Chapter 43
43 – Plot(1)
These days, there are a lot of really sudden encounters.
Principal, Ellie, Iris, Estelle…
But above all, this was a truly unexpected encounter.
“…Someone said, isn’t that the rumored young Edwin?”
In the late afternoon after supplementary classes are over, on the way home after sending Ellie away first. I ran into a group of people in a deserted aisle.
In front of me, there were three male students who looked a bit awkward.
It’s not a position to tell others, but judging from the lines, the atmosphere, and the number of people, it’s a gang that exudes the atmosphere of a third-class villain.
I was taken aback by the chance encounter, but soon one of them stepped forward and spoke to me.
In a very aggressive tone, as if determined and quarreling.
And the face of the male student saying that is somehow familiar.
Facing that disgusting face, I feel an indescribable anger welling up somewhere in my heart.
“Who is it? Sorry, I can’t remember.”
“…what?”
When I ask for his name, the male student who had just been talking to me, who was approaching at the forefront of the group, pauses momentarily.
“Ha, yes…you’re still a proud aristocrat, right? Commoners aren’t even worth remembering, are you?”
“ha…”
“Listening to rumors, it looks like you’re going to have another accident soon, but try your best this time. If you get caught in the security guard like last time, isn’t it really expelled? It’s a disgrace to the nobility. Hey, isn’t it?”
The male student asked the group behind him as if to express their agreement, and the group responded in response, each doing their best to make their own unlucky faces.
Listening to the guy talking about the police force, I start to remember the events of that day vividly, as if they were yesterday.
My fate, which should have already been kicked out of the story.
However, instead of expulsion, the disciplinary committee on the day the suspension was notified.
And the starting point, the victim of the last assault I caused… concurrent parties.
A commoner friend of the main character Eugene, who was endowed with the fate of an extra just like me.
A male student with brown curly hair and featureless features looked at me and smiled meanly.
‘But what was his name… month… What was the month… ‘
***
“Ah, someone said, isn’t it that spoiled guy? Excuse me. It’s because he doesn’t have a distinctive appearance.”
“what…!”
He seemed furious at my words, then looked around and came closer to me. Then he put his hand to his mouth and spoke in a quiet voice that no one else could hear.
“Ha. Hey, Edwin. You talk too much about a subject that no one else was supposed to talk about until recently. Okay, let’s ask him now. Because I did something wrong, I can turn into someone else…”
Ah, this lowly bastard…
I was barely able to contain the rising anger, but now I think I’ve reached my limit.
“I’ve been watching, wondering what nonsense you’re talking about, but I can’t stand your vulgarity any longer. I told you, idiot, right? Know your subjects, and behave humbly according to your position.”
I couldn’t stand it any longer and cut off his words halfway through.
The male student’s face went white in an instant, as if he was surprised by my verbal abuse.
“I wasn’t expecting it, but I didn’t know that you would have forgotten my sincere advice. “Would you like me to educate you properly? Please answer me once. Where did the momentum just now go? Huh?”
“Ugh…”
As I moved forward, the boy who had been arguing with me began stepping back and trying to distance myself.
And he tripped and almost fell, but his party supported him from behind and fortunately he avoided falling.
“Walter! Watch out!”
okay. remembered This guy’s name must have been Walter. It was really hard to remember because neither the name nor the appearance was distinctive at all. The extras are definitely right.
“You…wait…I’m going to make that arrogant face cringe…”
“hahahaha…poor Walter. Okay, do whatever you want. Do you think I’m as stupid as your kind? Get hit twice by the same number.”
I continued to walk while talking, and they completely lost their awkward momentum and began to back away little by little.
Walter tripped again, but unfortunately this time his friends couldn’t catch him.
I flopped over to Walter, who was sitting on the floor, and squatted down to meet him at eye level.
“Walter. No matter how much the headmaster protects your thousand, he doesn’t think that this kind of attitude makes sense when it comes to commoners. I told you. Just because we go to the same academy doesn’t mean we’re in the same situation. Never again in front of me such disrespect. Make sure it is not visible.
And if you try to fool me again, then I will hold you, as well as your parents, responsible for raising your child wrongly. Even if I get expelled, it doesn’t matter. I still have family and power, but what do you have? Oh, your house like a pigsty?”
Walter turned his head away, avoiding eye contact with me, but I grabbed his chin and put it back in front of me.
“Ugh…!”
“Where do you think you’ll be able to get a title right after graduating and live happily? Oh, of course there may be such people. I admit that there are only a few outstanding people among you. But that’s not you. So do my friends. So, Walter, this is my final advice. Please live ‘just right’ and ‘humble’.”
After I finished speaking, I patted Walter on the shoulder and stood up, but he and his friends were still frozen in their slumped positions.
“My words, this time, never forget.”
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I glanced back, then moved on and left the spot.
***
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“Eh… it’s hard.”
I arrived at the mansion and jumped into bed without washing myself.
Maybe it’s because I ran into annoying people, but somehow I’m more tired than usual.
“It’s also strange…”
It reminds me of what happened with Walter just now.
I had almost forgotten his name, only to recall it when the gang called him out.
In the original work, Walter’s name was not even mentioned, but unlike me, who exited at the beginning of the play, he appeared in two or three scenes of conversation with Eugene.
However, as Eugene got involved with other important characters, that weight quickly became air, and in the end, from the next episode of the disciplinary committee, he was not even mentioned at all.
He can be said to be the exact opposite of my older cousin, Estelle.
Just as Estelle hardly treats anyone less than a noble, Walter shook his head whenever he heard the word ‘noble’.
Eugene said, ‘But aren’t there good people among the nobles? ?’ Speaking with the nuance, Walter’s resolute denial of his words took up most of his allotment in the original story.
In fact, that kind of tendency is something that all first-year students from commoner backgrounds have to some extent.
Most of the commoners entered the academy without receiving a proper education, and it was a daily routine for ‘some’ aristocratic freshmen at the beginning of the semester to laugh at them as they were assigned to a lower class.
So, in a way, it would be natural for ignorant children who only dreamed of a happy academy life to feel resentment.
However, Walter was a student who preemptively took revenge on the nobles beyond simple resentment.
I got it right too.
That day, Walter approached us and openly argued with us, and me and the gang dragged him into a blind spot and started beating him to dust.
Then, he collided with Eugene, who appeared completely unexpectedly, and was caught by the security forces who appeared immediately after him.
However, the place that my gang, Phillip and Scott, found was really a blind spot among blind spots, let alone a police force, where you wouldn’t even come near a single ant cub.
First of all, if you consider Walter’s arguing behavior, and Eugene’s behavior at an unexpected place, it’s safe to say that it’s almost an established fact that he deliberately acted like that to us after he had said something beforehand.
Even though he started the argument first, exchanging a few words is not something that should be considered for disciplinary action in the first place. If I had done that, I would have been expelled three more times.
Fortunately, my memory came back and I escaped being expelled like the original, but I was aware that I was designed by him before that.
So, if the anger at that time was still left in the unconscious, it seems likely that it was possible that the emotions boiled up so violently earlier.
However, no matter how stupid and noble he was, the words I uttered were also of a considerable level.
The lowly one, the dog, your people, the pigsty… Even the words that mention the parents there.
The moment I met Walter, emotions that I couldn’t control crawled out again, and I was seized with anger and lashed out at him.
Come to think of it, I think a similar situation developed when I ran into Iris last time.
A similar situation is repeated twice, so I feel suspicious.
Could it be that the personality of the madman that was buried in the abyss rises whenever emotions become intense?
Or are the two personalities with different memories gradually mingling?
Come to think of it, even when I was talking about breaking up with Iris, harsh words came out too easily. At that time, I just immersed myself in acting and thought I did well… Then, was Iris really jealous that she sided with the common people? ? what is this…
… Also, if you see that Ellie and other commoner students have special thoughts, it seems that only those who had a relationship before recovering their memories have a particularly strong reaction.
“after…”
I sighed heavily and rolled over on the bed.
“Walter…it’s annoying…it’s really annoying…”
I feel really uncomfortable leaving a person who is openly hostile to me.
Nobles, commoners, discrimination, etc. are not a big concern to me right now. I have no intention of worrying about that at all anymore.
But it is also difficult for something like this to happen again.
I briefly thought about getting rid of him altogether, but the problem is that there is no suitable solution within the academy.
Here, no matter what method I use, it will inevitably attract attention, and in any case, I will also be harmed.
In the end, the best way is to just not get involved…
It was a bad word, but I warned him sternly, even mentioning my family, so maybe Walter won’t approach me anymore.
I made up my mind to observe the situation for now.
But why do I feel so anxious…