Episode 9 Extras Want to Live (2)
Around midnight, I was sitting on a bench in a quiet garden, trying to calm my mind, look at the stars, and make some resolutions for the future.
Well, I don’t understand this situation right now. How can the timing be so unlucky and exquisite?
“Hey, can you move over?”
Long blue hair that falls to her waist, sparkling golden eyes, a thin jawline, and plausible facial features.
The look of her navy blue tracksuit tights and crop top was dizzyingly lethal. Her sleek legs curved exquisitely from above and fell straight down from the pelvis.
The spring breeze was still a bit cold, so he had a beige cardigan over his shoulders like a cloak, and a claymore wrapped in a white scabbard was hanging from his waist.
I didn’t know her because I saw her from afar at the entrance ceremony, but I couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration just by looking at her. Her appearance was so unrealistic that my standards of beauty changed before and after seeing her.
As I opened my mouth for a moment, Abel stared at me blankly. The atmosphere was shaky but intellectual, as if the moon was shining only on her.
however.
Were there four seats for me on the bench? It was clearly public property of the academy. I wondered if there was some kind of fucking rule that said special class students couldn’t sit on the benches. Well, it would make sense in this crazy academy. I was struck by how I had become accustomed to the class system.
‘Oh my.’
But right now, no matter what the reason, I didn’t want to get involved. I had just decided to stay out of the political world. Meeting a beautiful woman was always welcome, but from my perspective right now, it wasn’t something I could just happily let go of. There’s nothing more dangerous than getting involved with the main heroine.
Besides, because of what happened with Chloe earlier, I didn’t feel like dealing with anyone. My hands would tremble slightly whenever Chloe’s cloudy eyes briefly flashed through my mind.
Well, I’m not rip-off or anything, I’m just asking you to step aside, so it’s not a particularly difficult request.
That was the moment when I was about to leave, leaning on my weak knees.
“You don’t have to go. Just move over a little bit.”
Abel tilted his head slightly and came right up next to me. She gestured for me to step aside, so I pushed my butt toward the corner. A drop of sweat ran down my forehead like dew, as if I had just worked out.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The stillness of the early morning had settled in. The insects had already left for work, and the only sound that could be heard was the sound of the trees swaying in the wind.
I just turned my chin slightly to the side. Abel was wiping the sweat from his face with his sleeve and looking up at the sky. He had been so heavily buffed by the heroine that his eyes turned to her.
“This is where you can see the stars best.”
Surprisingly, the voice that broke the silence first was Abel. Her gaze was still fixed on the night sky.
I couldn’t help but be amazed at the sight of Abel, looking up at the night sky with shining eyes. Was it really Abel von Nibelung, the granddaughter of the swordsman?
In the game, Abel was a character who couldn’t be said to have a good personality, even in vain. Why, aren’t there characters like that? A character who starts out as an iron wall and ticks, but then has to overcome all sorts of trials together to build up emotions.
Even the handsome protagonist couldn’t say a word to Abel in the beginning because of his hostile attitude.
That’s why I felt unfamiliar with her speaking to me in a relatively friendly manner. Abel, who was looking at the sea of stars, turned his gaze towards me.
“Is your weapon a sword?”
I nodded slightly in response. A clear voice tickled my ears.
“My grandfather said that. Inspectors have different eyes.”
Abel, who had said so, stared at me with half-open eyes. Her long hair swept over her shoulders and chest. She tilted her head, stroked her chin, and then pushed the sword she had leaned against the armrest.
“Want to catch it?”
“I’m not that attracted to it.”
As he said that, Abel made a sullen expression. One side of his cheek puffed out. Then he turned his head away. Could he be upset? After remaining silent for a while, Abel opened his mouth again.
“Do you know me?”
“roughly.”
“I don’t know you.”
what?
“Isn’t that a little lethal? You know my name, but I have no idea who you are.”
“We just met, do I have to reveal your name?”
I glared at her with narrowed eyes, but she paid no attention and continued speaking.
“You never know, you could be a spy from the Demon King disguised as a student and sneaking into the Academy. Otherwise, there’s no reason for you to be here alone at this hour of the night.”
When I made a dumbfounded expression, Abel tapped the handle of his sword with his fingernail. His gaze seemed to be assessing me. Just by looking at his eyes, I couldn’t tell if he was joking or being serious.
“Then what are you?”
When I coldly retorted, Abel stared at me for a while with a dumbfounded face, then let out a short sigh and replied.
“Can’t you tell just by looking at it? I was just working out and training, and you were just lying around on the bench.”
“I was exercising too.”
“What kind of exercise?”
“Breathe.”
“… … .”
Abel twisted his lips once, then shook his head while touching his temple. There were gauze and bandages stuck here and there on the hand he was touching. When I looked away, she quickly hid her hand behind her back and scratched her cheek awkwardly.
The gap between her and the image I had imagined was so great that I wondered if she was the same person as the ironclad kuudere I knew. Of course, in the story, she had a textbook-like cold and haughty impression, but the girl in front of me had quite a variety of expressions.
Abel glanced at me, wiggling his fingers, and checked my mood. Occasionally, he brushed back his flowing hair.
“You’re working hard.”
“Well, okay.”
A shadow fell over Abel’s face.
“People don’t know. What it means to be of Nibelung blood. You always have to be the best, perfect. You’ll be quick to attack even the slightest flaw. You know, I’m not the top student this year, right? To be honest, this is the first time in my life that I’ve lost to someone.”
Abel pursed his lips and bit them hard. Then he forced an awkward smile.
“But you know what? In a way, it’s kind of refreshing.”
While Abel continued speaking, I didn’t bother to nitpick.
“But I’m still curious to know who the boss is, who beat me. That way, I can surpass him the next time we meet. No, I’m definitely going to beat him next time.”
“I’ll even go as far as to make it… … .”
“Honestly, it’s hurtful. I heard from my grandfather that the top student isn’t even from our class. And he skipped the top student oath ceremony. How can I live with the second place student feeling sad…?”
She muttered briefly in a hushed voice, then shook her head as if to shake off her thoughts.
“I’m really being cheeky, talking like this to someone I’m meeting for the first time. I guess the test results were quite a shock.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
“Huh? Because I look weak. Our family motto was ‘Be strict with the strong and merciful to the weak!’ And all the kids in my class are like rice cakes, so I don’t really have any friends.”
‘So this is why I was cold to the protagonist.’
Abel stretched out and stood up, dusting off his tights.
“I guess I should go in now.”
“Oh, bye.”
“So when are you going to tell me your name?”
“I don’t want to tell you.”
“hey!”
* * *
Although we had never met before, he was a really interesting male student. For some reason, I felt comforted a lot in a conversation that lasted less than thirty minutes.
“It was fun after a long time.”
I couldn’t remember the last time I shared my true feelings openly with someone.
Outside, the pressure of being a descendant of the Nibelungs and the granddaughter of the Sword Emperor.
At the academy with my classmates, I was getting goosebumps from the looks of awe and jealousy.
Then, a male student whose name I didn’t know, whom I spoke to on a whim, looked at me exclusively. They say that silence is also a form of conversation.
There wasn’t much conversation going on. But rather, the male student’s attitude had the talent of drawing out honesty.
He was a bit rude. No, he was rather unlucky. He didn’t even tell me his name until the end. The boys in the same class would even take out a number just to talk to him.
“I feel like I got rejected even though I never confessed… … .”
Abel walked down the dimly lit road to the dormitory with a bitter smile.
His steps were lighter than usual.
* * *
As soon as the sun rose, I went to the library.
A huge library worthy of its reputation as the world’s greatest academy. It was a tall, eight-story building reminiscent of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. This world may not know about anything else, but its scale was amazing.
The interior of the library was even more spectacular. The cylindrical hall in the center was surrounded by books, which were packed tightly all the way to the top floor.
After briefly looking around the deserted library because it was the weekend, I found a suitable seat.
‘This is why you really look like a student.’
Actually, I have never been close to books in my life. It was because I started working right after graduating from middle school, but also because I got dizzy just looking at the printed page.
Leaving my mind on the brink of despair, I thought back to the things I needed to look for first: various introductory books on this worldview and knowledge for survival.
Among them, you should first look up the method of using the guardian and the list of demons you will encounter during the practical training during the upcoming semester.
In my previous life, I left all the hunting of demons to automatic hunting, so I have no knowledge of attack patterns. Whenever I got stuck, I would just clear it by throwing cash at it. That’s why everything from now on was unfamiliar, and I needed to look into it myself.
Of course, I plan to train my body steadily and learn general swordsmanship. Until my body is complete, I plan to refrain from using the ‘Protection of the Sword God’ as much as possible. I will only use it when my life is at stake. In fact, I don’t know if that will work out as I want.
‘I think in an emergency situation, I would probably instinctively take out the sashimi first.’
But what can you do? Even if nothing goes as planned, you have to try your best.
I slowly browsed through the library categories. Then, a book sticking out of a corner caught my eye.
A red magazine titled ‘The Secret Private Life of the Bitch School Principal ♥’.
The color of the cover was almost faded because it had been worn so much. I picked it up with a laugh, thinking that it looked the same no matter where I went.
“You’re lucky.”
Studying is important, but there are things that are more important to a hot-blooded man.
