Bullied but Popular

159 – A nerd also appears

Felix Rochelle’s office.

“Heh heh heh, is that so?”

“Yes. Principal.”

In the principal’s office, Principal Felix and Mard Ripoll, the academy’s student council president, were conversing.

Hearing Mard’s story, Felix muttered with a troubled expression.

“Aaron Valentine and Karl Valescia? They’re both the heirs of the marquis.”

“Yes, but no matter how much the heirs of the marquess were, this time it was too harsh.”

“But from what you said, it turns out we were at fault too.”

“yes…”

When Mard answered awkwardly, Felix frowned.

“Besides that Ethan, how dare he wield an aura on my granddaughter?”

“…not yet exactly…”

“Hmm? Did you tell me something that hasn’t even been confirmed yet?”

“… No. I haven’t seen it myself, but it’s almost certain.”

Felix frowned again.

“Discipline, no, expulsion…”

“Let’s pass it as punishment.”

Mard said as if making excuses.

“Fortunately, Sylvia finished without any major injuries, and she probably doesn’t want Ethan to be expelled like this.”

“Are you going to end it with just punishment?”

When Felix spoke with his eyes shining, Mard continued with a slightly intimidated spirit.

“That, and… losing an Aura Knight like this… wouldn’t be good for the academy either.”

“Hmm…well, think about that later.”

Felix thought for a moment and then said.

“Certainly our students are suffering too much.”

“Yes! That’s exactly what I want to say!”

When the topic he wanted finally came out, Mard raised his voice again.

“No matter how much our students are at fault, our students are intimidated by the tyranny of Borage these days.”

“Hmm.”

“Isn’t this our academy! But since the opponents are the sons of high-ranking nobles, we can’t respond. So, the students’ dissatisfaction continues to grow.”

“So what do you want to say?”

Felix nodded as if to continue talking, and Mard swallowed dryly and said.

“…you can’t just be suffering, can you?”

“so?”

“I know that the Headmaster has been reworking the large outlying gymnasium lately.”

“so?”

“……”

Even after saying all this, Marde was taken aback by Principal Felix’s flimsy reaction.

‘what?’

If it was as he expected, Principal Felix would have been preparing something, but his reaction was not cool.

Mard said in a cautious tone.

“…wasn’t that a match between our students and the Borage students at the gymnasium?”

“ha…”

Finally, Felix sighed and said.

“It was at first.”

“But why…”

“It’s different than I thought.”

Felix said with a pity.

“At first, we wanted to create a good effect by colliding with our students, but the level of Bollywood was higher than I thought.”

“Ah, no! There are certainly a lot of great students at the Ballage, but we’re not far behind!”

“Come to think of it, you were in third grade, right?”

Felix looked at him with a confused look and said,

“And in the third year… Cecilia Cloud.”

“That, she…isn’t she the Master?”

“… yes.”

Mard’s status was an Auror Knight, one of Felix’s three Auror Knights.

Although he was already over 20 years old, he was still a talented person who was in the ranks of a genius.

‘But it won’t work for Cecilia Cloud. It sucks.’

Felix licked his lips as if it was a waste.

If you order sparring, of course you have to stick with the same grade to be fair… The opponent is so bad.

‘Well, I originally had no intention of touching Cecilia Cloud anyway.’

I had no intention of touching the Aura Master as part of it.

Meanwhile, Mard gritted his teeth when he heard her name suddenly appearing.

‘Cecilia Cloud…’

***

Four years ago, Marde met Cecilia by chance at a party and fell in love with her at first sight after seeing her beautiful appearance.

“……and.”

“Why? What are you looking at?”

Seeing Marde’s admiration, the friend next to him followed his gaze and looked around the party.

And when he saw Cecilia’s figure, his friend smiled and said,

“Don’t say anything bad. Give up, friend.”

“why?’

“Haven’t you heard the name, too? Cecilia Cloud.”

“Cloud… You said you kicked out men with that duel?”

“Yes, I heard that there are already more than 10 people who have been dumped by that woman. Don’t touch me, we are over there…”

“Then what if I win?”

“what?”

The friend looked at Mard as if he was saying something and asked, but Mard did not answer and approached Cecilia with confident steps.

‘There’s no way I’ll lose, right?’

Mard’s current age is 16 years old.

Mard, who had already entered Expert, had no confidence in losing to Cecilia.

Marde started to get a little excited when he heard that he could get such a beauty just by winning the duel.

‘She’s the right woman for me!’

Mard, who had grown up receiving compliments from others and was popular with women, was confident in his own way.

So Marde, who confidently approached Cecilia, shouted.

“Cecilia Cloud!”

“…?”

“Please go out with me! It’s love at first sight!”

A straightforward confession that is popular among young aristocrats these days.

It’s embarrassing, but young women these days like this kind of confession, and since Marde was quite confident in her appearance, she shouted confidently.

Tia, who was next to Cecilia, sighed as she saw Marde like that.

“Haa, you’re here again. What are you going to do?”

“……”

Cecilia didn’t answer and walked silently toward the gymnasium.

And then…

“What!?”

Quadang!

Mard lost in 10 seconds in front of the public.

***

‘… The woman…’

Waking up from the flashback, Mard imprinted on Cecilia once again.

A beauty with azure silver hair and golden eyes.

‘How dare you kick me?’

Marde was one of 100 men who confessed to Cecilia and got dumped.

“I want to know why an Auror Master is working as a student at the academy…”

“…so I have something to say to the Headmaster.”

“huh?”

Mard said meaningfully to Felix who was troubled.

“Aren’t these freshmen still passing points?”

“yes.”

“I would like to change the content of the test.”

“how?”

“It’s turning it into a survival event, not a tournament!”

Mard said it was a good idea, but Felix’s reaction was mediocre.

“survival…”

“Survival is not very different from tournaments! It is true that first-years in the ballage have excellent skills, but survival does not require a one-on-one fight! I can deal with the knight!”

Mard said excitedly, but inside he had other thoughts.

‘Do you know how to suffer like this, Cecilia?’

It was just the truth of a narrow-minded man.

Cecilia honestly doesn’t have the confidence to win, but her brother is a freshman at Borage.

‘Tia Cloud, you were there at that time.’

Mard felt the heat rising inside him again.

Her younger sister, who was there, flamboyantly kicked in front of the public.

‘You must be laughing at me inside, too, right?’

Revenge was impossible for Cecilia, the Aura Master, so even her sister wanted to be disadvantaged somehow.

And furthermore, I wanted to let people know that Felix is a better educational institution than Borage.

No, I just hated losing something to Cloud.

Meanwhile, Felix nodded after thinking for a moment about Mard’s serious words.

“There’s definitely a possibility rather than sparring like this, like the last time, it’s a treasure hunt type of finding something, or if you put on a mana coat, it’ll be a competition to some extent.”

“That’s it! If that’s the case, our kids too…”

“Then why are you so active?”

Felix looked at him curiously.

“Are you in the third grade anyway? It has nothing to do with passing points, so why are you so interested?”

“Ah, no. I’m not the student council president. Of course, shouldn’t I be thinking about our academy?”

“Really? Hmm… Well, since I’ve heard that the passing point is for the students to take it, I originally intended to do it.

‘Whoa…’

Mard sighed and thought.

‘I have to collect Delphine with Ethan.’

Cecilia’s younger brother, and Bollywood Academy.

His rotten pride wouldn’t let them go.

***

‘no.’

Fain!

Sylvia’s model began to wander the gymnasium.

Fain! Fain! Fain! Fain!

‘no!’

Her wooden sword crossed the air.

Wedge aejuepaang!

A bloody piercing sound pierced the space.

However, Sylvia looked at the wooden sword with a frown, dissatisfied.

“This isn’t…”

The sense of aura I felt yesterday.

It was obviously easy to use.

And it seemed like I would get it sooner or later.

“But why not?”

It’s a very small step left, but that step feels so far away.

Silvia paused for a moment and stared blankly at her wooden sword.

Then he turned his gaze to the entrance of the gymnasium.

“… haven’t you come yet?”

Today was a joint training day with the Bollywood students.

There were quite a lot of gymnasiums, but it was unavoidable because the number of students suddenly increased.

And now, Sylvia was waiting for the students of Borage to come out first to the gymnasium.

‘It’s time to come soon…’

As soon as she thought about it, she felt the presence of people at the entrance of the gymnasium.

‘come!’

Sylvia straightened up and started pretending to train.

And the students entering the gymnasium…

“You haven’t come yet?”

“What if it’s not good?”

‘Tsk.’

It was the sound of Felix’s students coming in, not the Bollywood students.

‘When are you coming?’

Sylvia silently swung her sword again and waited for the Bollywood student, Aren to be precise.

Let a little time pass like that.

“Aren.”

“Why again?”

Aren, Luke, and Amy were entering the gymnasium.

“Let’s have a sparring match.”

“……”

Aren made an annoyed expression when he saw Luke always saying the same thing these days.

“If you’ve been hit like that, try moderately? Don’t you know that it’s not possible yet?”

“Are you scared?”

“Are you taunting me with the same words again? Are you a parrot?”

Amy, who had been listening, intervened between the two.

“I can’t do it. I’ll do it too!”

“Are you pretending to be close again and talking nonsense? Do you think I’ll treat you as a woman?”

“I’m a woman, so can you look after me? And I’m not saying I’m attacking alone, you’re saying you’re attacking with Luke?”

“It doesn’t matter much? I really don’t care about you guys?”

When Aren spoke with a straight face, Amy slightly withdrew, but Luke rather took a step closer and spoke.

“Okay, so I told you to jump in, were you scared?”

“If it were you, would you be afraid of a guy who loses in a row to you?”

“…Would it be different today…?”

While Luke was talking, Sylvia, who was at the gymnasium first, approached them.

“Sylvia?”

“huh?”

At her sudden appearance, the eyes of the three people turned to her.

Seeing that gaze, Sylvia opened her mouth with a slightly uncomfortable expression.

“Oh, hello…”

“Okay, hello. What’s up with you?”

“Not you, Luke.”

“…?”

When Luke looked at her as if to say something, Sylvia turned her gaze to Aren and spoke again.

“Hello… Aren Deepus.”

“Okay, hello.”

Upon hearing the two people’s greetings, Luke’s eyes lit up with death.

“Aren Difus. I said. If Tia…”

“Shut up you bastard. Is your head pink?”

Why are you doing that with just a hello? Are you another?

While Aren was frowning on Luke, Sylvia spoke again.

“Hey… can you practice with me today?”

“……”

“……”

Luke’s hand grabbed Aren’s collar.

Kkwaak

“Explain.”

“It’s a misunderstanding.”

Aren immediately began to make excuses.

“I had dinner with Tia yesterday. We got a little closer there. That’s all.”

“Believe that? You don’t know, but that Sylvia has the power of a tsundere that surpasses Tia.”

“Really, I only ate one meal. You can ask Tia directly about the rest. I am innocent.”

At Aren’s clear words, Luke’s hands loosened.

Aren sighed and looked at Sylvia.

“Umm… why all of a sudden?”

“I just… want some advice.”

“Ah, I see what you mean.”

It seems that he realized something thanks to the buff he gave him yesterday.

‘Is it better than playing with these guys?’

Aren looked at Luke and Amy alternately with a bored expression, then looked at Sylvia again and said.

“Okay. Let’s practice together with me today.”

“Uh… thanks.”

“What are you thankful for? It’s just that we train together.”

When Aren smiled and said, Sylvia also smiled lightly and went back to her seat.

Luke, who was watching this, opened his eyes again to Aren and said.

“You really don’t have any relationship, do you?”

“No. It’s annoying, so stop doubting it?”

“But why are you asking me to train with you?

“…Are you kidding me? It’s not that long. You’re weaker than me, aren’t you?”

“You won’t know unless you use the gift.”

“Ah, okay. You mean to step on you first? I understand.”

Aren immediately took the wooden sword and stepped on Luke until class.