Chapter 24 – Episode 24. Akemilla Taunts
Around the time when everyone had put down their gear and took a break after arriving at the checkpoint, Leopold sat on the ground and was still in his thoughts.
It was something he didn’t care about.
It had nothing to do with whether Astrid, the squad leader, did a rough job or not. He had no one to ask Leopold to cut the meat, and he had no reason to do so. He could have just stayed still.
Why did he dislike it, why did he hate it, why did he hate it.
I don’t know why. What does Astrid’s hand have to do with him anyway, and what reason to care?
There is nothing.
Even if they came closer, even if their faces touched each other to the point where their lips would touch, those mint-colored eyes would only stare at Leopold’s face.
She was just looking at Leopold with eyes that felt nothing of shame, anticipation, or excitement.
I did.
– I don’t know how to do it either. And why are you laughing? It’s not something to be laughed at if you go first on a bad day.
‘… That’s probably all the reason. There can be no other reason.’
I felt like an idiot myself.
Astrid was a fool for thinking that perhaps he might even have a little heart for her.
And he disapproved of himself for feeling the excitement, even if it was just a little bit at the thought.
‘Because you’re stupid. What do you want from a woman who has already left your heart?’
To be stupid
Isn’t it an engagement with only patterns left now?
The shackles, which are only shackles that do not feel comfortable with each other, do not need to be maintained regardless of their will.
Leopold intended to declare that if he returned to the imperial palace this summer vacation, he would formally break off the engagement there.
That, Leopold thought, would be a comfortable way for both of them.
‘I don’t know what Astrid will think… No, they would rather welcome it.’
Surely it will.
“Oh my, it’s just a coincidence. How could there be such a coincidence?”
Her honey-colored hair gleamed softly in the midday sun.
Underneath, with a bright smile on her face, Akhemilla was approaching, waving her hand.
“Cadet Akemilla, it’s a coincidence.”
“Yes, Cadet Astrid. I didn’t expect that she would come face-to-face like this here. I didn’t even know there would be passengers. Oh.”
Akhemilla’s gaze turned to Leopold.
For a moment, a strange laugh passed his eyes, but it soon disappeared in a gentle and benevolent smile.
“Cadet Leopold, have you had lunch?”
“I ate down there.”
It wasn’t a very nice answer, and it was a bit blunt in some ways, but Akemilla didn’t care.
Akemilla she was watching from behind that day, and she was also listening.
I thought it was a common love game, but it didn’t look like it at all, and the rumor that was spreading among the students, that is, the discord between Prince Leopold von Einhafen and Archduchess Astrid von Mitterien, finally unfolded here in front of Archemilla’s eyes.
Of course, the source of the rumor was Akemilla.
And yet, having witnessed it right in front of her eyes like this, Akemilla made her feel better.
“Did you get any points?”
“Score… “
I hadn’t counted them individually.
It was because Astrid wasn’t watching the entire battlefield instead of rushing in and killing the monsters.
“It won’t be a small score. It looks like Cadet Akemilla got good marks, judging by the look on his face.”
“Sure, how many of us… Alas, I told you not to say this.”
As if it was a mistake, Akemilla smiled slightly as she covered her mouth with her hand.
Akemilla Squad was also the Squad Leader, but the role of her vanguard was occupied by the other mid-range commanders in her squad.
While using her twin swords, she unusually did not choose a sorcery knight but chose her heavy knight. Fortunately, there was another medium long knight in her squad, so she entrusted her vanguard to him and used her twin swords. It has been a battle centered on speed battles.
As a result, the speed at which her monsters were defeated was also fast, and Akemilla thought that at this point, she would definitely be ranked first in the squad.
“Okay. Cadet Akemilla is competent, so I thought she would definitely do well.”
Astrid didn’t care what Arkemilla said.
It would be nice if I could win, but I don’t want to compete by straining my strength even in this kind of training at the training center.
It’s meaningless anyway, and it’s not something to be expected even if it’s a reward.
“I think Cadet Astrid always has room to spare.”
That smile is a bit thick
Astrid didn’t like Akemilla very much.
That face that always smiles.
Characters who smile like that always hit the back of the head, so you can’t trust them.
And the squad members behind her looked pretty exhausted.
As if they were starving, like Astrid’s squad members who had just entered the mountain this morning.
“I do have a spare. The squad members ate their fill, and the score was formidable.”
The deer had gained quite a bit of weight, so there was a lot to eat.
After grilling, the market was a side dish, and I ate it deliciously, regardless of the smell I was worried about. In the first place, Astrid doesn’t particularly choose food.
“Oh, that’s right. We are still on the verge of eating. I was going to take a break here and then go hunting.”
It looked like it was offended.
Akemilla’s expression was slightly distorted.
“We have some leftover meat from our meal, would you like some? Erana sister, take out some of the leftover meat.”
Eranyaga, I saw her sifting through the leftover venison.
She said, “I was going to save it and eat it… “
Still, she took out the remaining venison from her backpack, even as Eranya grumbled that it was the squad leader’s order. Quite large chunks were taken out of the backpack, and the Arkemilla squad members gulped and gulped at the chunks of meat.
“Squad Leader Akemilla, if you don’t mind, we’d like to share some food.”
Akemilla’s expression hardened.
At first glance, do you get crazy about the score and stop feeding your squad members? Shall we give It sounds like a word, and it kept touching Akhemilla’s planting.
“… You see, Squad Leader Astrid has a big heart.”
“Iknow, right. I grew up in a cold place, so if we don’t help each other, we can’t survive.”
Although it is a lie.
I just wanted to give this nasty Akemilla some side.
“Well, good. It’s just fine. Squad Leader Astrid, would you like to talk to me for a moment?”
Astrid watched for a moment as the members of Akhemilla’s squad rushed towards the meat Eranya offered her as her hands trembled.
At Akemilla’s rather abrupt words, she turned her gaze back to Akhemilla.
“What are you talking about?”
“It will take a while.”
Following Akemilla’s gesture, the corner of the checkpoint, a place no one would care about.
Astrid, not knowing why, followed Akhemilla by the hand and stood there. Since she was called by Akemilla, she should have said her words first, but Akemilla only smiled leisurely, and she showed no sign of saying anything.
“… Captain Akemilla, if you have something to say, please do so. I want to go and rest a bit and then start again.”
Akemilla, who noticed the hidden meaning behind Astrid’s words, “Speak quickly because I’m tired,” Immediately muttered and closed her mouth, and she finally opened her mouth.
“Are you going to break off the engagement with Crown Prince Leopold?”
“… Yes?”
The words were so direct that Astrid was momentarily at a loss for words.
In order to say something like this, at least something like this has been said these days, are you trying to do that?
‘What, no. It’s what I wish for. But do you ask questions like this in a straight line?’
When Astrid lost her way and couldn’t speak to her, Akhemilla, as if convinced that she was right, excitedly started talking about her.
“Actually, I saw it. Two minutes, a few days ago… So, the day after entering school or the day after the next? After dinner, go to the bench behind the dorm and talk.”
‘Ah.’
You saw that. I thought there would be no one around, but it couldn’t be.
Even if Astrid regrets that she should have been more careful, regret is too late, no matter how quickly.
“Anyway, that’s what I thought.”
“What are you thinking?”
Akemilla was excited just like Akemilla.
It felt so good to bring out a small but small crack in Astrid’s face, which was always cold and expressionless like her ice field.
Wealth, honor, power, looks, and wealth.
Now that she had taken over all, even Crown Prince Leopold, who had everything, she kicked off all the invitations from her young ladies while stuck in the north as if she didn’t want to hang out with the young ladies around her.
So, Astrid looked at Akemilla who seemed excited, and Astrid went in a different direction.
‘No, why am I embarrassed? Is it because the engagement suddenly broke up?’
It wouldn’t be all that.
But it was unacceptable here.
It’s not even worth talking about during training like this.
“I don’t think this is the place to have such a private talk… “
“Then, can I run as Prince Leopold’s partner?”
“… What did you say?”
At Akemilla’s words, Astrid was taken aback again.
“Anyway, you’re still engaged, and if I approach you without permission, you’ll put my reputation in trouble, right? That’s why I am proudly trying to get permission like this.”
What is the permission and what is the use of it?
‘Even if I get permission anyway, if I approach, there will be bad rumors about everything, but if I just look at this lady, she doesn’t seem to be sane… ‘
She couldn’t be sane, Astrid thought.
Astrid thought that the fact that she was talking about this kind of thing at this kind of time and in a place like this before that, this lady had already gone bad.
“If… Do you like it?”
“No… “
There is no way
– Cadet Astrid, literally. Me too, I don’t see Cadet Astrid as a woman. You can’t even see it that way.
‘… What do you know? He’s not interested in me. What does it have to do with me?’
“… Do whatever you want. Don’t look at me.”
“Really?!”
Astrid is strangely annoyed by Akhemilla’s excitement.
