With his tongue wetting his lips a few times, he stared at me with a rather perplexed gaze.
“I’m sorry. I still feel sorry.”
“No, well, that’s possible ’cause you’re young. You showed that you didn’t like it, but when teased, you didn’t say a lot of hurtful things.” Ciel explained.
“I’d be happy if that was the case, but I’m still sorry.”
“It’s all right.”
Seriously, it was cute compared to what I had been through at the orphanage before.
Actually, when I think about it, he only had a high pride, and it doesn’t seem like he said a lot of things that demeaned me.
“And I know it’s hard for you to believe, but I didn’t hate you.”
“Well?”
Wait, what else was he talking about?
“I know. I deserve that kind of reaction. But it’s true.”
“Oh, really?”
“Then, I was a little…”
Kashuel sighed and touched his forehead.
“I must have been crazy. I’m sorry, but I didn’t really hate you.”
“Oh, yes, I see.” Ciel answered.
Let’s just say yes since he keeps saying those words.
It doesn’t matter if you hated me back then or not anyway.
“Actually, it was rather the opposite.” Kashuel continued.
“Opposite?”
“Yes.”
My mouth opened agape, but I couldn’t think of what to answer him.
Opposite of dislike…
‘Does that mean that you liked…?’
No, it couldn’t have been.
Absolutely, that high-nosed noble kid couldn’t have done that, and I looked at Kashuel.
“Hey, you don’t have to take it seriously. I just mean, I never hated you.”
“Ah yes.”
And the conversation didn’t last for a while.
Somehow the atmosphere seemed awkward, so I opened my mouth first.
“You must have studied really well at the academy because you were the first-class imperial wizard from the beginning.”
We had a conversation about what we had been doing for 8 years.
Kashuel said that he eventually gave up his dream of becoming a magic swordsman and turned to a wizard.
He added that he entered the academy to train wizards and took the Imperial Palace Wizard Exam right after graduating as the top student.
“How many years after I left, and you became a Knight Commander? The academy kept track of Deamant’s news.”
So for a while, the story blossomed with each other’s past stories.
When we first started the conversation, it couldn’t be that awkward, but by the end of it, we started talking to each other quite casually.