Chapter 15
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 15
Infirmary (2)
"No matter if you are the Princess Your Highness and the Grand Duchess, you must not cause a disturbance here in the infirmary."
The disturbance that erupted in the infirmary seemed to be wrapped up thanks to the infirmary teacher who returned after finishing her work.
"And it seems student Allen is also okay, so please leave now."
"Yes?"
To think even I would be chased out. I sent a desperate gaze to the infirmary teacher.
If I get chased out together here, it was one hundred percent certain that I would be tormented by the two people again.
But the infirmary teacher coldly ignored my gaze.
"Please go out quickly. I will not accept rebuttals."
"... Yes, understood."
If I had my way, I would want to remain here as if nailed down, but since I would be coming to the infirmary frequently in the future, I didn't want to smash my relationship with the teacher.
I tried to get up from the seat with an expression that it couldn't be helped, but.
"Consider it an honor. Since it seems difficult for you to stand yet, I will assist you from the side."
"I will take him."
For a completely unexpected reason, the two people were bickering again.
"F, first of all, how about going to eat. It seems both of you haven't eaten yet."
Whether the earnest request worked, Aniel and Lucia came out of the infirmary following Allen's will.
I intended to return to the dormitory and just rest comfortably.
Since I have to resume training and participate in classes starting right tomorrow.
"Where are you going."
However, Aniel grabbed my wrist and thrust the basket at me.
Meaning eat and go. My starving stomach growled tactlessly, but I felt a desire to escape from this spot first.
Because having Aniel and Lucia in one place felt precarious as if something was going to happen for some reason.
Whether this thought of mine wasn't simply a misunderstanding, Lucia immediately grabbed me not to be outdone and said.
"In that sense, we can go to my private room. Since today is the day promised to dine with me anyway."
Lucia kept mentioning the promise to me with a chilly smile.
Certainly, I did make such a promise at the dormitory cafeteria.
"Surely you didn't take the promise made with a Royal lightly, right."
Just as Lucia said, it's a promise made with a Royal.
The meaning of those words is that unless there's a special reason, it must be fulfilled absolutely.
"Do those words come out even after seeing his condition."
"Didn't the teacher also say just now? That he is fine so he can return."
Even at Aniel's words, Lucia wasn't daunted.
Sweat formed on my back. Unlike the time in the infirmary, this time it felt like an explosive situation where force might really be mobilized would occur.
I, who absolutely didn't wish for a bloodshed situation, smiled and said to Aniel.
"C, certainly a promise is a promise, right."
The person who promised first is me. As Lucia said, since the teacher said I was fine, there was no reason to avoid it either.
In the midst of not knowing what Lucia is thinking, a situation of being alone with her was declined.
Perhaps it might move on to a chess game like before and we might just keep playing chess.
So I gathered courage and proposed to Lucia.
"Then how about the three of us eating together....."
"Do you think that will happen?"
"Huh?"
Lucia ended those words, grabbed my hand, and whispered something.
As soon as those words ended, my vision turned white, and when I came to my senses, I was in a completely unexpected place.
"Please be at ease. Since it is my dormitory room."
We teleported to Lucia's dormitory room.
"Then shall we try starting the meal?"
Allen didn't refuse. In the first place, there was no option of refusal.
He didn't know what trouble he would undergo if he refused the meal after coming this far.
So Allen sat in the seat as told and was sharing a meal with Lucia.
"Does it suit your taste?"
"Yes, it is excellent skill."
"It must be. Since they are elites filtered and brought from the Imperial Palace."
But he couldn't eat comfortably.
Looking at Lucia smiling as if enjoying herself, Allen was continuously feeling doubt about what intention she had.
Why she insists on a meal with him.
It was a seat like a cushion of thorns.
Thinking she would speak the main point while eating, Allen waited continuously.
"How is the injured place."
But completely different words came out of Lucia's mouth.
How the spar was, if the hit area still hurts, how about receiving treatment from the doctor brought from the Imperial Palace, words like that.
Allen couldn't understand why she was asking these questions. However, the most incomprehensible thing was the words that followed immediately.
"Probably something like this spar won't happen in the future. Since I handled it well."
"Yes?"
Lucia continued speaking while still maintaining a smile on her lips.
Encountering that smile, Allen didn't dare ask what that meant.
At least right now, an inexplicable intimidation was felt in Lucia's eyes.
"Really, there are many people in the world who don't know their place."
Lucia recalled the events that happened before stepping into the infirmary.
Certainly, people who don't know their place are bound to be anywhere.
There were three things Lucia disliked.
One was people who don't know their place.
When she saw the pathetic sight of acting arrogantly without knowing how weak and incompetent they were themselves, nausea surged up.
Although they pride themselves on having ability, nine out of ten such people were not only unhelpful but also annoying.
Next were those who desired much. Those with much greed always didn't know the limit, and there were often those who stabbed their master in the back.
Because she experienced troublesome things several times thanks to those chasing vain things like loving her beautiful self and wanting to become her husband, she shuddered just thinking about it.
Their appearance of being disappointed as they pleased and feeling betrayed as they pleased was absurd.
But there was something she disliked most above the two.
"Do you know. Lady Teira? I dislike anyone daring to touch my things more than anything."
"P, Princess Your Highness!"
Iris tried to say something, but Lucia pushed her roughly against the wall.
Even if bullied, she bullies, and even if broken, she breaks.
At first, because Allen who avoided her was detestable, she intended to humiliate him thoroughly and make him come to find her on his own feet.
But playing chess with him and continuously meeting him, her thoughts changed quite a bit.
Even if incompetent, he knew his place and valued manners. Above all, not harboring vain delusions and greed was somewhat favorable.
So Lucia intended to keep Allen by her side. Since he becomes a playmate at least.
But today amidst the spar, she encountered unpleasant news.
Lucia looked at Iris Teira in front of her eyes.
There were those who tried to approach her continuously even before entering the Academy.
Lucia remembered that Iris was on that list.
When she first encountered Iris, Lucia didn't feel that meeting very impressively, and it was the same afterwards.
A tribe smearing mud on the proud knight family Teira.
Above all, what was annoying was because it looked like the meal appointment with Allen would go awry because of her.
"Look here. Young Lady. Did you think I would look favorably upon you if you beat Allen?"
"K, kugh!"
Even her usual cynical smile didn't come out. With an expression completely hardened coldly, Lucia strangled her neck with her own hand.
But for some reason, the person groaning painfully was Iris.
Iris couldn't resist. She was already completely subdued by Lucia's intimidation.
Fear was felt as if she would die from suffocation. No, perhaps she might really die here.
Iris recalled the words her father said before coming to the Academy.
At the time, she didn't listen carefully. Because to Iris, Lucia and Aniel were people approaching goddesses.
But reaching now, she regretted.
If Lucia makes up her mind, removing someone like her wouldn't cause any problem.
Her body trembled. Although she didn't fully fathom what wrong she committed yet, Iris thought she must hurry and beg for forgiveness.
At least if she wants to live. But looking at Lucia's face, such thoughts didn't occur.
"Still, if I kill for something like this, I cannot become a great Emperor in the future, right."
"......"
Lucia said while taking her hand off the neck.
"In that sense, I will give you a chance."
"A, a chance, you say."
Instead, Lucia approached Iris and stroked her head.
It was like stroking the fur of a beast.
Although in reality, to Lucia, she was no different from a beast.
"Do not touch that man ever again."
Iris couldn't understand.
What on earth is Allen, for both Aniel and Lucia to react in this way.
But Iris's head was nodding frantically.
Now is not the time to think. It was time to react desperately to live.
"And also."
Seeing her reaction like this, Lucia smiled, approached Iris's ear, and whispered.
"Monitor that man well."
Who, when, where, what, how, why, monitor everything.
She felt a creepy feeling, but Iris dared not express an intention of refusal.
"I, I will receive your command."
She felt that going against it here right now would endanger not only herself but her entire family.
Therefore, Iris bowed her head and said.
That she would receive the command.
"I can give as many rewards as desired to a dog that listens well. But if it doesn't listen...."
Lucia didn't bother to finish her sentence.
As if she didn't want to hurt her mouth saying it, she left the spot as if telling her to imagine on her own.
Even hearing the click-clack sound of shoe steps, Iris sat down on that spot.
"Ha, haha, hahaha."
Tears flowed down from the relief of being alive.