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Translator: Nonon
Proofreader: Silavin
I didn’t see anything.
I wanted to tell myself that and ignore the bizarre sight from earlier, but things are never that easy.
Although I didn’t see her directly, one of the factors responsible for creating the scene from earlier was Ms. Mary. As long as I have to go to the school festival, I have to know if she’s involved.
From what I’ve heard, this situation was created because the promotional play was amazing.
Looking at the flyer I received earlier, Ms. Mary and His Highness Vermillion are in the lead roles, so in this case, both of their performances were probably excellent, but Ms. Mary must have stood out more. I can hear the voices praising His Highness, but if anything, the voices of worship towards Ms. Mary are louder. Honestly, it’s scary.
“The school festival play, huh?”
During my time, only the nobles could star in the play during the school festival. In other words, because it was a play performed at Azalea Academy, which had a long history and pride, the ones participating in it also had to be those of high social status.
It was the same way in Ring of Fire too and depending on the route, the heroine would be the first commoner to play the main character… but this year’s leading role seems to belong to Ms. Mary, a commoner.
In that case, it would be better to not see the play. I was a bit interested, since I didn’t get to see the play during the school festival, because that was when my incident happened, but if Lady Violet heard that His Highness Vermillion and Ms. Mary are in leading roles, she might break down crying…
Huh, I felt a little prickle again. I wonder why. It’s true that I don’t want to see Lady Violet burst in tears, but this feels like a different kind of prickle…
“Let’s go, Lord Clo.”
Gray, who called out to me as if to interrupt my thoughts, peeked at the flyer I was holding and when he saw the contents, his voice and expression became displeased.
Even though he seemed to have been having fun just a second ago…
You can’t see that he’s in a bad mood from the sidelines, but I can tell that he’s in a bad mood because the inflection of his voice has become lower than usual.
“What’s wrong, Gray? You seem to be in a bad mood.”
“ No sir, it’s nothing like that.”
Looking at the way he’s averting his eyes and tries to leave quickly, I can’t help but doubt his words.
But why would he be in a bad mood… oh, I see.
“You’re right, let’s go to the lodgings quickly. Or might not be able to do any sightseeing.”
“Yes, let’s do so… Lord Clo, is there a way to go around here to take a little detour instead of going straight? It seems like the people who are advertising have already taken this road.”
“If I remember right… yeah, we can do that. The road where those are advertising will probably be crowded, so let’s turn right. For now, let’s meet up with Lady Violet and others.”
Gray responded to my proposal with approval and quickly returned to the place where Lady Violet was waiting a little further away.
When I see how he can’t hide his feelings well like that, it makes me realize that he’s still only 11 years old.
“… Well, of course he’d be in a bad mood if the person who dumped his mother and the person who stole her fiancee are playing the lead roles.”
Moreover, he saw people look forward to it because of their advertisement. Gray must be feeling complicated.
I folded the flyer sloppily and once it got small enough, I burnt it with fire magic that even I could use.
Thinking about it, regardless of whether Ms. Mary is a reincarnator or not, the content of this flyer wasn’t very favorable for me. I feel bad for whoever made it, but it’s something I’ll see anyway even if I didn’t like it. It was something I was given for free anyway, so let’s use it to relieve some stress.
Once it burnt to some extent, I blew on it to extinguish the fire and threw what was left in the nearby trash can.
I turned on my heels to go back to where Lady Violet and others were waiting and was about to follow Gray.
“Why did you throw it away?”
I got involved with a crazy guy in a sense.
The one who appeared in front of me while glaring at me was a short-statured boy, not even 160 centimeters tall, with silver hair and aggressive red eyes, who handed me the flyer earlier. In other words, one of the love interests, Silva Seyfried.
He is the only commoner among the love interests, who was rumored to use magic that was said to be a cursed power when he first entered the school. He had a gloomy personality, but because the heroine interacted with him without discrimination, he returned to his original bright personality.
He is the character who was popular because of the gap between his cute personality and the strength he showed sometimes.
That boy is now glaring at me.
… That was thoughtless of me. I don’t know much about him, but since he talked with me cheerfully earlier, he should be able to control the power that’s said to be cursed.
If he became cheerful after interacting with Ms. Kriemhild… no, Ms. Mary, he probably loves her. Yet, he would became jealous of the person who destroyed the flyer featuring Ms. Mary–
“Why did you burn it? It was a flyer featuring my beloved Ms. Mary. Sure, Ms. Mary’s face might not be drawn on it, but there are beautiful 7 letters making up ‘Mary Sue’ written on it. I’m sure you didn’t see the play earlier, but that doesn’t give you a good reason to burn it. How do you think she would feel if she saw what you did? Wouldn’t she feel hurt if the flyer of a play she was taking a part in got burnt? No, Ms. Mary would be sadder about the fact that something we and the others worked so hard to make and give out to excite people was burnt more than the fact that a flyer with her name on it was burnt. It’s because Ms. Mary is a very kind person, do you understand? Ms. Mary is very kind. She’s somebody who can express her joy, anger and sadness for others, to the extent that sometimes I wish she would treat herself better. She has saved so many people, not just me, but also other people with high social status like His Highness. We all accept her, respect her and love her. Such a wonderful person like her is trying to liven up our school festival by starring in a school play where only nobles could perform so everybody could enjoy the school festival regardless of their social status. What’s more, even though she was busy playing the leading role, she worked tirelessly to help her class prepare for the school festival and made it into something wonderful. In order to respond to Ms. Mary’s efforts and beauty, we have continued to advertise until the last moment to help fulfill Ms. Mary’s wish to liven up the school festival. And one of the ways we’re helping is by handing out flyers like this. “
I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared!!
What in the world is this?! I can feel some kind of a dark aura from him!
If I remember right, Silva had a lot of scenes of being jealous of other love interests, but what’s with envy in this direction?!
Silva grabbed my right hand, pulled it towards him and once again put the flyer from earlier in my right hand.
“That’s why, please don’t burn it the next time, okay?”
“… Yes.”
Silva handed me the flyer with a big smile and I had no choice but to accept it obediently.
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