Bullied but Popular

4 – Aren Deepus 4

“Aren Difus.”

“… are you Aren Deepus?”

“okay.”

“……”

Tia stared into Aren’s face, not knowing what to say when her fiancé appeared in front of her.

Aren also looked at Tia’s face.

Just then, two male students approached Tia from behind.

“Oh~ are you Aren?”

“hmm?”

Two boys, Tia’s friends, Karl and Luke, approached Aren.

Aren’s gaze went to the dark-haired man, not Luke, who spoke first.

‘Expert superlative.’

Among the two men she had noticed earlier, it was the black-haired one.

The black-haired man also stared blankly at Aren and held out his hand.

“Hello? My name is Karl Valescia. I wish you well for the next year.”

“… it’s Aren Deepus.”

Aren took the outstretched hand and shook it.

Then, suddenly, another male student puts a shoulder to Aren and says.

“My name is Luke Paper. Please take good care of me, my friend.”

“……”

Aren felt that this Luke was not very kind to him.

The face is smiling, but the momentum that comes out unconsciously gives off the feeling of a bully in the alleyway.

To be honest, I didn’t feel too good.

The fiancée he was seeing for the first time was giving him a look as if he didn’t like him, and the bully next to him was showing an overbearing attitude.

Since there was no reason to be treated like this in the first meeting, Aren also decided to act as he pleased.

“Get your hands off me.”

percussion

“……”

“……”

In an instant, the atmosphere turned bad.

Aren wasn’t the type to fight anyone first, but he wasn’t stupid enough to just get hurt even though he didn’t do anything wrong.

At Aren’s reaction, Luke hardened his expression and said.

“Ha, let’s be friendly, so you’re going to cut people off?”

“……”

Aren looked at Luke’s face without a word.

At that reaction, Luke’s expression became increasingly ferocious, and the moment he was about to say something, Carol stopped him.

“Luke, stop it.”

“What are you stopping?”

“… Stop it.”

“… tsk.”

When Carol spoke with a slightly serious expression, Luke nervously turned around and returned to his seat.

Carol gave a small sigh and said to Aren.

“I’m sorry, Aren. Luke’s not in a good mood right now, so he’s a little nervous. Something bad happened yesterday. I’ll apologize instead.”

Saying that, he lowered his head slightly.

‘Does this guy have a good personality?’

It is not easy for the successor of the marquis to bow his head.

However, Carol bowed her head in place of her friend.

Probably for Luke’s reputation rather than an apology.

Everyone in the classroom was watching this scene as they were talking in the middle of the classroom.

Aren said in a calm voice as if he was okay.

“No, I was a bit nervous too. I’m sorry too.”

“hahahaha no, we did something wrong, well, we’ll see.”

As Carol said that, she gave Tia a look as if to stop leaving.

Tia looked at Carol for a moment and then turned her gaze back to Aren.

“Let’s talk for a while.”

“now?”

“No. Today’s schedule is over. I’d rather go after lunch.”

“okay.”

Upon hearing Aren’s answer, Tia returned to her seat.

After watching Tia return for a while, Carol said to Luke.

“Why is Luke like that?”

“…what?”

“Why are you suddenly quarreling with Aren?”

“……”

Luke stared at the blackboard without a word.

Carol let out a small sigh and spoke to Tia this time.

“And Tia. Why are you like that too?”

“…? What am I?”

“Don’t you know with what kind of eyes you looked at Aren?”

“What kind of eyes?”

At that, Luke smiled and said.

“I heard that you didn’t like it very openly?”

“Me? Really?”

“uh.”

Come to think of it, it certainly seems like there is some power in the eyes.

Carol sighed and told the two of them.

“The two of them were bad just now. If I were Aren, I’d be offended.”

“……”

“……”

The two did not make any excuses for Carol’s words.

It’s not that I didn’t make an excuse, it’s that I didn’t.

It was because the two of them knew Carol’s personality well, and in this case, making poor excuses would only hurt Carol’s feelings.

said Carol.

“Tia I know how you feel, but Aren is probably in a similar situation to you. You must keep that in mind and act accordingly.”

“… okay.”

Carol decided to stop talking at this point.

The party is Tia anyway.

Because he thought he was in no position to say anything more.

Looking at Carol like that, Luke had other thoughts.

‘Why are you not okay?’

When I first heard the news of Tia’s engagement, I was honestly upset.

He was offended to hear that the fiancé of his dear friend and favorite was the heir to a baron he had never heard of or seen.

‘I’d understand if it was Carol, but a guy like that is Tia’s fiancé…’

The reason Luke just did that to Aren was for Tia’s sake.

I was planning to show the threatening side as much as possible and make him feel intimidated and interrupt his relationship with Tia.

It’s a childish way, but most nobles do this a lot when they’re young.

Because it is effective.

They had power, and they get used to it this way from a young age.

However, because Luke usually went out with Carol, he seldom did acts that threatened others or wielded power.

The reason Luke had just taken such an action was for Tia’s sake.

because he loves her

‘Tia…’

Luke glanced at Tia from the side.

I’ve seen it since I was little, but I never get tired of it.

Luke tried to calm his pounding heart and looked away.

‘Because you like Carol…’

Tia didn’t admit it yet, but I could tell just by looking at her expression.

Even now, while talking with Carol, the slightly raised corner of her mouth didn’t want to go down.

To be honest, Luke was jealous of Carol at first, but he soon came to terms with it.

Even as a friend, Carol was a really perfect guy.

Others, such as personality, ability, position, etc., could not yield to Tia, but Carol had no choice but to admit it.

‘But this guy doesn’t seem to care about Tia…’

To be honest, Tia’s appearance was fraudulently beautiful, and lately, she was showing off her charm to the fullest like a bud blooming.

Even after seeing Tia like that, Carol never showed her feelings beyond friendship.

As a friend, I was a little worried.

‘Couldn’t it be a different taste?’

Luke turned his gaze back, thinking nonsense.

‘That child…’

Aren Deepus.

Tia’s fiancé suddenly appeared.

I couldn’t hand over Tia to such an underdog.

While thinking about that, Luke promises to seize the opportunity someday and step on Aren.

Meanwhile, there was a man watching them from beginning to end.

Aaron Valentine.

‘what? What about that bastard?’

From the moment Tia entered the class to the end, Aaron was only looking at her.

Thanks to that, I was able to see Tia approaching Aren first.

“Aaron, what are you thinking?”

A female student with short pink hair who was sitting next to Aaron was entangled.

Aaron pushed her away as if it were annoying.

“Amy, do you know that bastard?”

“huh?”

Aaron’s finger pointed at Aren, and Amy thought for a moment before saying.

“No. It’s the first time I’ve seen it. At least it’s not a noble in the capital area. I know most of the children of the central aristocrats.

Amy Francis.

Amy was the daughter of a viscount, and owned one of the top 10 great troupes in the Iggent Kingdom.

Thanks to this, Amy traveled all over the kingdom to learn the basics of the upper management, and as such, she had wide feet in her connections with nobles.

Aaron glared at Aren and said.

“Do some research on who that bastard is.”

“Eh, that’s annoying.”

“I’ll give you the commission fee.”

“No money~ Let’s go on a date! How is it?”

As Amy spoke while trembling with charms, Aaron spoke as if he was not interested.

“Okay. I’ll have the others do it.”

“Chi! What’s the reaction to hurt your pride? Okay, okay! Give me a lot of money because I’ll do it for you.”

Aaron nodded and glared at the back of Aren’s head.

In this way, Aren received uncomfortable attention regardless of his intentions.

***

There were no classes on the first day, so we were only taught the rules of the academy and the location of the facilities.

After looking around the facilities of the academy for a while, Aren felt hungry and headed to the restaurant.

It was lunch time soon and I had an appointment with Tia, so I thought I’d go first and wait.

When I arrived at the door of the restaurant, I saw the face of someone I knew.

“… It’s really everywhere you go.”

“… that’s what I’m going to say.”

It was Tail.

It’s possible that they ran into each other at the academy, but they’ve run into each other so often lately that they even suspected that this guy was following them.

The two of them went into the dining room.

The dining room at the academy was buffet style.

As if it was a prestigious academy, there were food that Aren had never seen before.

‘This… that… this…’

Aren, like a country boy (true), started looking for a seat, sweeping the dishes he had never seen before.

However, there were not many seats in the cafeteria because there were too many students still eating.

Aren wandered around looking for a spot with an empty seat, and when he saw that a seat was open at the same time in a corner, he quickly headed towards his seat.

And he bumped into another male student who was heading to the same seat as Aren.

“……”

“……”

It was Tail.

“Are you following me?”

When Aren spoke with a slight expression, Tail said with a more ferocious expression.

“I came first.”

“What are you talking about? I was one step faster.”

“At that height, you can’t go faster than me.”

Crying

Aren was slightly annoyed, but ignored it and sat down.

‘Even if I try, I can’t win anyway.’

Tail also ignored Aren and sat on the other side.

I unintentionally mixed up.

clatter clatter

‘It’s awkward.’

Neither of them were particularly talkative, so the mealtime was quiet.

Unable to overcome the awkward air, Aren spoke first.

“Come to think of it, what did you mean earlier?”

“What are you saying.”

“Before entering the classroom, they said I was out of luck.”

“… There is a madman in class A.”

“Are you crazy?”

“It’s a guy named Aaron.”

“Aaron… are you by any chance the red-haired guy?”

“okay.”

When Aren was in the classroom, he could hear the conversation coming from behind.

And I could see that his name was Aaron.

“It must have been on the same level as this guy.”

Aren suddenly became more curious about the tail in front of him than the guy named Aaron.

Tail was also strong enough to believe that he was 17 years old.

“But what’s your last name?”

“Why are you curious about that?”

“I told you, but you don’t? It’s a different story with breakfast.”

I dared to take out what I was talking about in the morning.

Tails frowned for a moment, then spoke obediently.

“It’s a tail-boiled.”

“… Boyled?”

Boild Marquess.

The Boild family is the same family as the gatekeeper of the Iggent Kingdom.

Located on the northeastern border of the Iggent Kingdom, it is one of the pillar families of Korea that has never been breached by war or monster raids.

And the heir of that family is now chewing bread in front of him.

“Let’s be close friends?”

“… shut up and eat.”

After saying that, Tail ate as if inhaling food and left.

“… heh heh he was such a great guy.”

Aren was about to start eating again, but stopped eating when he saw a crowd of people beyond the entrance to the restaurant.

‘It’s already here.’

There were Tia Cloud, Carol, Luke, and two more men and women she hadn’t seen before.

Aren let out a small sigh and stood up.

‘I’ll pretend because it’s inconvenient.’