Chapter 417 – Chapter 417 Magic School Shutra (3-28)
“You seem to have excellent speech earlier… I wonder how good your dancing skills are. Would you like to dance with me?”
“Now, hold on!”
Louis opened his mouth and started chattering as he stopped Luna from offering me a partner.
“Didn’t you decline my offer earlier? But why did this man….”
“There is no other reason.”
Luna slipped her Louise to her side and then looked up at me, raising the corners of her mouth and giving her a smile.
“As much as I have good speech, I’m just curious about how your dancing skills will be.”
Despite Luna’s words, Louis, not convinced, stood in front of Luna again and frowned at her.
“Then can’t you at least dance with me, who suggested it first?”
“….”
Luna was silent for a moment, then she opened her mouth expressionlessly as she tilted her head at Louis.
“I don’t know who you are. However….”
“… ?”
“I don’t want to dance with someone who takes offense at other people. Sorry.”
“….”
Louise listened to her Luna’s words, and began to stare blankly into space at her with her mouth open.
And Luna, who was in the air, avoided her Luis and came back to her side, reached out her hand and asked.
“If you don’t like it, it’s okay to decline.”
“No. Thank you for recommending it.”
I took one look at the back of Louise’s head staring into the air and smiled at Luna.
“Take good care of me.”
“I’m asking you to take good care of me.”
Luna placed her hand on my outstretched palm and began to move toward the center of her smile as she smiled.
Even as we moved to the middle of her, Louis couldn’t turn to us and only showed us the devastated back of her head.
..
..
I gently hugged her Luna and nervously began to move her steps little by little.
‘Is it worse than expected?’
Until now, ‘Dancing? I just thought, ‘Can’t I just roll my feet?’.
But when I tried to hug Luna and dance with her, I started to get nervous.
‘If I knew it would be like this, I would have learned from Luna myself….’
If she thought Luna and she would dance like this, he would have learned from her during her travels.
I tend to keep my composure well, but I couldn’t help but be nervous right now.
The opponent was Luna.
If I accidentally hurt Luna while dancing with her, it would be worse than dancing with her.
Even though I had only moved a few steps, sweat began to form on my forehead.
To be honest, I had my doubts before dancing like this.
Why did you ask me to dance?
But right now, that question didn’t matter.
Right now, in my head, there was only the will to not disappoint Luna.
Luna seemed to notice my nervous steps and began to smile playfully from her parrot face.
“Whoops… Where did the confidence you showed earlier go?”
It seemed that he was paying back all the humiliation he suffered from me earlier.
But even so, I just focused on dancing without opening my mouth.
As I stayed focused and didn’t open my mouth, Luna whispered as she wrapped her arms around my waist.
“Don’t be too nervous. It’s okay to make mistakes. Rather, the compulsion not to make mistakes can hurt both of them.”
“All right.”
With Luna’s care, I let her relax and began to move slowly.
The wave-like movement that had been crashing hard until a moment ago gradually began to change into an atmosphere like a calm lake with soft waves flowing through it.
Luna didn’t use her arms and carefully said what was necessary, letting me lead.
“There are no rules in dancing”, “Feel the other person’s breathing”, “It is important to move with the thought of sharing sympathy with each other.” Etc….
As I listened to Luna’s words, concentrated, and danced, people who were dancing around me changed partners or started to fall outside the banquet hall.
And it was the same for me and Luna. We danced while keeping our feet together, but we gradually reduced our movements, and we were able to finish the dance by stopping at the end.
Luna gently landed on me and lowered her head, opening her mouth.
“Thanks to you, it was fun.”
“I really enjoyed it.”
I couldn’t even remember how the time passed.
He could only recall the fact that he felt her body temperature while cuddling with Luna as a sensation in her body.
‘Whew….’
It was time to let out a sigh, relieved that there had been no major incident.
‘Yes?’
Luna, who was walking side by side outside the banquet hall, came to me and she started wiping the sweat from her forehead.
“You look so different from what I showed you earlier.”
Haha….”
After she came to her senses, I opened her mouth without knowing it and started asking Luna.
“Why are you dancing with me?”
“….”
Luna would not have known my identity. That said, it meant that there was something she liked about my behavior earlier.
I was jealous of myself, but I decided it wouldn’t hurt to secretly know about her favorite style.
While I was waiting for Luna’s answer, Luna suddenly gave me her hug and she whispered in my ear.
“Like I said earlier, it was because I liked the speech. If there are any other reasons….”
“… ?”
“I also wanted to win the bet.”
“!?”
Luna removed her face and opened her mouth as she straightened her dress while watching my surprised expression.
“I need to go to the waiting room for a while and check the condition of the dress. Then….”
Luna seemed to gracefully turn her body around and leave the banquet hall for a moment.
I blankly looked at Luna’s back and spoke to her over the phone.
‘What? How did you find out? Could it be that the magic didn’t work?’
If Luna mentioned her bet, she must have figured out my identity.
Even though Luna’s skills were outstanding, she thought it was impossible for her to see through this magic yet with her level.
It was not just one court mage in Levin who used the magic, but several….
[She most likely knew from the moment she joined the pack.]
‘What? Did I act too obvious?’
Armonia gave her answer to my question.
[You would have known it as a pheromone.]
‘Gosh….
Luna is one of the women who has stuck with me the longest on this continent.
I’ve been smelling my pheromone for the longest time, and that’s how I must have accurately caught the smell of the pheromone.
I looked at Luna’s back as she walked gracefully with a smile on her face.
‘I’ll have to do a favor later.’
In fact, if Luna had noticed this much, it would have been as if I had lost.
Luna started leaving the banquet hall to rearrange her dress.
And the eagle looking at Luna and me alternately….
‘It’s a pain. Stupid kid….’
Lewis must feel cornered right now.
She acted too frivolously to reveal her true identity to Luna, and she would feel defeated by me if she went out in the middle.
It was a truly doomed situation.
‘Anyway, I won’t be leaving right now. So, shall I soon find the next target….’
I looked at Louis’ face, smiled and provoked him, then started walking around again.
First of all, I checked Karin’s side.
She was quietly walking around, eavesdropping on people’s conversations.
Being cautious is an advantage, but at times like this, it was also seen as a disadvantage.
[True intelligence is the law that comes from people’s words. Maybe that’s what it’s aiming for.]
‘But….’
As Armonia said, it would not be a loss for Karin to act like that.
However….
‘Because I’m wary of my surroundings, I’ll have to give up talking to them.’
In the end, it didn’t change that I couldn’t easily talk her out of it.
Judging that it would be difficult to approach Karin, I started to check other people.
‘Baby Jeff… It’s still there.’
Jeff was circling around, flirting with the women.
Perhaps because of her body shape change, it seemed that women would deal with Jeff, but it was obvious that women shunned her because of her original personality.
In other words, he must have been trying to find Karin, but thanks to her strange behavior, he was only scattering a lot of negative elements around her.
It looked a lot like when Count Potts made his sweaty road.
Count Potts was wearing a visible, repulsive sweat, but Jeff was wearing an invisible, dark aura.
‘Then the target is….’
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Anna Brandrup
[Calm], [Sociable], [Stubborn], [Resolute], [Leadership]…
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‘There’s only the Duchess!’
[….]
The Duchess was in the middle of a conversation with another nobleman.
There were four of them, including the Duchess.
I started walking cautiously towards the Duchess’s place.
Since it wasn’t a place where many people gathered like the group Luna was in earlier, it was difficult to suddenly dig into it.
As I listened to their conversations at the tables around me, I began to look for the right timing to approach them.
The subject of the conversation was about the Duke’s family.
“Duke Brandrup will be very pleased.”
“Sir Lewis, you are truly amazing. As soon as he entered school, he demonstrated his skills, and even brought the dean like this….”
“Isn’t Lady Karin wonderful too? I am really looking forward to thinking that the character of the two will be passed on to future generations.”
Everyone was filling up the conversation with compliments from the duchy.
‘A… I’m getting tired of it.’
I came to listen to information, but it was boring because everyone was plastered with compliments.
But it was unavoidable.
Due to the nature of the masquerade banquet, you should avoid recklessly expressing your opinion.
Above all, they were very lucky cases.
“….”
It was because the support in charge of one axis of the Brandrup family was right next to it.
The Duchess was smiling as if she was feeling good inside as she listened to the stories of the others.
‘Okay, I’ve decided how to treat the Duchess.’
[What method?]
‘That’s right… Praise meta!’
Considering the temperament and inclination of the Duchess, which I had discovered, she was not simply a woman who dipped her toe into the Brandtrup family and enjoyed her authority.
She was a person who valued her family as much as her own body and tried to revive it.
It might not be nice to flatter him outright, but he’ll definitely like it if you mix it with compliments in moderation.
The problem is getting in the crowd….
Just as he was thinking about it, a man in the crowd reached out to the Duchess and invited her to dance.
“If you don’t mind, would you partner with me this time?”
“Whoops… Of course.”
Receiving the man’s request coolly, the Duchess began to make her way to center stage.
And when they left, two men stayed and started talking quietly.
“I can’t tell her age because of the mask…. Could she possibly be the wife of another family?”
“Isn’t that a possibility? It seems that there are quite a few wives who want to embrace other men at this time.”
“But… The masquerade banquet is a banquet that young people can enjoy, so you don’t want to miss this opportunity.”
It was unexpected.
Her temperament of the Duchess is that she has a personality almost like that of her daughter, Karin, so it seems that she will stay away from men.
I questioned Armonia.
‘Armonia, are there any negative traits that the Duchess has that stand out?’
[I do not know.]
‘… Yes?’
When she was asked about her temperament, she answered that Armonia, who answered immediately, did not know.
When I was nervous because I thought I was angry, Armonia explained her.
[I was busy supervising the sleep of Lena, Beatrice, and Suho, who infiltrated the mansion yesterday, so I couldn’t check that far.]
‘… Sorry.’
The superiors were busy working overtime, but I was getting a good night’s sleep….
I’m trash….
[Above all, the Duchess decided that it was not important. I’ll check it now.]
‘Yes… Take it slow.’
Slowly….
After waiting, the Duchess was returning to the group after performing her dance to the fullest.
The interval between her breaths was short, perhaps because she moved, but she still had a fresh face.
The Duchess, who returned to the group, smiled and said to the man she had become a partner with.
“I enjoyed.”
“I really enjoyed it. Lady.”
“Whoops….”
That was the moment when the Duchess joined the group and started talking again.
[I found a temperament that helped. As helpful… I was able to find a more unexpected temperament than I thought.]
‘Five….’
In my eyes filled with anticipation, the qualities that fulfilled that anticipation were floating in my eyes.
-[Illusion of deviation], [Incarnation of jealousy], [Envy]….-
