Book 1 Chapter 727
Night.
The infirmary treatment room.
Third-year students from the Knight and Magic departments were forced to share the same room.
Many students were bandaged here and there, as if to show the intensity of the mock battle.
Some students had already fallen asleep due to exhaustion.
Students with individual tasks lit the small magic lamps next to their beds and worked on them.
Ilyana, sitting cross-legged on her bed, was deep in thought with her arms crossed.
Despite her deep contemplation, the other female students sharing the infirmary room paid no mind to her.
Rustle- rustle-
Chelsea, who occupied the seats next to Ilyana, was focused on reading a magic book, while Nella hummed a tune and polished her morning star with a clean cloth.
Eventually, Ilyana finished her thoughts and lifted her head.
"You know, I've come up with a really good idea."
"Yeah, okay."
Chelsea replied without looking up from her magic book.
"Aren't you curious? Right? Right?"
"Yeah. That's great."
"What was that half-hearted answer!"
Ilyana indignantly threw a pillow at Chelsea.
However, Chelsea, without even looking, dodged Ilyana's attack by moving her body slightly.
Ilyana's pillow flew over Chelsea and landed on the head of Celia, who was sleeping.
As soon as she saw this, Ilyana quickly turned off her magic lamp, lay down, and pretended to be asleep, pulling the covers over her.
"Hey, Chelsea Lewalin. Why are you suddenly picking a fight?"
Ilyana muttered to herself at Celia's annoyed voice, who had just woken up.
'Oh, if this goes well, Chelsea might take the blame, and I can get away with it!'
"Why are you picking a fight!"
"Pffft!"
Celia pushed Ilyana's face down with the pillow, who was covered by the blanket.
Ilyana struggled inside the blanket.
Chelsea also quickly ran over and hit Ilyana with her book.
"Chelsea, why are you hitting me!"
"Because you tried to frame me."
The infirmary became noisy for a while.
Students watching the scene burst into laughter.
A moment later, Ilyana, who had barely escaped, gasped for breath and said.
"Celia! That was too much, wasn't it?!"
"You threw the pillow first."
"Even so! You didn't have to go this far…! Aha!"
Ilyana, who was protesting, suddenly narrowed her eyes.
"I see. That's why you've been so irritable today!"
Celia gave her a look as if to say, 'What nonsense is she spouting now?' Ilyana jumped up, stood confidently on the bed, puffed out her chest, and said.
"You were particularly close with Chloe and Abad today, weren't you? You're jealous, aren't you?! I caught you!"
"Ahahahahahahaha!"
At that moment, Chelsea, who had been listening, burst into laughter.
She laughed so hard that even the sleeping students were startled awake.
Chelsea, clutching her stomach and rolling with laughter on the bed, said between hiccups.
"Celia is jealous because of her older brother and Chloe? Ilyana. That's the funniest thing you've ever said."
Upon hearing this, the other female students who understood the situation also started to chuckle.
Celia and Abad.
Recently, they had shown many instances of combining their strength and cooperating, but their relationship remained the same.
Although Celia and Chelsea were constantly bickering, they didn't try to outright defeat each other.
If Celia and Chelsea were rivals,
To the surrounding people, Celia and Abad were enemies.
Yet, Celia was jealous of Chloe and Abad being close?
It was a story that made them laugh.
"Heh! Detective Ilyana's eyes are accurate! I felt it right away!"
However, Ilyana showed deep faith in her deduction.
Celia's eyes twitched at that.
'This brat, I have to do something.'
It was true that her relationship with Abad had become a little delicate recently.
They still had a power struggle, but there was a subtle concern.
In such a situation, she felt a strange emotion today.
At the moment, Celia herself had difficulty defining her feelings.
In such a situation, having her relationship with Abad become the subject of others' gossip was not very welcome.
'It would be weird if I got angry. Should I just ignore it?'
This was when Celia was hesitating.
Ilyana pointed her finger at Celia.
"Celia! Honestly admit your feelings! Love is not shameful."
"I really don't know what you're talking about."
Seeing Celia sigh and press her temples, Ilyana said.
"Why can't you speak! You love Chloe!"
"……"
Celia faltered.
For a moment, the female students also looked stunned.
Ilyana jumped off the bed and swept her hair back as if she were Celia.
And she put on a smug expression.
"You've been in the same class as Chloe since the first year, so you probably thought of Chloe as a friend at first. But the closer you got, the more you felt that the perfect honor student Chloe was your ideal type. Then, at some point, you awoke to forbidden love!"
Hmm-! Ilyana nodded and rested her chin on her finger, striking a pose as if she knew something profound.
"But Abad, who was already an eyesore, was unusually friendly with Chloe today! Your emotions just exploded! How is it? My deduction?"
"Wow, for once, that's actually plausible."
Chelsea, who was next to her, looked impressed.
"Now! Honestly tell us your true feelings! I'm the type who has no prejudice against love! I love love triangles!"
Ilyana's eyes sparkled.
"This sounds interesting. Let's talk about it openly."
Chelsea openly teased Celia.
Celia looked up at the ceiling and chuckled, then glared and shouted.
"Who are you saying loves whom! You two are a pair! Come here! I'll rip your heads off!"
Squawk- The infirmary became chaotic in an instant.
The commotion was only barely calmed down after the professor on duty for the ward arrived.
The three responsible for the disturbance wrote apology letters in the room.
Nella, watching them, said.
"So, what was that good idea you mentioned earlier?"
"You're asking late."
Ilyana pouted and finished her apology letter, then tidied her writing tools.
"You're already done?"
"Hmph. I'm an expert when it comes to apology letters? I have my own secret for writing them quickly."
"That's something to brag about."
Celia sighed and scribbled her apology letter.
"So? What's this good idea?"
Seeing Nella ask with curiosity, Ilyana said.
"The president said when he pitted the dorms against each other. He said it was okay to sneak into the opposing dorm and steal the flag."
"He did."
"That means there's a route to infiltrate the dorm, right?"
"Yeah."
"Then, conversely, doesn't that mean there's a secret passage to the president's room?"
"Come to think of it…"
"So, we sneak in at night when the president is asleep."
Ilyana lowered her voice.
"And go in?"
Nella also lowered her voice without realizing it and asked.
Chelsea and Celia, whose attention was caught by Ilyana's words, stopped writing their apology letters and focused on the conversation.
Ilyana smirked mischievously.
"While the president is asleep."
"While?"
"Bam!"
The female students looked tense.
"We steal the praise stamps and escape! Then the dorm war is won!"
"……"
"……"
The female students looked at the plan, which deflated their expectations, with a look of pity.
"Ah! This was a secret ultimate plan! I shared it with the magic department!"
Seeing Ilyana grab her head, Nella said.
"I'm going to sleep."
"You're like this because you got hit hard on the head by me during the mock battle earlier."
Celia looked at Chelsea with a reproachful gaze, and Chelsea frowned as if she were wronged.
"She was always like this."
"Now that I think about it, that's true. Sorry."
"Ugh! You guys are so indifferent after hearing my secret plan!"
"Do you think that makes any sense?"
"How many secret passages are there in this Clock Tower Dorm? And you think you can find the one leading to Leo's room?"
"And the passages change all the time."
"Well, there's a door to anywhere in the president's room, so you can go to the president's room from anywhere."
"That's why it's impossible, you idiot. A person who studies magic."
Seeing Chelsea's genuinely pathetic expression, Ilyana, angered, jumped up from the bed.
"Just you wait! I'll sneak into the president's room and come back!"
Saying that, Ilyana opened the infirmary door and ran out.
"There's a professor on duty at the infirmary entrance. Won't she get caught?"
"100%."
Nella said, and Celia replied mercilessly.
A moment later.
Creak- The infirmary door opened, and Ilyana returned.
But her appearance was strange.
Ilyana was being held by the back of her neck by Kirran, a small fairy.
Everyone's eyes widened in surprise at the unexpected situation.
Ilyana, who was dangling in the air, fell to the floor as soon as Kirran let go.
Thud-!
"Ouch!"
Ilyana rubbed her butt.
Kirran, the target the students were supposed to catch, vanished with a poof.
"What? What happened? Why did that fairy bring you?"
Chelsea asked urgently.
Then Ilyana said.
"Do you guys know that?"
"Know what?"
"The student council president's room has a private bathroom?"
"What? How do you know that?"
"Because I just snuck into the student council president's room."
"What? Don't lie!"
"Don't believe her. Hehehe."
Ilyana smiled meaningfully.
Seeing that, Chelsea's face hardened, and she asked.
"Did you see something in there?"
Ilyana giggled.
"It's a secret."
"Hey! Tell me right now! What did you see!"
Chelsea, her eyes wide with fury, shrieked.
Thanks to her, the ward's professor on duty rushed in again, causing more commotion.
That day, Chelsea had to write apology letters in the infirmary's reflection room until late at night.
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"How did you get in?"
Leo, submerged in the bathtub, had a bewildered expression.
A private bathroom attached to the room.
It was the privilege of the student council president.
Even Leo, the strongest, couldn't help but be a little surprised when Ilyana suddenly burst in while he was bathing.
The bathroom was spacious, and Ilyana appeared at the entrance.
Although Ilyana couldn't see anything because he was in the bathtub.
[Can students enter the student council president's room?]
Elsie, floating on a bath basin, asked with a puzzled face, and Leo replied calmly.
"Well, fundamentally, the concept of a door isn't one-way. Being able to go anywhere from the student council president's room means you can also enter the student council president's room from anywhere."
In reality, Leo could come to the student council president's room from anywhere.
Students could also come from anywhere if they found the entrance.
The problem was that the entrance changed constantly.
"You might accidentally open that door and come in, like Ilyana right now."
This was the fundamental structure of this dormitory, so Leo couldn't help it.
"Well, given the extremely low probability, I don't think students will be coming to the student council president's room anymore?"
[That girl named Ilyana was incredibly lucky.]
"Yeah. Sometimes I can't figure her out either."
Leo burst into laughter and shook his head.
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"Should we open the door?"
"Yeah. It's unfair to start a fight among students and then just watch. They should give him some trouble for invading their room."
Rishinas smiled maliciously.
"If they try to sneak into the student council president's room and steal the stamps, he'll have some headaches."
"Hmm… there's no rule about that."
Chen Xia looked slightly troubled, and Rishinas said.
"Xia, do you know why rules are made?"
"To create a fair environment, right?"
"Wrong. They're made to exploit things not covered by the rules."
'…That's why he was called a swindler.'
Looking at Rishinas, whose mindset was so different, Chen Xia couldn't help but recall Leo's appearance, who called Rishinas a wicked swindler.
"Hehe. When students sneak in while you're sleeping, you'll be surprised too. Let him suffer a little."
Chen Xia couldn't help but tilt her head, seeing Rishinas's vengeful expression.
'Did Lord Leo do something terribly wrong to Master Rishinas?'