Bullied but Popular

25 – Please visit me in the hospital 2

Kang! Caang! Kagagak Kaang!

“Wow~”

“……”

A gymnasium dedicated to first-year students in the academy.

There, Anna and Tia were watching Carol’s sparring.

Looking at Carol’s swordsmanship, Anna repeatedly exclaimed and said,

“How can a 2v1 be so overwhelming?”

“……”

Carol was dealing with Ron and Luke at the same time.

However, far from being pushed back, Anna’s exclamations of admiration could not stop when Carol overwhelmingly prevailed.

The skills of Ron and Luke were even more surprising because they were known as names among first-year students.

On the other hand, Tia was silently watching Carol’s sparring, more precisely, Carol’s expression.

‘You look nervous.’

Tia had a glimpse that Carol was different from usual.

Of course, I guessed why.

‘Probably because of Aren and Aaron.’

The academy has been abuzz with an incident recently.

On the day of the field trip, there was an incident in which an assassin targeted Lirina Aslan.

Fortunately, the assassination ended in failure, but it is still unknown how the assassin found the place of the field trip and how he infiltrated it.

What we have now found out is that the Assassin belongs to the Aslan Kingdom’s direct warrior group, and that his goal is Lirina Aslan’s life.

Not only did Borage find out about this fact, but the Iggent royal family also held Aslan’s royal family accountable, but that was not the most important thing for the students.

What was important to the students was that the assassin was an auronite, and that it was Aren Deepus who killed the assassin, and that Aaron Valentine was awakened as an auronite in the process.

It was a series of shocks for the students, and the students at the site that day were still unable to get out of Aren’s slash.

Like those three people now.

‘Although I’m not much different either.’

Tia couldn’t forget what she saw when she arrived at the scene that day.

A long sword scar on the side of the fallen Aren.

It was truly a thrilling sight to see the sword statue continue to cut through the mountain.

burr

‘Even thinking about it now, my whole body trembles’

A warrior who is not even a wizard cutting down a mountain with a single sword.

It was an unbelievable spectacle of the student’s strength.

Quaang! bang!

“Keugh.”

“… sh*t.”

While Tia was lost in her thoughts, Luke and Ron collapsed, wondering if the battle had ended.

“are you okay?”

“Whoa, yes.”

“……”

Luke responded to Carol’s worried words, but Ron only bit his lip, perhaps resentful of losing in a 2-1 match.

‘Well, it’s worth it.’

Tia saw Ron like that and thought it was a natural reaction.

Ron was the winner of ring 5 in the last tournament.

In the academy, he belongs to the strong and has strong pride as an aristocrat.

It’s nonsense if such a Ron doesn’t have a mental hit in the current situation.

After watching Ron for a while, Tia decided to step out before the atmosphere became awkward.

“Stop it now, do you know what time it is?”

“Oh, has it already been like this?”

Carol saw that it was getting dark outside the gymnasium window and said,

“Then stop…”

“Are you guys here too?”

The moment Carol was about to finish training, Amy pretended to know and started talking to him.

Seeing her, Tia asked curiously.

“Amy, what are you doing at this hour?”

“Um~ There are still a lot of people besides me?”

“…what the heck.”

Perhaps because of rumors about Aren and Aaron, there were still students who were training even though it was late.

‘They don’t usually do that…’

Tia looked at those students and snorted.

“Amy, are you here to train too?”

“huh!”

“It’s surprising, I thought you wouldn’t be affected by such rumors.”

“No, I can’t help it.”

Amy’s words asked Tia as if wondering.

“Why can’t you help it?”

“Because I saw it myself.”

At Amy’s words, all the students in the gymnasium turn to her.

“It was amazing, honestly I couldn’t help but be affected.”

“Amy.”

As soon as he heard Amy’s words, Carol asked a question.

“Amy, didn’t you see the fight through to the end?”

“Yeah, I didn’t see the middle, but the first time…”

Amy paused for a moment before speaking.

“I saw the final blow.”

“… how was it?”

“… I can’t explain it in words.”

Amy stared blankly at Carol’s face for a moment.

Carol asked.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“… Carl decided to duel with Aren, right?”

“that’s right.”

“At first I was looking forward to your duel, but now I don’t want you to fight.”

“… why?”

“Because one will die.”

Amy looked at Carol with a worried face and said.

“Karl, you’re stronger than me, and it might be presumptuous meddling for me to do something like this, but I’ll just say it.”

Amy took a deep breath and said.

“Honestly, I can’t imagine that Aren would lose to anyone. It’s dangerous to fight Aren no matter how much you do.”

“……”

“You know, Aren’s swordsmanship is different from ours, you know that we’re not talking about level, right?”

“okay.”

“If Aren tries to cut you down with all his might, you will die.”

Carol quietly listened to Amy’s words without showing any discomfort, then smiled and said,

“Amy, I didn’t know you were worried about me?”

“Even if you look at it like this, if I have a soft heart, my classmate could die, so I have to worry about this much~”

“Ha ha ha yeah?”

Carol smiled lightly and said.

“Don’t worry, Amy.”

Carol paused for a moment and said with a deep smile on her lips.

“Because I will win.”

“……”

“And I’m the strongest. More than Aren… more than Aaron…”

“……”

Carol spoke loudly as if making a declaration.

As the eyes of the gymnasium gathered, Carol looked around and turned her gaze to Luke and Ron and said,

“I’ll go first.”

“……”

“……”

Luke and Ron didn’t answer, but Carol turned her back and left the gym as if it didn’t matter.

Tia, who was looking at Carol’s back, turned her gaze to her friends.

“Let’s go back too. Training for too long is counterproductive.”

“… Yes, that’s right.”

When Anna agreed, Luke and Ron rose from their seats and said,

“I’ll do some more.”

“Go first.”

As Luke and Ron raised their swords again, Tia let out a helpless sigh and said,

“Then we’ll go first, so don’t overdo it.”

“See you tomorrow Lone Luke”

When Tia and Anna said goodbye, the two of them exchanged a casual greeting and started training again.

Tia and Anna watched their training for a while before moving toward the dormitory.

But on the way back, Anna spoke to Tia in a worried voice as if she was worried about something.

“Tia, are you okay?”

“what?”

“Karl and Aren.”

“……”

Tia didn’t answer right away and just walked silently.

At that, Anna continued to speak as if she was anxious.

“The two of them decided to fight at the gate, what if Carol dies as Amy said?”

“… It’s useless to worry.”

“what!?”

At Tia’s answer, Anna said with an expression of disbelief.

“Why are you worrying for nothing? Are you not even worried about Carol?”

Maybe because I was too surprised by Tia’s words.

Anna’s voice rose slightly as if questioning.

But Tia said calmly.

“Even if we stop it, Carol will fight.”

“still!”

“and.”

Tia said, interrupting Amy.

“We still don’t know how strong Carol is.”

“……”

Carol had never shown her full strength to her friends.

To be precise, I hadn’t yet met an opponent that I could use my strength against.

Since I was young, I have been training and sparring with knights, but training is training.

It’s different from the real battle, and the match between Karl and Aren will undoubtedly be a sparring close to the real battle.

If something went wrong, one could have died as Amy said, but the two would know best, and they would not stop fighting.

‘Of course I can’t tell Anna about this.’

After thinking for a while, Tia spoke to Anna, who still had a depressed expression, as if to comfort her.

“You don’t have to worry too much, it’s a duel at the academy, and there are professors nearby.”

“… Tia, don’t you like Carr?”

“… what?”

At Anna’s sudden words, Tia asked back with an absurd expression.

On the other hand, Anna looked at Tia strangely and said.

“You wouldn’t have said that before.”

“What are you talking about?”

“You would have worried about Carol in the past.”

‘…Come to think of it, maybe that’s the case?’

Tia looked back at herself for a moment.

If it was her old self, she would care about each and every one of Carol’s actions, but these days, that’s not the case.

‘Why?’

Looking at Tia who was worried for a while, Anna said.

“Did you hate Carol by any chance?”

“Why do I hate him?”

“Then do you like it?”

“I’ve said it before, but I don’t like Carol.”

“… Do you think it’s real now?”

Anna glared at Tia with a suspicious look.

“Tia be honest, who are you?”

“What else?”

“Have you got a boyfriend?”

“… ha.”

Tia sighed as if she was tired of talking any more and opened the door to her room.

“huh?”

“Tia wait a minute…?”

The moment Tia entered the room, the letter under the door caught her eye.

Anna also found the letter and approached Tia with terrifying momentum.

“Who is this letter from?”

“It’s not what you think.”

When Tia showed the iron attached to the letter as if to check it out, Anna put on a distraught expression.

“Ah, are you from the Cloud family?”

“Yeah, my father must have sent it.”

Tia gave a rough answer and meant a letter.

And Tia’s expression, which had been reading slowly, suddenly hardened.

“This, this…”

“why?”

Anna asked as if she were curious, but Tia was still staring at the letter.

***

“I’m bored.”

Aren lay in bed and stared at the ceiling for a while.

I was so bored that I tried to sneak out, but I couldn’t get out because there were many doctors coming and going around Aren’s hospital room.

“Whoa, what are you doing all the time?”

It was already the second hospitalization after Aren entered the academy.

It was a pattern of life where I couldn’t tell if I came to the academy as an actor or to fight.

smart

While Aren was bored, when he heard a knock, Aren exclaimed happily.

“Come on in!”

drooling

‘principal?’

The hospital room door opened and it was Tristan, the principal of the Mana Management Department.

“Hmm, do you know who I am?”

“Of course, Headmaster.”

When Aren got out of bed to greet him, Tristan told him to lie down and sat down.

“The patient is not moving.”

“…because I’m not moving too much.”

Aren tried to speak in a slightly dissatisfied voice, but it didn’t work.

“It’s natural since you’re sick, so take care of yourself from now on.”

“Yes, I really intend to.”

When Aren spoke in a determined voice, Tristan looked at him with a puzzled look for a moment before changing the topic.

“How about your body more than that?”

“It has improved a lot.”

“Then it’s fortunate, and the reason I came is…”

After that, Tristan started to explain the incident.

He gave various political explanations, such as holding the Aslan royal family responsible for the incident and that a large-scale investigation was under way, but to be honest, Aren was not very interested.

The black magic that sent the assassins won’t be caught anyway.

In nine cases out of ten, the opponent would most likely be a member of the royal family, and of course, he would have prepared the number of failed assassinations.

Besides, if you really belong to the royal family, the royal family of Aslan will also focus on covering up this incident, and eventually Iggent will not be able to know the dark side.

Aren decided to turn his nerves off here.

I didn’t even want to care about a guy I couldn’t catch anyway.

‘It’s not even my business.’

Aren said near the end of Tristan’s story.

“But why are you telling me this?”

“Aren’t you related to Aren?”

“No, you don’t have to explain this much, it’s over anyway.”

When Aren ignored it, Tristan nodded and said:

“Okay, then let’s get down to business.”

“yes?”

Tristan looked at Aren with a serious expression for a moment and said.

“Aren, are you a high human?”

“… yes?”