Chapter 249 – What Is Mr. Rabbit’s True Identity?

One.

Upon entering the office, as always, I sat down on the guest sofa and looked at Mr. Rabbit.

“Rafi, I have something important to say, so could you please move away from me?”
“Yes, no. I haven’t met my seniors until now, so I don’t want to be apart even for a moment.”
“Didn’t we meet the day before yesterday?”
“I didn’t see you yesterday!”
“Oh my gosh.”

To be precise, I faced the rabbit boss and Lapis Julie, who was rubbing her cheeks with her chin on her shoulder behind the rabbit boss.

What is it? What’s going on? Why is Lapis Julie hugging Mr. Rabbit from behind and calling him senpai?

The sight unfolding before my eyes was too difficult for me to accept.

Lapis Julie, who seemed to me nothing but a disaster that humans could not face, was a charming girl who fell in love in front of the rabbit boss.

In the gap between the two appearances, like the difference between heaven and earth, I couldn’t help but stare blankly at their all-too-familiar conversation.

“Haa… Yes, if you don’t want to fall apart like that, let’s just talk about you. Why did you come here all of a sudden? No contact.”
“Oh is that it? I’m here to meet Mr. Stell.”

To Mr. Rabbit’s question, Lapis Julie looked at me without hesitation and answered that.

She was told to tell her story, but she still did not know which story and for what purpose.

Come to think of it, I wasn’t curious because I was overwhelmed by Lapis Julie herself earlier, and she was just scared, but now I’m curious. What was she trying to talk about with me?

The next question from Mr. Rabbit asked Lapis Julie to answer the question instead of me.

“A guest? You? Why? What are you trying to do?”
“What the heck… It exploded yesterday, right? The reality of the academy, a revealing article disguised as an interview. Because of that, many words are coming out from our Julie family. So I came to meet him because I was curious about what kind of person was the person who fearlessly said this once.”

After answering that, Lapis Julie stared at me with deep blue eyes.

Those eyes and her answer were so embarrassing to me that I unknowingly shrugged my shoulders and shivered.

What, what? Revelation article? What is the academy like? I just gave an honest interview about what I’ve been through, so why is that? I just wanted to help Mr. Rabbit…

The fact that the Julie family, a world-class family that is called a famous family even among famous families, is upset because of my interview made me imagine all kinds of things in my head.

Most of these fantasies were terrifying and disturbing, and it was only after hearing Lapis Julie’s words that I realized what I had done yesterday.

I-I can’t be… Have I been stamped into a famous family?

In the world of the Awakened, to be equal with the famous family was no different from saying that to be equal with the world.

And in yesterday’s interview, I kindly explained the numerous bullying I suffered from students from famous families while attending the academy, and even said that I was almost killed.

Whatever my intention in saying those words, those remarks were enough to make me think that I was fighting with a famous family, and now, after listening to Lapis Julie’s words, my future has also been completely determined.

Uh, what to do? What do we do? I just… I just wanted Mr. Rabbit’s business to prosper…

I felt like my body was shaking with anxiety and fear, and I felt like I was choking on my breath.

It’s been a long time since I was speechless, and my mouth was dry, so I couldn’t even ask Mr. Rabbit right now, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’

All I can do is imagine the terrible future ahead and tremble.

At that time when he was just shaking without saying anything, the rabbit boss in front of him hit Lapis Julie on the head with the blade of his hand.

“Ah!”
“You can say that to anyone, but don’t say it to me. I am the one who asked you why you came. Be honest. Why did you come?”

When the rabbit boss asked, Lapis Julie told the truth, cutely tying his head with both hands.

“Uhhhhh. Fortunately, it was still early in the morning, and the focus of the interview was on the unfair treatment Mr. Stell received rather than on the seniors, so I didn’t see the women who approached me hiding their sly feelings.”

What Lapis Julie said was completely different from the words that made me feel uneasy.

······What? So am I safe? Did Lapis Julie lie for nothing?

After hearing Lapis Julie’s girlish and cute answer, a circuit of happiness began to run in her head, ‘Actually, there was no problem?’

“Yes, it is you. But I’m not lying just to be in front of you.”
“But I didn’t lie to you. Really, there was an emergency meeting within the family about what to do with Mr. Stell.”

However, Lapis Julie’s subsequent explanation coldly froze her happiness circuit, which had just begun to warm up.

Then I’m dangerous right! Ugh! What to do Should I contact the reporter now and ask for a correction saying that was never meant to be? There is no other way but…!

Her mental strength was consumed rapidly as she relaxed once and faced the grim reality again.

She was obviously in perfect shape until she headed to her office in the morning, but now, sitting on her sofa, her condition deteriorated to the point where her head was pounding and she was suddenly fatigued.

I was in the swamp of ‘what to do?’ Again, but Mr. Rabbit asked another question in a slightly serious tone.

“So what was the outcome of the meeting?”
“Since it has nothing to do with us, we decided to leave it alone.”
“Did Raffy’s breath enter that?”
“Sure. There’s no way you’re letting me do something to Mr. Stell, who was saved by you, right?”
“Well done.”
“Ehehe…”

Rabbit boss smiled and reached out his hand to stroke the head of Lapis Julie, who was resting her chin on his shoulder.

That kind touch seemed to treat a really close junior, so I forgot to be relieved by Lapis Julie’s words and stared blankly at that touch.

“Well, for now, I think that the Julie family has been settled. Now I’m going to turn the subject to the customer, is that okay, sir?”

While I was feeling a strange feeling in my chest as I watched Mr. Rabbit stroke Lapis Julie’s hair, the conversation suddenly turned to me.

Because I was careless, I was startled and trembled, and I was so surprised that a question that I was curious about but a little bit of a question popped out of my mouth.

“Sat, what’s the relationship between Mr. Rabbit and Julie Lapis?!”

Even though it was a question I spit out, I was so embarrassed that I didn’t even know what I said until the 5 seconds of silence passed after I said it.

“Under.”
“Suddenly?”

However, after hearing Lapis Julie’s snoring that broke the silence and Mr. Rabbit’s slightly tilted question, I realized what I was talking about.
I’m just like a little girl, and I’ve destroyed the atmosphere in one queue.

“Ah, no, that’s not it! I was curious, but I didn’t mean to ask! It was just a question that I had been keeping in my mouth, but the conversation turned this way so suddenly that I didn’t even know it…! Aww!”

I tried to say something to pick up some words, but Lapis Julie’s eyes on me only grew colder and colder.

I was so afraid of what Mr. Rabbit’s expression would look like, so I deliberately tried not to look at him.

I had no choice but to make eye contact with Lapis Julie, who was pressing her cheek to Mr. Rabbit’s cheek even more than before.

Oh, I’m more scared than before! To Mr. Rabbit, he was very friendly and even acted cute while talking about seniors and seniors! Must be Lapis Julie······ As rumored, she is a very, very scary woman······!

Lapis Julie’s eyes of absolute zero sent me, and I froze and felt fear running down to my bones.

The person who brought me out of the fearful time that seemed to stretch for one second was the rabbit boss again.

“Um, yes. You might be wondering. Raffy is a celebrity, and seeing that Raffy follows me as a senior, I can of course be curious. It’s understandable that it’s hard to ask.”
“Saturday, it’s the rabbit boss…”

Mr. Rabbit, who speaks in a friendly voice and understands me, was so cool.

To the point where it seems to overlap with the hero who dramatically appears and saves the heroine when the main character magical girl is in crisis in a cartoon she enjoyed watching as a child.

At that time, when my heart was beating again at the thoughtful appearance of the rabbit boss, the answer of the rabbit boss that followed was far beyond my imagination.

“Hmm… Literally, I think a senior-junior relationship would be the most appropriate, right? Because I’ve been a senior since my academy days.”
“Yes? An academy? The rabbit boss?”
“Yes, I also graduated from the academy. Of course, back then it wasn’t as close as it is now.”

What? What is the identity of the rabbit boss?