Book 1 Chapter 727
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That night.
Infirmary treatment room.
Third-year students from the Knight Academy and Magic Academy ended up staying in the same room.
As if to show the intensity of the mock battle, many students had bandages wrapped here and there.
Some students went to bed early due to fatigue.
Students who had personal matters were doing their work with a small magic stone lamp turned on next to their individual beds.
Iliana sat cross-legged on the bed, deep in thought with her arms crossed.
She was in quite deep thought, but the female students sharing the infirmary room didn't pay any attention to her at all.
Rustle- Rustle-
Chelsea, who occupied the spots on either side of Iliana, concentrated on reading a magic book, while Nella hummed a tune and wiped her morning star with a clean cloth.
Soon, Iliana finished her contemplation and raised her head.
"Hey, I just had a really great idea."
"Uh, right."
Chelsea replied without taking her eyes off the magic book.
"Aren't you curious? Right? Right?"
"Yeah. Amazing."
"What?! What kind of half-hearted answer is that!"
Iliana flared up and threw a pillow at Chelsea.
But Chelsea moved slightly without even looking, avoiding Iliana's attack.
Iliana's pillow, which flew past Chelsea, landed on Celia's head, who was sleeping.
As soon as she saw that, Iliana quickly turned off her magic stone lamp, lay down, pulled the blanket over her head, and pretended to sleep.
"Hey, Chelsea Rwaleen. Why are you suddenly picking a fight?"
Iliana muttered to herself at Celia's irritated voice, who had just woken up.
'Oh, if this goes well, Chelsea might take the blame, and I can just get away with it!'
"Why are you picking a fight?!"
"Phooey!"
Celia pressed a pillow against Iliana's face, who was covered by the blanket.
Iliana thrashed around under the blanket.
Chelsea also quickly ran over and hit Iliana with a book.
"Chelsea, why are you hitting me too!"
"Because you tried to blame me."
The ward became noisy for a moment.
The students burst into laughter at the sight.
After a while, Iliana, who had barely escaped, gasped for breath and said.
"Celia! That's too much?!"
"You threw the pillow first."
"Even so! There's no need to go this far…! Aha!"
Iliana, who was protesting, suddenly narrowed her eyes.
"I get it. The reason you're so irritable today!"
Celia made a face that said, "What nonsense is she spouting now?", and Iliana jumped up, stood proudly on the bed, straightened her chest, and said.
"Chloe and Avard seemed unusually close today, and you're jealous because of that, aren't you?! I caught you red-handed!"
"Ahahahahahahaha!"
At that moment, Chelsea, who was listening to the story, burst into hysterical laughter.
She laughed so loudly that even the sleeping students were startled and woke up.
Chelsea, who was rolling around on the bed clutching her stomach and laughing, hiccupped and said.
"Celia jealous because of brother and Chloe? Iliana. That's the funniest thing you've said so far."
Other female students who understood the situation after hearing the story also started to chuckle.
Celia and Avard.
Recently, they had shown many instances of working together and cooperating, but their relationship remained the same.
Celia and Chelsea constantly bicker, but they don't try to win against each other with all their might.
If Celia and Chelsea were rivals who were also friends.
From the perspective of those around them, Celia and Avard were sworn enemies.
But Celia being jealous of Chloe and Avard getting along?
It was a story that naturally brought laughter.
"Hehehe! The eyes of this great detective Iliana are accurate! I just had a sudden flash of intuition!"
But Iliana showed deep conviction in her conjecture.
Celia's eyes trembled as she watched her.
'If I don't do something about this one.'
It was true that her relationship with Avard had become a little subtle recently.
They were still having a power struggle, but in a strange way, she cared about him, one might say?
In that situation, she felt an unfamiliar emotion today.
For now, Celia herself found it difficult to define her feelings.
In such a situation, having her relationship with Avard being talked about by others was not at all welcome.
'If I react angrily, it'll seem strange. Should I just ignore it?'
It was when Celia was momentarily conflicted.
Iliana pointed her finger at Celia with a snap!
"Celia! Honestly admit your feelings! Love is nothing to be ashamed of."
"I really don't know what you're talking about."
Iliana said, watching Celia sigh deeply and press her temples.
"Why can't you say it! That you love Chloe!"
"……"
Celia paused.
For a moment, the female students also wore dumbfounded expressions.
Iliana, who had jumped down from the bed, swept back her hair just like Celia.
And she wore a smug expression.
"You, who have been in the same class since first grade, probably thought of Chloe as a friend at first. But the closer you got, the more the perfect honor student, Chloe, felt like your ideal type. Then, at some point, you awakened to a forbidden love!"
Mhm-! Iliana nodded, then propped her chin with a finger, striking a thoughtful pose.
"But Avard, who usually irritates you, is getting along with Chloe today! Your emotions burst out with a bang-! How's my deduction?"
"Wow, this time, it's actually plausible."
Chelsea, who was next to her, wore an impressed expression.
"Come on! Honestly confess your true feelings! I'm someone who has no prejudice against love! I love all love triangles!"
Iliana's eyes sparkled.
"It sounds interesting. Let's talk about it frankly."
Chelsea openly teased Celia.
Celia looked up at the ceiling, let out a 'Hmph-' laugh, then her eyes flared up, and she shouted.
"Who do you mean loves whom right now! You two, just both of you! Come here! I'll just rip your heads off your necks!"
Woof-Woof- The ward instantly became noisy.
The commotion barely subsided after the on-duty professor of the ward arrived.
The three people who caused the disturbance wrote self-reflection essays in the ward.
Nella, who was watching them, said.
"So, what was that great idea you mentioned earlier?"
"You ask quickly."
Iliana pouted, finished her self-reflection essay, and put away her writing tools.
"You're already done?"
"Hmph. I'm an expert when it comes to self-reflection essays, aren't I? I have my own know-how for writing them quickly."
"That's something to brag about."
Celia sighed and scribbled on her self-reflection essay.
"So? What's the great idea?"
Iliana looked at Nella, who asked with curiosity, and said.
"The class president said it when he made the dorms fight each other, didn't he? That we could secretly infiltrate the opposing dorm and steal their flag."
"He did."
"That means there's an infiltration route into the dorm, right?"
"Yes."
"Then, wouldn't that mean, conversely, there's also a secret passage to the class president's room?"
"Now that you mention it…"
"So, we'll sneak in when the class president is sleeping at night."
Iliana lowered her voice.
"Sneak in and?"
Nella also lowered her voice unconsciously and asked again.
Chelsea and Celia also stopped writing their self-reflection essays and focused on the conversation, seemingly concerned about Iliana's words.
Iliana flashed a sinister smile.
"While the class president is sleeping."
"While?"
"Boom!"
The female students wore tense expressions.
"We'll steal the stamp of praise and run away! Then, the dorm war is a victory!"
"……"
"……"
The female students wore exasperated expressions at the anticlimactic plan.
"Oh no! This is a secret ultimate plan! I shared it with the Magic Academy!"
Nella looked at Iliana, who was clutching her head, and said.
"I'm going to sleep."
"You kicked her head hard during the mock battle earlier today, that's why she's like this."
Celia looked at Chelsea with an accusing gaze, and Chelsea frowned as if she was being unfairly blamed.
"She's always been like this."
"Now that I think about it, you're right. Sorry."
"Ugh! You heard my secret plan, why are your reactions so dry!"
"Do you think that makes sense?"
"How many secret passages are there in this Clock Tower Dorm, and you're going to find a passage leading to Leo's room?"
"The passages even change constantly."
"Why! The class president's room has doors everywhere, so you can go to the class president's room from anywhere."
"That's why it's impossible, you idiot. And you're someone who learns magic."
Iliana, angered by Chelsea's genuinely exasperated expression, sprang up from the bed.
"Just you wait! I'll infiltrate the class president's room and come back!"
Saying that, Iliana opened the ward door and ran out.
"Won't she get caught by the on-duty professor at the infirmary entrance?"
"100% she will."
Celia said mercilessly to Nella's words.
A moment later.
Creak- The ward door opened, and Iliana returned.
But her appearance was strange.
Iliana was being held by the scruff of her neck by Kirian, a tiny fairy.
Everyone's eyes widened at the unexpected situation.
Iliana, who was dangling in mid-air, fell straight to the floor when Kirian let go.
Thud-!
"Ow!"
Iliana rubbed her bottom.
Kirian, the target that students were supposed to catch, disappeared with a shimmer.
"What? What happened? Why did that fairy bring you here?"
Chelsea asked urgently.
At that moment, Iliana spoke.
"Do you know something?"
"What?"
"The student council president's room has a private bathroom?"
"What? How do you know that?"
"Because I just infiltrated the student council president's office."
"What? Don't lie!"
"Don't believe it. Heheheh."
Iliana laughed meaningfully.
Chelsea, seeing her, her face hardened and she asked.
"What did you see in there?"
Iliana smiled faintly.
"A secret."
"Hey! Tell me right now! What did you see?!"
Chelsea, her eyes wild, screamed.
Thanks to that, the ward became noisy again, and the on-duty ward professor came running once more.
That day, Chelsea had to write a self-reflection essay in the reflection room in the ward until late dawn.
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"How did you get in?"
Leo, who was soaking in the bathtub, wore an incredulous expression.
A private bathroom attached to the room.
It was the privilege of the student council president.
While he was washing, Iliana suddenly entered, and even Leo, with all his composure, couldn't help but be a little surprised.
The bathroom was spacious, and where Iliana appeared was the entrance.
Since he was in the bathtub, Iliana didn't see anything.
[Can a student enter the student council office?]
Elsie, floating on a bath dipper, asked with a puzzled face, and Leo replied calmly.
"Well, basically, the concept of a door isn't one-way. Being able to go anywhere from the student council office means you can also enter the student council president's office from anywhere."
In fact, Leo could come to the student council president's office from anywhere.
Students could also come from anywhere if they found the entrance correctly.
The problem was that the entrance changed constantly.
"She might have accidentally opened that door and come in. Like Iliana just now."
As this was the fundamental structure of the dorm, Leo couldn't do anything about it.
"Well, since it's an extremely low probability, there won't be another student coming into the student council president's room in the future, will there?"
[That girl, Iliana, was incredibly lucky.]
"Right. Even I sometimes can't figure her out."
Leo chuckled and shook his head from side to side.
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"Open the doors?"
"Yeah. Making students fight and then just watching? Isn't that a bit unfair? If students infiltrate his room, he'll have a bit of a hard time too."
Lysinas smiled mischievously.
"If they infiltrate the student council president's room and try to steal the stamp, he'll be in a lot of trouble."
"Hmm… there's no such rule."
When Chen Shia looked slightly troubled, Lysinas said.
"Shia, do you know why rules are made?"
"To create a fair environment, I suppose."
"Wrong. They're made to take advantage of things that aren't set as rules."
'…So that's why he called him a swindler.'
Looking at Lysinas, whose mindset was different, Chen Shia couldn't help but recall Leo, who naturally called Lysinas a wicked swindler.
"Heheh. If students infiltrate while he's sleeping, you'll be surprised too, won't you? Let him suffer a bit."
Chen Shia couldn't help but tilt her head, looking at Lysinas, who even seemed to bear a grudge.
'Did young master Leo do something greatly wrong to Lady Lysinas?'