Chapter 54 – Episode 54. Academy? I Don’t Know Why You Went (2)
“Ah, I didn’t just hang out and eat for a month. Did you make a lot of friends too?”
“I know that. But I don’t know what kind of contact Violet has with her sister.”
Erania was an elf, and Violet was from the southernmost beach on the continent, so it didn’t seem like there would be a point of contact.
However, when the two became friends, Astrid found it rather strange.
“Anyway, let’s have a drink together tonight. Then we’ll all be friends. Did Violet become friends like that?”
“I hate it… !”
Besides, wasn’t she also the daughter of Violet, who was also a candidate for crown princess?
It was natural for her to be a bit reluctant for Astrid.
【Leave it alone. If you come and talk nonsense, you can exchange with me.]
‘That’s more of a problem!’
Ha.
Sighing inwardly, Astrid shook her head.
Done. She didn’t care anyway, and she didn’t have to care how Eranya made her friends.
Astrid looked out the window of her car, ignoring the words of Erania who begged her to drink again and again.
The carriage continued to run through the town of Michelburg.
Even though it was Academy City, it was not in the middle of it, but rather in a remote place. Due to the size and number of buildings to be built, and the nature of the academy, which requires several large parade grounds, it is difficult to locate in the middle of the city.
“So you hung out here for a month?”
“Of course! Wasn’t it enough for a month?”
Astrid couldn’t contain her admiration. He couldn’t understand why there was so much to do at the academy. It was difficult for Astrid to even guess what kind of time Eranya had spent the past month, who said that even though she had been playing for a month, she was not enough.
“First of all, our restaurant was famous.”
As soon as he entered the school, he seemed to be referring to the restaurant where they served strange sawdust bread with grated turnips for a week.
“Why?”
“Originally, rice was famous for being very tasteless. But they say it will be okay if you officially become a freshman and move the building?”
“Is it so?”
Will you move the building when you become a freshman?
I felt a strange sense of deja vu. Trainee… Ugh
“Anyway, so what? What else do you have?”
Erania’s explanation continued. She said it was okay to go to town after work in first grade, that the boys’ and girls’ dorms were separated, and that the desserts were delicious…
“Dessert?”
“Isn’t it?”
A proud smile appeared on Eranya’s face, as if he knew it. She had a smile on her face as if she had known in advance that Astrid would react there.
“Have you ever heard of yarn cookies?”
“Yarn cookies? What is it?”
When Astrid opened her eyes, she smirked, as if Erranya knew she would.
But that doesn’t matter anyway. Yarn Cookies. I couldn’t even guess what this was just by hearing the name.
“It’s a snack that’s on limited sale at the store I went to earlier. Now, while you’re talking, would you like to try one? It’s very sweet and delicious. I haven’t tried it a few times, but it’s a taste that comes to mind every time?”
Very sweet
Astrid focused on those words.
【I’m not even a kid, what kind of sweetness do you like so much?】
‘What does age matter to me?!’
Astrid was embarrassed. He didn’t like sweet food. He didn’t like sweet food because he got headaches even when he ate honey, and his tongue often tingled when he ate something sweet.
I did, but after waking up in this body, I couldn’t use it when it came to sweets.
‘What should your body do?’
【Do not lie. I don’t like sweets either. They say they hate sweet and sour things.]
If you think about it, that was also true. Astrid had said she hated citrus sauce. He said he hated the sweet and sour taste unique to citrus sauce, but Astrid loved the sweet and sour taste.
“Come on, let’s eat this.”
Erania, who took out a small container from the paper bag before she knew it, opened the box while making a noise with her mouth.
“Wow.”
It was really like wool. In the middle, several layers of well-baked crackers were stacked, and yellow butter was thickly spread between them. It’s already five layers of crackers piled up like that.
And that wasn’t all. Such a cracker was made of pure white yarn rolled up so that only the ends of the sheep could be seen, so it looked like a bunch of yarn gathered together.
“All these things that look like white yarn are sugar. A deal that somehow made sugar like this!”
“Wow.”
Just looking at it makes me drool.
Just looking at it, it looks incredibly sweet.
Just looking at it made me want to eat it.
“Here, try one. This sister put a lot of effort into it.”
It was said that Eranya had been playing around at her academy for a month and getting good life information from her here and there, and that’s what she seemed to be.
– Crisp…
The sugar thread and cracker disappear into Astrid’s mouth with a bursting sound unique to well-baked crackers.
As soon as it landed on her tongue, the yarn melted softly, and the extreme sweetness filled her mouth. The sweetness seemed to come in one moment, but in the next moment, the savory taste of the crispy crackers and the slightly greasy taste of the yellow butter harmonized with the sweetness to create a balance.
In a word, it was delicious.
“How is it, is it delicious?”
It was as it was said.
It was delicious. It was the most delicious taste Astrid had ever tasted here.
It’s very sweet, but the savory taste and a little bit of greasiness created an amazing harmony.
“The girl who owns this candy shop is a graduate of this academy. She said that she dreamed of becoming a soldier when she entered the academy, but she said that she found her dream in the confectionery club, and as soon as she graduated, she started a bakery here.”
No matter what Erania said, Astrid couldn’t hear it.
“… It’s the last one.”
When I came to my senses at Eranya’s downcast voice, none of the six yarn cookies in her box were left.
Perhaps the last yarn candy was only half left in Astrid’s hand.
“… Delicious?”
There were no crumbs left in Eranya’s hands, which had been so powerful. In contrast, the front of Astrid’s uniform and the side of her thighs were full of white and brown debris.
Perhaps, all six of them disappeared into Astrid’s mouth.
“Would you like this?”
“Huh.”
When Astrid slipped out the half of her yarn cookie in her hand, Eranya held out her hand as if she had been waiting.
【What do you give me! Pour it into your mouth quickly!]
‘I mean it anyway.’
I had no intention of handing it over. Because delicious things are best eaten alone.
*
Reporting her return from vacation wasn’t too difficult either. She goes to the instructor’s room in the center of the 1st floor of the dorm and shows her face that she has returned, and that’s it.
“Then I will go too!”
Astrid reports to return from vacation and Erania reports to return from outing. When I left the instructor’s room with Astrid and went up the stairs, the dorm was crowded with other cadets, probably because it was Friday night.
“Eranya unni, did you buy yarn cookies?!”
From afar, a young girl with her brown ponytail wagging her hair hurriedly came running.
Yarn Cookies.
At those words, Erania’s face turned sullen.
“Huh? Sister why? What’s wrong with your expression?”
Erania said nothing and pointed one finger at Astrid, who was next to her.
“He ate them all.”
“Isn’t it your sister who asked you to try it?”
Astrid has something to say.
Who asked, she said to try it first.
I wish I had bought several cans in the first place. That’s because I bought one. After all, it’s Eranya’s fault for buying a bottle.
【You are a little shameless… 】
‘I don’t think you meant to say that you shouldn’t give me even half of the leftovers?!’
“Ah, Cadet Astrid.”
Despite pretending to know, Astrid didn’t know who the brown-haired cadet was. In fact, there was no particular reason to know, but she pretended to know like this, and it was a bit ambiguous that she was safe.
“This is Amira. An archer like me.”
“I’m glad I’m not the same elf. Nice to meet you, Cadet Amira. I am Astrid.”
Amira smiled broadly at Astrid. The smile on his face, showing his teeth, was also very cute.
“Hello, Cadet Astrid! I’m Amira! Archer! Fortunately, I’m not an elf!”
“Hey, fortunately you’re not an elf. What do you mean by that?”
Eranya seemed to finally understand what she meant.
“Yeah, after meeting her, the image she had of elves was shattered.”
“Looks like I’m not the only one.”
“Astrid, what are you talking about again?”
No, that’s right Astrid was more curious about Erana, who didn’t understand that.
“I thought elves were children of the forest, until now. Wasn’t the amount of Amira similar?”
I saw you talking about it.
“Asti, you really do too much.”
The accommodation that I came back after a month was still the same. The cleaning is done at a set time by dedicated staff, so it’s a little tidy, but seeing the clothes and underwear organized, I wondered if this was really an elf, but Astrid deliberately ignored it.
“What is too much? I thought I was a child of the forest, but I didn’t know that I was a child of meat, alcohol, and snacks.”
“Hey, live a long time too… No.”
Astrid put the suitcase she had brought on the bed and started tidying up her clothes and daily necessities.
“Honey, there you are. Didn’t you feel something strange when you went to the instructor’s office?”
“Is it weird?”
She stopped tidying up her hands and looked back at the instructor’s office where she had gone to report her return earlier. She didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary, was there anything strange?
【There were more instructors than usual. Even after work.]
‘Ah.’
Certainly it was. When she was in training, she went to the instructor’s office not once or twice. Today is Friday and it’s time for the day to end, so most of the instructors have left work and the people who work early should have about three or four left.
However, in the instructor’s office I had been to earlier, close to 20 instructors were still there and crowded.
【Besides, everyone’s faces looked tired. Say so.]
“Well, even though it was Friday after work, there were still many instructors… Why, they all looked tired.”
“Wow.”
Eranya widened her eyes. She seemed to think that Astrid didn’t feel it at all.
“You’re amazing, Asti.”
“Why?”
“That is perfectly correct.”
“What is it?”
“The instructors can’t go to work these days. Almost everyone eats and sleeps at school. The atmosphere is a bit bland.”
“Are you in the mood?”
“Huh. Kinda like these days All of the instructors are armed like swords, and there are rumors that the academy has been torn apart by high-ranking executives.”
I don’t know what you mean when you say that. Astrid stared at her intently, as if asking Erania to continue her words.
“I don’t know the details. I tried to get the instructors to drink and find out, but they refused.”
“Is it so?”
“That’s why the instructors are in a bad mood. It has nothing to do with us, though. Anyway, how about tonight?”
“What?”
At Astrid, who was staring at Eranya, wondering what she was talking about tonight, Eranya curled her fingers, snapped her wrist, and pretended to tip her glass.
“Are you going to drink?”
“I don’t drink.”
“Did you say Violet was coming too?”
“I said no.”
“Is Leopold coming too?”
“I hate it more!”
What are you talking about, what the heck
