The Only Male Student in the Academy

018. Marie Ruhelif (5)

When the sword was inserted into the kobold’s neck, there was a sound like air escaping. Now I’m completely used to killing monsters.

Unlike Kim Il-hwan, who couldn’t catch a bug properly. Everything must be different, starting with the brain cells.

Gradually, I am becoming Ariel, not Kim Il-hwan.

“…More than that.”

I took the spoils from the bodies of the dead kobolds, and I also collected herbs and herbs that could only be obtained from dungeons.

But there was one gaze following me all the time.

“…….”

He might think he hid well, but he was already exposed.

Since he had been following me from the beginning, I couldn’t help but notice.

‘It’s too much intertwined.’

In the original story, whenever Rose bullies Tia, she hides near her and watches it.

After Rose has left, if Lucius explores her surroundings, she will meet Marie with a certain probability, and she can talk to Marie to get information about Rose.

… A character like that is following me around now.

In the original story, Marie never followed Ariel.

That’s right. Ariel dies during the tutorial phase.

But now, there are a lot of things that are particularly intertwined with me, and that means that there are already cracks in the story.

I don’t know how this influence will play out.

Like the word “Butterfly effect,” The original story might be ruined by the outrageous growth.

With a sigh, I looked at Marie towards the pillar where she was hiding.

“Come out, Marie Ruhelif. You have no intention of hiding anyway.”

I say so.

There was one sense of incongruity. Yesterday and today, I am good at finding Marie.

In the original novel, Marie follows Rose throughout, but Rose never finds such a Marie.

Just as Ariel is gifted at throwing, so is Marie.

The ‘talent of controlling one’s presence’.

Marie is not deliberately hiding her presence.

“…….”

As expected, Marie came out from behind her pillar.

Marie stands in front of me, hesitant. Even if you look at it, her face is clear with a nervous expression.

I think about Marie for a while.

The reason I came to the Blatta Dungeon today is because of the sudden cancellation of class.

Since the morning class has been canceled, I am taking classes all day today. In other words, I only had one lecture today.

But is Marie really like that?

Since I have credits from Beltark Academy, I deliberately take fewer classes.

What about Marie?

“Marie Louhelif, are you really having a class today?”

That’s what I asked.

Then.

“Go, don’t take a lecture, that’s right…? Why, why…?!”

Marie replies as if bewildered.

…… Really can’t lie

“Are you chasing me because I’m not hot enough? Are you afraid I’ll reveal her secret to Rose Eiffeltain?”

“Oh, no…! It’s not, but… That, it’s a story related to that…”

“A story involving secrets?”

“Eh, to Ms. Entirus, if you want to keep it a secret… I’ll have to do what you say…”

Marie speaks in a trembling voice.

She was so frightened that she didn’t understand what she was talking about.

One beat later, I realized that Marie was threatening me.

“So… You’re going to reveal to Claire that I’m coming to the Blatta Dungeon?”

“Uh, yeah…!”

“If you don’t want to be exposed by Claire, do what you say?”

“That, that’s right…!!”

“Then I will also inform Rose Eiffeltain that you have come to the Blatta Dungeon.”

“Eh…”

Marie stopped for a moment.

Then, he starts rolling his eyes here and there.

I stomped her feet as if I didn’t know what to do.

Soon, she lowered her head.

“That’s how it works…”

For the first time, I spoke without stuttering.

… Is this guy stupid?

“Marie Louhelif, what do you want me to do?”

I sat down on a nearby rock. Because the story seemed to be long.

Marie tried to threaten me, but I don’t feel much about it. The content of the threat is clumsy, and the attitude of the threat is clumsy.

It just seems like a joke that could be laughed off.

Still, I know how much courage it took Marie to make this threat.

Mari is a timid character.

It must have been a huge challenge for such Marie to talk to a boy who was reputed to be a delinquent.

There must be a reason why Marie had to act like that.

The reason why Marie had to be desperate.

“That, that’s…, That, that’s…, That’s that…”

Mari hesitates.

I consider it frustrating, but on the contrary, I also consider it familiar.

This type of human exists in every world.

A person who couldn’t even call delivery and ask her family.

People who can’t make eye contact with the clerk even when they go to a hamburger shop.

She’s the kind of person who can’t even go into a restaurant by herself.

She thinks like a frightened rabbit.

She seemed like she would run away if I said anything wrong.

“Marie Louhelif, take this.”

After thinking for a while, I took the thing out of my bag.

It is a notebook and a pen.

“Eh…? A notebook…?”

“If speaking is difficult, you can write.”

If you can’t make a delivery phone call, you can use a delivery app, and if you can’t make eye contact with a clerk, you can use a kiosk.

And there is one more effect.

‘If I do this, I won’t run away.’

I deliberately handed over my things. That timid Marie won’t run away recklessly while borrowing my things.

Even if I run away from this place contrary to my expectations, Marie will come back to return her notebook.

That’s why she gave me the notebook on purpose.

“…….”

Marie wrote something in her notebook as I told her to.

I think the writing speed was fast. Soon after, Marie was secretly looking at me.

It seems that he is hesitant to show it to me after he finishes writing it.

This is also a common type.

“Give it to me.”

“Ah…!!”

When the notebook is snatched from Marie’s hand, Marie somehow breaks down in tears.

Strange feeling of guilt.

…… Not understanding why I should feel guilty about this, I look at my notebook.

There.

[Please join me in a party.]

There was an unexpected proposal there.

“I, let’s have a party with me… Eh, if Miss Entirus gets caught, Shishi, if you don’t want to…!”

Marie raises her voice.

No tension, no fear, no clumsiness.

And without being able to shake off even the feeble courage.

“Eh, even if I talk to my sister… I, it doesn’t matter… If you don’t listen to me… I, I will also tell Ms. Entirus…!!”

“What is the reason, Marie Ruhelif?”

I couldn’t take my eyes off the notebook.

No matter how many times I read it, the same sentence is written there.

“Why do you want to party with me? I’m sure there are many other people who want to party with me?”

“Be, it has to be Beherit…”

“Should it be me?”

“That, that’s right… Beherit isn’t bad… Ah!”

Immediately after speaking, Marie put on an expression as if she had made a mistake.

“Ah, no… This, that’s why…, I don’t mean to insult Beherit…!”

“It’s okay. What’s wrong with it being true? It’s true that the bully who came after committing the assault.”

“That……, Mi, I’m sorry…”

“I have nothing to apologize for, and the story is not going forward, so go ahead.”

“……Yes.”

Marie nodded her head and, like me, perched on a nearby rock.

Come to think of it, did Mari always stand and talk?

And it’s only now that he’s made up his mind to sit down.

“How much do you know about me and my sister…?”

Sitting down means you’ve completely abandoned the thought of running away.

Marie asked me in a quiet voice.

“Are you talking about the birth of Rose Eiffeltain?”

“……Yes.”

“There was a rebellion in the Marquis Eiffeltane and all the heirs died. So I had to bring in a new heir from outside, and that was Rose Epeltane.”

The cliché of twins separated at a young age.

So even though Rose and Marie are twins, they have different last names.

“Yeah, as expected all nobles know…”

“So? What does Rose Eiffeltain have to do with me?”

“I… Want to catch up with her sister.”

Marie says.

With a desperate expression.

“Uh, my goal is to become as strong as my sister… That, but… I want to keep it a secret from the ‘clique’ side…”

“I see.”

The aristocratic students of Philea Academy are largely divided into three groups.

Like Rose, a student attached to the ‘Duke of Bamir faction’.

A student who, like Claire, is attached to the ‘Prince Clique’.

And students like me who do not belong anywhere else.

‘Of course, there are many students other than me who do not belong to factions.’

Typical examples are commoner students like Lucius and Henrik.

Nevertheless, the biggest difference between me and them is that I am a man.

Marie is clumsy, but not stupid.

This timid girl in front of her is also an aristocrat.

So you must know.

Aristocratic students sometimes conciliate commoner students.

To pamper him like Henrik.

But Ariel Beheritt isn’t even worth conciliating.

That’s why no one has anything to approach me.

“When it comes to keeping secrets, paradoxically, I’m the safest.”

“…Boo, please. Ah, no……. Boo, please…!!”

Marie comes with her head bowed.

It is an expression of submission.

“I-Please join me in a party… And then… Please clear the dungeon with me…!! So that I can be as strong as my sister… So that I can catch up with her…!”

“…….”

I look at Marie and think about it.

Marie Louhelif. The estranged twin sister of Rose Eiffeltain.

In fact, it is not intentional for Rose Eiffeltain to bully Tia. She also has a purpose that she, in fact, must drive her Tia into.

The girl in front of her is the one who plays the biggest role in revealing her circumstances.

The mid-boss battle begins as Lucius, who got information from Marie Ruhelif, fights against Rose Eiffeltain.

Even after the mid-boss, Marie Ruhelif’s role in the story remains, and in her final boss battle, she is a girl with the destiny to play the biggest decisive role.

With a girl like that.

‘Having a party is a completely different story.’

She’s just different from what she’d come across as a classmate at the same academy.

It is a story that Marie and I become colleagues, and each exerts influence on the other.

It wouldn’t be a thing for that to work as a butterfly effect and change the scheduled future.

Then there is only one conclusion I have to draw.

“Okay, I’ll have a party with you.”

I said so.