Chapter 23: Rumors
Without knowing any better, I left Jess in the carriage, who was smiling to herself. Without another word, I made my way to class.
On the way to take the steps, I couldn't help but notice two people I hadn't seen for quite a while.
Carrot Top and Baby Man.
To be honest, I'd almost forgotten they had even existed. They still looked as ridiculous as they always did, but there seed to be bags forming under their eyes. For whatever reason, they weren't getting enough sleep.
Not that I cared.
Surprisingly enough, they stayed true to their word and hadn't talked to or approached all this ti.
Well, to be fair they never agreed to it in the first place, but still.
Upon making it to the classroom, Nathan tapped my arm.
"Hey, let's have a talk outside the school during English class."
I gave a quick nod.
"Sure."
His eyes were open just a little too wide compared to normal, showing that he was just a tad bit overstimulated currently. I couldn't help but think of the plans he had ntioned to earlier.
It seed that all the pieces were in place and it was going down today.
Regardless, it was ti for us to focus on class. Raisa greeted , and I casually greeted her back before sitting down. Later on in class, Harold began explaining the simple earth spell, which was simple enough.
Everyone spent their ti in class practicing it, so far more proficient than others. I noticed that Sam and Raisa were both able to cast it easily. There were also a few from the main cast of the ga that was doing it as well, but that was to be expected.
As always, Nathan was succeeding in casting, but failing in controlling his powers properly.
Seeing others like that made realize I had been slacking in my ditation. I suppose I would focus more on that later.
Math class was the sa boring thing it was as always. Although Karin had moved on to teaching multiplication, it made no real difference. She slowly explained it through visual displays, drawing thirty-six different boxes in the form of a square to show the answer to six multiplied by six.
Apparently, that was how you showed your work by the way.
After eating lunch, Nathan and I ended up breaking off from Raisa to head out of the school. Raisa seed a little disappointed but didn't fight against it. After making our way out and to a back corner of the school I spoke up.
"So, what are you going to do?"
Nathan took a deep breath. He leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. A neutral frown was on his face.
"I learned a lot about him while spying and was able to catch him planning a eting with soone. The place is a back alley, so my guess is that he's going to try and kill that person and beco a blood mage then and there."
I raised an eyebrow.
"You sure you can handle that alone? We haven't learned any real offensive spells yet."
Nathan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"A wooden spear is more than enough. Right now, he still isn't a blood mage. If I can catch him before he becos one, then it should work out."
A smirk ford on my face. I leaned against the wall with him and looked up into the blue sky.
"You're playing a real dangerous ga."
Nathan laughed before pointing at with a finger gun.
"We've always been playing a dangerous ga. After all, it's Downfall From Grace we're talking about."
I let out a sigh.
"Alright then. What do you need from ?"
He scratched his arm as he spoke.
"You're going to be setting up the free food thing at the sa place right?"
I gave a nod. That was my intention in the first place.
"If everything goes to plan, yes."
Nathan rubbed his chin in thought.
"This would be way more convenient if there was sothing like watches, but whatever I guess. If I'm not there by the ti you finish your first bowl of pottage... co looking for ."
My eyes narrowed ever so slightly. That kind of tifra was just way too unreliable, especially considering he didn't know when I would end up leaving and how fast I could even finish a bowl in the first place.
"Where should I look for you?"
Nathan shrugged his shoulders.
"It actually isn't that far off from where you are. If you rember where I ca from to et you, go that way and after passing by five houses it will be the alley to your left."
After a few monts of thought, I once again gave a nod.
"Got it."
From there I tapped my chin a few tis before letting out a sigh.
"I found the Daughter of Chaos by the way."
Nathan's head snapped to . He looked rather confused.
"I didn't think you were the type to go out of their way to do dangerous things... how did you even get to et the Darcy Family?"
A bitter smile ford on my face.
"Raisa is part of the Darcy Family. I'm fairly certain she's the Daughter of Chaos considering there's only one child from their family."
Nathan's face twitched in surprise. A wry smile ford on his face as a chuckle seeped out from him.
"To think that she's just been there all along. So, what are you going to do about it?"
I held up my chin with my thumb and the side of my index finger.
"She has a lot of trust in right now. Not to ntion, she seems to be in puppy love with right now which is significantly lowering her judgnt abilities. My current goal will be to investigate how they beca the trio of murderers and if there's a party behind it."
My eyes narrowed ever so slightly.
"But I also plan on making the building blocks so that should the ti co, I can kill all three of them in one fell swoop."
Nathan nodded approvingly. He then proceeded to smirk as a derisive chuckle ca from him.
"I would say not to get attached, but..."
He shrugged his shoulders.
"If anything, you may have problems not getting attached enough."
I simply rolled my eyes.
"Co on, like you're any better than . Minori's been on your back for a while now hasn't she."
Nathan clicked his tongue and held onto the side of his head with frustration.
"Stop, don't remind . You ruined my good mood completely."
I raised my eyebrow with a smile.
"Co on, it can't be that bad to have an angel herself praise you!'
Nathan pressed his lips together into a flat line.
"...It feels like I have two moms nagging all the ti. They keep asking about you, and telling that I should be staying away."
I couldn't help but belt over in laughter.
"If it makes you feel better, I'd be down to take on your burdens if that were possible."
Nathan tilted his head back until it hit the wall and sighed.
"Honestly... it feels like compensation for not having a mom before. But this definitely was not what I imagined it would be like."
His expression relaxed while his eyes opened up a little wider.
"It's just really pissing off that they're judging and saying so many things about you without even knowing the kind of person you are."
I put my arm over his shoulder and shot him a smile.
"Co on, you know that kind of stuff doesn't bother . Plus, if it wasn't for the fact I took over this body then the rumors probably wouldn't be all that far off."
Nathan similarly smiled, but it was more of a sad one.
"I know, I know. But still, I just don't like it."
We remained there in silence for a little while. At so point, Nathan broke the silence with a question.
"By the way, how're things with Jess?"
My eyelid twitched. Of course, you were asking about her.
"To be honest, most of the ti, the monts I share with her are just her silently glaring at . From what I've gathered, it seems that she's lonely or sothing along those lines. My guess is that it's related to how our parents have yet to show up. Just this morning she made agree to bathe with her."
Right after I said that last line, I noticed the way that Nathan looked at had changed considerably. His eyes burned with extre jealousy.
Suddenly, Nathan jumped up to grab by the shoulders, pulling down to his height. Then, he began shaking back and forth.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? HOW CO WHEN I TRY TO PEEK YOU DRAG AWAY BUT YOU JUST GET TO BATHE WITH HER FOR FREE?"
I took a deep breath while being shaken.
Naturally, as a mature person, I was going to be the bigger man here.
As such, I grabbed onto his shoulders.
...and began shaking harder than him.
"BITCH, YOU THINK I WANTED THIS? HOW DARE YOU CALL MINORI'S WORDS OF WORRY NAGGING! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT I WOULD GIVE TO LISTEN TO THOSE DIRECTED AT ?"
Naturally, being the bigger man ant screaming louder and shaking harder. I an, what else could that phrase an?
From there, we spent a good thirty minutes or so just yelling at one another. Not once did the topic stray from how jealous we were of the other.
Eventually, we cald down from our heated argunt, which was basically just us gushing over our respective waifu and how they were amazing.
Naturally, the conversation progressed nowhere because neither of us cared about the other's ntioned good points. I an, that's only natural considering Jess is just a boring girl with big breasts.
As for Minori, she just radiates positivity!
Ah, wait. I'm not arguing about Minori... for now.
Nathan and I decided to go back to catch what was left of English class, which surprised Dennis as he didn't think we would ever show up.
As for gym class, Rae just showed us so more stances that were still fairly basic and made us practice them.
Once school was over, Raisa ended up inviting to her manor once more, but I rejected her. Even if it wasn't for the sake that I told Nathan I'd be out there giving away food, I didn't want to set the precedent that I would be available every day.
Upon getting on the carriage, I simply closed my eyes and began ditating. I heard Jess get on the carriage at so point, but she didn't disturb .
The mont I got off the carriage, I headed to Jas, informing him that I wished to attempt handing out food once more. With that, our group set off once more to the sa place.
After setting everything up, including the sign, I simply sat down at the center of the table. This ti, the chefs only prepared ten different sets of als. That way, even if nobody ca up to eat, then at least each person with us would get one bowl.
Once the pottage was ready, I began eating it.
Nathan's words hung up over my head, but I didn't try to shovel the food down. I decided to try and eat normally, to best follow the ti fra he had set up. By the way, while a crowd had ford none of the commoners stood up to have a bowl.
There were murmurs once again. I could barely catch a few.
"He's here again?"
"He must really need people to experint on!"
I had no idea what they were talking about, but it looked like there were many rumors surrounding .
Once I was halfway through the pottage, to my surprise, I heard a person approaching. I raised my head.
"Ah, would you like-"
"You!"
I froze in place.
It was Minori, and she looked... angry.
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