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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 2
Chapter Title: Mysterious Deaths (1)
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“Can you even stomach food in a situation like this?”
“Pardon?”
“Can’t you feel their murderous glares?”
Sei-an, eating breakfast, slowly raised his head and looked around at Kanto’s words, who was seated beside him.
He then saw those sitting a little distance away, staring at him with murderous eyes.
It was Illnis and his followers.
“It seems like being slighted in front of Prince Idis really lit a fire under them.”
Ever since Prince Idis and Sei-an disappeared together in front of him on the day of Taylor’s inauguration ceremony, Illnis had been glaring at Sei-an like he wanted to devour him every time he saw him.
“He won’t charge me for eye treatment if his eyes start hurting from all that glaring, will he?”
Of course, Sei-an wasn’t one to bat an eye at Illnis’s murderous glare. Instead, he chuckled and playfully spoke.
“Still, be careful. That guy looks like he’s going to cause trouble.”
“Yes, I will.”
“…Did you understand?”
“Yes, I understood.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Kanto couldn’t hide his unease watching Sei-an respond so casually to his words.
“Haa.”
Kanto turned his head, once again confirming Illnis’s cold glare still fixed on Sei-an, and let out a long sigh.
“Kanto.”
“Hm?”
Just then, a classmate approached and handed something to Kanto.
“What is it?”
“I picked it up on my way back from the post office, where I went to send a letter home. It’s a letter for you.”
“Oh, thanks.”
Kanto took the letter and began to check who sent it.
“It’s from home?”
Realizing the letter was from his father, Kanto’s eyes widened in surprise, and he immediately opened the envelope to read it.
His father, usually a man of few words, wasn’t the type to send him letters.
“Hm?”
As Kanto unfolded the letter and quickly read its contents, his expression grew increasingly serious.
“What’s wrong?”
Seeing Kanto’s expression, Sei-an also looked puzzled and asked him a question.
“It seems something has happened to her.”
“Her?”
“Glomi, I mean.”
“What?”
Glomi was the one who, during the recent suicide commotion, was about to die but was saved by Sei-an’s help.
The letter stated that something had happened to her, who had left the academy to work at the merchant guild run by Kanto’s father after all the truth was revealed.
“Read it.”
“...?”
Since Sei-an also had a connection with her, Kanto handed him the letter he had received.
“Hmm.”
“It’s strange, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
“What could she be scared of?”
“I wonder.”
The letter’s content was very brief. Given his father’s personality, it contained no kind explanations, just the essential message.
It stated that Glomi had been unable to live a normal life for some time, seemingly frightened by something.
“I suppose we’ll only know if we go there.”
“I suppose so.”
They didn’t know the exact circumstances, but they couldn’t just ignore it, knowing that something had happened to her, who had gone there to live because of them, regardless of how it came about.
They were also curious about why she was so frightened.
“First, I’ll need to get permission from the Dean.”
“Right.”
Since they would have to leave the academy for a while, the two of them immediately rose from their seats and headed to the Dean’s office to get permission.
“What are you doing?”
“Why?”
“You should come with us.”
“Why should I!”
Then Sei-an spoke to Lark, who was sitting in a corner of the dining hall as if it had nothing to do with him.
“It’s enough that I followed you this far!”
The first condition Sei-an had demanded for helping him back then, as part of their deal, was not to skip classes, and the second was to sleep in his room.
And finally, he claimed that eating together was the best way to get closer, insisting they always share meals.
“Give it a rest, huh! Why should I get involved in something that has nothing to do with me!”
Lark, who had been unwillingly dragged to the dining hall by Sei-an again this morning, was already in a foul mood, and Sei-an’s insistence on involving him in something unrelated made him scowl fiercely.
“Why is it unrelated?”
“What?”
But Sei-an calmly continued to speak, dissecting Lark’s angry tone point by point.
“You wouldn’t be unaware that she played a greater role than I did in clearing your false accusation back then, would you, Lark?”
“Who asked her to help?! I never said a word asking her to do that.”
“Regardless, for your sake, Lark, she made a difficult confession as a woman in front of countless people, and that’s why she ended up leaving the academy.”
“...”
“And now something has happened to her, and anyone who has even an ounce of con-science and a sense of hu-man de-cency wouldn’t be able to pretend they don’t know about it, would they?”
Lark scowled fiercely once more at Sei-an, who was speaking in a low voice, emphasizing each word as if to pressure him.
“Are you still not going to go, claiming it’s unrelated?”
“…Fine, I’ll go, I’ll go!”
Lark, who had already realized that resisting any further would only give him a headache, gritted his teeth and stood up.
“Heh!”
Meanwhile, Kanto, who had been quietly observing the two from the side, couldn’t help but let out a small laugh as he watched Lark finally get up, led by Sei-an.
“W-whoa! Th-the tray, please, hold back!”
Then, seeing Lark about to throw the food-laden tray straight at him, he quickly wiped the smile from his face.
