After finishing breakfast, let’s consult the dorm manager.
If I do not, I might not be able to bear living here any longer.
At the time I was drinking some black tea to calm myself down, a sound came from the door again.
It seems it was only knocked on this time.
After opening the door, yesterday’s resident from 1-4 was there.
A strong smell of medical plants comes from his body. The smell of his room much be staining his clothes.
It is extremely unclean.
I already forgot his name, but I have no intention in becoming friends with him.
It troubles me if he acts friendly, so if possible, I’ll turn him away.
“What is it? I’m a bit busy.”
“Sorry, just a bit. Last night the lights seemed to had been off for the whole night, but did something happen?”
“Ah, now that you mention it, I woke up on the floor this morning, huh? Why did I sleep on the floor?
Hm, I can’t remember well.”
“Two continuous days successful.”
“Hm?”
“I was talking to myself. Be careful with your body, well then.”
“Ah, see you.”
I closed the door immediately.
More or less, he seemed to be worried about me.
While I understand that the wants to get friendly with the elite I, there is something to satisfied before kindness.
With that appearance it’s hard to say whether his lineage should match up with mine.
Really, I picked a strange room.
Now that I think about it, it would have been better if I had kept that student’s gossip in the corner of my mind.
However, after commuting the dining hall for a few days, I was able to make friends naturally.
With the academy being this large, there were many elegant people who matched up with my lineage.
As I thought, having gorgeous people in my surroundings suits me.
1-2’s giant, 1-4’s medicine plant man, 1-1’s metal man, they are not suitable for me.
I’ve also heard there’s a new student from the commoners this year. The first time I heard it, it gave me a shiver. But either way they’ll immediately lose their place, so it doesn’t have any relation to me.
And, since the day I consulted the dorm manager, the thunderous roar every morning stopped.
It seems the dorm manager is patrolling.
While the start was the worst, my smooth-sailing academy life has set out on track.
I was born under such a star.
“Black tea is delicious.”
I call my friends to my room and drink tea, a supreme luxury.
Everyone else is also enjoying it. A gorgeous scene, suitable for us.
“Uee,” just then, one of my friends vomited.
Breakfast, the black tea from before, all of the contents of their stomach.
“Hey, just what are you putting in your tea?”
My other friends’ gazes of suspicion were naturally turned toward me.
“I-I haven’t put anything stra…uee.”
I also vomited.
After that, as if lured by it, everyone in my room vomited.
“What is wrong with your room?”
My friends felt indignation and left.
“Dammit!”
Why? Even though I didn’t put anything strange into the tea.
Reluctantly, I cleaned up the room that had become filled with garbage and put forth an apology to my friends the next day.
I really made the tea properly. I conveyed that to everyone with all my effort and somehow got them to forgive me.
Fu, I was dangerously close to a dark cloud hanging over my academy life.
Nevertheless, when drinking my black tea yesterday, it had a faint medicinal smell? …Well, I’m surely just thinking too much.
“It seems you made quite the racket with your friends yesterday, but did something happen?”
1-4’s hooded man came by again today.
He’s an annoying man.
“No, well, we met some light food poisoning is all. Next time we won’t make a ruckus, so there’s nothing in particular you need to be concerned about.”
I tried conveying ‘don’t come anymore’ indirectly.
“Fufu, I’m a genius.”
“Nn?”
“I was talking to myself. Well then.”
“Ah, see you.”
The next time he comes, let’s not open the door.
He is not suitable for me.
In the afternoon, my friends invited me to exercise outside.
I wasn’t really in the mood, but there was also the issue of yesterday.
It’s a good chance for reconciliation.
I took everyone along and walked in the front.
Everyone was getting excited about what to do, but it seems that my mood wouldn’t become well due to having unpleasant things happen to me for successive days.
At such a time, I collided head-on with a man that came from ahead.
Due to the both of us looking aside we, fell violently.
“Agh!”
I looked at the man I bumped into and it was 1-1’s metal man.
The resident that I went to visit, but gave up on.
I had seen him come out of his room several times after that.
From his clothing and behavior, I immediately understood he was far away from me, a low-leveled noble.
I really do think it was good to have not greeted him.
Who I just collided into was unmistakably that metal man.
“Sorry, I was looking aside and didn’t notice.”
Words of apology came from the man and he held out his hand to me.
I stuck that hand strongly.
“Please do not touch me!”
My mood is currently quite bad.
On top of that, borrowing the hand of some guy who strikes iron is impossible.
“Don’t touch me with your dirty hand!
It’s impossible for a third-rate noble like you to touch me! It would be fine if you just would walk on the side.”
“…Nn, sorry. Well then, I’ll be going.”
I threw a final blow at the leaving man’s back.
“From now on, properly look in front of you while walking. That way, you life at the academy and your future should become something good!”
The man made no reply and left.
A useless man. Can’t even answer back.
“Hey! Just now was bad.” One of my friends drew near to me with strong vigor.
“It’s fine, isn’t it? A single small fry like that.” I don’t understand what he’s fretting so much over.
“It’s not fine! That guy is Kururi Helan! Don’t you know!?”
“I, I don’t know.”
Who? Who is this Kururi Helan?
The friend who drew up to me had the blood in his face reced.
Even looking at my other friends, everyone was making an uneasy face.
Somehow, I have a extremely bad premonition.
“Helan is the most prosperous territory in the country right now. That guy is the next feudal lord over there.
He’s also someone who has connections to the queen and the second prince, Rahsa-sama!”
“Even if you say connections, it’s not such a strong connection, right? I haven’t heard such talk at all.”
In order to erase my anxiety, I brought up material for an excuse.
“Nah, it was quite recent, but there’s a rumor that he’s quite close to Rahsa-sama.
If you poorly offend him, there’s the possibility of having a punishment from the royal family fly at you.”
I involuntarily swallowed the saliva in my mouth.
“H, hmm.”
Words won’t come out.
“Besides, I know about it.”
My friends seem to still possess some information.
I’m already in the mood of plugging my ears.
“That guy is apparently quite the magic user. I’ve heard that has enough power that he can take down a monster with one shot of magic.”
“I’ve also heard that.”
My other friends showed agreement.
A monster with one shot of magic!? Is something like that possible for a student?
That’s something I haven’t heard of at all.
I’ve become anxious, but it’s still only the kind of stories that can’t be believed.
“Um, since it’s now I can say it, but…”
It seems there’s still something else.
“This story happens when I just entered the dorm.
That Kururi Helan came back once with his hands and mouth stained with blood.
I was scared so I didn’t enquire, but if I think about it now… ”
Everyone seemed to swallow down their saliva. It was quiet enough to hear that sound.
The surroundings became engulfed by silence at once.
It didn’t need to be said by anyone, we understood.
Ah, just what did I do?
Just where will my brilliant academy life be heading?
My neighbors all seem to be dangerous.
My mind became slightly disordered.
My neighbors are dangerous!!
Let’s just put that into my mind.
If I do so, my life at the academy might improve a bit.