Became a Childhood Friend of an Academy Genius

15 – Clearing up the misunderstanding

My bet with Marie Lesty ended with my victory.

Yes. It was good until there.

The problem happened right after that.

This stupid Ping-Chang burst into tears and shouted bullsh*t, so even if he shouted at him, Tyler was of no use.

While I was walking out of the training room with the crying guy, I suddenly turned into trash while receiving the gazes of the cadets around me.

‘f*ck.’

I felt like I was about to spit out curse words, but I just swallowed it in my heart.

First of all, the important thing for me is to find Elisha and ask her to interpret what nonsense this crazy b*tch is talking about.

Fortunately, the class ended with a mock battle.

Without delay, I grabbed Marie Leste’s hand and moved her steps.

“No, let go! How dare a commoner hold my hand… !”

At the same time, Marie was busy raising her voice again with a roar.

At that moment, as if the faucet was about to open, I delivered the final warning while looking into his eyes.

“If you talk bullsh*t just one more time, you’ll be smitten.”

“… hehehe!”

Then Marie Lestie hiccupped and bit her mouth shut.

Maybe it’s because of the experience of losing once, it’s easier than I thought.

If you recited even one more word, I was thinking of sticking one in your face.

It might be a little regretful that I couldn’t achieve that.

“Bell!? That, who is that person?”

On the way to find Elisha and move her steps, I ran into Lone as well, but unfortunately I didn’t have time to explain and stay away.

“It’s complicated to talk about. I’ll explain later, so go first.”

“Ugh, yes. OK.”

Lorne nodded and left the lecture room first, as if he was displeased with something, but he seemed to have gone over it when he said he would explain it later.

Leaving her behind her, I immediately focused on searching for Elisha.

‘That’s it.’

Fortunately, I was able to find Elisha shortly after.

Her eyes caught her as she stood by her entrance, her hands clasped together as if waiting for someone.

I guess he was waiting for Marie Lesty.

Whatever the reason, this is good news for me.

“Elisha.”

“Yes… ? Uh?”

As I approached her right away and spoke to her, Elisha’s eyes widened as she turned her head to me.

Uncharacteristic of her, her stupid voice that jumps out after her is a bonus.

Maybe the two-shot of me holding my friend’s hand is not easily aware of the reality.

Even this guy wouldn’t think of running away at this point, so he decided to let go of his hand.

“I’m sorry all of a sudden, but let’s talk together.”

Then, he asked for a three-way face-to-face meeting with Elisha, who was unable to grasp her situation properly.

Because I feel like I need to know a little bit about what happened between the two of them.

* * * *

Since it was lunch time, I followed Elisha’s guidance and headed to a brunch cafe on campus.

‘Crazy.’

As soon as I sat down in a corner and checked the prices on the menu, I opened my mouth.

For common people like me, it was at a price level that brought tears to my eyes.

Amman is said to be quiet and good for conversation, but why did it have to be here when there are so many other places?

But I couldn’t say that I was going to go to a cheaper place, so I ordered the most basic meal menu.

Even that was quite extravagant by my standards.

“Marie seems to have caused some trouble.”

As soon as the order was finished, Elisha threw out a word.

Well, in the original work, the two have been close friends since childhood.

Because of that, Elisha is said to have often been involved in accidents caused by Marie Lesty.

So I’m assuming that Marie Lestie must have done something again.

Although the person concerned jumped up from his seat as if he was uncomfortable with these remarks.

“I, I am not wrong! Wherever that commoner goes… !”

“Use it. Number of animals.”

“… ….”

At least, she immediately shut her mouth at Elisha’s stern voice.

It looks good.

I smiled at the freshness I felt even though I hadn’t taken a sip of water.

Then, as I went back and forth in my head, I pondered for a while on how to open the beginning.

“Could you explain what happened?”

“Yes.”

When I let go of my rhyme, Elisha’s eyes shone sharply, saying that she wouldn’t miss a single mistake.

How come you seem more like a guardian than a friend.

If you think of the relationship between the two in the original work, this might be more appropriate.

I swung the glass of water in front of me meaninglessly before opening my mouth.

I didn’t have a specific desire to tell you, so I was moderately circumspect.

“First of all, it was because of something common between nobles and commoners.”

“… I think you know what that means. I will apologize instead.”

“Okay. What am I going to do after receiving an apology from you?”

She shrugged her shoulders indifferently and drank the cool water.

Literally.

Even if I get an apology, I should get it from Pingchang. What’s wrong with Elisha, who has her ugly friend?

Besides, most of the nobility cadets give me the same gaze, so I don’t really care.

Although it was the first time I heard that in person, I was a bit surprised.

“Anyway, at first, I thought that some strong woman would pick a fight with her. Then she got into a mock battle with the same tightening, and she said let’s make a bet with me?”

“You mean a bet?”

“Oh. After all, I won the match…. The problem comes after that.”

Elisha glanced openly at Marie Resti, who was sitting next to her, then cast her gaze at me again.

It was as if she had given her unspoken pressure to keep quiet until the full story of her case was revealed.

“After the conclusion, isn’t this guy going to use evil while saying that I laid my hand on you?”

“Cow, are you touching me? What is that….”

“That is what I mean. That’s why I called you to have a three-way meeting.”

Elisha looked back at her friend sitting next to her with a puzzled look on her face, as if representing her feelings.

His eyes seemed to say, ‘If you have a snout, why don’t you make an excuse?’.

In response, Marie Lestie shrugged her shoulders for an instant and she finally opened her tightly closed lips.

“That, that…. Actually, Elisha has been less likely to see her and me after school lately, right?”

As soon as I heard the word recent, I felt like I knew why.

Probably because he looks after my studies after school.

“I did.”

“But they didn’t explain why, so I thought I had a lover at first.”

“… Hmmm.”

Elisha glanced at me for no reason, then blushed and averted her gaze.

You must be embarrassed.

She just helped someone she met by chance study, and because of that, she was misunderstood as having a lover.

Even more embarrassing because it’s a conversation with that person next to you.

To be honest, I was too shy to scratch my cheek unconsciously.

“So one day I secretly followed Elisha….”

“Now, wait a minute. Number of animals. Are you following me?”

As soon as the story started to take on a criminal vibe, Elisha cut off her words in embarrassment.

It’s quite shocking even for me, not the person involved.

Am I still trying to follow my normal friend?

“Ugh, sorry.”

Fortunately, this guy also expressed his apology as if he knew that her actions were wrong.

He raises his nose like a stray cat only in front of me, but he is a gentle puppy in front of her friend Elisha.

Should I consider it fortunate that I am not a bad guy at all?

I don’t know if I should think of it as a rapidly changing attitude towards people.

“Haa…. All right. First of all, listening to the whole story.”

Elisha also realized that Marie Leste’s apology was her true intention, and she showed signs of letting go.

Her friend, other than that, must be thinking that it might be because she was worried.

In response, Marie Lestie nodded her head and continued her words.

“Then you were with a guy. However, there is no atmosphere like a romantic relationship….”

“So?”

“… Maybe that man caught Elisha’s weakness and did something bad. I thought so. I knew it because I had heard rumors that he got in by cheating on the examiner.”

The guy who finished the story up to that point and drank the water in front of him without hesitation as if to signal that it was over.

Seeing that, neither I nor Elisha had to open her mouth in a daze.

‘Could this be the end?’

Not to mention annoyance or anger because it’s absurd, it’s to the point where you feel a sense of desolation.

Oh my God.

What should I do with this Pingchang delusional wall?

Ji couldn’t play drums and janggu by herself, so she even brought a gong and a gong to the level of samulnori.

Originally, is Pingchang’s brain dirty like this?

Through the original work, I knew that Ji had a personality that liked to fantasize on her own, but this seems to have gone beyond that limit.

“Marie.”

“Yes heb!”

Elisha’s cold voice reached my ears as I only sighed.

Followed by Marie Lestie’s voice, like a disciplined trainee.

“As I said beforehand, I was never harmed by Dinaur. Meeting him at the library is to help him with his studies, and that’s what I want to do.”

I think it’s great to see him calmly and calmly explain things in the midst of this.

This one is so absurd that it’s almost out of the question.

“Is that so?”

“Yes. So hurry up and apologize to Dinauer. If Marie is also an aristocrat, then she must not know what a great sin it is to insult her partner’s honor, right?”

Elisha’s eyes, like the cold of winter, stared at Marie Resti, who was sitting next to her.

The guy who was exposed to those eyes trembled her shoulders lightly with a sound like a frightened mouse.

“Sir….”

Then she glanced this way and opened her mouth again and again like her crucian carp.

Even in the midst of this, he probably didn’t mean to say bullsh*t about a noble apologizing to a commoner, saying that his pride would be hurt.

If that’s the case, Elisha will be by my side and I’ll give her a shot right away.

“… Sun.”

In the end, he was the one who reluctantly spoke up, but I only heard it sparsely in my ears.

‘Even if an ant were to speak, it would sound louder than this.’

I listened to the resentment and demanded an apology again, as if blatantly sarcastic.

“What? Can’t you hear me well?”

“Aww… ! Mi, I’m sorry… ! The misunderstanding and the disrespect for being commoners. Entire!”

“… It sucks.”

I wonder if even this is the attitude of an apologetic person, but I decided to move on at this point just by looking at Elisha’s face.

If it wasn’t for Elisha, you’d be dead. b*tch

Even in the original work, it was made to wake up overnight, so how did it work in this world?

“That’s enough. If I have to ask for more anyway, the only thing I can do is get down and receive it.”

“I-I’ll forgive you with this?”

“Yes. Instead, next time you talk about being a commoner in front of me, I’ll bet you won’t even have soup.”

“… Okay. You just have to be careful.”

This is a guy who doesn’t know what he did wrong until the end and keeps ticking.

I feel like I want to ask for a proper slap on the forehead even now.

“I’m glad the misunderstanding has been resolved. Thank you for forgiving my friend. Denauer.”

Somehow, when the matter was resolved, Elisha bowed her head to me and thanked me.

“Come to think of it, what was the bet I mentioned earlier? I guess I didn’t hear that closely.”

“Ah.”

Come to think of it, that was it.

Speaking of which, I’ll have to finish the settlement completely and leave.

Without a witness named Elisha, that Pingchang is sure to resort to tricks to escape somehow.

“Hey, Lesty.”

“I’m sorry, so just call me Marie. Why?”

It seems he didn’t hear the conversation between the two of us just a moment ago because he was cooling off.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t be able to make such a relaxed expression.

“You remember the bet? If I win, I decided to do a favor.”

“What do you want? Money?”

“That wouldn’t be too bad, but….”

Momentarily tempting, but not what I wanted, I shook my head slightly.

Anyway, it’s amazing that you can say the word money without thinking about it.

As expected, she is the daughter of a noble family.

However, what I want is not material things.

Demands that help me and also give Marie a shot. That’s just my wish.

Even if you forgive, I think it’s natural for a human being to want to vent their anger.

I emptied the water cup in front of me, took a deep breath, and sternly put the request I had in mind from a while ago into my mouth.

“You, do mine.”

… For a moment.

I think something went wrong.