Chapter 31: The Worst Timing

Chapter 31: The Worst Timing

The place Lorein led me to was none other than her room.

I didn’t expect it to be like this, but I was excited at the thought of possibly being invited to her room.

‘Hmm, it’s quite a normal room, though.’

There was only a desk, a bookshelf, and a bed.

Nicely put, it’s neat; negatively, it lacked personality.

My room, with a sofa and a table, was more filled with this and that.

Given Lorein’s practical nature, she wouldn’t have decorated it purposefully like Ryuz.

Of course, just looking around a girl’s room and smelling its scent had its value.

It had a sweet fragrance, similar yet slightly different from Ryuz’s.

So, I spent some time appreciating Lorein’s room.

“...What kind of ideas have you been filling Ryuz’s head with?”

Lorein, with her arms crossed, glared at me and spoke.

Seeing that she didn’t even invite me to sit, she seemed really angry.

I wasn’t surprised since I expected to be questioned about Ryuz.

“I don’t know what you mean. Filling her head with what?”

“The kid was quiet and good but changed right after your lesson. And you say you have nothing to do with it?”

As expected, she’s sharp.

But wait, wasn’t it natural to suspect me first in such a situation?

Of course, denying it was simple.

Because, in fact, I hadn’t done anything – that’s the truth.

I never spoke ill of Lorein.

On the contrary, I praised her almost daily.

‘Well, that must have felt like pressure to Ryuz, leading to jealousy.’

In short, I ‘directly’ did nothing to Ryuz.

As for the magic, well, its effect was just to increase my likability.

So I could claim my innocence through and through.

The important thing here was how I responded to Lorein.

“I don’t understand what you mean by Ryuz changing. Are you talking about what happened during dinner?”

“Yes. It was obviously not normal.”

“What do you mean?”

Taken aback by my natural reaction, Lorein was momentarily speechless.

She looked at me for a moment and then spoke.

“About her responding coldly to me and suddenly leaving during dinner.”

“Well, she might have been upset because she got scolded by her sister after dressing up for once, and she’s busy with studies. Isn’t that why she got up? Is that such a big deal?”

“That’s...”

Lorein almost shouted a denial but stopped midway.

After hearing my words, she realized that what had just happened wasn’t something to fuss over.

I smirked at her reaction.

“I can’t speak recklessly about a sister’s relationship, but isn’t that common among siblings?”

“Is that...normal?”

“Rather, not fighting and shouting might be a sign of a good relationship, no?”

Lorein pondered upon my words.

She was undoubtedly a genius and excellent in swordsmanship, but she’s inevitably a noble lady from the countryside.

Apart from school, her social experience was overwhelmingly lacking.

However, Lorein eventually shook her head.

“No. Even if that’s normal, Ryuz wasn’t like that before. She’s definitely changed.”

Observing Lorein, I moistened my lips with my tongue.

Maybe it was because I had tasted the thrill once.

I suddenly wanted to see Lorein, shocked again.

‘Hmm, what should I do? This is a bit of a dilemma.’

Pushing her further here would be easy, but that might lower the favorability I had worked hard to build.

As I was internally conflicted, the devil Hyun-woo came and whispered.

-Why hesitate?? Hurry up and crush that proud woman’s mentality!

The devil’s whispers were too provocative.

Still, having listened to the devil, I decided to hear what Angel Hyun-woo had to say.

-Make her cry over her sister’s issue! Don’t you want to see that cold woman cry?

...Strange, where did Angel Lee Hyun-woo go?

‘Plus, there was an unexpected bonus.’

I smirked, looking at the slightly ajar door.

It seems the excited Lorein didn’t notice until the end.

‘Didn’t see it till the end, did she?’

What kind of look would Ryuz give me tomorrow?

Indeed, this family always excited me.

She needed to apologize to her sister.

Ryuz thought this as she walked down the hallway.

Earlier during dinner, she spoke too harshly in her excitement.

It wasn’t something to be so upset about, and she regretted getting annoyed.

‘I got mad at my sister for no reason and showed a bad side in front of the teacher. Ugh! The worst.’

While thinking this, Ryuz reached her sister’s room.

Suddenly, she stiffened at the sounds from inside.

Her usually cold sister didn’t like anyone entering her room.

‘What... what’s that?’

A strong sense of unease hit her.

Maybe it was a woman’s intuition.

Ryuz, pushed by her anxiety, slightly opened the door and peeked inside.

And then she saw it.

Her sister and the teacher lying together on the bed as if she had pounced on him.

‘......Huh?’

She couldn’t comprehend the situation.

No, more precisely, her mind refused to process it.

‘What’s this....... What on earth is this?’

Her sister’s room, where even maids couldn’t enter casually.

A man and a woman lying cozily on the bed.

All the circumstances pointed to one conclusion.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?

How? How? How? How? How?

She knew they had become close through sparring.

But the sister she knew would never allow such physical intimacy with a man.

Yet, there they were, whispering secrets for a long time as if intimately close.

It meant her sister was close enough to the teacher to allow such skinship.

‘Haha... What’s that.......’

Pretending to be pure and uninterested in men usually, and now this?

The moment a man she likes appears, her sister quickly snatches him up?

No, that’s fine.

But why did it have to be ‘her teacher’?

“......Thieving cat b*tch.”

A harsh curse unimaginable in the past.

But now, Ryuz didn’t feel any guilt cursing her sister.

Talent, popularity, brilliance – none of it mattered.

It was okay as long as the teacher was by her side.

But her sister is trying to take even him away.

As always, intruding into her life to take everything.

‘Stop your nonsense.’

Ryuz bit her thumb nail.

Biting it hysterically, it was now almost gone from the wear.

She couldn’t lose anymore.

Anything else was fine.

But not her teacher.

She didn’t want to pass on the happiness of him stroking her head to her sister.

‘...This time, I won’t let her take it.’

Ryuz, biting her nails, walked down the dark corridor.

Her eyes only thinking desperately about how to outdo her sister and win the teacher.

Only that occupied her mind.

-Click, click.