Chapter 26 – Lapis Julie (3)

One.

The first place I met Paster was at the Awakened Academy.
He was such a celebrity that there was no one who entered the academy who did not know Paster’s name.

“Look at that Lapis. It’s a mutt Paster! Wow… I wasn’t very impressed when I just listened to her sister. A person like that really goes to the academy…”

Of course, he wasn’t famous for the good side, but he was famous for the very bad side.

“Paster? Who is that?”

Of course, I was not very interested in such rumors, so it was the first name I heard.
When I asked a colleague whose name I don’t remember now, who happened to be following me around, she enthusiastically began to explain, impressed that I had asked something.

“The handsome guy over there alone.”

At the place where her mate pointed her fingertip, a handsome man was walking on the ground, just as she said.
His shoulders were drooping, his expression was gloomy, and his gait was as if he had fallen into a swamp, and he looked weak.
Senior Paster was so handsome that even I, who was born in the Julie family and grew up seeing only the good things, couldn’t help but notice.

“Certainly, he might have been handsome… But is he that famous?”

It’s true that he’s handsome, but the nickname given in front of him was too vulgar to be famous for being handsome. You shit It was not a nickname that could be put in front of a person’s name.

Did you do something big wrong? Or that he flirted with any woman like a real dog.

Judging from his appearance, it was a pretty reasonable inference. However, the answer that came out of my motive was completely different from what I expected.

“Lapis, you know well, right? That senior Scar Rate is also attending the academy. That ska rate senior even used the power of his own family to bring him, that mutt Paster!”
“What?”
“No ability, no potential. However, it is not the son of a famous family. It’s embarrassing to be called such an Awakener, but Ska-Late senior put Pastor in this academy. The reason for this has not yet been properly revealed, but it is known that the most likely hypothesis is that they wanted to show off the power of the Leight family.”
“A person with no ability, no potential, and no son of a famous family was admitted to the academy? To show off the power of the family?”
“Yes! Whether it’s true or not, you’ll have to listen to senior Scar Rate to know.”

I wondered if it was an idea that could come from a normal person’s head, but it was definitely something like the Leight family.
Beasts wearing human masks with unqualified powers who act only on impulse. That was our Julie family’s long-time nemesis, the Leight family.
I shook my head at the Rait family’s inhuman idea and the impetus to put it into practice, and suddenly it dawned on me that my fundamental question had not been resolved.

“Wait, what does that have to do with him being treated like a mutt? I don’t know yet.”
“Ah, that’s right…”

When my motive was trying to answer my question, kudangtang! The conversation was interrupted by the sound of something falling.
My colleague’s and I’s eyes simultaneously went to the source of the sound, and there was a paster sunbaenim who had fallen out unsightly with her buttocks pounded, and a woman with her hair bright red like a wild flame burning.

“Paster, I thought you told me not to wander around alone without my permission? Why don’t you listen to your master?”
“…”
“Uh? Don’t you answer? Apologize quickly and go to class with me!”

This was the first time I saw Ska Rate and Paster together.
Senior Pastor just looked up at her with her dead eyes and didn’t respond to her ska rate’s ferocity.

“You, you! Are you really not going to say anything? Do you want to ruin your academy life?”

Then, Scarrait threatened her senior, as if angry at Pastor-senpai’s unresponsiveness, and her senior turned her head and snorted at her, muttering in a small voice.

“…The only way to get any worse here is to be expelled. Oh, that sounds rather good…?”

From Pastor-senpai’s point of view, she seemed to mutter thinking that she would probably not be able to hear it, but from the point of view of an awakened person who had surpassed her certain level, the muttering was not much different from speaking openly.

She was audible even to me from a distance, so she was probably more clearly audible to Scar Rait, who was right in front of her face to face.

Hearing those cheeky murmurs, Skar Raitt shifted her gaze to her, expecting how angry he would hit her accident.
And I saw a face that didn’t quite match the scar rate.

“…”

There was no composure to be found in Scar Rate’s pale expression. Her face looked as if she had been confronted with an unknown fear.

Scared of Scar Rait, the new pillar of the Rait family? Why?

That question was only dispelled when Ska Lait saw the man her gaze was pointing at. Scar-Late was terrified as she looked at Pastor, the man she had been overbearing and pressuring her just before.

What? Isn’t it the man called Paster who should be frightened? But why is the scar rate…

As I was thinking about that, a hypothesis suddenly crossed my mind that was really unreliable, but somehow seemed to be true.

Couldn’t it be that Ska rate is the man called Pasta…

At that time, my thoughts were interrupted by the sudden words of my motive.

“Look over there. That’s why Pastor is called a mutt. She doesn’t listen to her boss and rebels every day, so in the end, she always makes Ska Lait senior angry. That ska rate senior was so mad that she forgot her words… So I won’t let it go this time.”

Having said that, the motive shook her head in a pitiful way. Judging by Paster’s muttering and not recognizing the change in Scar Rate’s facial expression, his motive was just a little bit of an Awakener 1.

“Who is pathetic?”
“Yes?”
“No, nothing.”

Leaving behind my motive who was completely lost, I approached the two people who had become stuck.
Then, ignoring the trembling scar rate in fear, I reached out to senior Paster who was sitting on the floor.

“Hello senior. My name is Lapis Julie.”
“···Uh? Uh hello I’m Pastor no last name It’s just a paster.”
“Then from now on, I’ll call you Senior Paster. But, senpai, there is something I want you to listen to.”

At that time, I was very arrogant and young. He had no railroads and was fed up with baseless confidence. So, I said that to someone I hadn’t met before, and to senior Paster.

“Don’t be scare rate, follow me from now on. I’ll treat you with a lot more personality than the Leight family’s wretch.”

When I think about it now, I really want to know why I did that back then, and I don’t understand. Even now, I still want to defeat the me of that time.
If I had gone back to that time, I would have won points and went in without saying anything like that and comforting Senior Paster kindly and affectionately.

It was one of thousands. Pastor-senpai, who heard my words, ignored my outstretched hand and disappeared with his expression rotting. Looking at her back, I thought she was being arrogant on the subject of nothing.

That’s how Pastor and I ended our first meeting leaving only the worst first impressions.

Because I messed up my first impression at that time, my seniors still have me… Ah, no. Why are you thinking this, Lapis? Wake. You really seem to like Pastor-senpai. I’m saying it’s not quite up to par. That person!

Oh, anyway. Even when I was in the academy, I thought of Senior Paster as ‘a cheeky incompetent person’, ‘a pathetic and foolish person’, and ‘an idiot who only trusts and extends his face’.

I even thought that I would never see them again after graduating from the academy, and that the world I lived in was a different person.

However, I met Senior Paster again at Liar’s Trap, and from then on, my world started to turn strangely.

2.

“Uh, uh uh uh uh, very extreme…”

Fuck this. Is it really that sad to ask another girl what to gift her? Well, it’s not that sad. What if you hear that from someone you like?

To the extent that I had to ask myself, I was embarrassed as I couldn’t adapt to this situation.

It was the first time I had ever seen Lapis Julie cry. Always ice-cold, dispassionate, and rarely changing her expression except when she was taunting me, she considered it a shame to show her emotions.
Julie’s home education is like that or something.
‘Do as you please.’ Was the exact opposite of the Leight family, the end of home education.

Aside from that, it was quite a shock to see Lapis Julie shed tears, who consider it shameful to show emotion. Her words are such that she forgets for a moment her feelings for her that have accumulated so far.

Let’s heal for now I’m not such a bad person that I’d give an extra blow to someone who cried without forgiveness.

Lapis Julie Georgegi is completely canceled.
Anyway, I had to keep looking at these guys’ faces until the S-class dungeon raid was held in 3 months. So it’s not too late to apologize later.
I courageously approached her and patted her on the shoulder, even though I was trembling from the growing chill.

“Hey, is that Lapis Julie? Once we calm down Shall we calm down and talk again?”
“Huh… Ha, I have nothing to say. There is nothing to talk about with seniors, and there is nothing I want to say. So don’t talk Ugh.”

Lapis Julie turned her head away with her body trembling as if she knew how to ask a girl for a present or find out if she likes me.
If you ask her about it again in this situation where you clearly know why she’s crying, it’s just a psychopath.

“No, no. I won’t talk like you think. So stop crying and let’s talk. Huh? Any conversation is fine.”

Speaking as affectionately as possible, I held her white hand like snow on her lap.
The moment he held her hand, Lapis Julie trembled as if startled, and soon dyed her ears red. Then, as if her mood was relieved, she stopped crying and she quietly nodded her head.

“…”

Even so, not answering was like Lapis Julie, who had a strong sense of pride.
When I held her hand, the temperature rose again, and the freezer-like room soon returned to its original cool studio.

Great. Once you’ve passed a hurdle So now… What are we talking about?

While I was thinking about that, Lapis Julie suddenly grabbed my hand. Like you’ll never let go again.