Book 1 Chapter 847

"I missed it! The lounge sofa in the dorm!"

"Let's go to the snack bar!"

"Did the library get any new books?"

After the opening ceremony and the first day of classes, students flocked to the Clock Tower dormitory.

The common area, shared by all departments, quickly became crowded with students.

"You're here! Juniors!"

"We were lonely without you!"

"Let's have another fun departmental schedule!"

Above the dormitory ceiling, former student council presidents, summoned as spirits by Leo, flew around and shouted.

Originally, they should have let go of their regrets and disappeared, but they were now content with their lives and chose to remain as dormitory spirits for the time being.

Of course, their continued presence was possible with the permission of Principal Riina.

'Good. I don't need to assign extra staff as a dorm supervisor.'

Their positive impact came from the fact that as seniors who graduated thousands of years ago, they wouldn't hesitate to report juniors who broke school rules to the duty officer.

And it was also true that they helped the juniors grow with their experiences, so the students also positively accepted the former student council presidents.

There were also students who had become good friends with the former student council presidents, so many greeted them warmly.

Click-clack-

Upon entering the dormitory, Eliza headed towards her departmental dorm room with her luggage-filled bag.

Her younger sister, Ferena, followed by her side.

As they turned the corner of the hallway.

Thump-!

"Oops!"

"Ah! Unnie, are you okay?"

Eliza stumbled after bumping into Kal, who had popped out from the opposite end of the hallway.

As Ferena tried to help the stumbling Eliza, Kal was quicker, grabbing Eliza's wrist with a "thump-!" to steady her.

"Sorry, sorry. Are you okay?"

As Kal apologized, Eliza narrowed her eyes.

"Watch where you're going."

At Eliza's words, Kal scratched his head.

"I was lost in thought."

"How long are you going to hold on!"

At that moment, Ferena squeezed between them, her eyes half-closed.

Kal grinned, released her wrist, picked up the bag that had fallen to the ground, and handed it to Eliza.

"Well then, goodbye!"

Watching Kal's retreating back as he walked away, Ferena sighed.

"Acting student council president is great and all, but the problem is that he's a bit clumsy."

Ferena briefly voiced her complaint about Kal.

"He tends to be that way," Eliza agreed, chiming in with Ferena.

Even as she said it, she subtly massaged her wrist, which Kal had held just moments before.

"Huh? Unnie! Is your wrist not feeling well? Did Senior Kal grip it too tightly?"

Ferena, flustered, examined Eliza's wrist.

"No," Eliza cut her off, shaking her head, and continued walking.

Following behind her, Ferena grumbled.

"Senior Kal needs to be more careful. To grab the wrist of Unnie, the successor of the Hergin family, so casually. What if rumors like the ones in the first semester start again?"

During the first semester.

Kal and Eliza, who had the honor of being the first guests in the disciplinary room, were briefly caught up in a scandal.

Of course, it ended as a brief, entertaining issue as it was a playful scandal spread by upperclassmen, but Ferena didn't like even that.

"Hmph. A scandal between Kal and me. No one would believe it."

Eliza said with a smirk.

'We're actually dating, though.'

Eliza thought to herself, feeling a strange emotion.

"That's right. Well, even if a scandal did happen, it would be with someone else."

"Kal?"

Eliza's lips curled upwards.

"Someone might like that clumsy fellow… but I don't think a scandal would happen?"

"Senior Kal charms a lot of first-years, so you never know."

Stop-!

"What did you say?"

Eliza, who had stopped walking, widened her eyes.

Of course, Ferena, who couldn't see her expression, replied to Eliza's question as if it were no big deal.

"Senior Kal is kind."

"That's just his sales tactic. Purely business kindness."

"Yes. But he's fundamentally a good person, so there are quite a few first-years who have a crush on him. Plus, he became a hero at a young age. So his status isn't an issue, and I've heard that there are even first-years with royal blood who are considering him as a groom. The top student of the first-year knight department is also an ardent follower of Senior Kal."

"……"

"He must be beaming in front of the junior girls."

Eliza smiled with a chilling glint in her eyes.

"But it's not like that either. It's like he draws a clear line. That's what's so amazing."

"Hmph."

Eliza scoffed at the answer.

But her face softened.

"The first-years are wasting their time."

"That's true. But you never know. There are also proactive ones. Ah, at one point, information about Senior Kal's ideal type was a huge issue among the first-year girls."

"What? I don't think that guy would blab about that?"

"That's right. I heard it was information from Kal's best friend."

"Hmm? What did he say?"

"He likes long, straight hair, like Lysinas."

At that, Eliza touched her own hair.

Shiny, wavy silver hair with a slight curl.

Given Kal's personality, it wouldn't be that his ideal type was someone as beautiful as Lysinas.

'Everyone likes that, not just Kal.'

Eliza clicked her tongue.

Didn't she herself lose her senses to Lysinas' beauty?

'Does he mean he likes a pure style?'

As she let out a light sigh.

Before she knew it, they had arrived at the Summoning Department dormitory.

"Unnie! I'll definitely keep my top student title this semester too!"

Seeing Ferena clench her fists and make a vow, Eliza smiled.

"I'll look forward to it."

"Yes!"

Leaving her sister, who went to her room, Eliza entered her own room and threw her luggage bag in one spot.

Then, she collapsed onto the bed and sighed.

"In the end, I only saw him briefly in the hallway at school."

Eliza's dissatisfaction spilled out.

Of course, it wasn't Kal's fault.

Since passing Lumera Lake and arriving at school, they hadn't seen each other due to their respective departmental schedules.

Eliza subtly massaged her wrist where Kal had held her.

A strong sense of longing remained.

'I never imagined I'd feel this way.'

He was a familiar face at school.

But now, when he disappeared from her sight, she constantly thought of him.

She knew the culprit, of course.

It started the night before Leo's coronation, when Kal had called her, saying he had something to tell her, and she had followed him.

'What? I'm busy.'

As a representative of her family, Eliza had many external matters to attend to.

The Hergin family's influence was significant, so she had to meet many people at the pre-coronation banquet.

However, before that, she had been cold to Kal because she was displeased with his wavering attitude between her and Duran during the summer break.

In Kal's position, it was understandable.

They were friends.

And strictly speaking, Duran was Kal's lord.

He couldn't help but waver, but she still felt a slight resentment and dissatisfaction.

It was due to her desire to be someone special to Kal.

At Eliza's words, Kal hesitated, then pulled something out from behind his back.

'Flowers? Is he apologizing?'

Eliza let out a smirk.

She thought he was at least trying to appease her.

'Eliza, I've thought about it a lot. I think I like you.'

'What?'

'So I want a more special relationship with you than we have now.'

At that moment.

Eliza was stunned.

Kal's face, flushed red, turning away, and closing his eyes tightly, looking flustered, seemed quite cute at that moment.

"It makes sense. He's one year younger than me."

Eliza smiled faintly, recalling that moment.

She herself seemed to have been quite flushed at the time.

She had been so flustered that she had stammered.

Her heart had been pounding like crazy, making her voice tremble.

'Hmm.'

But she feigned composure.

Then, she took the flower from Kal's hand and replied briefly.

'I like it.'

'Huh! Really! You're not teasing me, are you?'

Kal's eyes snapped open.

'We're just dating casually.'

'Ohhhhhhh!'

She had tried to show a little pride, but seeing Kal's genuine joy, she felt like a fool.

'Thank you! For accepting my confession!'

Grab-!

When he grabbed both of her hands and leaned in, her heart felt like it had stopped.

An awkward silence fell at that moment.

'Um. S-sorry…'

As Kal apologized and tried to pull his hands away.

"Thinking back, it was crazy."

Eliza buried her face in the duvet.

At that moment, Eliza had closed her eyes for a moment.

Kal, who was flustered, also thought for a moment and then pressed his face even closer.

'No! Why was that guy so brave at a time like that?'

It wasn't that she was unhappy with his bravery.

However.

'Um… excuse me.'

'Gasp?'

'Yikes?'

'I feel bad just watching this. Can you finish what you were doing after I leave?'

Due to Chen Xia's awkward words, nothing further happened.

In any case, Eliza and Kal became lovers.

From then on, Eliza couldn't get Kal out of her mind.

'…What would it have felt like if we had kissed then?'

Eliza, unconsciously touching her lips, scowled.

'What? This makes it seem like I'm anxious!'

She suddenly sat up and headed for her bag to unpack.

'That time, I was swept up in the mood and my head was a little messed up. If you try to kiss me carelessly next time because we set the mood once, I won't let you off.'

Snorting, Eliza opened her bag and stopped.

As soon as she opened the bag, she saw a small letter envelope and a single silver flower.

She had never put anything like this in her bag.

She opened the letter envelope and found a letter written in a handwriting that clearly showed she had tried her best to write prettily.

[Doesn't this flower seem like my girlfriend? - Kal Thomas]

It was the flower Kal had given her when he confessed.

It was a flower that resembled Eliza's hair color.

"Hmph. How audacious to casually call me his girlfriend?"

She chuckled and sat down at her desk.

Then, she found a piece of stationery from her desk drawer and scribbled something.

[Don't be so arrogant.]

As she wrote, Eliza paused.

'Does that seem too distant?'

Forgetting that she was usually not the type to think that way, Eliza held the stationery and pondered.

Then her gaze fell on the fatigue-relief potion candies Kal had gifted her.

They were individually wrapped, pretty candies.

She picked out an orange candy and wrote on a new piece of stationery.

[Doesn't this candy seem like my boyfriend? - Eliza Hergin]

"…This is on the same level as Kal."

Eliza scowled and picked up Kal's letter.

Then she discovered writing on the back of the stationery.

[P.S. No. My girlfriend is even more beautiful.]

"Pfft."

Eliza couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha!"

After a bout of laughter, Eliza hummed a tune and put the letter in the envelope.

Then she placed the orange candy on top of it.

Then she caught sight of herself in the mirror in the corner of the room.

Eliza went to the mirror and touched her hair.

'Straight hair…'

"Heehee~ Hum~"

Humming a tune, Eliza touched her lips.

'What would it have felt like?'

It was when Eliza felt a strange curiosity and impulse.

Knock-knock-

"Gasp-!"

Thump-!

Startled by the sudden knock, she jumped up.

Then she stubbed her toe on the furniture and rolled on the floor.

"Uh, Unnie. Is something wrong?"

"Nothing at all."

Eliza answered calmly, feeling a tear well up.

"What is it?"

"Let's go for dinner."

"Okay. Just a moment."

Eliza hastily got up, limping, put the letters and candies on the desk into the drawer, and left the room.

As the sound of the door locking echoed, silence fell in Eliza's room.

Click-

The window opened, and a fairy cautiously poked her head in.

The fairy, who had been observing the situation from outside, quickly opened the desk drawer to find what she was looking for.

And she bit into the orange candy, packaging and all.

Crunch- crunch-

"Ptooey!"

The fairy spat out the candy wrapper and reached for the next candy.

Tap- tap- tap-

Jingle-

"Ferena. Wait a moment. I forgot my wallet."

Footsteps and the sound of keys being taken out were heard from beyond the door.

And the voice of the room's owner could be heard, and the fairy flinched, then opened an alternate dimension and pushed all the candies in the desk drawer into it.

Among them was the letter Eliza had written.

Rustle-!

The sound of a key being inserted was heard.

The fairy quickly closed the drawer and went out the window.

Slam-!

Eliza, entering the room, grabbed her wallet from her bag and was about to leave when she looked at the open window.

"Huh? Did I open the window?"

Thinking nothing of it since it was summer, Eliza left for dinner with her sister.