"So, what are doing for the vacation?" I asked as I took a sip of my coffee.
"What do you an by that?" Ellyn's expression was a bit on the surprised side as she said that.
"What I an is, where are you going for the vacation? I don't believe that you're going ho due to all the things going on between you and your father, so I was just curious." I clarified.
"Nowhere."
"Hmm?"
"Nowhere. I'm not going anywhere, I'll stay in the dorms," she replied.
"Wait, you can do that?" I'd be lying if I said I knew that.
"Of course, you can. If that were not the case then where do you think people like Leon would be staying?" she appealed.
"Well, that's true. So Basically, you don't have any plans, right?" I tried to confirm.
If I had to follow loli_pop's novel then she'll stay here with Leon, but that's all the information I have. There was a ti skip and what happened during the one-month vacation wasn't shown, thus I don't know either.
However, for things to work out as I want them to, I must make sure of this.
"Yeah, you can say that. It's pretty la, isn't it? I'm being looked at as an idol by many students, I'm a role model in their eyes. Yet I'm not even capable of going ho on vacations, the most basic of things which any student can do," she said.
Her gaze was down, falling on the cup of tea she was holding with both her hands but had stopped drinking it when I disturbed this topic.
"That's certainly a way to think about it, but I don't think it's la," I said. She looked up. "I an, you are the role model because you do things that the normal, average students don't. You are the odd one out, that's why you are treated that way. So I'd say staying here and creating your own norm is just the thing you need to do if you want to continue being in the spotlight."
"Being in the spotlight, huh? I'm not sure if I want it or not. Things have been so jumbled up recently, that I don't really know what I want to do or what's right," she mumbled, as those words left her lips I could sense the weight her voice carried; it sounded tired, crushed, and under a lot of burdens.
"I'm afraid as soone who likes to operate in the shadows—the exact opposite of you—I can't provide my advice on that," I stated and took another sip.
And then there it was again. The long, calm, and strange silence stretched on for quite a while. I hate silence as much as I hate THAT side of mine, but right now it was different, as it wasn't just the silence that surrounded .
There was the steam that rose up from the cups of my coffee and Ellyn's tea, there was the murmur of students as they entered the cafeteria while talking with their friends, there was the scratching shriek of wood as they slid the chairs backward, there was the clicking sound of mana as the night fell and the colorful magic lights lit up on the café's outer walls, and there was the gentle pressing sound of the snow as the flakes starting raining from the sky and collected down on the ground.
There sure was a silence, I wasn't denying that. But for now, it was just between and Ellyn, and the rest of the world was unaffected by it. I was quite glad by knowing that, as I knew how scary it could be when everything around you goes quiet…
"If you aren't going anywhere, then would you like to co with ?" I asked, resting the empty coffee cup back on the table.
"Huh?" Ellyn's eyes widened a bit as her pupils enlarged for a split second before they went back to normal. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" she requested.
"I said if you don't have plans then why don't you co with ?" I repeated.
She still didn't respond, rather seed amused.
"Did I say sothing weird?" I asked.
"Huh? No! It's not that. I just…didn't expect you to make an offer like that," she clarified.
"And what's the good reason for that?"
"Well, you don't seem like the type of person who'd invite sowhere, and to their ho especially," she said.
"Then what type of person do I look like to you?" I demanded. I was rather curious to know what she thought of .
"Ah…" she was at a loss for words.
"And be completely honest," I added.
"The type who'd lock up in a room and then torture for entertainnt," she said in a breath.
For so reason, I couldn't find a way to argue on that. In fact, she was probably stating this based on the things she'd seen do, so in a way what she was saying was true. But on the other hand, she was not completely right.
The way she described made seem like a demon. I was no demon.
…Probably.
"Anyway, would you like to co?"
"Can I ask the reason why you're going out of your way to invite ?" she appealed.
"You do rember our contract, right? 'You will help out with whatever I want and in return, I'd protect you from your father,'" I said.
"Yes I do, what about it?"
"I won't be able to play my part if you're so far away from , and that'd be the breaching of the contract. I don't want that," I replied.
"You…really care about it that much? I thought—"
"You thought that I was just manipulating you in the na of a contract and using you to get my things done and will abandon you when you're in trouble? Well, I'd say that stained my pride even when I don't care about those things that much," I said, interrupting her in the middle.
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