CH 17

As for my group? There was no one willing to work with me, so I walked along the road by myself.

I have never known being left out of a group to be so painful. I managed to live without experiencing it in my previous life, which is probably a good thing, but my heart now cries from thinking of my current situation.

I was so used to living alone in this life that I didn’t realize such pain.

However, the sense of connection to the memories I have from my previous life undeniably stimulated these emotions.

In the end, I just have to get accustomed to this discomfort and become desensitized to it. Still, what actually hurts is that it’s painful.

To be honest, I really wanted friends and to be loved by my family.

I recalled that when I was a child, I wondered what would have happened if I hadn’t been born into an aristocracy. If I had been born into a commoner family, would I have been needed more or less by my family? Would I have had friends if I had a life like that?

It is a memory from my childhood that I had forgotten until now, but I guess I had pushed it to the depth of my mind and erased it from my memory to preserve my existence.

As a reaction to that, all I did was cause problems that now no one approaches me.

A vicious cycle for sure.

Still, my parents only looked out for me when I got into trouble.

Seriously, I was a brat back then.

That’s why I’m going to live my life without my parents. The only people I can trust in this world are the slaves.

“Haha, guess I’m a chuunibyou.”

I blurted it out as I did what I was supposed to do.

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[POV Change.]

The moment I heard that I would be changing seats from beside His Highness Claude to one next to Kaisar, my eyes went blank from anger.

Frustration swirled in my chest as I questioned why this school hasn’t expelled this piece of trash called Kaisar yet.

Indeed, Kaisar’s problematic behaviour may ‘not be a big deal for the school’ if you look at them individually.

However, it did not mean that some of the things Kaisar has done weren’t criminal or that he could have ruined someone’s life by breaking off an engagement in a public place. The list of problems is endless.

There is no guarantee that he will not eventually develop problems that will be very damaging to the school, and it will be too late to do anything about it after it has happened.

However, when I told this to the headmaster, he replied with, ‘hate the sin, not the sinner,’ and refused to take any action against him.

‘If that were the case,’ I thought to myself. ‘If the academy won’t make a move, I should.’

And I started monitoring Kaisar from that day on.

He is usually known for his bad behaviour. So now that he is acting differently, he must be doing things in secret that he can’t tell others.