Chapter 127 \n<h1>Chapter – 127</h1>\nCory generally tried to soften his expression whenever someone looked discomfited by his face, but he didn’t try at all for Eric. Cory wasn’t the type to try to look gentle for strangers, so he probably wasn’t doing this just because it was Eric.
“Do you want to go to our afternoon class together?”
Eric said, glancing at Cory to gauge his reaction. Cory was just staring at him, but Eric flinched, scared. His pride seemed to have been scarred. He walked towards me with a slightly stiff expression on his face.
Eric had definitely come to our club room to head over to our afternoon class together. That made me happy, so I hurriedly stood up and hurriedly walked over to him.
Cory stared at my smiling face as I ran towards him with a shocked expression on his face. Then, he sat up straight when he saw Eric open his arms wide and when he hugged me.
I, who had on some tight rose-colored glasses when it came to Eric, was happy that he had come to see me. It was embarrassing, but I hugged him back.
Eric asked me a question as we left the room. There was a loud crashing sound as soon as we got out.
What happened, did Cory trip or something?
“Cory DuBois, why was he glaring at me like that?”“He was just staring at you. He has sharp eyes, so he always gets misunderstood because of that.”“….Mm, I can see that.”
With that conversation, Eric continued to walk, staring in front of him.
On our way to the training hall, Eric began to walk faster. I had to almost break into a run to catch up to him. I didn’t know if he was just a fast walker or if he didn’t want to match his steps with mine, but I walked faster to walk next to him.
As the two of us walked together to the training hall, there was an awkward air between us.
The sounds of our steps were the only noise around us. I wanted to become close, boyfriend and dating whatnot, but there were no opportunities for us to be close.
I don’t think I’d ever approached anyone because I wanted to become close to them. Relationships just naturally happened as I’d lived life, so this was something that I hadn’t really worried about. I had always been busy trying to live out my life instead of forming relationships or friendships.
I disliked the awkward air between Eric, my boyfriend, and I. I wracked my brain for a topic to talk about.
“Wow, the day is so long. I’m exhausted.”“…..”“You’re probably having a harder time because you transferred, right? Are your classes okay?” \n“Yeah.”
Eric said halfheartedly. Even when I attempted conversations, he didn’t seem to want to respond. This wasn’t just today–it was usually how it was when we were alone. When there were people around us, he always spoke kindly to me and treated me well.
I never had a long conversation with Eric. Eric seemed to be a boy with low self-esteem but a huge sense of pride. He always loved to talk about his own experiences but didn’t like listening to others’.
I always had to find the topics that he enjoyed speaking about. Most of those topics were the ones that allowed him to brag about himself.
I just told myself that he was like this because he was young, and just let him talk about whatever he wanted. I wanted to get closer to him, even if it was like this. Even if I would’ve cut them off in an instant if he was anybody else.
Eric had to have things that he didn’t like about me and was holding back on. My ideal romance was one where the other person understood and tried to work with the other person, but when I was him, it felt like I was the only one caring about this.
Ugh, I didn’t know. Relationships were complicated.
Eric suddenly said that we needed to stop by the red class and dragged me to his class.
I had definitely told him that I didn’t want our relationship to be told to a lot of people, and he had told me that he understood.
But on that day, he put me in front of his friends, put his hand around my waist, and started bragging about how we were toing out.
On our way back to the training hall, I told him that this made me angry. He didn’t listen.
It was okay, but there really didn’t seem to be a right answer when it came to this.
Eric got ahold of a camera that had pictures of the junior year end party and looked at it in front of me.
He looked surprised at a picture of me dressed up in a dress and spoke.
“What, you can look pretty when you’re dressed up too?”
Then, he demanded for me to doll myself up like I did that day, so I immediately refused. First, I was in swordsmanship, and I also did magic. I was busy all the time, so any kind of makeup was soon ruined.
Moreover, I was always busy working on requests before school. If I tried to put on makeup, it would make a huge dent in my daily schedule. I didn’t even attempt to do so.
At my explanation, Eric said that I should put my daily activities on the back burner and make some time for him.\nHe wouldn’t even listen to whatever I said, and he would always cut me off if I tried to say something. I didn’t want to fight, so I haphazardly agreed and came out three minutes later wearing makeup. The two of us ended up fighting.
But, strangely, he was always kind and gentle during swordsmanship class. Especially in front of Swanhaden and Hylli. He had been kinder to Cory, as well. It seemed like he was nicer to my friends than to me.
Eric didn’t seem to care that I hung around with boys. It felt like I was the one that cared more.
Because of that, I always dueled with Hylli during swordsmanship, just as usual. Swanhaden didn’t have any energy these days, so he didn’t care if it was class or what–he was always just splayed on the ground near a tree, as if he was dead.
Hylli couldn’t seem to concentrate on the duel. He just kept glancing at me before finally opening his mouth to speak.
“The rumors are making the rounds, but are you really going out with that kid named Eric?”“………yeah.”“Wow, you’re lying.”
I had always planned to join the royal knights in advance and always tried to speak formally to Hylli, but I couldn’t control my emotions at the moment and just ended up speaking casually. Hylli didn’t really care how I spoke to him, so this wasn’t really a problem.
Actually, he responded just as casually when I spoke to him casually.
When I agreed, Hylli’s expression stiffened as he muttered something quietly.
“I never thought you would like anybody.”
Hylli seemed genuinely intrigued at the fact that I was dating someone.
“But are you really going out with them? You’re not just imagining the whole thing?”
He didn’t seem to believe that I was actually going out with someone as he cracked a joke, but I couldn’t laugh along. At Hylli’s joke, I quietly muttered to myself.
“…….maybe, that might be the case.”
I was the one that was confessed to. But after that, I was the only one in the relationship. Hylli’s expression darkened when he saw mine darken as well.
We were dueling, but Hylli noticed that I couldn’t concentrate at all and put his sword away. At his request for a short break, I nodded and flopped to the ground, right where I stood. Hylli handed me a bottle of cold water.
I drank a few sips when Hylli, who had been staring at me the entire time, spoke up.\n“Murder isn’t an option, Swanhaden.”
Swanhaden seemed to grow more emotional as soon as he saw my face. He muttered quietly to himself. Seeing how he was using the third person to describe himself, it seemed like Swan really wasn’t in his right mind.