Chapter 56 – Stormy Student Council President Election (5)

“It’s number 2, everyone! “Let us all reform for the sake of our great comrade Adela, who strives to reform for the academy!!”
“””Let’s reform!!!”””

The day of the decisive battle. Before the final speech before the vote, Adela and her followers walked around the school, distributing leaflets to students and shouting slogans.
Adela was skeptical as people kept flocking to her, saying that she was the one to lead the academy, but she continued her Yangyang speech diligently.

“Adela, here is the water.”
“Ah, thank you. But don’t you go to the concession stand?”
“I don’t think there’s a need to visit there because students’ interest there has dropped a lot these days. “They say it’s difficult to approach because of an unknown magic.”
“Then even if it’s just me…”
“Hmm, the final speeches of the candidates will begin in the auditorium in a little while. “You will be very busy as we proceed with the main vote.”
“Yes…”

Adela, who had already worn a strange laurel wreath on her head, nodded with a sullen expression.
Apparently she was initially planning on telling her teacher to marry her because she would become the student council president and dedicate this academy to him.
As time passed, she became increasingly distant from him.

“This is the last thing you should check before giving a speech. The next page is a list of applicants for the student council secretary and vice president positions, and all must be reviewed within today.”
“…”

As if she had already been elected, her followers handed her a mountain of tasks to handle.
As she flipped through her thick documents page by page, she realized that her student body president duties were quite different from what she had thought.

“Let’s go to the main auditorium. “Time is up.”
“Oh, wait… !”

Lastly, Adela caught the long-awaited snack bar seen in the distance with her eyes.
For some reason, she felt like the distance between herself and her Louis would never narrow.

Since returning from the North Sea, there has always been another woman by his side. She remembered escorting Viscount Lou Hillen in the dining room with a gentle smile.
Even now, inside the store… She will be alone with that woman. Adela didn’t even want to imagine what was happening between those two.

Quickly.

I felt like something in my heart was being torn apart. Intense pain that would not have been felt if the heart had been pulled out.
Only then will she be able to ask him to marry her because she becomes the student council president. What does she know about Lewis that allows her to say something like that?

What I want and hope for is…

“Adella.”

A longed-for voice heard amid loud slogans. As she stared at the stall hidden between the trees, she thought it was her auditory hallucination, but ——

“Valjean.”

I turned my head and saw that he was a little closer.

“Line… Saengnim?”

Dressed casually as usual, with an unpretentious expression. However, unlike always, with a slightly embarrassed smile.

She held out her hand.

“Do you want to go on a date now?”

A large auditorium close by, and a small kiosk in the distance.
But Adela realized that neither was where she wanted to take her steps.

“Yes.”

She exclaimed brightly, returning a smile even more beautiful than that of a princess leaving her castle with her knight.

“I want to go!”

***

As we left the noisy grounds of the Academy, Parencia at the end of May was like white doves scattered on a canvas of peace.
The afternoon sun was not that strong, so every time I passed by the fountain, a cool breeze made my clothes shine.
However, without even having time to take in that beautiful daily life, we were just walking, looking at each other’s feet.
When we walked down the street side by side, we would occasionally exchange glances and flirt with each other, but both Adela and I clearly felt a bit awkward.

“Adela, do you want to eat that?”

I was the first to rhyme, pointing to Fairy Floss and cotton candy sold on the street.
A first date that should have been more meaningful than her position as student council president. At this age, I couldn’t waste the day timidly chasing after a girl.

“Would you like to eat…”

Adela, who was still shy, also nodded her head. She tried to act like a lover by giving him a piece, but she ate it all herself.

“Do you want to eat a hot dog too?”

Next is a snack with an appropriate mix of carbohydrates and protein. As more sodium and sugar were added, Adela became more and more relaxed.

“It’s delicious~.”

I like women who eat happily. Especially if she is a pretty person.

Adela and I started off as an exciting first date, but before we knew it, it was becoming more of a trip to a restaurant.
Parencia is located in the central part of the Kingdom of Penheim, and there were many tourists and nobles from various regions, so the food culture was quite developed.
Of course, I couldn’t find Korean food, especially kimchi, but there were other menus that were not much different from Earth in general.
When you eat food together, you can learn about a person’s personality. It’s not a bad idea to learn about Adela like this.

“Do you want to try that too? “A stir-fried pupa deal.”
“Eat.”
“How about mint chocolate?”
“Great!”

Well, not bad.

“It’s a drink made by mixing Red Drake’s eyeballs with carbonated water and stirring it with pine needles! Would you like a sip?”

Not bad…

“Shall I pour it?”
“Do you want to rummage?”

Bad. The words came out in a harsh manner due to remarks that were not daring to interact with each other.

After filling my stomach to a certain extent, I went to the commercial district to look at various clothes and accessories.
If it was me who bought Adela her food, on the contrary, it was she who spent her money here.

“Try this on too.”

Adela gave me some of her favorite clothes one by one, as I always wore only an old and dirty T-shirt.
Even quite expensive items were paid for without hesitation.
Just looking at it, it was quite uncomfortable to move around, and it was formal and impractical, so it wasn’t my taste, but she ended up handing over an armful of envelopes.

“I don’t need this much…”
“It’s all useful.”

I also wanted to give something to Adela, who looked happy. Coincidentally, there was a germanium bracelet in her pocket that had fallen out of a drawer during a previous store remodel.

“Do you want this?”
“Are you giving it to me!? “Okay, Miss!”

Adela wore her polished bracelet on her hand and looked at it again and again in the mirror in her store.
I thought about deducting points for her behavior, which made me question whether she believed in pseudo-science, but she seemed so happy that I decided to leave it alone.

***

The bright sun began to slowly set. At the Academy, congratulatory guns were rising into the sky announcing the end of the election.
Violation of regulations. Since Adela did not make it to her final speech, she would naturally have been excluded from the candidacy, and Erzé Bet would have taken the position of student president.

I didn’t really like the cuteness, but it seemed like she was trying her best to make it work, so I’ll leave it at that.
Well, I guess I’ve achieved my goal now. It’s okay to slowly go back, but for some reason I couldn’t leave my feet.

“Teacher… “I want to take a short break.”

Adela seemed to feel the same way as me.

“I’m so full, I feel like I’m going to throw up…”

Is not it?

Anyway, instead of going back to the academy right away, we sat on a bench in a quiet street for a while, facing the setting sun in silence.
As I looked at Adela’s profile illuminated by the setting sun for a moment, I became lost in thought.

What exactly is Adela to me?
Being lovers means not only loving each other, but also stepping into that person’s life.

After falling into this world, my life, past and present, was pitch black. A swamp of karma where even a handful of mana cannot breathe and drowns.

On the other hand, Adella Sylvester is the second daughter of the Roche Ar family, and she must learn the unique magic called the ultimate white magic.
I simply likened it to the opposing symbols of mana and karma, but from the beginning, I didn’t get along with her or anyone else.

Whatever she wanted to say while handing her expensive clothes that she might wear at a wedding, I couldn’t respond to her wishes.

“Teacher.”

The lips that innocently whispered love to me in a starry country village look here again.

The oath that a warrior must keep was so heavy that it buried my iron ankles in the ground, and was strong enough not to be blown away by the breeze blowing from Adela’s small mouth.

I am not qualified to connect my future with someone. If Adela loves me, she will definitely have to give up a lot.
Pain, remorse, pity, self-reproach, resentment and longing——you will never be able to reach the terrible and terrible inner self where they are all united.
Can such a relationship be called a lover, where one party is not able to get their footing properly and is stumbling around and clinging to each other one-sidedly?

But–

“Would you like to take a short break at the hotel?”

The moment she, who usually appears comical, innocent, and dim-witted, reveals her true side, she shows something like a strong conviction or passion that even the cold-blooded me can give in to.

“Okay.”

I could only nod my head while smiling bitterly.

Now I have to make a decision.

***

“Alright, next student, come here.”
“Yes? Me?”
“Yes. You. Close your eyes and shout “Long live Paul III.”
“Well, that’s…”

〈Baekmado: Purification·Mental pollution⌜Purification⌟〉

“Keueeek——!”
“Okay, that’s it. Next!”

Inside the main auditorium where voting has ended.
High-ranking priests dispatched from the Temple of Light were catching the students one by one and treating them. The situation was discovered belatedly after a resident of Farencia, who saw the scene of suspicious mass madness, reported it.
Some followers, still unable to accept that their leader had given up his candidacy, escaped through the back door.
Auxiliary Bishop Pernen, who instructed her to chase after them, handed Erzsebet a third-grade, consecrated tree and put her hands together.

“Congratulations on your rise to the position of student council president, princess. “We, the Parenzia branch of the Temple of Light, hereby promise once again that we will maintain a close relationship with the Penheim royal family in the future.”
“Oh, thank you…”
“By the way, subversive ideas have taken root even in Parencia, the home of education. “It looks like there are still forces working in secret in the kingdom.”
“No, this time…” … !”

Holding his throbbing head for a moment, Ergé Bett let out a deep sigh and said.

“I don’t know anymore.”
“Yes?”
“It’s nothing. “I am truly grateful to all the Greek servants who always work hard for humanity.”
“Haha, nothing to say. It is said that traces of groups that worship demons and black magic can still be found in the north. I heard that a request for analysis came into the headquarters of the Rubier church not long ago…”

It was Pernen who was talking about trivial things next to her, but Erzsebet’s mind was focused elsewhere as she responded.

In the end, he couldn’t win on his own. It was only after receiving help from that man that he was elected through expedient means.
They even endured the enormous shame of tarnishing the name of the royal family.

– Uh? Viscount Ruhillen. Have you not been purified yet? I will do it for you.
— I don’t need anything like that… Ahhh! Didn’t I tell you not to do it?
— Oh, you’re normal. Sorry. The mental contamination of third graders is particularly serious, so stop…
— That’s it! I’m busy so I’ll just leave now. The guards are so dissatisfied that I need to resolve this first.

Even if it wasn’t a fraudulent vote, it was sure to be a subject of considerable ridicule if revealed to the public.
If Lewis threatens me using this as an excuse, what should I do then?

“Pi—.”
“Shut up, P.E. “It was because of you in the first place.”
“Pi—.”
“Don’t tell me you liked Lewis. “I will never do it again, never again.”

She covered her irritated face with both hands as she chased away Piyi, who kept mocking her on her shoulder.