Chapter 22: Voyeurism and Bold Plans (2)
I watched him enter a cafe with Cadet Aizel, and then, since the restaurant across the street sold chicken soup, I ate so and watched them.
“Miss, you really eat well!”
“Hurrrrr, here… Hurrrr… It’s delicious! So good!”
The shopkeeper looked at uncomfortably as I ate, but that wasn’t the point.
I’m thinking, “What is it with you and flirting with girls every chance you get, just because you like them?”
I’d seen him hanging out with a girl from Clentine Family when we ran into each other at the Academy.
‘So, are you hiding your powers purely to attract girls…?’
It could be.
My grandfather had said sothing like that once.
‘Kaen….n are animals with nothing but won in their heads. Beasts.’
‘And you?’
‘I was like that in my pri. You see, I’m an old man now, and in my younger days I was quite popular. I even had one persistent woman who thought I was good and followed all the way.’
‘Grandfather is pretty cool!’
If he’s right, it’s not a very remote possibility.
‘Zetto, you beast. You’re hiding your powers for nothing, unlike , who’s enjoying the ‘pure’ pleasure of hiding them.’
I finished my soup and stood there for a mont.
“Miss, may I offer you a drink?”
I was about to respond to the owner’s friendly ntion of a drink, but I caught sight of them coming out of the cafe. They looked strange.
“No, I’ll co back another ti!”
I rushed out of the store, trying to get a better look at them.
‘Cadet Aizel is supporting Zetto?’
I wondered if a fight had broken out in the cafe, but it didn’t since the café was quiet.
What in the world could be going on in a cafe that would cause people to collapse like that?
Whatever the reason, I followed them.
Zetto still didn’t move much, and Aizel was just walking down the street, silently supporting him.
It was late, so there weren’t many people on the street and they traveled in silence.
‘Where is this…?’
They make their way to the boys’ dormitory.
Aizel led Zetto to the front of the dormitory, where they were t by a dormitory guard.
“Cadet Aizel, girls are not allowed in the boys’ dormitory!” the guard said.
The guard and Aizel have a conversation, and sothing crazy happens. Aizel, still carrying Zetto, is allowed to enter the n’s dormitory building.
‘I can’t believe this… No, no, no, I don’t know yet.’
For a mont, I almost imagined sothing really weird, but I wasn’t sure.
‘…Maybe he’s just going to take him to his room and then leave.’
No matter how I thought about it, that didn’t seem right.
The dorm guards aren’t stupid so of course she would have promised to co back.
Just then, Aizel walks out of the building alone.
‘Yes, that’s right, I almost had the wrong idea, Cadet Aizel…I thought you were cold, but you’re actually a nice, warm person.’
I don’t know what this has to do with the ‘cool’ Aizel, who had shown off her overwhelming strength during the class placent test, but I was inwardly relieved to see her walking out of the dormitory.
She walked out, spoke to the guard again, and left.
‘That’s it for today.’
I don’t watch him after he enters the dorm since there was nothing to be gained by waiting for him to go into his room and sleep peacefully. Besides, I’m not a very good sleeper.
‘Ti to go ho.’
With that, my watch for the day was over, and I turned to leave.
‘Cadet Aizel…?’
Aizel, who was leaving suddenly turned around. She circled around the guard in front of the dormitory, approached the dormitory wall, and climbed over it.
“Eh…?”
My mouth dropped open at the rather shocking scene.
‘Cadet Aizel is sneaking into the boys’ dormitory…could it be because of Zetto?’
I rubbed my eyes at the bizarre situation that had just unfolded.
‘What would a grown man and woman do in a room…What are they going to do… and why are there guards…?’
I knew the answers, but I tried to ignore them.
‘An animal… I can’t have people’s attention stolen by an animal like that.’
It was at this mont that my suspicion that Zetto was hiding his power to attract won turned into certainty.
***
“Whoa…”
After slipping past the guards, I scaled the walls that surrounded the dormitory and hurried to the room where Zetto would be waiting.
The room was unlocked with a key from Zetto’s pocket, and the door was jamd with a small object to keep it from slamming shut.
Luckily, it was late enough that I was able to get into Zetto’s room without running into anyone in the n’s dorm.
I walked into the room and saw Zetto lying on his bed sound asleep.
I did it on a whim because I had been distracted by the faint scent of him on his clothes since I received them. But that didn’t stop from accepting his clothes.
No, maybe it was all an excuse. Maybe I’m just rationalizing with myself that it had to happen.
I hadn’t even realized the ‘sin’ I had committed.
‘But…What’s done is done…’
Zetto from the previous tiline was also very weak on alcohol. Once he drank, he would fall into a deep sleep and not wake up for a while.
Zetto hasn’t changed. It’s just that my behavior has changed, and it’s taking longer for him to get to .
I lay down next to Zetto, who wouldn’t wake up for a long ti then I crawled closer to him and burrowed into his arms.
I lay across his thick arms as I buried my face in his chest.
“Sssh… Hah…”
…The scent of his body, which I hadn’t slled in a long ti, still made dizzy.
“Zetto…”
I noticed the bandages that always covered his eyes and suddenly rembered my conversation with Zetto in the previous tiline.
[Don’t you feel uncomfortable wearing the bandage all the ti?]
[Haha… At first, yes, but now I feel weird without it.]
[I was wondering what Zetto’s eyes look like.]
His face stiffened sharply at my casual remark.
[I don’t think that’s sothing Miss Aizel needs to know.]
The sa Zetto who had been so kind to said sothing cold to .
I wondered if there were bad mories I didn’t want to rember.
And then, just before he died, when he was talking to , letting go of words he hadn’t said before I saw his eyes for the first and last ti.
They were blue, the color of the beautiful ocean that I love so much at the beach in Veleshanas.
It felt like fate. But, as much as it was the last, it was the worst.
I wanted so badly to unwrap the bandages around his eyes right in front of , to open them, to see what he was looking at in his sleep… but I couldn’t because he would realize that I took them off even if I put them back on.
I didn’t want to be hated by him.
If I was hated by Zetto, it would be hard to live and I would have to start the cycle all over again.
So for now… I would feel the warmth of Zetto’s body.
I can hear his ragged breathing in front of my nose.
I, and only I, can see him like this.
…This was just right.
I hug him tightly.
‘A kiss… wouldn’t that be enough…’
An erotic thought flashed through my mind as I rembered my conversation with Zetto earlier.
‘But…I, I……why don’t I have…clothes…?’
“It’s…”
His words trailed off, and I wondered if I had crossed the line with Zetto.
I was angry because I didn’t rember anything and I hoped that my ‘first ti’ hadn’t been so unremarkable.
Luckily, it wasn’t.
I wish I could erase it from my mory since thinking about it makes feel embarrassed and my face heats up.
‘This is…yes, revenge.’
I kissed the sleeping Zetto lightly.
Zetto’s lips were sweet. Was it because of the coffee?
I don’t know since it’s my first ti.
I lay like that for a while, face buried in his arms.
***
“……”
I woke up to a familiar ceiling, the ceiling of my dorm room, to be exact.
“Ugh……”
My head ached like it was going to crack, so I put my hand to my head.
‘What happened yesterday?’
Obviously, I drank coffee with alcohol.
‘I was drinking coffee…’
About the ti I started to rember a voice I shouldn’t have heard ca from across the room.
“You’re up. I wonder why things have changed since last ti.”
“Aizel…?”
I look over to where the voice ca from and see Aizel leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, wearing the sa uniform as yesterday.
‘Why is Aizel here…Ah.’
There could only be one reason.
“You brought here.”
“Yes. I didn’t know where your keys were, so I fumbled around for a while.”
Aizel gives her trademark sour look.
I blacked out in the café and Aizel walked back to my dorm.
‘Isn’t this a pretty dangerous situation?’
I was used to hiding things from her. But I couldn’t question her now, not when she had an ironclad shell around her.
“I was going to leave a note or sothing but it wouldn’t do you any good, would it?”
Aizel throws her hands up and shrugs.
“Well…” I scratch the back of my head deliberately, trying to organize my thoughts.
The bandage around my eye feels fine when I touch the back of my head. It hadn’t co off, that’s for sure.
Even if my senses were foggy with alcohol, I could still rember the feel of the knot.
‘So, what could Aizel, the regressor, have done in this room…?’
…There wasn’t much.
The materials for the Spectral Sword were stored elsewhere, of course, and I tend to keep my room tidy.
‘My lips are slightly moist…Did I drool or sothing?’
I naturally wiped my lips. Hopefully Aizel didn’t see that ugly scene.
“Anyway, thank you. You must be tired. I’m not a strong drinker. Next ti, be sure to tell if you’re going to drink.”
I said that to Aizel, who had a nonchalant expression.
First of all, Zetto’s body seems to be strangely weak to alcohol. I guess it doesn’t matter if I level up or not.
In the real world, I was also very weak on alcohol…I don’t know what this has to do with anything.
“I’ll keep that in mind, and now that you’re awake, I’ll leave you to it.”
“Okay, sorry to bother you.”
Aizel unclasped her arms and left the room.
“Ha…”
I let out the sigh I’d been holding in as she left.
This ti it was really dangerous. Why on earth would a cafe serve alcohol with coffee?
Cadets are technically adults, so it’s not a problem, but I didn’t expect a cafe to sell alcohol.
‘I should have been more careful since it was the first ti I went there…’
Still, I’m glad things didn’t go too badly but I didn’t think Aizel was expecting to be so weak to alcohol.
At least nothing special happened.
‘Sohow I got put off. Sothing with mories…and what was that Kaen doing spying on and Aizel yesterday…’
Given her ticulous and calculating nature, she’s not one to ss around.
‘Please don’t cause any trouble.’
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