Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

29 – Retreat (5)

Lucy blinked her eyes wide open as she looked at Adele, the sword he was holding out, and the potion.

“What are you looking at?”

“… ….”

Anyway, Lucy narrowed her eyes at the suspicious courtesy.

Looking up and down at Adele standing in front of him, he tried to figure out what he was doing, but um…… I don’t know either.

You should know what kind of guy is thinking because his expression is as hard as a stone statue.

I had no choice but to ask Lucy honestly.

“What is your intention?”

Adele lowered the items she was holding out.

It’s a ulterior motive.

I didn’t come to you with dark feelings.

I just interrupted because I felt sorry for Lucy sacrificing herself to buy something for Kyle.

So, after thinking for a while about what to say, Adele replied.

“It’s a reward.”

“What?”

Reward?

To repay the damage you have done to others?

It really didn’t fit the Adele Heights that Lucy knew.

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A cold fire.

A fiery blizzard.

Should I say it’s like a combination of words?

I wondered if he had any intentions, but when I thought of him who had changed recently, I wondered if he had really changed his mind.

No, this was a very naive idea.

If I was a human being who could be rewritten like this, I would have shown an apologetic expression right from the start.

“You and Kyle did something wrong, so I apologize for that.”

This guy apologizes with money.

Lucy frowned because she was dissatisfied with that part, but the important thing is that he admitted that he was wrong.

He’s the guy who told me to be grateful that he didn’t punish me for doing something wrong, so when I think about that time, I’ve improved a lot.

“If you say so… ….”

Lucy accepted Adele’s sword and potion.

But even so, I was about to say that I hadn’t completely forgiven my past mistakes, but I didn’t think it was something I would say to a human who showed sincerity, so I swallowed it again.

Instead.

“Adele.”

I wondered if it was okay to make a few additional requests.

Of course, what I was asking for wasn’t going to hurt Adele.

I’m not asking for his money or relying on the family’s prestige.

Anyway, it’s a proposal that can be made enough because we can benefit from each other.

However, having a conversation like this with Adele felt awkward.

Being nervous for no reason, Lucy approached creaking like a wind-up doll.

I didn’t have time to sort out the jumbled words that popped into my head, so I just said whatever I could think of.

“Are you single now?”

That meant asking if there was a team to work with for this retreat.

It’s not like we normally have a conversation like this, so the words came out as if they were a bit misunderstood.

Unaware of his true intentions, Adele opened her eyes in surprise.

Are you asking me if I’m single?

Isn’t that like a question you ask before approaching someone you like?

And that was also the part that Adele tried to change while coughing up blood, so I couldn’t help but be surprised.

But I don’t know if I know that kind of heart.

Said Lucy, tapping his chest with his fist.

“I am Solon.”

At those words, Adele finally grabbed his head and staggered.

* * *

Where did it go wrong?

I mean, why is Lucy suddenly saying this?

For helping me get beaten up by being threatened by third-rate bullies?

For treating a guy who wants to leave his wounded body free?

For saving Lucy, who was in danger of being attacked by monsters during a witch attack?

Was it the problem that she dressed the guy shivering in the cold when he climbed the snowy mountain?

Looking back, there were many problems.

I can’t believe I’ve already helped Lucy this many times in the name of being helpless.

Even if that wasn’t the case, the handsome face could have been the problem.

Anyway, all the reasons were pointed out.

“…… What do you mean?”

At that moment, I thought that something I was trying to prevent had happened, and I asked while holding my head as I was getting a headache.

Lucy tilted her head as she couldn’t understand the meaning of my question. He clamored and hurriedly explained.

“No, that’s not what I meant.”

With a bewildered face, he waved his hands and made a strong denial.

Since they were even shaking their heads together, it would have been a very funny sight if it hadn’t been for this situation.

However, the expression hardened with concern did not budge even at Lucy’s gestures.

“No, that’s not what it means…… ! I was asking if there was a team to go with during the retreat. Can you please stop misunderstanding me?”

“… ….”

Is it like that?

With Lucy’s explanation to wash away my worries, the thoughts that filled my head completely disappeared.

It was only then that I was able to clear his hardened expression by sweeping his chest.

“Originally, I was going to be on the same team as Kyle, but it seems that Princess Veronica wants to monopolize Kyle, so I don’t have a team.”

Lucy wiggled his fingers and explained well, then hesitated.

I felt like I understood the meaning of that hesitation.

─Lucy felt cramped when she saw Veronica trying to monopolize Kyle.

─’Why is this?’

─ She asked herself several times in the crampedness she could not understand. What is the cause of this crampedness? And to the reason who did not understand this situation, emotion spoke.

─Jealousy. This is jealousy

─Lucy, who used to see Kyle as just a childhood friend, finally realized the identity of the strange feeling she felt recently…….

If I had been watching this situation from outside the monitor, it would have been in the middle of such a script playing.

The moment Lucy clearly realizes her feelings for Kyle because of Veronica is one of the scenes in this episode, so I remember it clearly.

“Is that why you got jealous?”

“What, what are you saying? What is jealousy…….”

Judging from her blushing and purring, I guess what I expected was correct.

Unlike the original story, Kyle was worried about not being able to save Lucy during the witch attack, but was this episode able to wake him up again?

I’m glad if that’s the case.

“Shall I guess your thoughts?”

He declared with a confident smile.

“Isn’t Kyle suggesting this because she wants you to feel how you feel when she sees you and I hanging out together?”

It’s hot.

Lucy, stabbed to the point, trembled with her body.

She looked up at me as if she didn’t have to remind me verbally and told me to stop, but that’s none of my business.

“And I want him to wake up to his feelings for you, just like you did.”

“Stop, stop… ….”

Reading his own mind, Lucy bit his lower lip tightly, his face blushing in shame.

It was funny how he was trembling like a vibrator, but the corners of his mouth went up slightly.

“What a childish idea. Are you a kindergartener?”

“Evil!”

The guy threw his fist, screaming as if a bomb had exploded at the red aura that filled the top of his head.

The clenched fist hit my stomach, but it didn’t hurt that much, probably because it didn’t hit with magic.

“Yes, I am childish!”

Lucy, who was in high spirits, kept pointing her finger at me with a bold and outspoken tone, just like she had argued when we first met on the way to school.

“But even you, making fun of it, isn’t childish! Well, there it is! It’s an acorn key!”

The guy walked up to me before I knew it and hit him on the head like a woodpecker.

There was no hesitation in that action, whether it was because I lost my temper due to shame, or if my actions so far had reduced the guy’s resistance to Adele.

Anyway, I couldn’t answer properly because of him, so I grabbed Lucy’s head with one hand.

“Listen to the answer first.”

With that said, Lucy stopped hitting him and looked up at his eyes as they held his head.

“I’ll go along with that childish idea.”

It was unexpected, but it was fine as it is.

If it’s Lucy, it’s a power that can stably score points, and if things go according to normal, Nikita’s rampage, which won’t happen now, might bring some kind of crisis to this retreat, so it might be better to keep her by her side.

“To make Kyle jealous… ….”

I tried to speak, but I suppressed the laughter that was about to burst out without my knowledge.

I thought I shouldn’t do that, but when it came out of my mouth, I couldn’t help it because the thought was even more funny and cute.

“Hey. Don’t laugh.”

“I didn’t laugh. Anyway, I think I’m just the right role to make Kyle jealous, and since it looks fun, let’s hang out with him.”

Kyle I also like it when that stupid guy feels a sense of crisis.

According to the circumstances, Kyle only felt the absence of heroines after losing all of them, but when he sees Adele, who is no different from his enemy, with Lucy, he will feel a similar feeling.

I let go of the hand holding Lucy’s head.

He was staring at me with wide-open eyes in surprise, as if he didn’t know that I would accept the offer he made.

I ran my fingers through his messy hair.

“What is it? If it were you, do you think I would team up with a commoner like you again? I thought you would refuse.”

“Why did you ask if you knew you would say no?”

At that question, Lucy stopped arranging her hair.

And she was blank for a moment before answering.

“…… Well.”

She didn’t know why she did it herself.

It was a really strange word that I couldn’t understand.