Senpensekai no Madoushoshi

"Yeah. That's right. As you can see, Atashi is a warwolf... but it's a half."

At first, I wondered what would happen, but Carol answered the students' questions quickly after sending her greetings.

I knew I was not loving and thought I would keep it to the minimum answer, but I wasn't.

Carol puts together a calmer atmosphere than their older students, sometimes even smiling like people, and continues the conversation in a way that she has been able to break with the students.

"You are. I've never seen a Warwolf before, and I'm thrilled."

"I've been listening to you, but you really have ears and tails."

Students' interests are directed to Carol's fuzzy ears and tails at the moment. If Dr. Odette had been here, he would have been scolded for 'being a lady who talks while eating and all that'.

But fortunately? She is not here right now, and there is no one to blame them.

Nevertheless, we can't leave it like this. Carol is reluctant to be touched by her tail or ear because of her interest. Me or the Iries wouldn't say anything, but if they did that to the first person they met, they'd be in a bad mood for boulders.

Let's stab them with a nail somehow before that happens. That's when I opened my mouth.

"By the way, Mr. Caroteil is a teacher...... what is your relationship with Master Iriburg?

That's what one of my students asked me as I let my gaze come and go between me and Carol.

Relationship? What does that mean? Question? Just find out that Carol and I are dating...

"He's one of us. We're having a party."

That's what Carol replied instead when I thought of everything and couldn't answer anything.

"Oh, I knew it! When I heard about Warwolf's Carotelle, I thought maybe."

"So you're one of the heroes of the Dragon Crusade, too. It's good to see you."

When one of the students gave a slightly exaggerated reaction, the other students followed suit.

Then even the students around us who heard the story gather to surround this table.

Carol answers the questions that come from them in a discipline, but thanks to that, the meal is barely progressing.

And in the meantime, my students talk to me, too, and I'm chased by that response, and I can't make my meal go on either.

In the end, I could barely talk to Carol about the meal, and I regretted bringing Carol to the dining room.

"I didn't think that would happen... Sorry, Carol."

I thought it would be quiet because of the large dining room, but it was a big mistake. I had a sweet look at the aggressiveness and curiosity of my aristocratic daughter around my age.

"Ugh, it's nothing. Somehow, I felt like this would happen."

"... do you?

After the dining room, I'm on my way to the ground now for an afternoon class.

"Yeah. Because Toslin is beautiful and she's cool"

Carol groaned so as she walked next to me and looked out the window. What the word means, what is it? Isn't that sarcasm for me not being able to get much time with Carol? Or is it okay if I don't have that intention and take the word as it is?

……

I wanted to ask, but I felt like a snake would come out when I was bad at it, and I couldn't ask.

The white marble corridor is beautifully polished and still shines in the light of the falling sun today. In it, me and Carol walk with few words.

"Hey, Carol?

I'm about to plug into the hallway poke. If you go right, there's a crossing that leads to the ground, and if you turn left and continue down the hallway that leads ahead, there's a library room.

So while Carol didn't turn left, I called my name and grabbed that arm.

"... what?

Carol stopping her leg. Lift your little neck as you look up at me with your golden eyes. Lovely.

When I first met him, he was like a filthy abandoned puppy, but this guy is getting cute and beautiful every year he goes after him.

The worrisome side I show at the mundane moment stopped catching my eyes and letting go... for years.

"What are we going to do today?

"... Mm-hmm. I guess I'll go back to the library and kill my time"

Carol missed her gaze from me and answered that as she looked outside.

"Then why don't you come out, too?

"I think they said something before, that. You refused to let the ladies teach you the sword of an athlete."

"No, it's not"

"Then what? Are you going to go to class and learn the sword from Toslin? Why? Atashi's sword is completely different from Toslin's, so it's not helpful. You don't deserve to go to class because you're not noble in the first place."

"You don't have a problem there if you tell Ritzereich. He said he could peek if he was interested in class."

"I'm not interested in anything. I've always seen the sword of Toslin."

"No, that's why you're not..."

"Hmm? I don't know. Why would you want to put Atashi in class?

I was worried about whether to say it or not. I gave it to you, I decided to say it.

"Look, this is my opportunity, and you have a friend my age like Iris... I thought I should make one"

"What?"

Did my words sound so unexpected, Carol now tilted her neck to the other side.

"... are you serious about that, my friend?

"You can't joke about this. You've been in my house ever since you were little, and you've never been to school or anything, have you?

"I thought Atashi was supposed to be a servant there, and that Atashi couldn't possibly go to school."

"That's why. It's my chance, and why don't you go through here as a student and make one or two of your friends?

Friends are hard to come by. It's hard to build a relationship that ignores it, especially since the damage becomes a prerequisite for dating when you grow up.

So I don't know how long I can stay here, but I should make it when I can. That's what I was suggesting...

"Atashi's not noble, he's not even human in the first place, he's a warwolf, and there's no way you can be friends."

Carol was not ridden and was immediately dismissed.

But if you think about Carol's future, I can't pull back here easily either.

"No, you don't get it. Maybe we can."

……

"... hey, can't they because they're human?

When he did so to Carol, who became silent, his neck was shaken slightly to the side.

"No way. I don't hold a grudge against humans against Atashi personally. If I did, I wouldn't have gotten along with Iris or Rose."

"Oh, well... that's right"

"I know you're paying attention, but Atashi's fine. 'Cause sometimes you come to Saluena and stuff, and it doesn't mean you're free."

"... hmm? With Saluena?"

I've seen you do something with the Eilees, but will you be involved with Saluena there a little bit too? If so, I don't know at last. What the hell is Carol doing? What are you trying to do?

My birthday is still ahead of me, and really, I wonder what this guy's thinking. I've never been this confused before, and I deepen my confusion.

"What are you doing with Saluena?

"... normally, talk or something?

Are we really just talking about this? And I almost got out of my mouth. That's why I swallowed it in a hurry.

I'm pretty sure this guy is hiding from me and doing something. Eilees or maybe even Saluena knows something about it, but I don't. It's a lie when it comes to not being jealous of the two of you, and it's true that there's a secluded part of Carol that doesn't tell me.

There's no way you're going to answer me where I asked you that, and you're just going to spoil Carol's mood.

"You can always do that if you just want to talk, right? Now go quietly to class."

So I don't ask anymore. Instead I put my strength into my arms. Because of the impatience and frustration I don't understand about Carol, I was pulling Carol's hand hard if I realized it.

"So Atashi..."

But Carol won't obey me. All that or trying to shake my hand off. That made a big, big wave in my mind. I was unreasonably... angry at Carol for trying to leave me again.

"You're just a kid, aren't you!? Listen to the adults!!

I don't see why you refuse to be with me so hard. Why would this guy refuse to do that when he doesn't like me and someone else doing something where he's not? My frustration had reached its peak and I was yelling at him.

……

Carol stares at me with eyes that look incredible.

"What's that? Wait a minute? What's a kid?

Those eyes narrowed slightly, and a few seconds later they stared sharply at me.

"No, you're actually fourteen, and you're just a kid..."

I wish I had withdrawn immediately, but I was upset that Carol had stunned me and said so with an excuse.

"... Toslin is, what is Atashi's?

"Hey, wait... that's not what we're talking about right now"

Oh, not good. Oh, no, no, no. This sucks. This face of Carol, this tone of voice sucks.

"Are you a guardian or something? Hey, is Toslin even trying to replace my mom and dad?

"Hey Carol... settle down..."

"Atashi is Toslin's...... what the heck!!

Now Carol yelled at me.

"I know Toslin says that to me for Atashi... don't treat Atashi like a child. Atashi is responsible for his thoughts and actions. And I'm saving my life. I thought you should know about that, but you're not?

……

"Toslin... you always thought he was a kid about Atashi? So, what do you think of Atashi's feelings? You treat it lightly because it's what the kid says? If so, Atashi...... so unpleasant, NO!!

Carol grabbed the pendant lowered to her neck. Tears in my eyes, staring up at me tough.

When I was relieved and could not answer anything, Carol slipped her gaze as if she had lost interest from me.

"... sorry. Atashi...... I'm leaving today"

And only then did he leave words and disappear. In an instant, as if it were an illusion.

……

I couldn't move, as if I had been in gold bondage for a while. I was just letting my mouth go to war and enduring so much pain that my chest was about to crush.

"Are you nuts, I..."

Alone, looking out at the shaken hands......

"It's me who's the kid..."

I was, yes, groaning.