Episode 98
Translator : Miss
Editor : Aru
“So, what am I supposed to do with this?”
It was lunchti on the first day of the new sester.
“Well, I know. I’m in trouble.”
Rachel put her finger on her lips and narrowed the gap between her eyes.
“If he had told you his na, I would have known who it was.”
Astra patted the desk with her fingers.
In the middle of the three of us sitting head to head in a quiet classroom, there was a pink chocolate box in question.
“There are no cards or notes on it, but only hearts are drawn on it. Maybe it’s not a confession, but just a gift as a fan? didn’t he said he’s rooting for you?”
Rachel raised her right index finger and talked about her speculations.
“I think I’d be comfortable if it was like that.”
I added with my arms crossed and my head nodded.
But Astra shook her head and refused Rachel’s opinion.
“But Rachel, the face of that person was obviously the face who wanted to confess. Yerine, you rember that, right?”
“I did, but maybe it was just because he was shy.”
“Well, that’s true. By the way, do you usually give chocolates with a combination of red, white, and pink?”
Rachel answered Astra’s question, rolling her amber eyes.
“Maybe it’s just his taste.”
“Is that so?”
Astra talked with her fingers twisting the tips of her bright red hair with a confused face.
“What are you talking about?”
I looked back as I was appalled by the voice I heard behind my back.
“What, you three were eating sothing delicious? That’s too much, give so too.”
Rayl said, reaching out her finger to the box of chocolates.
Astra grabbed his hand and shook her head.
“It’s not yours. It’s Yerine’s.”
“Aren’t you all eating together?”
“No, we think that soone gave this to Yerine and confessed.”
I held Astra back with my fingers to her mouth in surprise.
“Astra, shh.”
Rayl opened his eyes wide, surprised, and said in an incredible face.
“Wow, soone gave this to you? Is he prepared to survive without being caught by the Prince?”
“Yes, thanks to it, I’ve had a hard ti hiding this big box all day.”
I spoke to Rayl in a cheeky voice.
“Why are you hiding it? We can eat everything so that the prince won’t find out.”
“Oh, well……”
I rolled my eyes to the other side and thought of an excuse.
I knew that it was given with good intentions, but I was not the type to eat food given by soone who I didn’t even know his face.
‘Because I don’t know what’s inside the person’s mind.’
Still, I was sorry to say that I was sohow suspicious about the person who gave chocolate in front of the other kids, so I ca up with another excuse.
“I don’t know who he is, so I was kinda sorry for eating it, but not eating it also makes feel sorry.”
“You’re in a dilemma.”
“Uh. And honestly, look at these chocolate shapes. Rabbits, hearts, and chicks are so cute that I feel sorry to eat them.”
“Wow, that definitely took so effort.”
Rayl said with admiration.
“That’s really great, by the way. I can’t believe soone gave you chocolate.”
“Who gave chocolate to whom?”
Ah.
At that mont, I realized that I made a mistake.
The chocolate existence showed to one of the two people who thought it must be hidden.
“Erica!”
“Oh, Yerine.”
Looking at Erica’s bright smile that lts anyone’s heart, I quickly removed a note with a heart drawn from the outside of the box.
‘Yes, Erica did say that she’d co to our classroom for lunch.’
I thought the chocolate’s existence should not be caught as much as I could, but I could not rember it like a fool.
“And this, did Yerine get it?”
Everyone started to look at Erica with her eyes rolling at her words.
But Erica still had a bright smile.
“Uh……..yes.”
I couldn’t bring myself to lie in front of her.
“Was it a boy who gave it to you?”
I hesitated to answer for a mont, but I finally confessed.
“Yes……. ”
“Well, I see. The boy gave so chocolate to Yerine.”
I feel a chill sowhere.
And Erica, why is your face smiling but your hands clenched?
“Yeah. Irene’s popular, so this could happen. I could understand this.”
Then Rachel clapped her hands as if she had sothing in mind and turned her head toward Erica.
“Erica, is there any possibility that the one who gave this to Yerine is the mber of your Fanclub?”
Erica shook her head at Rachel’s question.
“No, it can’t be.”
“How can you be so sure? Erica, you didn’t even see the face of the person who gave it to Yerine.”
Rayl wrinkled his brows and asked.
“No, we strictly prohibit giving food to Yerine. So I don’t think it’s our mber.”
“prohibit giving food? Not even so snacks to cheer up?”
Astra raised questions with surprised eyes.
“It would be too common for everyone to say that it’s because we wouldn’t know who’s going to put what in the food. It’s easier to put sothing weird in the food than to curse or cast a spell.”
Wow, I wasn’t the only one thinking that.
‘And I didn’t know the fan club was so concerned about my safety.’
“That makes sense.”
Rachel nodded at Erica’s explanation.
“You’re more organized than I think.”
Rayl kicked his tongue and looked back at Erica.
“Of course. It’s about Yerine.”
Erica talked while looking at the chocolate box with her arms crossed.
“Actually, I think we should not eat this chocolate for the sa reason.”
Her eyes were as firm as if she was in training, and her voice was not shaken at all.
Rayl protested with his arms open as if he thought her words were too much.
“No, wouldn’t it be too much to think that way? The one who gave it might have prepared it with pure intentions.”
“But we can’t ignore the other possibility.”
Erica looked up at Rayl and refuted him.
Turning to again, she continued with a powerful voice.
“I’ll leave the decision to the owner, Yerine, but I don’t think you should eat this chocolate.”
Erica looked at the pink chocolate box with her eyes wide open and said,
“And if he was such a fan, he would definitely have joined our fan club. But as I said before, our mbers never give food to Yerine as a gift. It’s weird that soone who’s not even a fan club mber suddenly prepared a gift like this.”
“Well, why do you have to doubt it so much……?”
Rayl murmured in a still questionable voice.
“But Rayl, Erica’s right.”
Astra said, expressing her opinion.
Then Rayl said in a small voice that he felt sorry.
“No, but, if I were in the position of the person who gave the gift, it would be very sad. It would be unfair to be suspicious of the gift I chose with great care.”
There was definitely a point in Rayl’s words, but I was increasingly inclined to Erica’s opinion.
‘It’s a bit of a waste, but I don’t think it’s good to eat it.’
As soon as I tried to organize my mind, Astra opened her mouth.
“Wait a minute, it’s no big deal. We can just have Rayl run a test for this.”
“Huh?”
Rayl opened his eyes wide at the sudden pointing.
“Right, even if it’s not a bad poison for the body, soone could have put sothing else in it. Like the previous DXellaria case.”
Rachel backed Astra’s opinion with her words on top.
“Yeah. Co to think of it, it could have been a love potion or sothing like that.”
When Astra said so, Rayl made a strong impression.
“Uh, would you mind not ntioning the na of that terrible trash? I feel like throwing up from the bottom of my heart.”
“Oh yeah, you hated love potion. I forgot.”
She shuddered and spoke to Rayl, who reacted violently.
“There’s no such thing as a love potion. And it’s not even a potion, it’s a fraud.”
“Okay, I get it. Let’s check what’s in it and see what’s in it.”
Astra tapped on the desk and urged Rayl.
“It won’t take long. Do it just once. It would be great if you could do it in front of everyone here.”
Rayl was weak at Astra’s request.
At this point, it would be hard to ignore the request to examine the chocolate.
“Well, I don’t think it would be bad if you just eat it…….”
Rayl scratched his head awkwardly and blurred his words.
“Well, I can’t help it if Yerine wants to run a test for it.”
“If you do it, then it’s good for Rayl.”
Before Rayl changed his words, I said quickly.
Then, Rayl said, “Okay for now,” then adding, “I’ll prepare the reagent.”
“Wait for . I’ll be right back.”
Even after Rayl left, speculation and wrangling about chocolate did not stop.
“But I’d be sorry if nothing cos out after all this.”
Astra and Rachel nodded when I said so.
“It would be more problematic if nothing ca out. This could be a real confession.”
Astra lay on her arm at her desk and spoke in a languid voice.
“If he was going to confess, wouldn’t he have revealed his na?”
“Maybe he was so nervous that he forgot and ran away.”
Astra answered Rachel’s question with a giggle.
“Then that Basta…… No, I an that boy could confess to Yerine again.”
Erica spoke, staring at the chocolate with irritated eyes.
She had a look of genuine annoyance, and it was a relief that she didn’t know the face of the person who gave the chocolate.
If she had known his face, it would have been easy for Erica to figure out who that person was.
“What? Confession?”
A low voice chilled my heart.
‘No, what’s wrong with today?’
Cassius, who strode toward the desk, said with fierce eyes as if he was tearing up his prey in front of him.
“Who confessed to Yerine?”
Cassius’s eyes already had a taste.
His eyes, as sharp as a beast, turned to chocolate before I knew it, and I thought for a mont.
‘I should have eaten it.’
I sighed inwardly, feeling Cassius’s cool gaze at the chocolate.
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