CH 91

A little before the Flower Festival, in the school where there was a feeling of restlessness before the long break. Among them, Class 1 was particularly noisy.

Julian burst out into laughter at every turn, he was holding his mouth with both hands to keep his voice down, but his shoulders were trembling non-stop.

Cain, an international student who always keeps a cheerful smile in front of his classmates, had an expression that did not hide his mood, which was very unusual.

Shirley Leah looked at the swaying big red ribbon that was diagonally in front of her with a confused face.

Their classmates were trying not to look at it directly,  not sure whether it was okay to look at the red ribbon or they had to pretend not to see it.

It was Cain who was sitting diagonally in front of Shirley Leah. 

“Umm… Cain-sama? Well… Seems like you’ve changed your hairstyle today?”

“Yes. There are reasons behind this. By no means, definitely not, at all, that I’m wearing the ribbon because I like to.” 

“I… I see.”

At the end of the morning class, when they were in the hallway on the way to the dining hall, Shirley Leah gathered up her courage and asked about Cain’s big red ribbon.

When moving to the dining hall, the boys who usually dash out were walking slowly that day, and the girls who usually walk while noisily chatting about what to eat were quietly walking.

At this time, the students of Class 1 were joined together as one as they thought, (Shirley Leah, way to go!).

“Ahahaha! Cain! I think it would be good to talk to Shirley Leah after the meal! I hope you can find a solution between those with long hair!”

“… I intended to do that even without being told by you!”

“Don’t be mad. It’s not because of me, this happened because you’re growing out your hair even though you’re a man.”

“Mages grow out their hair, you know…”

Upon arriving at the dining hall, Shirley Leah was being considerate and chose a seat next to the wall and we sat down.

Julian arrogantly said “I’ll bring the food.” and brought them two of the set meals.

Unlike the dormitory dining hall, the school dining hall had a round table for four and a square table for six that were laid out randomly. 

The three who sat at the round table by the wall were silently focusing on their meals for a while, but Julian, who had finished eating first, had time on his hands and not knowing what to do, reached his hand to the back of Cain’s head, and slipped the ribbon out of his hair. 

“Ah!”

Instantaneously, Cain hid the back of his head with both hands. Because of that the knife and fork he had in his hand fell to the floor, making a high-pitched sound. For a moment, it attracted the look of the students in the dining hall, but since Cain was sitting with his back to the wall, and it was also the table where Julian, the prince was sitting, everyone immediately returned back to eating their own meals. 

“Julian-sama, you can’t carelessly take away people’s accessories like that. Can you put back the unraveled ribbon?”

“What are you saying? This morning, I was the one who tied the ribbon for Cain.”

“Oh. Julian-sama is good at tying ribbons, are you?”

“Of course. To take it off, you have to put it on, right? I’ve practiced.”

“…Huh? I’ve never had ribbons taken off or put on? I wonder whose cloth did you take off, and whose cloth did you put on?”

“…….. This morning, I put on the ribbon for Cain. Now, I took off Cain’s ribbon.”

Shirley Leah was looking at Julian with reproachful eyes, and Julian was trying hard to not meet her eyes.  Cain sighed and turned his back to Shirley Leah and took off his hands.

“Shirley Leah-sama. Please have a look.”

“Well, well”

The hair on the back of Cain’s head was tangled just above his neck and became a mess like a bird’s nest. It swelled out only there, and it looked like a ball of yarn that the cat played with and got entangled. Due to the strong impression of it, Shirley Leah forgot that she was angry. Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com

“What happened? This… condition like a bird’s nest”

“When I brushed my hair with a brush, this happened …”

Cain drooped his head miserably and rubbed the back of his head that was tangled up and coarse. Perhaps it was due to him trying hard to detangle the hair – there were some parts with breakage and there were also fly outs. 

“Don’t you usually have it braided properly when coming to school, right? Why is this happening only today?”

“Usually, after taking a bath, I comb it, braid it loosely, wrap it in a cloth, and then go to sleep. But yesterday, I didn’t have much time so after taking a bath, I brushed it with a comb and immediately fell asleep.”

“Even so..” 

Comb, braid, wrap, and sleep were what he was being told to do before going to sleep by Ilvalino repeatedly beforehand. When he was back home, Ilvalino did all of it, and even if he occasionally skipped the steps and fell asleep, if it was Ilvalino who combed his hair the next morning, it didn’t become like a bird’s nest.

“Cain-sama, did you start brushing from the top of your head?”

“Yes. Hair is combed from top to bottom, right?”

“It’s fine for wet hair or hair just after washing, but when you comb dried long hair, you have to comb it from the bottom. You comb it little by little from the tip of the hair and gradually raise the position of the brush. “

“Is… Is that so?”

“How shall I put it… Like this, if you comb it from the top like this, the loosely entwined parts will be pulled together, and at some point, they will be tied tightly. Well, I wonder if I got that across properly.”

Shirley Leah was trying hard on the gesture of combing hair. She twisted her arms like seaweed and showed it by entwining her right and left arms and pulling them to the left and right with a tight force.

Her look was funny and cute, so Cain softly smiled unintentionally.

“It’s the same as detangling a yarn, you have to loosen it while doing it from the end. If you pull on it, it will become a tight knot.”

“Yes! Exactly that!”

Perhaps she was happy to hear that she was able to get her point across, Shirley Leah brightened up as she brought her hand together with a bright smile on her face. Julian had a bored look on his face.

“Julian-sama. For now, since we don’t have a brush, please tie the ribbon for Cain-sama again.”

“Why don’t Shirley Leah do it then?”

He was completely sulking. It was him who untied the ribbon for fun but he was the one who became jealous when Cain and Shirley Leah were excited about the topic that he wasn’t involved. 

“I can’t ask a woman with a fiancé to touch my hair. Julian-sama, please tie it.”

“Aren’t you good at tying it up and pulling it off? Julian-sama”

Cain then turned his back to Julian and adjusted his position on the chair. Since he was asked by both of them, Julian had no choice but to tie the ribbon back on Cain’s hair. He saw Cain’s hair that was like a bird’s nest in front of him and he burst out laughing again. 

“For the time being, I will give my treatment cream for the hair that has become tangled, so please use it when you take a bath tonight and comb it out with a brush little by little.”

“From the bottom, little by little, to the top.”

“That’s right. Wet it, let the cream sink in, and brush it out, little by little.”

“Understood.”

“I’m done with tying it up.” 

Cain’s hair, which was usually loosely braided, was tied together on the nape of his neck that day with a large red ribbon. A large, wide ribbon was tied in order to hide the bird’s nest.

Julian untied the ribbon again during the afternoon class, and Cain’s bird’s nest became known to everyone in the class.

Cain, who had only been in school for about a month and a half but spoke Yum which was supposed to be a language of another country, and always smiled cheerfully and treated everyone kindly, was called as “A prince who is more than the prince.” by everyone in the class. 

The classmates grew a sense of intimacy when they saw the clumsy side of Cain who was a prince more than the prince, and at the same time, they were united to never let other classes know and kept it in their hearts about the class prince’s scandalous bird’s nest.