Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

56 – Charlotte Echoes (4)

It was a child’s privilege to be able to rest without worries.

“… ….”

It was early morning when I opened my eyes.

The long sunlight leaked in through the gaps in the curtains that were not closed, and the intermittent chirping of birds was heard.

I gave a big yawn and curled up under the covers again.

The tranquility that cannot be felt when living in a terrible academy where accidents and incidents happen every day.

A break for the first time in Adele’s busy life, where she had an obsession to do something.

It’s as sweet as honey. Like a tempted bee, I couldn’t escape.

Smart.

Two knocks.

“Boss, can I come in?”

Charlotte’s voice came from outside the door.

Since I’m not answering, kiik…… The door opened with a very small sound, as if not wanting to wake me up.

“It’s time for breakfast… ….”

Since I didn’t say anything and wrapped myself in the blanket, they must have misunderstood that I was still sleeping.

I was originally going to wake up, but I just stayed still for fun.

“Brother. It’s time to wake up.”

As I was still, Charlotte came near the bed and whispered in my ear.

Her flowing hair tickled my face, causing her facial muscles to twitch.

“… ….”

When I still didn’t wake up, he hesitantly put his hand on the blanket.

After a moment of hesitation, he tried to wake me up by waving his hand.

The bed creaked as his body moved.

Considering the initial hesitation, it was quite active.

“Boss… ….”

Because he is waving while saying that.

Rumble.

A belly button clock that keeps ringing without fail.

It must have been because he was hungry.

“Let’s go out and eat today.”

I threw the blanket over and stood up.

Perhaps it was because of the way she spoke and acted, which made it impossible to believe that she had been sleeping just a moment ago, Charlotte finally realized that I was playing a joke and swayed with her hands on her bed.

* * *

A week has passed since I returned to the past.

It is said that the mansion is very spacious, but the unique atmosphere of the space is similar everywhere, so there came a time when I wanted to change my mood.

So Adele thought of going out.

They were just walking around the market from the mansion.

Why, even though I cut steak every day, sometimes I think of foods like triangular gimbap or cup noodles.

Today, junk food is in your mouth.

“The market is quite large.”

The market that came out like that was a place that gave off the feeling of living.

The smell of people and the smell of street food to catch the footsteps of passers-by, the voices of vendors touting customers, and people filling the streets.

It was the first time I had been to the market in this world, but it was no different from what Adele knew.

“… ….”

Charlotte, who was led to the market by Adele’s hand, followed him.

She has worked as a maid since she was young and has never been out of the house, so going out after a long time has made her feel a little excited.

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Looking to the left, grilled squid with a savory smell and dumplings in a steaming steamer.

Looking to the right, you can see chicken skewers being cooked in a brazier and grilled corn sprinkled with some kind of white powder.

Most of the things that caught my eye were food, probably because I skipped breakfast.

Looking around while wearing casual clothes instead of maid clothes, I felt as if I would forget my duty as a maid.

“…… Sup.”

Charlotte wiped her saliva with the back of her hand and pulled out her purse from her pocket.

In the meantime, she worked hard as a maid and collected the wages she received, and her money was quite thick.

It’s the money I saved to buy a small house and a life for myself when I grow up someday, but wouldn’t it be okay to spend a little today…….

It was when she was thinking so much.

“Come on.”

The delicious smell stings her nose as she rolls the coins in her purse with her fingers.

Charlotte looked up and saw Adele, who was holding a perfectly browned skewer of chicken in her hands, holding out one of hers.

“… ….”

Charlotte quietly accepted the chicken skewers.

But when the delicious smell of hers stung her nose, she gulped her mouth and didn’t take her chicken skewers to her mouth.

Adele asked, who was watching her.

“Why don’t you eat? Do you not like chicken skewers?”

“Yes, yes? Did you give it to me?”

“Then I gave it to you. Well, did you know I made you do it?”

“Ah, I see…” ….”

I thought she passed it on because of course it was hard to hold.

Only then did Charlotte open her mouth and put a large piece of chicken into her mouth, following the desire she had been holding back.

The moderately sweet sauce and the juicy chicken spread in your mouth, and it was a mouth-watering taste.

Adele said as she watched her shove the chicken into her mouth like a squirrel and shove it up.

“You eat well.”

“What?”

Charlotte, who was chewing on chicken skewers, widened her eyes.

Eating in a hurry and without dignity.

I was afraid he wouldn’t look at me badly.

“Eat comfortably.”

Adele, who had flinched so much, smiled as if she didn’t care at all.

The smile made Charlotte stop her mouth from her busy movements.

‘It’s the first time I’ve seen you smile… ….’

Sometimes when I see her passing by, she has a dark expression that almost kills her, and she knew how to do this.

Because of that cold expression, there’s a feeling of being a bit scared.

She couldn’t bear to say it out of her mouth, but as she was muttering inwardly, Adele took her hand and walked.

There were a lot of people around, so he probably grabbed it to keep from falling.

“There is a doll machine over there. Would you like to try it?”

“…… Me?”

“I thought you wanted to because you were staring at me?”

“Ah… ….”

You must have misunderstood that the one next to you was a doll shop.

She said she wasn’t actually looking at the doll, she was looking at his side face, but she was embarrassed to say that. Charlotte nodded her head and she somehow ended up in front of the game table.

* * *

15 Minutes passed.

“…… Ugh.”

Charlotte had no choice but to draw dolls, and before she knew it, she was immersed in drawing dolls herself.

At first, I thought I should stop after doing it a few times, but every time the doll got caught in the claw and unfortunately fell off, I got a sore throat.

She struggled so hard that she dropped her doll on the floor dozens of times before she knew it.

It was to the point where I began to suspect that this doll-picking machine was rigged so that it couldn’t pull out any dolls.

Weiying──

The claw moved on Charlotte’s stick control.

Weiying──

And with the push of a button, the claw descended towards the teddy bear and grabbed her head with precision.

All you have to do now is carefully lift it up and carry it to the exit.

Then you can win this doll drawing.

“…… Whoa.”

What is this? Charlotte took a deep breath to calm her mind and moved her stick.

She clung to the machine, sticking her head out, watching her claws move, manipulating her stick.

But.

Jumping.

A teddy bear that was holding the Zalman doll, and the claws that were holding the doll opened up and fell right in front of the exit.

“Ah…… !”

I’m almost there.

I wish I could have endured for a little while.

Charlotte let out a sigh of regret.

“… ….”

Adele, who had been watching the scene quietly from the sidelines, narrowed her eyes and glared at the merchant.

Charlotte doesn’t seem to notice, but the movement she just made was unnatural to anyone.

Also, the claws opened when the salesman pretended to cheer her Charlotte and put her hand on her machine.

So it was said that something was involved in the operation of the machine.

“Charlotte, I will try it this time.”

“Ah, yes… ….”

Instead of the dismembered Charlotte, Adele held her stick.

The money I’ve already paid to the merchant is more than enough to buy a doll.

So, even if you pick up dolls with what you’re going to do now, the merchant won’t lose money.

It was the timing to step out with some conscience.

And muttered quietly.

“Fairy tale.”

The target is claws.

Magic energy spread through the machine and changed like muscles or blood vessels connecting the claws to Adele’s body.

Her expanded senses allow Adele to handle those claws like her own limbs.

Weiying──

The claws moved naturally, as if it were natural for him to carry the doll to the exit.

The merchant showed signs of intervening on the way, but he couldn’t help it with his weak magic.

Rumble.

And the doll fell with a sound.

Adele left behind the bewildered salesman that her own trick didn’t work, and turned around to pull out the doll and hand it to her Charlotte.

“Charlotte…… Huh?”

There was no one behind.

Charlotte, who had been watching the doll machine a while ago, had suddenly disappeared.

“… ….”

The smile disappeared from Adele’s face as she held the doll.

It’s just a change in expression, it’s just a child’s face, but the merchant felt an unknown creepiness.

I wondered if this was really a child.

* * *

The cold drops of water on her face brought Charlotte back to her senses.

“… ….”

I couldn’t see anything because my eyes were covered.

Her mouth was blocked and she couldn’t ask for help.

Her body was tied up with ropes, so she couldn’t move.

All I know is that it is a place where the cool, humid air contains the musty smell.

Why did the situation turn out this way?

As Adele watched from behind her as she pulled out her dolls, she lost her mind when someone put her handkerchief over her mouth.

When she recalled that far, Charlotte could guess that she had been kidnapped.

“Isn’t that the kid who used to go out with that rich kid?”

“Eh. Seeing that they look alike, I thought they were younger siblings. So I brought him.”

A voice echoed as if entering a cave.

Charlotte turned her head in the direction of her voice and she told them that she was just a replaceable maid. She

Even if she kidnapped her, she wouldn’t be able to extract the money, she wanted to say, but the ropes holding her mouth prevented her from saying the right words.

“Ugh… ….”

I was scared.

My body trembled not only from the cold air, but also from the sense of fear that all my freedom was taken away by strangers.

Besides, what makes her tremble even more is her own situation.

She has no family of her own.

There is no one to listen to their demands.

There is no one to worry about and try to find.

Then, what will happen to the person who is no longer needed?

It will be sold.

You can be sold alive as a slave.

It would be fortunate if it ended there, but I heard that there are many cases of playing chess after kidnapping these days.

In the worst case, the stomach may be split open and all organs, eyeballs, and brains contained in it may be pulled out.

“…… hehehe…….”

With nothing to see, my imagination ran wild.

Her stomach was split and her eye sockets were empty and she saw herself scattered on the floor so vividly that her Charlotte’s heart started pounding and racing, and she broke into a cold sweat. Flowed

“Hey, but can’t you just use it once?”

At that moment, Charlotte’s sensitive senses caught someone’s gaze.

She had a sullen look that scanned herself up and down her.

She was still young, but the gaze was so explicit that she found it s*xually offensive.

“Ah, this bastard is starting again. It always makes a fuss about what these young kids like.”

Clap, clap.

I heard someone unfasten my belt.

Soon there was a sound like something thin, falling to the floor.

“Because grown-up b*tches don’t know who touched them. But kids like this don’t have to worry about that.”

“Crazy.”

The feeling of her presence coming towards her made her charlotte crouch down and back her up, and then something in hers prevented her from escaping.

It was the wall.

“… ….”

Ah.

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I can’t take it anymore.

The moment when Charlotte is about to give up in despair in this situation where there is no way to do anything.

Boom!

“Keah!”

A man’s scream rang out with the sound of an iron door being crushed.

The sound of something stabbing someone’s body in succession was heard several times, and each time I heard a scream, and then a calm came.

“These buggy Nikita family bastards. Have you been doing this sh*t since then?”

A rough but familiar voice.

Somehow, Charlotte felt relieved at the voice she had previously been afraid to hear.

At the same time, why is he here? The thought that she was, embarrassed her.

“How did you find it? Are you okay?”

Adele’s face is revealed as the cloth covering her eyes comes undone.

He was covered in blood.

Blood from his head covers his face, and his clothes are no more than rags.

Even so, she looked at herself with worried eyes, and only after confirming that she was fine with her own eyes, did the uneasiness disappear from her face.

“Good thing.”

And it was only after seeing him let out a sigh of relief that Charlotte, her tension relaxed, her tears welled up.

It’s good that she didn’t do anything scary.

She thought no one cared, because she risked herself to have someone come to rescue her.

There is someone who will tell you that you are glad to see yourself uninjured.

She was sorry, thankful, and happy for that, and the emotions she had built up over the years surged.

“Charlotte?”

As soon as the ropes that bound her hands and feet were undone, she cried out loud as Charlotte cradled her arms around his waist.

She said she was scared, she came to her rescue, she said thank you, and repeated those words that were hard to understand because of her crying, with her face buried in her chest.

“… ….”

Adele ran her hand across her back without saying a word.

She waited patiently for Charlotte to fall asleep.