“Late! Tardy! Fine!”
“…What fine?”
As Evelyn pointed out, we were indeed late.
After andering here and there, it was nearly the end of lunchti.
“No, geez…! Lady Laplace is summoning us even on the Day of Ellis… And to think, last ti I saw you patrolling with her, it was almost like…!!”
Mid-sentence, Evelyn’s eyes widened as if she had co to a realization.
“Hey, Ian…”
“Huh? Evelyn.”
“…Did you get it?”
“Get what?”
“What do you an ‘what’, you jerk. Did you receive a gift from the discipline committee?”
“Ah… Yeah, I did.”
“…Really? Show .”
“Huh? It’s nothing special.”
“….Just show it to .”
“Alright. Here.”
Swish-
I was quick to catch on.
‘Evelyn! I knew you would act like this!’
Truthfully, the chocolate from Laplace, rumored to contain ‘sothing special’, was so earnestly packaged that it was obvious, so I had hidden it elsewhere before coming here.
“Hmm… Is this everything?”
“Yeah, that’s everything.”
The gifts I ended up showing Evelyn were only ‘cheap coin chocolate’, ‘homade cookies’, and ‘eyeball-shaped jelly’.
‘It must be from Gaur, Kuoli, in that order.’
The reason it remained a guess and not confird was because after finishing my conversation with Laplace and leaving, Anya seed to have woken up, and all three were gone.
In their place, the gifts were left on the desk with a note instructing to take them.
It wasn’t particularly significant, but if I had to choose which one made happiest…
Surprisingly, it was Anya’s.
Since I hadn’t even expected to receive anything, the re coin chocolate was quite touching.
“…The homade cookies… Well, there are no heart…shapes….Alright…then it’s fine.”
“So, Evelyn, what did you prepare?”
“? Hehe. Are you excited?”
“…A little?”
“Hehehe…!! You’re cute, you little thing…”
Swish─
What Evelyn produced was a squeeze chocolate, not even wrapped, about the size of a finger.
“……This?”
“Yeah!! Hehe!”
“……Alright, thank you, Evelyn.”
“What? Disappointed?”
“No… Not at all. Disappointed, what…”
Although I had ntioned it was natural for Evelyn to give a gift, it really wasn’t natural at all.
Any gift was about the thought behind it, and one should be grateful just for receiving it.
‘…I know that, but.’
Sohow…
This was the least heartfelt gift I’ve received from Evelyn on ‘Ellis Day.’
…Almost as much as Anya’s coin chocolate.
“Hehe, you little thing, getting sulky… Why? Are you upset because I gave you this?”
“…I’m not sulky.”
“Ha! You really think you’re not upset. It’s written all over your face that you’re feeling hurt.”
“No, that’s not it… I’m not upset…”
“Hehehe… Hey, be careful not to touch, okay?”
“…What?”
“Your lips. If they touch, it’s a kiss.”
“…?”
Evelyn laughed playfully and stuck out her tongue…
“My, it’s so sweet♥”
「Shoot – Wind – Arrow」
「Slice – Water – Blade」
The two spells collided in mid-air…
Swoosh!!
Her blade of water sliced through the wind arrow, grazing Delphicia’s cheek.
“…Eh?”
Delphicia’s eyes widened in disbelief as she touched the blood trickling from her cheek.
“…”
Why don’t they understand?
The fact that Estelle, despite her crippled leg, held the second place in the second year ans…
In terms of magic alone, she possessed skills beyond even the top student.
“…No.”
They must obviously know this.
Despite knowing, Delphicia simply refused to acknowledge it out of a sense of inferiority.
It didn’t matter.
Delphicia was about to pay the price for her folly.
「Shoot – Water – Droplet」
Crash!!
“AAAAAAHH!!”
While she was quick to run away like a rat, after dodging once, Delphicia seed to lose strength in her legs and sat down, begging.
“Hu..huh!…Es…Estelle…!..Ju…Just…Just a mont…!! Wait…!”
“….”
She cannot forgive her.
She could not forgive her.
This was still far from enough retribution.
Delphicia needed to be hurt more.
Otherwise…
“Hi…Hiiik!!…Do…Don’t…ple…please!!”
Slide-!
“…Es…Estelle?”
At that mont, the door opened, and the last person she wanted to see appeared.
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