chapter 63
63. stupid schmitz (3)
“Ah, are you here?”
A famous cafe that I visited with Koyono before.
Considering her appetite, the main character arrived just after ordering a lot of refreshments.
“If you come this way… uh?”
However, her condition was strange.
It is clear that he is restless like a dog that is tired.
You can’t even make eye contact with me and your hands are shaking slightly…
“Are you okay? Mr. Koyono.”
“Okay, it’s okay… ”
Koyono staggered and sat across from me.
I silently pushed the warm tea in front of her, and I received it with a strangely trembling hand.
After calming down for a while, I asked her questions.
“He said he had something to see… Did something happen?”
“… … There was none.”
Koyono gives an answer that seems completely unreliable.
He wiggles his fingers and glances at me, giving me a mysterious look.
Cold sweat is dripping from my forehead…
Have you ever been sick somewhere?
“Excuse me for a moment.”
“…!”
I knew it.
When I held my hand, it was strangely dry and my fingertips were cold.
“… Your fingertips are cold.”
“Ahh… ”
Normally, he would have walked away from me, shouting ‘What is this!’
It just freezes and makes a dumb noise.
Hmm, judging from the strangely relaxed eyes, I suspect that he is congested.
Because she was the one who ate street food very militantly.
“It looks like you have a stomachache. I think you should stop going out and go back to the dormitory.”
“Oh, no. It’s not that important… ”
“You’re sick, right? If you’re out, you can always do it again.”
“Huh.”
I grabbed the hand of Koyono, who was saying frustrating things, and stood him up.
My body trembled when I touched it, but it soon relied on me to raise my body.
I can’t help but pack a lot of refreshments.
The car that was about to leave the cafe with her in her arms, who was in such a bad condition…
“Ah, Schmitz.”
“… ”
“Go, princess?”
Upon entering the store, I ran into Arlot and Evan.
Arlott’s gaze goes somewhere from my face.
To be precise, cold eyes hit the gap between me and Koyono.
The one who broke the silence between the four was neither Arlott, who gave me a cold gaze, nor me, who was dripping with sweat for some reason.
“Shu, Lord Schmitz. The girl has something urgent, so I’ll go first.”
“Are you feeling well?”
“It’s really fine. The three of you are going to take a break at a cafe before you go. Enough… !”
“no… ”
Koyono sprinted through the cafe door and left without saying anything.
I hurriedly opened the door and looked around, but I was so fast I couldn’t see where I had gone.
… It looked painful, but was it really okay?
“There is such a coincidence. Were you with Koyono?”
“Ah yes. That’s right. I ordered a lot of bread, but I’m in trouble.”
“… We can eat together.”
Thinking of Koyono, who has a good appetite, I ordered several breads, but it was a car that was in trouble as he ran away.
I went back into the cafe, taking Arlot with a subtle look on his face and Evan, who was dumbfounded.
For some reason, the waitress glanced at me with an excited expression.
well let’s ignore that
“How was your outing today?”
“… Oh, I see.”
Arlott made an expression as if he had completely forgotten about it, and then rummaged through the shopping bag he was holding in his hand.
What came out of it was a gift box beautifully wrapped with a ribbon.
“Come on, Schmitz. It’s a gift.’
“… … yes?”
Unknowingly, I made a stupid noise.
Even though she was blinking, the gift box Arlott gave her was still there.
… why not?
“Schmitz, today is your birthday. I’ve prepared as much as I can, but is there any better response?”
“ah.”
Come to think of it, is your birthday today?
Even if I remembered the birthdays of my previous life, I kept forgetting Schmitz’s.
First of all, since it was a gift from Arlot, it would be reasonable to receive it.
“thank you.”
“Open it right away. You’ll probably like it.”
“… All right.”
Because of my age, I didn’t want to do anything shameful.
However, when the moment came to open the gift wrapped in ribbon and wrapping paper, my heart was pounding without my knowledge.
The present that I slowly unwrapped the ribbon and opened…
These were the stylish black gloves that Arlott had picked up at the general store earlier.
“… This?”
“You have a lot of scratches on your hands because of me. Because that bothered me… Joe, should I say I care a little.”
Arlott said that while shyly avoiding his gaze.
Certainly, there were several scars on the fingers of his left hand from the aftermath of the vampirism.
Though I didn’t really cover it up because I recognized her as a wound of honor that made her healthy.
The kind-hearted young lady in front of me seemed to be very sorry for the scar on the attendant’s hand.
“… thank you.”
As I express my gratitude, a warm energy spreads from a corner of my heart.
I wonder if this is how parents feel when they receive carnations on Parents’ Day.
I put the gloves on right in front of her.
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Judging by the feeling of sticking to the size and the clean finish, it seemed to be quite a high-end product.
It’s durable and can be used in battle, but you should keep it.
“I will cherish it.”
“No, I’ll buy another one when it’s over, so use it often. Are you sure?”
While unable to hide a smile at Choi Ae’s reverse tribute,
It was an afternoon that strangely bothered Koyono, who left the cafe as if running away.
* * *
“ha… What happened… ”
The academy’s girls’ dormitory.
Koyono was lying on the bed with her straight black hair flowing.
“Shu, Schmitz is really that Schmitz… ”
Koyono’s heart thumped loudly in his ears.
Information from the scrolls you saw earlier in the guild.
That information constantly agitates her.
If you think about it carefully, there was a lot of evidence that Schmitz was the man of the ordeal.
Not only the similar appearance and the same name, but also the non-standard ‘black flame’ handled by Schmidt…
It was too powerful to be considered ordinary fire magic.
‘If Schmitz is really the man… ‘
what should he do?
Koyono really wanted to know if Schmidt was really the person in the ordeal, but,
When she was confirmed by others, her head stopped.
Shall we confess the fact that we met in the past?
If so, will he remember himself or not?
Shall I say that I took him as an example and that it was the half of my life that I wanted to find all my life…
“Ugh! What a shameless idea!”
Koyono stirred under the futon and cooled her burning face for a while.
Another woman’s face passed through her mind as she calmed down by kicking off the blanket.
‘Come to think of it, what should Prince Arlot do… ?’
Koyono’s movements stopped in an instant.
I suddenly remember what he said to Arlott during the midterm exam.
[The girl has someone in her heart. so… You don’t have to worry about losing it like that.]
[Take it away, take it away! … Mr. Koyono!]
He clearly said so.
There are others, so don’t worry about losing Schmitz.
It was a story that I could tell because I knew how Arlott looked at Schmitz as the same woman.
However.
If Schmitz is the man of the ordeal he has cherished all his life…
The complexion of Koyono, who had been thinking all this far, turned blue.
Schmitz and Arlot, and himself.
The triangle created by the three vertices swirled around her brain in disarray.
“… Oh, there’s no hard evidence yet… ”
Koyono murmured and soothed herself.
The possibility of being wrong is extremely low, as the information was barely obtained after spending a lot of money in the guild.
However, in order to avoid the headaches faced by this… She chose to escape from reality.
“Imprint of the flame… yes. Until you see it, you’re not sure!”
Saying that, Koyono raised her upper body.
If Schmitz, who entered the 10th stage trial, is still alive,
He must have received the recognition of his guardian deity and received the ‘imprint of flame’ near his chest.
Until I checked it, I wasn’t sure it was Schmitz yet.
… At least Koyono wanted to believe that.
“… Ugh.”
Koyono, whose body heated up from the confinement, groaned excitedly.
Was it because I thought too much about Schmitz, or was it because I wasn’t feeling well as Schmitz said?
Koyono kept getting hotter and repeated fidgeting under the futon.
It was then that her hand habitually turned toward the chest of drawers.
“… … ”
But that hand only rubbed the handle of the chest of drawers.
It doesn’t lead to taking out the dagger for habit.
[If you have any difficulties, don’t solve them like this, and tell me or Princess Arlot.]
[Me too, Princess Princess. I will definitely listen to Mr. Koyono and be on his side.]
Schmitz’s kind words that he said to himself, who was traumatized in the spider dungeon, play in his head.
He calmly consoled himself even though he had witnessed a habit that was appalling and repulsive to others.
And the figure of Schmitz who hugged his trembling body.
In the end, Koyono closed the drawer again with trembling hands.
Because I didn’t want to break my promise to him.
Besides, the area she needs to stimulate now is,
Because it never felt like a wrist.
“Schmidt-dono… Stupid, Schmi… Tsuuu…”
It was more embarrassing than self-harm.
Koyono muttered the name of the person who caused the act and carefully groped her body.
Including holding hands while checking my body condition at a cafe,
Every moment of her body contact with him comes to mind and warms her body.
It was the first pain I felt in my life.
Because that gave her a pleasure on a different level from slitting her wrists…
Koyono only managed to cool herself through the night.