Chapter 87 - 85 ~ Kururugi Suzaku
It was yet another new day for school.
Kallen walked quietly with her hands gracefully placed in front of her and her downturned eyes solemnly looking slightly downwards. She was a picture of the beautiful frailty and gracefulness of a noble flower atop the tall cliff.
A few girls passed by her side, and while they were attracted to males, they also couldn't help but admire how beautiful and graceful she was, even though she was only walking.
They glanced and stared at the red-haired girl for a mont until she disappeared after turning the corner of the hallway.
And as soon as Kallen made sure nobody was around, she let out the biggest yawn of her life.
"Dammit... I'm so sleepy..."
She wiped the tears off her watery eyes and began cracking her stiff neck.
She had spent the entirety of last night playing with "Excalibur" along with Mordred. And then, she spent hours laying on her bed, thinking about how to execute the moves she did in Excalibur.
In the end, she only slept for around three hours before she had to wake up and go to school.
In all honesty, she planned on just skipping today's class to get a good night's rest and just use her frail, sickly body as an excuse.
But if she skipped now, that'd be one less absent day she could use for when she truly needed to skip school for a mission.
So in the end, she forced herself to get out of her comfy, high class bed and go to school.
Well, last night was fun, and I got to learn a lot. So I guess it's worth it...
She truly learned a lot about knightmare maneuvers and even gained so insights into how she could better utilize her slash harkens from Mordred! Rather than simply using it to damage enemy knightmare, she could use it to anchor herself to her enemy and use it as a grappling hook, pulling her towards her enemy at imnse speed and quickly shortening the distance between them!
Her greatest weakness when using the Glassgow was her lack of ranged weapons. The only "range weapon" she had was her slash harken, which was still quite limited and had vastly shorter range than, for instance, a Sutherland's assault rifle.
With this technique, she could mitigate her weakness greatly and also gave her even greater maneuverability around the battlefield.
After gaining such insights from him and spending quite a few hours with Mordred, her initial impression of Mordred had completely changed.
At first, he seed very intimidating and imposing, especially when he appeared like that. She also couldn't see his face nor know his na, making him a true mystery to everyone.
But after talking with him and spending so ti with him, she realized that he's actually quite friendly. And judging by his way of speaking and acting, he seed to be around the sa age as her, and she confird it after asking.
She was very surprised that she was able to get along with him so quickly! In just a few hours, she had already begun considering him as a comrade and a friend, which she never did towards a total stranger before.
And honestly... It felt nice. It's nice to finally have a friend her age in the Black Knights. Everyone around her was older than her. So she felt... a bit more comfortable with Mordred.
Just as she was daydreaming about last night, she bumped into "sothing" when she turned the corner.
"Ah!"
She fell back, but just as she was about to fall on her butt, she was caught by a weirdly... familiar touch.
"Are you okay?"
Recovering from her shock, Karen slowly opened her eyes. And imdiately, her eyes widened in shock once she found out who she bumped into and caught her.
"I-I'm sor- I an, I-I apologize...! Thank you very much. I-I am fine."
She quickly pushed herself away from him and averted her slightly blushing face away from the new transfer student who had taken the entire academy by a storm with his appearance alone, Alexander Kyrielight.
D-Dammit! Out of all the people, I just had to bump into him the first thing in the morning!
Her mind panicked. She was still extrely apprehensive of Alexander. Even though he acted very gentlemanly, kind, and polite... No, precisely because of that, she must be super careful!!! Her experience and all the dia she had consud told her that if a man that handso acted nicely, then that ans he had an ulterior motive for doing it. And that ulterior motive might be to lure in girls he's interested in into his maw.
What's even more dangerous was that there was nothing she felt... safe around him. There's nothing about him that raised any alarms in her mind... That ans, there's a high possibility that he's extrely skilled in masking his true intentions, enough that even she felt there's nothing wrong with him.
"I see. It's fine. I'm glad. And I apologize as well."
"Alexander" lowered his head slightly as he apologized. But suddenly, he began staring at her.
"...W-What's wrong?"
Kallen asked with apprehension in her voice.
"...You don't seem well, Miss Stadfeld. Are you truly fine?"
"I-I'm fine! Please don't worry."
Kallen quickly avoided his gaze even more and stepped a few steps backward.
"...You seed to be lacking sleep. Were you studying until late last night?"
Her body flinched when he noticed her lack of sleep. She imdiately thought of the ti she spent with Mordred in the Black Knights' headquarters and thought that his question was a way for him to subtly threaten her and insinuate that he knew about her most guarded secret.
But just as quickly, she realized how absurd such a notion was and quickly cald down.
"Y-Yes, I was."
"I see... Then how about you go rest in the nurse's office first? I will inform the teacher, so please don't worry."
He suggested with a charming smile. And although everything he said felt like a trap to her, Kallen felt that it honestly seed like quite the appealing idea.
She really needed so sleep right now, and if he could inform the teacher about her "condition
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