At noon one day in the usual talking room I waited for the Safina class to end. Not all classes are the same, so if she's the only one taking things, this is how I spare her time.

"Everybody, the martial arts tournament is approaching and it's starting to tingle."

"Right..."

I respond empty-handedly to Zach looking around with a ravenous face. Honestly, what bothered me more than that was Safina, who sometimes looked worried about something.

(But don't stick your neck in Magilka from yourself, you're stabbing me with a nail... uhh, I care... me, I care so much)

Today is the day I want to hear the troubles out of her, and I'm waiting for Safina, but she never showed up in the bickering room.

(Weird, usually they come to us first after class...)

Worried, I decided to leave the conversation room. Zach tells me you care too much, but he follows me.

And, at the end of the hallway out of the colloquium, I was able to find the safina.

(Me, maybe I care a little too much...)

Horrible, but bitterly laughing at myself being a little overprotective, I try to get to her, and I stop. Because Safina was stuffed to the wall by one man and said something.

"What, that?

When I say in a very unpleasant voice, Zach, with his eyes narrowed and his true face, lines up next to me.

"Something's said... I don't know what it is, but she's scared."

And my displeasure index reached Max to the man grabbing Safina's arm who tried to leave to escape.

"Mr. Zach."

"Ahhh."

As if he didn't have to tell me what I was looking for, Zach replied, closing in on the Safinas and not saying whether or not, grabbing the man's arm and twisting it up behind his back.

"Itatatta!"

I approach the man who suddenly grabbed Safina's hand from behind, twisted up in his back hand and screamed, with cold eyes.

"Hey, what are you doing! Oh, you, Elexil!

"That's our dialogue… what are you doing to my friend?

"... chip... legalias..."

The man pounded his tongue and tried to escape Zach, but apparently Zach was also on his head, and did not loosen his strangulation easily.

"Wow, get off me. Wow!

Finally, I got serious, and the man stood back and took the strangulation off with force. Zach accidentally releases his hand to that fast moving elbow and falls back.

(Hmm? What about that setup?

In front of me watching the whole thing, the man is taking martial arts precepts. I knew he was a solo too with the badge he was wearing, but the structure of the man was very similar to that of a familiar view.

(Same as Safina...)

"You guys know who I am and you're doing it?

Threats of aristocratic identity come in, but that doesn't make any sense to me, so when I look at a man with cold eyes, I ask Zach in an unsympathetic voice.

"I don't know, who?

"Come on? I don't know. Who is it, you?

For all we know, the man stared bright red at our faces.

"Whoa, that's none of your business! This is about that woman and me! Stay out of my way."

The man had forcefully changed his story when he realized that he could not attack his identity, but I felt like something in me had cut off as a putz in his "the woman" remarks.

"... Mr. Zach... I'll do it"

"Huh? Okay?

"I'll forgive you... never to say that big mouth again"

It contains a positional meaning so to speak of "I" at this time. It was an order as a duke's warrant for the grand aristocracy Regalia, which also had nothing lined up in the aristocratic world. I avoided waving this power on a daily basis, but I give orders wholeheartedly wanting to eliminate this unpleasant object in front of me with incredibly cold emotions myself.

"What are you doing, you guys? Will you give me a break about this?

There are those who have spoken from behind us in a light voice that disturbs the air in the field.

"Senior Carlis"

When Safina, who had been silent until now, shouted the name of the class master who had spoken up, my reason was quickly reconstructed.

"Chip!"

You figured out the minute was bad. The tongue-in-cheek man turns straight back when he glances at the safina and leaves.

"What is it? What about him?"

Half-eyed I keep seeing the man leave.

"Come on?"

"Come on, you really don't know, you guys? Zach will be your rival in the next martial arts tournament."

"Huh? Mine?

"Eh."

Zach is surprised by the words of Senior Carlis, who took part in our barren conversation, and I raise my voice in disgust.

"Anyway, Miss Safina's there... no, she's wearing Karshana's martial arts."

"" Huh!?

And then we stared down at Safina, who was bending over to Senior Carlis' words.

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We're in an open cafe outside the school building right now.

It was near the bickering room, after all that noise, and I moved because I was a little annoyed by everyone's curiosity eyes. Three people sit at the table: me, Zach and Safina.

"So what is that unpleasant man?

I was just getting angry when I remembered, the tail got a little rough, and Safina let me wiggle my body freaked out.

"If you think you could be my rival, you don't have to ask."

Rarely has Zach also stuffed into the safina.

"Uh... the... the..."

"Come this far, don't tell me because you're an outsider, Safina. Is it his fault you've been worried about lately?

When I think maybe my own friend is haunted by a guy like that, I can't leave him alone, and I clog him up, too. Once Safina saw us, she exhaled, ready and started talking.

"Uh, first, what's his name?"

"That's okay! I don't want to hear it! You know," I'm fine. "

Me unintentionally laying in a safina where I never speak my mind. Because I didn't even want to remember his name, so much so that my impression of him sucks.

"What, what are you? Is this Safina's family?

Does Zach feel the same way, he came on board with my suggestion.

"No, it's not..."

"But I had the same structure as you. Besides, Senior Carlis said you're mastering Karshana's martial arts, right?

"We, the Karshana martial arts, do not teach only to the clan. It's widely recruited and taught to many people."

"Karshana, what is it, like a dojo?

"Which... Huh???

"Yeah, never mind... keep talking"

Safina can't follow my interpretation, and I've stopped talking, so I ask her to listen.

"I mean, I'm a martial arts student at your place, and you're pretty strong? So, get on with it, you're a little bit of a human being in the main house."

My anger boiled again at Zach's interpretation.

"I knew I should have sunk then..."

If I'm a little serious about flat-handed, I can't fully recover from healing magic. No, even irreversible should be possible. Last time I fainted, I just learned of the fear of hurting people, but I don't have that kind of emotion for that guy at all, and I start to really think about it.

"You've been slaughtering me just now, Master Mary... I'm scared..."

Rarely did Zach get a scratch on my whine, and he pulled more and more.

"... Mr. Zach is right, he's looking down at me in the main house. But I can't help it... because that's all I've got, and your father is better than me, at a glance..."

Seeing the safina laughing masochistically, I decided to get the tea I ordered at the cafe to calm my anger.

"But he's never been around you before, has he? Why did you come out all of a sudden boiling?

I, too, do nod a lot to Zach's question.

"Uh... recently... the... the story has come up..."

Safina has clouded her words in an attempt to misspeak.

"What are you talking about?

A lot of anger sinks in, and I can afford a cup of tea.

"I'm talking about a fiancée candidate..."

"Konko! Guff."

To Safina's unexpected remarks I drank my tea all at once and let it swallow a bit.

The noble lady of this world had heard of her fiancée coming up early on, but I was a little shocked to be told that story by someone so close to her.

"I see... so you're getting better and better, mistaken you for your own possession already, and you're getting a little out of it."

Buckin '!

I see. The cup I had to show my emotions in the dialogue Zach made or said with his face makes a noise from the pattern and smashes it. I panicked and let it go aggressively, disguised myself as the wind that dropped a cup on the floor in shock.

"Oh, I'm sorry... I dropped the cup in surprise"

You heard of my lapse, and an employee working at the cafe came to clean around me.

A few minutes later, an employee who's finished cleaning leaves. In the meantime it was cool time to feel good and I was able to regain total calm.

"... it's none of our business...? Sure, we're talking about a house and a house, and it makes sense."

"Huh? What are you talking about, Mr. Zach? We're just talking, aren't we making a formal decision, Safina?

Re-piece it, and when Zach tries to come to a conclusion, I immediately disagree.

"Yes... but... I... I have nothing to worry about becoming someone's fiancée... and I've been prepared since I was young."

Seeing a little darkness in the aristocratic world makes me feel sick, but all this couldn't help me either. Because I'm my own tomorrow...

"Then what's bothering you?

"... even though he called his fiancée a" candidate, "he has come up with a proposal. When I was at the top of the next martial arts tournament, I wanted to make a formal decision as my fiancée, and I wanted to quit the school the following year and focus on training as a bride."

"What is that?

I stand up unexpectedly, my voice absurd. I saw this one around as a ghost, and the employee tried to walk over here with a troubled face, so I rushed to my seat.

"You didn't agree to that."

Safina smiles bitterly at my impending momentum question.

"Originally, it was decided to go to this school for only a year, so from your father's point of view, it wasn't a condition of any trouble"

"What do you mean?

"Uh... I have a story to tell you, the Karshana family has, from generation to generation, produced those who excel in martial arts. Of course, the subject has nothing to do with men and women. I, too, have been tapped into the fundamentals of martial arts by the time I was mindful."

Safina speaks out over herself, and I decide, for now, to put aside my anger and listen to it quietly.

"But as you can see, I am only cowardly and fleeing in Doji… swordsmanship is also naturally passive and all about fleeing, and your father has become passionate about me and enthusiastic about mentoring people other than those at home…"

"As a result, I was born."

To Zach's words, Safina grins bitterly but nods.

"Your father looked at him and even said that he would give him as much money as he could to go to school, and with me, he was going to enroll in school, but just because neither of us had enough money to pay for it, he only went to school for one year each, and if, on the other hand, he didn't do well, he was finally talking about stopping going to school the following year."

"I... I'm glad... because I just have to be patient for a year when I get sent to such a scary place..."

"Well... Safina..."

I am shocked by Safina's words and feel powerless.

"But... that's how I felt before I went to school, and now it's different... meet Mary and have a class with everyone... well, I was scared... and I almost cried... but still, now I want to be in this school with everyone... which may be annoying... yes, I think"

"Safina... I don't even think it's annoying."

To her monologue my earlier shock flies away somewhere and I hold the hand of the safina placed on the table.

"Then the problem is that I..."

I see Safina's determined face in Zach's words. It gets cloudy when I see it.

(Well... if you want to go to this school after next year, you have to do something about it)

"Is it that strong?

"What do you think? But Sir Karshana and Senior Carlis put it at a glance, so what's not?

Zach answers my question in questionable form.

"Mm-hmm! Oh! I can't help thinking we're good here! Bet on a classic when this happens!

I made a clench and got up from my seat.

"A classic... what is it?

"Special training!!

When I shouted out loud at the dreaded listening Safina, someone with a troubled face called me out and threw me out of the store… and left the store behind.