"Ha..."
Rebecca back home. When you throw your bag into bed abusively, you lie in that bed again, as you are.
In a bed with a canopy, just staring at heaven.
The cultural festival is just a few moments away. That said, its mind is not jumping at all. Just pale, repeating the same days. In my class and on the occasion of my engagement, I also came out with people to distance themselves.
Nothing. That was good.
Because that's something I expected to do to some extent.
"Why not..."
I squeal bossly.
Lately, I really think about it.
It's about one boy.
"How could Mr. Ray?"
Ray-White.
When I first met her at school, I really miss her.
I'm sure life at this academy will be hard because it's a regular Ordinary at first. I need to lead you as a senior. That's how she thought.
Rebecca, who was distancing herself from Maria, was sometimes hungry to take care of someone originally. Anyway, that's what I wanted to be nice to Ray.
But he was a really substandard person.
Sometimes I was ridiculed with a dead sorcerer (wizard), but now I don't hear the rumors either. Rather, the greater the assessment that you are not the only one.
Rebecca thinks so, too. Besides, he's hiding something. I felt that way.
……
When she gets out of bed, she turns the diary she keeps on her desk.
And I remember the party at the sorcery association that took place during the summer vacation. How could he have been there?
Besides, I was talking to the military, and I was having a friendly conversation with that Princess Olivia.
Above all, my own father was talking to Ray. Even though I had never seen it at a party before, such as talking to students.
The suspicion swells day by day.
─ ─ Who the hell is he?
Everywhere foolish, straight boy. And he was dazzled everywhere. Everyone around him is laughing around him. That was, after all, an envy.
It's not like Rebecca doesn't have any friends. All the people in the horticulture department are friends. But somewhere, I'm pretty sure they're taking a distance against Rebecca.
Think about it, maybe he started his creative work to fill that loneliness.
And I remember. Ray praised me, for what happened that summer.
'This is amazing, seniors! I'm impressed! New entertainment, unlike a novel with just letters! Cartoons also visualize characters' expressions and more, so it's easy to understand! Senior, this is amazing!
That's what they said, and Rebecca was really happy.
Until now, I was ashamed to show people. Seeing Ray compliment me on that, Rebecca felt her heart warm.
Say you're an adult somewhere, or I don't think you're younger, Ray. But I think the young side is really smiling.
Then the fact that the two of us sold peer magazines must be a lifelong memory. That day, I was trying to end this... because that's what I was thinking.
"Oh well... I feel like a long time ago already..."
If you squeal like that, tears fall zero out of her eyes.
Fun days.
Activities in the horticulture department have also increased glamour since Ray arrived. The other members had embraced him and had a better ministry activity. A resolute attitude, but he can be intimate. With such a ray at the centre, the horticultural department became even more gorgeous.
At that time, I wish these days would go on forever. That's what I thought.
"Rebecca."
I heard my mother's voice from the end of the door.
"Yes. Mother"
He's here.
"Okay."
And Rebecca quickly changed out of her uniform. Even though I'm in the house, visitors make the outfit quite good. Long skirt in blouse. It's simple, but she doesn't even have to be that gorgeous, so she chooses it.
Close the diary.
It's packed with memories from a long time ago.
Days spent with Maria. Days spent with friends. And the days I spent with Ray.
Rebecca opened the door and left when she closed it as if to cut it off.
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"Hey, Rebecca."
"Master Evan. Welcome, there you are."
Evan-Bernstein.
Recently, I have often come to visit the Bradley family. Do you want to take advantage of the engagement and make an appeal around? And Rebecca was reckoning.
"Excuse me."
Sitting back on the couch across the street, the maid brings tea and tea treats. And when we're alone, Evan talks to people with a good-looking grin.
"With that said, it's time for a cultural festival. Is everything going well?
"Yes...... right. So far, we're progressing without delay."
"I see. I'm looking forward to going that day, too."
"I look forward to seeing Master Evan, too"
It was a lie.
Rebecca is not welcome about Evan-Bernstein.
Rather, I don't like this engagement per se and I can't help it. That's not all. Bruno, the father of Evan and Rebecca, is in consortium.
The day he told me about it, Rebecca turned white in front of him.
I've known him face to face for a long time, and the engagement itself would normally have accepted if it had been him as before.
But he had a purpose.
It was about taking control of the Bradley family, and of the three great nobles. And he... was also a demon eye collector. He said he would rejoice in gathering the demonic eyes he was illegally collecting in his hands.
He said it would be convenient if we stood at the apex of nobility. That's what he said.
Rebecca thought, having accidentally witnessed a close meeting between Bruno and Evan.
You mustn't get engaged to someone like this. We have to protect the Bradley family.
But my father won't say anything. My mother won't say anything either.
There's no way Maria can tell you.
Besides, she was threatened. If I divulged that to the outside world, I would put my hands on Maria... that's what they said. I don't think so, but if I touched that madness, I knew it was serious.
And Rebecca's demon eye itself is of interest to me.
She wasn't the only one, the Bradleys were falling at the time of the engagement. There was no such thing as what she could do personally already.
So she has but accepts to remain. With a slight lingering sense of justice and shaking, Rebecca couldn't ask anyone for help.
Maria is probably the only one who doesn't know anything. Otherwise humans tolerated this. My father, my mother, my remote and wise brother... could not rely on anyone.
Against such a Bradley family, she was in despair.
"Well, let me show you today."
"Yes."
That's why Evan's coming.
And Rebecca activates the demon eye. Then he embarks on himself and stares at those eyes. With invincibility.
"Ha... I knew your demon eyes were first-class. But it's still not enough. It takes a little more to get to true brilliance. So Rebecca, I hope you will continue to refine. so that you can be a man worthy of that demonic eye. It's okay. I'll get you another eye. And..."
I'm going to hold your hand, Evan. And I peek into Rebecca's eyes.
My body trembled all the time, but I had to put up with it.
"This is a Bradley family affair. I have a contract with Mr Bruno. Nor does he hesitate to take the top of the three nobles. If you say so, we're business partners. Instead of helping out with that, I just promised to get your eyes. That he accepts, too. So there's nothing to be afraid of. You just have to do what you've always done."
"... Yes"
And as usual, when she finished observing her demonic eye, Evan muttered bossly, with a look as if every emotion had fallen out.
"Ten years... ten years"
Rebecca doesn't know what that means. But I didn't care about that now. Because Rebecca thought there was no kiri to worry about, such as the oddity of this man.
She just couldn't forgive it.
My father's outrage, this man's thoughts, I don't understand everything.
What would it be to do that? Rebecca doesn't understand anything.
Should we remain silent and miss the barbarism, or what?
Rebecca just keeps shaking. If you say this to the other three nobles, it will surely be easier.
But then what happens to this house? And Maria, my beloved sister more than anyone else... what happens.
Because of love, Rebecca can't move.
In the meantime, Rebecca thinks of him.
─ ─ Mr. Ray. I...
She also understands that it's strange to think about Ray here. I am aware that he has no power whatsoever to overturn this situation.
But...... still, somehow saving the days I've had makes me want to rely on Ray.
With self-loathing for such an idea, Rebecca continues to cry alone again today.