Book 1 Chapter 847

847.

“I missed it! The lounge sofa in the dorm!”

“Let’s go to the cafeteria!”

“Have new books arrived at the library?”

After finishing the opening ceremony and all classes on the first day, students gathered at the Clock Tower Dormitory.

The common area, used by all departments, quickly became bustling with students.

“You’re here! Juniors!”

“We were lonely without you!”

“Let’s have another fun academic schedule!”

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

Although they should have let go of their lingering attachments and disappeared, they were content with their current lives and chose to remain as dorm spirits for the time being.

Of course, their ability to stay was only possible with the permission of the principal, Riina.

‘Good. I don’t have to assign separate personnel as a dorm supervisor.’

The fact that, as seniors who graduated thousands of years ago, they would not hesitate to report juniors who broke school rules to the on-duty staff, worked positively.

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

There were also many students who had become friendly with the former student council presidents and greeted them warmly.

Click-clack- Click-clack-

Eliza, having entered the dorm, was heading to her department dorm room, carrying a bag full of luggage.

Beside her, Eliza’s younger sister, Perena, was following.

Just as they were turning down the corridor.

Thump-!

“Oops!”

“Ah! Are you okay, Unnie?”

Eliza, who had bumped into Kal, who had popped out from the other side of the corridor, staggered.

As Perena tried to support the staggering Eliza, Kal quickly grabbed Eliza’s wrist with a “thump-!” to steady her.

“Sorry, sorry. Are you okay?”

As Kal apologized, Eliza furrowed her brows.

“Watch where you’re going.”

At Eliza’s words, Kal scratched his head.

“I was thinking.”

“How long are you going to hold her!”

At that moment, Perena interjected between them, narrowing her eyes.

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

“Well then, see you!”

Watching Kal’s retreating back as he said that and walked away, Perena sighed.

“The acting student council president is great in every way, but I think his frivolity is a bit of a problem.”

Perena quietly expressed her dissatisfaction with Kal.

“He is a bit like that.”

Eliza agreed with Perena’s words.

While doing so, she subtly massaged the wrist Kal had just grabbed.

“Huh? Unnie! Is your wrist okay? Did Kal-sunbae grab you too hard?”

Perena, flustered, examined Eliza’s wrist.

“No.”

Eliza curtly shook her head and walked on.

Following behind her, Perena grumbled.

“Kal-sunbae really needs to be more careful. Grabbing Unnie’s wrist, the heir of the Hergin family, so casually, thump-thump-. What if a scandal breaks out like in the first semester, honestly.”

During the first semester.

Kal and Eliza, who had ‘gloriously’ become the first guests of the punishment room, were briefly caught up in a scandal.

Of course, it was a playful scandal spread by upperclassmen and ended up being a brief entertainment issue, but even that displeased Perena.

“Hmph. Kal and I having a scandal. No one would believe it.”

Eliza let out a small laugh and said.

‘Even though we’re actually dating.’

As Eliza thought to herself, she was swept up in a strange feeling.

“Exactly. Well, even if a scandal breaks out, it’d be with other students.”

“Kal?”

Eliza’s lips curled upwards.

“Someone might like that frivolous guy… but I don’t think a scandal would break out, would it?”

“Kal-sunbae charms a lot of first-years, so you never know what might happen.”

Stopped dead-

“What do you mean by that?”

Eliza, who had stopped walking, widened her eyes.

Of course, Perena, who didn’t see that, answered Eliza’s question as if it were nothing.

“Kal-sunbae is kind, isn’t he?”

“That’s just for his business, you know. Purely business-like kindness.”

“Yes. But still, he’s fundamentally a good person, so there are quite a few first-years who have a crush on him. Plus, he rose to the position of a hero at a young age, didn’t he? So his status isn’t really an issue, and I heard there are even some first-years of royal blood who are aiming for him as a potential husband. The top student of the first-year Knight Department is also a fervent follower of Kal-sunbae.”

“……”

“He must be grinning widely in front of the junior girls.”

Eliza wore an eerie smile.

“But that’s not quite it. It’s like he draws a clear line? That’s what I find amazing.”

“Hmph.”

At that answer, Eliza snorted.

But her face had softened.

“The first-years will be grasping at straws then.”

“That’s right. But you never know. There are some proactive ones too. Oh, at one point, information about Kal-sunbae’s ideal type was a big issue among the first-year girls.”

“What? I don’t think that guy would blab about something like that?”

“You’re right. I heard it was information shared by Kal-sunbae’s best friend.”

“Hmm? What did he say?”

“He likes long, straight hair, like Lady Licinas.”

At those words, Eliza fiddled with her own hair.

Wavy, lustrous silver hair.

Given Kal’s personality, it wouldn’t be that his ideal type is someone as beautiful as Licinas.

‘Everyone likes that, not just Kal.’

Eliza clicked her tongue.

Hadn’t even she been captivated by Licinas’s beauty?

‘Does he mean he likes an innocent style?’

While she let out a light sigh.

They had already arrived at the Summoning Department dormitory.

“Unnie! I’ll definitely defend my top student title this semester too!”

Eliza smiled faintly, watching Perena clench both her fists and make a vow.

“I’ll be looking forward to it.”

“Yes!”

Eliza, leaving her sister who had gone to her own room, entered her room and threw her luggage bag into a corner.

Then, with a “thud-”, she lay down on the bed and sighed.

“In the end, all we did at school was see each other briefly in the hallway.”

A complaint burst from Eliza’s lips.

Of course, it wasn’t Kal’s fault.

After passing Lake Lumiera and arriving at school, they had no chance to see each other due to their respective departmental schedules.

Eliza fiddled with the wrist Kal had grabbed.

A strong sense of regret remained.

‘I never imagined I’d feel this way.’

It was a face she always saw at school.

But now, if he disappeared from her sight, she kept thinking about him.

Of course, she knew the culprit.

During Leo’s coronation eve.

It was from the moment Kal called her, saying he had something to tell her, and she followed him.

‘What? I’m busy.’

As someone representing her family, Eliza had many external matters to attend to.

This was because the Hergin family’s influence was significant, and she had to meet many important people at the coronation eve.

But before that, her coldness towards Kal was due to her dissatisfaction with his wavering attitude between Duran and herself during the summer vacation.

In fact, from Kal’s perspective, it was natural.

Because they were friends.

And strictly speaking, Duran was Kal’s liege.

He couldn’t help but waver, but still, she harbored a slight resentment and dissatisfaction.

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

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

‘A flower? Is he apologizing?’

Eliza let out a small laugh.

‘Still, he’s trying to cheer me up.’ Just as she thought that.

‘Eliza. I’ve thought about it deeply. I think I like you.’

‘What?’

‘So I want to be in a more special relationship with you than we are now.’

At that moment.

Eliza was stunned speechless.

Kal’s flustered face, with his head turned away, eyes tightly shut, and completely at a loss, had felt quite cute at that moment.

“It makes sense, then. He’s a year younger than me.”

Eliza, recalling that moment, smiled faintly.

At that moment, she herself seemed to have been thoroughly flushed.

Because she had been in a panic and stammering.

Her heart was pounding like crazy, and because of it, her voice trembled.

‘Hmph.’

But she feigned nonchalance.

Then she took the flower clutched in Kal’s hand and answered curtly.

‘Okay.’

‘Gasp! Really! You’re not teasing me, are you?’

Kal’s eyes shot open.

‘It’s just a casual relationship, that’s all.’

‘Ooooh!’

She tried to maintain a bit of unnecessary pride, but thanks to Kal’s genuine delight, she felt like she was the only one being foolish.

‘Thank you! For accepting my confession!’

Thump-!

When he grabbed both her hands and leaned his face close, it felt as if her heart had truly stopped.

At that moment, an awkward silence fell.

‘Uhm. So, sorry……’

Just as Kal was apologizing and trying to pull his hands away.

“Thinking about it now, I was crazy.”

Eliza buried her face in the blanket.

At that time, Eliza had momentarily closed her eyes.

Kal, who had been flustered, thought for a moment and then leaned his face even closer.

‘No! Why is that guy so brave at times like that?’

It wasn’t that she was unhappy with his courage.

However.

‘Uhm… Excuse me.’

‘Gasp?’

‘Eek?’

‘I feel bad just watching this. Could you perhaps continue after I’ve left?’

Due to Chen Xia’s awkward words at the scene, nothing further happened.

Anyway, that’s how Eliza and Kal became a couple.

From then on, Kal’s thoughts never left a corner of Eliza’s mind.

‘…I wonder how it would have felt if we had kissed then.’

Eliza, who was unconsciously touching her lips, frowned.

‘What? This makes it seem like I’m desperate for something!’

Eliza abruptly got up and headed towards her bag to unpack her luggage.

‘At that time, I was just caught up in the mood and a little out of my mind. If he tries to kiss me again so casually just because we had a moment, I won’t let him get away with it.’

Eliza snorted and opened her bag, then paused.

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

She had never put anything like that in her bag.

Opening the envelope, she found a letter written in a handwriting that felt like someone had struggled to write it neatly.

[Doesn’t this flower feel 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 arrogant, just casually calling me his girlfriend?”

Eliza let out a small laugh and sat on the desk.

Then she found a piece of stationery in the desk drawer and scribbled something.

[Don’t be arrogant.]

Eliza, who was writing, paused.

‘Am I drawing the line too much?’

Forgetting that she wasn’t usually the type to have such thoughts, Eliza held the stationery and agonized.

Then her gaze fell on the fatigue-recovery potion candies Kal had given her as a gift.

They were pretty, individually wrapped candies.

She took out an orange candy from among them and wrote on a new piece of stationery.

[Doesn’t this candy feel like my boyfriend? - Eliza Hergin]

“…This is too much on the same level as Kal.”

Eliza frowned and picked up Kal’s letter.

Then she discovered some writing on the back of the stationery.

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

“Pfft.”

Eliza burst out laughing without realizing it.

“Ahahahahaha!”

After a good laugh, Eliza hummed a tune and put the letter into the envelope.

And on top of it, she placed the orange candy.

Then she noticed her reflection in the mirror in a corner of the room.

Eliza went to the mirror and fiddled with her hair.

‘Straight hair…’

“Hmm-hmm~ Hmm~”

Humming a tune, Eliza touched her lips.

‘What would it have felt like?’

It was at that moment Eliza felt a strange curiosity and impulse.

Knock-knock-

“Gasp-!”

Thud-!

Startled by the sudden knock, she jumped up.

Then she stubbed her toe on a piece of furniture and rolled onto the floor.

“Uh, Unnie. Is something wrong?”

“It’s nothing.”

Feeling tears welling up, Eliza answered nonchalantly.

“What is it?”

“Let’s go have dinner.”

“Okay. Just a moment.”

Eliza hastily got up, limping, shoved the letter and candies from the desk into the drawer, and left the room.

With a “click-” of the door locking, a silence fell over Eliza’s room.

Click-

The window opened, and a fairy cautiously peeked its head in.

The fairy, who had been observing the internal situation from outside, hastily opened the desk drawer to find what it wanted.

And bit into an orange candy, wrapper and all.

Crunch- crunch-

“Ptooey!”

As the fairy, having spat out the candy wrapper, was about to reach for the next candy.

Tap- tap- tap-

Jingle-

“Perena. Wait a moment. I left my wallet.”

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

And as the room’s owner’s voice was heard, the fairy flinched, opened a subspace, and pushed all the candies from the desk drawer into it.

Among them was the letter Eliza had written.

Clunk-!

As the sound of the key being inserted was heard.

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

Burst-!

Eliza, who had come back into the room, grabbed her wallet from her bag and, on her way out, looked at the open window.

“Huh? Did I leave the window open?”

Eliza, thinking nothing of it as it was summer, simply left to have dinner with her sister.