile, I was the one who felt a sense of apology.
“Haha. Please don’t take it the wrong way. I think Yumia is just a bit shy around new people.”
“It’s fine. I don’t really mind. Still, this is quite an honor. Seeing Leonhardt in person, the one famous for being the top student of the entrance exam with a Legendary Trait. As expected, you have a completely different air about you compared to the other students.”
Watching the man reply calmly, Leonhardt’s curiosity grew.
‘A different air, he says.’
What exactly was different, and how?
“As for me being this year’s top student, well, I was just lucky. Don’t mention honor, we’re all fellow students.”
“I appreciate you saying that.”
Unlike how he had stared intently at first, seeing this man named Han Cheon-seong respond so well gave off an unremarkable impression.
Calm and composed. Just one of the many students he had a normal conversation with.
‘…Unremarkable?’
Then, a sudden question arose in his mind.
It didn’t make sense for him to be unremarkable.
This was the A-Class lecture hall. And this man seemed to know everything, from my Legendary Trait to the fact that I was the top student who gave the congratulatory speech.
Yet this man, Han Cheon-seong, was treating him so casually.
His ordinary attitude was, in Leonhardt’s eyes, anything but ordinary.
Just then, he saw Yumia flash a smile.
“Glacia! So, what’s your relationship with Han Cheon-seong? Are you, perhaps, a couple!?”
“…Yumia. How can you say something so rude to someone you’ve just met?”
“Hey~ I was just curious. I thought Glacia was being distant and awkward with us, but now you’re getting along so~ well with a C-Class student. I just wondered if you were a couple.”
As Yumia spoke her rude words without hesitation and glanced around, Leonhardt could feel some of the gazes in the classroom turning toward them.
So he couldn’t stop her.
Because he was also curious about what Yumia had said.
How this man named Han Cheon-seong managed to get along with Glacia.
He didn’t think they were a couple as Yumia suggested, but under the gazes of others, he too found himself unconsciously looking at Glacia.
“……”
But surprisingly, Glacia was looking at them calmly.
He thought she might be offended or show some other reaction, but she just seemed indifferent.
‘No way.’
At that sight, the thought that maybe they really were a couple crossed his mind, when…
“We’re not a couple.”
Glacia denied it with a single phrase.
At that, Leonhardt felt a sense of relief.
“Really? Then what is your relationship, Glacia?”
“We have no relationship.”
“Aww, you’re lying. You were so awkward with us, Glacia. You left right after the entrance ceremony, didn’t you?”
As Yumia pressed on a bit persistently, Leonhardt thought he should stop her… but the words wouldn’t come out.
‘What is their relationship, really?’
Yumia’s blunt attitude wasn’t pleasant to see, but at the same time, he was curious. Why was Glacia hanging out with a man named Han Cheon-seong?
He himself looked at people without prejudice about their class, but in the eyes of other students, Glacia and Han Cheon-seong being together would undoubtedly seem strange.
—A-Class and C-Class.
And since Glacia had a strikingly beautiful appearance, everyone was, knowingly or not, watching her.
In contrast to such a Glacia, the man named Han Cheon-seong was from C-Class. And while his appearance was certainly unique… that was all.
In a word, the two of them were a mismatched pair.
“…”
As he watched, Glacia slowly turned her head.
Then she fixed her gaze on Han Cheon-seong beside her. A moment of silence followed, leaving him to wonder what was happening.
“Um, Glacia?”
As Yumia asked, looking puzzled, Glacia finally nodded.
It was something he had felt when he first saw her, but Glacia’s behavior was very strange.
“I’m not sure either. What my relationship with Cheon-seong is. It’s a bit hard to explain in words.”
She uttered such a peculiar statement.
For a moment, he burst out laughing at her words.
“What? What on earth does that mean, Glacia?”
Even as Yumia repeatedly asked, unable to understand, Glacia remained perfectly calm.
She would simply shake or nod her head, offering only short replies.
It was as if she didn’t care at all about the gazes or actions of others, which made Leonhardt watch her even more intently.
“Hold on. I’ll answer this.”
Then Han Cheon-seong spoke up, and Leonhardt wiped the smile from his face and turned his gaze to him.
It was difficult to learn anything from Glacia. He had realized that for certain from her behavior just now.
If so, perhaps he could find the answer from Han Cheon-seong.
He seemed relatively easier to talk to, after all.
***
People can be so consistent.
Whether for better or for worse, truly consistent…
Watching Glacia, Cheon-seong thought to himself.
‘In a way, should I call this amazing?’
Until now, I had thought Glacia was giving me half-hearted answers because I had a Common Trait. But that wasn’t the reality.
This was just Glacia’s ‘true nature’.
No matter who she was dealing with, Glacia’s unenthusiastic and cryptic replies were remarkably consistent.
“Glacia and I just happened to meet by chance.”
“By chance?”
He nodded as he looked at Yumia, who was responding.
Come to think of it, she was another character with a rotten personality.
—Yumia Rirpol.
A heroine with short, sunset-red hair and a bright, uninhibited personality.
She was also a ‘sunflower’ who only had eyes for the protagonist.
She was incredibly kind only to Leonhardt and treated everyone else with utter indifference. She was a heroine character who fell for Leonhardt at first sight, what you’d call completely smitten by his looks.
When I read it in the novel, her devotion to the protagonist seemed quite nice. But being on the receiving end of her disdain, frankly, didn’t feel good.
“I met Glacia during the entrance exam. We talked a bit and somehow got acquainted. And as Glacia said earlier, there’s nothing between us. We just happen to be moving together by chance.”
Getting caught up in needless rumors was the last thing he wanted.
It seemed that various rumors about Glacia and him were already circulating within the class, but he wanted to put a stop to it here and now.
“Hmph. Is that so? Well… I figured as much.”
As soon as he answered, Yumia replied with a snort, which he found truly absurd.
“Yumia. Don’t talk like that.”
When Leonhardt suddenly replied in a cold tone, Yumia was visibly flustered for a moment.
She hesitated, looking back and forth between Leonhardt and me, then opened her mouth.
“Hey, Han Cheon-seong. I… well, I didn’t mean anything bad by it. You know that, right?”
She said it as if demanding he agree, and he just found it so ridiculous he had to laugh.
“Yeah. I didn’t take it that way.”
As he gave a noncommittal reply, his gaze went more to Leonhardt than to Yumia.
Actually facing him and having a conversation like this, he really felt like a protagonist.
‘He’s genuinely kind.’
The gentle nature that embraced everyone, as seen in the novel, was not just for show.
“Leonhardt.”
Then Glacia suddenly spoke up, making him wonder what was coming.
“Have you thought about sparring with Cheon-seong?”
“…Me, spar with Cheon-seong?”
“Yes. I’m curious.”
A conversation that suddenly went beyond his comprehension unfolded.
“…”
Listening from the side, I felt as if my thoughts had come to a halt.
So I could only stare blankly.
At Glacia, who was saying something so nonsensical so casually.
‘What is this woman talking about right now?’
He truly couldn’t fathom her intentions or what she was thinking when she said that.
“I don’t mind, but wouldn’t it be a burden for Cheon-seong?”
As Leonhardt replied cautiously, I was about to nod my head vigorously.
To say it was ridiculous.
But.
…He couldn’t.
“……”
Glacia was looking at him with transparent eyes.
Come to think of it, from the moment she first brought it up, Glacia hadn't been looking at Leonhardt, but only at me.
Even now, her signature blue eyes were shining brightly.
…For a moment, I wondered if Glacia had gone mad.
However.
Ironically, I also felt a strong sense that I couldn't refuse.